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y buddies and I were devotees of The Yardbirds from the early Clapton days and through the Beck and Beck/Page periods. We much preferred them to other blues bands for their earthier approach, but mainly for the virtuosity of their guitarists. When they returned home after a tour in the States, there was an announcement they would be playing the Newcastle Mayfair. As far as our collective memories go, the papers advertised it as ‘The Yardbirds’, but outside the venue the posters stated ‘The New Yardbirds’. The gig was a revelation, of course, featuring a few original Yardbirds numbers but concentrating more on the content of the forthcoming first Led Zeppelin album.
