The Yardbirds 1992 Reunion Concert

Genre: Rock
Rate: 192 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 01:04:03
Size: 88,05 MB



In celebration of their induction into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,Yardbirds founders Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja, performed several reunion concerts in London during 1992 featuring Yardbirds hits; Recorded at 100 Club and Station Tavern

artists:

Chris Dreja: rhythm guitar
Jim McCarty: drums, songwriter
Gypie Mayo: lead guitar, backing vocals
John Idan: bass, lead vocals
Alan Glen: harmonica, backing vocals



Tracklist:

01 - Back Where I Started (Ricky Ricardo Rave-Up) 06:28

02 - I'm Not Talking 03:04

03 - Heavy Weather 02:34

04 - Train Kept A Rolling 03:26

05 - Crying Out For Love 04:32

06 - Heartful Of Soul 02:43

07 - Three Lane Highway 03:26

08 - Ain't Done Wrong 03:34

09 - Sitting On Top Of The World 05:36

10 - Ain't Got You 02:11

11 - Rack My Mind 03:43

12 - Ain't Superstitious 03:51

13 - Bad Boy 05:26

14 - Dust My Broom 05:28

15 - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I 03:42

16 - For Your Love 04:19





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The Yardbirds 1966 Roger The Engineer

Genre: Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:36:47
Size: 84,10 MB



Officially called simply The Yardbirds, this album came to be known as Roger The Engineer as that was the name of the front-cover caricature of their engineer Roger Cameron by Chris Dreja, written on the sleeve. It was their first studio album although an earlier incarnation of the band with Eric Clapton had released a live blues album, Five Live Yardbirds, and in America Epic had capitalized on the success of their final single with Clapton, For Your Love, by collecting all their UK Columbia singles to date and an EP in the pipeline, and added a couple of unreleased items for an album also named For Your Love.

Jeff Beck was not a blues purist and steered the band into fresh and exciting musical areas over the next few hit singles, incorporating Gregorian chants, sitar-like psychedelic guitar, backward tapes and controlled feedback.

Only the most recent of these, Over Under Sideways Down, which was created in the studios out of a spontaneous jam around Rock Around The Clock, and its instrumental flip, the self-explanatory instrumental Jeff's Boogie, were included on the album, the rest of which was largely concocted from scratch at Advision in one brief week of recording.

Some of the ideas used on their singles are reworked here, with Keith Relf leading all the vocals with the exception of The Nazz Are Blue which features a rare early vocal from Jeff Beck and bursts into a well-known Elmore James riff in the middle. Todd Rundgren named his band The Nazz in 1967 as a tribute to this song.

Mono was the norm in those days, when few record-buyers had stereo hi-fi systems, so must of the time spent mixing the album was devoted to the mono version, with the stereo mix left to the end and recreated independently but with reference to the mono master. Inevitably, there would be subtle, and sometimes glaringly obvious differences. A guitar overdubbed directly onto the mastertape during mixdown is necessarily absent from the stereo version of Hot House Of Omagararshid, and there are similar anomalies on He's Always There, Turn To Stone and others. Nevertheless, the benefits of the wide stereo sound are clear, and this edition presents both mixes in full using the Yardbirds' own mastertapes.

Bonus tracks include the magnificent psychedelic single released three months later, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago/Psycho Daisies, by which time Paul Samwell-Smith had left and Jimmy Page had joined the band as second guitarist and occasional bass player, and two solo singles released by Keith Relf as a side project. (Lozarithm)



Tracklist:

01 - Lost Woman 03:15

02 - Over, Under, Sideways, Down 02:24

03 - The Nazz Are Blue 03:04

04 - I Can't Make Your Way 02:27

05 - Rack My Mind 03:15

06 - Farewell 01:32

07 - Hot House Of Omagarashid 02:45

08 - Jeff's Boogie 02:25

09 - He's Always There 02:15

10 - Turn Into Earth 03:07

11 - What Do You Want 03:24

12 - Ever Since The World Began 02:07

13 - Psycho Daisies 01:51

14 - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 02:56





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The Yardbirds 1972 Blue Eyed Blues

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:42:47
Size: 97,89 MB

Review by Cub Koda

A hodgepodge of tracks, mostly pulled from the Yardbirds' catalog. Over half the disc is devoted to Clapton, bringing together two songs of the band backing up Sonny Boy Williamson, "Five Long Years" and "I'm a Man" from the Five Live Yardbirds album, two studio tracks from their first album, and three tracks from the Howlin' Wolf London Sessions. Jeff Beck is represented with a band-track-only outtake of "The Nazz Are Blue," under its original working title of "Jeff's Blues." The final track with Page is taken from a London studio session backing Sonny Boy Williamson. If you have a decent Yardbirds collection, you probably have most of these elsewhere.



