The Yardbirds Featuring Eric Clapton - The Yardbirds flac album

Original lead guitarist Topham left and was replaced by Eric Clapton in October 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario Giorgio Gomelsky became the Yardbirds manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds toured Britain as the back-up band for blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II in December 1963 and early 1964, recording live tracks on 8 December and other dates  . release the concert material as Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page. The album was quickly withdrawn after Page's lawyers filed an injunction. The Yardbirds played their final shows on 31 May and 1 June at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and on 4 and 5 June at the Spring Fair at the Montgomery International Speedway in Alabama.

Live, Декабрь 1964, Columbia Records, Varese Sarabande. 1. Smokestack Lightning (Live Version 1). 2. Let It Rock. 3. Honey In Your Hips. Live, Featuring Jimmy Page, at Stockholm, Sweden, 04/1967. Heart Full of Soul. Mr. You're a Better Man than I. 4. You Go your Way. 5. Over Under Sideways Down. 17. The Yardbirds interview. 18. You’re Better Man Than I. 19. The Train Kept a-Rolling. 20. Shapes of Things. 22. Baby Scratch my Back. 23. Keith Relf talks III.

A nice compilation no doubt, and also a fitting overview of Clapton's work with the Yardbirds, The Yardbird Years shouldn't disappoint unless one approaches it thinking that it's a definitive best-of - because it's not. It seems to try and parade itself as being a one-stop single-disc best-of, as so many Yardbirds comps have done in the past. In sum, once listeners look past this album's wannabe-definitive facade, they can come to see this album for what it is - a capable, yet unfortunately hodgepodge, overview of Clapton's stint in the Yardbirds. It's still great music, but there are much better Yardbirds best-ofs out there, most notably the sure-fire Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: 1964-1966. This album actually works better as a compilation of live recordings. Too bad it wasn't packaged as such.

The Yardbirds are mostly known to the casual rock fan as the starting point for three of the greatest British rock guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. The live 1964 album Five Live Yardbirds is the best document of their early years, consisting entirely of reckless interpretations of . R&B/blues numbers, and displaying the increasing confidence and imagination of Clapton's guitar work. As much they might have preferred to stay close to the American blues and R&B that had inspired them (at least at first), the Yardbirds made efforts to crack the pop market from the beginning.