A dose of Yardbirds

[The Carson family <alcuni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Badgers,

Somebody wrote:

> >The DJ on Pirate FM in Wellington just mentioned on the radio that he met
> >Jimmy Page when he came to New Zealand as the New Yardbirds.
> 
> >This is all news to me - can anyone confirm this?  That the Yardbirds (or
> >the New Yardbirds) actually toured NZ this early in history.
> 

then Mr Prox wrote:

> After their disastrous "Dick Clark's Caravan Of Stars" tour of the USA in
> October 1966 - during which Jeff Beck walked out on them & quit the group -
> the Yardbirds switched managers, from Simon Napier-Bell to Peter Grant.
> Actually working in conjunciton with Napier-Bell, Grant's first act was to
> book the band on a tour of Australasia & Singapore as part of a package
> with Roy Orbison & The Walker Brothers, which according to Yardbird Chris
> Dreja was "a surprising success." This tour took place in January of 1967.
>

I actually found some bits about this tour recently when going through
old microfilm of Australian newspaper "The Sun Herald". In the
teenybopper section of the newspaper they ran a competition in which the
winners could meet the lads in Sydney, reporting after the meeting took
place that the all female winners discussed clothing fashions with the
Yardbirds, and donated about two sentences to reporting the concert
itself. The main section of the paper reported the usual: screaming
teenagers, earplugs for first aid staff, a couple of people fainting
etc.

In a Yardbirds best of CD, issued by Raven, Glenn A. Baker (well known
Australian music personality) mentioned in the liner notes that he had
ssen them at the Sydney Stadium and the only thing he could recall
clearly was being awe-struck by a purple crush velvet clad Jimmy Page.

Pagey claimed  in 1994 that he was going to travel through Indis after
the tour but couldn't go as he had "a dose".

Bye for now.

                             Nat Carson,
                         alcuni@xxxxxxxxxxxx