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 | | The personnel at this time was: Keith Relf, guitar and vocals; Jane Relf, vocals and percussion; Jim McCarty, drums; Louis Cennamo, bass; and John Hawken, piano and harpsichord. | | | Keith Relf not only gets lead vocals on this number, but he also gets to show off some tasty guitar chops, something I'm sure he never had a chance to do in his previous band. | | | After a ninety-second opening passage, the song goes into another baroque mode with the main instrumentation being tambourine, harpsichord, and Jane Relf's vocals. |
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| | Progressive Ears Album Reviews |
| | Keith Relf and Martin Pugh trade licks on guitars and harmonica on the song "Last Stand Before" which is my favorite song on this CD hence the Zepp reference. | | | On the centerpiece of the album, "Basking in the White of the Midnight Sun" song/suite, the music starts off at a gallop with a guitar led riff/melody and Keith singing "basking in the white of the midnight sun". | | | Keith adds some lyrics and then comes another smokin guitar solo. |
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http://www.progressiveears.com/ASP/reviews.asp?bhjs=0&albumID=1676
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| | Renaissance 1969 to 1971: JohnHawken.com |
| | Keith's sister, Jane, wanted to sing and she fit with with the band and while she'd never sung professionally before, she brought a certain grace and look to the band, as well. | | | During the touring in support of the "Illusion" album, Jane Relf decided that she would also depart Renaissance -- this in part, due to the departure of her brother from the band and also because she too was growing weary of the incessant touring schedule. | | | The self-titled 1969 album drew interest on both sides of the Atlantic -- with two different covers for the British (Island Records) and American (Elektra Records) audiences -- and across the English Channel where it was released as the "Kings and Queens" album by Island Records for much of the rest of Europe. |
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| | oncampusuk: Renaissance |
| | Keith Relf and Jim McCarty ended their songwriting partnership in October 1970, but not before completing the soundtrack of the unreleased film “Schizom” and placing their song “Line Of Least Resistance” with the studio group Reign. | | | The line-up was Keith Relf (vocals and guitar), John Hawken (piano), Louis Cennamo (bass), Jane Relf (Keith's sister; vocals) and myself on drums and vocals. | | | Relf and McCarty had already written and recorded a demo for their song “Island.” At a subsequent meeting with Jane Relf, John Hawken and Louis Cennamo, Keith and Jim were stunned when John started playing some Beethoven-influenced piano runs. |
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http://www.kissingspell.com/main/SpirCat/renais
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| | MSJ - Illusion-Out of the Mist/Illusion |
| | The personnel for these two albums are: Jim McCarty, acoustic guitar, percussion, and vocals; Jane Relf, vocals; John Hawken, keyboards; Louis Cennamo, bass; John Knightsbridge, acoustic and electric guitars; and Eddie McNeil, drums and percussion. | | | This is a breezy piece, with acoustic guitars strumming and the piano taking the lead. | | | Jane Relf takes lead vocals on this relaxed number, and she distinguishes herself from Annie Haslam with her singing style. |
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| | PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY DAVID CISCO |
| | Relf's vocals are treated with echo and mixed behind the guitars, giving the song an other-wordly, ethereal feel. | | | The musicianship was beyond reproach: Keith Relf (Yardbirds, Renaissance, Steamhammer) handling vocals and harmonica, Martin Pugh (Rod Stewart, Steamhammer) on guitars, Louis Cennamo (Renaissance, Steamhammer, and inventor of the electric bowed bass guitar) on basses, and Bobby Caldwell (Johnny Winter and Captain Beyond) on drums. | | | The first listen to the album convinced me that what I had read was true, that Keith Relf was an eccentric genius with a penchant for the dramatic. |
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| | Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage Unsung Reviews Keith Relf - Shapes In My Mind/Blue Sands |
| | Keith resurfaced down the road in the late 60's after the Yardbirds split with some excellent records with the original lineup of Renaissance, and made a hard hitting album in the mid-70's with Armageddon. | | | Howlin' Relf, Keith managed to squeek out a couple of solo 45's during the Yardbirds heyday, "Shapes In My Mind" is a most pleasing disc that is a bit of a departure from the Yardbirds bluesy sound. | | | None of Relf's solo singles sold well so they are quite rare these days but are worth tracking down. |
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http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/297
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| | Rock Ahead - CD review - Renaissance - Innocents & Illusions |
