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The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 1964-1968 Audio CD

A fair review of the The Yardbirds "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 1964-1968" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Yardbirds reviews here, or go back to the The Yardbirds tabs.

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Title: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 1964-1968
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Release Date: 2008-05-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Wish You Would 2: Certain Girl 3: Good Morning Little School Girl 4: Smokestack Lightning [Live] 5: I Ain't Got You 6: I'm Not Talking 7: Train Kept A-Rollin' 8: I Ain't Done Wrong 9: For Your Love 10: Heart Full of Soul 11: Evil Hearted You 12: Still I'm Sad 13: I'm a Man 14: Shapes of Things 15: Over Under Sideways Down 16: You're a Better Man Than I 17: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 18: Nazz Are Blue 19: Rack My Mind 20: Psycho Daisies 21: Stroll On 22: Little Games 23: Puzzles 24: Drinking Muddy Water 25: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor 26: White Summer 27: Think About It

Yardbirds Remastered?
Why do we have to wait so long for someone to get a clue ? The Yardbirds deserve to have their catalog straightened out properly! True Stereo Yardbirds-Only a Dream!!. No Yardbirds collection will ever be complete without remastering the original source tapes and issuing Stereo tracks such as ' Happenings Ten Years Time Ago'.


The group that blues and rock to the next level
What other group in rock history that was more influential with names like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page? None.


biased
I worked with Keith Relf, Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith with Rennaissance--I also worked with Eric Clapton an Jeff Beck--it is shameful that a grour of teenage boys showed Amricans their own cultural heritage. I arranged a US tour for Rannaissance after signing them to Elekta Records where I was a Senior Executive. --The tour was booked by Herb Spar--no longer with us--he died) of the Millard Agency owned by Bill Graham. It was a very memorable tour!.


Again?
If you only know the Yardbirds by their "legend" and do not have another collection, this one is pretty good and covers much of their career. If you are a Yardbirds fan you probably already have all the stuff on this disc. Nothing new here for hardcore Yardbirds collectors. Nice cover with Page and Beck though.


Is There A Reason To Get This?
This CD appears to be a reissue with a few track substitutions. This review should really be incomplete because I have the previous 1990/91 version of this CD, also on the Raven label and pressed in Australia. The original 28-track release contained "Baby What's Wrong" as the opening track along with "Got Love If You Want It" (taken from their first official LP which was recorded in 1964 at the Marquee Club) and "Ten Little Indians" from their last LP 'Little Games' which featured Jimmy Page. The original release had varying sound quality from track to track, which presumably has been corrected with modern production techniques now available. The 27-track reissue substitutes "Smokestack Lightning" from the Marquee concert and "White Summer" from the Page-era line up for these three tracks. The reissue probably a sightly more judicious track selection since "Ten Little Indians" is no big loss, but although "Smokestack Lightning" is a superior track from the Marquee show what's the point of including it here? Anyone can put on a blindfold and approach a stack of Yardbirds CDs, pull one out, and chances are "Smokestack" will be on it. I think Raven should have put on a nice rare cut such as "Avron Knows" which did not materialize until the 1990's. On another issue, most Yardbirds releases, even the ones on the Repertoire Label which are well thought out, seem to use the same recordings which sound like they are be copies used for licensing. Are master tapes from the Yardbirds even available? It would be nice for some label, Raven, Repertoire, or somebody, to find the original source tapes and do a thorough remastering of them, similar to what the Rolling Stones did when they reissued their Decca/Abkco material. I look forward to hearing other listener's thoughts on this.


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