YARDBIRDS, ROGER THE ENGINEER, original blue/black Columbia 1st press

	£		65
	$		86

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The YARDBIRDS.

ROGER THE ENGINEER.

Original 1st UK pressing on the BLUE/BLACK COLUMBIA LABEL.

ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX INFO.

Side One  XAX3126 - 1

Side Two  XAX 3127 - 1

Released 15 July 1966.

Recorded Spring and summer 1966 at Advision Studios, London, England.

Label, Blue Black Columbia Label.

Outer sleeve Printed and Made by Garrod & Lofthouse.

Outer sleeve:

Front laminated sleeve, free from an unwanted writing, Laminate retains a very nice shine with just a whisper of cresting to the edges of the laminate. No split seams and all writing clean and fully readable including the spine.

Rear is unlamented but remains very clean and again no unwanted writing or names.

Inner sleeve is the original EMI inner with just the usual signs of aging.

Vinyl Visually.

He vinyl still retains a new look sheen with only a whisper sleeve removal marks, no other feelable or obvious making.

The vinyl labels are undamaged and look almost unplayed, the playing surface also looks as though it has only been played on or two times.

Play grading.

On playing this album carefully there was only the very, very slight background static that distinguishes vinyl from other formats, It gave the beautiful warm reproduction only vinyl can give you.

There were NO skips, jumps, skidding on playback .

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 The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid-1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom are in the top five of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton at No. 2, Page at No. 3 and Beck at No. 5). A blues -based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, the Yardbirds had a hand in many electric guitar innovations of the mid-1960s, such as feedback distortion  and improved amplification. Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner, holds that the Yardbirds were "the most impressive guitar band in rock music"After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their lead guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin

The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.They were included in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock

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