The Yardbirds - Spanish Blood

"I dared go no further, I dared not meet with the Spanish blood."

This is one of my favourites from the Cumular Limit album. It's an acoustic track that was recorded at the end of The Yardbirds era for an album that was never released.

Date: 1968-04-04
Location: Columbia Studios, New York

The band:
Jim McCarty - drums, vocals
Jimmy Page - acoustic guitar
Chris Dreja - bass guitar(?)

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• 1968

[SKINmodHEAD]

2 or 3 takes & keeps the best one?

Where do you come up with this shit?

Maybe he did that in Zeppelin...but this isn't about Zeppelin...

There were as many as 15 takes on the guitar for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor off the Yardbirds' final album.

...

AND...to put an end to your little bullshit non-believing, Page owns the rights to ALL the tracks on Cumular Limit, & that is why this album was pulled, is impossible to find, and when found costs over 100 bucks.

And, this song was on it.

[SKINmodHEAD]

I've never heard of, or heard, "clean" blues.

Or "clean" rock & roll...unless you wanna count George Harrison.

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn...those guys are "sloppy" as hell. That's why it's rock & roll.

I don't see how "clean" playing would make any Yardbirds, Zeppelin, Cream, or Hendrix song any better.

[1blastman]

this is the first I've heard of this album and I love it. The band was going in an exciting direction.

[stage462]

this peice in very appropriate in Apocolypse Now, Kurtzian ambience

[muthuuht]

I LOVE this. I wish Jimmy would release an album with this on it without the voice-over. And of course it was Jimmy on guitar. He was into Spanish guitar even in the '50's, I think. When he was sober, he was unparalleled.

[avalonrick]

@polymath7 yes this is Jimmy Page on spanish guitar Jim McCarty on vocals. Jim never did remember the final verse (LOL)

[avalonrick]

@polymath7 Yes this is Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar, Jim McCarty on vocals percussion. Jim forgot the last verse of this track. In Late May of 1968 after these sessions were cut Keith Relf advised Peter that he and Jim quit the band. I spoke to Jim about that. It was the wrong decision but the only one they could make at the time. Number of things played into this including unfavorable recording contract, being burned out from the Road and the after effects of drugs.

[polymath7]

@avalonrick Is this Jimmy page on guitar? 0:43 Seems vaguely redolent of "Ramble On".

[FLHTP07]

@avalonrick Thanks Rick

[avalonrick]

the album was pulled as the label pulled a fast one on everybody the songs have never been copywritten again sort of stick in the mud , the label did the same thing to Donovan too on reissue of one his later day albums. Shame that the band never pursued these tracks and broke up soon after. They were on to something special I think

[carancal]

what did this mean? why not meet with spanish blood?