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TechnoTV - Performing This Week...Live At Ronnie Scotts
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $9.69
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Manufacturer: Eagle Records (Fontana)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0826992015026
Format: Live
Label: Eagle Records (Fontana)
Manufacturer: Eagle Records (Fontana)
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Eagle Records (Fontana)
Release Date: 2008-11-24
Studio: Eagle Records (Fontana)
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Summary: Best Guitarist
Comment: With apologies to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck is the best guitarist alive. He is an apex shredder. He bends strings with abandon. He elicits tones with the whammy bar that no one else can duplicate. His sound is original, distictive and instantly recognizable. If you enjoy this CD, I suggest that you also get JEFF BECK LIVE AT B.B. KING. Both of these represent what lead guitar playing is all about!
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Summary: Review of Jeff Beck's Live at Ronnie Scotts
Comment: Bloody ripper album. Great to hear Jeff in full flight in a live setting and get a taste of just how subtle, nuanced, and rip-snortin' he is live without any studio smoke 'n mirrors. Mind you, he has a reputation for using minimal special effects within or without the studio. It's all in the fingers. What control. What expression. Christ this guy can play. The consumate Euro rock guitarist. So damn good, he can't seem to play in a normal rock format - i.e. with singer in tow. Of course he kinda made the transition to jazz-rock but has remained essentially in the rock camp playing what would have to be described as "instrumental rock" rather than "jazz rock". Thank god he didn't get into wanky spiritualism and paradoxalism such as afflicted the jazz rockers - e.g. "return to ... forever", "visions of the emerald ... beyond", etc, etc. Of course all these guys were in thrall to Jimminy "Cricket" Hendrix and wanted to get a taste of unleashing that kind of sonic power. Jeff might have been a bit in thrall to the Jimster himself. But Jeff was there right at the start right along with Jimminy, Eric, Green, Page, etc. He was, perhaps more than any other Euro guitarist, the main guy to create the language of rock guitar. And more than any other, he took it somewhere else. Check out Nadia for a taste of what Jeff can do with micro-tones. Great to hear some of the old material getting a workout. Only disappointment I guess is a lack of new stuff. Be good to hear some great new tunes in the hands of the maestro. Interesting to speculate on what the Stones might have sounded like had Jeff joined at the time instead of Ronnie. I don't imagine he would have stuck around forever but it would have been fun to hear a couple of Stones disks with Jeff slashing and burning along with the riff-maester.
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Summary: Jeff Beck At His Best
Comment: The man is a treasure and here he is, still doing it better then anyone. Backed by a stellar lineup, Jeff rips through some of his best tunes from his huge catalog. With an Australian and Japanese tour planned for 2009, we can only hope we will be hearing more from him in the new year.
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Summary: A non-negotiable five stars for this one
Comment: After Live at BB King Blues Club and Official Bootleg USA '06, two live releases from Beck that were expensive and varied in quality, it's definitely an early Christmas present to receive a new, reasonably priced, and consistently hot live set from this king of the stings.
The expected tracks are here, and the set list mixes it up enough so that even if you do own the other two live CDs, you're not getting a "re-tread" here.
Beck's post-Yardbirds success...with the possible exception of the first "Jeff Beck Group" featuring Rod Stewart and Ron Wood...has always been brighter in the realm of instrumental albums like Blow by Blow, Wired, and There and Back. On this album, he simply goes with his strengths for an unrelenting 70 minutes...and when you're Jeff Beck, those strengths result in a house full of dropped jaws. Buy it.
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Summary: Jeff Beck - Performing this week live at Ronnie Scotts
Comment: Everyone has a favourite: guitarist that it. Mine has always and forever will be Jeff Beck. The most accomplished instrumentalist that few people have heard of. From the earliest days in the Yardbirds, through his first band with Rod Stewart on Vocals, Ronnie Wood on Bass and Mickey Waller on Drums Beck has laid the foundation for virtually every genre of post Beatles rock. This live recording takes early cuts like Beck's Bolero - (written by Beck and Jimmie Page) and which featured a manic Kieth Moon on the original recording and demonstrates in stark relief where and why Beck's talents lay wringing, wrestling, cajoling and seducing guitar sounds that none have ever been able to emulate. Yes many will claim Hendrix was the innovator - but for those in and around the London Clubs of the mid 60's they will have noticed or even remember nights when Hendrix would watch Beck; some have even recalled Beck and he jamming late into the night.
Once Beck had tired of "plank-spanking" (post Beck, Bogart and Appice), Beck hooked up with George Martin and took on what is now known as Jazz-Rock. Beck plays today fusing jazz, rock and an electro/techo style all his own - and does so with a free rein. Even the Beatles Day in the Life displays a musical understanding which leave most observers breathless - or may be that might be speechless.
This guy is now 64 and is rarely less than astonishing. Guitarists and music lovers alike should listen to this album if only to hear the full vocal range of the electric guitar in the hands of the acknowledged master!
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Editorial Reviews:
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"An absolutely jaw-dropping display of the most exciting, imaginative and inspirational jazz-rock guitar witnessed in years." - Jazzwise "Perhaps the greatest living guitar virtuoso...Combining astonishing technique with a blissful nuance he exercised an almost supernatural control of his fretboard." - The Times - 4 Stars Jeff Beck is a true rock legend. From his time with the Yardbirds in the sixties, through the Jeff Beck Group and throughout his solo career his unique guitar style and constant desire to explore new musical areas and sounds has won him the admiration of his peers and the adoration of legions of fans. In 2007 Jeff Beck performed a series of concerts at the renowned Ronnie Scott's club in London. They became the must have ticket of the year with a packed audience every night of the famous and the fans. This CD features performances recorded across the different nights and presents the best version of each track.
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