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Favorite Album Covers - 1960s
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Featuring Eric "Slowhand" Clapton on lead guitar, this concert recording presents the Yardbirds at their most blues-wailing. Of the band's four actual albums, it's definitely aged the poorest; Clapton's playing is unquestionably sweet, and the extended rave-ups on "Smokestack Lightning" and "Here 'Tis" are genuinely exciting, but mostly the band just sounds like British art students earnestly negotiating their way through their favorite blues tunes--which is, in fact, what they were. As excellent a guitarist as Clapton was, the band didn't really come into its own until Jeff Beck signed on as his
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227018924 UPC: 081227018924
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Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227018924 UPC: 081227018924
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