The Yardbirds

Name: The Yardbirds
Start: 2025-04-10T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Narrows Center for the Arts

Schedule

Thu, 10 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Narrows Center for the Arts | Fall River, MA

Thursday, April 10, 2025
$73 Advance | $76 Day of Show | $133 VIP
[all-in pricing, no additional fees]
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm
VIP ticket includes:
• Exclusive pre-show meet & greet at 6 PM
• One reserved seat that you can select before doors (not a table)
• Autograph signing (two personal items only)
• Photograph with Jim McCarty of Yardbirds (must use own camera)
The Yardbirds have a long and storied history and were part of the “British Invasion” of bands that broke out of the U.K. in the 1960s. The blues/rock band will be remembered as having produced the top three English blues-based guitarists of the ‘60s: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Since then, co-founder of the Yardbirds, Jim McCarty, continues to lead this ground-breaking rock band, while pioneering the use of innovations like fuzztone, feedback and distortion. This drummer, singer, songwriter, and producer is said to be one of the driving forces responsible for the band's haunting sound.
New from the Yardbirds comes a multi-media show YARDBIRDS LEGACY with McCarty telling stories and anecdotes from the formation of the band in the early 60s through the legendary lead guitarists -- Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page -- who made important contributions to Rock music, to the 1992 induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, the reformation of the band shortly after that and spanning 60 years to today. McCarty will tell all with video clips and photographs with the current band playing the hits along the way.
The heavily Blues influenced Yardbirds had some major hits back in the 60s that include "For Your Love" and "Over Under Sideways Down" and "I'm a Man," but their recorded repertoire includes Blues staples such as "Muddy Water" and "New York City Blues" and the Mose Allison tune "I'm Not Talkin." Jim will pay tribute to the YARDBIRDS LEGACY by showing vintage film clips of the iconic lead guitarists who graced the stage in this band including Jimmy Page (currently #3 on Rolling Stone's list of Top Guitarists), Jeff Beck (#5), and Eric Clapton (#35) as former lead guitarists. The current band includes Godfrey Townsend on lead guitar (John Entwistle, Happy Together Tour), Kenny Aaronson on bass (Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Rick Derringer), and Myke Scavone is on Blues harp (Doughboys). Lead singer John Idan just celebrated his 30 year anniversary with the Yardbirds.
The current band just recorded a new live album Mind the Gap which will be released soon. A special compilation featuring the original band recordings, The Yardbirds Psycho Daisies - The Complete B-Sides, was just released for Record Store Day 2024. A documentary film, The Yardbirds in Their Own Words produced by Nick Samwell-Smith and directed by James Tonkin, is currently airing on SKY-UK channel and will be released in the USA soon.