EMI reissued the Jeff Beck Group's two albums, Truth and Beck-Ola, as a two-fer CD. For casual listeners, this may not be a bad way to purchase these records, but the...
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Despite the wealth of talent, it didn't take long for Beck & Co. to submerge beneath mediocrity. His takes on the Elvis covers are interesting--but that's about it. "Rice...
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When it was originally released in June 1969, Beck-Ola, the Jeff Beck Group's second album, featured a famous sleeve note on its back cover: "Today, with all the hard...
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The first and best Beck LP. With vocals by a still-virile Rod Stewart, this is a truly inspired set of blues and blues rockers. Standouts include "I Ain't Superstitious,"...
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Despite being the premiere of heavy metal, Jeff Beck's Truth has never quite carried its reputation the way the early albums by Led Zeppelin did, or even Cream's two most...
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This is one chintzy item. Even if the latest release from veteran fret-crusher Jeff Beck contained some of the musician's best work, which it doesn't, this 10-track...
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Jeff Beck returns two years after the ten-years-in-the-making Who Else?, and You Had It Coming isn't surprising just for its rapidity, but for its music. From the moment the...
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Jeff Beck is probably the most consistent artist of the classic rock era. The legends of Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page always loom larger, but that's strictly marketing and...
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"If the voice don't say it, the guitar will play it," raps Saffron on "Pork-U-Pine," the third track on Jeff Beck's minimally titled Jeff. And he does. Beck teams with...
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Basically The Best of Beck exists because the record company wanted to have some product on the shelf while the guitarist was touring. The 14 tracks do contain some of his...
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Sony repackaged and re-released the three studio albums Jeff Beck recorded in the late '70s -- the fusion albums Blow By Blow and Wired, plus There and Back -- as a...
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While Jeff Beck is, without question, one of rock's greatest guitarists, since the release of Truth, the Jeff Beck Group's stunning 1968 debut (featuring Rod Stewart on...
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Jeff Beck has never shied away from following trends, at least as far as the musical styles he uses to back up his signature guitar sound. Back in 1969, in a sleeve note on...
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This triple-CD set -- obviously modeled after the four-CD Eric Clapton Crossroads box -- was the first attempt to survey Jeff Beck's entire career. In actual fact, that...
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Jumping on the jazz-rock bandwagon, this was the first of a pair of instrumental LPs that would regain some of Beck's stature. Produced by George Martin, with strings,...
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Produced by Nile Rodgers and Arthur Baker, Flash is Jeff Beck's surprisingly successful stab at a pop album, featuring a fine performance with Rod Stewart on "People Get...
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Guitar Shop represents guitar hero Jeff Beck's return to the scene following his 1985 pop/rock-based recording, Flash; an outing that featured his one time lead vocalist,...
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There and Back, Jeff Beck's first new studio album in four years, found him moving from old keyboard partner Jan Hammer (three tracks) to new one Tony Hymas (five), which...
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Working with Mahavishnu alumni Jan Hammer and Narada Michael Walden, Beck ventures successfully into more heavy-handed jazz rock including a (relatively) passable version...
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In 1976, Epic released Wired/Blow by Blow , combining two of Jeff Beck's finest albums, both dating from his fusion period (1975 and 1976, respectively), onto one cassette....
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Jeff Beck has made many strange albums, but none were ever quite as strange as this. With the Big Town Playboys offering support, Beck rips through 18 Gene Vincent numbers...
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While Cream and Led Zeppelin are considered the top bands to have emerged from the British blues explosion of the 1960s, there is another outfit that gets overlooked, and...
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Blow by Blow typifies Jeff Beck's wonderfully unpredictable career. Released in 1975, Beck's fifth effort as a leader and first instrumental album was a marked departure...
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Released in 1976, Jeff Beck's Wired contains some of the best jazz-rock fusion of the period. Wired is generally more muscular, albeit less-unique than its predecessor, Blow...
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