Somewhat ironically I heard, that at least on "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" and maybe on more tracks of the album as well, Jeff doesn't play a Les Paul but a Telecaster with Humbuckers, that Seymour Duncan gave Jeff in exchange for his "Yardbirds" Fender Esquire, a trade Jeff later maybe regretted a little bit.
I wore Blow by blow out......I liked Return to forever....Lenny white etc. The 4th of july 1976 we had a big music festival......"Sonar Eclipse" Laswell played bass....Axis....my friends band......the good old day.
Split Enz was one of those bands when adults said "What are those weirdos doing on TV?" it prompted kids to rebelliously run down to the record store to purchase. Thankfully my mother (who taught us how to sew our own Bowie 70s/early 80s era ecclectic designs) was impressed with the sewing skills of drummer Noel Crombie and understood that there's a difference between an artist's/band's stage costumes and their everyday clothing. For art rock fans, lots of Spilt Enz film clips/music videos to check out on UA-cam. It's important to see the visuals before just hearing this band. In chronological order start with... "Late Last Night" (Mental Notes album) "My Mistake" (Dizrythmia) "I See Red" (Frenzy) "I Got You", "Shark Attack", "Nobody Takes Me Seriously" and "I Hope I Never"...Beware...a melancholic break-up song! (True Colours) There are albums up to 1983, before some members later morphed into Crowded House. True Colours was their highest selling album. The limited edition "Laser Etched" version of this vinyl album was a "world first" in design. It has a 3D multi-coloured prism effect when the record spins/hit the light. Different coloured covers were available. Impressed with your autopgraphed Mental Notes album Mazzy and thanks for reminding this Australian to revisit Split Enz. 👱♀️❤
Mazzy, I'm a big Jeff Beck fan since the days of the Yardbirds. My all time favorite recording of Jeff's was "JeffBeck, Who Else" It is a live recording and the rendition of Brush with the Blues, is spellbinding. It is always fresh and just takes me to a zone. All aI can say is if you haven't heard this, do so. It is just spell binding and it will transport you to that venue in space and time. Thanks so much for your efforts here....I always look forward to your insight.
I just ordered the Analog Productions copy of that Jeff Beck Blow by Blow yesterday after listening to Truth and realizing I needed more Jeff Beck in my collection
I just listened to Jeff Becks live-album "Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)". Where Jeff Beck goes away from his more aggressive sound and jazz-fusion. It's more of a rockabilly album or something. Mainly two different singers and lots of shorter songs. I think many people will recognize a few of them. It's a big step to the left from what he was doing otherwise but still quite fun.
Good for you! I still have my BLOW BY BLOW LP...bought in 1975. That album was a game changer for me...the other 3 musicians on that album (Chen-Bailey-Middleton) took no prisoners. "Scatterbrain"?!?! Every track is great...all killer, no filler..
Hi Mazzy, I remember Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman' arriving like some bolt from the blue in the UK charts in 1981. Thankfully we had John Peel in the UK who would play and champion very left-field music on his BBC radio programme. I think the record reached no.2 in the singles chart. It can't only have been art students like me buying it.
I will have to listen to Laurie Anderson album. I have the Peter Gabriel So CD with This The Picture song. I am seeing Crowded House in May. They are coming to the Paramount Theater in Seattle.
Former drummer for Robert Plant, Andy Edwards will be posting an "epic" review of Jeff Beck on his channel very soon . Andy has played in prog bands like IQ. His knowledge of prog and fusion is pretty amazing.
Wackers on Spotify. Yep, Idle Race best known in England for Skeleton & The Roundabout. Jeff Beck would cruise through our village near Wallington where he was born, in the mid-60's in a flash car.
I first heard Laurie Anderson’s O Superman on a New at the time “New Wave” station out of Buffalo in the very early 80s. It was so refreshing to her music that was different at that time. By then we were burned out by 20 minute drum solos, etc. I still love it today. I’m curious, you mentioned Glam music a couple times. Do you have ny and if so what bands do you like? That too was different at the time, although it ran its course in a few years. Great set of records !
