Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds

Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds
Expanded reissue (Sunspots, Italy 2002)
Studio album / live album by the Yardbirds
Released	15 November 1965 (1965-11-15)
Recorded	March 1964 (live) April–September 1965 (studio)
Venue	Marquee Club, London
Studio	Phillips, Memphis Chess, Chicago Columbia, New York City Advision and Olympic, London
Genre	Blues rock garage rock[1] blues experimental pop
Length	37:40
Label	Epic
Producer	Giorgio Gomelsky
The Yardbirds US album chronology
For Your Love (1965) Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds (1965) Over Under Sideways Down (1966)

Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds, or simply Having a Rave Up, is the second American album by the English rock group the Yardbirds. It was released in November 1965, eight months after Jeff Beck replaced Eric Clapton on guitar. It includes songs with both guitarists and reflects the group's blues rock roots and their early experimentations with psychedelic and hard rock. The title refers to the driving "rave up" arrangement the band used in several of their songs.

The album contains some live recordings from March 1964 when Clapton was the lead guitarist, and which first appeared on the band's British debut album, Five Live Yardbirds, which was not issued in the United States. The songs with Beck were recorded in the studio in the months after he joined the group in March 1965. These include several charting singles and introduced "The Train Kept A-Rollin'", one of the Yardbirds' most copied arrangements. Although most were not written by the group, the songs became a fixture of the group's concert repertoire and continued to be performed after Jimmy Page replaced Beck.

Next to their 1967 Greatest Hits collection, Having a Rave Up is the Yardbirds' highest-charting album in the US and has remained in print longer than others in the band's catalogue. The album continues to be reissued, often with bonus material, such as the next single "Shapes of Things", demo recordings for their follow-up album, and "Stroll On", featuring dual lead guitar by Beck and Page, from the Blow-Up soundtrack. Several music critics have cited the album's influence, particularly on hard rock guitar.