Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page

Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page
Live album by The Yardbirds
Released September 1971
Recorded Anderson Theatre, New York City, 30 March 1968
Genre Rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock
Length 44:48
Label Epic
The Yardbirds chronology
Little Games
(1967)		 Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page
(1971)		 Little Games Sessions and More
(1992)
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Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page is a live album released by English blues rock band The Yardbirds in 1971 of their live performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City on 30 March 1968. Although live, Epic had overdubbed crowd noises from bullfights onto the original tracks, against the band's wishes.[2]

It quickly went out of print, though it was reissued by Columbia Special Products in 1976 (this quickly went out of print as well). Counterfeit copies in black & white covers do exist, which are sometimes labeled as being promotional copies. Jimmy Page has obtained legal injunctions against companies who have planned to reissue it on compact disc. For this reason, it is the rarest Yardbirds album.

The cover art was designed by James Grashow, the same woodcut artist who created the artwork for Jethro Tull's album Stand Up.

In August 2000 the album was released on CD by Mooreland Street Records, but it quickly sold out.[3]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (H. Kay, L. Mann, T. Bradshaw) – 3:10
  2. "You're A Better Man Than I" (B. Hugg, M. Hugg) – 6:50
  3. "I'm Confused" (no credit given)[4] – 6:47
  4. "My Baby" (J. Ragovoy, M. Shuman) – 3:00
Side two
  1. "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" (C. Drega, J. Beck, J. McCarty, K. Relf, P. Samwell-Smith) – 2:39
  2. "Drinking Muddy Water" (Dreja, J. McCarty, J. Page, K. Relf) – 3:16
  3. "Shapes of Things" (J. McCarty, K. Relf, P. Samwell-Smith) – 2:48
  4. "White Summer" (J. Page) – 4:19
  5. "I'm a Man" (E. McDaniel) – 11:59

Mooreland Street Records reissue (2000)

  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (soundcheck)
  2. "Dazed and Confused" (soundcheck)
  3. "Train Kept A-Rollin'"
  4. "You're A Better Man Than I"/"Heart Full of Soul"
  5. "Dazed and Confused" (Holmes, Yardbirds)
  6. "My Baby" (Mort Shuman/Jerry Ragovoy)
  7. "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"
  8. "Drinking Muddy Water"
  9. "Shapes of Things"
  10. "White Summer"
  11. "I'm a Man"

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ George-Warren, Holly (2001), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, p. 1094, ISBN 0743201205 
  3. ^ Allmusic.com
  4. ^ Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page at Discogs Release missing songwriter credits for "I'm Confused"

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Original members (1963-68): Keith Relf · Chris Dreja · Paul Samwell-Smith · Top Topham · Jim McCarty · Eric Clapton · Jeff Beck · Jimmy Page
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Five Live Yardbirds (1964) · Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds (1966) · Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page (1971) · BBC Sessions (1997) · Blueswailing '64 (2003) · Live at B.B. King Blues Club (2007)
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