Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live

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  The Music Slut Committee

  Steve

  "I discovered this album out of a need to listen to instrumental rock. Someone I just wanted and extended song without words. So I knew Jeff Beck has a large amount of instrumental work so i saw it and thought was a safe album. Boy did I discover something cool.

  I think this formation of a band is really cool with having a guitar virtuoso, a producer / keyboard virtuoso. Very dynamic rhythm section of drums and bass (with a neat voice) and a superb violinist (/ guitar).

  To Alex’s point about live records. Some live records are special. They can sometimes capture something well rehearsed better than any studio can. Listen to the studio version of Cheap Tricks’s “I want you to want me” and you’ll be running to Live in budokan. The studio version of rock and roll all nite, won’t get me through dusk. Live At Leeds shows us Some albums are just like just hits not done as well. This one I feel captures a better energy due to its heavy handedness of instrumentals and it is mixing a headlining guitarist with another group headed by another prominent musical figure.

  And I just love a jam that doesn’t seem like directionless noodling. This band is tight and feel like they really know how to communicate. The three part back and forth duel (truel???) between Guitar / violin / keyboard is just neat. The Train keep a rolling break in Blue Wind is sick.

  It made me realize that Jeff Beck was the best of the yardbird trio. Jimmy is a studio mastermind, but he cannot hang on a stage. Clapton is the blues scale God, but he is a piece of shit. Jeff Beck has skills that other guitarist can only dream of, especially when he changed his style in the 80’s. Him being less popular than the other two in the mainstream gave him an opportunity to be more of an artist than a pop / rock star. Also when you get a chance listen to Freeway Jam on the autobahn." - Zach