1968-May-31

The Yardbirds		Live At The Shrine

Shrine Exposition Hall	Los Angeles, CA


Disc 1  -  78.36
1	The Train Kept A Rollin'		 3.23
2	You're A Better Man Than I >		 5.10
3	Heart Full Of Soul			 2.38
4	Dazed And Confused			 8.23
5	Shapes Of Things			 2.55
6	I'm A Man				13.38
7	White Summer				 6.44
8	Smokestack Lightning >			 7.27
9	I'm Waiting for the Man			 4.41
10	Bye Bye Bird				 5.58
11	Happenings Ten Years Time Ago		 3.24
12	Drinking Muddy Water			 4.05
13	NYC Blues (aborted)			 2.39
14	I Wish You Would			 7.24


68-May-31:
Tracks 1-10 from the vinyl "Last Rave Up In LA" transferred using Music Hall 
turntable, Adcom preamp and Cakewalk ADC.  Tracks 11-14 from Nov 2009 tape 
source torrent, sped up about 7% per recommendations from revised torrent 
and to match vinyl speed.



Notes that came with this recording:

On May 31 and June 1 1968, the Yardbirds played two consecutive nights in 
Los Angeles, CA.  The shows were taped by David Cole.  The second night 
recording is obviously incomplete, but I find it interesting the amount 
of variation between the two nights.  The highlight for me is their cover 
of the Velvet Underground's I'm Waiting For The Man.  With so few live 
Yardbirds recordings, this is the only known version.  In 1979, the taper 
released a 3 LP bootleg box set with the highlights of the shows; 
basically every song minus the duplicates played both nights.  Tapes of 
both shows including duplicates also circulate.  These were made into a CD 
on the Goldtone label with inferior sound quality.

This material has been seeded previously at Dime from tape source but I 
like the sound of the vinyl bootleg 3 record set better.  Since it is 
incomplete, I have filled in the missing portions from the previous torrent.  
All tracks have been carefully remastered and edited for the best possible 
sound, but it's still fairly bad.  It appears that the LPs are made from 
the master tape, and the extra songs are from a copy tape of about 
3rd generation.  The LPs have a crisper sound with better stereo separation, 
and unfortunately more tape hiss.

Presented in FLAC 1.2.1 with cue sheets for playing or burning.  Includes 
photos from the show and scans of the "Apologia" included with the bootleg 
LPs, in which the bootleggers apologize for the sound quality and explain 
the circumstances behind the recording.

Thanks to David Cole for taping and Thomas aka DocDondy for the earlier upload.  
(I also had the complete tapes; Doc's are better).  
Uploaded to Dime by watchit, 12-Jan-1.