1968-March-30

The Yardbirds  (w/ Jimmy Page)

Anderson Theatre	New York, NY


Disc 1  -  80.36
1	Introduction				  .14	68-March-30
2	The Train Kept A-Rollin'		 3.01	
3	You're A Better Man Than I >		 6.50	
	Heart Full Of Soul				
4	I'm Confused				 6.49	
5	My Baby					 3.09	
6	Over Under Sideways Down		 2.33	
7	Drinking Muddy Water			 3.16	
8	Shapes Of Things			 2.48	
9	White Summer				 4.20	
10	I'm A Man				12.00	

11	Train Kept a-Rollin' (inc)		  .26	67-July-22 *
12	You're A Better Man Than I		 4.18	
13	Heart Full Of Soul			 1.43	
14	I Wish You Would > Hey Gyp		 6.49	
15	My Baby					 2.47	
16	You Go Your Way				 3.59	
17	Smile On Me				 3.18	
18	I'm A Man				 9.09	
19	Over Under Sideways Down		 3.01	


	* 67-July-22:  Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - Santa Monica, CA

	The 68-March-30 recording is sourced from a silver disc


	Lineup for both shows:
	
	Chris Dreja	Bass
	Jim McCarty	Drums
	Jimmy Page	Guitar
	Keith Relf	Vocals, Harmonica


	Track  3:   early Dazed & Confused
	Track  6:   aka Rollin' & Tumblin'
	Track  8:   early Black Mountain Side



Note about the 68-Mar-30 recording:

This has applause artificially interspersed throughout.  Though a bit
annoying and childish of the record company to do this, it's not too
bad.  The performance is great, especially Page.



My note about the 67-July-22 recording:

In order to fit all this on one disc, I trimmed about 3min of post song 
talking & audience chatter from the 67-July-22 recording.  The SQ of the 
parts where Keith Relf talks after a song is so poor, that you are 
straining to hear what he says (see below note about the vocals in this 
recording).  I made sure not to cut any part that has Page doing any 
extensive tuning or strumming after a song, as he does after T11 (or T2, 
depending on how you look at it). Other than one, the transitions are 
pretty seamless and not noticeable.

Tracks that were trimmed are: t11, t13, t14, t15, t16, t17 (which are 
really t1, t3, t4, t5, t6, t7 if they were not being added to the end of 
another recording).




Notes that came with the 67-July-22 recording:

This is a recording of the Yardbirds in Santa Monica, CA. 
The source is a very low gen cassette dub from Jan 1986 
which lists the recording date as 1968.  However, I agree 
with this web page http://www.chromeoxide.com/yardbird.htm 
which says the actual date was July 22, 1967. 

This is an audience recording.  By modern standards it is 
terrible but keep in mind it's almost 40 years old.  The main 
problem is the vocals are very low in the mix and distorted. 
Jimmy "Magic Fingers" Page comes through loud and clear, and 
the rhythm section is mostly audible.  I slightly boosted the 
bass and cut the midrange with my trusty old 12 band equalizer, 
and tinkered with levels in Cool Edit Pro 2.1. 

No art but I have included two pictures from around this time 
period for someone else to work with. Presented in FLAC 1.1.4.



http://www.chromeoxide.com/yardbird.htm