Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
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Artist: Jeff BeckEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- You Know What I Mean
- She's A Woman
- Constipated Duck
- AIR Blower
- Scatterbrain
- Cause We've Ended As Lovers
- Thelonious
- Freeway Jam
- Diamond Dust
Music reviews of Blow By Blow
Music Review: Genius.
Rating: 5 Stars
The word above and similar ( e.g. trendsetting, awesome!) has been overused and wasted on artists who lack inspiration/imagination. For me Jeff Beck is as instantly identifiable as Django Reinhardt.(i understand that Reinhardt was one of Jeffs heroes)There are lots of things that he infact shares with Django e.g. his total nonchalance towards formal musical theory, which in itself makes him fearless and without boundaries.He knows of NO restrictions but also doesn't take his talent too seriously. Another thing he shares is his incredibly good ear for music and his complete unpredictability.
BECK TAKES CHANCES!! Perhaps his lifelong fascination with fast cars and his near death misses have spilled over into his musical arena?? Whatever. Whilst other guitarists try and play 30 notes a second Beck can hold one note, bend it, add sustain, feedback & harmonics and drive you to the edge of insanity. Jeff does use the WHOLE guitar and if there's one thing alone that really impresses me about Beck is that on every song he changes his guitar tone sometimes after every few bars. In this way his guitar takes on it's own personality and at times it's like six different people having a conversation with you at once. I can't stand it when guitarists use just one tone throughout their whole album(very boring and a waste of the instruments capabilities)
This is a rare aspect. I don't know of anyone else in the rock idiom who can accomplish this...not even Hendrix could go from pure tone to mid range to fuzz to reverb all on one song ( listen to "She's A Woman"). It's also like a painter using different textures and colours to create a masterpiece.In the early days Les Paul was the only other person to colour his songs with various tones but Jeff has taken it much further.
Personally i didn't know a Strat, Tele or Les Paul could acheive so many different sounds and nuances but Jeff can go from screaming psychosis to lyrically poignant beauty all in the space of seconds.("Constipated Duck" is another example).
"Freeway Jam" became Jeffs anthem and Stevie Wonders song to Syreeta " Because We've Ended As Lovers" is very popular from this c.d. There was one tune from this record that i skipped the stylus past when i was a youngster back in 1974 and that was the last track "Diamond Dust". I preferred to hear Jeff tear down walls with feedback.
Today, as i'm alot older, this song is my all time favourite of Jeffs.
It has to be one of the most haunting and mesmerizing songs ever written.Almost from another Planet. The chords cycle is augmented and obtuse ..sort of unresolved in a Stravinsky/George Russell fashion evoking the vision of a real diamond dust sheen across the Austrian Alps. The timing seems to be 6/8 and the song is so complicated harmonically that it would make Thelonius Monk shudder.
If you are looking for the all time best guitar c.d please don't look any further. But also if you are a drummer you'd be astonished to know that the guy for this session was only 18 yrs old at the time (Richard Bailey). His overall contribution to this classic album is beyond words.
Is it any wonder why this album is still considered to be a landmark even after 34 years?
Description of Blow By Blow
Digitally Remastered Version of his Classic 1975 Release.produced By George Martin.His guitar-slinging contributions to the Yardbirds having dwarfed those of Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, Mrs. Beck's bad boy spent the next several years playing blues-rock (the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart), soul-rock (the second edition of that band), and leading a power trio. Then, he made this all-instrumental album, which was a huge 1975 success. Produced by George Martin, the nine-song session finds Beck fronting a keyboards-bass-drums outfit, augmented by some tastefully unobtrusive string arrangements. Call it a jazz-fusion album at your own risk. While Beck's playing is less in-your-face than his previous efforts, all the fierce attack, thick tone, microtonal bends, distortion, feedback, vibrato, sustain, sonic hoodoo, and rhythmic and harmonic creativity that the man's fans have come to know and love can be heard here. "Freeway Jam" boasts the most memorable melody and thus remains a Classic Rock staple to this day. "Cause We've Ended As Lovers"--written by Stevie Wonder--is Beck's gorgeous tribute to one of his own guitar-heroes, the now-deceased Roy Buchanan. --Don Waller
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