Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty is best known as the drummer for the pioneering British blues-rock band the Yardbirds, and deservedly so: he was the only member to play in every incarnation of the group from its 1963 foundation through a '90s reunion that brought the band into the 21st century. Despite this considerable legacy, McCarty did a lot outside of the Yardbirds, exploring prog rock in the wake of the group's disbandment -- he immediately played with his fellow Yardbird Keith Relf in Renaissance, then with Illusion in the '70s -- and experimenting with new age music in the '90s. James St...