great time !
by mick on 3/25/19Tralf - BuffaloRating: 5 out of 5the tralf is the only place to see a band in a intimate setting . perfect sound , great food, good people the band was beyond anything I thought . a walk back to the sixties
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Concerts in United States
- 4/5/25Saturday 08:00 PMBethel, NYBethel Woods Center for the ArtsThe Yardbirds
- 4/15/25Tuesday 08:00 PMAnnapolis, MDRams Head On StageThe Yardbirds
Venue
Rams Head On Stage
- 4/17/25Thursday 07:30 PMCincinnati, OHLudlow Garage CincinnatiThe Yardbirds
About
Co-founder of the Yardbirds, Jim McCarty, continues to lead this ground-breaking British Invasion Rock band that provides the crucial link between the blues, British R&B, psychedelic rock, and heavy metal, while pioneering the use of innovations like fuzztone, feedback and distortion. This drummer, singer, songwriter, and producer is said to be one of the driving forces responsible for the band's haunting sound.
Since the birth of the band from 1963 to 1968, to its 1992 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Yardbirds have been revered for the legendary guitarists who have contributed to the band's history including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page all ranked in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (#35, #5, and #3 respectively).
Originally a blues-based band noted for their signature "rave-up" instrumental jams covering blues classics like Howlin Wolf's "Smokestack Lighting" and Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man," the Yardbirds later broadened their range into pop, pioneered psychadelic rock, early hard rock / heavy metal, and contributed to many electric guitar innovations marking those musical genres. The band had a string of hits in the mid 60s including "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Shapes of Things", and "Over Under Sideways Down".
Celebrating his 30th year as a Yardbird, lead singer John Idan has lent his distinct vocals to the sound of the band since their reformation, showcased on the classic 2003 Birdland album with guest appearances from Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Slash, and Brian May. Rounding out the current line-up of top musicians is lead guitarist Godfrey Townsend (John Entwistle, Alan Parsons, Todd Rundgren, Ann Wilson of Heart, Christopher Cross, Dave Mason and Musical Director of the Turtles' Happy Together Tour) bassist Kenny Aaronson (Bob Dylan, Billy Idol, Rick Derringer, Brian Setzer, Dave Edmonds and Joan Jett), percussionist, harmonica and background vocals Myke Scavone (the Doughboys, Ram Jam), The current band has recently completed work on an upcoming live album, Mind the Gap, soon to be released.
"The band's hallmark of top-notch musicianship remains. There are no passengers in this band." - Goldmine Magazine
Setlists
- 1Heart Full of Soul (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 2I'm Not Talking (Mose Allison cover)
- 3Drinking Muddy Water
- 4The Nazz Are Blue
- 5You're a Better Man Than I
- 6I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed cover)
- 7Little Games
- 8Shapes of Things
- 9New York City Blues
- 10Back Where I Started (Box of Frogs cover)
- 11Evil Hearted You
- 12Lost Woman
- 13Over Under Sideways Down
- 14Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf cover)
- 15For Your Love (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 16Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- 17Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes cover)
Encore
- 18The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
- 19I'm a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
- 1Heart Full of Soul (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 2I'm Not Talking (Mose Allison cover)
- 3Drinking Muddy Water
- 4The Nazz Are Blue
- 5You're a Better Man Than I
- 6I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed cover)
- 7Little Games
- 8Shapes of Things
- 9New York City Blues
- 10Back Where I Started (Box of Frogs cover)
- 11Evil Hearted You
- 12Lost Woman
- 13Over Under Sideways Down
- 14Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf cover)
- 15For Your Love (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 16Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- 17Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes cover)
Encore
- 18The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
- 19I'm a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
- 1Heart Full of Soul (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 2I'm Not Talking (Mose Allison cover)
- 3Drinking Muddy Water
- 4The Nazz Are Blue
- 5You're a Better Man Than I
- 6I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed cover)
- 7Little Games
- 8Shapes of Things
- 9New York City Blues
- 10Back Where I Started (Box of Frogs cover)
- 11Evil Hearted You
- 12Lost Woman
- 13Over Under Sideways Down
- 14Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf cover)
- 15For Your Love (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 16Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- 17Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes cover)
- 18The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
- 19I'm a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
- 1The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
- 2I'm Not Talking (Mose Allison cover)
- 3You're a Better Man Than I
- 4Drinking Muddy Water
- 5The Nazz Are Blue
- 6I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed cover)
- 7Little Games
- 8Shapes in My Mind (Keith Relf cover)
- 9New York City Blues
- 10Back Where I Started (Box of Frogs cover)
- 11Heart Full of Soul (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 12Lost Woman
- 13Over Under Sideways Down
- 14Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf cover)
- 15For Your Love (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 16Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- 17Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes cover)
- 18Evil Hearted You
Encore
- 19I'm a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
- 1The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
- 2You're a Better Man Than I
- 3Drinking Muddy Water
- 4The Nazz Are Blue
- 5Little Games
- 6New York City Blues
- 7Back Where I Started (Box of Frogs cover)
- 8Heart Full of Soul (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 9Lost Woman
- 10Over Under Sideways Down
- 11Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf cover)
- 12For Your Love (Graham Gouldman cover)
- 13Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
- 14Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes cover)
- 15I'm a Man (Bo Diddley cover)
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The yardbirds
by wild Bill on 3/25/19Tralf - BuffaloRating: 3 out of 5They were all good musicians but as a band they were just ok. Way too loud but that's on your sound people.
