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Alan Glen
Alan Glen (born 1951, Wuppertal, Germany) is a British blues harmonica player, best known for his work with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero, Little Axe, and his own bands, The Barcodes and The Incredible Blues Puppies.
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Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984) was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.
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Ben King (guitarist)
Ben King is a British-American professional guitarist, who is currently touring with English blues-rock band The Yardbirds. He has gained popularity as a musician owing to his extensive technical ability of the guitar coupled with his young age.
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Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008) was the stage name for Ellas Otha Bates, an American rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Yardbirds, and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
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Bob Brunning
'''Robert 'Bob' Brunning''' (born 29 June 1943 in Bournemouth, then in Hampshire) is a British musician best known for his role as original bass guitar player with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac.
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Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Keep Yourself Alive", "Now I'm Here", "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "I Want It All" and "Too Much Love Will Kill You". May earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May lives in Surrey.
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Chris Dreja
Chris Dreja (born 11 November 1945, Surbiton, England) was the rhythm guitarist, and later bassist, when he switched with Jimmy Page to the 1960s British band, The Yardbirds.
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Clem Cattini
Clem Cattini (born 28 August 1937, Stoke Newington, North London, England), is an English rock and roll drummer who was a member of The Tornados before becoming well known for his work as a session musician. He is one of the most prolific drummers in UK recording history, appearing on hundreds of recordings by artists as diverse as Engelbert Humperdinck and Lou Reed, and has featured on a record 44 different UK number one singles.
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Cyril Davies
Cyril Davies (23 January 1932 - 7 January 1964) was one of the first British blues harmonica players and blues musician.
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Dick Heckstall-Smith
Dick Heckstall-Smith (16 September 1934 – 17 December 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most important English blues-rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dick Taylor
'''Richard Clifford 'Dick' Taylor''' (born 28 January 1943, Dartford, Kent, England) is an English musician who was once an early bass guitarist for The Rolling Stones. He left to become an art student at Sidcup Art College and while there formed The Pretty Things in September 1963. Taylor now lives on the Isle of Wight, England.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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George Paulus
George Paulus (April 23, 1948 in Chicago) is an American record producer, founder and owner of Barrelhouse Records, Negro Rhythm Records, and St. George Records.
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Giorgio Gomelsky
Giorgio Gomelsky (born February 28, 1934) is a filmmaker, impresario, music manager and record producer. He owned the Crawdaddy Club where The Rolling Stones were house band, and he was involved with their early management. He hired The Yardbirds as a replacement and managed them. He was also their producer from the beginning through 1966. In 1967, he started Marmalade Records (distributed by Polydor), which featured "Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity", The Blossom Toes, and early recordings by Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who became 10cc. The label closed in 1969.
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Graham Gouldman
Graham Keith Gouldman (born 10 May 1946) is an English songwriter and musician who is a long-time member of British band 10cc.
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Gypie Mayo
Gypie Mayo (born John Phillip Cawthra, 24 July 1951, Hammersmith, London, England) is an English guitarist, playing in Dr. Feelgood from 1977 to 1981, and from 1996 to 2004 in the re-born The Yardbirds with Alan Glen.
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Harry Nilsson
Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), who sometimes went by the stage name Nilsson, was an American songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success as a singer in the mid 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings, he is credited as 'Nilsson' and is known for the hit singles "Without You", "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City", "Everybody's Talkin'," "Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire". Nilsson's songs 'One' and 'Cuddly Toy' have been covered by artists including the Monkees, Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann. He was awarded Grammy Awards for two of his recordings.
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Jake Holmes
Jake Grier Holmes, Jr. (born December 28, 1939 in San Francisco, California) is an American folk-pop singer/songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s. Holmes, who has a particular talent for writing clever, perceptive lyrics, is perhaps best known as the original author of the song "Dazed and Confused", later popularized by Led Zeppelin, and for composing the US Army recruitment jingle "Be All That You Can Be" in the late 1970s. The jingle and subsequent advertising campaign was used extensively by the US government throughout the 1980s. Holmes also co-wrote the famous "Be a Pepper" for soft drink multinational corporation Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
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Jane Relf
Jane Relf (born 7 March 1947) is the younger sister of Keith Relf of the Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds disbanded, Keith formed Renaissance and Jane joined on vocals. After Keith's death the surviving members of Renaissance reformed as Illusion, under which name they recorded two albums with Jane's vocals to the fore. Since Illusion dissolved Jane has sung on various Jim McCarty projects including Stairway and Renaissance Illusion.
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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, besides his successful solo career.
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Jerry Donahue
Jerry Donahue (born September 24, 1946, Manhattan, New York City) is an American guitarist and producer primarily known for his work in the British folk rock scene as a member of Fotheringay and Fairport Convention as well as being a member of the rock guitar trio The Hellecasters.
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Jim McCarty
:For the guitarist, see Jim McCarty (guitarist), for people named Jim McCarthy, see James McCarthy
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956 in Westbury, New York) is an Italian American multi-instrumentalist, known primarily for his work as an instrumental rock guitarist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame with their guitar skills (Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, Alex Skolnick). Satriani has been a driving force in the music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the ever-changing touring trio, G3, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.
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John Idan
John Idan is the former lead vocalist, guitarist, and bass guitarist for the reformed version of The Yardbirds. He resigned from the band in 2008 to promote his solo album The Folly with his new band The John Idan Group.
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John Rzeznik
John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik (born December 5, 1965), also known as Johnny Rzeznik, is an American songwriter, lead guitarist, vocalist and producer. He is best known as the frontman of rock band the Goo Goo Dolls, of whom he is a founding member and with whom he has recorded nine studio albums.
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Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The Who in 1964. He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1964's "Zoot Suit", to 1978's Who Are You, which was released three weeks before his death.
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Keith Relf
Keith William Relf (22 March 1943 - 14 May 1976), was best known as the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds broke up Relf formed the acoustic duo, Together, with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty, followed by Renaissance which also featured his sister, singer Jane Relf, then hard rock group Armageddon. Relf also produced tracks for artists such as folk-rock band Hunter Muskett, the acoustic, world music, group Amber, Saturnalia and Medicine Head, with whom he played bass guitar.
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Long John Baldry
John "Long John" William Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where "Let the Heartaches Begin" reached No. 1 in 1967 and in Australia where his duet with Kathi McDonald "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" reached No. 2 in 1980. Baldry lived in Canada from the late 1970s until his death. There he continued to make records and do voiceover work. He was the voice of Dr. Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Louis Cennamo
Louis David Cennamo (born 5 March 1946, London) was bass guitarist with an early line up of The Herd, the original line-up of Renaissance and later Colosseum, Steamhammer, Armageddon and Illusion (the reformed Renaissance). He also worked with Jim McCarty in Stairway. The song "Bullet", on the first Renaissance album, includes an extended unaccompanied bass solo by Cennamo. For a number of years Louis has played jazz with a variety of line-ups, most recently with Special Edition.
