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The Yardbirds - Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page Audio CD

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The Yardbirds Band: The Yardbirds
Title: Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page
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Release Date: 2000-07-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Train Kept A-Rollin' (Sound Check) 2: Dazed And Confused (Sound Check) 3: The Train Kept A-Rollin' 4: You're A Better Man Than I/Heart Full of Soul 5: Heart Full Of Soul 6: Dazed And Confused 7: My Baby 8: Over, Under, Sideways, Down 9: Drinking Muddy Water 10: White Summer (Page Solo Instrumental) 11: I'm A Man (12 minutes)

yardbird lovers get this cd.
It was great then and,is still great now. The last time I herd this album yes album was in the 80's,the first was in the 70's. Jimmy Page adds a slightly different sound quality which is all Page,and reminiscent of early Zep. So if you are a Yardbirds fan and especially you Zepplin fan's you can experience some great early Page. It also contains one of the greatest versions of White Summer that I've ever heard, the only other one which is comparable would be the one on the Zepplin DVD. Where you ask can you get this great CD? on Amazon. com of course. .


A rather disappointing concert
I gave a record store a blank cassette to give me a copy of the album as it was over $100. I used to have a copy of this. 00. I wasn't going to spend that much money on an album no way. I will say that Page's guitar work was rather splendid, but the performance overall was very uninspired. The band sounded tired, and so did the songs. The only good piece that I could remember on here was "You're a better man than I", and that's because the studio version of the song is stellar. I'm not sure if Page was still using a Fender Telecaster, or if he graduated to the Gibson by this time. Well anyway the rest of this album was a poor performance, and I remember reading in the import version of "Roger The Engineer" that the applause was actually bull fight cheers inserted into the record by the record company. I also know that this album came out 3 years after the concert, and was pulled after a week due to private parties involved. I know that there are bootlegs of this album everywhere, but I won't buy them. I just rather let this one go as an album that dissappointed me alot. .


A must have
The first two tracks, which are a sound check are indeed practically un-listenable but the rest of the recording is very good for an audience recording. An electric performance by Jimmy Page and a must have in your collection.


I doubt if this is legit
Only 1000 copies were ever pressed by my company before it was yanked from the shelves and these 'sealed' copies are ALWAYS available here it seems. I find it very difficult to believe that the copies of 'Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page' being sold here are legit. Buyer beware.
Russ Garrett
Mooreland Street Records LLC.


From Lead to Gold and back to Led
This is the once well known (among YB fans) the Live at the Anderson Theater album. I happen to posses copies of the vinyl bootlegs of this concert, plus the one day legal copy, which was suppressed by Jimmy Page because Led Zeppelin's first album was about to be released. The concert was a failure and the recording was awful and got panned by all reviewers at the time. It was collectible only because of the one day release and Jimmy Page's personal intervention. So it became a collectors item for that reason. And fool that I am, I have one of each production ever done in vinyl that I grabbed up as a collector in the 1970s and early '80s. (Should I put them on Ebay?) The cheering and glasses clinking was dubbed in by the producer and the cheers were actually from a bullfight! Page hated the finished product and felt - probably correctly - that this lp on the market would hurt LZ1.

Positives; the album art is great. The same artist did an official late double album of the Yardbirds Greatest Hits - which I also have. But you can't appreciate that so much on a cd. The material on the album is interesting only to a deep YB fan as it was recorded poorly and only Page seems to have enthusiasm playing. Even Relf makes a comment to the sparse crowd after the band finishes with Shapes of Things I think, "Nostalgia. " After all, Cream was just finishing up its reign and all the enthusiasm of the time was focused there - until Led Zeppelin dropped its first bombshell. . . .

Today, much is being dug up and recycled and hailed as "amazing" and other overblown appraisals of once denounced and even embarassing productions like the Anderson Theater album. But hey, I am only too happy to see every living member of the Yardbirds profit from this because they turned out to be such an important staging point for some truly great rock music to come. I just hope they are profiting from all current YB recording sales. Perhaps someone out there who knows could tell us.

Four Stars for its academic value, which I think is generous, considering how Page probably still feels about this one.


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