This weeks classic rock album began the show in fine style: The Yardbirds -- Roger the Engineer. We played the US reissue on Epic from 1983, as it neatly compiles all of the different tracks from the US and UK releases from the Summer of 1966. '66? Yes, these boys were way ahead of their time. The Reissue also throws in the single 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' and it's B-Side 'Psycho Daisies', which are notable for being one of the earliest (some would say the first) psychedelic singles, and featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in twin guitar mode! Phew!
Here's some rare footage of the group with Page and Beck (hilariously, Page is playing bass here) from a show in France in 1966 before Beck jumped ship, leading eventually to the spawning of the beast we call Led Zeppelin.
Artist - Album - Song
- Smile - Ghost of a Smile -- Doin' Alright
- Grodeck Whipperjenny - Grodeck Whipperjenny -- Inside or Outside / Evidence for the Existence of the Unconcious
- McKendree Spring - McKendree Spring -- If the Sun Should Rise
- Backstreet Crawler - Koss -- The Band Plays On / It's a Long Way to the Top
- Earth and Fire - Song of the Marching Children -- Storm and Thunder
- Spirit - Spirit -- Mechanical World
- The Third Power - Believe -- Persecution
- Julian's Treatment - A Time Before This -- Phantom City
- Jethro Tull - Benefit -- To Cry You a Song
- Nektar - Down to Earth -- Oh Willy
- Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley -- My Way of Giving
- Affinity - Affinity -- I am and So are You
- Randy California - Kapt. Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds -- Things Yet to Come
- Electric Light Orchestra - On the Third Day -- Ma Ma Ma Belle / Dreaming of 4000
- The J. Geils Band - The Morning After -- I Don't Need You No More
- Byrds - Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde -- This Wheels on Fire
- Yes - Yessongs -- Mood for a Day
- King Crimson - Red -- One More Red Nightmare
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- Tank
- Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- S.L.Y.
- The Power of Zeus - The Gospel According to Zeus -- The Death Trip
- Electric Prunes - B Side to Dr. Do Good -- Hideaway
- Peter Banks - Two Sides Of -- Battles / Knights / Last Eclipse
- Al Stewart - Past, Present, and Future -- Nostradamus
- Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By -- Flight / As Your Mind Flies By / Vacuum / New York / Central Park
- Ice Cross - Ice Cross -- Jesus Freaks
- Focus - Live at the Rainbow -- Hocus Pocus
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