Six of the songs were hindered by the usual BBC problem of DJs talking over the music. But I've included it because it's a very rare song for the band to have played live, and I think the sound quality just barely makes the cut. The one exception is "Rack My Mind." It's the only song here that is officially unreleased. The sound quality is generally excellent. I've included them here both because those earlier versions were separated in time by a year or more, and also because the soloing is significantly different from version to version. And this version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" has some parts that sounds like another Zep song.īy the way, "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and "Jeff's Boogie" are songs that were featured on earlier volumes in this series.
"White Summer" is a song that band would play in concert sometimes. Speaking of Led Zeppelin, if you listen to "Dazed and Confused" here, you'd be forgiven if you'd think this is Led Zeppelin already, but with a different lead vocalist. In fact, if you're a serious Zeppelin fan, you probably know that band was billed as the Yardbirds when they first started out. So this should be of interest for Led Zeppelin fans, since of course Page would be the lead guitarist in that band starting in late 1968. Instead, from the fourth song to the end, it's just Page as lead guitarist. Unfortunately, none of the performances here are from that period. Shortly afterwards, Jimmy Page joined the band, and the band coexisted with two lead guitarists until about November 1966. The first three songs here, from June 1966, feature Jeff Beck as lead guitarist. I can post that here as well if there's interest. However, I made one more album of all the additional versions of songs the band did more than once for the BBC. Here's the third and final volume of the Yardbirds at the BBC.
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