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
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Mickie Most
Mickie Most (20 June 1938 — 30 May 2003) was an English record producer, with a string of hit singles with his own RAK Records, and with acts such as The Animals, The Arrows, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group.
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of blues". Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
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Paul Samwell-Smith
Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey) is best known as a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, and as a youth, attended Hampton Grammar School with The Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty.
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever."
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Phil May (singer)
Phil May (born Phillip Arthur Dennis Wadey, 9 November 1944, Dartford, Kent, England) is an English vocalist. He is best known for being the lead singer of The Pretty Things, of whom he was a founding member.
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Slash (musician)
Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), better known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician. He is the former lead guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded between 1985 and 1996. He later formed Slash's Snakepit and co-founded Velvet Revolver with his former bandmates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, and his debut solo album, Slash, was released in April 2010.
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Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather (born October 21, 1957, San Fernando Valley, California) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with countless artists, released several solo albums and, as a studio session guitarist, has been involved with arranging, composing, and recording on over 1,000 albums. He is also a member of jazz fusion bands El Grupo and Los Lobotomys, both collaborations of notable sessions musicians. While his work with Toto was predominantly based on pop rock music, Lukather's solo and side-project work spans many genres including rock, prog, jazz and funk.
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Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai (born June 6, 1960) is a three time Grammy Award-winning Italian-American rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai recorded and toured in Zappa's band for two years, from 1980 to 1982. The guitarist began a solo career in 1983 and has released 13 solo albums as of 2008. Apart from his work with Frank Zappa, Vai has also recorded and toured with Public Image Ltd., Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1996. In 1999 Vai started his own record label, Favored Nations, intending to showcase, as Vai describes, "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."
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Terry Reid
Terry Reid (born 13 November 1949, Huntingdon, England) is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with high profile musicians, as a supporting act, a session musician, and sideman.
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The Pretty Things
The Pretty Things are an English rock and roll band from London, who originally formed in 1963. They took their name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing" and, in their early days, were dubbed by the British press the "uglier cousins of the Rolling Stones". Their most commercially successful period was the mid 1960s, although they continue to perform to this day. David Bowie covered two of their songs on his album Pin Ups.
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Tomorrow (band)
Tomorrow (previously known as The In Crowd and before that as Four Plus One) were a 1960s psychedelic rock band. Despite critical acclaim and support from DJ John Peel who featured them on his "Perfumed Garden" radio show, the band was not a great success in commercial terms. They were among the first psychedelic bands in England along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. Tomorrow recorded the first ever John Peel show session on BBC Radio 1 on 21 September 1967.
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Tony Hazzard
Tony Hazzard (born Anthony Hazzard, 31 October 1943, Liverpool) is an English singer and songwriter. He has written songs for The Hollies ("Listen to Me"), Manfred Mann ("Ha! Ha! Said The Clown" and "Fox on the Run"), "Me, The Peaceful Heart" for Lulu, The Yardbirds ("Goodnight Sweet Josephine"), Herman's Hermits ("You Won't Be Leaving"), Peter Noone ("(I Think I'm Over) Getting Over You"), The Tremeloes ("Hello World"), Gene Pitney ("Maria Elena"), Richard Barnes ("Take to the Mountains"), Cherry Smash ("Fade Away Maureen") and Andy Williams among others.
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Top Topham
Anthony "Top" Topham (born 3 July 1947, Southall,Middlesex), is an English musician, and artist. He is best known for as a blues guitarist, and also for being the first lead guitarist of The Yardbirds. Topham left the band before they achieved mainstream popularity, and was replaced by Eric Clapton, the first of three lead guitarists from the Yardbirds to gain an international reputation (the other two being Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page).
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Crawdaddy Club
The Crawdaddy Club was a 1960s music venue in Richmond, Surrey, England, famous for being the location of the Rolling Stones' first ever gig in 1962. Several other seminal British blues and rhythm and blues acts also played there.
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Richmond, London
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Vancouver
Vancouver () is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.
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- acoustic rock
- Alan Glen
- Alexis Korner
- audio feedback
- Backing vocalist
- backup band
- Band of Joy
- Bass guitar
- Beck's Bolero
- Ben King (guitarist)
- Blowup
- blues
- Blues rock
- Bo Diddley
- Bob Brunning
- Bow (music)
- Box of Frogs
- Brian May
- British Blues
- Capitol Records
- Chicago blues
- Chris Dreja
- Clem Cattini
- Crawdaddy Club
- Cream (band)
- Cyril Davies
- David McCallum, Sr.
- David Smale
- Dick Heckstall-Smith
- Dick Taylor
- Distortion (guitar)
- Distortion (music)
- Drum kit
- Elmore James
- EMI
- Epic Records
- Eric Clapton
- Favored Nations
- Five Live Yardbirds
- Folk music
- For Your Love
- fuzz tone
- George Paulus
- Giorgio Gomelsky
- Graham Gouldman
- Gregorian chant
- Gypie Mayo
- hard rock
- harmonica
- Harry Nilsson
- Heart Full of Soul
- heavy metal music
- Hi Ho Silver Lining
- Hit Parader
- Hofner
- Howlin' Wolf
- I Wish You Would
- Illusion (UK band)
- impresario
- Island Records
- Jake Holmes
- Jane Relf
- Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
- Jeff Beck
- Jerry Donahue
- Jim McCarty
- Jimmy Page
- Joe Satriani
- John Bonham
- John Idan
- John Mayall
- John Rzeznik
- Keith Moon
- Keith Relf
- lead guitar
- lead vocals
- Led Zeppelin
- Led Zeppelin (album)
- Little Games
- Long John Baldry
- Louis Cennamo
- Marquee Club
- Maurice Ravel
- Medicine Head
- Mickie Most
- MTV Unplugged
- Muddy Waters
- Nicky Hopkins
- Ogg
- Paul Samwell-Smith
- Pete Townshend
- Phil May (singer)
- Procol Harum
- psychedelic rock
- Renaissance (band)
