Having a Rave Up

Infobox Album
Name = Having a Rave Up
Type = studio
Artist = The Yardbirds


Type = compilation
Released = November 1965
Recorded = 1964-1965
Genre = Blues-rock
Length =
Label = Epic LN 24177/BN 26177
Producer = Giorgio Gomelsky
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3g867ul0h0jw~T1 link]
Last album = "For Your Love"
(1965)
This album = "Having a Rave Up"
(1965)
Next album = "Roger the Engineer"
(1966)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Eric Clapton
Type = compilation
Last album = "For Your Love"
(USA, 1965)
This album = "Having a Rave Up"
(USA, 1966)
Next album = "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton"
(1966)

"Having a Rave Up" is a compilation album by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 1965 (see 1965 in music) in the United States. RS500|353

It was the last album to feature Eric Clapton as the group's lead guitarist (although Clapton's replacement, Jeff Beck, appears on the cover). As with the previous U.S. album "For Your Love", there is also no mention of Clapton in the back cover liner notes.

The album is thought of as one of the most influential of the 60's and has been said to predict Heavy Metal, psychedelia and even art rock several years before their respective times.

A U.S.-only album, "Rave Up" complies six 7" singles and B-sides on the first side; the second side contains four live recordings previously appearing on the U.K. album Five Live Yardbirds.

Track listing

Original release

ide 1

#"You're a Better Man Than I" (Mike Hugg, Brian Hugg) – 3:17
#"Evil Hearted You" (Graham Gouldman) – 2:23
#"Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) – 2:57
#"Heart Full of Soul" (Graham Gouldman) – 2:27
#"I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley) – 2:36
#"The Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, Lois Mann) – 3:25

ide 2

#"Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) – 5:35
#"Respectable" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 5:35
#"I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley) – 4:33
#"Here 'Tis" (Bo Diddley) – 5:10

Repertoire reissue

#"Mr. You're a Better Man than I" – 3:19
#"Evil Hearted You" – 2:25
#"I'm a Man" – 2:38
#"Still I'm Sad" – 2:59
#"Heart Full of Soul" – 2:29
#"Train Kept a Rollin'" – 3:26
#"Smokestack Lightning" – 5:40
#"Respectable" – 5:35
#"I'm a Man" – 4:31
#"Here 'Tis" – 5:10
#"Shapes of Things" – 2:26
#"New York City Blues" – 4:19
#"Jeff's Blues" – 3:04
#"Someone to Love" – 2:24
#"Someone to Love" – 4:18
#"Like Jimmy Reed Again" – 3:04
#"Chris Number" – 2:23
#"What Do You Want" – 3:11
#"Here 'Tis" – 3:49
#"Here 'Tis" – 4:06
#"Stroll On" – 2:44

Personnel

*Jeff Beck – lead guitar (Side 1)
*Eric Clapton – lead guitar (Side 2)
*Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
*Jim McCarty – drums, backing vocals
*Keith Relf – vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar
*Paul Samwell-Smith – bass, backing vocals, musical director
*Giorgio Gomelsky – producer, low vocals on "Still I'm Sad"
*Connie de Nave – liner notes