Pages

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Three From The Yardbirds (feat. Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) Live in France

 This is fun!


although there was some dispute on the chat this is clearly The Yardbirds in ’66 with 

Keith Relf on lead vocals
Jeff Beck - Les Paul lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar (a 335?) - vastly underrated 
Jimmy Page - semi-acoutic bass
Jim McCarty - Drums

tracks 

1/ Train Kept a Rollin’

2/ Shapes of Things

3/ Over Under Sideways Down

*wiki notes:

Soon after the release of album 'Roger The Engineer', Samwell-Smith quit the band at a drunken gig at Queen's College in Oxford and embarked on a career as a record producer. Jimmy Page, who was at the show, agreed that night to play bass until rhythm guitarist Dreja could rehearse on the instrument. The band toured with Page on bass, and Beck and Dreja on guitars, playing dates in Paris, the UK, the Midwestern US, and the California coast. 

Beck fell ill late in the latter tour and was hospitalised in San Francisco. Page took over as lead guitarist at the Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco) on 25 August and Dreja switched to bass. Beck stayed in San Francisco to recuperate with his girlfriend Mary Hughes, while the rest of the band completed the tour. After the Yardbirds reunited in London, Dreja remained on bass and the group's dual lead guitar attack was born. 

Top Hat Crew "Live Music Archivists"

 

No comments:

Post a Comment