- rhythm and blues
- rhythm guitar
- Richmond, London
- Robert Plant
- Roger the Engineer
- Rollin' and Tumblin'
- Saturnalia (band)
- Shapes of Things
- Slash (musician)
- Smokestack Lightning
- Spinner (website)
- Steve Lukather
- Steve Vai
- tandem
- Terry Reid
- The Jeff Beck Group
- The Pretty Things
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- Tomorrow (band)
- Tony Hazzard
- Top Topham
- Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Trouser Press
- Vancouver
- wah-wah pedal
Yardbirds, The Filmography
- The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003)
- British Rock: The First Wave (1985)
- (#1.9) (1966)
- New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert (1966)
- (#9.22) (1966)
- (#1.13) (1966)
- (#2.32) (1965)
- (#2.24) (1964)
- The Cool Spot (1964)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1964)
- (#3.5) (1963)
- (#3.9) (1963)
- (#2.33) (1963)
- (#2.46) (1963)
- (#2.49) (1963)
- (#3.27) (1963)
- (#2.41) (1963)
- (#5.40) (1961)
- (#8.4) (1961)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Still I'm Sad
- Evil Hearted You
- A Certain Girl
- Jeff's Blues
- I Wish You Would
- New York City
- I'm Not Talking
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Shapes of Things
- I'm a Man
- Boom Boom
- Smokestack Lightning (live)
- Let It Rock (live)
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- Who Do You Love (live)
- Too Much Monkey Business (live)
- Respectable (live)
- Pretty Girl (live)
- Stroll On
- Smokestack Lightinin'
- You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
- Take It Easy Baby
- Talkin' About You
- Let It Rock
- I Wish You Would
- Boom Boom
- Honey in Your Hips
- Who Do You Love
- For Your Love
- Shapes of Things
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm a Man
- Little Games
- Ha Ha Said the Clown
- Ten Little Indians
- Gooodnight Sweet Josephine (US version)
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Still I'm Sad
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Boom Boom
- I Ain't Done No Wrong
- I Ain't Got You
- I'm Not Talking
- Stroll On
- A Certain Girl
- Honey in Your Hips
- Got to Hurry
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- Paff...Bum
- Sweet Music
- Heart Full of Soul
- Steeled Blues
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Shapes of Things
- You're a Better Man Than I
- The Train Kept A Rollin' (from the film "Blow Up")
- Jeff's Blues
- What Do You Want (instrumental version)
- Boom Boom
- Talkin' 'Bout You
- I Ain't Done No Wrong
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- Who Do You Love (live)
- Shapes of Things
- Evil Hearted You
- Heart Full of Soul
- Still I'm Sad
- Stroll On
- I'm a Man
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Train Kept a Rollin'
- I'm Not Talkin'
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- For Your Love
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- Got to Hurry
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- Let It Rock
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Smokestack Lightning
- Five Long Years
- Here 'Tis
- I'm Not Talking
- Crying Out for Love
- The Nazz Are Blue (feat. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter)
- For Your Love (feat. Johnny Rzeznik)
- Please Don't Tell Me 'Bout the News
- Train Kept a Rollin' (feat. Joe Satriani)
- Mr Saboteur
- Shapes of Things (feat. Steve Vai)
- My Blind Life (feat. Jeff Beck)
- Over, Under, Sideways, Down (feat. Slash)
- Mr. You're a Better Man Than I (feat. Brian May)
- The Mystery of Being
- Dream Within a Dream
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (feat. Steve Lukather)
- An Original Man (A Song for Keith)
- For Your Love
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- i Ain't Got You
- Got To Hurry
- Heart Full Of Soul
- Steeled Blues
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Shapes Of Things
- Mister, You're A Better Man Than I
- I'm A Man
- New York City Blues
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Sweet Music
- Someone To Love (Parts 1 & 2)
- Stroll On
- Smokestack Lightning
- You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
- Let It Rock
- I Wish You Would
- Who Do You Love?
- Honey in Your Hips
- Bye Bye Bird
- Mister Downchild
- The River Rhine
- 23 Hours Too Long
- A Lost Care
- Pontiac Blues
- Take It Easy Baby
- Out on the Water Coast
- Western Arizona
- Take It Easy Baby
- Do the Weston
- Baby What's Wrong
- For Your Love
- Boom Boom
- A Certain Girl
- I'm a Man
- Talkin' Bout You
- Highway 69
- My Little Cabin
- Got to Hurry (Take 4)
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- Louise (live)
- Five Long Years (live)
- Smokestack Lightning (live)
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (live)
- Got Love If You Want It (live)
- Respectable (live)
- I Wish You Would (live)
- Who Do You Love
- Boom Boom
- Honey in Your Hips
- Talkin Bout You
- Let It Rock
- I Wish You Would
- For Your Love
- I Ain't Got You
- Take It Easy Baby
- Train Kept on Rollin
- Smoke Stack Lightning
- A Certain Girl
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Got to Hurry
- Like Jimmy Reed Again
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- Talkin' Bout You
- Pounds and Stomps
- Paff... Bum
- Baby What's Wrong
- Jeff's Blues
- Mr. Zero
- She's So Respectable
- Slow Walk
- Without You
- My Little Cabin
- Knowing
- Choker
- Draggin' My Tail
- Freight Loader
- Miles Road
- Snake Drive
- Tribute to Elmore
- West Coast Idea
- Boom Boom
- Got to Hurry (take 4)
- Got Love If You Want It
- Smokestack Lightning
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Five Long Years
- Louise
- Boom Boom
- Honey in Your Hips
- A Certain Girl
- I Wish You Would
- Too Much Monkey Business (live)
- I Got Love If You Want It (live)
- Smokestack Lightning (live)
- Here 'Tis (live)
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Got to Hurry
- I Ain't Got You
- For Your Love
- I'm Not Talking
- Steeled Blues
- Heart Full of Soul
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Shapes of Things
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- New York City Blues
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm a Man
- Still I'm Sad
- Questa Volta
- Pafff... Bum
- Baby What’s Wrong
- Talkin’ ‘Bout You
- Let It Rock (live)
- Pontiac Blues (live)
- I Wish You Would
- Too Much Monkey Business (live)
- Smokestack Lightning (live)
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Got to Hurry
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul (Sitar version)
- I Ain’t Done Wrong
- My Girl Sloopy
- Still I’m Sad
- I’m A Man
- Train Kept A Rollin’
- Shapes of Things
- Jeff’s Blues
- Like Jimmy Reed Again
- Stroll On (from the film ‘Blow Up’)
- Heart Full of Soul
- Still I'm Sad
- For Your Love
- Putty
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm a Man
- I'm Not Talking
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Shapes of Things
- Goodnight Sweet Josephine
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- I Wish You Would
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- A Certain Girl
- Got to Hurry
- Honey in Your Hips
- Mr. You're a Better Man Than I
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm a Man
- Still I'm Sad
- Heart Full of Soul
- Train Kept a Rollin'
- Heart Full of Soul (Sitar version)
- Steeled Blues
- Shapes of Things
- New York City Blues
- Questa Volta
- Paff... Bum (Italian Issue)
- Paff... Bum (German Issue)
- What Do You Want
- Jeff's Blues
- Someone to Love, Part 1
- Someone to Love, Part 2
- For R.S.G.
