Ultimate! is a two-disc compilation album by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 2001 on Rhino Records, catalogue R2-79825. This is the first official "complete" compilation to feature the group throughout its entire recording era.

Content[link]

The set includes every single, both A and b sides, released in either the UK or US during the band's lifetime, as well as the Italian single "Questa Volta" and the Dutch-only single from their first recording session, a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom". The b-side to the US-only single "I'm A Man" was "Still I'm Sad", and "I'm Not Talking" had initially been the flip to the American release of "Shapes of Things", pulled and replaced with "New York City Blues". The single "Over Under Sideways Down" and its b-side were released seven weeks ahead of their home album in the UK. "Drinking Muddy Water" appeared also as the b-side to the single "Ten Little Indians" three months after its release on the LP Little Games.

In addition to the 32 tracks issued as singles, the album includes 20 tracks released on long-playing records. Tracks five through eight on disc one derive from a live gig at the Marquee Club in London in early 1964, released on the Five Live Yardbirds album. The first ten tracks on disc two approximate the Yardbirds album of the summer of 1966, those ten tracks identical to sides one and two of the British LP with the final tune on each side excised, bringing the British running order down from twelve tracks to the American length of ten. During the final year of the band's existence, the band's management concentrated on the American market, with only one EP and the single "Little Games" released in the UK after 1966.

The set includes the only recordings by the line-up while both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were in the band, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago", "Psycho Daisies" and their reworking of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", "Stroll On", for the film Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni. Also featured are three Keith Relf solo tracks recorded just prior to and following the Roger The Engineer sessions in 1966 and released as singles, which were extremely difficult to obtain until their issue on this compilation.

Studio recordings done at R.G. Jones Studios, Olympic Sound Studios, IBC Studios, Advision Sound Studios, De Lane Lea Studios, and Sound Techniques Studios in London; Columbia Recording Studios in New York City; Sam Phillips Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chess Studios in Chicago, Illinois. Original recordings were produced by Giorgio Gomelsky, Paul Samwell-Smith, Simon Napier-Bell, and Mickie Most.

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Track listing[link]

Chart positions for UK LPs and singles from Record Retailer; for US LPs and singles from Billboard Top Pop Albums and Billboard Hot 100 chart. UK albums and singles released on British Columbia; US albums and singles released on Epic Records.

Disc One[link]

+ released in The Netherlands; # released in Italy

Disc Two[link]

+ Keith Relf solo singles

Personnel[link]

• Keith Relf — vocals, harmonica, tambourine, acoustic guitar
• Eric Clapton — electric guitar disc one tracks 1 through 12
• Jeff Beck — electric guitars disc one tracks 13 through 25, disc two tracks 1 through 13, 25 and 26; bass guitar on "Over Under Sideways Down;" vocal on "The Nazz Are Blue" and "Psycho Daisies"
• Jimmy Page — guitars disc two tracks 11, 13 through 24, and 27; bass guitar on "Psycho Daisies"
• Chris Dreja — rhythm guitar disc one, disc two tracks 1 through 10, 25, and 26; lead guitar on "Questa Volta;" bass guitar disc two tracks 13, 15, 17, 19, and 24
• Paul Samwell-Smith — bass guitar disc one except track 15, disc two tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 25 and 26
• Jim McCarty — drums except disc two tracks 14, 21, 22, 23, and 27

Additional personnel[link]

• Brian Auger — harpsichord on "For Your Love"
• Denny Piercey — bongoes on "For Your Love"
• Ron Prentice — bass on "For Your Love;" bass guitar on "Heart Full of Soul"
• Giorgio Gomelsky — backing vocals on "A Certain Girl" and "Still I'm Sad"
• Joe Osborn — bass guitar on "Shapes In My Mind"
• Hal Blaine — drums on "Shapes In My Mind"
• John Paul Jones — bass guitar on "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Little Games", "No Excess Baggage," "Ten Little Indians," and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine;" arrangements on "Little Games" and "Ten Little Indians"
• Dougie Wright — drums on "Little Games"
• Chris Karan — tabla on "White Summer"
• Ian Stewart — piano on "Drinking Muddy Water"
• Al Gorgoni — guitar on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
• Rick Nielsen — organ on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
• Joe Macho — bass guitar on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
• Bobby Gregg — drums on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
• Nicky Hopkins — piano on "Goodnight Sweet Josephine"
• Clem Cattini — drums on "Ten Little Indians" and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine"

Look up ultimate, penultimate, or antepenultimate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ultimate(s), penultimate or antepenultimate may refer to:

• Ultimate (sport), a team disc sport
• Ultimate (roller coaster), at Lightwater Valley amusement park near Ripon, North Yorkshire, England
• The Ultimate (philosophy) or absolute, the concept of an unconditional reality in metaphysics or theology
• Ultimates, a fictional superhero group in the Marvel Comics universe
  • The Ultimates (comic book), a comics series featuring the Marvel group
• Ultimate Play the Game or just Ultimate, a video game developer
• Windows Vista Ultimate, a marketing edition of Windows Vista
• Windows 7 Ultimate, a marketing edition of Windows 7
• The last, second to last, and third to last items in a sequence.

