Roger the Engineer
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| Studio album by The Yardbirds | ||
| Released | July 15, 1966 (UK); August 8 (USA) | |
| Recorded | Advision Studios, London, England in the spring and summer of 1966 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | ??? | |
| Label | Columbia (UK), Epic BN26210 (USA), Riviera 231196 (F) | |
| Producer(s) | Paul Samwell-Smith, Simon Napier-Bell | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Yardbirds chronology | ||
| Having a Rave Up (1965) |
The Yardbirds (1966) |
Little Games (1967) |
The Yardbirds (US- and France-title: Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by The Yardbirds, released in 1966. It was the only Yardbirds album with all originally-written material. Although the record was officially titled The Yardbirds, it has since been referred to, first colloquially, then semi-officially, as Roger The Engineer, a title stemming from the drawing on its front cover, a cartoon of the record's audio engineer Roger Cameron by band member Chris Dreja. Due to the influence of Jeff Beck's experimentation with guitar distortion, the album is considered a precursor to heavy metal.
The original American versions ("Over Under Sideways Down", Epic Records 1966, mono and stereo) of this album are missing the songs "The Nazz Are Blue" and "Rack My Mind" and are mixed differently to the British editions. Subsequent American re-issues (post-1980) duplicate the original British playlist and mixing.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 349 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
[edit] Track listing
Side 1
- "Lost Woman" – 3:16
- "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" – 2:24
- "The Nazz Are Blue" – 3:04
- "I Can't Make Your Way" – 2:26
- "Rack My Mind" – 3:15
- "Farewell" – 1:29
Side 2
- "Hot House of Omagarashid" – 2:39
- "Jeff's Boogie" – 2:25
- "He's Always There" – 2:15
- "Turn into Earth" – 3:06
- "What Do You Want" – 3:22
- "Ever Since the World Began" – 2:09
[edit] Personnel
- Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica)
- Jeff Beck (vocals, guitar, bass)
- Chris Dreja (guitar)
- Paul Samwell-Smith (bass)
- Jim McCarty (drums)
Producers: Paul Samwell-Smith, Simon Napier-Bell
