![]() ![]() ![]() When Andrew Loog Oldham showed up one day and swiped the Stones from under his nose, Gomelsky vowed never to let that happen again.Įarly on, The Yardbirds honed their blues chops while backing local heroes like Cyril Davies and American legends like Sonny Boy Williamson. Gomelsky ran the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, where the Rolling Stones first cut their teeth. Their career was initially shepherded by a Swiss emigre, born in the Soviet Union named Giorgio Gomelsky. The Yardbirds were born in the smokey jazz clubs that dotted the London Metropolitan area in 1963. They were simply the most talented, envelope-pushing band to emerge from the swinging London scene of the 1960s. ![]() And they couldn’t physically dominate the stage with the same kind of explosive energy as The Who. They never were able to adopt the same effortless, sneering cool of Mick and Keith and the Rolling Stones. The Yardbirds never came anywhere close to matching the mind-boggling chart dominance of The Beatles. And before Led Zeppelin I, II, III or IV were ever a glint in Jimmy Page’s eye, there was a band called The Yardbirds and they ruled. Long before Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, and Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs convinced people that Eric Clapton was some kind of “God.” Before the pub-inspired proto-metal of Beck-Ola, and the avant jazz of Blow By Blow signaled the true genius of Jeff Beck. ![]()
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