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According to an industry insider, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck are going to tour as The Yardbirds this fall alongside founding bassist Chris Dreja and drummer Jim McCarty. The tour is said to kick off this October. It’s unclear who will be the reformed Yardbirds’ lead singer (original vocalist Keith Relf died of electrocution in 1976). Eric Clapton, the Yardbirds’ founding guitarist, has no plans to participate, according to the source.

Page and Beck’s tenure in the Yardbirds overlapped by only a few months in 1966, but they have remained close friends since. The British blues legends disbanded in July of 1968, although Dreja and McCarty have been touring steadily under the Yardbirds name since the 1990s, and are currently on the road through August. The band reunited for one night in 1992 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


I don't know if it's true but if so I think it would be pretty cool. Pagey has been sitting on his ass doing nothing for far too long. Page and Beck together on stage again - how awesome is that?

"It wasn't my fault ... liquors drunkened me!" Homer Simpson

there's an eye opener.

Have they ever played together (live or in the studio) since all those years ago?

Hello!

Page payed on "Beck's Bolero"! But

"Page and Beck’s tenure in the Yardbirds overlapped by only a few months in 1966, but they have remained close friends since"

"close friends"???Really???Mmh!!

Hans-Jo

What the heck!
ill go crazy!!!!!
i wanna be in a show!!

wipeacdc@hotmail.com
never too old or young to rocknroll!!!!!!

Page needs to get in the public eye again, and so do Beck, before they´re all forgotten.

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

I'll drink to that

Page will do just about anything in the name of music, that's what I love about him, he is also a very easy going guy.

could be good,could be bad, dutch guys bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! trouser press!!!! Yeah! ROCK!!!

This is very good news indeed. I saw Yardbirds/Pretty Things band years ago and these guys were terrific. It was a rockin' night and I got Dick Taylors autograph. A Yardbirds reunion with Beck and Page in the fold would be exciting for us old fans. Bring it on!

Maybe Posh can audition to be singer? She needs to drop some more weight though.

...This is just gonna be one giant bitch to pull off with a dead singer....

I will talk to Sammy Hagar about this. Maybe he's avail ?

wow... I'm actually excited. finding the right singer will be tough. the temptation will be to find some hard rock cheeseball (Rodgers, Hagar, Tyler, etc.), whereas part of the Yardbirds' sound is that their singer was not very good (RIP).

Holy Crap!This I would love to see!

How about Axl Rose, maybe they can pull a 30 city tour off in 12 years time

Was very lucky to see the Yardbirds (including Page & Beck) along with Ike & Tina Turner supporting the Stones on their 1966 tour at the Odeon Theatre Glasgow.

ChrisM Wrote:
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> Holy Crap!This I would love to see!

I was going to use the s-word, but yeah, I'll travel if I have to for this one!

schillid Wrote:
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> Have they ever played together (live or in the
> studio) since all those years ago?

Yes.....

Beck, Page and Clapton played encores together for a series of shows called ARMS in 1983. Shows were played in London @ the RAH I believe and then USA shows in NYC, Dallas, and San Francisco. They were benefit shows for the late Ronnie Lane who was suffering from MS.

You forgot Los Angeles, I was at that show!

Could this be what started the Zeppelin rumours?

^^^^ Sorry about that BluzDude ^^^^

You are very lucky. Sure wish I could have attended one of the shows. I do have an RAH show on DVD and a night in San Fran on DVD.

Hmmmm, well, perhaps not. Read on...

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The show I was at all three (Beck, Page and Clapton) were on stage with Joe Cocker doing "With a Little help From my Friends"...as I recall. Clapton dis Layla, Page did an instrumental Stairway and Beck did....whatever Beck did.

Any & all interested in Yarbirds who don't already know a must see video is classic "Stroll On" live in the movie "Blow Up". Same song as "Train kept a Rollin" by Aerosmith.

It's a classic, with Beck destroying his guitar. Is that where Townsend got it from?

Thanks for the tip, chippydodo!

cc Wrote:
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> wow... I'm actually excited. finding the right
> singer will be tough. the temptation will be to
> find some hard rock cheeseball (Rodgers, Hagar,
> Tyler, etc.), whereas part of the Yardbirds' sound
> is that their singer was not very good (RIP).

very astute comment imo, ty cc; relf was just good enough; he meant it and played for real. yes "not VERY good," but he held down the front, and just enough with that thin voice and his harp. he fit. he belonged there and did the job.
if this were to manifest, i very much agree that putting up some errant but available front man superstaaah type, regardless of any heavy resume, or even unique vocal power, would be totally beside the point, and hurt the purity of the effort.

it would be hard, if not near impossible, to find two more originally distinctive and truly, brilliantly diverse and imagninative, and totally capable guitarists in the history of the instrument post electrification...

including dearest jimi, may god rest his lovely soul, or anybody else imo.
and they can both still hack it and how.

Oh well- fun while it lasted...

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bigmac7895 Wrote:
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> Oh well- fun while it lasted...
>
> [www.billboard.com]
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oh darn it bigmac!!
i was just getting greased up to start fighting about potential setlists!