The Best Of Jeff Beck

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First of all, there's the band playing on Beck's first solo single, which was recorded while he was still in the Yardbirds: Keith Moon on drums, John Paul Jones on bass and Jimmy Page, who wrote the song, on 12-string guitar.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The song was written by Max Middleton, the keyboardist Beck worked with in the Jeff Beck Group as well as on his first two solo albums, Blow by Blow and Wired.

Jeff Beck made his mark with the landmark album Truth, an album that was every bit as great as Led Zeppelin in its heaviness, and acoustic breaks as well. If, as usual, the death of a rock hero ignites a mad scramble to hear their music, there's certainly no shortage of Jeff Beck material to be consumed. Written by Stevie Wonder, this slow-burning, brooding number from 1975’s Blow By Blow shows the sheer depth of emotion Beck could wring from his instrument.

The band is comprised of Tal Wilkenfeld on bass, Vinnie Colaiuta playing drums, and keyboardist Jason Rebello. The material itself may not be top-notch but Spanish Boots contains a great riff and spectacular work by Beck, while Plynth (Water Down the Drain), The Hangman's Knee and Rice Pudding once again make it possible to draw comparisons with Zeppelin, especially seeing how, despite the fact that Beck and Stewart are better instrumentalists than Page and Plant, the scales clearly fall on the side of Zeppelin because the songs are so much better. He may not have had the global vision of Jimmy Page , because Beck is not a particularly gifted composer, arranger or producer, but if you look only at his work on the six-string, you can count on the fingers of one hand the guitarists who can match him.Of course, there's no rock musician who can shine if they don’t have a half-decent song to express themselves in.

Flash was released in 1985 and won a Grammy for “Best Rock Instrumental Performance” for the composition “Escape. Furthermore, in both cases, the two guitarists are far ahead of the singer, with all due respect to Keith Relf, his voice simply wasn't up to the great British vocalists of the time - like Roger Daltrey, Steve Marriott, Paul Rodgers, Robert Plant or a character we'll talk about next, Rod Stewart - but Beck's work is so advanced that these songs are still key when it comes to tracing the evolution of the electric guitar.Jeff Beck Group' contains "Going Down," one of Beck's best-known tracks and a perennial concert favourite, as well as the album-opening highlight "Ice Cream Cakes. The guitarist finds the right vehicle to express himself and with his famous Tele-Gib (a hybrid guitar with the body of a 1959 Fender Telecaster and various pieces from other guitars, including the pickups from a 1959 Gibson Flying V) he once again proves that he is still an exceptional and adventurous guitarist, after a career spanning more than ten years. Jeff Beck and the legendary Les Paul were good friends, and often when he was stateside Jeff would go to Les Paul’s weekly gig and jam with his own hero.

While BBA never succeeded on a visceral level, there are some interesting musical moments to come out of this brief collaboration, but Jeff Beck needed to get serious after this. If you enjoy guitar playing that goes beyond just the screaming guitar in a band, get this CD and see what can be done in the right hands. The cd was classed as used but is in perfect condition, so thank you yee-ith for great service, excellent product and good value. This is Beck's Bolero, an instrumental that still sounds ahead of its time, with Beck shining with his Les Paul through a Vox AC30. Propelled by the galvanic rhythm section, Beck slashes his way into "Scatterbrain," where a dizzying keyboard and guitar line leads to more energetic soloing from Beck and band.Led Boots” was an obvious nod to his friend Jimmy Page, but other than that, it was a tour de force with a strange drum tempo that only the best could try. Shortly after being booted out of The Yardbirds, Beck showed his old paymasters what you could *really* do with the blues. A fan favourite, the wandering yet always sweetly melodic playing on Freeway Jam rides past a funky, jazz-fusion backdrop that showed Beck was already moving in far more adventurous waters than his former blues boom alumni. Like the A side, the B side was a selection of titles from the band's debut album, Five Live Yardbirds, released in 1964 when the lead guitarist was still Clapton. You Know What I Mean” opened up with a funky rhythm that exploded as keyboardist Max Middleton, bassist Phil Chenn and drummer Richard Bailey took flight, with searing guitar lines that were just as important because Jeff Beck made them memorable to the average listener, and jazz and rock music would never be quite the same.