Phenomenal Show with 4 Incredible Bands
by knickchic on 5/12/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 5 out of 5What a night!!! Imagine seeing Blues Magoos, Canned Heat, Mark Stein Project in addition to Hall of Famers the Yardbirds all in one place for $20,00 in the 15th row!!! Amazing but true!!! After mor than 50 years they can still rock!
Yardbirds & friends show Westbury 5/6/18
by hippychick4ever on 5/11/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 5 out of 5Much more than I expected from each act. Blues Magoos were just ok. Canned Heat brought me back to Woodstock. I thought they sounded fantastic! Mark Stein brilliant on the Hammond & in my opinion the best! So talented....Saw him with The Fudge hundreds of times back in the day. Good group of musicians now. The Yardbirds were absolutely awesome!!!! Every song was so great and some played were a great surprise. Everyone around me was dancing & singing and just in awe of how great they all played as a group. Bass player & lead guitar were amazing. Loved the show and left feeling great and my youth relived!! On my top 10 list for sure.
it was ok
by bpfrombk on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 3 out of 5nothing special, a nice night watching bar bands with some guy who once played with famous people
Better than Expected
by Pepap on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 5 out of 5If the Yardbirds come to a city near you I highly recommend checking them out . They played all the classic Yardbird songs and a few new ones too. They were loud and tight .They were true to form in the guitar style of Jeff Beck and Page and may i say even better . Johnny A , John Idan on the guitar, and Kenny Aranson on bass as well as Myke Scavone harmonica and of course Jim Mcarty on the drums were all amazing . Shape of things , Im a man , Better man than I ,Heart full of soul , For your Love , Train kept a rolling and other songs got the crowd going . A+ show
What a great show! The Yardbirds
by ItalianMaverick on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 5 out of 5All the groups gave 110%. So much great music professionally performed. So glad we were there!
Yardbirds at Westbury Music Fair
by Slowhand54 on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 1 out of 5What a RIP-OFF!!! \The only member of the original Yardbirds was the drummer. The guitar player is from NJ and the bass player from Brooklyn. Canned heat only had two member and hate to even comment of the Blues Magoos. I've heard better garage bands. I think its un-fair to bill a show are the Yardbirds. The music of the Yardbirds maybe but NOT the Yardbirds! I will be more careful next time I buy tix for one of these older bands
No Idea from the Description About Other Artists
by Rittad on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 4 out of 5Didn’t realize from the description that so many other artists I was not interested in were going to preform and I didn’t enjoy them. Then I needed to leave before they came on.
Disappointing
by Port11050 on 5/9/18NYCB Theatre at Westbury - WestburyRating: 2 out of 5The Blue Magoos were horrible. Canned Heat was great. Mark Stein from Vanilla Fudge was way too loud and seemed too full of himself. The Yardbirds were okay but not up to expectations. Also, took too long to rearrange the stage before each group came out. Overall, a disappointing evening from someone who loves going to see groups from the 60's and 70's.