Two Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow vs Wired
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Topic: Two Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow vs Wired
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: Two Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow vs Wired
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 15:06
| In honor (and remembrance) of Jeff Beck who just passed away a few days ago I offer up his two main fusion albums from the mid 70s: Blow By Blow and Wired. |
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 15:18
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Blow By Blow by far. That album was totally unique. Wired, although an excellent album sounds too much like the Mahavishnus. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 15:23
I'm listening now and parts sound like Billy Cobham's spectrum (who played with MO) so I get where you're coming from.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 16:29
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Blow by Blow. George Martin produced, guest bit by Stevie Wonder, excellent rock fusion release. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 17:06
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Both equally.
Thats's not a minus. "Led Boots," "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," the concert staple "Blue Wind"...sheer brilliance. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 17:18
Not denying that. Just saying i think Blow By Blow is better because it is perfectly constructed. Beck's guitar playing on Wired is a bit too John McLaughlin. Great album but not as perfectly original :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 17:43
It's all good. This sort of poll is a pot-stirrer, either way you cut it.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 17:46
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The eternal question. When I was a youngin' BbB was a bonafide classic of "Fusion" [even though it wasn't really], but for me it was Wired which has a raw, electric quality. You could smell the ozone in the studio on that one - - ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 18:11
Yeah, a real pot-stirring poll with a both equally option!
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 18:31
You know what you did! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 19:14
Yes. Create a poll. Not my first one either.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 19:17
You're taking a break from the other place. Seriously, why isn't There and Back in this poll? ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 20:01
No, I do double duty just like you. Actually, these are his two fusion albums. I don't know There and Back. I do have a few others (you had it coming, Truth and Beck Ola but they don't fit in (not fusion)).
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 22:35
| I see comparisons to MO. Doesn't some of that have to do with the fact that Jan Hammer played on Wired? |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 13 2023 at 23:44
I hope you address that soon! There and Back features Jan Hammer (composer) on the first three tracks, then shifts gears. "Star Cycle" is superb. You may recognize "The Pump" — it's on the Risky Business soundtrack. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 01:17
Yep. ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 13:01
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I voted for both equally. Blow by Blow was his J/R Fusion introduction and approached the genre more from the rock side than the jazz. It may very well be his masterpiece and revived both his career and reputation. Wired, however, takes that same approach and adds a more frantic energy to it despite also being more easily accessable. Favorite tracks from both include Freeway Jam and Blue Wind. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 13:44
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These two albums together were my first exposure to Jeff Beck. However, I do have a definite preference for Blow By Blow, a masterpiece of an album. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 14:42
They're both equal 3-star albums for me and they're both in my CD collection too. 
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 14:57
The above accurately describes my feelings on this subject ------------- |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 15:52
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Blow by Blow narrowly over Wired. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 16:10
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Live with Jan Hammer Group. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 18:25
| Both equally for me. Great guitar playing on both recordings. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 14 2023 at 18:44
3 Stars? What's a 5 star album for you? Abacab? Open Your Eyes?
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 11:00
| I vote Wired. My older brother won a vinyl copy off a radio station. He gave it to me. Blow By Blow may be better...but Wired oozes nostalgia for me. |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 11:50
| Both equally. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 13:44
So click your vote, so far I'm the only Wired vote -  ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 14:09
I disagreed with the management in 2021...now they won't allow me to vote in polls.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 18:31
What? That's ridiculous. Oh well. I better be careful with what I say otherwise they won't let me create polls let alone vote. Anyway, sorry to hear that but glad to see you still post on here. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: January 15 2023 at 19:34
That's pretty childish. Just like Ice-T craftily said "Freedom Of Speech.... Just Watch What You Say." Oh and Metallica (even here on this site!) "Freedom (with their exceptions....)" ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: January 16 2023 at 00:03
| Both equally |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 16 2023 at 09:42
Hi, The Mahavishnu Orchestra had a much larger influence than we imagine ... and you can see it in a lot of "progressive" music, although perhaps not as jazz tinted as it was here. At the time, Jeff Beck took to the material and even learned to do the high level stuff that someone like Terje Rypdal was doing with his "Odyssey" group, which was more jazz tinted, but the guitar was a lot more than just a solo. It defined all the moods and then some! Jeff Beck, eventually did exactly the same thing on an album with Roger Waters, but he did not need to "copy" Terje Rypdal, since he was his own musician and did whatever he felt like it and ... sometimes better than the original! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: January 16 2023 at 10:49
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Love both albums but I voted for Blow by Blow. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: January 16 2023 at 17:30
 ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 01 2023 at 23:27
| Blow by Blow, by the slightest of measures. My personal favorite from Jeff Beck is There and Back. All three are great though. Truth be known, Blow by Blow, Wired and There and Back are the only studio albums of Beck I go back and listen to on a somewhat regular basis. Live stuff by Beck is an all together different matter as that is where Beck truly shines. |