Yardbirds-Roger the Engineer

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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 Artwork Included

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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Beggars Opera - Act One

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This band was from Scotland, their name is derived from a novel by the poet John Gray in 1728. The musicians of BEGGARS OPERA were Martin Griffiths (vocals), Rick Gardiner (guitar and vocals), Alan Park (keyboards), Gordon Sellar (bass, acoustic guitar and vocals), Virginia Scott (Mellotron and vocals) and Raymond Wilson (drums and percussion). BEGGARS OPERA made a lot of records but remained acting in the shade of most progressive rock bands.

Their debut-album "Act one" (’70) contains fluent and tasteful organ driven progrock with powerful "Sixties" sounding guitarwork. The long track "Raymond’s Road" is a splendid tribute to the "classics" featuring Mozart’s A la Turka, Bach’s Toaccata in d-fuga en Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite on the Hammond organ. The second album "Waters of Change" (’71) is build around the dual keyboardplay of Alan Park and newcomer Virginia Scott and the distinctive, a bit cynical vocals of Gardiner. The nine tracks are beautiful symphonic landscapes with many organ solos, some swelling and glorious Mellotron waves (like The MOODY BLUES and early KING CRIMSON) and fine electric guitarwork. On the third LP "Pathfinder" BEGGARS OPERA seems to have reached its pinnacle: strong and alternating compositions with lush keyboards (Mellotron, organ, piano and harpsichord), powerful electric guitarplay and many shifting moods (even Scottish folk with bagpipes). The band released three more albums but, in my opinion, they sounded far less captivating: "Get your dog off me" (’73), "Saggittary" (’76) and "Beggar's can’t be choosers" (’79).


Beggar's Opera-Act One @320

1. Poet and Peasant
2. Passacaglia
3. Memory
4. Raymond's Road

5. Light Cavalry
6. Sarabande
7. Think


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Vivaldi Antonio

1)The Four Seasons "Le quattro stagioni" 1-12
"La primavera" 1-3
"L'estate" 4-6
"L'autunno" 7-9
"L'inverno" 10-12

2)Concerto E Major "L'amoroso". RV 271
13-15

3)Sinfonia B minor "Al Santo Sepolcro" RV 169
16-17

4)Concerto G Major "Alla rustica" RV 151
18-20


Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

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Sir Lord Baltimore-Kingdom Come / Sir Lord Baltimore

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Sir Lord Baltimore are a pioneering American heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 1968 by lead vocalist/drummer John Garner, guitarist Louis Dambra, and bass player Gary Justin.
Having first met in high school, Garner, Dambra, and bassist Gary Justin started rehearsing together in 1968.At the time of their formation, Dambra (as Louis Caine) was also playing for a group called The Koala, who released an eponymous LP in 1969. Additionally, Justin has cited Cream's Jack Bruce as an influence on his early career choice.
After a relatively short time, the new band auditioned for Mike Appel, who was then working as a talent scout and would later launch and manage the career of Bruce Springsteen. Appel agreed to mentor them, reportedly gave them the name Sir Lord Baltimore, and would later co-write and co-produce their debut album.
That album, Kingdom Come, was recorded at Vantone Studios in West Orange, New Jersey, with Jim Cretecos serving as Appel's co-producer. Additional mixing was done at New York, New York's Jimi Hendrix Electric Lady Studios by legendary engineer Eddie Kramer, better known for his work with Jimi Hendrix, KISS, and many others. According to Appel, British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd had the opportunity to hear Sir Lord Baltimore during these sessions, and were reportedly impressed.
Sir Lord Baltimore (1971)Released on Mercury Records in 1970, Kingdom Come featured very fast-paced rock 'n' roll with high levels of distortion in the guitar and, in some cases, the bass, and extensive multi-tracking to further enhance the guitar sound.Though this style of rock 'n' roll would become popular in later years, it was considerably different from the majority of that era's contemporary rock music.
On February 19-20, 1971, Sir Lord Baltimore played consecutive nights at New York's Fillmore East as the opening act on a bill that included The J. Geils Band and Black Sabbath, as part of the latter's Paranoid tour. (Sir Lord Baltimore played additional dates on this tour, as well.A photo of the band used in the Fillmore East's programs was later used as the cover of their 2006 reunion album, Sir Lord Baltimore III Raw.
In May 1971, Mike Saunders (of later Angry Samoans fame) wrote a favorable review of Kingdom Come for Creem magazine. Of historical note was Saunders' assertion that "...Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book." To date, this appears to have been the first printed use of the term "heavy metal" to reference a musical genre.
Issued the same year, and again on Mercury, Sir Lord Baltimore marked a change in direction, with Kingdom Come's frenetic pace giving way to slower-tempoed songs more reminiscent of music produced by the band's hard rock peers. Sir Lord Baltimore expanded to a four-piece for this album, with Louis Dambra's brother, Joey Dambra, joining as a second guitarist.Furthermore, Sir Lord Baltimore contains the band's only officially released live recording, "Where Are We Going.
Their career started to fade after Sir Lord Baltimore's release, and Mercury dropped them shortly thereafter. The band publicly blamed drugs on its initial downfall, with low record sales and non-payment of royalties also being cited.However, the band did start work in the mid-1970s for an unreleased third album originally scheduled for 1976, and music written for that project was eventually used on Sir Lord Baltimore III Raw.

About the album:

Kingdom Come/Sir Lord Baltimore is the first compilation album by American heavy metal band Sir Lord Baltimore, released on Polygram in 1994 and on Red Fox in 2003. It contains Sir Lord Baltimore's first two studio albums, 1970's Kingdom Come and 1971's Sir Lord Baltimore. However, it uses a different track listing than the source material, transposing the original records' A- and B-sides.
This compilation featured the same cover image used on Kingdom Come, only with that album's title removed.

Sir Lord Baltimore-Two Albums. Kingdom Come / Sir Lord Baltimore
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1 Kingdom Come
2 I Got A Woman
3 Hell Hound
4 Helium Head
5 Ain't Got Hung On You
6 Master Heartache
7 Hard Rain Fallin'
8 Lady Of Fire
9 Lake Isle Of Innersfree
10 Pumped Up
11 Chicago Lives
12 Loe And Behold
13 Woman Tamer
14 Caesar LXXI
15 Man From Manhattan
16 Where Are We Going

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Yardbirds / Zeppelin videos

Yardbirds performing Stroll on in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow-up"




Shapes Of Things




Dazed And Confused



Early Zeppelin performance of Dazed And Confused



Zeppelin performing dazed and confused in France 1969



And The Original performer :) Jake Holmes

Yardbirds-The Very Best.Live And In The Studio

This 1992 compilation includes 20 tracks(15 Studio And 5 Live)and features all three
famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

Yardbirds-The Very Best.Live And In The Studio @320

Studio
01.For Your Love
02.Evil Hearted You
03.Still I'm Sad
04.Heart Full Of Soul
05.You're A Better Man Than I
06.I'm A Man
07.Train Kept A Rollin'
08.Shapes Of Things
09.Stroll On
10.Jeff's Blues
11.Steeled Blues
12.Boom Boom
13.Got To Hurry
14.A Certain Girl
15.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Live
16.Let It Rock
17.Too Much Monkey Business
18.Smokestack Lightning
19.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
20.I'm A Man

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Yardbirds-Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

Live Yardbirds performance for the German TV March 1967 ft Jimmy Page