Live & Rare [Import]

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Here comes a holy-grail release for Yardbirds (and Zeppelin) fans: 70 tracks in a limited-edition set including live performances from all across Europe, rare studio cuts and 21 previously unreleased off-air BBC recordings! And that’s just the CDs; the DVD brings you restored live performances from the archives of the BBC, ITV and French and German television, and you get abundant liner notes along with a 36-page mini-book. The journey here stretches from April 1964 to March 1968, starting with "Louise" and their cover of Billy Boy Arnold’s blues classic "I Wish You Would," their versions of "Too Much Monkey Business," "I’m a Man," "Boom Boom," "Spoonful," "Little Queenie" and more 1964–65 BBC and ITV performances featuring Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. We then move to ’66 and ’67 with live France and Germany performances: "Train Kept A-Rollin’," "Shapes of Things," "Over, Under, Sideways, Down," "Heart Full of Soul," "Happening Ten Years Time Ago," "You’re a Better Man Than I" and more. You’ll hear the Yardbirds live in Sweden in ’67, too: "My Baby," "Little Games," "Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)" and more. The 1968 recordings here find the band in their proto-Zeppelin Jimmy Page days, with "Dazed and Confused" and "White Summer" joining "Think About It," "Good Night Sweet Josephine" and more including an interview in which Page talks about touring life. You’ll see killer performances by the Clapton, Beck and Page editions of the band on the DVD, in Paris, on German TV, at Wembley and more. Limited orange 180-gram vinyl includes 17 tracks: live circa ’66 plus mono Keith Relf recordings. Repertoire.