The Jeff Beck Thread
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Topic: The Jeff Beck Thread
Posted By: darkshade
Subject: The Jeff Beck Thread
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 11:21
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm Jazz-rock conspiracy? Zappa and Miles played at the same festivals in the summer of '69 right BEFORE Hot Rats AND Bitches Brew were recorded. |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:19
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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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If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:24
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I recently purchased Guitar Shop and was quite impressed with it.
I have a cassette copy of a Jeff Beck album with Rod Stewart singing on it. I can't remember what it was called though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:27
Guitar Shop...awesome ------------- Coldness doth get away with the badness. http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:28
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^Truth maybe,a classic |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:29
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If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 12:37
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Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:12
What! No one mentioned 'Flash" !
Its Guitar Shop for me... ------------- "Everyone who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men..." - Albert Einstein |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:28
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^ it was unlikely to have been a tape. -------------
If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:34
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 13:49
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Rough n Ready! I love that Jeff Beck Group album, but I do have a thing for rock with soul influences (Stormbringer by Deep Purple, eh?) Who Else! has a lot of electronica going on, it's pretty interesting, but don't think it's for everybody. I haven't listened to it much, though.. ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 18:25
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I love his renditions of A Day In The Life and personally, my favorite one, Surf's Up. [TUBE]7Ji0ZE0jpcg[/TUBE]
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 22:09
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! ------------- "Read some Kerouac and it put me on the track to burn a little brighter now..." (Marillion) |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 05 2012 at 22:58
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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. |
Posted By: Siloportem
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 04:17
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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. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 04:49
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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) |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 10:12
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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. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |