Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
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Artist: Jeff BeckBrand: Sony
Edition: 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: Blow By Blow=TIGHT!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant piece of jazz-rock-funk fusion from the height of the period.
What can you say about Jeff Beck? He was tapping before Eddie Van Halen, using the blower well before "Frampton Comes Alive", pioneering psychedlic rock with his first Yardbirds' track "Heart Full of Soul", using Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking ala Mark Knopfler(Dire Straits)/Lindsay Buckingham(Fleetwood Mac), using the wah pedal in a unique way (different from Clapton/Hendrix) and experimenting with heavy rock sounds (on songs like "Plynth, Water Down the Drain") before Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin. This disc is one of many career highlights whereby Jeff is finding new sounds, putting his playing in different contexts and challenging himself to create something new.
I think the Jeff Beck Group would have been a formidable band for the ages had Rod Stewart and Ron Wood stuck it out just a little bit longer...but each of them went on to create wonderful things anyway, so no harm done. Rod's voice is classic, Ron Wood does the two-guitar attack very well with Keith Richards & The Rolling Stones-imagine what he and Beck might've done in that vein if given the time.
The highlights for me on THIS album are as follows: Jeff's interpolation of the Beatles' "She's A Woman" using the blower, the frenetic intensity of "Scatterbrain" which is vaguely reminiscent of the classical piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" (but has a crazy time signature like "Blue Rondo A La Turk" from Dave Brubeck), the feel-good "Freeway Jam" which is just about the perfect soundtrack for motorin' down the highway, and the funky masterpiece "Thelonius" (by Stevie Wonder) which is so down and dirty that I believe it is illegal in 10 states. "'Cause We've Ended As Lovers" by Wonder is obviously a great ballad also-but it's received heavy airplay over the years and can be found in multiple places now (including the "Secret Policeman's Other Ball" soundtrack from Amnesty International, the "Beckology" box, the "Best of Beck" compilation, "Live at Ronnie Scott's", etc.).
Enjoy!
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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