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The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer

Primary Artist
The Yardbirds
Album Title
Roger the Engineer
Release Date
July 15, 1966 
Time
35:52 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Once Jeff Beck joined The Yardbirds, the group began to explore uncharted territory, expanding their blues-rock into wild sonic permutations of psychedelia, Indian music, and avant-garde white noise. Each subsequent single displayed a new direction, one that expanded on the ideas of the previous single, so it would seem that Roger The Engineer -- Beck's first full album with the group and the band's first album of all-original material -- would have offered them the opportunity to fully explore their adventurous inclinations. Read More
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