The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
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Artist: The Jeff Beck GroupEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- All Shook Up
- Spanish Boots
- Girl From Mill Valley
- Jailhouse Rck
- Plynth (Water Down The Drain)
- The Hangman's Knee
- Rice Pudding
- Bonus Track: Sweet Little Angel
- Bonus Track: Throw Down A Line
- Bonus Track: All Shook Up (Early Version)
- Bonus Track: Jailhouse Rock (Early Version)
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Free Music Review: Beck To The Future
Hit: 5 Stars
If there is anyone who doubts Jeff Beck deserves a seat at the table with Hendrix and Clapton in the pantheon of rock-guitar deities, s/he should get a grip on this CD right quick - after putting on asbestos gloves. From his pile-driving days with the Yardbirds through the two Jeff Beck Group efforts, (this is the second), and various collaborations afterwards, Beck has been a fearless innovator, axe murderer, and prototypical rock and roll monster. Much has been made of the Yardbird guitar troika - Clapton, Beck, Page - and while it makes an interesting rock footnote, Beck was responsible for their highest highs, the Clapton/Page contributions were far less interesting. Beck was as much of a pioneer as he was technically overpowering.
The first Jeff Beck Group album, Truth, is an absolute essential. Rod Stewart's vocals suit the material perfectly, Nicky Hopkins on piano is ideal, Ron Wood holds down the bass, and Mick Waller kicks skins. Songs like Blues De Luxe and I Ain't Superstitious pretty much define the Brit-blues-band sound. (Beck-Ola has one song that would have fit there - a bonus track - Sweet Little Angel.) However, for the most part, Beck-Ola is an entirely different animal, a wild studio jam made in an atmosphere of rage. Wood, Waller, and Stewart were getting ready to break up TJBG by jumping ship to form Faces. Worse still, the least worthy guitarist to play with the Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, was stealing Beck's thunder as their mutual management helped assemble an absolutely awful group destined to pollute the airwaves for years under the name Led Zeppelin. Beck was furious, and you can hear it in the music.
Two Elvis hits, All Shook Up and Jailhouse Rock, are amped-up and slapped around so rudely as to be unrecognizable; both are highlights. Spanish Boots, Plynth, Hangman's Knee, and Rice Pudding are originals. All are rude enough to kick a hole in the barn, Hangman in particular grinds raw and hard. Stewart should get a Purple Heart for his ability to sing over this mayhem; his raspy, harsh insistence is superb. While everything here demands listening - even the oddly melancholic Nicky Hopkins number - Girl From Mill Valley - which seems to belong on a different album - Rice Pudding will actually change your life. The level of intensity and raw rock energy are at the point where you're quite certain your speakers - and head - will explode. It's as though Beck won't be satisfied until he has pushed his fellow musicians, and the music itself, right to the point of no return, the vanishing point.
After a particularly dazzling flute solo, Roland Kirk would sometimes say, "Try that Herbie Mann." Listen to this CD a few times and imagine Jeff Beck Saying, "Try that Jimmy Page." It's a quirky one, granted, but Beck-Ola is a must-have all the same.
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