YARDBIRDS/HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS! LN 24177 (-65) US MONO

(For further background on this, check my posts on "For Your Love", "Five Live Yardbirds" and Jeff Becks "Truth" mono.) Another very good US Yardbirds album. Side 2 is from the already released Five Live... sessions, but side 1 has a few of their best studio recordings. After Clapton left the group and Beck got in there was a lot more experimenting in style and form. A few of the songs here are perfect exemples of early psychedelia ("Heart Full Of Soul" and "Evil Hearted You") and their version of "The Train Kept A-Rollin" resembles the hard-rock Jeff Beck a few years later would try on "Truth" LP. They may not have been the biggest selling group back then, but certainly one of the most influential. The tracks here are all original mono mixes and sounds great. This was their best selling US album and spent over six months on the lower half of Billboard list, reaching low fifty as best. Also released in fake stereo (BN 26177). Have been re-issued numerous times on vinyl and CD, with same or different tracking. (YÄB*)(JÄBÄ*) (YZÄ*) (ÖXCÅ*)