| | At the time of their debut album in 1969 the self-titled album from Renaissance was hailed as a true progressive rock album and deemed an exciting release at that. | | | The band elected to call themselves Illusion after the title of their second album and despite the death of Keith Relf in May 1976 went on to record a further two albums ironically for the Island label. | | | As bonus tracks we have four previously unreleased tracks including All The Fallen Angels which was one of the final recordings made by Keith Relf. |
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http://www.themusicindex.com/rockahead/reviews/renaiss3.htm
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| | The song was a lot different from the rhythmandblues that the band had did up to this point but the band members (with one exception) now wanted to play other stuff than just rhythmandblues.The exception was Eric Clapton who decided to leave the band. | | | In may 1963 the band was reformed with two guitar players and a drummer from another Richmond band called Suburbiton RandB. | | | The new line-up was: Keith Relf (lead vocals, harmonica), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass), Anthony "Top" Topham (lead guitar), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar) and Jim McCarty (drums). |
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| | BNR Metal Pages -- Armageddon |
| | The band never released another album -- the lineup disintegrated soon after the one album's release, and Relf died from electrocution a year later. | | | A modified lineup appeared a decade later and reportedly recorded an album, but that album was never released. | | | No relation to the current Swedish Armageddon, this Armageddon was a short-lived band originating in the early 70's, founded by ex-Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf and featuring musicians from bands such as Derringer, Steamhammer, and Captain Beyond. |
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| | International Relf Society: Let's Rock & Roll |
| | Keith Relf left Renaissance in 1972 and, after briefly performing with a band called Medicine Head, joined Louis Cennamo and Martin Pugh in forming a heavy metal band called Armageddon. | | | In the original lineup, Keith Relf was lead singer and also played the harmonica; Tony (Top) Topham played lead guitar, Jim McCarty drums, Chris Deja rhythm guitar and vocals, and Paul Samwell Smith bass guitar. | | | She later joined Illusion and made several records in the 1970's which got into the US and UK music charts, but I have no recent information about her. |
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| | Keith Relf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Relf died in an accident, electrocuting himself while playing his electric guitar. | | | He also produced a number of tracks for the Acoustic based Amber, and for Medicine Head. | | | Keith Relf (born March 22, 1943, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey; died May 14, 1976, London) is best known as the lead singer and harmonica player of the Yardbirds. |
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| | Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin's Dubious Recording History |
| | "Keith Relf had a melody on tape and we used that as the main part of the song. | | | Considering that Keith Relf was tragically electrocuted in 1976 and that both McCarty and Dreja participated in the CD's liner notes, it doesn't take much detective work to figure out which member is unhappy with the release. | | | Keith Relf apparently realized the error of his ways, forming a heavy metal band in the mid-70s. |
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| | Renaissance (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The original 1969 line-up comprised Keith Relf (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Jim McCarty (drums, vocals), John Hawken (keyboards), Louis Cennamo (bass) and Jane Relf (vocals). | | | This quintet (bassist Louis Cenammo, pianist John Hawken, and Relf's sister Jane as an additional vocalist) released a pair of albums on Elektra, but dissolved quickly, leaving McCarty to reform the band into a very different lineup, though McCarty also soon departed. | | | In the late 1990s, both Haslam and Dunford formed their own bands using the name Renaissance, and have released albums with different line-ups. |
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| | The History Of Renaissance |
| | Their album Moonstone features a lovely track with Jane Relf on vocals called "Aquamarine." Jim has also recorded a very different solo album entitled Out Of The Dark with Jane Relf on backing vocals and has also released two albums as part of the Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band both via Demon Records. | | | The conclusion of the original Renaissance thread, begins with news that Keith Relf died tragically, electrocuted while playing his guitar at home in 1976 during the initial stages of recording material for an album under a new band name; in fact some of these early tracks appear on the album Enchanted Caress discussed below. | | | Keith Relf and Jim McCarty opted for more of a background role where they could concentrate on writing songs. |
