Live! Blueswailing July '64 [LIVE]

Yardbirds

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Sbme Castle Us
• ASIN: B0000DZTL7
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #276,346 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Someone to Love Me

2. Too Much Monkey Business

3. I Got Love If You Want It

4. Smokestack Lightning

5. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

6. She Is So Respectable/Humpty Dumpty

7. Sky Is Crying

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Live Find!, November 24, 2003

By	J. E FELL "boogaloojef" (Carterville, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was excited when I read about this previously unissued live soundboard recording of the Yardbirds. "Live Blueswailing July '64" features an uncirculated tape of vintage Yardbirds featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar. The sound quality for the time period is excellent and it may even be better then the sound on "Five Live Yardbirds" which was also recorded with this particular line up. The set list is similar to that found on "Five Live Yardbirds" but the new disk includes previously unissued live versions of "Someone To Love Me" and the slow burning take of "The Sky Is Crying" by Elmore James. With the exception of the latter track the set list is comprised of high energy "rave ups". Tracks like Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" and "She's So Respectable/Humpty Dumpty" not only why the band was exciting in concert but the latter also illustrates the band's sense of humor. Keith Relf is in good form and jokes with the audience between songs. The sound and style of the Yardbirds influenced many of the garage bands during the sixties (Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" for example). While the disk clocks in at only a little over 30 minutes the music included is well worth the price. It is surprising that a tape sounding this good has gone unheard for so long. It makes me wonder how many other gems from vintage sixties groups remain lost or unheard Now if only a great live tape of the Jeff Beck era could be found.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy alternative to "Five Live Yardbirds", January 2, 2004

By	ACJ "andrucharlz" (Gladstone, MI, USA) - See all my reviews

I was lucky enough to get the complete "Five Live Yardbirds" when Rhino briefly released it in the early 1980's. Inevitably, this new CD will be compared to it - after all, it has much the same song list. Happily, "Live Blueswailing" compares VERY well. The crowd is more sedate but still enthusiasic, the sound is clearer, the band's playing is crisper, Keith Relf banters more with the audience, and Clapton fans have one more fine E. C. performance to savor - the CD's closing track, "The Sky Is Crying." If you can't get your hands on the complete "Five Live," this is a great substitute; even if you can, this is a fine supplement.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Yardbirds with Clapton...need I say more?, December 13, 2003

By	Trevor Seigler (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

As someone who's always been a big fan of the British Invasion era of rock and roll, I knew about the Yardbirds pretty much the same way as a lot of people did, through the rotating cast of superstar guitarists. Then I bought a tape of some of their best songs, and I was hooked. Apart from the Animals and the early Rolling Stones, no other British band pulled off the covers of blues standards with quite the same audacity as the Yardbirds, and the too-short Clapton-era incarnation has always been my favorite (the Beck years were good too, but they devolved into psychedelica).

This is a great find, and one that I wish I'd bought months earlier. The sound is utterly fantastic for a forty-year old recording (the conspiracy theorist in me might say it's almost "too good"...perhaps the guys got together for one last gig recently and repackaged it as a "old" recording....that's crazy talking), and the performances are something to behold. After a rough start with the first song ending a little early, the band comes back and roars through Smokestack Lightin' and (my all-time fave Yardbirds song) Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl. She's So Respectful/Humpty Dumpty is a great song about "a girl who doesn't go out much" and thus is the singer's dream girl. The album overall makes you wish there was more Clapton-led Yardbirds material lying about, but this and "Five Live Yardbirds" (which I want to get despretely) are all we have. Thank God for that little bit, because this is amazing.