Tracklist:

01 - 23 Hours Too Long 05:15

02 - Out On The Water Coast 03:11

03 - Five Long Years 05:20

04 - I Ain't Got You 02:02

05 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 02:48

06 - Little Red Rooster (Rehearsal) 01:58

07 - Little Red Rooster 03:53

08 - Highway 49 02:45

09 - Wang-Dang-Doodle 04:25

10 - I'm A Man 04:50

11 - Jeff's Blues 03:04

12 - I See A Man Downstairs 03:16





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The Yardbirds 2008 Live At B.B. King's Blues Club

Genre: Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 01:19:01
Size: 180,66 MB

Review by Bruce Eder

Anyway you slice it, the Yardbirds are one kick-ass band on-stage, and here they mostly do more than re-enact 1960s-era triumphs in a live setting. Even some of the lesser new material off of the new album, such as Chris Dreja's bluesy dirge "My Blind Life" and the shapeless "Mr. Saboteur," is much more worthwhile in its presentation here; indeed, "Mr. Saboteur" becomes the basis for a great workout on the instrumental break. And the better numbers off of that record, such as Jim McCarty's "Crying out for Love" and "Please Don't Tell Me 'Bout the News," are also given fine airings here, in what ought to be considered their definitive presentations. Of course, any release of this kind is going to rest on its vintage repertory -- the band alternates between new and old across their set, and the new stuff is worth hearing, even if not all of it is as intrinsically memorable as the old songs. And of necessity, most of their worth, like much of this band's work, stand or fall on the contributions of new members John Idan (lead vocals), Billy Boy Miskimmin (harmonica), and Ben King (lead guitar).

As it happens, they do acquit themselves admirably -- Idan, who also plays bass, bears an uncanny resemblance to Keith Relf vocally, so that it seems like he's channeling the late singer even on the new numbers; and Miskimmin takes the harmonica breaks to places that Relf (who suffered from a collapsed lung at one point) couldn't always go. As for King, he adds his own flourishes to the numbers that can take them, and they're welcome -- this isn't like listening to a Yardbirds jukebox, is what we mean. Dreja's rhythm guitar work is better represented here than it was on some of the group's live broadcasts of the '60s, and Jim McCarty plays like this is 1966, not 40 years after 1966. "Shapes of Things" might be the one impossible spot in the group's set, as it is competing not only with the Yardibrds' original single but also with Jeff Beck's subsequent remake -- the re-formed group couldn't skip it, as the song looms too large in their history to neglect it; but apparently, they chose to completely ignore the reality of Beck's later version; Idan handles it as though Beck and Rod Stewart never pushed it over the line into pure heavy metal, and the rendition here ends up being the one place on this CD where one feels the performance is a slavish re-creation. Otherwise, they do put enough energy and sufficient new flourishes into it so that numbers such as "Rack My Mind" and "Over Under Sideways Down" are extended into shapes the original band didn't try for. In the midst of those vintage songs, one Box of Frogs number -- "Back Where I Started" -- proves just about their equal as a vehicle for some extended jamming. They also make "For Your Love" roll convincingly into "Still I'm Sad" into "Dazed and Confused," leading to a finale of "I'm a Man" (which one wishes were fully expanded here, the way it was on the Anderson Theater live album) into "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago." The latter song has shown astonishing durability given its disappointing performance as a single in 1966 -- as a big finish, it's a surprising choice, and this version of the band does about as well as the original group did with it on-stage back when. The sound is first-rate throughout, and the booklet includes lyrics and some annotation, though one wishes there were more said about the specific date represented.



Tracklist:

01 - Train Kept A Rollin' 03:40

02 - Please Don't Tell Me 'Bout The News 04:34

03 - Drinking Muddy Water 03:55

04 - Crying Out For Love 04:23

05 - Heart Full Of Soul 02:40

06 - My Blind Life 03:58

07 - The Nazz Are Blue 04:13

08 - Mr. You're A Better Man Than I 03:13

09 - Mr. Saboteur 05:15

10 - Shapes Of Things 02:43

11 - Mystery Of Being 04:09

12 - Rack My Mind 05:52

13 - Over Under Sideways Down 03:09

14 - Back Where I Started 08:31

15 - For Your Love 03:27

16 - Still I'm Sad 01:44

17 - Dazed And Confused 04:45

18 - I'm A Man 05:11

19 - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 03:39




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