Five Live Yardbirds

by Yardbirds

Five Live Yardbirds cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 December 1964
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:27
  • Community rating: 3.4/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Chris Dreja, Giorgio Gomelsky, Jim McCarty, Eric Clapton, Paul Samwell-Smith, The Yardbirds, Keith Relf

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the legendary Marquee Club in London, this debut album captures the frantic, sweat-soaked energy of the early British R&B movement. Featuring a young Eric Clapton on lead guitar, the band supercharges traditional American blues numbers with unprecedented speed, volume, and extended instrumental 'rave-ups.' It is widely recognized as one of the earliest and most vital documents predicting the imminent transition from electric blues to hard rock.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Too Much Monkey Business - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (3:52)
  2. I Got Love If You Want It - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (2:35)
  3. Smokestack Lightning - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (5:36)
  4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (2:41)
  5. Respectable - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (5:29)
  6. Five Long Years - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (5:04)
  7. Pretty Girl - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (3:02)
  8. Louise - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (3:36)
  9. I'm a Man - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (4:24)
  10. Here 'Tis - Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 (5:04)

Credits

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