Description:
For the most comprehensive, single CD covering the Yardbirds entire career, look no further than Raven`s stunning 27-track, multi-label collection `Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 1964-1968`. Originally released as an earlier edition in 1990. It is now presented with revised tracking and upgraded with the highest quality audio and a superb booklet featuring detailed notes and a range of rare images. This remains the first and best collection that covers all phases of the band`s career. The history of the band is well known - Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - and this is the essential way to delve into that history. It`s all here - guitar innovation, breathtaking virtuosity, pioneering psychedelia, feedback and fuzz tone - but above all just great songs. All the band`s landmark recordings are present and correct: `For Your Love`, `The Train Kept A-Rollin``, `Heart Full of Soul`, `I`m a Man`, `Over Under Sideways Down`, `Shapes of Things`, `Happenings Ten Years Time Ago`, `Stroll On`, `Little Games`. There`s the storming live version of `Smokestack Lightning`, the metallic `Psycho Daisies` and the mesmerizing `Think About It`. The sheer breadth of music the Yardbirds created and the extent of their influence remains unparalleled. This is the ultimate single CD of the Yardbirds` finest 78 minutes, featuring the cream of the band`s recordings with Clapton, Beck and Page. (Raven)