- Like Jimmy Reed Again
- Chris' Number
- Pounds and Stomps
- Stroll On
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Ain't Got You
- Boom Boom
- For Your Love
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Pontiac Blues
- Let It Rock
- Honey in Your Hips
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm a Man
- Shapes of Things
- Little Games
- Ha Ha Said the Clown
- Ten Little Indians
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor
- Puzzles
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (alternate version)
- Shapes of Things
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- Over, Under, Sideways, Down
- I'm a Man
- White Summer (alternate version)
- Ten Little Indians
- Glimpses (alternate version)
- You Stole My Love
- Avron Knows
- Spanish Blood
- My Baby
- Taking a Hold on Me
- Dazed and Confused / De Lane Lea Lee (alternate version)
- Heart Full Of Soul
- Mr. You Are A Better Man Than I
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Jeff's Blues (Take 2)
- Like Jimmy Reed Again
- Chris' Number
- Pounds And Stomps
- Shapes Of Things
- I'm A Man
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Here 'Tis
- Steeled Blues
- New York City Blues
- What Do You Want (take 4)
- Stroll On
- Baby What's Wrong
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- For Your Love
- Got to Hurry
- My Girl Sloopy
- I'm Not Talking
- Heart Full of Soul
- Steeled Blues
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- I'm a Man
- New York City Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Mister You're a Better Man Than I
- Train Kept A-Rollin'
- For Your Love
- I'm Not Talking
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- I Ain't Got You
- Got to Hurry
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Sweet Music (take 3)
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- My Girl Sloopy
- Baby What's Wrong
- Boom Boom
- Honey in Your Hips
- Talkin' 'Bout You
- I Wish You Would (long version)
- A Certain Girl (alternate take)
- Got to Hurry (take 4)
- Sweet Music (take 4)
- Heart Full of Soul (Sitar version)
- Steeled Blues
- Paff Bumm (German Issue)
- Questa Volta
- Paff Bumm (Italian Issue)
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Mono)
- Psycho Daisies (Mono)
- Lost Women (Mono)
- Over Under Sideways Down (Mono)
- The Nazz Are Blue (Mono)
- I Can't Make Your Way (Mono)
- Rack My Mind (Mono)
- Farewell (Mono)
- Hot House of Omagararshid (Mono)
- Jeff's Boogie (Mono)
- He's Always There (Mono)
- Turn Into Earth (Mono)
- What Do You Want (Mono)
- Ever Since the World Began (Mono)
- Lost Women (Stereo)
- Over Under Sideways Down (Stereo)
- The Nazz Are Blue (Stereo)
- I Can't Make Your Way (Stereo)
- Rack My Mind (Stereo)
- Farewell (Stereo)
- Hot House of Omagararshid (Stereo)
- Jeff's Boogie (Stereo)
- He's Always There (Stereo)
- Turn Into Earth (Stereo)
- What Do You Want (Stereo)
- Ever Since the World Began (Stereo)
- Mr. Zero
- Knowing
- Shapes in My Mind (version 1)
- Shapes in My Mind (version 2)
- Blue Sands (excerpt)
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- For Your Love
- A Certain Girl
- Got Love If You Want It
- I Wish You Would
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- I'm a Man
- I Ain't Got You
- I'm Not Talking
- Still I'm Sad
- Shape of Things
- Baby What's Wrong
- You're a Better Man Than I
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Lost Woman
- Over Under Sideways Down
- The Nazz Are Blue
- I Can't Make Your Way
- Rack My Mind
- Farewell
- Hot House of Omagararshid
- Jeff's Boogie
- He's Always There
- Turn Into Earth
- What Do You Want
- Ever Since the World Began
- Over Under Sideways Down (single version)
- Jeff's Boogie (single version)
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- Psycho Daisies
- Hot House of Omagararshid (alternate take)
- Mr Zero (Keith Relf Solo)
- Knowing (Keith Relf Solo)
- Shapes in My Mind (Keith Relf Solo)
- Blue Sands (Keith Relf Solo)
- Shapes in My Mind (Keith Relf Solo) (alternate version)
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- Shapes of Things
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Smokestack Lightning
- Let It Rock
- Honey in Your Hips
- Talkin' About You
- Got to Hurry
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Highway 69
- I Got Love If You Want It
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Pretty Girl
- Five Long Years
- I'm a Man
- 23 Hours Too Long
- Little Games
- Smile On Me
- White Summer
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
- Glimpses (Version 1)
- Drinking Muddy Water (Stereo Mix)
- No Excess Baggage
- Stealing Stealing
- Only The Black Rose
- Little Soldier Boy
- Puzzles
- I Remember The Night
- Ha Ha Said The Clown
- Ten Little Indians (Vocal)
- Goodnight Sweet Josephine (Version 1)
- Think About It
- You Stole My Love
- L.S.D.
- Drinking Muddy Water (Mono Mix)
- De Lane Lea Lee
- Glimpses (Version 2)
- Never Mind
- Ten Little Indians (Instrumental)
- Goodnight Seet Josephine (Version 2)
- Together Now (by TOGETHER)
- "Great Shakes" Commercial Spot
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Shape of Things
- Still I'm Sad
- Evil Hearted You
- Boom Boom
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I'm a Man
- Putty
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Too Much Monkey Business
- I Ain't Got You
- A Certain Girl
- I Wish You Would
- Got to Hurry
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- 23 Hours Too Long
- Out on the Water Coast
- Five Long Years
- I Ain't Got You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Little Red Rooster (rehearsal)
- Little Red Rooster
- Highway 49
- Wang-Dang-Doodle
- I'm a Man
- The Train Kept a Rolling
- Jeff's Blues
- Steeled Blues
- New York City Blues
- It's a Bloody Life
- I See a Man Downstairs
- For Your Love
- Putty in Your Hands
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Heart Full of Soul
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- Stroll On
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- Train Kept a Rolling
- I'm a Man
- For Your Love
- Putty in Your Hands
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Heart Full of Soul
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- Stroll On
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- Train Kept a Rolling
- I'm a Man
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- For Your Love
- Heartful Of Soul
- Still I'm Sad
- Evil Hearted You
- I'm A Man
- Shapes Of Things
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- Got To Hurry
- I Ain't Got You
- Train Kept A Rolling
