Thursday, February 26, 2009

Yardbirds-Roger The Engineer (Re-Up)



Info By Wiki:

Roger the Engineer (original title: Yardbirds, US, German, and French title: Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by the English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 1966. It was produced by bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was the only Yardbirds album with all originally-written material. Although the record was officially titled The Yardbirds, it has since been referred to, first colloquially, then semi-officially, as Roger the Engineer, a title stemming from the drawing on its front cover, a cartoon of the record's audio engineer Roger Cameron by band member Chris Dreja. (It should be emphasised that this is one in a long and distinguished line of albums that have acquired a "rename" following a mistake, usually made by fans and / or reviewers - for example, The Beatles never made "The White Album", nor Jackson Browne "Saturate Before Using"; in all these cases, the proper album title is eponymous.) Due to the influence of Jeff Beck's experimentation with guitar distortion, the album is considered a precursor to heavy metal.

The original American versions of this album (issued with a completely different album cover and entitled "Over Under Sideways Down") omitted the songs "The Nazz Are Blue" and "Rack My Mind" and are mixed differently to the British editions. Regardless, record collectors have sought out both the mono (LN 24210) and stereo (BN 26210) versions since several tracks are featured with slight differences in the mixes. Epic's 1983 reissue (simply entitled The Yardbirds) featured the original UK album cover, the two missing tracks, duplication of the British mixing, and two additional tracks, the 1966 single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" b/w "Psycho Daisies", both featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 349 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

Yardbirds-Roger The Engineer @320
1Lost Woman
2Over, Under, Sideways, Down
3The Nazz Are Blue
4I Can't Make Your Way
5Rack My Mind
6Farewell
7Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
8Psycho Daisies
9Hot House of Omagararshid
10Jeff's Boogie
11He's Always There
12Turn Into Earth
13What Do You Want
14Ever Since the World Began
15Mr Zero
16Knowing

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Happenings Ten Years Time Ago(Live 1967)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Like you say it's Jeff Beck playing on this great album .. the clip of "Happenings" has Jimmy Page on guitar like on a lot of the Yardbirds' clips on Youtube, and the sound doesn't do anybody justice but it's nice to see anyway. But I repeat .. this is a great album.

Anonymous said...

Saw Jeff Beck at the Palais in Melbourne last month, amazing. Just can't get enough of his wizardry.

Anonymous said...

Great blog, can you repost High Tide Sea Shanties, please. Thanks!

Nicolás.

Anonymous said...

thankyou - steve.

Papa said...

Thanks for your comments.
Nicolas i'm uploading High Tide.