Product: The Story of the Yardbirds (2008)
Rating: 5.0
Killer rare clips and Interviews
Much of this DVD is documentary interviews that were fairly interesting. I found Jeff Beck's interviews to be the most interesting because they were extremely frank and uncensored.Many of the performances on this DVD are frustratingly incomplete. SOME of the Video Quality is really poor. The clips from US television are all lip sync, unexciting and disappointing. The more complete genuinely live perfomances from NME Poll Winner concert and the Richmond (UK) Blues Festival with Jeff Beck are very rewarding. The sound quality is not great as can only be expected due to their age and crude recording techniques.The late Keith Relf comes off better than I expected. His showmanship was well highlighted in the DVD.The Bonus Track from German TV 1967 (Beat,Beat,Beat) with Jimmy Page is a real MONSTER. The audio recording is clean and undistorted. The Black and White Video is clean also. The engineers on this recording did an excellent job for the times. The camera work is good. You can really see Jimmy Page working hard. All the songs on the Bonus Track are among the very best of The Yardbirds repertoire. There is an extended version of I'm a Man as it was performed live when I saw The Yardbirds in 1968. Keith Relf puts on a good show here as well. You won't be disappointed by the Bonus Track, which is worth the price of the DVD itself.