[Jim]

I downloaded an allbum of Yardbirds music at emusic.com called "London Times, Volume 2 (featuring Eric Clapton)", but it didn't really sound like a real Yardbirds album - there was a whole bunch of really raw, kind of poorly recorded 12 bar blues tracks, with sometimes just a rhythm guitar and a lead guitar, sometimes a little more instrumented, but very sparse. But it did have that "Clapton" sound to the leads - hard to explain, but you sort of know it's him. It was especially interesting because a lot of the time it sounded like blues leads that members here could easily play - intersperced with these incredible rips of lead that just made me shake my head in disbelief. But it was obviously earlyish Clapton - around 1966 or so, when he was at the end of the Yardbirds, and just about to start with John Mayall and the BluesBreakers. This is the period he describes as his "woodshedding" period, when he just did nothing but practice and listen to and digest all the blues records he could get his hands on.

Then I noticed at the end of the album page, where members can post reviews, was this:

According to the website Where's Eric, in 1966, Jimmy Page recorded several tracks with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and others as The Powerhouse at Page's home studio. Immediate Records originally released seven Clapton/Page guitar instrumentals. They are “Snake Drive,” “Tribute To Elmore,” “West Coast Idea,” “Freight Loader,” “Draggin’ My Tail,” “Choker,” and “Miles Road,” likely the same versions included here (and countless other compilations, usually as Eric Clapton and the Yardbirds or Clapton and Page - though eMusic's listing as The Yardbirds is stretching it).

and

As the other reviewer noted, most of these tracks are instrumentals featuring only Clapton and Page

Well, to others this may be a reason NOT to download this album, but to me this stuff is priceless!! Clapton and Page jamming in '66 at Page's house with Steve Winwood - and this is before Page even took over Clapton's place in the Yardbirds. This is rock/blues history to me, and if any of you are really interested in hearing these two guys jamming together on the fly, I really recommend this!

Jim

[sale]

Thanks Jim
I will download that album for sure.I am I big fan of Steve Winwood and Jimmy Page and I like Clapton too.
Thanks again
Sale

[sustain66]

Thanks for the post. I have been on the site where's eric too. Great resource! Eric is onre of my faves!

[peterm]

This and another thread on forgotten albums reminded me of an album I foolishly gave away in in 79 (I was moving to OZ and left my collection in the care of a friend)

Anyway I remember the album was called blues anytime and featured Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and I thought Jeff Beck but that might be a hazy memory. (Wasn't everything back then ) so I went searching and the only place I could find it is as part of a compilation called "Early Clapton Collection". I think it is the same recordings mentioned earlier but here is the link.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...783049?ie=UTF8

PS Hope I haven't broken any rules by posting a link to amazon here.

On a similar note there is a DVD available , also quite rare, of Clapton, Beck, Page, Winwood, Wyman, Watts, et al in a benefit concert for ex faces guitarist Ronnie Lane. The DVD if you can find it is called A.R.M.S Concert and features an amazing version of layla played by all the above mentioned artists.

Cheers

Peter

[Jim]

Originally Posted by peterm

Anyway I remember the album was called blues anytime and featured Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and I thought Jeff Beck but that might be a hazy memory. (Wasn't everything back then ) so I went searching and the only place I could find it is as part of a compilation called "Early Clapton Collection". I think it is the same recordings mentioned earlier but here is the link.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...783049?ie=UTF8

PS Hope I haven't broken any rules by posting a link to amazon here.

On a similar note there is a DVD available , also quite rare, of Clapton, Beck, Page, Winwood, Wyman, Watts, et al in a benefit concert for ex faces guitarist Ronnie Lane. The DVD if you can find it is called A.R.M.S Concert and features an amazing version of layla played by all the above mentioned artists.

Cheers

Peter

Peter,

YUP! Those are the same pieces on the CD I mentioned! I wish they'd release it with the correct artists credited rather than Yardbirds, or just Eric, etc. It's some great, historic stuff.

That ARMS concert is a gem too! I haven't seen the whole DVD, but at:

Clapton, Page, Beck 1983

is a video of them playing Layla at this concert, and it's amazing stuff.


Jim

[nocat]

Sounds like something I'd like to pick up... Thanks for the heads-up Jim...!!!

Cheers
Ben