Yardbirds* ‎– The Yardbirds

I recently purchased a few of the early Yardbirds' albums. This was one of them. To be honest, I found all of their albums quite uneven. This is a group whose parts were better than its sum.
Boasting Clapton, Beck and Page as guitarists over their career, the Yardbirds had a few hits in the sixties. "Over Under Sideways Down" was one of the better ones, featuring the hard rock almost scottish guitar hook.
But I found most of the material curiously uninteresting. When they rock and when they do the blues (as on "Train Kept A-Rollin'" from another lp), they are at their best. But I found most of the material uninteresting. I don't think the albums sold all that well when first released. I know that near mint copies of their lps are highly valued today. I suspect Epic did not issue vast quantities of any of their lps.
"Jeff's Boogie" is a lot of fun, but it fairly rips off an old Chuck Berry recording, "Rockin' At the Philharmonic".
There are some real Yardbirds' lovers out there. I'm sorry to rain on your parade. Even a hit song like "For Your Love", although considered a "classic", does not hold up well after all of these years. The Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much To Dream" is a lot more fun.
Without the ridiculously talented Page, Clapton and Beck, I doubt the Yardbirds would be much more than a passing fancy.