- I'm Not Talking
- Steeled Blues
- A Certain Girl
- For Your Love
- I'm Not Talking
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- I Ain't Got You
- Got to Hurry
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Sweet Music
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- My Girl Sloopy
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (live)
- I'm Talking About You
- Got to Hurry (alternate version)
- For Your Love
- I'm a Man
- Pretty Girl
- Five Long Years
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- The Train Kept a Rolling
- Boom Boom
- Got Love if You Want It
- Evil Hearted You
- I Ain't Got You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- My Girl Sloopy
- A Certain Girl
- Here 't is
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Got to Hurry
- Still I'm Sad
- New York City Blues
- For Your Love
- I Ain't Got You
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- My Girl Sloopy
- I'm a Man
- Mister, You're a Better Man Than I
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Heart Full of Soul
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Shapes of Things
- Jeff's Blues
- New York City Blues
- For RSG
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Ain't Got You
- Boom Boom
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (backing track)
- Got to Hurry
- For Your Love
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Got Love If You Want It
- Here 'Tis
- Pontiac Blues (feat. Sonny Boy Williamson)
- 23 Hours Too Long (feat. Sonny Boy Williamson)
- Let It Rock
- Smokestack Lightning
- Honey in Your Hips
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- Heart Full of Soul (Sitar version)
- Still I'm Sad
- I'm a Man
- Jeff's Blues
- Mister, You're a Better Man Than I
- Shapes of Things
- Stroll On
- Smokestack Lightning
- New York City Blues
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirls
- I'm a Man
- Here 'Tis
- Evil Hearted You
- Putty (In Your Hands)
- A Certain Girl
- Got to Hurry
- You're a Better Man Than I
Shapes of Things: A Collection of Classic Yardbirds Recordings, 1964-1966
(Released 1977)
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- Introduction: Hamish Grimes / Too Much Monkey Business
- I Wish You Would
- Goodmorning Little School Girl
- For Your Love
- A Certain Girl
- Got to Hurry
- Smokestack Lightning
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Steeled Blues
- Train Kept a Rolling
- Here 'Tis
The Yardbirds: Featuring Performances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page
(Released 1970)
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- Drinking Muddy Water
- Hot House of Omagarashid
- I Wish You Would
- The Train Kept a-Rollin'
- Smile on Me
- Jeff's Boogie
- I Ain't Got You
- What Do You Want
- White Summer
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Would
- Putty In Your Hands
- Sweet Music
- Got To Hurry
- For Your Love
- Heartful Of Soul (Master)
- Heartful Of Soul (Sitar)
- Steeled Blues
- Still I'm Sad
- I'm Not Talking
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- My Girl Sloopy
- Evil Hearted You
- You're A Better Man Than I
- Train Kept A Rolling
- Shapes Of Things
- New York City
- I'm A Man
- Stroll On
- Lost Woman
- Over, Under, Sideways, Down
- The Nazz Are Blue
- I Can't Make Your Way
- Rack My Mind
- Farewell
- Hot House of Omagararshid
- Jeff's Boogie
- He's Always There
- Turn Into Earth
- What Do You Want
- Ever Since the World Began
- For Your Love
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I'm a Man
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Got to Hurry
- Heartful of Soul
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Someone to Love, Part 1
- Someone to Love, Part 2
- I'm a Man
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- The Train Kept a Rolling
- Boom Boom
- I Ain't Got You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Still I'm Sad
- For Your Love
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Lost Woman
- Over, Under, Sideways, Down
- The Nazz Are Blue
- I Can't Make Your Way
- Rack My Mind
- Farewell
- Hot House of Omagarashid
- Jeff's Boogie
- He's Always There
- Turn Into Earth
- What Do You Want
- Ever Since the World Began
- Psycho Daisies
- Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- For Your Love
- Putty in Your Hands
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Heart Full of Soul
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- Stroll On
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- Train Kept a Rolling
- I'm a Man
- Little Games (stereo mix)
- Smile on Me
- White Summer
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (vocal)
- Glimpses (version 1)
- Drinking Muddy Water (stereo mix)
- No Excess Baggage
- Stealing Stealing
- Only the Black Rose
- Little Soldier Boy
- Puzzles
- I Remember the Night
- Ha Ha Said the Clown
- Ten Little Indians (vocal)
- Goodnight Sweet Josephine (version 1)
- Think About It
- Louise
- Five Long Years
- Early in the Morning
- Pounds and Stomps
- First Time I Met the Blues
- They Call It Stormy Monday
- Big Boss Man
- She's So Respectable
- Choker
- Snake Drive
- West Coast Idea
- Eric's Blues
- Got to Hurry
- Freightloader
- A Certain Girl
- Draggin' My Tail
- For Your Love
- I Wish You Would
- Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Ain't Got You
- For Your Love
- Got to Hurry
- Heart Full of Soul
- Steeled Blues
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Shapes of Things
- Mister, You're a Better Man Than I
- I'm a Man
- New York City Blues
- Train Kept a Rollin'
- Paff... Bum
- Mr. Zero
- Sweet Music
- Someone to Love, Parts 1 & 2
- Stroll On
- I Wish You Would
- A Certain Girl
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Ain't Got You
- Putty in Your Hands
- Sweet Music
- Got to Hurry
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul (master)
- Heart Full of Soul (Sitar version)
- Steeled Blues
- Still I'm Sad
- I'm Not Talking
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- My Girl Sloopy
- Evil Hearted You
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Train Kept a Rolling
- Shapes of Things
- New York City
- I'm a Man
- Stroll On
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Shapes of Things
- Still I'm Sad
- Evil Hearted You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Got Love If You Want
- Boom, Boom
- Smokestack Lightning
- I'm a Man
- Too Much Monkey Business
- A Certain Girl
- Mister, You're a Better Man Than I
- Honey in Your Hips
- Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Five Long Years
- Louise
- Baby, What's Wrong?
