Friday, March 8, 2013

'Yardbirds'

Yardbirds was the 1966 eponymous effort of one of the pre-eminent super groups without even knowing they were a supergroup.

Actually, they were a bunch of British kids playing black American blues music. This version of The Yardbirds featured Jeff Beck on lead guitar. Jimmy Page filled in on bass and eventually moved on to a second lead guitar and John Paul Jones was pulled in to play bass.

Yardbirds is known colloquially as "Roger the Engineer" due to the album cover featuring a drawing by guitarist Chris Dreja of recording engineer, Roger Cameron.

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