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Topic: The Jeff Beck Thread Posted: October 05 2012 at 11:21
I randomly threw on "Wired" the other day, and now I've been obsessed with Jeff Beck (and by extension, Jan Hammer). I used to be a big Jeff Beck fan, but over the years I got tired of it because I had the same 5 or 6 albums, and never cared to get more albums of his. It's been a while, but his albums sound fresh again, I am of course talking about his mid/late 70s and early 80s work, though I've heard other stuff. I heard Emotion and Commotion from 2010, but never picked it up.
Here's my album ranking:
Wired
Blow By Blow
Oh Yeah! (Jan Hammer Group)
Live With the Jan Hammer Group
There and Back
Who Else
Guitar Shop
I know Jeff isn't on "Oh Yeah! but you all know why I listed it.
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Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:19
Emotion and Commotion is a bit of a guilty pleasure album for me - I'd never buy an album by anyone else with that track listing, but because it's Jeff I did and I rather liked it.
Of the recent albums Who Else! is pretty good stuff.
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Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:34
Dean wrote:
^ it was unlikely to have been a tape.
It is an old-fashioned illegal download. My buddy made a copy of it for me onto a cassette tape. He may have recorded it off of a CD, but I'm not sure. Maybe is was Beck-ola. I'll have to try and find it and see.
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Posted: October 05 2012 at 22:09
darkshade wrote:
Live With the Jan Hammer Group
There and Back
My two favorites - excerpted above. Love the Moog synth with the Echoplex on "Earth in Search of a Sun" on LwtJHG. And, there are so many to love on TaB, but I will single out "Space Boogie" for the superlative jazz piano and Simon Phillips drumming like an absolute machine!
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Posted: October 05 2012 at 22:58
I liked JBGS and saw the tour but always found it a bit off, There&Back and Live good but more Jan Hammer albums than Beck-- Blow By Blow and Wired for me.
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Posted: October 06 2012 at 04:17
I'm gonna go with you had it coming. Has radically different sound more harsh, raw and a lot of electronic distortion. Plus 2 tracks with a lovely female singer (Imogen Heap I think)
Thanks !! Your topics always so good and informative. I like you talk.
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Posted: October 06 2012 at 04:49
I'm not a fan of his funk-rock or jazz-rock albums (with these horrid vocoder and very old-sounding keys). I prefer his hard-rock albums : Truth, Beck-Ola, There and Back and Guitar shop
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
Oi! I'm the exact opposite - love his jazz stuff and hate it when he gets too metallic, especially on his later stuff. Blow by Blow, no matter how many times I've spun it, is still a gas.
Edited by Intruder - October 06 2012 at 10:13
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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