If Jimmy Page hadn't joined The Yardbirds, there may well have been no Led Zeppelin. Thank heavens and all of the stairways ...

The Yardbirds first asked you to replace Clapton when he left. You recommended Beck instead. Was it because you were making better money doing sessions? It wasn’t that.

Before starting Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham, Jimmy Page was a member of a band called the Yardbirds. While in the band, Page despised the Yardbird’s manager ...

Jeff Beck took the Yardbirds in a new direction, but the constant Eric Clapton comparisons took years to shake. Jackson Maxwell. Tue, January 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM UTC. 5 min read.

The Yardbirds -- featuring original members Jim McCarty (drums) and Chris Dreja (bass) recently completed a new album, "Birdland," featuring an extraordinary cast of guest guitarists.

Yardbirds alums Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck weren’t onstage when the 21st-century version of the legendary blues-rock powerhouse band played at Tangier in Akron in 2010.

This Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's place is assured: He played on five Top 20 hits and was in a band with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. But Jim McCarty — drummer for '60s British ...

The Yardbirds continue their successful 2017 tour with an appearance at Jonathan's in Ogunquit on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Tickets can be purchased at tickets.jonathansogunquit.com.

The Yardbirds are touring with two original members, you say? Commerce and vanity 're funny!If the Stones were suddenly Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and the ...

That Yardbirds album, Little Games, didn’t exactly wow the critics. But it was far from a throwaway. On “Smile on Me,” Page unleashed a pair of heavy solos you might call proto-Zeppelin.

I’m talking about the Yardbirds, whose story and that of the early Zep overlapped for a period in 1968, as we can hear on the excellent new release, ...