LOVE the Birthday Party album. Totally adore it. First heard it in a 5CD set with Little Games by the Yardbirds and albums by Tomorrow, July and The Gods
Well done Mazzy on the commentary of Blow By Blow. Appreciate your thoughts overall but I want to emphasize what you said about the sound . It truly is an awesome sounding record. Like you, I have had it since 1975. I recall how I marvelled how great it sounded even back then and, today, it is on par with any re-issue /re-maser I have. (The drums sound amazing.). There was a "string" of great sounding records in the mid 70s. Dark Side of the Moon, Crime of the Century, Dire Straits, ( First Album) Ziggy Stardust to name a few . To me these along with Blow By Blow were "audiophile" records of the time and still are.
I have appreciated him since the Yardbirds. Loved that and Truth and Beck Ola. The fusion stuff just left me cold at the time. Still not a fan of Wired.
New Yr Greetings from Liverpool UK. Great video as always Mazzy You've opened up my ears to some new really exciting artists and genres thanks. Can I suggest a ranking video of albums by 'lesser' known siblings of more famous artists? Keep the vids coming.
Yes, from the point of your own self there, Mazzy - you create a lot of good quality reviews and interesting commentary (of course) here on the Toob - thanks. Jeff is playing a Les Paul solid body guitar in the album painting btw. Apart from that, purely out of respect, everyone needs to just go back now and listen to the final track on Blow by Blow - "Diamond Dust" - err, that is WHY people have often referred to him as a certain type of "genius" on the electric side of things. One of my own heroes along the way - R.I.P. the unique Jeff Beck.
"Now only an expert can deal with the problem Because half the problem is seeing the problem And only an expert can deal with the problem Only an expert can deal with the problem" Laurie Anderson
hey mazzy....i remember buying blow by blow when it came out...i liked it o.k...then i bought wired...that sound hit me even better...then there was the live album with jan hammer, which was o.k. and a bit later flash, which was kinda cool and had the great rod stewart performance of people get ready...looked like he was just about to make 'another' comeback with johnny depp...we'll never know...stay well yourself my friend...be cool...peace...rocky
Was Laurie Anderson one of the first to live stream a concert in a small venue on the internet ??? I even want to say it was in San Francisco??? 1990’s????? Jeff Becks, Wired album was always a favorite. As always enjoyed your video.
Hey Mazzy I had a feeling you'd change your mind on Blow By Blow. I probably didn't get it originally but it become one of my all time favs. My original Canadian pressing sounds awesome too.
Mazzy, I would be interested to know if you have come across an album "Sister Brother Lover" by Northwind on the Regal Zonophone label ? One of the band went on to set up Ca Va Studio in an old Glasgow church where many fine albums were recorded.
The Wackers were very good. There was a variation or off shoot of this group was ROXY. Not Roxy Music which was a different group, different vibe and a later era. Please check out Roxy and let us know what you think....it was from about 1967-68 or so. It is a long time favorite of mine...Cuts such as New York, Youv'e got lot of syle ....Bob Segarini was the heart and soul behind both The Wackers and ROXY...check it out.
When being interviewed about his hot rod collection Beck tells a story about visiting Clapton. On his way home he didn't make a curve and banged himself up a bit. Eric's wife (?) gave him a ride back. Eric thought Jeff was fooling around with his wife (hahaha) until he realized what had happened. I'll have to check out Blow by Blow and see what I think. Thanks.
