The Yardbirds - The Yardbirds Story : 1963-66 (4 CD, 2007) [FLAC]

 

This four-CD box set features highlights from the early and middle periods of the Yardbirds' career, during which they were produced and managed by the legendary U.K. impresario Giorgio Gomelsky. As well as cuts from the band's phenomenally successful FIVE LIVE YARDBIRDS album, the set also includes live recordings made with the U.S. blues artist Sonny Boy Williamson, pop hits such as "For Your Love," "Shapes of Things," and "Heart Full of Soul," and a remake of "Train Kept a Rollin'" called "Stroll On," done for the Antonioni movie BLOW UP.

Various studio outtakes and alternate takes are also featured.



The Yardbirds

• Eric Clapton (guitar)
• Jeff Beck (guitar)
• Jimmy Page (guitar)
• Top Topham (guitar)
• Keith Relf (harp)
• Paul Samwell Smith (bass)
• Jim McCarty (drums)

The Yardbirds discography [1964-2019]

  

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". Founded originally by Peter Milton on lead bassoon and oboe, the group is also 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.