If the album title seems self-assured, it's only truth in labelling. For his last album of ... more
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Advantages: A comprehensive history of one of the greatest guitarists of all time Disadvantages: Hi Ho Silver Lining
JeffBeck is one of the most important guitarists of the sixties, and still making excellent music today. He was in the Yardbirds along with Clapton and Page and his work was only eclipsed by the brilliance of Hendrix. This is a brilliantly compiled three CD set which contains a sixty four page booklet with track information and personel listings, as well as "the JeffBeck story" by Gene Santoro, and a complete (but eye strainingly small) band family tree.
The compilation is arranged chronologically. The first disc kicks of with his work with Tridents, followed by fifteen Yardbirds songs including "Shapes of Things", "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Happenings Ten Years Time Time Ago" as well as various blues standards and variousslices of pscychedelia. These are followed by fpour tracks live at the BBC which are standard R ...
Advantages: A look at Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday Show Disadvantages: None!
Some people say the term ?cult? is used far too often?other?s say that the term ?cult? can be used to described Sky Sports very own Soccer Saturday show. Broadcast, intriguingly enough, on Saturday?s during the football season it?s presented by armchair pundit?s favourite Jeff Stelling, and in this book he describes the ins and outs of the show, in humorous fashion.
Published by Harper Collins in April 2009, ?Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly: Saturday Afternoons in Front of the Telly? is comedic piece that will make anyone who?s ever seen and enjoyed the show to pick it up and not put it down until the very end. The title refers to the lower league defender Gareth Jelleyman, who after being sent off one afternoon was mentioned by Stelling in the context used in the title?promptly resulting in a ?corpsing? session with the panel where no ...
Advantages: Mezmerising guitar work, beautiful sound Disadvantages: Not too accessible, not melodically structured as it could be
JeffBeck is one of the pioneering blue/rock guitarsts of all time and this album captures his talent at his peak. When I first got this album i was suprised how funky it was for a "blues" guitarist as most of the track contains a rhythmically complex bass and drum partnership with Beck screaming guitar melody over it with interludes of piano and synthesizers. Beck playing is outstanding on this album and although it does not contain any of his most well known songs it sums up Beck's style superbly.
I bought it off of the internet for about £6.00 and it was well worth it. Full track listing is as follows
1.Led Boots
2. Come Dancing
3. Goodbye Prok Pie Hat
4. Head For Backstage Pass
5. Blue Wind
6. Sophie
7. Play With Me
8. Love Is Green
Although this album will not appeal to everyone I anyone with a feel for unbeat funky ...
jamespatterson101 06.08.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Wired - Jeff Beck
Personnel: Jeff Beck (guitar); Mark John (acoustic guitar); Jennifer Batten (electric & midi guitars); Bob Loveday (violin); Clive Bell (flute); Jan Hammer (keyboards, drums); Tony Hymas (keyboards); Simon Wallace (synthesizer); Randy Hope-Taylor, Pino Palladino (bass); Manu Katche (drums, percussion); Steve Alexander (drums). "What Mama Said" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Jeff Beck's first all-instrumental album in a decade finds him tossing a few contemporary peppers into his pot of musical virtuosity. Reuniting once again with GUITAR SHOP keyboardist Tony Hymas, Beck maintains a balance between contemporary, Art Of Noise-flavored tracks ("Space For The Papa," "TX138") complete with delays, techno beats and looped guitars, and a reunion with '70s fusion running buddy Jan Hammer on the heavier, Van Halen-esque "Even Odds." Beck's musical range continues to impress as he easily moves between emotive blues phrasing ("Brush With The Blues"), fleet-fingered noodling ("Blast From The East") and more ethereal numbers that bring to mind Carlos Santana's solo work ("Hip-Notica.") Beck's talent truly shines when he tackles Donal Lunny's "Declan." On it, guitar histrionics give way to Celtic arrangements that find Beck's guitar delicately dancing with Clive Bell's flute as images of foggy moors and rolling green hills float along. The brief solo piece "Another Place" could have been be an Adrian Legg outtake.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (4/1/99, p.100) - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5) - "...the chrome-funk and ice-ballad instrumentals on WHO ELSE are all cut from the familiar wailing fusion cloth of Beck's mid-Seventies beauties....WHO ELSE is a feast of tone color and riff musculature..." Entertainment Weekly (3/19/99, p.106) - "The techno-rhythm tracks and spacey melodies that threaten to engulf this still-adventurous gutiar hero's work may be dated and just this side of dumb, but few '60s-era ax-men have as much fun extracting outlandish sounds from their instruments as the original Beck..." - Rating: B
Titles on disc 1
1.
What Mama Said
2.
Psycho Sam
3.
Brush With The Blues
4.
Blast From The East
5.
Space For The Papa
6.
Angel Footsteps
7.
THX 138
8.
Hipnotica
9.
Even Odds
10.
Declan
11.
Another Place
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