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“Superstitious”
Jeff Beck
Beck Bogert & Appice
b/ Stevie Wonder
1971 — Live in London
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1975 — JEFF BECK @ THE BOSTON HALL
An excellent audience recording (transferred from Dan Lampinski’s original cassette), one of the best capturing Beck, live, just after the release of Blow by Blow.
Jeff Beck (Guitar)
Wilbur Bascomb (Bass)
Bernard Purdie (Drums)
Max Middleton (Keyboards)
Setlist:
1 Constipated Duck
2 She’s A Woman
3 Freeway Jam
4 Definitely Maybe
5 Superstitious
6 Keyboard Solo
7 Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
8 Power
9 Got The Feeling
10 You Know What I Mean
“You Know What I Mean”
1975 — Blow by Blow
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Other than that credited as “The Jeff Beck Group,” Blow by Blow was the first album credited solely to “Jeff Beck,” making it his first honestly “solo” recording. The release of Blow by Blow made a profound musical statement, igniting the next phase of a “new” music called “FUSION,” the sound that came after the collision of Rock N Roll and Jazz.
At the time (1975), Blow by Blow was a dramatic departure from the Hard Rock N Blues from which Beck had emerged. Much different than the Hard and Heavy sound of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple. Beck was an important part of the Hard Rock evolution of the Blues, but in his experimental and instrumental way, he took it further, not only playing, but more defining the new Electric Jazz, that was called “Fusion.”
SPACE COAST — Witnesses to the World’s greatest adventure, sending astronauts to the Moon, but musically limited in what we were exposed. tomostly to what we heard on the radio, in the corporate chain record store (Peaches/Specs), and the occasional road trip to see our favorite bands when they came to Florida. Anywhere in Florida, because it was rare for any to come specifically to the Space Coast. David Thrift, the older kid from Cocoa High (“Chicago”) Blue Oyster Cult at BCC (76). Rare Earth at Brassy’s, Fat Chance Band at The Thirsty Turtle, and with The Outlaws at the Orlando Sportatorium. Dirt floor, wooden bleachers (WORJ Free Tickets) …
Closest for us was Orlando, also home to our “local” Rock station, WORJ.
One WORJ program we appreciated, was every Thursday night at 7, the station would play a new album in its entirety, without interruption, except for one ad when the record was turned over from side one to two.
This Thursday, it had been promoted that Jeff Beck’s new album was queued up. The last we had heard from Jeff Beck was his new power trio, Beck, Bogert, and Appice, with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice who had played together in Vanilla Fudge and Cactus, before joining Beck in 1973.
The trio had recorded on album, and a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitious” had charted in both America, and home in England. That is what we were anxious for, but that was not what we got.
As usual, I was prepared. On my bed, darkened room, headphones, and an 8-track tape for recording at the ready.
Oh my God, what is this … An instrumental album, No. 4 on the American Billboard 200, certified platinum by the RIAA.
After the dissolution of the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice (Spring 1974), Beck took time for session work with other groups. In December, a half-hearted “audition” for The Rolling Stones took place, Beck jamming with the band for one day, before realizing their musical styles were not compatible. During this period, Beck decided to record an all-instrumental album, bringing back keyboardist Max Middleton from the second Jeff Beck Group. He hired George Martin to produce after hearing his work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra‘s 1974 album Apocalypse. According to Carmine Appice (Beck Bogert & Appice) he had written and recorded much on Blow by Blow, but his parts were edited out after a (business) dispute with Beck’s management. The fourth key contributor to Blow by Blow after Beck, Middleton, and Martin was Stevie Wonder, who gave Beck two songs, “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” and “Thelonius,” on which Wonder plays clavinet (uncredited).
