UK export press of the US stereo. Never aimed for the UK market, but exported to and sold on the European continent only. For me this is both good and bad news. To start with the bad - this version was fake stereo only, coming through unbalanced with some of the tracks having the music strong in one speaker and fainter in the other and some just sounding enhanced mono. Also side two consists of live tracks already present on the "Five Live Yardbirds" mono, which was issued in a number of countries 1964 . So for us who already have and enjoy one of those the rechanneled versions here are downgrades. On the positive side - the six studio recordings on side one are all true killers still hitting hard over fifty years later, as early hard rock and/or psych. And if I don't sit in front of the speakers but just use it as background it's still enjoyable listening and using the mono button to connect the channels makes it totally ok mono. I do prefer the US mono https://monolover.blogspot.com/2012/06/having-rave-up-with-yardbirds-ln-24177.html . But since it is the only chance to get some of the songs on early British LP and also that it was the only Yardbirds UK export, it is valuable to me in other ways and a sure keeper. First (only?) press came with label as shown here in a lamintaed flip/back cover. (YÄB*) (ÖXÄP*)
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