Description
DESCRIPTION
Two CD set, a comprehensive collection of The Yardbirds' BBC live recordings, assembled with the assistance of the BBC, with several tracks now all together the first time on this newly restored and remastered set. Many tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find and archive sources and now feature for the first time on these best available recordings. Sourced from the BBC, this newly updated set covers numerous songs - including smash hits such as For Your Love', 'Heart Full Of Soul' and Yardbirds classic stage favorites 'Too Much Monkey Business', 'Smokestack Lightning', 'I m A Man' and 'Train Kept A-Rollin'. Guitar legends Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page feature alongside front man Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty in these sessions, recorded by the world renowned broadcasting organization for radio transmission and these CDs explore the best available Yardbirds BBC Radio One output from 1965-1968. The booklet, with detailed data, includes authoritative liner notes by Richard Morton Jack, editor of Flashback magazine, and contains new quotes from Yardbirds Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith. Jim McCarty also adds his exclusive personal introduction for this set, looking back at those BBC years.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 I Ain't Got You
2 Interview: Keith Relf Talks About the Band's Background
3 For Your Love
4 I'm Not Talking (Tracks 1 4: Top Gear, Recorded 22nd March 1965, Broadcast 10th April, 1965)
5 I Wish You Would
6 Interview: Paul Samwell-Smith Talks About the Recording and the USA Tour
7 Heart Full of Soul (Tracks 5 7: Saturday Club, Recorded 1st June 1965, Broadcast 5th June, 1965)
8 I Ain't Done Wrong
9 Heart Full of Soul (Alternate Version)(Tracks 8 9: Saturday Club, Recorded 21st June, 1965, Broadcast 26th June, 1965)
10 Too Much Monkey Business
11 Love Me Like I Love You
12 I'm a Man (Tracks 10 12: You Really Got.. (Kinksize Live Pop Package with the Kinks & Other Guests, Recorded 6th August 1965. Broadcast 30th August, 1965)
13 Evil Hearted You
14 Interview: Paul Samwell-Smith Talks About the Still I'm Sad Single
15 Still I'm Sad
16 Hang on Sloopy (Tracks 13 16: Saturday Club, Recorded 27th September 1965, Broadcast 2nd October, 1965)
17 Smokestack Lightning
18 Interview: The Yardbirds Give Their New Year's Resolutions
19 You're a Better Man Than I
20 The Train Kept A-Rollin
21 Smokestack Lightning (Edited Version) (Tracks 17 21: This Must Be the Place.(With the Hollies, the Ivy League & Other Guests)Recorded 18th November, 1965, Broadcast 27th December, 1965)
- Disc 2 -
1 Shapes of Things
2 Dust My Broom
3 You Re a Better Man Than I (Tracks 1 3:Saturday Club, Recorded 28th February 1966, Broadcast 5th March, 1966)
4 Baby, Scratch My Back
5 Interview: Keith Relf Talks About His Solo Single
6 Over, Under, Sideways, Down
7 The Sun Is Shining (Edited Version)
8 Interview: Keith Relf Talks About Their USA Tour
9 Shapes of Things (Alternate Version)
10 The Sun Is Shining (Tracks 4 10: Saturday Swings, Recorded 6th May, 1966. Broadcast 21st May, 1966)
11 Over, Under, Sideways, Down (Original TV Version)
12 Comment: Barry Fantoni Talks About Jeff Beck's Guitar Playing (Tracks 11 12: BBC1 a Whole Scene Going, Broadcast 18th June, 1966)
13 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
14 Little Games
15 Drinking Muddy Water (Tracks 13 15: Saturday Club, Recorded 4th April, 1967, Broadcast 15th April, 1967)
16 Think About It
17 Interview: Jimmy Page Talks About Touring
18 Goodnight Sweet Josephine
19 My Baby (Tracks 16 19: Saturday Club, Recorded 15th March, 1968, Broadcast 16th March, 1968)
20 Think About It (Alternate Take)
21 White Summer (Instrumental)
22 Dazed and Confused (All Tracks Recorded in Mono)
