DESCRIPTION:
Yardbirds Blues Rock Trio Selection

First Selection: Smokestack Lighting- Eric Clapton, lead guitar.
Second Selection: Train Kept A-Rollin'- Jeff Beck, lead guitar.
Third Selection: I'm A Man- Jimmy Page, lead guitar.
Keith Relf- lead vocal and accomplished harmonicas.

Original members (1963-68)
Keith Relf Chris Dreja Paul Samwell-Smith Top Topham Jim McCarty
Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Jimmy Page.

The Yardbirds
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The Yardbirds are an English rock band that had a string of hits in the mid 1960s, including "For Your Love", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Heart Full of Soul". The group is notable for having started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, all of whom were in the top five of Rolling Stone's 100 Top Guitarists list (Clapton as #2, Page as #3, and Beck at #5). A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, The Yardbirds were pioneers in guitar innovations of the 1960s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, backwards echo, improved amplification, etc. Pat Pemberton, writing for Spinner, holds that the Yardbirds were "the most impressive guitar band in rock music". After the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, their current lead guitarist Jimmy Page founded what became Led Zeppelin.

The bulk of the band's most successful self-written songs came from bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith who, with singer/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, constituted the core of the group. The band reformed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty, Dreja and new members. The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. They were included in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

Groups Formed From Former
Members of The Yardbirds:
Cream Blind Faith The Jeff Beck Group Led Zeppelin
Renaissance Box of Frogs Immediate All-Stars