Jeff Beck - Truth
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Free Music Review: Tasty indeed
Hit: 5 Stars
I read with amusement the other reviews comparing Beck to Page and insisting you must make an either/or choice between the two. That is pure hogwash...it is both/and.
Although the Page contributions to this project are appreciated, Beck and Stewart are the rightful stars, and they pale to no one.
Beck's guitar work is far superior on Truth compared to anything in the Yardbirds era, and in my opinion any of his later work. The sounds he makes with the rudimentary effects of that era are phenomenal, and sound like they could have been recorded yesterday. When you hear this, you can hear the influence he had upon musicians like Trower, Vaughn and even his contemporary, Page.
This was the breakout for Stewart, and his raw, strained vocals add an edge to these blues that will make you bleed at times. He never sounded better.
I wish that Beck/Stewart would have recorded more than two albums (see Beck-Ola). But because they didn't, the mighty Zep was able to fill that void.
Free Music Review: Great, Overlooked Classic Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
At first glance, the diversity of stuff on this album (rockers like the opener and the instrumantal "Beck's Bolero," blues covers like "You Shook Me" and "I Ain't Superstitious," and versions of "Old Man River" and "Greensleeves") makes it seem like Jeff Beck and his band went into the studio, randomly recorded a bunch of songs, and picked 10 of them to fill an album. (Actually, that is probably what they did.) But the material is excellent in general, so when listening to it, the album feels not like a 40-minute random batch of 10 songs but an epic covering a wide range of genres, in spite of its few weaknesses here and there. It almost seems odd that by the album's close, you've heard only two-sides worth of material and not four.
Considering the all-star lineup of Beck's group and the influence this album had, it seems fairly odd that it is (at leat as I see it) fairly obscure when compared with the work that Beck's fellow Yardbirds alums were doing around the same time and in the following few years.
Free Music Review: way before its time
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this album almost 20 years after it was first released and I was blown away!First on record in the mid eighties and later on cd,It's still my favorite Beck recording.I had all his stuff with the Yardbirds,so I was curious where he went from there.Orginially he was going to form a supergroup with Jimmy Page,John entwistle,and at the core-The late great Keith Moon on drums,who you can hear screaming in the middle of Becks Bolaro.Moon actually came up with the name Led Zeppelin and this is the album Page nicked alot of his ideas from Beck.Listen to this album and then the first Zeppelin album and you'll see what I mean,and Truth came out a full year before.Plus you get geat bass playing from Ron Wood,terrific vocals by Rod Stewart,intense dumming by Micky Waller,and the late Nicky Hopkins on keys,And Keith Moon on timpini[credited as you know who] on Old Man River,and of course Jeff Beck on guiter.This album influenced almost every hard rock band of the seventies and beyond,a must buy!Free Music Review: The dawn of heavy metal
Hit: 5 Stars
Before Led Zeppelin I, there was Jeff Beck's Truth. This album is arguably the first heavy metal album, and even if it's not the original, it's certainly one of the founding fathers. Beck casts a mold here that is modelled nearly song for song by the later Led Zeppelin I. There's the opening fast rocker (Shapes of Things/Good Times Bad Times). Two covers of Willie Dixon songs (You Shook Me, I Ain't Superstitious/You Shook Me, I Can't Quit You Babe) The acoustic instrumental (Greensleeves/Black Mountain Side) The perfect live extended-jam number (Blues Deluxe/Dazed and Confused) The short, pulsing number (Beck's Bolero[written, insidently, by Jimmy Page]/Communication Breakdown) And the suprising, sentimental cover song (Old Man River/Babe I'm Gonna Leave You) In short, Truth is the dawn of heavy metal. The reason Led Zeppelin I is credited so often as the first is because after Truth, Beck largely moved away from heavy metal while Led Zeppelin would continually redefine the genre.Free Music Review: Back in 1968 Beck started it all
Hit: 5 Stars
In the summer of 1968 I was 15 and in my first band when i heard this LP.We had been doing the Yardbirds Shapes of things for 6 months when I heard the version on this album.I couldn't believe that someone could sing with the ease Rod Stewart delivered.I'd tried to copy that delivery into our band for our last two shows but it was impossible.There are so many styles this album started like doing bass drums guitar and vocals and not much else.Listen to Let me love you and tell me its not almost the perfect blues song.Everthing is just right without being too flashy,wonderful from beginning to end.Morning Dew as mentioned in a previous review stands out and nobody sings like Rod.I have read that the whole Led Zep idea came from this band and Jeff Beck was not too happy.This the one that started the blues revival in the late 60's.Buy it and play it loud ,Rod can really belt out a tune or two can't he.