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| | Yardbirds |
| | They played too heavy, Keith Relf was a mediocre lead singer among Burdons and Jaggers, didn't have a 'looker' in the bunch, and only released four proper studio albums in their entire existence. | | | Keith Relf has never sounded so sinister; more over he reasserts his claim as the world's greatest punk harmonica player. | | | Singer Keith Relf, while distinctive and charismatic, owes a lot more to Buddy Holly than Mick Jagger for his singing style, and has the most defiantly 'white' timbre of any of those 60's blues singers. |
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| | Armageddon |
| | In fact, despite Relf's untimely death, Illusion (named, by the way, after the title of Renaissance's second album, only released in Germany in 1971, before the founders gave the Renaissance name to an entirely separate band) went on to record two highly acclaimed albums for Island Records. | | | We talked a little bit about the armaggedon band: keith relf was pretty much a sweet guy who could not control himself sometimes...he said that his live rehearsal tapes kick the studio versions, that the band was much better live than in LP. | | | Did you know that Keith Relf was electrocuted not just because he was playing his electric guitar, it was because he was playing his electric guitar in the BATHTUB of all silly places!!! |
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| | ProgressoR - Detailed Reviews - Renaissance - 1969 - "Renaissance" |
| | All these features, together with usual acoustic piano and guitar arrangements with "medieval" touches, resemble more of the music of the Age of the Renaissance. | | | The following rockish vocal theme later quite suddenly moves into a gentle medieval piece with angelic vocals from Jane Relf, Keith's sister, accompanied by fine piano and acoustic guitar passages. | | | Keith Relf - vocals, guitars John Hawken - keyboards Jim McCarty - drums Louis Cennamo - bass Jane Relf - second vocals |
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| | Renaissance Liner Notes |
| | Jane Relf's presence is subdued and vestigial on the record, but her stratospherically high lead vocals grace the album's most beatifically tuneful song, "Island," as well as the haunting "Wanderer." | | | The two Relfs and McCarty would be the nucleus of Renaissance, a most improbable aggregation that guaranteed the band wouldn't sound much like the Yardbirds at all. | | | With new singer Annie Haslam, and the phasing out of Keith Relf and McCarty's input into any aspect of the band's music, they eventually become a top progressive rock concert draw and staple of FM radio. |
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| | Keith Relf - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Relf went on to form Renaissance, whose lush prog/art rock tendencies were completely different stylistically than his previous band, appearing on several albums before leaving the group. | | | The group started out as a blues-based outfit, but as the years progressed, pop, psychedelia, and hard rock was worked into their sound, as the group welcomed in the aforementioned all-star guitarists into their ranks one after another. | | | On May 14, 1976, Relf died from a freak accident, when he accidentally electrocuted himself while playing electric guitar in his bathtub. |
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| | InsideOut Music |
| | Together with Keith's sister Jane Relf on vocals, pianist John Hawken (formerly of the Nashville Teens), and bassist Louis Cennamo, this line-up soon produced a classically tinged album unsurprisingly entitled "Renaissance", which also featured elements of jazz, folk and eastern influences. | | | Indeed, the first album in 1972 by this line-up "Prologue" featured songs by Dunford with lyrics by Betty Thatcher in addition to two Dunford instrumentals and also earlier collaborations between Keith Relf and Thatcher. | | | By the time the album was released, the original line-up had all but ceased to exist. |
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| | 1983 Concert Preview |
| | Several confusing personnel changes later (none of Relf's original bandmates remain and Relf himself left the band shortly after he founded it), the unique sound of Renaissance remains a fascinating blend of classical progressions and rock rhythms which is as delightful as it is complex. | | | "Keith Relf and Jim McCarty formed a band, a spinoff from The Yardbirds," Dunford explained. | | | In a telephone interview from New Jersey, where the band had just finished a date on their current tour, Michael Dunford discussed the band's past as well as how the group evolved. |
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| | Amazon.com: Illusion: Music |
| | Keith's two contributions, "Love is All" and "Love Goes On" are delightfully catchy pop songs, with nice vocal harmonies and rather dated hippy-dippy lyrics, but that's OK. | | | This album is by the FIRST Renaissance lineup, founded by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty (ex-Yardbirds) and featuring his sister Jane on vocals. | | | Although "Illusion" is billed as the second album by the original lineup of Renaissance (guitarist/vocalist Keith Relf, his sister Jane on vocals, drummer/vocalist Jim McCarty, bassist Louis Cennamo and keyboardist John Hawken), it's actually more complicated than that. |
