The Yardbirds Live And Rare

Limited five disc (four CDS + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) set. This landmark boxset brings together 70 audio tracks by legendary English group, The Yardbirds, for the first time. Featuring live performances from across Europe, rare studio cuts and 21 previously unissued BBC off-air recordings. The band's career from their blues beginnings to the pioneering psychedelic hard rock which lay the foundations for Led Zeppelin is charted across five discs. Amongst the numerous highlights are seminal performances by guitar legends, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists ever.

3 CD Set, 69 remastered and and restored tracks from 1964-1968 together for the first time on one release. Featuring Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck And Jimmy Page.

2CD set with 40 restored and remastered tracks. Rare BBC archive recordings. Authoritative liner notes and new quotes. The most 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 2CD set. Several tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find recordings and feature for the first time on this set.
Detailed data in the booklet, which also 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 an introduction exclusively for this the set, looking back at the BBC years…

The Yardbirds - Live at the BBC (2016) {2CD Repertoire REPUK 1280 rec 1965-1968}
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© 1965-68, 2016 Repertoire Records / BBC | REPUK 1280
Rock / Blues / Blues Rock / Beat / Psychedelic Rock

2CD set with 40 restored and remastered tracks. Over 1½ hours of music. Rare BBC archive recordings. Authoritative liner notes and new quotes. The most 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 2CD set. Several tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find recordings and feature for the first time on this set.

The 2013 low-budget compilation The Early Days: Ultimate Collection brings together tracks legendary guitarist Eric Clapton recorded in the 1960s with the Yardbirds. Also included are a few cuts off his rare 1971 album Guitar Boogie, which featured Clapton jamming with fellow British blues-rock guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Included are such cuts as "Boom Boom," "Train Kept a Rollin'," "I Ain't Got You," and others.

1966 was an exciting year for The Yardbirds, when the group was pulsing with ideas and energy.With singer and harmonica player Keith Relf at the helm and Jeff Beck providing guitar wizardry at his side, the group were on fire. They had released seminal studio album The Yardbirds, better known as Roger The Engineer, that featured Jeff on songs like Over, Under, Sideways, Down . However, it was on the road that the group, with Chris Dreja on bass and Jim McCarty on drums, really came alive. We hear them in action on the many dynamic live performances presented on this superb vinyl LP, storming into classics like Train Kept A Rollin and Shapes of Things to screams of applause. There are also fascinating oddities like American radio Commercials, as well as the A and B sides of singles and even Stroll On from the soundtrack of the famed Sixties movie Blow-Up. Here is a feast of Yardbirds in flight,that will delight collectors and fans alike.