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* WTHCastingAgency: It wasn't a casting agency but the band itself that made this decision, but at one point, when Jeff Beck was in the band, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith decided he wanted to quit and be a record producer (which he duly did.) This left them with two guitarists and no bass player, so Jimmy Page agreed to join the band...as ''bass player'', because Chris Dreja didn't know how to play bass. So for a while, the band had two of rock's greatest guitarists in its lineup, but only one of them was playing guitar, because the third guitarist was taking too long to learn a new instrument. (Dreja and Page did eventually swap roles, and Beck left shortly afterwards.)

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* WTHCastingAgency: QuestionableCasting: It wasn't a casting agency but the band itself that made this decision, but at one point, when Jeff Beck was in the band, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith decided he wanted to quit and be a record producer (which he duly did.) This left them with two guitarists and no bass player, so Jimmy Page agreed to join the band...as ''bass player'', because Chris Dreja didn't know how to play bass. So for a while, the band had two of rock's greatest guitarists in its lineup, but only one of them was playing guitar, because the third guitarist was taking too long to learn a new instrument. (Dreja and Page did eventually swap roles, and Beck left shortly afterwards.)

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* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Keith Relf was the real face.
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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it. To a lesser extent "I'm A Man" as well.

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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin' Wolf's Music/HowlinWolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it. To a lesser extent "I'm A Man" as well.
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* FanNickname: ''Music/RogerTheEngineer'' was originally a SelfTitledAlbum in England. The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Yardbirds-RogerTheEngineer.jpg cover art]] was Chris Dreja's cartoon portrait of the album's engineer, Roger Cameron, which was titled "Roger The Engineer". As with Music/TheBeatles' ''[[Music/TheWhiteAlbum The White Album]]'', fans started referring to the album by its cover design, and the fan nickname eventually became the semi-official album title.
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* WTHCastingAgency: It wasn't a casting agency but the band itself that made this decision, but at one point, when Jeff Beck was in the band, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith decided he wanted to quit and be a record producer (which he duly did.) This left them with two guitarists and no bass player, so Jimmy Page agreed to join the band...as ''bass player'', because Chris Dreja didn't know how to play bass. So for a while, the band had two of rock's greatest guitarists in its lineup, but only one of them was playing guitar, because the third guitarist was taking too long to learn a new instrument. (Dreja and Page did eventually swap roles, and Beck left shortly afterwards.)

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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.
** {{Aerosmith}}'s 1974 cover of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", ''itself'' a rockabilly cover, might be better known than the Yardbirds' version.

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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.
** {{Aerosmith}}'s 1974 cover of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", ''itself''
it. To a rockabilly cover, might be better known than the Yardbirds' version.lesser extent "I'm A Man" as well.


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** {{Aerosmith}}'s 1974 cover of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", ''itself'' a rockabilly cover, might be better known than the Yardbirds' version.
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* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Keith Relf was the real face.

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* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Keith Relf was the real face.face.
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* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Relf was the real face.

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* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Keith Relf was the real face.
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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.

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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.
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* CoveredUp: Possibly "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.

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* CoveredUp: Possibly their version of Howlin Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.
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* CoveredUp: Possibly "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.

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* CoveredUp: Possibly "Smokestack Lightning"; it certainly became strongly associated enough with them that other bands in the London scene eventually stopped playing it.it.
* FaceOfTheBand: They're probably best known today for having three of rock's most highly regarded guitarists in their line-up at one point or another, but back then Relf was the real face.

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