About Chris Dreja
Christopher Walenty Dreja was an English musician and photographer. He was best known as the rhythm guitarist and bassist for the rock band The Yardbirds. He left the music business in the late 1960s after The Yardbirds folded and became a professional photographer. In 1992, he and the rest of The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In later life he would play Yardbirds concerts until a series of strokes forced him to retire from live touring around 2011. Dreja and Topham became core members of the Metropolitan (or Metropolis) Blues Quartet. During the 1960s Dreja recorded songs on both the electric and bass guitar, including Watkins Rapier, Harmony, a Gibson 335, Les Paul, and Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars and an Epiphone Rivoli bass.
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