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  • Audio CD (6 April 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Demon
  • ASIN: B00000JY2K
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,539 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
2. Psycho Daisies
3. Lost Women
4. Over Under Sideways Down
5. Nazz Are Blue
6. I Can't Make Tour Way
7. Rack My Mind
8. Farewell
9. Hot House Of Omagararshid
10. Jeff's Boogie
11. He's Always There
12. Turn Into Earth
13. What Do You Want
14. Ever Since The World Began
15. Mr Zero - Relf, Keith
16. Knowing - Relf, Keith
17. Shapes In My Mind (1) - Relf, Keith
18. Shapes In My Mind (2) - Relf, Keith
19. Blue Sands - Relf, Keith

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By the time the Yardbirds recorded ROGER THE ENGINEER in 1966, the British Invasion was in full swing. Like their brethren, they targeted Chicago blues as ground zero for musical inspiration. As a result, most Yardbirds recordings and livesets were chock full of numbers by the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry and Elmore James. ROGER was a departure for the band, as all the material was self-penned.
With guitarist Jeff Beck leading the charge (having replaced departed blues purist Eric Clapton), the Yardbirds began exploring the possibilities of electric guitar and of rock in general. The Middle Eastern garage rock of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" bumps up against the rockabilly swing of "Jeff's Boogie". Alongside Beck's thrilling guitar histrionics, there's the genteel English pastoral feel of "Farewell" and a quirky instrumental bubbling over with jazz bass, a rubbery-sounding beat and chanting ("Hot House Of Omagarashid".)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic rock,pop psychedelia, 8 Nov 2001
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I only own this album on original mono 60's vinyl without bonus tracks, etc and it is still fantastic.A massive fusion between traditional 60's beat music and early psychedelic sounds.'Lost woman' still sounds brilliant today,'I can't make your way' never fails to get the foot tapping and 'Hot house of omagararshid' always makes me smile.Despite the brilliance of those tracks 'Farewell' is weak and 'Ever since the world began' is a mess.Still this album shows that they were years ahead of their time and,yes,even on tinny monophonic sound,Jeff Beck's guitar playing still stands out.
This is a must have for all fans of the blues/rock/psych sound.Great stuff.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Mono and Stereo "Yardbirds", 30 Sep 2005
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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Officially called simply The Yardbirds, this album came to be known as Roger The Engineer as that was the name of the front-cover caricature of their engineer Roger Cameron by Chris Dreja, written on the sleeve. It was their first studio album although an earlier incarnation of the band with Eric Clapton had released a live blues album, Five Live Yardbirds, and in America Epic had capitalized on the success of their final single with Clapton, For Your Love, by collecting all their UK Columbia singles to date and an EP in the pipeline, and added a couple of unreleased items for an album also named For Your Love.
Jeff Beck was not a blues purist and steered the band into fresh and exciting musical areas over the next few hit singles, incorporating Gregorian chants, sitar-like psychedelic guitar, backward tapes and controlled feedback.
Only the most recent of these, Over Under Sideways Down, which was created in the studios out of a spontaneous jam around Rock Around The Clock, and its instrumental flip, the self-explanatory instrumental Jeff's Boogie, were included on the album, the rest of which was largely concocted from scratch at Advision in one brief week of recording.
Some of the ideas used on their singles are reworked here, with Keith Relf leading all the vocals with the exception of The Nazz Are Blue which features a rare early vocal from Jeff Beck and bursts into a well-known Elmore James riff in the middle. Todd Rundgren named his band The Nazz in 1967 as a tribute to this song.
Mono was the norm in those days, when few record-buyers had stereo hi-fi systems, so must of the time spent mixing the album was devoted to the mono version, with the stereo mix left to the end and recreated independently but with reference to the mono master. Inevitably, there would be subtle, and sometimes glaringly obvious differences. A guitar overdubbed directly onto the mastertape during mixdown is necessarily absent from the stereo version of Hot House Of Omagararshid, and there are similar anomalies on He's Always There, Turn To Stone and others. Nevertheless, the benefits of the wide stereo sound are clear, and this edition presents both mixes in full using the Yardbirds' own mastertapes.
Bonus tracks include the magnificent psychedelic single released three months later, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago/Psycho Daisies, by which time Paul Samwell-Smith had left and Jimmy Page had joined the band as second guitarist and occasional bass player, and two solo singles released by Keith Relf as a side project.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why two versions?, 19 Aug 2004
By Michael Flint (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
Stereo and mono versions on the one disk might seem obsessive, but in this case it's worth it. Previous stereo-only versions of this album have had only "Hot House of ..." without its guitar solo --- a fairly pointless exercise, which I'd love to know the reason for. On this new issue you can hear it in all its glory including Beck's brilliant guitar break (at last), as well as fascinating solo tracks by Keith Relf. The album itsels aways was a true classic, and stands up very well today. The extras on this issue are well worth having. Even if you have a stereo CD of this disk, you should get this one for the different guitar parts on the mono version (most tracks have only slight differences, but "Hot House..." is radically different) and the Keith Relf tracks. Good notes too.
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