RARE NEAR MINT YARDBIRDS LIVE JIMMY PAGE VINYL LP LED ZEPPELIN
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EXTREMELY RARE YARDBIRDS "LIVE FEATURING JIMMY PAGE" OF LED ZEPPELIN VINYL LP! THE VINYL IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL AND APPEARS TO NEVER HAVE BEEN PLAYED! THE OUTER SLEEVE IS IN FANTASTIC CONDITION WITH VIBRANT COLORS AND VERY MINOR VISUAL STORAGE WEAR! PLEASE VIEW THE MULTIPLE PHOTOS THAT I HAVE PROVIDED FOR CONDITION REFERENCE. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BIDS!
Although a live album, 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. This was a result of the general inexperience of the engineers in recording live rock music. For example, only a single microphone was deployed for the drums, hung above the kit. This resulted in the loss of much of the lower-range percussion in the recording.[6]
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.[4] Page took legal action against the label for releasing Live Yardbirds without authorization and Epic quickly withdrew it.[4] Epic parent 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subsequently reissued the album in 1976, but this was again legally challenged by Page, and the album again quickly withdrawn.[2]
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.[2] 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.
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