when you listen to Beck on Yardbirds songs, you get the feeling that pop music was never really for him, and he was bored, thus why he started to break down some boundaries.
If I remember this story correctly, Beck says he was inspired when he heard something on the radio car radio one day, some "really rude noises" that lit him up and made him say to himself "Yeah,
that's what I wanna do!"
It was Les Paul who was pretty revolutionary in his own time.
Think he retells it in his
Car Crazy interview.
Some nice notes about the making of
Truth :
https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-jeff-beck-group-the-whole-truth
as i get older, i prefer instrumentals over songs with words. Beck is a nice find right now for me
I always loved his instrumentals.
Yep, it was one of the things I loved about
Beck-Ola that let me know I'd found a new hero.
Beck-Ola reaches out and grabs you by the ears from the first lick on "Water Down the Drain", and I can still listen to Rod Stewart on that one, but the piece-de-resistance is the closing cut "Rice Pudding" (instrumental):
Hendrix "borrowed" the opening lick a few times when performing the concerts in Hawaii that got used in Rainbow Bridge, it can be heard in the fadeout of "Ezy Rider" on the "Incident at Rainbow Bridge" bootleg.
The story's told in the booklet accompanying the remastered
Beck-Ola but it incorrectly identifies where it was used.
This woulda been within 6 months after hanging out with Beck in New York.
Frist time I heard Skynrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets" I knew it was "borrowed" from "Water Down The Drain", but, like, these guys were still in a high school garage band compared to Beck.
i can already tell I like Wired better than Blow by Blow...
I did out of the gate, too.
"Goodby Pork Pie Hat"
His jazz leanings were already showing up in Rough and Ready", first album after
Beck-Ola and following a couple of year hiatus (auto accident/broken wrist); the instrumental on that one is "Raynes Park Blues"(subsequently called "Max's Tune"); then on "the Orange Album" (technically just
the Jeff Beck Group is his cover of "Goin' Down'" (so also known as the "Goin' Down" album), the instrumental highlight on that one is "Definitely Maybe".
BTW in case it got missed, Sir George Martin produced
Blow By Blow and
Wired.
Jeff Beck does more with his right hand than any guitarist I have ever seen. He is constantly on the whammy bar and is super creative with it. His hands are also freakishly large.
Jan Hammer had a lot to do with his sound in Wired I think.
"Bout 8 years
before "Miami Vice", too.
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