Jeff Lynn also produced 'Free as a Bird' for the Beatles Anthology. I saw an interview with Ringo complaining that 'Jeff used a click track. I'm the click track!' 1975 was such a hard year to 'listen' to music. On the one hand, we were still tied down to radio and stereo. No videos (not that videos would help) and no internet. Sure you can scan the music industry magazines. But we know now- around the discussion about RAM and how Rolling Stone panned it on purpose-that the industry was... how shall we put it?... Self-interested? So the 'ranking' of records was heavily weighted by whomever was editorializing. Which is what gives your posts their power. Sometimes we were listening to music that was off the mainstream media lists-sometimes. Now 50 years later, we take out the LP and think, "Wow! Yeah, of course!" Then, sometimes we take out a record and go, "Oh! Didn't get that!" In no particular order... here is what Beck was up against in 1975... Fleetwood Mac; Blood on the Tracks; Physical Graffiti; Night at the Opera; The Hissing Summer Lawns; Katy Lied; Hair of the Dog; Promised Land; Dreamboat Annie; Venus & Mars; Atlantic Crossings; Captain Fantastic/Rock of the Wastes; Born to Run; Wish You Were Here; Horses; Still Crazy After All These Years; One of These Nights; Crisis, What Crisis; Heart Like a Wheel (Nov. 74); Basement Tapes; Main Course; Diamonds and Rust; Who by Numbers; Young Americans; Tonight's the Night/Zuma; Beautiful Loser... (29) An album every other week that still stands the test of time. So we missed Beck amongst all this stuff? (And there was more) This at a time when he was playing a sound that was moving in a different direction. Like many, I was preoccupied looking over my shoulder trying to keep Disco at bay... You know, Main Course had three strong tacks that IMO could have taken the band in a different direction. Like Funk and R&B... September by EW&F is a good example of that groove from 1978. But the BeeGees saw the dollar signs, their falsetto got into the clubs, and on the dance floor. I would see out the decade following local bands in the blues bars instead.
Random fact: back home I used to know a couple named Bob and Patti Wacker; always helped give me perspective whenever I felt self conscious about my own name growing up 😂 (ie it can always be worse). I’ll give The Wackers a listen after this video, thanks Mazzy. 🫡
I don't know why "Rough and Ready" (1971) is overlooked and gets short shrift in Beck's catalogue. It's easily my favorite or 2nd favorite LP by Beck. I have heard almost no on mention in in these recent tributes to him. It's always "Blow By Blow", "Wired" etc...While those LP's are great, some notice could be given to both 1971 and 1972 (Definitely the lesser of the two) Jeff Beck Group releases.
Agree and disagree with you here. I do prefer the album "Jeff Beck Group" to "Rough and Ready" myself but I agree they both get lost in the mix between the Rod Stewart years of Jeff Beck Group and the later jazz-fusion days. Given a chance. I think many people would enjoy much on both the overlooked albums.
@@JohannesYtterstrom Understood. I should have also mentioned that "Rough and Ready" was the only time Beck had a hand in penning almost all of the tunes (except "Max's Tune" and co-writing "Jody"). That makes it a bit more special as well, at least for me.
@@Benji306 That is a good point! I wonder why Jeff Beck didn't try to write more of his own music. Granted. Being able to play and being able to write doesn't always go together but I bet he could have done more great songs on his own. Rough and Ready being the first time the world really heard Cozy Powell should get it a bit more attention as well. Have a great start of your week Benji306!
if you enjoy the kiwi band split enz, and Crowded House, have a listen to kiwi artist Don McGlashan's new LP "Bright November Morning" - He's a very old mate of Tim and Neil .