Music[link]

• Ultimate!, an album by The Yardbirds
• Ultimate (Boney M. album)
• Ultimate (Pet Shop Boys album)
• Ultimate Prince or just Ultimate, an album by Prince
• "Ultimate", a song by Lindsay Lohan from the Freaky Friday soundtrack album

Linguistics[link]

• Penult, the second-to-last syllable of a word
• Antepenult, the third-to-last syllable of a word
• Wiktionary:preantepenultimate, fourth-to-last

See also[link]

• Proximate and ultimate causation, in philosophy
• All pages beginning with "Ultimate"
• All pages beginning with "The Ultimate"
• The Ultimate Collection (disambiguation)
• Ultimo (disambiguation)

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Ken Block
Ken Block in 2008.
Nationality	American
Born	(1967-11-21) 21 November 1967 (age 44) Long Beach, California
2012 Rally America
Debut season	2005
Current team	Monster World Rally Team
Best finish	2nd Overall in Rally America in 2006 and 2008
Awards
2004[1] 2005[1] 2009	• One of the most influential people (#17) in Sports Business Journal • Ad Age's Marketing 50 • One of the Fast 50 in Fast Company Magazine • 40 Under 40 Awards, Sports Business Journal • Rally America's Rookie of the Year • Gymkhana 2 was 2009's #4 most viewed viral video

Ken Block (born November 21, 1967, in Long Beach, California)^[2] is a professional rally driver with the Monster World Rally Team. Block is also one of the co-founders and recently appointed Chief Brand Officer of DC Shoes.^[1] Block has also competed in many action sports events including skateboarding, snowboarding, and motocross.

Rallying[link]

2005[link]

In 2005, Ken Block began his national rallying career with the Vermont SportsCar team.^[3] Vermont SportsCar prepared a 2005 Subaru WRX STi for Block to compete. His first event of the rallying season was Sno*Drift, where he ended up finishing seventh overall and fifth in the Group N class.^[4] During the 2005 season, Block had five top five finishes and placed third overall in the Group N class and fourth overall in the Rally America National Championship.^[3] At the end of his first rallying year, Ken Block had won the Rally America Rookie of the Year award.^[5]

2006[link]

In 2006, Ken Block along with his DC rally teammate Travis Pastrana signed a new sponsorship deal with Subaru.^[3] Through this deal with Subaru, the teammates became known as "Subaru Rally Team USA."^[3] With the new rally season, Block also got a brand new Vermont SportsCar prepped 2006 Subaru WRX STi.^[3] He competed in the first ever X Games rally event at X Games XII.^[3] In the competition, Block ended up finishing third to take the bronze.^[3] He went on to compete in the 2006 Rally America National Championship, where he finished second overall.^[3]

2007[link]

In 2007, Ken Block competed in the X Games XIII rally event, where he placed second overall and won a silver medal.^[5] In the 2007 Rally America National Championship, Block finished third overall.^[5] During this season, Block also entered in a few rounds of the World Rally Championship; Rally Mexico and Rally New Zealand.^[4] In Rally New Zealand, Block recorded two top-five stage times in the Group N class.^[4] At the end of 2007, Block had achieved 19 podiums and 8 overall victories in rally events.^[1]

2008[link]

In 2008, Block was provided with a brand new rally prepped 2008 Subaru WRX STi to compete. Block decided to compete in the Rallye Baie-des Chaleurs of the Canadian Rally Championship to gain some experience with his new 2008 rally car and prepare for the World Rally Championships later this year.^[6] Block gained his first Canadian rally win at the event.^[6] This was only the second event for the new car.^[6] Block and his co-driver were unable to get any championship points at the event due to not having a Canadian competition license.^[6] Block competed in the Rally New York USA competition and finished in first place.^[7] In the X Games XIV rally competition, Block finished tied for third place with Dave Mirra.^[8] This occurrence was due to both competitors having issues with their car. Block, who made it to the semi-finals of the event, had a radiator problem after landing the car awkwardly on a jump. With both bronze place competitors in damaged cars unable to compete, the medals were awarded to both of them.^[8]

Block competed in the 2008 Rally America National championship, which concluded on October 17, 2008. In the event, he finished second overall with a strong victory in the last event. In the Lake Superior Performance Rally stage, Block finished over one minute ahead of his next closest competitor and secured the second overall position.^[9] Next up for Block this rally season is three World Rally Championship events.^[4]

2009[link]

Block appeared in a segment of motoring show Top Gear.^[10]

2010[link]

Ken Block testing Ford Fiesta for the 2010 Rally America season

Block driving a Ford Focus RS WRC at the 2010 Rallye de France

On January 6, 2010 the Monster World Rally Team announced Ken as their driver for selected rounds of the World Rally Championship, in which he will be campaigning the Monster/Ford Racing Focus RS WRC 08. His car will be prepared and run by the North of England based M-Sport, who also prepare the official Ford WRC cars. He will be simultaneously running in his sixth season of the Rally America Championship in an open class Ford Fiesta, as well as his fifth X-games. Ken will also be the first ever American driver to campaign for the World Rally Championship. On February 27, Block won the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood (Rally America) for the 5th consecutive time. This broke the record held by John Buffum.^[11] Ken is currently being trained by former Ford factory driver Markko Märtin. At the Spain rally, he won his first 2 points in World Rally Championship.

2011[link]

On March 23, Block and his co-driver Alex Gelsomino were taken to hospital, having rolled their Ford Fiesta RS WRC during the shakedown stage of the 2011 Rally de Portugal in Faro, Portugal.^[12] A representative of the Monster World Rally team later stated that both men were fine.^[13]

Complete Rally America results[link]

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