The Yardbirds : Live Yardbirds! (New York's Anderson Theatre on March 30th 1968)/ Yardbirds '68

I'M DAZED AND CONFUSED

HANGIN' ON A THREAD

I'VE BEEN ABUSED

I'D BE BETTER OFF DEAD

 Live Yardbirds: 

Featuring Jimmy Page 

is a live album

 by English

 rock group 

The Yardbirds 

It was recorded at

 the Anderson Theatre

 in New York City 

on 

 March,30th 1968.

At the time, 

the Yardbirds

 had been performing

 as a quartet 

with

 Jimmy Page

 on lead guitar 

since

 October 1966.

The album includes 

several familiar 

Yardbird songs, 

but often extended

 with longer instrumental solos.

 "I'm Confused,"

 based on

 Jake Holmes

"Dazed and Confused",

 is a highlight

 of the album.

Using some different lyrics,

 Page re-recorded it 

with 

Led Zeppelin

 for their 

debut album

 later in 1968.

The group was dissatisfied 

with the recordings 

and objected

 to their release, 

but after Page 

became famous with

 Led Zeppelin, 

Epic Records

 issued the album

 in September 1971.

 Page took legal action 

and Epic 

was enjoined from 

further distribution

 of the album. 

Over the years,

 there were several

more attempts to

 release the album.

 In 2017, 

Page discovered

 the concert tapes

 in his personal archive 

and remixed the recordings.

 An album with the

 Anderson concert 

and demo recordings

 from the same time, 

were released in

 November 2017 on

 Yardbirds '68

Personnel

The Yardbirds

• Keith Relf – harmonica, lead vocals
• Jimmy Page – guitar
• Chris Dreja – bass guitar
• Jim McCarty – drums, backing vocals

BONUS

YARDBIRDS '68

STUDIO SKETCHES

The tracks

 were recorded 

during 

the Yardbirds' 

last American tour

 in 1968;

 the live recordings

 are from their 

performance at

 the Anderson Theater

 on March,30th 

and studio recordings 

are demos

 from sessions

 at Columbia Recording Studio

 in April. 

Previously, 

the ten live tracks appeared on

 Live Yardbirds: 

Featuring Jimmy Page.

 The album was issued by

 Epic Records in 1971,

 but was

 quickly withdrawn

TRACKLIST

Avron Knows

 (Stereo)

Spanish Blood 

(Stereo)

Knowing That I'm Losing You

 (Tangerine)

 (Stereo)

Taking A Hold On Me

 (Stereo)

Drinking Muddy Water 

(Version 2)

 (Stereo)

My Baby

 (Stereo)

Avron's Eyes

 (Stereo)

 (instrumental)

Spanish Blood

 (Stereo)

 (instrumental)

I'm Confused [*]

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