Byg - Rock Generation

8-12-10

Byg: Rock Generation series

I recently completed the Byg Records “Rock Generation series!

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 01 BYG FR

529 701 8 TRKS Animals (Live, Newcastle, 12/63) / Yardbirds (Live, Marquee, London, 3/64)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 02 BYG FR

529 702 9 TRKS Animals / Yardbirds (as Vol. 1)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 03 BYG FR

529 703 8 TRKS Graham Bond Organization (Live, Klook’s Kleek, 10/64)/ Sonny Boy Williamson (w/ The Animals) (Live, Newcastle, 12/63)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 04 BYG FR

529 704 8 TRKS Graham Bond Organization / Sonny Boy Williamson (as Vol. 3)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 05 BYG FR

529 705 8 TRKS Spencer Davis Group, Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Yardbirds etc. (Live, 2/64)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 06 BYG FR

529 706 9 TRKS Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger etc. (Live as “Steampacket”, 12/65)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 07 BYG FR

529 707 10 TRKS Soft Machine (4/67) / Gary Farr & The T-Bones (Live. 9/64 – 3/65)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 08 BYG FR

529 708 8 TRKS Soft Machine (4/67) / Mark Leeman 5 (Live, 5/65) & Davy Graham (Live, 12/67)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 09 BYG FR

529 709 8 TRKS Brian Auger (rec. between ’64 & ’67) / Sonny Boy Williamson & Jimmy Page (4/65)

LP BYG: ROCK GENERATION Vol. 10 BYG FR

529 710 10 TRKS Julie Driscoll, Jimmy Page etc. (as Vol. 9)

For years, all I had were the 2 volumes that featured the Soft Machine – until the CD age, it was the only way you could get to hear the original demos of the original Soft Machine. What all the tracks in this series have in common were that most were recorded and / or produced by Giorgio Gomelsky, a man closely associated with the Yardbirds, in the 1960’s.

I think this series was released in France in the early 1970’s – but I am not exactly certain just when. I got the Soft Machine volumes about ’74 or so. The one that took some time – for some reason, was Vol. 4: the Graham Bond Organization on one side and Sonny Boy Williamson on the other.

I hasten to add that some of these recordings are live and not exactly what one would call ‘top drawer’. I am relatively certain that the Soft Machine tracks are ‘demos’. And the Graham Bond Organization, the Animals and the Yardbirds are somewhat crude live recordings (lots of over-loading, some distortion etc.)

This is the 2^nd set of stuff I have completed this year, the other being the Track Record UK “Backtrack” series, another early 70’s various artists LP set.

P.S. I recently discovered that this series was available on CD since 1997! I just found Vol. 1 in San Francisco last weekend!