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Another set of photos I may or may not have seen before

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Jimmy Page playing bass with The Yardbirds, summer 1966.

from pageysartgallery

“I went to a Yardbirds concert in Oxford, and they were all walking around in their penguin suits. [Singer] Keith Relf got really drunk and was saying ‘Fuck you’ right into the mic and falling into the drums. I thought it was a great anarchistic night.

I went back into the dressing room and said, ‘What a brilliant show!’ There was this great argument going on; [bassist] Paul Samwell-Smith saying, ‘Well, I'm leaving the group, and if I was you, Keith, I'd do the very same thing.’

So, he left the group, and Keith didn't. But they were stuck, you see, because they had commitments and dates, so I said, ‘I'll play the bass if you like.’ It worked out that we did the dual guitar thing as soon as Chris Dreja could get it together with the bass.”

— Jimmy Page in Guitar Player, 1977

And the most special (and rarest) photo out of all of these, from the very first gig played by The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy on bass at London's Marquee Club, on June 21, 1966:

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Teen Set March 1967: Carol Gold Talks to the Yardbirds (part 1)

My favorite section being:

“Yardbirds are not noted for blending. In fact, they all stand out just about anywhere. But in a setting like this, craggy-faced, straggly-haired, tee-shirted Jeff Beck and sweet-faced, well-sideboarded, curly-haired, splendiferously frock-coated Jimmy Page stood out somewhat more than usual.”

Is Carol a bit biased?😂 The answer is most likely yes as in part 2 of the interview (to be posted soon) she spends a majority of the time talking to splendiferously frock-coated Jimmy.