Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page is a live album released by English blues rock band The Yardbirds in 1971. It features songs recorded at a Yardbirds performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City on 30 March 1968. The album is notable for its inclusion of the song "I'm Confused," which would become a "classic rock" standard upon Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page re-recording it, with modified lyrics, as "Dazed and Confused" with his post-Yardbirds band Led Zeppelin later in 1968.
Although a live album, CBS/Epic Records overdubbed crowd noises from bullfights and other sound effects onto the original tracks against the band's wishes, in part because the live recordings were considered lacking in sound quality. The Yardbirds rejected the album as a candidate for release upon its original completion in mid-1968, but Epic released it in 1971 in response to Led Zeppelin's success in the marketplace. Jimmy Page threatened legal action against the label for releasing Live Yardbirds without authorization (he took ownership of the Yardbirds name following the band's 1968 dissolution), and Epic quickly withdrew it. CBS' Columbia Special Products (CSP) label subsequently reissued the album in 1976, but this was again legally challenged by Page, and the album again quickly withdrawn. Authentic Epic and CSP copies of Live Yardbirds are thus quite rare, and the album has often been counterfeited (sometimes in black-and-white covers claimed to be promotional copies) as a result.
The album's cover art was designed by James Grashow, a woodcut artist who had earlier created the artwork for Jethro Tull's 1969 album Stand Up.
In August 2000 the album was released on CD by Mooreland Street Records, but it quickly sold out.
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