- Take It Easy Baby
- Highway 69
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Smokestack Lightning
- I'm a Man (live)
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- I Wish You Would
- For Your Love
- I Got Love If You Want It
- Take It Easy Baby (live)
- Pretty Girl (live)
- Here 'Tis (live)
- Let It Rock (live)
- Got to Hurry
- Out on the Water Coast (live)
- For Your Love
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Heart Full of Soul
- Shapes of Things
- Still I'm Sad
- Evil Hearted You
- Steeled Blues
- The Train Kept a-Rollin'
- Jeff's Blues
- I Wish You Would
- Talkin' About You
- New York City Blues
- Let it Rock
- Who Do You Love
- Boom Boom
- Pontiac Blues (Highway 69)
- Got to Hurry
- Pontiac Blues
- Smokestack Lighting
- Like Jimmy Reed Again
- For Your Love
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Shape of Things
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Baby What's Wrong
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- I'm a Man
- Steeled Blues
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- You're a Better Man Than I
- My Girl Sloopy
- The Train Kept a Rollin'
- Jeff's Blues
- Take It Easy Baby
- For Your Love
- Putty (in Your Hands)
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- You're a Better Man Than I
- Shapes of Things
- Heart Full of Soul
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- I'm a Man
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- I'm Not Talking
- I Wish You Would
- Too Much Monkey Business (live)
- Got Love If You Want It (live)
- Smokestack Lightning (live)
- For Your Love
- I Ain't Got You
- Putty in Your Hands
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- My Girl Sloopy
- I'm a Man
- Evil Hearted You
- Heart Full of Soul
- Shapes of Things
- Jeff's Blues
- New York City Blues
- Smokestack Lightning
- Let It Rock
- Honey in Your Hips
- I Wish You Would
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- Who Do You Love
- I'm Talking About You
- Bye Bye Bird
- Mr. Downchild
- The River Rhine
- Twenty Three Hours Too Long
- A Lost Care
- Pontiac Blues
- Take It Easy Baby
- Out on the Water Coast
- I Don't Care No More
- Western Arizona
- Boom Boom
- Honey in Your Hips
- A Certain Girl
- I Wish You Would (long version)
- Sweet Music
- Putty (in Your Hands)
- Slow Walk
- Highway 69
- My Little Cabin
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (live)
- I Ain't Got You
- For Your Love
- I'm Not Talking
- I Ain't Done Wrong
- My Girl Sloopy
- Heart Full of Soul
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Shapes of Things
- Mr, You're a Better Man Than I
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- I'm a Man
- Paff... Bum (Version 2)
- Here 'tis
- Jeff's Blues
- Stroll On
- Questa Volta
- 23 Hours Too Long
- Out on the Water Coast
- Five Long Years
- I Ain't Got You
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Little Red Rooster (rehearsal)
- Little Red Rooster
- Highway 49
- Wang-Dang-Doodle
- I'm a Man
- Jeff's Blues
- I See a Man Downstairs
- For Your Love
- Putty in Your Hands
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Would
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Evil Hearted You
- Still I'm Sad
- Heartful of Soul
- Jeff's Blues
- Shapes of Things
- Steeled Blues
- Stroll On
- A Certain Girl
- I Ain't Got You
- Train Kept a Rolling
- I'm a Man
- Draggin' My Tail
- Freight Loader
- For Your Love
- Tribute to Elmore
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Snake Drive
- I Ain't Got You
- Miles Road
- Train Kept a Rollin'
- West Coast Idea
- A Certain Girl
- Got to Hurry
- I Wish You Could
- Choker
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The Yardbirds - Dazed And Confused (1968)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:46
- Published: 03 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 12 Dec 2011
- Author: Wolffishfish
This video seems to be from a different source. H.264 www.youtube.com
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The Yardbirds - For Your Love (1965) (Full version)
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- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 08 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 12 Dec 2011
- Author: Wolffishfish
Live H.264 www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__For_Your_Love_1965_Full_version
The Yardbirds-Shapes of things
Jimmy page when he was in the Yardbirds, not the best quality, but the authenticity is there. Kinda wonky solo by Zoso, but still a great song.
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds-Shapes_of_things
The Yardbirds - Stroll On (Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page 1966)
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- Duration: 0:00
- Published: 09 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: ClaptonMusicVideo
The Yardbirds - Videoclip in 1966 Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__Stroll_On_Jeff_Beck_Jimmy_Page_1966
The Yardbirds With Eric Clapton Louise 1963
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 11 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 10 Dec 2011
- Author: mariomartino82
The Yardbirds With Eric Clapton Louise 1963
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds_With_Eric_Clapton_Louise_1963
Yardbirds 1966 Blow Up
Mini-skirted mods, swinging London go-go scenes. Cool 1960s fashions. The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Michelangelo Antonioni Masterpiece !
http://wn.com/Yardbirds_1966_Blow_Up
The Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin' (1968)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 03 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: Wolffishfish
This video seems to be from a different source. H.264 www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__Train_Kept_A_Rollin'_1968
The Yardbirds - For Your Love (Shindig 1965)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 25 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: fresh12121212
The Yardbirds - For Your Love (Shindig 1965)live
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__For_Your_Love_Shindig_1965
Over Under Sideways Down - Yardbirds (Page)
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- Duration: 2:14
- Published: 05 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: dickeyboyz
Yardbirds play live
http://wn.com/Over_Under_Sideways_Down__Yardbirds_Page
The Yardbirds - Louise
UK TV clip of the Yardbirds with Eric Clapton on lead guitar. The quality of the footage suggests that it *may* be an example of an early video recording. Either way, great Yardmerising from Keith Relf and the boys. Song by John Lee Hooker.
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__Louise
Still I'm Sad- The Yardbirds- 1965
My Band The Yardbirds.What A Song.The Sound Freaks Me Out.The Straight Blues Is Fine But I Love It When The Yardbirds Go Weird.They Were The First Band To Do Weird Songs.Everyone Else Was Just Trying To Have Hits.And The Yardbirds Were Going Weird. Man , What A Band.
http://wn.com/Still_I'm_Sad_The_Yardbirds_1965
Jimmy Page & the Yardbirds doing "Heart full of Soul"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Published: 26 Sep 2007
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: DalesSales
Jimmy Page & the Yardbirds doing "Heart full of Soul" in 1966 just after Jeff Beck left the group www.prankcallradio.com www.myspace.com/daleinsales
http://wn.com/Jimmy_Page_the_Yardbirds_doing_Heart_full_of_Soul
The Yardbirds - I'm Not Talking
One of my favorite songs by the Yardbirds, featuring Jeff Beck on guitar! Written by Mose Allison.
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__I'm_Not_Talking
Boom Boom-Yardbirds (Clapton)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 01 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Dec 2011
- Author: MoorelandSt
www.yardbirds.us presents The Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton)
http://wn.com/Boom_Boom-Yardbirds_Clapton
The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul (With Jeff Beck)
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- Duration: 1:48
- Published: 21 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Dec 2011
- Author: appletreejungle
1965
http://wn.com/The_Yardbirds__Heart_Full_Of_Soul_With_Jeff_Beck
Yardbirds Biography
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 18 Apr 2007
- Uploaded: 11 Nov 2011
- Author: Micahvandy
The talents of The Yardbirds throughout the years of 1962-1968.
http://wn.com/Yardbirds_Biography
Yardbirds - Psycho Daisies
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:48
- Published: 13 Oct 2010
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The Yardbirds "Psycho Daisies" from the album "Roger the Engineer" (CD Reissue). Written by Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf -Lyrics- Pennsylvania snow is pretty thick, Michigan ain't where I get my kicks. Texas is fine but it gets too hot, And New York City's not a place to stop. New Orleans is the home of the blues, But California's my home with Mary Hughes. Down in Mississippi I'm told is nice, And all the meals there, they come with rice. Oregon and Iowa are not for me, The Colorado mountains are something you must see. But back in California there's nothing to lose, 'Cos everything's swinging there with Mary Hughes.
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The Scoop - The Yardbirds
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On this episode of The Scoop ProGuitarShop Andy discusses the legacy of The Yardbirds and their highly influential, if short-lived, career. The Yardbirds shaped rock 'n' roll in it's infancy and served as a springboard for many rock legends, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, who all got their start in The Yardbirds' lead guitar slot.
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| Coordinates | 23°33′″N46°38′″N |
|---|---|
| name | The Yardbirds |
| landscape | Yes |
| background | group_or_band |
| origin | London, England |
| years active | 1963–1968, 1992–present |
| genre | Blues rock, psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues |
| label | Columbia, Capitol, Epic |
| current members | Chris DrejaJim McCartyBen KingDavid SmaleAndy Mitchell |
| past members | See: Members section for detailed list |
| associated acts | The Jeff Beck Group, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Renaissance, Box of Frogs, Band of Joy |
| website | }} |
The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top fifteen of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton as #4, Page as #9, and Beck as #14). A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The Yardbirds were pioneers in guitar innovations of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner, holds that the Yardbirds were "the most impressive guitar band in rock music". After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their current lead guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin.
