The Yardbirds
BBC Unreleased & More
1965 - 66


   1. Train Kept a-Rollin' #2
   2. Mister You're a Better Man Than I #2 (live)
   3. The Sun is Shining (excerpt)
   4. Jeff's Boogie #1
   5. My Baby #2
   6. Smokestack Lightning (excerpt)
   7. I'm Not Talking #1 (excerpt)
   8. Five On Board
  9. Hushabye
10. I'm a Man #2
11. Steeled Blues
12. Spoonful
13. I'm Not Talking #2
14. Louise
15. I've Been Trying
16. Dust My Blues (excerpt)
17. Shapes of Things #3 (live)
18. I've Been Wrong (excerpt)
19. Heart Full of Soul #2
20. Jeff's Boogie #2
21. I'm a Man #3 (live)
22. I Wish You Would #2
23. Love Me Like I Love You #2
24. The Stumble
25. Evil Hearted You #2 (live)
26. Mister You're a Better Man Than I #3
27. Rack My Mind (live)
28. Heart Full of Soul #3 (live)
29. Evil Hearted You #3
30. Questa Volta - San Remo, Jan 66
31. Pafff... Bum  - San Remo, Jan 66
32. I Wish You Would - Paris, 20 Jun 65

Tracks 1-29 are unreleased BBC performances recorded off the air in England over 40 years ago. None are available on the officially released BBC albums such as On Air. Note that the official releases are made from surviving BBC sources such as transcription discs (records) which are sometimes edited sources. If you compare these songs to the official release, you'll note that these versions were sometimes longer. Some of the previously unreleased portions are presented here as excerpts. Exact recording dates are unknown but all except track 5 are 1965 or 1966. There is no apparent rhyme or reason to the order of the songs.

Officially released versions and duplicate songs were edited out.The officially released version of a song is marked as #1. The unreleased, different versions here are titled #2 or #3. Jeff Beck is the lead guitarist on all tracks except #5 which features Jimmy Page. Eric Clapton isn't on any.

Tracks 30 and 31 are from the Yardbirds performance in San Remo, Italy, Jan. 1966. They performed two songs written specifically for the music festival there. These recordings are complete, with introductions missing from previous sources.

Track 32 was recorded June 20, 1965, when the Yardbirds were in Paris with the Beatles. This was ported from a Beatles LP.

All tracks transferred from vintage 1980s TDK-D90 cassettes using a Sony ES 3 head cassette deck and M-Audio Audiophile sound card. Highs above 8kHz were filtered and put in true mono, picking the left or right channel, whichever was better. Presented in FLAC 1.2.1.


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