LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

2LPs: MASTERED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, ALL TRACKS MONO. INCLUDES DAZED AND CONFUSED & WHITE SUMMER, BROADCAST BY JOHN PEEL IN 1968. RESTORED AND REMASTERED TRACKS FROM THE 1965-68 ERA – WITH JEFF BECK AND JIMMY PAGE IN THE VARIOUS YARDBIRDS LINE-UPS. RARE BBC ARCHIVE RECORDINGS. TRACK SELECTION AND INTRODUCTION BY YARDBIRD JIM MCCARTY WITH QUOTES FROM PAUL SAMWELL-SMITH IN THE AUTHORITATIVE SLEEVE NOTES.

A selection of the Yardbirds BBC key ‘live’ recordings, assembled with the assistance of the BBC, with several tracks now all together the first time on this newly restored and remastered 2LP set. Many tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find and archive sources and now feature for the first time on these best available recordings in LP format. Sourced from the BBC, this double LP covers numerous songs - including smash hits such as ‘For Your Love’, ‘Heart Full Of Soul’ and Yardbirds classic stage favourites ‘Too Much Monkey Business’, ‘Smokestack Lightning’, ‘I’m A Man’ and ‘Train Kept A-Rollin’’. Guitar legends Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page feature alongside front man Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty in these sessions, recorded by the world renowned broadcasting organisation for radio transmission and our LPs feature a selection of the best available Yardbirds’ BBC Radio One output from 1965-1968. Authoritative sleeve notes contain new quotes from Yardbirds’ Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith. McCarty also adds his exclusive personal introduction for this set, looking back at those BBC years.

Track Listing

SIDE A:

• I Ain’t Got You
• Interview: Keith Relf talks about the band’s background
• For Your Love
• I Wish You Would
• Interview: Paul Samwell-Smith talks about the recording and the USA tour
• Heart Full Of Soul
• I Ain’t Done Wrong
• Too Much Monkey Business
• I’m A Man
• Evil Hearted You

SIDE B:

• Interview: Paul Samwell-Smith talks about the ‘Still I’m Sad’ single
• Still I’m Sad
• Hang On Sloopy
• Smokestack Lightning
• Interview: The Yardbirds give their New Year’s resolutions
• Mister You’re A Better Man Than I
• The Train Kept A-Rollin’
• Dust My Broom

SIDE C

• Mister You’re A Better Man Than I
• Baby, Sctratch My Back
• Interview: Keith Relf
• Over, Under, Sideways, Down
• The Sun Is Shining
• Interview: Keith Relf
• Shape Of Things
• Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
• Little Games

SIDE D

• Drinking Muddy Water
• Think About It
• Interview: Jimmy Page
• Goodnight Sweet Josephine
• My Baby
• White Summer
• Dazed And Confused