UK MONO 60's YARDBIRDS FIVE LIVE + CLAPTON Blues BEAT

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~ RARE MONO COLLECTIBLE ~                      

HIGH-WIRED R&B STOMPER WITH ERIC CLAPTON !                                                                     

    ERIC CLAPTON & YARDBIRDS

             FIVE LIVE YARDBIRDS

\                              UK - silver, white & black COLUMBIA RECORDS - SX 1677

RARE old vintage UK vinyl pressing with the old sixties UK flip-back styled cover production - a quite scarce MONAURAL collectible featuring The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton

The mono production offers a big bold production punch which sounds just great for this vintage sixties collectible. 

Six years after England's Marquee club first opened its doors, it closed and relocated to London's Soho area. On its premiere night in 1964 at its new location, the venue hosted rhythm & blues act The Yardbirds, who'd already established a popular Thursday residency at the previous spot. The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton, recorded live on March 13th, 1964, documents the band's powerful debut appearance at the Marquee's new setup, with a baby-faced Eric Clapton offering lead guitar for this, the band's first full-length record..

Advocates of 1960s pop/rock history, or the history of British kids playing American music, should recognize that The Yardbirds woth Eric Clapton is an important piece for the collection. Alongside the early Stones Lp's or the Van Morrison &Them Lp's (more Irish kids, really, but you understand), the Yardbirds' live set is a celebration of the blues artists that young MODS so admired in this era, and its intensity was never really duplicated in the band's subsequent studio sessions.

The Yardbirds hammer out a set of Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and John Lee Hooker compositions on The Yardbirds with Eric Clapton with ferocity and creativity. Of the bands playing this type of stuff in sweaty, poorly kept clubs back then, the Yardbirds were innovative and exciting, and this early representation, with its jamming and jittery tempo experiments, offers a peek at the band that would soon contribute a hallmark of psychedelic rock in 1966's Roger the Engineer / Over Under Sideways Down, an album that critic Tom Moon called "essential listening for anyone who cares about rock guitar." In his voluminous 1982 book about The Who, author Richard Barnes lamented that the Detours(early WHO), were covering these blues artists "exactly like the original record...They (The Detours) played it very well, and very competently; they were by then a lot better than most bands, but they didn't do anything with it. When the Yardbirds played, for instance 'Smokestack Lightning,' it lasted for at least fifteen minutes.'"

The live album is crazed -- the levels are all over the place, the crowd is manic, and you can almost feel the feedback hum from the weathered amps onstage."Respectable" is the highlight of The Yardbirds With Eric Clapton  -- its remarkably tight stop/starts and syncopation nearly disintegrate around "Slowhand" Clapton's leads, which are far too buried in the mix on this one, but the song is in its most undressed, raw form. Before it ends, in an unexpected third act, the band allows for their recreation of "Respectable" to slump into a jangly ska cousin of the original, and then races it back into its proper, hustled tempo. Listen to the Yardbirds doing "Respectable" here, and think about exactly why this record isn't sitting on your shelf.

Side one

1. "Too Much Monkey Business"  – 3:51
2. "Got Love If You Want It" – 2:40
3. "Smokestack Lightning"  – 5:35
4. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" – 2:42
5. "Respectable" – 5:35

 Side two

1. "Five Long Years"  – 5:18
2. "Pretty Girl"  – 3:04
3. "Louise"  – 3:43
4. "I'm a Man" – 4:33
5. "Here 'Tis" – 5:10

CONDITION: The laminated cover with the flip-out back seams is in great shape for its age = "EX" (excellent) 

The vinyl, is clean, "EX" (excellemnt)  looks like it was put on a top shelf for many years - playing clean, minty clean!

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record