Jeff Beck - Truth
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Free Music Review: Can you handle the Truth?
Hit: 5 Stars
If you can't, then you don't appreciate rock'n'roll at its toughest. Jeff Beck is arguably the rock world's No. 1 guitar legend, next to Hendrix that is. This was his first solo gig after he left The Yardbirds (and by the way, it was Beck who made that band, not Clapton!). This is simply a pedal to the metal, 4 on the floor, all-out work out. Joined by a then-unknown Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, Jeff reinterprets old favorites and reinvents the blues, with such standout numbers like "Shapes of Things", "Blues Deluxe", and the superb "Rock My Plimsoul". Add to this some unique twists such as "Old Man River", "Morning Dew" and the mesmerizing "Beck's Bolero", and you've got an album that can't be topped. When I was in college, I played this album nearly every day. Over 20 years later, I still do. When my son gets older, he'll listen to it every day with me. It is a must have if you are a fan of guitar-driven rock and blues.The digital remastered CD adds new richness that was only hinted at on vinyl. A must have for any serious collector. Forget Zep, forget Slowhand....this guy wrote the book that those others only dreamed they could have written. One of the 15 best rock albums ever recorded. As the liner notes say, PLAY IT LOUD. And that, my friends, is the TRUTH.
Free Music Review: At least one of the top ten LPs ever
Hit: 5 Stars
This album in its entirety is one of the greatest album's I've ever heard. Rod Stewart's vocals are amazing, and at times rival Robert Plant. I admit he is no Robert Plant, but amazing none the less. Ron Wood's bass lines are incredible and it makes you wonder why the Stone's didn't get rid of Bill Wyman sooner and have Ron Wood on bass. Mickey Waller's drumming is something to be reckoned with. The drum solo at the end of "I Ain't Superstisious" will reverberate in your head for at least the next couple days. And then of course there's Jeff Beck, who in his prime, which he always is, may be better than Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and yes, even Jimi Hendrix. His guitar solos always leave you wanting more, and the dynamics of his guitar in any song is just amazing. Listen to "Beck's Bolero," and try to disagree. The track list is phenomenal, with a nice mix of blues and rock. Using some odd song choices adds a lot to the originality in this album, like playing "Ol' Man River" is great especially with Keith Moon's use on the timpani. and then in the middle when it gets a little repetative there's "Greensleeves" an acoustic guitar number resembling something Led Zeppelin did a few years later. This album has everything to be a perfect album, and that's the Truth.Free Music Review: It Pretty Much Rocks Out
Hit: 5 Stars
I like the Jeff Beck-era Yardbirds the best, I like Rod Stewart's first four albums (which he did with Mickey Waller and Ron Wood) and I like Led Zeppelin. I listened to all of these before I got into Jeff Beck. Why do I mention these? Well, because they all connect back to Beck. This album is for anyone who is a fan of any of the above and is definitely a "guitar" album. Sure, Zeppelin and Clapton got all of the attention, but this is where it's at. I've listened to this album plenty of times and it still sounds fresh. It also helps that there aren't any hit singles off of it and the radio hasn't killed it.
The highlights? The very different but still great version of "Shapes Of Things," "Let Me Love You," "Morning Dew," "You Shook Me," "Beck's Bolero" (which you can hear bits of in Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times"), and "I Ain't Superstitious."
Also, from a guitar player's stand point, this album is absolutely perfect. Beck's tone is spot on in almost every song and his playing is superb, but not overdone.
If you don't own this, you should.
A side note: It's really sad when people confuse Jeff Beck with Beck.
Free Music Review: Timeless
Hit: 5 Stars
It is hard to understand why Jeff Beck could never find a way to be part of a group that could really make the payday. Post Yardbirds it seems that this guy moved from project to project and never really found bandmates with which he could develop into a cohesive unit. His guitar work has always been inovative and intense. I personally feel that he is by far a more inventive guitarist than Clapton or most certainly than Jimmy Page who basically ripped off a ton of Beck's licks and called them his own. Truth really showed promise when it came out. I remember my buddies and I holding the 1st Zeppelin album and Truth next to each other debating which we preferred. Truth won out everytime, but of course Rod Stewart blew our minds as well. This Jeff Beck group just faded away and you always heard how hard Beck was to work with and that is why nothing ever lasted. Years later comes Blow by Blow ushering in a new phase of Jazz fusion, and once again Beck is breaking ground. Truth is a landmark album and certainly one that is a must have if for nothing other than hearing a young Rod Stewart busting out with possibly the classiest sounding rock guitarist that has ever played.Free Music Review: Led Zeppelin can't touch this
Hit: 5 Stars
Sorry Zep, but my vote for Best Blues-Hard Rock Debut of 1968 goes to Jeff Beck's Truth. It helps that Rod Stewart (A surperior frontman to Robert Plant, as everyone knows but is too scared to admit) takes the vocals and just shreds his vocal chords on the first cut, the Yardbird's Shapes of Things. Love him or hate him, you have to admit he's got PRESENCE. And Beck's guitar just wails away, equalling Stewart's trademark intensity. Then Rod takes the standard Ol' Man River and puts so much emotion into his vocal, it blows your mind, ladies & gents! And let's not forget the two Willie Dixon covers, You Shook Me & I Ain't Superstitious, which get the Beck reading and turn out just as good as the originals. Also worth it is the "every-rock-star-in-the-world-worked-on-it" instrumental Beck's Borelo, featuring Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Keith Moon and Nicky Hopkins. Talk about a star-studded lineup! They should've looked into putting an album together, with Rod singing of course. Finally we get the aptly-titled Blues Deluxe, recorded live...what a song!
Led Zeppelin never put out an album that came anywhere near this. Sorry, Zepeteers, but it's true!