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

The guitarists may have a great mutual respect for one another, but their respective comments shine a light on their ...

It was only a short recording span, with Jeff and I. “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago” [the only Yardbirds single to feature Beck and Page on guitars, released in late 1966] was really cool.

At least on the surface. “Right when I joined the Yardbirds, they had a massive hit with For Your Love, which Eric detested and was the reason he left the band,” Beck recounted.

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 ...

After the Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, people kept asking us about re-forming,” McCarty said. “Then an agent called and asked us if we fancied going ...

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.

The Yardbirds hold a special place in the history of rock and roll. Over the course of some fitful years in the mid- to late 1960s, the band featured the talents (separately) of Eric Clapton, Jeff ...

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.

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 Joe Blow Triplets, that’s one thing ...

The Yardbirds fizzled, but the music never went away. McCarty is performing as a solo artist in Lakewood, and he still tours with a latter-day lineup of the Yardbirds.

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.