The Yardbirds – Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds (1965/2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

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The Yardbirds’ second American album, and a fundamental one at that. Although the original version includes four of the ten tracks already featured on Five Live Yardbirds, released less than a year earlier in Great Britain, it confirms the talent of the two guitar monsters, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, which had been sketched out on the previous compilation album, For Your Love, and was to be decisive in the musicians’ continued notoriety across the Atlantic. Although Clapton’s name is omitted from the liner notes and credits, in favor of Beck and his Fender Telecaster, he is explosive during “The Train Kept-Rollin’” and the slide guitar part of “Evil Hearted You”, Graham Gouldman’s third composition for the band after “For Your Love” and “Heart Full Of Soul”. As for the studio version of Bo Diddley’s standard “I’m A Man”, it was canned at Chess Studios in Chicago, five months after the version by their direct competitors, The Who. On the 1999 CD version of Repertoire, it’s amusing to compare the original version of “The Train Kept-Rollin’” with its copy-pasted new text of “Stroll On”, hastily recorded for a scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow-Up, in which the director asked Jeff Beck to slaughter his Fender at the end of the song, like Pete Townshend.

Tracklist:

1-1. Jeff Beck – You’re a Better Man Than I (03:17)
1-2. Jeff Beck – Evil Hearted You (02:24)
1-3. The Yardbirds – Still I’m Sad (02:58)
1-4. Jeff Beck – Heart Full of Soul (02:28)
1-5. Jeff Beck – The Train Kept A-Rollin’ (03:25)
1-6. The Yardbirds – Smokestack Lightning (Live at the Marquee Club, 1964) (05:36)
1-7. The Yardbirds – Respectable (Live at the Marquee Club, 1964) (05:29)
1-8. The Yardbirds – I’m a Man (Live at the Marquee Club, 1964) (04:24)
1-9. Jeff Beck – I’m a Man (02:36)
1-10. The Yardbirds – Here ‘Tis (Live at the Marquee Club, 1964) (05:04)