Yardbirds – Making Tracks (DVD)

This superb double DVD set, released in time to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary in 2013, chronicles the ultimate Yardbirds touring experience. Produced and directed by Bruce Macomber and taken from multiple U.S. concerts from 2010 to 2012, these tours were filmed in spectacular HD quality using six cameras.

Disc One, Making Tracks, features 15 songs, including previously unreleased new material. Some of the footage was captured at BB King’s in NYC which Guitar World called the ‘best concert of the year’. 

Disc Two, Glimpses, features an in-depth Yardbirds tour documentary, the result of camera crews being given unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes activity. It also includes additional Yardbirds songs, interviews with band members, a Boston-area music-shop tour with Yardbirds guitarist Ben King and two songs by The Jim McCarty Band.

After breaking up in the late ’60s — and almost immediately morphing into Led Zeppelin — The Yardbirds, who spawned the careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, re-united in 1995, just a few years after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The band features original members Jim McCarty (drums) and Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar). Lead guitarist Ben King joined in 2005; singer Andy Mitchell and bassist Dave Smale joined in 2009.

Tracks:

• I’m Not Talking
• Drinking Muddy Water
• Heartful of Soul
• My Blind Life
• Train Kept Rollin’
• Shapes of Things
• Mystery of Being
• The Nazz Are Blue
• Think About It
• Over Under
• Sideways Down
• Crying Out For Love
• For Your Love
• Happenings Ten Years Ago
• Dazed and Confused
• I’m A Man