At the risk of being tracked down and hunted, I wasn't a huge Jeff Beck fan either. Some of his music I liked a lot more than other albums but I never really collected much from him outside of The Yardbirds. I do want to find Beck's Bolero on LP but that's because Jimmy Page is also with him. I know that there is surely a Jeff Beck LP that I would like if I had it or heard it. I have no doubt. But what really turned me off was an album I got about a year ago and finally listened to about 3 months ago. It was called "Uh, Yeah Greatest Hits" by Jeff Beck. I hated that album and I still do. This is not at all what I thought Jeff Beck would sound like. I hate to be harsh on something because I know somebody else will probably love that album. But it definitely wasn't for me. I'm going to have to go backwards from that 1981 album. BTW, it is a South Korean pressing from 1981 which was back in the day when their K.E.C.P.P., Ministry of Culture and Information, had to approve the tracks on an album. So even the songs on it may not be the same as the ones on the US version. But either way, it was much too new age and not really something that seemed to have anything that caught my attention on that album. I was expecting some rock guitar and there wasn't any on the album. I really do hate that Jeff Beck passed away. I know he was a great artist and I know he had a lot of talent. What a tragic way to go also. We sure have been losing a lot of our historic and great musicians in recent years. Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Did Beck ever produce any music that had any value? You may think not, but, as you sort of mentioned MassLoaf, it turns out he played on Talking Book! Another stereotype or myth shattered!!
I prefer 'Blow By Blow' to 'Wired'. Unfortunately, 'Wired' had Max Middleton, whom I love, playing Clavinette on almost the entire album. This resulted in a very dated and a bit hard to take sound, now, almost 50yrs after the fact.
Beck received a letter from Charles Mingus complimenting him on Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, I love Wired the cover is iconic and the guitar playing is 🔥 … While Blow By Blow is a classic Wired is not far behind. Great channel mate!
C'mon, Mazzy...You KNOW that's a Les Paul, right?
Of course. My mistake. And I know that Beck was a huge fan of those Les Paul and Mary Ford records 🎸🎸🎸
@@mazzysmusic You should check out "Rock and Roll Party Honoring Les Paul". It's a fun Jeff Beck album...
Somewhat ironically I heard, that at least on "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" and maybe on more tracks of the album as well, Jeff doesn't play a Les Paul but a Telecaster with Humbuckers, that Seymour Duncan gave Jeff in exchange for his "Yardbirds" Fender Esquire, a trade Jeff later maybe regretted a little bit.
I wore Blow by blow out......I liked Return to forever....Lenny white etc.
The 4th of july 1976 we had a big music festival......"Sonar Eclipse" Laswell played bass....Axis....my friends band......the good old day.
Split Enz was one of those bands when adults said "What are those weirdos doing on TV?" it prompted kids to rebelliously run down to the record store to purchase.
Thankfully my mother (who taught us how to sew our own Bowie 70s/early 80s era ecclectic designs) was impressed with the sewing skills of drummer Noel Crombie and understood that there's a difference between an artist's/band's stage costumes and their everyday clothing.
For art rock fans, lots of Spilt Enz film clips/music videos to check out on UA-cam. It's important to see the visuals before just hearing this band.
In chronological order start with...
"Late Last Night" (Mental Notes album)
"My Mistake" (Dizrythmia)
"I See Red" (Frenzy)
"I Got You", "Shark Attack", "Nobody Takes Me Seriously" and "I Hope I Never"...Beware...a melancholic break-up song! (True Colours)
There are albums up to 1983, before some members later morphed into Crowded House.
True Colours was their highest selling album. The limited edition "Laser Etched" version of this vinyl album was a "world first" in design. It has a 3D multi-coloured prism effect when the record spins/hit the light. Different coloured covers were available.
Impressed with your autopgraphed Mental Notes album Mazzy and thanks for reminding this Australian to revisit Split Enz.
👱♀️❤
Mazzy,
I'm a big Jeff Beck fan since the days of the Yardbirds. My all time favorite recording of Jeff's was "JeffBeck, Who Else" It is a live recording and the rendition of Brush with the Blues, is spellbinding. It is always fresh and just takes me to a zone. All aI can say is if you haven't heard this, do so. It is just spell binding and it will transport you to that venue in space and time. Thanks so much for your efforts here....I always look forward to your insight.
I just ordered the Analog Productions copy of that Jeff Beck Blow by Blow yesterday after listening to Truth and realizing I needed more Jeff Beck in my collection
If you don't already have Wired that should be next.
