Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page
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Performer: The YardbirdsEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-07-28
Music Label: Mooreland Street Records
Soundtracks:
- Train Kept A-Rollin' (Sound Check)
- Dazed And Confused (Sound Check)
- The Train Kept A-Rollin' - The Yardbirds
- You're A Better Man Than I/Heart Full of Soul
- Dazed And Confused - The Yardbirds
- My Baby - The Yardbirds
- Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds
- Drinking Muddy Water - The Yardbirds
- Shapes Of Things - The Yardbirds
- White Summer (Page Solo Instrumental)
- I'm A Man (12 minutes)
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Rating: 5 Stars
This album gives me the chills. When you listen to it alongside early Yardbirds stuff and compare, it sounds like the devil crept in and tore the band to shreds in one final amazing last frenzy...and the crowds on this final tour must have flipped their tops (this could easily fit in with the popular legend that Jimmy Page once sold his soul to the devil to play guitar!) The sound is that of a band that once was once something, but was about to become nothing... How did it happen? Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds quietly about a year and half earlier as a replacement on bass. Within that time he had risen to second lead, and then took over Jeff Becks aclaimed role as lead guitarist. By listening to this show, it is obvious that he was about to chew right through this band entirely! Here endeth the Yardbirds. It is amazing to witness though, and actually a show worthy of its legend. Too bad this album is so rare.
Listen to the early take of Dazed and Confused as a Yardbirds song (I'M CONFUSED is the actual title here, but you will no doubt recognize the guitar work) Keith Relf almost sounds like he is literally (a little scared and) confused as to what his role as lead vocalist has come down to.. lyrically he has a hard time keeping up with Pages continuosly building sound... and he sings "I'm starting to crack, if your trying to break me, you're on the right track!" I feel like he's singing it to Page.... However still Relf shines as a master of the harp... numerous times throughout this perfomance, when he's in doubt, he just blows the harp. And its intense sometimes over these raw Page riffs. No doubt in my mind that Robert Plant studied Relfs harp section on Dazed rather than his vocals when he took over later on. The famous Plant wails in the ZepI version vs. Relfs haunting chords on this, compare.
I will tell you this. At some point in your life you need to get your hands on this album and soak it up. Especially if you are a fan of early Zep or The Yardbirds in general... which, who isn't; and, well you damned should be. Jimmy Page has done everything in his power to keep this album underground for whatever reason or another. Epic first released it in the early seventies and it lasted about three years before Page finally battled it into the dirt. In 1992 Epic tried once again to release it on CD (the version found here) and it lasted on the shelves for a matter of weeks before Page banished it again. Whats he got to hide here... the set is stellar. Sort of makes you think a little bit, no?
There are some minor flaws. For one thing, I guess Epic thought the album didn't sound live enough? And they added in additional crowd noise (boneheads.) Secondly the sound quality is just a par above bootleg standards... however I happen to love the way the record sounds ( I own the vinyl myself, and I know nothing about the bonus tracks on this featured version) this record has a very dark and mysterious quality to it... the vocals sound like old time forties radio, but Pages guitar is on fire... fresher than Zep even at spots. The songs are just flat out ROCK! TRAIN and the twelve minute I'M A MAN?! Are you kidding me? And OVER-UNDER... crunches, man.
Trust me, seek this album out like the grail.
Description of Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page
This is the album you've been waiting to hear on CD. Lovingly remastered and repackaged using the original color cover artwork, "Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page" presents The Yardbirds' Anderson Theatre concert in New York from March 30, 1968 in the best possible quality.This collection also includes two bonus tracks-- the sound checks of the songs "The Train Kept A-Rollin" and "Dazed And Confused"-the first commercial release for both recordings!
Dont buy bootlegs or audience tapes of this show! For the first time, the entire Yardbirds performance from that night has been presented on one disc. Get it now!
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