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| | Chefren's homepage |
| | Renaissance was one of the progressive bands of the 70's, but their musical style, combining folk-rock and classical music with some influences from other musical styles, was reasonably mainstream. | | | Renaissance, however lived on and by 1972 all band members had been replaced, and the new lineup was Mick Dunford, acoustic guitar and vocals, John Camp, bass and vocals, John Tout, keyboards and vocals, Terry Sullivan, percussions and Annie Haslam, lead vocals. | | | The band released a record in 1975 but when Keith died in an accident 1976, they split up. |
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| | Armageddon |
| | Keith and Jim quit and a whole bunch of new musicians came in. | | | The line-up of Armageddon included Keith (vocals, harmonica), Martin Pugh (electric and acoustic guitars), Bobby Caldwell (drums, vocals and percussion) and Louis Cennamo (bass). | | | The music on 'Armageddon' consists mainly of long tracks, rather in the Renaissance style with introspective lyrics from Keith, powered up by driving drums and guitar. |
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| | Brian J. Wilkinson / Blues Reviews |
| | The remaining songs on the CD are new Yardbirds songs, five of which are composed by drummer Jim McCarty, one by Chris Dreja, and the final song ‘An Original Man (a song for Keith)” credited to the entire band. | | | The Eastern influence and a sitar-like sound are evident in this song. | | | The Yardbirds backed blues harmonica great Sonny Boy Williamson in 1964, and a live album was released a couple of years later. |
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| | THE YARDBIRDS: Ultimate! (Rhino) |
| | They scored a number of hit singles, released a handful of studio albums, and toured extensively. | | | Inspired by Chicago blues and RandB, The Yardbirds debuted in June 1963 with Keith Relf (vocals, harp), Anthony "Top" Topham (lead guitar) and Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass, keyboards), and Jim McCarty (drums). | | | Rhino recently released Ultimate!--the first collection of the archetypical band with material from all aspects of the group's history. |
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| | Still, Relf's gasping vocals and their lack of songwriting talent - his weak "I Ain't Done Wrong" is the only original - point to the depths they eventually would reach. | | | Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Jim McCarty (drums), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass), Anthony "Top" Topham (lead guitar). | | | The dramatic protest song "You're A Better Man Than I" hits hard, with one of Relf's best vocals and an incredible solo; "Evil Hearted You" is equally dark and well-performed; "Still I'm Sad" is one of the earliest and best examples of down-tempo, Eastern-influenced, mid-60s British psychedelia. |
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| | Renaissance : Illusion - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The results here aren't quite as hard rocking as the previous album -- acoustic guitars supplant electric and Jane Relf's vocals are hooked around a mix of art rock and art pop melodies, without any trace of the psychedelic or freakbeat echoes of the previous album's work. | | | It was around this time that the words of lyricist Betty Thatcher started turning up in the group's work and on this album, and guitarist Michael Dunford started writing as well. | | | The lighter textures anticipate the sound of the later lineup of the group, while some of the pop-oriented material harkens back to what Relf and McCarty had in mind for a sound in 1969. |
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| | NewBeats: Yardbirds |
| | The nice touch to the disc is the closing song "An Original Man," a heartfelt tribute to the late Keith Relf with an instrumental workout. | | | Even the poppy side of the group is represented by Goo Goo Dolls' Johnny Rzeznik's guest vocal on "For Your Love"; the rest fortunately is pure electric blues. | | | Honestly, Birdland goes beyond being an album by a Yardbirds cover band, as this material freshly reworks old favorites and features originals (standouts include "Dream Within a Dream," "My Blind Life"). |
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| | ClassicRockForums - The Yardbirds |
| | Keith Relf was a true talent and asset to the music world, I think. | | | The Yardbirds w/ Jimmy started doing the song immediately and the bluesy style of the Zep version originated from the Yardbirds version and alhtough Jake sang slightly different lyrics from Jake Holmes verison, the song wouldn't get full revamping until it was played by Zep were Robert and/or Jimmy rewrote the lyrics to the song. | | | That would have to wait for the Peter Grant era, for after he took over management of the band, they morphed into the great Led Zeppelin. |
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| | Notlame Recording Company, Inc. |
