5/13/2023 0 Comments Eric clapton yardbirdsWhile the Yardbirds are an influential band that had quite a few hits in the U.K. So, welcome to the third edition of RIFF Rewind’s deep dives into bands you should know more about! Recently that piece of information popped back into my head and I discovered that the improbably star-studded history of an otherwise unremarkable band isn’t widely known. I’m getting to the music part, stay with me here.ĭuring that folk religion class, for reasons known only to the professor and possibly his psychiatrist, we were required to memorize the guitarists for The Yardbirds. The professor pointed out, for example, that sports fandom could fill most definitions of folk religion there are ceremonies, superstitions, costumes, shared behaviors and it serves as the central point for a community. That’s basically unorganized religion a system of beliefs and customs that don’t have any sort of official church structure but fill the same role in a society. One of those classes was on folk religions. For a year most of them focused on different belief systems and concepts of religion, because I’ve always been basically like this. Way, way back in the early ’00s, when I was at Diablo Valley College (that’s in the East Bay), I took a lot of random and unnecessary classes to keep my course load high enough to stay on my parents’ health insurance. Left to right: Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf.
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