Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page
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Free Music Review: A must have
Hit: 5 Stars
An electric performance by Jimmy Page and a must have in your collection. 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.Free Music Review: Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page
Hit: 5 Stars
I have this original LP. bought it in the 70's. Might be willing to part with it as it is only sitting in the cabinet for years now.Free Music Review: From Lead to Gold and back to Led
Hit: 4 Stars
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. This is the once well known (among YB fans) the Live at the Anderson Theater album. 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.
Free Music Review: Proper Re-Issue Needed
Hit: 4 Stars
I had this on vinyl at one point. At the time I thought it was a promotional copy because of the white label, though later I learned this was a bootleg. I also in the early 1990's saw this concert on an import CD, with some bonus tracks from the Olympia Theatre in Paris. I should have snatched it up them because when I returned a few days later it was gone. The concert itself it noteworthy because of its rarity, not because it is a particularly great show. Anyone who likes the Yardbirds has heard and probably owns the 1963-64 era live recordings and will recall that their first proper release of a LP was a late 1964 concert recording from the Marquee Club in London. The fascination from this is that other than the 'Little Games' LP there is very little Yardbirds music available from 1967 or 1968. As others have noted, Page is in fine form here, he seems like he is enjoying himself as part of a band as opposed to being a sesion player which he did earlier in the 1960's. And of course, he was about to launch into something enormous in just a few short months. Relf is tentative here, although he does communicate a bit with the audience between songs. Perhaps he knew deep down that the end of the band was near. The most annoying thing is the dubbed in crowd noise which is totally unnecessary. I hope soon that Page will live and let live and authorize a proper reissue as it happened -- minus the added crowd noise.Free Music Review: Yardbirds live CD and booklet
Hit: 4 Stars
The CD is outstanding, more for the sentimental value than the sound quality of the "live" presentations during this tour. My only complaint is NOT receiving the book that was supposed to accompany the CD. It was supposed to be part of the package,however, was never received. I would still like that additional merchandise. Thanks, Terry