For Your Love: The Yardbirds
On the way home from breakfast, I heard an NPR interview with Jeff Beck about his new album, Emotion and Commotion; hence, Jeff Beck's roots came to mind.
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June 13, 2010 at 12:34 pm
yousendit link:
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June 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm
It seems people do lots of things for “love”…and they try lots of things to convince others of their love for them. Just an observation.
June 13, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Rick,
Love means so many things.
June 14, 2010 at 9:25 am
I’m not sure that Jeff Beck was in the Yardbirds when “For Your Love” was recprded.
June 14, 2010 at 9:30 am
David,
I looked it up before I played it and he wasn’t, but I am partial to this song and figured I’d post it anyway.
June 15, 2010 at 2:33 am
lots to say on this:
This was written by Graham Gouldman, who was the bass player for the group 10cc. He also wrote “Heartful Of Soul” for the Yardbirds. Gouldman was inspired by the Animals “The House Of The Rising Sun.” Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith made wholesale changes to Gouldman’s original demo, including the use of a harpsichord. Gouldman observed to Uncut magazine August 2009: “The harpsichord was an absolute stroke of genius. The record just had a weird, mysterious atmosphere about it.”
Session musicians played the harpsichord, bongos, and double bass. Besides Clapton’s guitar solo, the other Yardbirds played on very little of this.
This song prompted Eric Clapton to leave The Yardbirds, since he felt their music was becoming too commercial. He was replaced by Jeff Beck, who was later replaced by Jimmy Page. Clapton joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and would later be a member of Cream and Derek and the Dominos. One of the contributing factors to Eric Clapton’s departure was, while performing the song live, his having to recreate the song’s harpsichord on a 12-string guitar
This almost didn’t get recorded by The Yardbirds. Gouldman wrote it for his own group at the time, the Mockingbirds, but their demo was turned down by Columbia. Also it is believed that producer Mickie Most turned it down on behalf of Herman’s Hermits and that the Animals also turned it down.
The harpsichord on this song was played by session musician Brian Auger who later became a solo artist of note. His biggest hit was the Bob Dylan song “This Wheel’s On Fire,” which was credited to Julie Driscoll With Brian Auger And The Trinity. It later became the theme tune for the BBC comedy show Absolutely Fabulous
June 15, 2010 at 10:26 am
sblake,
Again, I thank you!! It amazes me how musicians and singers migrate from one group to another. I’d like a family tree sort of web page which lets me follow a singer from one group to another. My posts a while back of Cass Elliott were a mini family tree, and I found that a lot of fun.
You reminded me of one of my favorite BBC series, Ab Fab. I loved it.
June 15, 2010 at 6:42 pm