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Tele Master
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05/27/2003 10:24 pm
I got a hold of a few "Yardbirds" songs today (Heart Full Of Soul,For Your Love,Over Under Sideway) and thought they were really good. I was expecting them to be really "beatleish", but they weren't.I have a few questions:

Who is the lead singer?
What guitarist was playing at what time?
Do you think they would have been one of the "really memorable" rock bands of the time, if they had stayed together longer?

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Dejan Sajinovic
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Dejan Sajinovic
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05/27/2003 10:51 pm
I think Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton played guitars, not sure if they did it during same era and Jimmy Page was there as well but playn bas?!
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Dr_simon
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Dr_simon
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05/28/2003 12:30 am
There is a large feature on them in the July Ed of Guitar World (Page is on the cover !)
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05/28/2003 8:50 pm
Actually today I found an article on them. OK. Clapton left before they really did anything big. The guys recruited Jimmy Page for lead guitar, Page recommended Jeff Beck instead. So now Page played Bass and Beck played Lead. Also, near the end of the Yardbirds, John Paul Jones(Zeppelin Bass player) played drums.
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