NEW * I’m A Man - The Yardbirds {Stereo} 1965

1965.....#17 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. English rock band the Yardbirds recorded a live version of “I’m a Man“ for their first UK album Five Live Yardbirds with Eric Clapton in 1964, that was later included on their second American album Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds. In 1965 during their first American tour, the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck on guitar, recorded a studio version of “I’m a Man“, that is also included on Having a Rave Up. Their versions feature their signature “rave-up“ arrangement, when the beat shifts into double time and the instrumentation builds to a crescendo. Beck added a “scratch-picking“ technique to produce a percussive effect during the song’s instrumental section, which critic Cub Koda notes “provides the climax on the studio version of ’I’m a Man’, perhaps the most famous Yardbirds rave-up of all“. Recording took place at the Chess Studios i
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