Description
If rock n roll is a laboratory for new ideas and sounds, mutated with traditional modes, then are the Yardbirds not the greatest and maddest of scientists. Still mixing the traditional with the outrageous, the new with the old. Just as the original outfit gave flight to Clapton, Beck and Page, today's Yardbirds give flight to a prodigiously talented flock in the form of Ben King, Andy Mitchell and Dave Smale.
On Tour 2010 - 2012
This release compiles fifteen songs performed live by The Yardbirds, the musical outfit that launched legendary guitarists like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, between the years 2010 and 2012. Among the tunes on the tracklist are "I'm Not Talking," "Shapes of Things," "Dazed and Confused," and "I'm a Man."
This superb double DVD set, released in time to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary in 2013, chronicles the ultimate Yardbirds touring experience. Produced and directed by Bruce Macomber and taken from multiple U.S. concerts from 2010 to 2012, these tours were filmed in spectacular HD quality using six cameras.
Disc One, Making Tracks, features 15 songs, including previously unreleased new material. Some of the footage was captured at BB King's in NYC which Guitar World called the 'best concert of the year'.
Disc Two, Glimpses, features an in-depth Yardbirds tour documentary, the result of camera crews being given unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes activity. It also includes additional Yardbirds songs, interviews with band members, a Boston-area music-shop tour with Yardbirds guitarist Ben King and two songs by The Jim McCarty Band.
After breaking up in the late '60s - and almost immediately morphing into Led Zeppelin - The Yardbirds, who spawned the careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, re-united in 1995, just a few years after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The band features original members Jim McCarty (drums) and Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar). Lead guitarist Ben King joined in 2005; singer Andy Mitchell and bassist Dave Smale joined in 2009.
Tracks:
I'm Not Talking
Drinking Muddy Water
Heartful of Soul
My Blind Life
Train Kept Rollin'
Shapes of Things
Mystery of Being
The Nazz Are Blue
Think About It
Over Under
Sideways Down
Crying Out For Love
For Your Love
Happenings Ten Years Ago
Dazed and Confused
I'm A Man