Saturday, January 12, 2013

#697 The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer (UK)

A pretty straightforward, stompy, garagey album, with some guitar pyrotechnics, though less than you might expect given the band's ridiculous graduating class. Beck, Page AND Clapton? That's some 2003 NBA draft shit right there.

The actual record is full of rollicking, better-than-average R&B crunch. A total rock solid, classic Classic Rock record, with licks that will occasionally set your face on fire, but nothing, on the album scale, that will burn you to the ground where you stand. Keep the draft metaphor in mind: these guys were just getting started 3.5/5

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