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The Yardbirds - BBC Unreleased + More

Track listing:
  1. Train Kept a-Rollin' #2 2:42
  2. Mister You're a Better Man Than I #2 (live) 3:05
  3. The Sun is Shining (excerpt) 0:48
  4. Jeff's Boogie #1 2:12
  5. My Baby #2 2:23
  6. Smokestack Lightning (excerpt) 1:25
  7. I'm Not Talking #1 (excerpt) 0:41
  8. Five On Board 1:58
  9. Hushabye 1:58
  10. I'm a Man #2 4:00
  11. Steeled Blues 2:39
  12. Spoonful 3:14
  13. I'm Not Talking #2 2:24
  14. Louise 3:00
  15. I've Been Trying 3:04
  16. Dust My Blues (excerpt) 0:25
  17. Shapes of Things #3 (live) 2:21
  18. I've Been Wrong (excerpt) 0:36
  19. Heart Full of Soul #2 2:24
  20. Jeff's Boogie #2 2:34
  21. I'm a Man #3 (live) 3:39
  22. I Wish You Would #2 2:31
  23. Love Me Like I Love You #2 2:47
  24. The Stumble 1:57
  25. Evil Hearted You #2 (live) 2:41
  26. Mister You're a Better Man Than I #3 2:59
  27. Rack My Mind (live) 3:26
  28. Heart Full of Soul #3 (live) 2:25
  29. Evil Hearted You #3 2:29
  30. Questa Volta (San Remo) 3:18
  31. Pafff... Bum (San Remo) 3:03
  32. I Wish You Would (Paris) 3:12

Notes

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. All except track 5 are 1965 or 1966.

There is no apparent rhyme or reason to the order of the songs. 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.

All tracks transferred from vintage 1980s TDK-D90 cassettes using a Sony ES 3 head cassette deck and M-Audio Audiophile sound card.