Talk:Yardbirds '68

August 10, 2018 edits

Greg Russo in Yardbirds: The Ultimate Rave-Up writes there was only one show with a sound check: one newspaper ad for the concert indicated two upcoming shows with the Chambers Brothers, but this was changed to a single show with two different support groups .[Russo 2016, p. 99] He comments on the unauthorized Mooreland release:

The Mooreland Street Records release was different from the original LP in that the two instrumental sound checks that were done that night – "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" and "Dazed and Confused" – were included. Keith Relf's crowd greeting at the beginning of the show was presented unedited. Also on board were the inclusion of the 26-second segment edited from the show's performance of "Dazed and Confused" along with McCarty's drum countoffs on "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Shapes of Things".[Russo 2016, p. 105]

Identifying the timing of the edits appears to be original research and places too much emphasis on this aspect. It would be better handled by a couple of sentences that simply say some of Relf's stage banter and possibly some of the music was edited out (with a reliable source). So far all I've seen is this review in Classic Rock: "In this incarnation it’s sadly stripped of the original’s between-song banter, though it’s audibly crisper."[1]
—Ojorojo (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2018 (UTC)