My Clubbing Days

Thanks, Old Friend,(name changed as I did not warn him that our correspondence would be posted on the WWW.)

interesting as always.

I do believe we also saw Sonny Boy Williamson with the Yardbirds at the Marquee because I remember being very close to him, and the old Marquee on Wardour Street had a very low stage where you could stand right up beside the performers. My recall is that Eric was still with them. He hadn't left for Mayall's band, and the Yardbirds had 3 lead guitarists for a time. Jeff Beck was also with them then. When Eric left, Beck became the No.1 guitarist. Is that what you remember too?

No doubt, if I fret, I can find a page with all the info on Wikipedia.

 

Wiki & Google blow me away some days. I have found incredibly detailed data on EVERY Dylan set list for 50+ years.

It boggles the mind on how much useless pieces of info are traceable.

Imagine knowing every song Miles Davis ever performed live around the world.. Oh, shit, I bet that's there...

 (More on the Yardbirds :  Of course Jimmy Page was with them for awhile too, and poor ole Chris Dreja, consigned to the footnote of musical history & Trivia night questions. I cannot remember their guitarists that joined in the revival of old bands movement in this century. Jimmy Page's business astuteness is how he ended up with the old Yardbirds' touring commitments that led to him morphing that line-up into Led Zeppelin.)

 

Those  were wonderful times when the music rose up through your feet into your heart and brain. No crowd of a quarter million bodies between you and the entertainers.

 

Michael