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Take that EC! And, as I posted on the YouTube thread: Scatterbrain
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Beck is so good, and so under appreciated.
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8O OMG! I woke up one morning and Cail said something NICE!!! :faint:
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Don't make me start editing your posts Danlo.....

Anyone who doubts Beck's prowess needs to check out Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop. It came out in '89 or so, and it absolutely shreds.
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He 's a good technician that's for sure...right up there with Satriani, Mick Ronson, Trower and those guys.
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Loved Blow by Blow and his other '70s instrumental album the name of which I can't recall at the moment, although mostly in a "damn-those-were-a-few-cool-bars-of-music" type of way. Not overall.

Individual phrases perfectly placed.

I never heard "Guitar Shop".
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Are you thinking of Wired? I've never heard Guitar Shop-in fact I may go out and buy it today.
I love the old stuff too-like Beck-Ola, Truth, Rough and Ready and the 'orange' album. Aside from Faces, Rod Stewart does a fantastic job on The Jeff Beck Group's first two LPs with classics like Ain't Superstitious and Shape of Things (too bad he had to go downhill after that). Plynth (Like water down the drain) is one of my favorite songs of all
time and, of course, the guitar lines are blistering.

I saw Jeff Beck live 7 years ago and he totally blew the roof off the Kiva-one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
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Guitar Shop features Terri Bozzio on drums; yet another shamefully underrated musician.

This album will make anyone a Beck believer.
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Alas the poor Yardbirds never had any good guitarists. Only Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, poor babies! :P
someone at wikipedia wrote:Rather than presenting the Yardbirds with a setback after Clapton's departure, Jeff Beck's tenure in the band actually propelled the group forward into new artistic realms that were revolutionary at the time, as well as upward commercially, and saw the band at their absolute zenith in terms of their influence and prominence within the existing music scene in the UK and abroad. The Yardbirds embarked on their first US tour in late August, 1965, and would return for 3 more US tours during Beck's time with the group, further solidifying his reputation as the most exciting and innovative guitarist on the international 'pop' music scene. A brief European tour took place in April, 1966.

The Beck-era Yardbirds produced a number of memorable, groundbreaking recordings, from single hits like "Heart Full of Soul", "I'm A Man", and "Shapes of Things" to the Yardbirds album (known more popularly as Roger the Engineer, and first issued in the U.S. in a bowdlerised version called Over Under Sideways Down), and established him as a top-rank guitarist.
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I have Flash at home, I bought it learn a song, but there are a few tracks on it I really like. Anyway, here's a youtube thing with Jeff that maybe you guys never saw, due to it's source:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFQbZMO7fg
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion


I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.


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Flash is a so-so album with a couple of great guitar licks. Both "Ambitious" and "Gets Us All in the End" are amazing.
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danlo wrote:Are you thinking of Wired? I've never heard Guitar Shop-in fact I may go out and buy it today.

I saw Jeff Beck live 7 years ago and he totally blew the roof off the Kiva-one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
Yeah, Wired was the one I was thinking of.

It's amazing how good such guys are live. I'm glad you saw him live, Danlo.

And yeah, Cail's tempted me to pick up "Guitar Shop" too.
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Couldn't find Guitar Shop but did buy Beck-Ola, what a line up!
Vocals: Rod Stewart
Bass: Ron Wood
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Drums: Tony Newman
Guitar: Jeff Beck

Am I going to rock out tonight!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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dANdeLION wrote:I have Flash at home, I bought it learn a song, but there are a few tracks on it I really like. Anyway, here's a youtube thing with Jeff that maybe you guys never saw, due to it's source:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFQbZMO7fg
Great video, dAN.

The first time I ever heard of Jeff Beck? This video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHnrErEGs7k
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That is such a great song DLB. I love the duality of Beck's playing on that track.
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i like Beck's version of Goodbye Porkpie Hat on Wired.

and Led Boots. and Come Dancin'.
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I am a fan of The Yardbirds.
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Check out the playlist on Beck-Ola:
All Shook Up
Spanish Boots

Girl from Mill Valley (isn't that B. J. Hunicutt's wife? :wink: )
Jailhouse Rock
Plynth (Water down the Drain)
The Hangman's Knee

and the awesome Rice Pudding

and I haven't even put it on yet--I tell you I'm quivering! :R

edit: I'm listening to it now a half hour later and Tam's wandering around going to herself, "The guitar is hyper, but doesn't that guy sound like the singer on my Great American Songbook CDs?" :mrgreen:
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Cail wrote:That is such a great song DLB. I love the duality of Beck's playing on that track.
Yes indeed. I think this is probably the only Rod Stewart vocal that I can stand.
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You know buying that CD is like buying a whole 'nother CD-as it has four bonus tracks never heard before, and the bonus tracks are better than the original album made in '69. dlb might change his mind if he ever listens to Sweet Angel and Throw Down a Line. I, personally, like the earlier versions of All Shook Up and Jailhouse Rock included. I think Beck actually sings backup on Throw Down a Line I've never heard him sing before-it's pretty cool. 8)

I wish I could mp3 this stuff for you guys-it's truly classic and very raw blues.
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