Word: yardbird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yardbird." Poor and black, Parker's father early deserted the family; his mother worked as a cleaning woman. By the time he was 13, she had scrimped enough to buy him a saxophone for $45. Silently fingering the battered 1898 sax, held together with tape and rubber bands, he would stand in the alleys outside the clubs waiting to talk to his heroes between sets-a practice that earned his nickname "Yard-bird." (It did not come about, as Russell claims, from a fondness for chicken...
Following Eric Clapton as a Yardbird. Beck's ideas and influences marked a shift in musical direction away from blues. The Yardbirds had little success as a seminal English blues band. Beck brought them "For Your Love," and, once they settled under him, he was free to experiment. Listen to "Beck's Bolero." "Hot House of Omagarashid," or particularly to the opening bars of "Over Under Sideways Down." Yet, with songs like "Train Kept a Rollin" Beck remained true to a concept of British blues...