The Yardbirds

The band's first album of originals and their first with Jeff Beck is a mixture of untouchable, blistering British Invasion-styled blues and a few lysergic-inspired Eastern explorations. The best combination of these elements can be heard on "Over, Under, Sideways, Down." Beck is amazing on this album, and basically invents heavy metal on tracks like "Psycho Daisies."

Jeff Beck was the Yardbirds' lead guitarist for less than two years, but that was enough
time for him to come up with a career's worth of mean, ungodly guitar screams. With Beck
on board, the Yardbirds were an eruption of Swinging London noise, ripping all the
country out of the blues for pure urban flash, sinister and slinky at the same time. The
Yardbirds' previous guitarist, Eric Clapton, had been their blues conscience, qui... More >