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Concerts Vol. 6: Jimmy Page and The Yardbirds

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:51:00 +0100

A few weeks before leaving for Boston University, and later Berklee School of Music, in August, 1967, and after the Bram Rigg Set had broken up, my good friend Beau Segal and I drove down to New York to see the Yardbirds. Beau was the one who found out about the show and it was

Famous Players of Gibson Les Pauls

Thu, 14 May 2009 17:57:00 +0100

The Gibson Les Paul has been popular across all styles and eras of music. Here are a few musical legends who have made the Les Paul guitar part of their sound. Eric Clapton Clapton rediscovered the classic late 1950s Les Paul Standard, and put it to good use while playing with Jo

How Can I Use Myspace Music Marketing And More Plays For Offline Music Promotion Purposes

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:07:00 +0100

While many musicians have a Myspace page devoted to their band and their music, most of those musicians do not use it to its full potential. Granted, Myspace is a great place to connect with friends and fans, upload songs, sell merchandise, and a host of other really terrific ser

Eric Clapton - Indroduction

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:04:00 +0100

Eric Clapton, was born in 30 March 1945), nicknamed “Slowhand”, is a Grammy Award winning English composer, singer and guitarist who became one of the most respected and influential artists of the rock era, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Ha

Band Names

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:33:00 +0100

I saw this on www. classicbands.com and decided to post it here because I found it both interesting and weird. It's a list of bands that describes how each got its name, and most of the important artists are included. AC/DC - A band member saw AC/DC on a sewing machine. It stood

Led Zeppelin

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:33:00 +0100

Overview The band was originally formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page under the name “The New Yardbirds,” based on Page’s previous band, The Yardbirds. While The New Yardbirds arose at first simply to fulfill some performance commitments booked in Scandinavia before the o

Yardbirds

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:21:00 +0100

Some british bands like The Pretty Things, Them or The Yardbirds had a variable degree of success in their own country, but they were all very influential on the american garage band scene. Here are the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page playing Shapes of Things. It was a proto-psychedeli

Yardbirds - Stroll On

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:17:00 +0100

Their cameo in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up . The deluxe outfit with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.... (Read complete news)

Biography Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. A blues-based band whose sound evolved into experimental pop rock, they had a string of hits including ?For Your Love?, ?Over, Under, Sideways, Down? and ?Heart Full Of Soul?. They were a crucial link between British R&B and psychedelia. The Yardbirds were pioneers in almost every guitar innovation of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, improved amplification, and were one of the first to put an emphasis on complex lead guitar parts and experimentation.The term, "Yardbird" is used in the southern United States as slang for 'chicken' (as in poultry), and it is a slang expression for "prisoner". The bulk of the band's conceptual ideas, as well as their songwriting, came from the quartet of singer Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, and bassist/producer Paul