Thursday, January 12, 2023
Jeff Beck, the guitar god's guitar god. Linked forever with his predecessor and successor with the Yardbirds, even though the work that put that band on the map was essentially all his. Left that band and recorded two sides that set the template for basically all the hard rock that followed. If that band had stayed together, I've long maintained, Led Zeppelin would have been a footnote, but of course that's not how it happened. What followed was a series of albums that were pretty consistently disappointing, chiefly because, apparently he couldn't find a singer he could get along with- until he came up with two terrific instrumental sets, Blow by Blow and Wired. Thereafter he turned out sets that usually had something interesting going on, but never seemed to be essential. The last one I have on my shelves is
// posted by Bill @ 10:27 AM 
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