THE YARDBIRDS – REMEMBER…THE YARDBIRDS LP – EXC+ A1/B1 UK BECK CLAPTON

Remember… The Yardbirds
(Starline Records  1971  SRS5069)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Front Laminated Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges and some ringwear

Vinyl in Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including “For Your Love”, “Over Under Sideways Down” and “Heart Full of Soul”. The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock’s most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top five of Rolling Stone’s 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton as No. 2, Page as No. 3, and Beck at No. 5).A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The Yardbirds continued the guitar innovations of the 1960s, such as feedback backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. They progressed the guitar fuzz/distortion created by earlier fellow-London band The Kinks (Page was a session player on staff during early Kinks recordings and laughed at their guitar solos – and then later ambiguously claimed to “get a few riffs in on their album”, although he laid down a few basic rhthym guitar licks on obscure tracks). Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner, holds that the Yardbirds were “the most impressive guitar band in rock music”. After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their then-current lead guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin.

The bulk of the band’s most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. They were included in Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”, and VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.