Top Topham: "Well this is what happened: in 1968 I was making Ascension Heights, my album with Blue Horizon records (CBS), with Mike Vernon as the producer. Can you address those and put a rest to that story either way? Matt: I’ve heard rumors that you were approached by Jimmy Page to join LED ZEPPELIN as the second guitarist in the band. If you haven’t heard that music before and then you hear Live At The Regal, you can’t really be the same after that. You have to bear in mind, that in those early days we hadn’t even heard B.B. If I had stayed in the band, I think I would have been pushing, like ERIC CLAPTON did, to keep the blues as the focus of the band. If I’m going to be absolutely honest, it wasn’t my kind of band. I can’t say that I ever loved the music particularly. I think that they produced three or four really good records and wrote some really interesting material, some very beautiful songs. I saw them, obviously, through those years with all those different aspects, with Jeff Beck in the band, with JIMMY PAGE in the band, with both of them in the band at the same time. How do you feel about the direction that the Yardbirds took after you left the band? You also had to leave that band very early on, because you were so young and your parents had issues with you being in clubs late at night. Matt: You’re obviously a big lover of the blues, but you also like JEFF BECK, who went in different musical directions after he left the Yardbirds. An excerpt from the in-depth interview is available below: Matt Warnock at Guitar International recently caught up with guitarist legend Anthony "Top" Topham, the original guitarist for The Yardbirds.
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