I just listened to Jeff Becks live-album "Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)". Where Jeff Beck goes away from his more aggressive sound and jazz-fusion. It's more of a rockabilly album or something. Mainly two different singers and lots of shorter songs. I think many people will recognize a few of them.
It's a big step to the left from what he was doing otherwise but still quite fun.
Check out the DVD of the concert - it's great.
Good for you! I still have my BLOW BY BLOW LP...bought in 1975. That album was a game changer for me...the other 3 musicians on that album (Chen-Bailey-Middleton) took no prisoners. "Scatterbrain"?!?! Every track is great...all killer, no filler..
I am 46 and was handed a copy of B by B over 30 years ago and still play the LP regularly.
Sad to see a hero go. .
I grew up with Bill....he lived 2 houses up the street from me.....His mom had his gold records hanging on the wall in their living room.
Body Go Round.. Wackers
.. epic. The band yeah... harmonies and more harnonies and textures . Thx again Mazzy!
Wow, I have never heard of The Wackers! Laurie Anderson is an all time fav of mine.
You have redeemed yourself regarding Blow by Blow. My favorite beck album.
'Blow By Blow' is still my favorite Jeff Beck album. It's a masterpiece 😃
There is a guitarist called Joe Beck. Played with Joe Farrell on early CTI albums. Amazing
Hi Mazzy, I remember Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman' arriving like some bolt from the blue in the UK charts in 1981. Thankfully we had John Peel in the UK who would play and champion very left-field music on his BBC radio programme. I think the record reached no.2 in the singles chart. It can't only have been art students like me buying it.
Very Artsy✌🏼
Good video Mazzy . My 75 copy of Blow by Blow had a textured cover . Yours looked shiny !
I will have to listen to Laurie Anderson album. I have the Peter Gabriel So CD with This
The Picture song.
I am seeing Crowded House in May. They are coming to the Paramount Theater in Seattle.
The Wackers were terrific live. Saw them at my university in Montreal. Great that you mentioned them Mazzy!!
Thanks for clearing that up - Blow by blow is crazy good.....Great!
Former drummer for Robert Plant, Andy Edwards will be posting an "epic" review of Jeff Beck on his channel very soon . Andy has played in prog bands like IQ. His knowledge of prog and fusion is pretty amazing.
Wackers on Spotify. Yep, Idle Race best known in England for Skeleton & The Roundabout. Jeff Beck would cruise through our village near Wallington where he was born, in the mid-60's in a flash car.
Jeff's Ronnie Scotts vids are great.
It's a masterclass in what a lump of wood and 6 strings are capable of.
Great video Mazzy,
Happy new year
Blessings
i'm still looking for that Mister Heartbreak album,i have her "Big Science" Album but i read this one is more accessible music.
I first heard Laurie Anderson’s O Superman on a New at the time “New Wave” station out of Buffalo in the very early 80s. It was so refreshing to her music that was different at that time. By then we were burned out by 20 minute drum solos, etc. I still love it today. I’m curious, you mentioned Glam music a couple times. Do you have ny and if so what bands do you like? That too was different at the time, although it ran its course in a few years. Great set of records !
LOVE the Birthday Party album. Totally adore it. First heard it in a 5CD set with Little Games by the Yardbirds and albums by Tomorrow, July and The Gods
You stand corrected on B by B, I believe this was his finest work!
Well done Mazzy on the commentary of Blow By Blow. Appreciate your thoughts overall but I want to emphasize what you said about the sound . It truly is an awesome sounding record. Like you, I have had it since 1975. I recall how I marvelled how great it sounded even back then and, today, it is on par with any re-issue /re-maser I have. (The drums sound amazing.). There was a "string" of great sounding records in the mid 70s. Dark Side of the Moon, Crime of the Century, Dire Straits, ( First Album) Ziggy Stardust to name a few . To me these along with Blow By Blow were "audiophile" records of the time and still are.
