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The Best Of Jeff Beck

The Best Of Jeff Beck

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After the Yardbirds, with 'Truth', Jeff Beck tears it all down to build it back up in his own image with improbable success. The biggest radio hit off the album was a version of Curtis Mayfield and the “Impressions” 1965 “Civil Rights” anthem “People Get Ready. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Most of his best known work is here – “Led Boots”, “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” and a bit rushed “Where Were You”, but he once again outdoes himself with “A Day In The Life”, and shows he is one of the few who can do a Beatles song justice.

Even “Nessum Dorma”‘s main movement is here, and Jeff Beck matches its profound emotional load easily. Where other fusion players would make their own distinctive impact, Jeff Beck somehow remembered to keep things rocking and on great songs like Stevie Wonder’s “‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” showing his incredible sense of melody before blowing the doors off on “Freeway Jam” and closing with the majestic and beautiful “Diamond Dust” would be regarded even more as one of the most innovative and original guitar geniuses of all time. In 1971 He moved to Los Angeles, California to finish his schooling where he became an inner city pastor promoting and hosting gospel concerts. Written by Stevie Wonder, this slow-burning, brooding number from 1975’s Blow By Blow shows the sheer depth of emotion Beck could wring from his instrument.To say that Jeff Beck is running out of ideas on 'Jeff', the third album in his electronica trilogy, would be unfair; it is quite clear that the man could churn out albums in the vein for the remainder of the decade if he'd like to. On Wired, with first-rate material and collaborators on hand, one of rock's most compelling guitarists is in top form.

Necessity proved to be the mother of invention, however, as the short-lived Beck/Page two-guitar Yardbird line-up exploded with more feral power and menace than Lou Reed and co could have ever mustered. The Shape Of Things To Come is a prime example of the sheer transcendent power the unit he assembled could summon. At the risk of alienating those loyal fans who cry out for the heavier Jeff Beck of 1969, Jeff gives them exactly that except not in the way they were hoping. The best is this moody, brooding ballad that builds over nearly six minutes to one of the guitarist's most lyrical and celebrated solos. Right now it’s my favorite Jeff Beck album, and pretty much has stayed there ever since it was released.The Nazz Are Blue, sung by Beck himself, can be seen as an antecedent to the sound of the Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin.



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