Live Yardbirds feat. Jimmy Page, Epic PROMO (1971)

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119

Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner, never played and came directly from the pressing plant/record company warehouse unless otherwise noted. 

Album is shipped in a 2 MIL poly sleeve.

Mint Condition means this album has never been played.

• This album was released in 1971 and withdrawn from the market before the end of the year (see below).
• The Cover and Label say Stereo but based on the Epic prefix and the year of these live recordings I wouldn't be surprised if this is monaural.
• Well-known rock critic Lenny Kaye writes a great account of this concert in the back cover liner notes.
• This First Pressing Promo has a Radio Station Service timing and promo sticker on the front cover.
• The paper on board cover shows only slight storage wear at the top front.
• Inner sleeve is solid plain white paper that is brittle and yellowed. I have replaced it with a soft plastic inner sleeve. Original sleeve is included.
• Seller got this promo new from the CBS salesman in his store in 1971. He knew this would be a collector's item and stashed it immediately. It sold really well in his store until Page forced CBS to withdraw it.

Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page is a live album released by English blues rock band The Yardbirds in 1971. It features songs recorded at a Yardbirds performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City on 30 March 1968. The album is notable for its inclusion of the song "I'm Confused," which would become a "classic rock" standard upon Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page re-recording it, with modified lyrics, as "Dazed and Confused" with his post-Yardbirds band Led Zeppelin later in 1968.

Although a live album, CBS/Epic Records overdubbed crowd noises from bullfights and other sound effects onto the original tracks against the band's wishes, in part because the live recordings were considered lacking in sound quality.[2] The Yardbirds rejected the album as a candidate for release upon its original completion in mid-1968, but Epic released it in 1971 in response to Led Zeppelin's success in the marketplace. Jimmy Page, who had taken ownership of the Yardbirds name following the band's 1968 dissolution, threatened legal action against the label for releasing Live Yardbirds without authorization and Epic quickly withdrew it. CBS' Columbia Special Products (CSP) label subsequently reissued the album in 1976, but this was again legally challenged by Page, and the album again quickly withdrawn. Authentic Epic and CSP copies of Live Yardbirds are thus quite rare, and the album has often been counterfeited (sometimes in black-and-white covers claimed to be promotional copies) as a result.

The album's cover art was designed by James Grashow, a woodcut artist who had earlier created the artwork for Jethro Tull's 1969 album Stand Up

• Keith Relf- harmonica, lead vocals
• Jimmy Page- guitar
• Chris Dreja- bass
• Jim McCarty- drums, backing vocals