Glad you came 'round to appreciating Beck! And I say I almost pooped my pants when you held up The Wackers album!! Great stuff.
I have appreciated him since the Yardbirds. Loved that and Truth and Beck Ola. The fusion stuff just left me cold at the time. Still not a fan of Wired.
New Yr Greetings from Liverpool UK. Great video as always Mazzy You've opened up my ears to some new really exciting artists and genres thanks. Can I suggest a ranking video of albums by 'lesser' known siblings of more famous artists? Keep the vids coming.
I’ll add that to my ideas list. ✌🏼
Really impressive ( to me ) is ALSO J.Bs. " Live in Tokyo " 2014 ? - with FANTASTIC musicians !!
Yes, from the point of your own self there, Mazzy - you create a lot of good quality reviews and interesting commentary (of course) here on the Toob - thanks. Jeff is playing a Les Paul solid body guitar in the album painting btw. Apart from that, purely out of respect, everyone needs to just go back now and listen to the final track on Blow by Blow - "Diamond Dust" - err, that is WHY people have often referred to him as a certain type of "genius" on the electric side of things. One of my own heroes along the way - R.I.P. the unique Jeff Beck.
Split endz are great.
I have the Anderson album on tape. I got it for the excellent birds.
I like that Mahavishnu Orchestra album you mentioned (it's called Apocalypse).
Yes ✌🏼
"Now only an expert can deal with the problem
Because half the problem is seeing the problem
And only an expert can deal with the problem
Only an expert can deal with the problem" Laurie Anderson
hey mazzy....i remember buying blow by blow when it came out...i liked it o.k...then i bought wired...that sound hit me even better...then there was the live album with jan hammer, which was o.k. and a bit later flash, which was kinda cool and had the great rod stewart performance of people get ready...looked like he was just about to make 'another' comeback with johnny depp...we'll never know...stay well yourself my friend...be cool...peace...rocky
Great series Mazz really enjoyed it. T
I always though ELO sounded like the Beatles but on eleven.
Blow by blow, Wired, There And Back. What a trilogy! And normaly it's not my style of music.
Nice Mea Culpa on Jeff Beck's fusion lp - Blow by Blow is amazing, as is Wired. Timeless classics.
Still don’t live Wired but I’m halfway there
Classic stuff as usual. Excited to check out Wackers, actually. Never heard of them!
Hey Mazzy. Thanks for your Videos. Always learning more..
The name wacker has me intrigued. I’ll check ‘em out.
Great video Mazzy, much better. Blow By Blow is a masterpiece!
Hey, nice thoughts on Blow by Blow! BTW, you were thinking of Michael Tilson Thomas, regarding that Mahavishnu album (Apocalypse).
Yes ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
Was Laurie Anderson one of the first to live stream a concert in a small venue on the internet ??? I even want to say it was in San Francisco??? 1990’s????? Jeff Becks, Wired album was always a favorite. As always enjoyed your video.
Hey Mazzy I had a feeling you'd change your mind on Blow By Blow. I probably didn't get it originally but it become one of my all time favs. My original Canadian pressing sounds awesome too.
Mazzy, I would be interested to know if you have come across an album "Sister Brother Lover" by Northwind on the Regal Zonophone label ? One of the band went on to set up Ca Va Studio in an old Glasgow church where many fine albums were recorded.
The Wackers were very good. There was a variation or off shoot of this group was ROXY. Not Roxy Music which was a different group, different vibe and a later era. Please check out Roxy and let us know what you think....it was from about 1967-68 or so. It is a long time favorite of mine...Cuts such as New York, Youv'e got lot of syle ....Bob Segarini was the heart and soul behind both The Wackers and ROXY...check it out.
RIP Jeff Beck,id like to find the two Jeff Beck albums he did with Jan Hammer.
