The workshop Series gives registrants
the opportunity to learn more, faster, from the masters with fewer
people in the room in a "hands-on" environment.
We have an exciting opportunity this April.
For only 30 members, The League Of Rock is offering the exclusive
opportunity to make music and workshop with the founding
member and drummer of the legendary Yardbirds, Jim McCarty!
For one day only, the League Of Rock will offer an incredible
opportunity to get tips and tricks and the inside story of how
to play in a band! Jim will offer stories and insight garnered
from his amazing career which includes being in a band with Eric
Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page!
The Yardbirds were a major influence on both British and American
Rock music and such icons as Led Zepplin! Yes, the Yardbirds laid
the groundwork for Rock Guitar As We Know It.
This one day intensive will feature Jim and some League Of Rock All Stars both in workshop and concert in the round, work shopping directly with you as you form bands for the day and work on a tune and then perform the tune at the end of the night!
The event will happen on Sunday,
April 20th From noon - 5:00pm.
The cost of the one day intensive will be $125
BIO Jim McCarty (born James Stanley McCarty, 25 July 1943,
Liverpool) is a British musician, best known as the drummer for
The Yardbirds and Renaissance. He has also played in the bands
Shoot (on lead vocals), Illusion (with three other ex-members
of Renaissance), Stairway and Pilgrim.McCarty has also been a
member of The British Invasion All-Stars, and his own Jim McCarty
Band. By now, everyone knows the Yardbirds legend, if not their
music; the band graduated three of the great Ph.D.s of rock guitar:
Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.
They created hard rock out of standard twelve-bar blues, doubling
the tempos and whacking the amps up to ten. On the British club
scene, the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones ruled
the stages. The Yardbirds expanded the range of the electric guitar,
experimenting with feedback, sustain, and fuzztone.
In 2003, a new album, Birdland, was released under the Yardbirds
name on the Favored Nations label which consisted of a mixture
of new material mostly penned by McCarty and re-recordings of
some of their greatest hits, with guest appearances by Joe Satriani,
Steve Vai, Slash, Brian May, Steve Lukather, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter,
John Rzeznik, Martin Ditchum and Simon McCarty. Also, Jeff Beck
reunited with his former bandmates on the song "My Blind Life".
The Yardbirds released a live 2007 CD, "Live At B.B. King Blues
Club" (Favored Nations). As a solo artist Jim has released numerous
albums and projects including 2002s Two Steps Ahead, and 1994s
Out Of The Dark, and has a new album that will be released shortly