| | The result was this 1969 release for Elektra, the only Renaissance album to feature the Relfs-the Annie Haslam lineup took over before their next release, "Prologue"-and one of the more adventuresome albums of the late `60s, here reissued with new liner notes that tell the rather complicated tale of how this album came to be. | | | The resulting album is a strange mix of psychedelic, classical, folk, and jazz elements -- "Kings And Queens" had elements of freak-beat and art-rock, steeped in a musical romanticism (complete with a rippling Hawken piano solo, and some of McCarty`s best drumming ever as well) in between a pounding opening and closing section. | | | Ex-Herd/Jimmy Powell and The Dimensions alumnus Louis Cennamo joined on bass and John Hawken, late of the Nashville Teens, came in on piano, with Relf picking up the guitar as well as singing, and his younger sister Jane Relf sharing the vocals. |
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| | History |
| | After leaving Yardbirds, Jim McCarty and Keith Relf continued as the folk music duo Together. | | | In 1975 he was a member of the short-lived heavy rock band Armageddon. | | | In 1976 he was planning to start a new band with Jim McCarty called Illusion. |
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| | Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin's Dubious Recording History |
| | Yardbirds singer Keith Relf rewrote the lyrics while drummer Jim McCarty and Jimmy Page expanded the song structure itself. | | | Authorship is given to Dreja, McCarty, Page, and Relf, but the song is basically a rewrite of two earlier blues songs. | | | Another Little Games album track, the modish "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" opens with a guitar riff that Page would later use as the opening chords on Led Zeppelin's "The Rain Song." Yes, it is his music, but his proclivity for recycling his own and others work shows a distinct lack of originality. |
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| | The sonic power of the old Yardbirds is resurrected here, suggesting that they really were a live band daunted by the niceties of the studio. | | | When the Yardbirds recorded the single "For Your Love" using mostly congas, harpsichord and upright bass, Clapton fled to John Mayall’s band and to a job that had less distractions in the center of the stage. | | | That lineup became Led Zeppelin and the fact that you can play Live Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin back to back with little transitional discomfort, especially on the Yardbirds&; version of "Dazed and Confused," shows what kind of level the band was playing at as they entered the seventies. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Roger the Engineer: Music |
| | Even if you have a stereo CD of this disk, you should get this one for the different guitar parts on the mono version (most tracks have only slight differences, but "Hot House..." is radically different) and the Keith Relf tracks. | | | Jeff Beck was not a blues purist and steered the band into fresh and exciting musical areas over the next few hit singles, incorporating Gregorian chants, sitar-like psychedelic guitar, backward tapes and controlled feedback. | | | Todd Rundgren named his band The Nazz in 1967 as a tribute to this song. |
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| | The Screamin' Mimi Compact Disc "The Yardbirds' Greatest Hits" |
| | STILL I'M SAD (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty) The flip side to their English "Evil Hearted You" hit single, this was the strangest track the band had cut up to that time --- a Gregorian chant-inspired number whose total instrumentation consisted of seven massed voices (including their producer, Giorgio Gomelsky), a triangle and an acoustic guitar. | | | OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN (Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck) Messing around with Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" produced this riff where, like the rest of the "Over Under Sideways Down" album, was written in the studio. | | | (Paul Samwell-Smith, Keith Relf, Jim McCarty) Recorded at Chess late in 1965, "Shapes of Things" was unlike anything the band had done before. |
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| | Click here to see Keith's solo lyrics...and others songs! | | | Click here if you wanna play some of the Yardbirds most popular songs in guitar | | | "Illusion" continued on, making two albums without Keith. |
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| | Collectors' Choice Music |
| | They take you on a voyage through the three, six string masters of the Yardbirds in Clapton, Beck and Page and also split it up into the eras of the three gentlemen who produced the band to give you a complete picture of what the Yardbirds were all about. | | | The 2 CD set takes you from their early beginnings straight thru to some of Keith Relf's solo cuts. | | | The Yardbirds sure could play some great music featuring their three great guitarists. |
