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Jeff Beck: Which is your favourite Jeff Beck album?

Started by treeduck , Feb 21 2021 08:13 PM
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Poll: JEFF BECK albums poll (14 member(s) have cast votes)

Which Jeff Beck album is your favourite?

  1. Truth (1968) (4 votes [28.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 28.57%

  2. Beck-Ola (1969) (1 votes [7.14%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  3. Rough and Ready (1971) (1 votes [7.14%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  4. Jeff Beck Group (1972) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Blow by Blow (1975) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. Wired (1976) (4 votes [28.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 28.57%

  7. There & Back (1980) (1 votes [7.14%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  8. Flash (1985) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop (1989) (2 votes [14.29%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 14.29%

  10. Crazy Legs (1993) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. Who Else! (1999) (1 votes [7.14%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  12. You Had it Coming (2001) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  13. Jeff (2003) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. Emotion & Commotion (2010) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  15. Loud Hailer (2016) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#21 Entre_Perpetuo

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 12:52 AM

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View PostJohnRogers, on 21 February 2021 - 08:39 PM, said:

Seriously, I couldn't name a Jeff Beck album.

Neither can I. He's one of those guitar legends that everyone says you should worship but I couldn't tell you a damn thing he ever did besides that song with Rod Stewart back in the 80s.
The height of his fame was long before you were born.  Very long before you were born.  Your mother was probably still in grammar school.

Still, for someone who is such a revered player, you would think I would at least know something from him.

He didn't really go the route of radio or chart success. Back in 68/69 his band actually beat Led Zeppelin to the punch on a lot of what they did, but in a more primitive ad less radio ready fashion. I get the feeling when he saw how well Zeppelin were doing with their heavy blues thing that he'd also developed he decided to leave well enough alone and went a less commercial direction. His album Blow By Blow from 1975 is really jazz fusion oriented, and really incredible for its time. He's kinda the first guy to get really renown among guitar players for being among the best of the best in the world of guitar but to not have that industry reverence cross over into a relevant amount of chart success. To me he's like the prototype for a Satriani or a Vai or any of your G3 guys.
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#22 treeduck

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 02:31 AM

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 04:54 AM

Truth & Guitar Shop are 2 of my faves. I've also got a soft spot for Flash, which is about as commercial as he got.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 07:47 AM

Love Jeff

Rough and Ready / Blow by Blow / Wired / Guitar Shop / Who Else! / Emotion & Commotion all get my vote
probably a bunch of others too :D

I had tickets to see him last May... which then got delayed to this April... which is now delayed again until next March
Hopefully it will eventually happen :sarcastic:

Edited by Your_Lion, 22 February 2021 - 07:50 AM.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 08:00 AM

I can tell you it certainly isn't Loud Hailer. I damn near fell asleep when he played songs form it live.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 08:17 AM

View PostUnion 5-3992, on 22 February 2021 - 08:00 AM, said:

I can tell you it certainly isn't Loud Hailer. I damn near fell asleep when he played songs form it live.
Yeah. I didn't much like that one either

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 10:18 AM

If I was going to give someone a sample of Jeff Beck, this is the first song I'd pick.


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Posted 22 February 2021 - 11:17 AM

View Post1-0-0-1-0-0-1, on 22 February 2021 - 10:18 AM, said:

If I was going to give someone a sample of Jeff Beck, this is the first song I'd pick.



Totally beat me to that.  Killer stuff.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 11:26 AM

I really like Guitar Shop and Wired but Truth just edges it for me.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 11:46 AM

I like some of the songs on Flash.

Jeff doesn't sing at all, but it's cool when he does take the lead vocals on 'Get Workin', and 'Night After Night'.

I also like the instrumental 'Escape' co-written with Jan Hammer.

Rod Stewart's vocals on 'People Get Ready' are great as well.








Edited by RushFanForever, 22 February 2021 - 11:46 AM.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 06:24 PM

Wired was my choice - first Beck album I bought. Stanky Funk Fusion.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 07:53 PM

View PostLorraine, on 22 February 2021 - 12:32 AM, said:

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View PostLorraine, on 22 February 2021 - 12:08 AM, said:

View PostJ2112YYZ, on 21 February 2021 - 11:54 PM, said:

View PostJohnRogers, on 21 February 2021 - 08:39 PM, said:

Seriously, I couldn't name a Jeff Beck album.

Neither can I. He's one of those guitar legends that everyone says you should worship but I couldn't tell you a damn thing he ever did besides that song with Rod Stewart back in the 80s.
The height of his fame was long before you were born.  Very long before you were born.  Your mother was probably still in grammar school.

Still, for someone who is such a revered player, you would think I would at least know something from him.
Your mother never mentioned him?  His album Truth was a big deal back in the late sixties.

Not that I can recall. I'm sure my parents knew who he was since the 60s were their high school and college years. But I don't remember either one ever being a fan or talking about him in any way.

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 10:20 PM

Going by the poll results, Truth, Wired, and Guitar Shop should be the albums that I check out then?

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 12:21 AM

View PostJ2112YYZ, on 22 February 2021 - 10:20 PM, said:

Going by the poll results, Truth, Wired, and Guitar Shop should be the albums that I check out then?

Yes but also Blow By Blow!!

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 02:47 AM

Easiest Poll on the Earth.

"There And Back" DUH!

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 02:56 PM

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Easiest Poll on the Earth.

"There And Back" DUH!

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 10:50 PM

Gonna go with Rough And Ready. Cozy is another reason.

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Posted 27 February 2021 - 03:36 PM

Live At Ronnie Scott's is my favorite.
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