The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
History
Beginnings
The band formed in the south-west London suburbs. Relf and Samwell-Smith were originally in a band named the Metropolitan Blues Quartet. After being joined by Dreja, McCarty and Topham in late May 1963, they decided to change the name, and after a couple of gigs in September 1963 as the Blue-Sounds, they settled on The Yardbirds, which was both an expression for hobos hanging around rail yards waiting for a train and also a reference to the jazz saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.At Kingston Art School in late May 1963 they first performed as a backup band for Cyril Davies, and achieved notice on the burgeoning British rhythm and blues scene in September 1963 when they took over as the house band at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, succeeding The Rolling Stones. They drew their repertoire from the Chicago blues of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James, including "Smokestack Lightning", "Good Morning Little School Girl", "Boom Boom", "I Wish You Would", "Rollin' and Tumblin'", and "I'm a Man".
Original lead guitarist (Anthony) Top Topham left and was replaced by Eric Clapton in October 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario Giorgio Gomelsky became the Yardbirds' manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds signed to EMI's Columbia label in February 1964. Their first album was "live", Five Live Yardbirds, recorded at the legendary Marquee Club in London. Blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II invited the group to tour England and Germany with him, a union that later engendered another live album.
Breakthrough success and Clapton departure
The quintet cut two singles, "I Wish You Would" and "Good Morning, School Girl", before their third, "For Your Love", a Graham Gouldman composition, provided their first major hit. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Clapton, at the time a blues purist, left the group in protest to join John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Clapton recommended Jimmy Page, a prominent young studio session guitarist, as his replacement. Page, uncertain about giving up his lucrative studio work and worried about his health, recommended in turn his friend Jeff Beck. He played his first gig with the Yardbirds only two days after Clapton's departure in May 1965.
Jeff Beck's tenure
Beck's experiments with fuzz tone, feedback, and distortion fit well into the increasingly raw style of British beat music and the Yardbirds began to experiment, producing arrangements reminiscent of Gregorian chant and various European and Asian styles ("Still I'm Sad", "Turn Into Earth", "Hot House of Omagarashid", "Farewell", "Ever Since The World Began") though their commercial appeal began to wane. Beck was voted #1 lead guitarist of 1966 in the British music magazine Beat Instrumental.The Beck-era Yardbirds produced a number of memorable recordings, single hits like "Heart Full of Soul", Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man", and "Shapes of Things" and the Yardbirds album (known popularly as Roger the Engineer and first issued in the U.S. in an abridged version called Over Under Sideways Down).
The Yardbirds embarked on their first US tour in late August, 1965. A pair of albums was put together for the U.S. market; For Your Love (which included an early take of "My Girl Sloopy"), and Havin' A Rave Up With The Yardbirds, half of which came from Five Live Yardbirds. There were three more US tours during Beck's time with the group. A brief European tour took place in April 1966.
The Beck/Page line-up
In June 1966, shortly after the sessions that produced Yardbirds (aka, Roger The Engineer), Samwell-Smith decided to leave the group and work as a record producer. Jimmy Page agreed to play bass until rhythm guitarist Dreja had rehearsed on that instrument. The Beck-Page tandem is heard on the single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (a psychedelic rock highlight), though this featured Beck and Page on twin lead guitar, with John Paul Jones on bass: it was backed with "Psycho Daisies", which featured Beck on lead guitar and Page on bass (the B-side of the U.S. single, "The Nazz Are Blue", features a rare lead vocal by Beck).The Beck-Page era Yardbirds also recorded "Stroll On", a rendering of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" recorded for the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blowup, though Relf changed the lyrics and title to avoid seeking permission from the copyright holder. "Stroll On" features a twin lead-guitar break by Beck and Page. Their appearance in Blowup came after The Who declined and The In-Crowd were unable to attend the filming. The Velvet Underground were also considered for the part but were unable to acquire UK work permits. Director Michelangelo Antonioni instructed Beck to smash his guitar in emulation of The Who's Pete Townshend: the guitar that Beck smashes at the end of their set is a cheap German-made Hofner instrument.
The Beck-Page lineup recorded little else in the studio and no live recordings of the dual-lead guitar lineup have surfaced (save a scratchy cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man"). The Beck-Page Yardbirds recorded a commercial for a milkshake product "Great Shakes" using the opening riff of "Over Under Sideways Down", featured on 1992's Little Games Sessions & More compilation.
There was also one recording made by Beck and Page with John Paul Jones on bass, Keith Moon on drums and Nicky Hopkins on piano — "Beck's Bolero", a piece inspired by Ravel's "Bolero", credited to Page (Beck also claims to have written the song). "Beck's Bolero" was first released as the B-side of Beck's first solo single, "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and was included on his first album, Truth.
The Yardbirds' final days: the Page era
Beck was fired from the group after a tour stop in Texas in late October 1966; as such, the Yardbirds continued as a quartet for the remainder of their career. Page became the new lead guitarist and introduced his technique of playing with a cello bow (suggested to him by session musician David McCallum, Sr.) and the use of a wah-wah pedal.Meanwhile, the Yardbirds' commercial fortunes were declining. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" had only reached No. 30 on the U.S. Hot 100 and had fared even worse in Britain. A partnership with Columbia's hit-making producer, Mickie Most, failed to reignite their commercial success. The "Little Games" single released in spring 1967 flopped so badly in the UK that EMI did not release another Yardbirds record there until after the band broke up (a UK release of the "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" single was planned the following year, but was eventually cancelled). A version of Tony Hazzard's "Ha Ha Said the Clown" — on which only one band member, Relf, actually performed — was the band's last single to crack the U.S. Top 50, peaking at No. 44 in Billboard in the summer of 1967. Their final album, Little Games, released in America in July, was a commercial and critical non-entity. A cover of Harry Nilsson's "Ten Little Indians" hit the U.S. in the fall of 1967 and quickly sank.
The Yardbirds spent most of the rest of that year touring in the States with new manager Peter Grant, their live shows becoming heavier and more experimental. The band rarely played their 1967 singles on stage, preferring to mix the Beck-era hits with blues standards and covers from groups such as The Velvet Underground and American folk singer Jake Holmes, whose "Dazed and Confused", with lyrics rewritten by Relf, was a live staple of the Yardbirds' last two American tours. The latter went down so well that Page selected it for the first Led Zeppelin record, on which it appears with Page credited as writer.
