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Track Listing
1. Lost Woman
2. Over, Under, Sideways, Down
3. Nazz Are Blue, The
4. I Can't Make Your Way
5. Rack My Mind
6. Farewell
7. Hot House of Omagarashid - (mono)
8. Jeff's Boogie
9. He's Always There
10. Turn Into Earth
11. What Do You Want
12. Ever Since the World Began
13. Psycho Daisies - (mono, bonus track)
14. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - (mono, bonus track)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Yardbirds: Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica); Jeff Beck (vocals, guitar, bass); Chris Dreja (guitar); Paul Samwell-Smith (bass); Jim McCarty (drums).
Additional personnel: Jimmy Page (guitar, bass); John Paul Jones (bass).
Producers: Paul Samwell-Smith, Simon Napier Bell.
Reissue producer: Gregg Geller.
Recorded at Advision Studios and IBC Studios, London, England in the spring and summer of 1966.
Original US LP release was titled "Over Under Sideways Down".
Includes original release liner notes by Jim McCarty.
By the time the Yardbirds recorded ROGER THE ENGINEER in 1966, the British Invasion was in full swing. Like their brethren, they targeted Chicago blues as ground zero for musical inspiration. As a result, most Yardbirds recordings and live sets were chock full of numbers by the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, and Elmore James. ROGER was a departure for the band, as all the material was self-penned.
With guitarist Jeff Beck leading the charge (having replaced departed blues purist Eric Clapton), the Yardbirds began exploring the possibilities of electric guitar and of rock in general. The Middle Eastern garage rock of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" bumps up against the rockabilly swing of "Jeff's Boogie." Alongside Beck's thrilling guitar histrionics, there's the genteel English pastoral feel of "Farewell" and a quirky instrumental bubbling over with jazz bass, a rubbery-sounding beat, and chanting--"Hot House Of Omagarashid."
Industry Reviews
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...unreels [guitarist, Jeff beck's] brilliant pyrodelic riffs....pushing the rhythm to the outer extremes...[into] one spooky sound...
Rolling Stone (11/11/1999)
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