The Yardbirds
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Topic: The Yardbirds
Posted By: Stormcrow
Subject: The Yardbirds
Date Posted: February 21 2004 at 13:05
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How many of us have stopped and realized just how much came out of that band? Clapton's great solo pop and blues career..... Beck's great blues / fusion / jazz career..... Jimmy Page founded the seminal hard / heavy metal (and let's face it, occasionally proggish) band Led Zeppelin Keith Relf and Jim McCarty gave us Renaissance (totally prog) and several other very interesting projects (Box Of Frogs, anyone? And it's not like the original band it's self wasn't totally cool. Can anyone name another band who's members put out an equally quality and DIVERSE music catalog |
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Posted By: Perry
Date Posted: February 22 2004 at 05:05
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I think members of YARDBIRDS stil forggotten. It's a shame 'cause they are fine and interesting musicians. A;so I'd like to add ARMAGEDDON (1975) that fatured Relf. Greta heavy progressiv album. But it didn't last long. And I've heard there were a project by Jim McCarty SHOOT with guitar-player from RAW MATERIAL. Have anubody heard this album? ------------- Let music make your life a little sweeter - Kim Simmonds |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 23 2004 at 18:07
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Did you hear about the band ILLUSION ? It was sort of an attempt to bring the initial Renaissance line-up back together, with the lovely voice of Jane Relf. Now, to answer to your question, I think Dixie Dregs deserve to be compared to the Yardbirds in term of the diverse genres their members played in other various bands. The Dregs played mainly jazz-fusion, but their repertoire ranged from classical to rock, to bluegrass and jazz-rock. Apart from their performances in the Dixie Dregs, most of the members had a solo career or played in various bands. Steve Morse played country guitar with Marcel Dadi, hard-rock with Deep Purple and Kansas, shredding with Jeff Watson, metal-prog-fusion with Jordan Rudess on 'Feeding the wheel'. Andy West created recently a project called RAMA, which is a sort of metal-fusion. Rod Morgenstein played in a hard-rock band, Winger, with Ty tabor and Derek Sherinian in a metal-prog band : Platypus, with Jordan Rudess for a metal-fusion duet, with T Lavitz in Jazz is Dead for jazz-rock versions of The Dead's greatest hits. Mark O'Connor has released some bluegrass albums, and recently a fabulous album with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Fanfare for the volunteer, dealing with classical music. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Perry
Date Posted: February 24 2004 at 09:59
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Bout ILLUSION I can say more. This band IMHO much better Renessainse, and vocal by Jane RElf is sweeter than Haslam. I forgot to mention that I heard Box of Frogs. I was dissatisfied. From such a good musicians (Page, Gallgher, Chapman, Beck and all classic Yardbirds) I waited much more interesting material ------------- Let music make your life a little sweeter - Kim Simmonds |
Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: February 24 2004 at 10:25
I like both of them. I may prefer Relf when singing softer songs, because I find her warmer (for example, in 'Face of Yesterday', one of my all time favourite songs). But I'd rather get Haslam for epics, like 'A Song for all Seasons' (my fave Rennaissance track, by the way). Anyway, Illusion is essential for Renaissance fans. Specially if you wish Renaissance took the electric guitar more often.
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