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The Yardbirds featured three of rock's most influential guitarists: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Although each went on to excel in other musical outlets, the Yardbirds were a crucial part of the 1960's British rock scene. The original line-up consisted of Keith Relf, vocals; Chris Dreja, rhythm guitar and bass; Jim McCarty, drums; Paul Samwell-Smith, bass and Top Topham, lead guitar, and Clapton, Beck and Page wove in and out of the Yardbirds during the '60s. Producing a number of hits like "For Your Love" and "Shapes of Things," the Yardbirds were a successful band of the '60s and, more importantly, one of the most important psychedelic rock innovators in music history....more

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  • Yardbirds Question Time

    by Keith AlthamApril 30, 2008Comments (3)

    The Yardbirds were in no mood for pulling punches when I called on them in their dressing room at the Ready, Steady, Go! studios in Wembley Park. Keith Relf expressed the desire that they should be "the first group to tell the truth" and that he was tired of "watered down interviews which said nothing." (read more)

  • Words: a Percussive Tool

    by Denise SullivanFebruary 6, 2008Comments (2)

    What do “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “Pump It Up”, “It's the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine)”, and (that horrible song by Billy Joel) “We Didn't Start the Fire” all have in common? They are all sprouts of the original rock ‘n’ rap, rhyming complaint song from 1956 (read more)

  • Led Zeppelin: What Is and What Should Never Be

    by Bruce PilatoDecember 19, 2007Comments (20)

    On December 10th, 2007 the Mothership finally landed inside London’s O2 arena and 20,000 of us got on it for the reunion ride of a lifetime. The long-awaited “official” reunion of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones (the surviving members of Led Zeppelin) finally took place. (read more)

  • Eric Clapton: The Word of God

    by Braden TowneDecember 19, 2007Comments (1)

    Among the most recent additions to this latter cadre is Eric Clapton, an artist whose accessible music and wise countenance belie the utter chaos that defined his personal life for much of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Suffering at different points, though often concurrently, from unrequited love, drug and alcohol (read more)

  • Blues ’66, Part Two: John Lee Hooker and the Butterfield Blues Band

    by Paul WilliamsDecember 12, 2007Comments (2)

    Originally published in Issue #6 of Crawdaddy! John Lee Hooker, of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Detroit, Michigan, is one of America’s best-known blues singers. He sings and plays in an intensely personal style that is neither Chicago nor Delta; he has performed in almost every club and recorder for practically every blues label in the world. (read more)

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