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From 1965

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While we never supported them back in the 60s, some members of the band went to see them play, after one of our gigs. Our then manager, managed to get all their autographs on one of our old business cards.

Keith Relf signed on the front, the rest on the back. The Stu James info is when Stu, from the Mojos, wanted to manage us. He jotted his London address down so we could spend a day with him. We went to London and afterwards politely turned him down.

Eventually another Welsh band ended up in 7 Park Avenue. They turned into Badfinger




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"Jimmy Paige"? "At least they wear decent looking clothes and have clean faces"
Oh , June, you were sooooo 1965!
 

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While we never supported them back in the 60s, some members of the band went to see them play, after one of our gigs. Our then manager, managed to get all their autographs on one of our old business cards.

Keith Relf signed on the front, the rest on the back. The Stu James info is when Stu, from the Mojos, wanted to manage us. He jotted his London address down so we could spend a day with him. We went to London and afterwards politely turned him down.

Eventually another Welsh band ended up in 7 Park Avenue. They turned into Badfinger




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WOW!! That is one of the coolest things I have seen on this site!! An amazing personal keepsake! 👍🏻👍🏻
 

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I have always been a huge Yardbirds fan, and had the opportunity to jam with them in 1997, when they came back. It was at a club in NYC. After their regular set, they opened the stage up for a jam. I got behind the drums with Jim McCarty to my right, playing tambourine. We jammed on three or four blues tunes. At one point, I looked around, and said to myself, "I'm playing with the fu***** Yardbirds! Am I dreaming?!" What an amazing moment.

I have seen The Yardbirds many times since then, and have gotten know drummer Jim McCarty well. I originally saw them in 1967 with Jimmy Page, at the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East), and right down the block in '68 at the Anderson Theatre, the night they recorded the album LIve Yardbirds. I'm on the album applauding!
 

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I have always been a huge Yardbirds fan, and had the opportunity to jam with them in 1997, when they came back. It was at a club in NYC. After their regular set, they opened the stage up for a jam. I got behind the drums with Jim McCarty to my right, playing tambourine. We jammed on three or four blues tunes. At one point, I looked around, and said to myself, "I'm playing with the fu***** Yardbirds! Am I dreaming?!" What an amazing moment.

I have seen The Yardbirds many times since then, and have gotten know drummer Jim McCarty well. I originally saw them in 1967 with Jimmy Page, at the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East), and right down the block in '68 at the Anderson Theatre, the night they recorded the album LIve Yardbirds. I'm on the album applauding!
You're not on the original release on Epic that Page put a stop to. They piped in generic crowd noise during the mix on that one. (Terrible idea!! Sounds horrible. Bar noises w/ clinking glasses and such.) You're more than likely on Page's own release he put out semi-recently. Yardbirds 68. A fantastic release.

I've read your mention of these before.....the extreme jealousy remains firmly intact!! 👍🏻😂😂
 

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Still regularly enjoying their music to this day - particularly the Jeff Beck period (Roger The Engineer).
 

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Still regularly enjoying their music to this day - particularly the Jeff Beck period (Roger The Engineer).
Same here. I'm a mega Zep fan and collector, but Beck is probably my overall fav guitarist. My time machine fantasy would be to see the YB during the short lived Beck/Page dual guitar era. 😚

In fact, my entire Zep collection (40+ years worth!) chronologically begins with this...

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The program from the very tour where Beck got fed up w/ being part of such a touring circus, basically leaving Page at the helm. While the first jam of Zep on Gerrard St London in mid Aug of 68 is the birth of Zep, it's inception is Beck walking from this tour. (Also leaving behind a Tele, which Page took over and first mirrored...then handpainted a dragon on it....the rest is history.
 
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"Jimmy Paige"? "At least they wear decent looking clothes and have clean faces"
Oh , June, you were sooooo 1965!

as for their fashion....you'd better believe they knew exactly what was going on in London's Mod scene. The Yardbirds even snuck into some fashion ads.

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You're not on the original release on Epic that Page put a stop to. They piped in generic crowd noise during the mix on that one. (Terrible idea!! Sounds horrible. Bar noises w/ clinking glasses and such.) You're more than likely on Page's own release he put out semi-recently. Yardbirds 68. A fantastic release.

I've read your mention of these before.....the extreme jealousy remains firmly intact!! 👍🏻😂😂
I'm sure you're right about that. Epic did a miserable job adding bullfight noises and clinking glasses. Just awful.
 

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In Honolulu, where I grew up, the Yardbirds were huge for some reason. Maybe they played there, I don’t remember why. They were way more popular than any British group besides the Beatles. I thought they were big stars. I was kind of shocked when we moved to CA and people barely knew who they were.
Their music still sounds good. They were ahead of their time.
 

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In Honolulu, where I grew up, the Yardbirds were huge for some reason. Maybe they played there, I don’t remember why. They were way more popular than any British group besides the Beatles. I thought they were big stars. I was kind of shocked when we moved to CA and people barely knew who they were.
Their music still sounds good. They were ahead of their time.
I grew up in the LA area (Pasadena), and in 1965 as a 14 year old goofball, I eagerly awaited their Epic releases. Again, this is through the vision of an idiot kid, but in my memory, the Yardbirds were getting quite a lot of airplay in the LA market, in particular on KRLA. For me, the beginning of musical time started with the Stones, Animals, Kinks, Yardbirds, & Them. I didn’t know much about who the guitar players were back then, but it turned out to be Clapton’s brief solo on “I Ain’t Got You“ that got forever burned into my pea-brain. At the time, little did I know that he was just emulating the style & tone of players like Freddie King & Matt Murphy - but those groups, and the Yardbirds in particular due to Clapton’s obsession, reintroduced the world to American Blues. Jeff Beck then comes along and blows everything out of the water, melding the same blues-rock vibe with Indian tones that pushed their music in a gloriously fresh direction. Just one spin of ”I’m A Man” & I was hooked. When Beck left the group, so did I. Note for note, he was simply incredible, and his work work with the Yardbirds stands out as much today as it did 57 years ago - Amazing!
 
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