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| | days, Keith had been successful as a producer and had been in a band with Louis, Armageddon, who had made an album for AandM Records. | | | I had made an album of my own songs on EMI under the band name Shoot, and Jane had sung on various TV advertisements. | | | Rather than making us abandon the idea, this event seemed to spur us on, and we decided to take on two more people: John Knightsbridge on guitar, and Eddie McNeil on drums, which left me free to sing lead vocal along with Jane. |
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| | The Yardbirds - Ultimate! - at Rhino |
| | Inspired by nasty Chicago blues and R&B, The Yardbirds were hatched in June 1963 by Keith Relf (vocals, harp), Anthony "Top" Topham (lead guitar) and Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass, keyboards), and Jim McCarty (drums). | | | This two-CD set contains 53 tracks spanning the band’s stints with all three guitar legends, and also includes three rare Keith Relf solo tracks. | | | : "The Yardbirds were the forerunners of heavy metal, psychedelic music, the extended guitar solo, and that staple of rock improvisation, the ‘jam.’" In their latter days the "new" Yardbirds, led by Page, morphed into Led Zeppelin, while cofounders Keith Relf and Jim McCarty put together the classical-rock group Renaissance. |
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| | Electrocuted Page in Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory |
| | His last album with the heavy metal band. | | | After leaving the Yardbirds, Relf and McCarty stayed with music, first forming a folk duo called Together and then founding Renaissance. | | | The band scored its biggest hit, the top ten single Northern Lights, in 1978 after both former Yardbirds had left. |
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| | Led Zeppelin - NEWS - Yardbirds Unreleased Studio Session |
| | Recorded at Columbia Studios in New York, the never- before - heard session will soon be officially released on CD and possibly a special edition vinyl. | | | McCarty describes some of the never-before-heard songs featured on this upcoming release: "There's a nice track of me pissing around with poetry with Jimmy playing some lovely acoustic (titled "Spanish Blood"), and a couple of other real "Mod" tracks. | | | I spoke with Yardbirds drummer, Jim McCarty who revealed plans to finally have this rare tape released. |
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| | Ground and Sky review - Renaissance - Illusion |
| | Keith Relf, vocals, guitar; Jim McCarty, drums, percussion, vocals; John Hawken, keyboards; Louis Cennamo, bass; Jane Relf, vocals, percussion; with Michael Dunford, guitar; Neil Korner: bass; T. Slade: drums; T. Crowe: vocals; Don Shin: electric piano | | | After making this album, this line-up disbanded until the late 70s, when they reformed sans Keith Relf, who sadly died in 1976 before they could re-group. | | | But by that time, the Haslam line-up was clearly the one that Renaissance would be known by, leaving this original line-up no choice but to find an alternative band name. |
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http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=ren-ill
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| | Music Written By Keith Relf |
| | Guitar Sheet Music - 2 matches for "Keith Relf" | | | Vocal Sheet Music - 1 match for "Keith Relf" | | | Piano Sheet Music - 1 match for "Keith Relf" |
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http://www.earfloss.com/music-written_by_Keith+Relf.html
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| | 7th Order Official Home Page |
| | Keith Relf of The Yardbirds), in addition to having shared guitar duties with future Rolling Stones' guitarist | | | Order has been in the Detroit, MI area - working on new material in the studio. |
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http://www.7thorder.com
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| | Xtreme Musician: Keith Relf |
| | Keith started the band Renaissance with his bandmate Jim McCarty, who was the drummer for the Yardbirds, and his sister Jane, who sang. | | | After this band, Keith moved on to form the band Armageddon. | | | Do you have additional information on Keith Relf? |
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http://www.xtrememusician.com/info/artists/profiles/977.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page: Books |
| | The biggest problem with the book is Clayson's unwillingess to allow the band's story to unfold on its own. | | | Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Craw Daddy, Manfred Mann, Led Zeppelin, The Pretty Things, Ten Years Time, Jimi Hendrix, The Animals, The Troggs, Herman's Hermits, Cliff Richard, Melody Maker, George Harrison, Giorgio Gomelsky, North America, Rod Stewart, Roy Orbison, Number One, Muddy Waters, Steve Winwood | | | On the downside, Clayson can't maintain a narrative and wastes too much ink on irrelevent details about other artists---especially aesthetic peewees like Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich and the Downliners Sect, both of whom make the Seeds look like the Beatles. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879307242?v=glance
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