By 1968 Relf and McCarty wished to pursue a style influenced by folk and classical music while Page, at a time when the psychedelic blues-rock of Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience was enormously popular, wanted to continue with the kind of "heavy" music for which Led Zeppelin would become famous. Dreja was developing an interest in photography. By March, Relf and McCarty had decided to leave, though the other two managed to persuade them to stay at least for one more American tour. The Yardbirds' final single, recorded in January and released two months later, reflected these divergences. The A-side, "Goodnight Sweet Josephine", was in the same vein as their Mickie Most-produced singles of the previous year, while its B-side, "Think About It", featured a proto-Zeppelin Page riff and snippets of the "Dazed" guitar solo. This last single did not even crack the Hot 100.
A concert and some album tracks were recorded in New York City in March (including the currently unreleased song "Knowing That I'm Losing You", an early version of a track that would be re-recorded by Led Zeppelin as "Tangerine"). All were shelved at the band's request, although once Led Zeppelin were successful Epic tried to release the concert material as Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page. The album was quickly withdrawn after Page's lawyers filed an injunction.
On 7 July 1968, the Yardbirds played their final gig at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, England. Twelve years later to the day Led Zeppelin would play their final concert in their original line-up in Berlin.
The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin
Jimmy Page and Chris Dreja, with a tour slated for the fall in Scandinavia, saw the break-up as an opportunity to put a new lineup together with Page as producer and Grant as manager. Procol Harum's B.J. Wilson, Paul Francis, and session man Clem Cattini, who'd guested on more than a few Yardbirds tracks under Most's supervision, were considered as drummers. Young vocalist and composer Terry Reid was asked to replace Relf but declined because of a new recording contract with Most and recommended the then-unknown Robert Plant. Plant, in turn, recommended his childhood friend John Bonham on drums. Dreja bowed out to pursue a career as a rock photographer and bassist/keyboardist/arranger John Paul Jones — who, like Cattini, had worked with Page on countless sessions, including several with the Yardbirds — was recruited. Rehearsals began in August; in early September, Page's revised Yardbirds embarked on the Scandinavian tour after which the group returned to England to produce an album, still billed as The Yardbirds as late as October 1968.While Page's new roster still played a few songs from the Yardbirds' canon—usually "Train Kept A-Rollin'," "Dazed and Confused," or "For Your Love" — a name (and identity) change was in order as the fall of 1968 drew to a close. This may have been motivated, at least in part, by a cease-and-desist order from Dreja, who claimed that he maintained legal rights to the "Yardbirds" name; other reports indicate it was Page's desire to wipe the slate clean. Whatever the reason, the band restyled itself "Led Zeppelin", a term believed to have been coined, originally, by Keith Moon in reference to the "supergroup" that had performed on "Beck's Bolero." Moon had quipped that a Page/Beck/Moon/Jones/Hopkins lineup would go down "like a "lead zeppelin." The spelling of "lead" was changed to avoid confusion over its pronunciation. This effectively closed the books on the Yardbirds — at least by name — for the next 24 years.
After the Yardbirds
Vocalist Keith Relf and drummer Jim McCarty formed an acoustic rock group called Together and then Renaissance, which recorded two albums for Island Records over a two-year period. McCarty formed the group Shoot in 1973. Keith Relf, after producing albums for Medicine Head (with whom he also played bass) and Saturnalia, resurfaced in 1975 with a new quartet, Armageddon; a hybrid of heavy metal, hard rock and folk influences, which now included former Renaissance bandmate Louis Cennamo. They recorded one promising album before Relf died in an electrical accident in his home studio on 14 May 1976. In 1977, Illusion was formed, featuring a reunited lineup of the original Renaissance, including drummer Jim McCarty and Keith's sister Jane Relf.In the 1980s Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja and Paul Samwell-Smith formed a short-lived but fun Yardbirds semi-reunion called Box of Frogs, which occasionally included Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page plus various friends with whom they had all recorded over the years. Jim McCarty was also part of 'The British Invasion All-Stars' with members of Procol Harum, Creation, Nashville Teens, The Downliners Sect and The Pretty Things. Phil May and Dick Taylor of The Pretty Things, together with drummer Jim McCarty, recorded 2 albums in Chicago as The Pretty Things-Yardbirds Blues Band "The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991" and "Wine, Women, Whiskey", both produced by George Paulus.
The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Nearly all the original surviving musicians who had been part of the group's heyday, including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, appeared at the ceremony. Eric Clapton, whose Hall Of Fame induction here was the first of three, was unable to attend because of his obligations while recording and working on a show for the MTV Unplugged series. Accepting the induction on behalf of the late Keith Relf were his wife April and son Danny.
Reformation
In 1992 Peter Barton from Rock Artist Management contacted Jim McCarty about the prospect of reforming The Yardbirds. Jim was interested but only if Chris Dreja would agree, but at the time Jim thought it highly unlikely that Chris would want to tour again. Peter Barton then contacted Chris Dreja, who after some gentle persuasion agreed to give it a try. Their debut gig was booked at The Marquee club in London along with the newly reformed Animals. It was a great success.The lineup featured John Idan handling bass and lead vocals. Peter Barton managed the band and booked all their dates for over a decade. Peter still works with the band on occasion.In 2003, a new album, Birdland, was released under the Yardbirds name on the Favored Nations label by a lineup including Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, and new members Gypie Mayo (lead guitar, backing vocals), John Idan (bass, lead vocals) and Alan Glen (harmonica, backing vocals), which consisted of a mixture of new material mostly penned by McCarty and re-recordings of some of their greatest hits, with guest appearances by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Slash, Brian May, Steve Lukather, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, John Rzeznik, Martin Ditchum and Simon McCarty. Also, Jeff Beck reunited with his former bandmates on the song "My Blind Life". And then there was the rare and improbable guest appearance on stage in 2005 by their first guitarist from the sixties, Top Topham.
Since the release of Birdland, Gypie Mayo has been briefly replaced by Jerry Donahue, and subsequently in 2005 by the then 22-year-old Ben King, while Alan Glen has been replaced by Billy Boy Miskimmin from Nine Below Zero fame.
In 2007 the Yardbirds released a live CD, recorded on July 19, 2006, entitled Live At B.B. King Blues Club (Favored Nations), featuring the McCarty, Dreja, Idan, King and Miskimmin line-up.
The first episode of the 2007/2008 season for The Simpsons featured The Yardbirds' "I'm A Man" from the CD "Live At B.B. King Blues Club" (Favored Nations).
According to his website, John Idan resigned from the Yardbirds in August 2008, although his last gig with them was on Friday 24 April 2009, when they headlined the first concert in the new Live Room venue at Twickenham rugby stadium. This was also Alan Glen's last gig with the band after temporarily standing in when Billy Boy Miskimmin was unavailable.
Idan and Glen were replaced by Andy Mitchell (lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar) and David Smale (bass, backing vocals), brother of the virtuoso guitarist Jonathan Smale.
Members
Current members
(Touring Band)
Timeline
Discography
:See The Yardbirds discography
References
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