Live Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page Nmt Rare
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Pulled off the market soon after its release, this is a wonderful collector’s item for Yardbirds and Jimmy Page/Led Zepplin fans. In incredible shape with the record Nmt and the cover Ex+.
Arguably the most famous lost live album in history, Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, cut at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968, has been issued twice on vinyl legitimately (only to be suppressed by legal action) and innumerable times since as a bootleg.
Page's guitar (which goes out of tune several times) is the dominant instrument, alternately crunchy and lyrical, but always loud and dexterous; the roughness of Keith Relf's singing is also more apparent, but his shortcomings don't really hurt the music. The performance also reveals just how far out in front of the psychedelic pack the Yardbirds were by the spring of 1968; Page had pushed the envelope about as far as he could, in terms of high-velocity guitar pyrotechnics. Ironically, this album isn't quite as strong as the contemporary Truth album by Jeff Beck, mostly because the Yardbirds were still juggling three sounds: the group's progressive pop/rock past, the psychedelia of 1968, and a harder, more advanced blues-based sound. It's clear that they had few places left to go with the first two; "Dazed and Confused," by contrast, represented something new, a slow blues as dark, forbidding, and intense as anything that the band had ever cut -- it showed where Page, if not this band, was heading. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 1971
Formats: LP
Studio/Live: Live
Label: Epic
Track Listing:
1. The Train Kept A Rollin' (Bradshaw/Kay/Nathan)
2. Dazed and Confused (Holmes/Yardbirds)
3. The Train Kept A Rollin' (Bradshaw/Kay/Nathan)
4. You're a Better Man Than I/Heart Full of... (Gouldman/Hugg/Hugg))
5. Dazed and Confused (Holmes/Yardbirds)
6. My Baby (Ragovoy/Shuman)
7. Over, Under, Sideways, Down (Beck/Dreja/McCarty/Relf/Samwell/Smith)
8. Drinking Muddy Water (Dreja/McCarty/Page/Relf)
9. Shapes of Things (McCarty/Relf/Samwell/Smith)
10. White Summer (Page)
11. I'm a Man (Diddley)
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