Posted on 07/30/2015 10:25:43 AM PDT by the scotsman
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I always thought that Yardbirds was an odd name for a rock group and that it would be a more appropriate name for a band that performed sea chanties and pirate ballads, accompanied by a concertina.
I don’t believe that Duane was literally uncredited on the album. It’s just that at the time it came out, no one thought about it enough to give him the credit he deserved. Clapton was a guitar god, and Duane was still primarily a session musician since the Allman Brothers Band had not yet broken through to the public. Everyone assumed it was Clapton making all the guitar magic.
There’s a restaurant chain called ‘Yardbirds’..........
Eric Clapner is a wonderful pianist, I agree.
Freegards
She was probably thinking of The Clap, which her favorite sport, masturbation avoids.
It seems to specialize in fried chicken.
I have never heard the term "yardbird" used to mean anything other than a crewman aboard a sailing ship.
It’s a Southern US idiom................
Yardbird: “A present or former convict. Derivation: Prisoners ‘on the yard’ typically don’t have a lot to do, so they spend a lot of time standing around in little groups, working out their social issues.”
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/yardbird
Sounds like a modern definition. In the age of sail, yardbirds were the tars in the spars.
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Duanne played all over the place....some times for fun, sometimes for friendship and often for just a bag of cash. He's on many, many songs that we'll never know.
She probably pronounced it ‘Urruk Klupnurrr’.
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