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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Covers ( Yardbirds )
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 10:02:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 10:02:16 1984
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> > On the other hand, one of the absolute WORST covers in history is
> > the Yardbirds's so-called version of "Mannish Boy", which they retitled
> > "I'm a Man"
> > 
> 
> The Yardbirds "broke up" almost 20 years ago.  I happen to like their
> version of "I'm a Man".   It is up-beat and you can dance to it (-:.
> But seriously,  I think that the Yardbirds were one of the most important
> groups to come out of England during the '60s because of the content of
> their work and the members of their band who went on to bigger and perhaps
> better things, specifically Eric Clapton. <... Rest Deleted...>

I LOVE the Yardbirds. That does not change the fact that their desecration
of "Mannish Boy" is an affront in the face of the Universe


Marcel Simon		{ihnp4!allegra}!mhuxr!mfs