When being interviewed about his hot rod collection Beck tells a story about visiting Clapton. On his way home he didn't make a curve and banged himself up a bit. Eric's wife (?) gave him a ride back. Eric thought Jeff was fooling around with his wife (hahaha) until he realized what had happened. I'll have to check out Blow by Blow and see what I think. Thanks.
I like the Wackers a lot too.They were similar to an actual Canadian band Thundermug whom also put out only a few interesting Hard rock albums!
Now I start to regret that I got rid of Wackers 2nd and 3rd albums, maybe I pruned the collection too hard. But I kept the debut album, the best one.
Glad you came to Blow By Blow. Wired is almost as good. Listen to the song Where Were You from the Guitar Shop album. Better late...
Back then it's the music stupid. Now it's the stupid music 😆
Jeff Lynn also produced 'Free as a Bird' for the Beatles Anthology. I saw an interview with Ringo complaining that 'Jeff used a click track. I'm the click track!'
1975 was such a hard year to 'listen' to music. On the one hand, we were still tied down to radio and stereo. No videos (not that videos would help) and no internet. Sure you can scan the music industry magazines. But we know now- around the discussion about RAM and how Rolling Stone panned it on purpose-that the industry was... how shall we put it?... Self-interested? So the 'ranking' of records was heavily weighted by whomever was editorializing. Which is what gives your posts their power. Sometimes we were listening to music that was off the mainstream media lists-sometimes. Now 50 years later, we take out the LP and think, "Wow! Yeah, of course!" Then, sometimes we take out a record and go, "Oh! Didn't get that!"
In no particular order... here is what Beck was up against in 1975... Fleetwood Mac; Blood on the Tracks; Physical Graffiti; Night at the Opera; The Hissing Summer Lawns; Katy Lied; Hair of the Dog; Promised Land; Dreamboat Annie; Venus & Mars; Atlantic Crossings; Captain Fantastic/Rock of the Wastes; Born to Run; Wish You Were Here; Horses; Still Crazy After All These Years; One of These Nights; Crisis, What Crisis; Heart Like a Wheel (Nov. 74); Basement Tapes; Main Course; Diamonds and Rust; Who by Numbers; Young Americans; Tonight's the Night/Zuma; Beautiful Loser... (29) An album every other week that still stands the test of time.
So we missed Beck amongst all this stuff? (And there was more) This at a time when he was playing a sound that was moving in a different direction. Like many, I was preoccupied looking over my shoulder trying to keep Disco at bay... You know, Main Course had three strong tacks that IMO could have taken the band in a different direction. Like Funk and R&B... September by EW&F is a good example of that groove from 1978. But the BeeGees saw the dollar signs, their falsetto got into the clubs, and on the dance floor. I would see out the decade following local bands in the blues bars instead.
Random fact: back home I used to know a couple named Bob and Patti Wacker; always helped give me perspective whenever I felt self conscious about my own name growing up 😂 (ie it can always be worse). I’ll give The Wackers a listen after this video, thanks Mazzy. 🫡
Too bad the The Wackers didn't show up on a wack a mole.
I don't know why "Rough and Ready" (1971) is overlooked and gets short shrift in Beck's catalogue. It's easily my favorite or 2nd favorite LP by Beck. I have heard almost no on mention in in these recent tributes to him. It's always "Blow By Blow", "Wired" etc...While those LP's are great, some notice could be given to both 1971 and 1972 (Definitely the lesser of the two) Jeff Beck Group releases.
Agree and disagree with you here. I do prefer the album "Jeff Beck Group" to "Rough and Ready" myself but I agree they both get lost in the mix between the Rod Stewart years of Jeff Beck Group and the later jazz-fusion days. Given a chance. I think many people would enjoy much on both the overlooked albums.
@@JohannesYtterstrom Understood. I should have also mentioned that "Rough and Ready" was the only time Beck had a hand in penning almost all of the tunes (except "Max's Tune" and co-writing "Jody"). That makes it a bit more special as well, at least for me.
