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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 21, 2019 15:55:51 GMT
Arranged albums in order, starting with
Beckology 1991 3 CD which spans a few albums with tracks from early bands Tridents and Yardbirds
Been a while since I played this.
Sounding good even in his early days.
More later with
1968 Truth
1969 Beck-Ola
1971 Rough and Ready
1972 Jeff Beck Group
1973 Beck, Bogert & Appice
1975 Blow by Blow
1976 Wired
1977 Jeff Beck With the Jan Hammer Group Live
1980 There and Back
1985 Flash
1989 Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
1992 Frankie's House
1993 Crazy Legs
1999 Who Else!
2001 You Had It Coming
2003 Jeff
2006 Live At BB King Blues Club
2008 Live at Ronnie Scott's
2010 Emotion & Commotion
2016 Loud Hailer
I may be some time
Don't have
1974 Live in Japan
2006 Live In Tokyo 99'
2007 Official Bootleg USA
2010 Live and Exclusive from the Grammy Museum
2011 Rock & Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul
2015 Live+
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Post by John on Apr 21, 2019 16:00:12 GMT
He phrases like no one else
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2019 16:16:26 GMT
For me, Who Else! and You Had it Coming are creative peaks, but I really like parts of Emotion & Commotion and Loud Hailer, too.
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Post by John on Apr 21, 2019 17:09:48 GMT
Did not like Loud Heller For me the live album at Ronnie Scott The ultimate guitar based album imo
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Post by Slinger on Apr 21, 2019 18:35:25 GMT
Jeff has a very individual style of playing. He uses the tremolo arm like few other players do to achieve his signature sound.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2019 18:38:00 GMT
I love how he makes the guitar sing like no other.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2019 19:16:54 GMT
I don’t know what it is or why, but I find Jeff Beck just OK at best and I don’t find any of the stuff I’ve heard to have much musical quality.
Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop is one album I have, and it has a couple of good tracks, but that’s about it.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 21, 2019 19:30:58 GMT
Beckology is a good intro into a long career, up to 1991
CD 1 is very early career and quality is adequate. Good music.
Most of CDs 2 and 3 can be found on other albums. Much information in the booklet that comes with the set. Good eyesight required as tiny text.
If you are a completionist or a heavy duty JB fan then you have to have it
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 21, 2019 19:41:36 GMT
Truth and Beck-Ola with a supergroup in the making
JB, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood bass, Nicky Hopkins piano. Micky Most producing and making a mess of it IMO.
Both albums should be so good and yet neither fulfil the potential
I give Truth 6/10 and Beck-Ola 7/10
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Post by Slinger on Apr 21, 2019 19:49:06 GMT
I suppose, other than Beck's Bolero this is Jeff's signature track, Cause We've Ended As Lovers. Watch how "busy" his right hand is. He's not only picking the strings with it, but he's controlling the tremolo arm, and the volume control to get the "violining" effect, all at the same time. The other bloke's not bad either.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2019 21:23:23 GMT
So for me, the way I watch that video, Jeff Beck was good, but then Clapton blew him away.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2019 22:01:37 GMT
Quite the opposite for me: Beck did extraordinary things, Clapton just did ordinary guitar heroics.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 22, 2019 7:56:35 GMT
Beck is incredible. He literally makes his instrunent speak. As far as I am concerned, on the evidence of that video, Beck is Shakespeare, while Clapton is Reader's Digest!
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2019 9:11:10 GMT
I don’t know what it is or why, but I find Jeff Beck just OK at best and I don’t find any of the stuff I’ve heard to have much musical quality. Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop is one album I have, and it has a couple of good tracks, but that’s about it. I find Guitar Shop ok, 7/10. Bit too in your face style He has a variety of styles that is merely one I would not be a fan if he only did albums in the style of Truth and Beck-Ola, the first two. There are some essential albums coming up Watch this space ! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2019 9:22:10 GMT
Some history I should have put in the first post.
Beck and Jimmy Page were mates from their teens
Clapton, Beck and Page were all in the Yardbirds.
Beck left them and Page was holding the reins. Was going to be The New Yardbirds, until Eric came up with
Led Zeppelin
as a comment on how it would go. Not quite right Eric.
We saw JB at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival 1967.
Thought they were ok. Rod on vocals said at one point "and now over to the guvnor" or similar and JB sang Hi Ho Silver Lining.
All of us were staggered. Awful. Micky Most insisted JB do the vocals. He didn't rate the rest of the band at all.
Made a few bob as a single as did Love is blue - not for us.
We put JB to one side for some years before discovering he actually was pretty good
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2019 9:28:47 GMT
Beck or Clapton ?
I'll take both please. Exactly what I said many years ago to
Hendrix or Clapton ?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 22, 2019 9:31:21 GMT
I like Clapton's style and his singing voice.
Beck is a master guitarist (in the manner of Gilmour: no heroics, just makes his guitar sing).
There is room for both in this world!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 22, 2019 9:33:00 GMT
I think it was Keith Moon who made the comment about lead balloons, Mike.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2019 9:51:50 GMT
I think it was Keith Moon who made the comment about lead balloons, Mike. Could be Chris. I read it very many years ago. My guess is a journo mistake. Could be me tho' |
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