Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page

Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page
Live album by the Yardbirds
Released 25 August 1971 (1971-08-25)
Recorded Anderson Theatre, New York City, 30 March 1968
Genre Rock
Length 44:48
Label Epic
The Yardbirds' American chronology
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Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page is a live album released by English rock band the Yardbirds in 1971. It features songs recorded at a Yardbirds performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City on 30 March 1968. The album is notable for its inclusion of the song "I'm Confused," which would become a "classic rock" standard upon Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page re-recording it, with modified lyrics, as "Dazed and Confused" with his post-Yardbirds band Led Zeppelin later in 1968.

Although a live album, CBS/Epic Records overdubbed crowd noises from bullfights and other sound effects onto the original tracks against the band's wishes, in part because the live recordings were considered lacking in sound quality. This was a result of the general inexperience of the engineers in recording live rock music. For example, only single microphone was deployed for the drums, hung above the kit. This resulted in the loss of much of the lower-range percussion in the recording. Some of the shortcomings inherent in the vinyl releases were overcome in the later, authorized 2000 CD release.[2][3][4]

The Yardbirds rejected the album as a candidate for release upon its original completion in mid-1968, but Epic released it in 1971 in response to Led Zeppelin's success in the marketplace. Jimmy Page, who had taken ownership of the Yardbirds name following the band's 1968 dissolution, threatened legal action against the label for releasing Live Yardbirds without authorization and Epic quickly withdrew it. CBS' Columbia Special Products (CSP) label subsequently reissued the album in 1976, but this was again legally challenged by Page, and the album again quickly withdrawn. Authentic Epic and CSP copies of Live Yardbirds are thus quite rare, and the album has often been counterfeited (sometimes in black-and-white covers claimed to be promotional copies) as a result.

The album's cover art was designed by James Grashow, a woodcut artist who had earlier created the artwork for Jethro Tull's 1969 album Stand Up.

In August 2000 the album was released on CD by Mooreland Street Records.[5]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Howie Kay, Lois Mann, Tiny Bradshaw) – 3:10
  2. "You're A Better Man Than I" (B. Hugg, M. Hugg)/"Heart Full of Soul" (Graham Gouldman) – 6:50 ("Heart Full of Soul" not listed on the label)
  3. "I'm Confused" (no credit given)[6] – 6:47
  4. "My Baby" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) – 3:00
Side two
  1. "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" (Chris Dreja, Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 2:39
  2. "Drinking Muddy Water" (Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf) – 3:16
  3. "Shapes of Things" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 2:48
  4. "White Summer" (Jimmy Page) – 4:19
  5. "I'm a Man" (Elias McDaniel) – 11:59

Mooreland Street Records reissue (2000)

  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (soundcheck) (Howie Kay, Lois Mann, Tiny Bradshaw)
  2. "Dazed and Confused" (soundcheck) (Jake Holmes, Yardbirds)
  3. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Howie Kay, Lois Mann, Tiny Bradshaw)
  4. "You're A Better Man Than I" (Mike Hugg, Brian Hugg)/"Heart Full of Soul" (Graham Gouldman)
  5. "Dazed and Confused" (Jake Holmes, Yardbirds)
  6. "My Baby" (Mort Shuman, Jerry Ragovoy)
  7. "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" (Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty)
  8. "Drinking Muddy Water" (Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf)
  9. "Shapes of Things" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith)
  10. "White Summer" (Jimmy Page)
  11. "I'm a Man" (Elias McDaniel)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ George-Warren, Holly (2001), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, p. 1094, ISBN 0-7432-0120-5
  3. ↑ Frank Reddon (10 July 2012). Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin. - Break and Enter. eBookIt.com. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-0-9784446-5-5.
  4. ↑ Eder, Bruce. "Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Allmusic.com
  6. ↑ Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page at Discogs Release missing songwriter credits for "I'm Confused"
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