Jeff & Stevie
1965 — MOTOWN INSPIRATION
Jeff Beck w/ (Little) Stevie Wonder
Jack Bruce w/ Marvin Gaye
A FUSION OF BLUES, ROCK, AND SOUL
1974 — “Superstitious” first appeared on Wonder’s album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta, made with then-wife Syreeta Wright, while Wonder never recorded “Thelonius” himself. A cover of the Beatles song “She’s a Woman“ was selected, as well as the composition “Diamond Dust” by Bernie Holland of the group Hummingbird including musicians from the second Beck Group. The other five tracks were band originals with Beck and Middleton the main writers, and the last track on each side featured string arrangements by Martin. Beck dedicated “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” to fellow guitarist Roy Buchanan, with an acknowledgement to Wonder.
Max Middleton — The same as Miles Davis when he recorded Bitches Brew (1969), Beck was attracted to the sound of the electric piano.
“It was A Fusion of Rock N Roll and Jazz, NOT ‘Fusion Jazz,’ as so many say. ‘Electric Jazz’ or ‘Jazz Rock,” Not Fusion Jazz.”
Miles, the trumpeter who, for two decades, had defined “cool,” replaced Herbie Hancock (ironically) with two, young keyboardists, Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul. Attracted to their electric sound, Miles saw it a way to move into the future, breaking away from his Straight-Ahead past.
For Beck, approaching from the Rock N Roll side (Beck Bogert & Appice), he asked Max Middleton to join him in his move toward Jazz. Fusing his Heavy Rock N Blues guitar with a more ambient, instrumental Rhythm & Soul.
“Cause We Ended As Lovers”
Jeff Beck
1986 — Live In Japan
w/ Jan Hammer (Keyboards)
Doug Wimbish (Electric Bass Guitar)
Simon Philips (Drums)
Steve Lukather (Guitar)
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BBC Paris Studios
June 29, 1972
Jeff Beck
Bob Tench
Max Middlelton
Clive Chaman
Cozy Powell
Following the release of the Jeff Beck Group album in May 1972, the band played a handful of live shows in Europe that turned out to be their last. Taped just weeks before the official dissolution of the band, these stunning performances captured in Bremen and London are stacked with delights from unsuspecting sources. The tight, funky groove of Middleton and Chaman, coupled with the fury of Beck and Tench up front, and Cozy Powell’s menacing, thunderous drums, make for compelling listening, but Beck would walk shortly after, leaving history to join the dots and pick up the pieces. London Calling revisits these two iconic performances from the Jeff Beck Group in 1972, just weeks before their demise. Featuring fully restored and professionally remastered original radio broadcasts.
01- Ice Cream Cakes
02-Morning Dew
03-Goin’ Down
04-Definitely Maybe
05-New Ways / Train Train
06-Ain’t No Sunshine
07-Got The Feeling
08-Let Me Love You
09-Got The Feeling
10-Situation
11-Morning Dew
12-Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
13-Going Down
14-Definitely Maybe
“Ain’t No Sunshine”
Jeff Beck
w/ Bobby Tench (v.)
1972 — BBC Radio Session
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Jeff Beck famously played guitar on Roger Waters’ Amused to Death album in 1992. “What God Wants” was the record’s stand out, among many politically and socially conscious tunes, and Beck invited Waters to play the song, September 12, 2002, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
“Change is Gonna Come”
Jeff Beck
w/ Jimmy Hall (v.)
2018 — Olympia Theater (Paris)
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“Change is Gonna Come”
Jeff Beck
w/Jimmy Hall (Vocals)
Vinny Colaiuta
2015 — Live +
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“Day In The Life”
Jeff Beck
2015 — Live +
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“You Know, We Know”
Jeff Beck
1986 — Flash
p/ Nile Rogers
Doug Wimbish (Electric Bass Guitar)
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Jeff Beck (Live at Ronnie Scott’s)
Japanese Television
After seeing a Tack>>Head show in London, Jeff Beck invited Doug to his country home to jam over a weekend. After, Beck asked Doug to join his band (Jan Hammer, Simon Philips, and Steve Lukather) on his upcoming Japanese tour, that included Carlos Santana.
Joe Satriani Not Of This Earth
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