For a brief period in 1966, the Yardbirds had not only one of the most formidable electric guitar tandems of their day, but what to this day remains one of the most formidable two-guitar attacks in ...
Page was a member of The Yardbirds from 1966-1968. He began as a dual-lead with his childhood friend Jeff Beck before becoming the band’s focal point after Beck decided to split during the band’s ...
Guitar legends Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page are the three most famous alumni of The Yardbirds, the pioneering English blues-rock band that was formed in 1963, gave birth to Led Zeppelin in ...
Jimmy Page is most known for forming the rock band Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham in 1968. Before starting Led Zeppelin, Page played guitar in a well-known band ...
15 April 1966. The Yardbirds on the steps of The Royal Albert Hall, while being filmed for the US TV show ‘Where The Action Is’ Hearing a major figure in British pop being so frank is made doubly ...
Jim McCarty never thought The Yardbirds were going to last. Sixty years later, fans still don’t want the encore to end. “It’s all like a bonus to me,” he said in a phone interview with The Daily ...
Starting in the 1960s, Beck appeared on the Billboard 200 every decade until his death. By Kevin Rutherford Jeff Beck, the legendary guitarist who died Jan. 10 at age 78, had a Billboard charts ...
Chris Dreja, co-founder of the Yardbirds, has passed away. The musician was 79. Both his sister-in-law Muriel Levy and former bandmate Jimmy Page confirmed the news on social media. A cause of death ...
The 'Roger The Engineer'-period Yardbirds. From left: Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty In time, Page switched to guitar to play alongside Jeff Beck, and guitarist ...
These 10 tracks are at the top of the heap, all performances that transcend the individual songs to establish some new standards for music itself. By Gary Graff You’re likely to find Jeff Beck‘s face ...
As advice to anyone building a collection of live recordings, one could scarcely go wrong with the acknowledged classics--sets by Otis Redding, the Who, the Stones' Get YerYa-Ya's Out! Combined with a ...