@@Benji306 That is a good point! I wonder why Jeff Beck didn't try to write more of his own music. Granted. Being able to play and being able to write doesn't always go together but I bet he could have done more great songs on his own.
Rough and Ready being the first time the world really heard Cozy Powell should get it a bit more attention as well.
Have a great start of your week Benji306!
It's funny you bring up the Wackers I don't know anyone who knows them. Bob Segarini
if you enjoy the kiwi band split enz, and Crowded House, have a listen to kiwi artist Don McGlashan's new LP "Bright November Morning" - He's a very old mate of Tim and Neil .
Another 1970's New Zealand band even more eccentric than Split Enz were Mother Goose. Their musicianship was very high, technically speaking.
Surely you have Wired too, no? They are both incredible albums. Led Boots from Wired might just be the greatest jazz fusion tune ever!
Mazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....Blow by Blow and Guitar Shop...Beck's best...In my book.....................
Anything by Jeff Lynne is good by me. Went out on a limb a put offers in on all 3 Walkers records
Wackers
Hope you enjoy them. I do ✌🏼
@@mazzysmusic ditto. Got all three two white label promos
The Wackers had great vocals.😎
Nice vid. On Blow by Blow, better late than ever.
Never liked Big Science, but Mr. Heartbreak is one my of favorite albums by anybody. Great ambient record.
Besides XTC, The Move is the most underappreciated band in music history. Blow By Blow and Rough and Ready are great Jeff Beck solo albums
Mental Notes (1975)
Second Thoughts (1976)
Split Enz
Absolute and total Classics
Get the original albums, not that American version!!!
At the risk of being tracked down and hunted, I wasn't a huge Jeff Beck fan either. Some of his music I liked a lot more than other albums but I never really collected much from him outside of The Yardbirds. I do want to find Beck's Bolero on LP but that's because Jimmy Page is also with him.
I know that there is surely a Jeff Beck LP that I would like if I had it or heard it. I have no doubt. But what really turned me off was an album I got about a year ago and finally listened to about 3 months ago. It was called "Uh, Yeah Greatest Hits" by Jeff Beck. I hated that album and I still do. This is not at all what I thought Jeff Beck would sound like. I hate to be harsh on something because I know somebody else will probably love that album. But it definitely wasn't for me. I'm going to have to go backwards from that 1981 album. BTW, it is a South Korean pressing from 1981 which was back in the day when their K.E.C.P.P., Ministry of Culture and Information, had to approve the tracks on an album. So even the songs on it may not be the same as the ones on the US version. But either way, it was much too new age and not really something that seemed to have anything that caught my attention on that album. I was expecting some rock guitar and there wasn't any on the album.
I really do hate that Jeff Beck passed away. I know he was a great artist and I know he had a lot of talent. What a tragic way to go also. We sure have been losing a lot of our historic and great musicians in recent years.
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Very cool Mazzy :)
Thank you Bob. You partially pushed me back to revisit Blow by Blow🎸
I have one out of five… Can you guess which one? I’ll check out the other four 😉
I can see 2 tiny pictures of myself Mazzy and there's one each of your eyes!
Did Beck ever produce any music that had any value? You may think not, but, as you sort of mentioned MassLoaf, it turns out he played on Talking Book! Another stereotype or myth shattered!!
And now Crosby just died. A founder of 2 killer Great American Bands.
I prefer 'Blow By Blow' to 'Wired'. Unfortunately, 'Wired' had Max Middleton, whom I love, playing Clavinette on almost the entire album. This resulted in a very dated and a bit hard to take sound, now, almost 50yrs after the fact.
Yeah still don’t like Wired
@@mazzysmusic There's still time.
Beck received a letter from Charles Mingus complimenting him on Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, I love Wired the cover is iconic and the guitar playing is 🔥 … While Blow By Blow is a classic Wired is not far behind. Great channel mate!
Not Stupid!