The Yardbirds – Roger The Engineer, 60 Years Later | Vinyl Monday
“All the things they said are wrong are what I wanna be.”
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. This week, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the album with as many titles as it has covers and track listings: the Yardbirds’ self-titled, AKA Roger the Engineer, AKA Over Under Sideways Down. Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 2:05
the Yardbirds in 66 – 6:50
track listing/release – 17:29
my thoughts – 29:09
thanks for watching! – 46:51
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@abigaildevoe
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
what’s your favorite yardbirds song? every era is up for grabs!
@tschieding
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Thank you for this one. I am a forever Yardbirds fan. I bought "Over Under Sideways Down" in 1966. I still have that album, although the grooves are pretty worn out. Saw them live at the Starlight Ballroom at Mountain Park in Holyoke Ma. in 1968. They were incredibly exciting live. I think that show literally changed the direction of my life. Jimmy Page was over-the-top amazing. Do "Little Games" next. (please)
@mithatutkunalbant303
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Do you know the James Gang version of Lost Woman, FANTASTIC!! Let's LISTEN!
@simonkormendy849
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Contrary to what the average 60's music critics of the time thought, Psychedelia is actually still going strong nowadays.
@ronaldwilliams2456
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Great album! I love the Yardbirds! I do agree with the criticisms, but I still dig the everlovin' heck out ot it. Favorite Yardbirds song? Shapes of Things, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, What Do You Want, Evil Hearted You, Heart Full of Soul.
@ronaldwilliams2456
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
To be fair, Keith only had one lung.
@gidouille
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
The For Your Love B side, Got to Hurry, primarily because of how Fred Frith transformed it with extended measures, changed meters and adding bassoon to the arrangement for Bittern Storm Over Ulm on Henry Cow's Unrest album. The original is clearly a group jam, but credited to O. Rasputin (Gomelsky) because it was customary at the time for producers to take the publishing on the B side.
@andrewharris4268
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
I love your work because you make me think. In this case back to the sixties when I bought all the Yardbirds albums but played them only rarely. Why so? I was never excited by their music. It never gave me joy or changed my mood in the way that other bands did. Maybe the guitars were innovative and technical but that of itself doesn’t reach the soul – not mine anyway. And it never led me, as a regular punter, anywhere new. So why did I keep buying the stuff? I think I thought I should like it, that it was my fault that I didn’t, that one day I’d see the light. I never did. Was it to my ears over produced, not ‘live’ enough, maybe even insincere?
Musical taste is so mysterious.
@PaulBeguile
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
There was a late 1965 Yardbirds 45. "Still I'm Sad" that was influenced by Gregorian chant
@mahatmacote6478
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
'Ever Since The World Began' predicts Black Sabbath's dark foreboding weight. It's doomy and gloomy, and influenced what was to come.
@Gerry-p9r
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Influence- wise, The Yardbirds were just as important as The Beatles and Dylan.
@BlueSky...
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
One critical event that happened in May 1966, before this album was released, and a major indicator of Jeff's departure from the Yardbirds was his recording of Becks Bolero with Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Nicky Hopkins, and John Paul Jones. Jeff wanted to get Steve Marriott on vocals but couldn't. Had Jeff succeeded in forming this group, it would not only have had huge repercussions for the Yardbirds, but perhaps Led Zeppelin, The Who, and rock as a whole,because Becks Bolero is years ahead of its time. An honest to god monster of a track.
@yes_head
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
A great album, no matter what version you have. I'm reminded of an interview with Jeff Beck about why he quit the band, where he said something like "We were in the states and I saw a blonde drive by in a convertible and I thought "There's something you'd never see back in England — I need to live here!"" 😄
But this video also made me think that The Yardbirds are a band that would benefit from a good box set that gathers everything together in one place. But I'm guessing the rights situation is still messy.
@МаксимИльин-с4ъ
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Finally, my favourite wrestler Jamie Hayter with another review
@Monoaux
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
I think the chant thing was from “Still I’m Sad”
@pattieboydinreverse1648
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
A Mike Stax mention. How fun!
@levianderson4439
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
Todd Rundgren’s first band Nazz was named after “The Nazz are Blue”
@haupper
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
What is and isn't remembered has nothing to with artistic merit and everything to do with bags of cash or coke slipped long ago to some producer or program director.
@BlueSky...
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
"The next chapter of this video"?! Hooray! Bring on Little Games!! 😀
@vocalion9519
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 pm
The Gregorian Chants references come from their song Still I’m Sad.