The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds

Format: 12" Album
Catalogue No.: GGP33SX1677
Barcode: 5060767443606
Release Date: 13 Dec 2024
Genre: Rock

FIVE LIVE YARDBIRDS is the debut album by British blues-rock band The Yardbirds. It features ten American rhythm and blues songs reimagined in, what would become, The Yardbirds’ “rave-up” signature. The “rave-up” treatment was the art of stretching a song with instrumental interludes building to a climax and was pioneered by the band for their live shows. 

The album was recorded at the Marque Club on Wardour Street, London in March 1964 and released in the UK in 

December that year. It was the inspiration of the bands manager Giorgio Gomelsky who wanted to capture and preserve their youthful energy and the electric atmosphere. 

At the time of release, it was not well received critically and failed to chart. 

Subsequently it is acclaimed as the most important live album of the Sixties during the British rock boom. Aerosmith’s founding guitarist Joe Perry describes their version of Chuck Berry’s ‘Too Much Monkey Business’ as a blueprint for much of what Aerosmith tried to do. 

01 Too Much Monkey Business
02 I Got Love If You Want It
03 Smokestack Lightning
04 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
05 Respectable
06 Five Long Years
07 Pretty Girl
08 Louise
09 I'm a Man
10 Here 'Tis

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