Last Album: The Yardbirds - Little Games 1967 ( 2015 Parlophone, Vinyl) Flac 24/96 & mp3@320

The 1967 album by this British guitar-university band was its only studio LP with final graduate Jimmy Page — and he sounds ripe to start Led Zeppelin. His whirlpool-folk instrumental "White Summer" went into that group's early shows, and Page road-tested his bowed-guitar groan in the slow bridge of the high-speed "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor." But for a band nearing its end, the Yardbirds summoned strong psychedelic nerve here: the title song's go-go pop; the wild-raga turmoil of "Glimpses"; singer Keith Relf's plaintive ballad "Only the Black Rose." Little Games, back in its rare mono form, is a mixed bag — but, man, what a bag.(Rolling Stone)

No album got so different comments from the critics like this one, the last Yardbirds album. Beck had left and so Page was supposed to lead the band. Certainly a difficult situation for the band but in my opinion they managed the recordings and the songwriting very well. A lot of critics had written it would have been wrong to work with a pop producer (Mickie Most) but in my opinion it was worth the ''risk''. Sure ''Little Games'' is not their strongest album but in my opinion it could not compared to the other works of the band. I think they tried to go in a new direction and they have done it very well. In example, the Stones started in a new direction already in '65. I think the band wanted to change some things but when Page was gone it all come to an end. Anyway in my opinion a very good album - of course in a different musical way as before - with some nice pop harmonies and psychedelic sounds. What had happened if Page stayed in the band? Interesting thought, isn't it?
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                Frank

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