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  Jeff Beck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beck was born Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, London.
Beck was one of the first electric guitarists in the 1960s to experiment with electronic distortion (most notably in The Yardbirds' 1966 album, Roger The Engineer), redefining the sound and role of the electric guitar in rock music and anticipating what Jimi Hendrix shortly thereafter took further.
Beck's work with The Yardbirds and The Jeff Beck Group's 1968 album Truth were seminal influences on heavy metal music, which emerged in full force in the early 1970s.
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 Encyclopedia topic: The Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Jeff Beck Group is one of music's most influential bands.
Jeff Beck is considered to be one of the best guitar players ever; along with Jimi Hendrix (United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)) and Eric Clapton (additional info and facts about Eric Clapton).
Jeff Beck would go on to be a very succesful live performer with various young artists taking the opportunity to play in his band.
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 The Jeff Beck Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jeff Beck Group was a rock band formed in 1968.
Jeff Beck is considered to be one of the greatest electric guitar players of that era along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
The original band consisted of Beck on guitar, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano and organ, and Mick Waller on drums.
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 Jeff Beck : Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeff Beck (Born June 24, 1944 in Wallington, England) is one of the most talented and creative, as well as overlooked, electric guitarists in rock history.
Beck was one of the first electric guitarists to experiment with electronic fuzz distortion and noise and he made excellent use of it, pushing the Yardbirds' lead guitar part to previously unreached horizons and helped redefine what electric guitar could do just before the rise of Jimi Hendrix.
As talented as Jeff Beck was with the Yardbirds, he was also quite eclectic and, combined with failing health, he left the group in late 1966 after a legendary but brief dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page, who had recently joined.
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 Encyclopedia: Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Beck was born Jeffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington.
The following year, Beck formed a new band, Jeff Beck Group, which featured him on lead guitar, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Mick Waller on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano.
Jeff Beck went on to be a very succesfull live performer with various young artist taken the opportunity in his band to gett international aclaim.
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 BlueBeat.com - Artist: Jeff Beck Group
Beck stayed with the Yardbirds for nearly two years, leaving in late in 1966 with the pretense that he was retiring from music.
Beck had intended to form a power trio with Vanilla Fudge members Carmine Appice (drums) and Tim Bogert (bass), but those plans were derailed when he suffered a serious car crash in 1970.
Beck collaborated with Jan Hammer, a former keyboardist for Mahavishnu Orchestra, for 1976's Wired, and supported the album with a co-headlining tour with Hammer's band.
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 RATW: Jeff Beck Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeff Beck is one of a very few musicians today whose name can conjure up images of a variety of groups with a variety of sounds, a testament to both his versatility as well as his reluctance to settle down with a band.
Jeff's history is strewn with the ashes of groups, combinations that glowed for only a short time before burning out; The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Groups Mk.
Jeff indulged his desire to pay homage to a couple of his idols, Roy Buchanan and Stevie Wonder, and in general seemed to finally be doing what he really wanted.
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 Jeff Beck
The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is an British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s.
In 1966, Beck joined the Yardbirds (after Eric Clapton left the group for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) and shared the dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page, who had also recently joined the band.
Beck's tenure in the Yardbirds was a short one; he left the same year, partly for health reasons.
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 Jeff Beck
Beck helped invent heavy metal and the psychedlia in the '60s, and in the mid-'70s he was one of the pivotal figures in the development of jazz-rock fusion.
Jeff Beck is born on June 24th in Surrey, England.
Jeff Beck's use of different time signatures in lots of his songs also impresses me. I've always been a sucker for the 7/8 time signature.
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 Jeff Beck
Jeff teams up with the rhythm section of the Vanilla Fudge to form a sludgy power rock trio, and the results are even worse than you'd expect.
Beck's idea was to cover a whole bunch of tunes by the Gene Vincent band, which featured a lead guitarist named Cliff Gallup who Beck seems to worship.
Beck's first album of new material in a decade is another collection of instrumentals featuring perpetual sidekick Tony Hymas, who co-produced and wrote almost everything (sometimes with Beck).
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 Jeff Beck.com
Jeff Beck’s three singles ‘Tallyman’, ‘Love Is Blue’ and ‘Hi Ho Silver Lining’ are included in the bonus section along with the gorgeous ballad ‘I’ve Been Drinking’ (a B side on Love Is Blue) which was omitted from the original album.
Jeff and his band (Michael Mondesir on bass, Mark Mondesir on drums and Gary Husband on keyboards) played the Bob Marley song “Is This Love”, which was sung by UK singer Beverley Knight, as a tribute to the late reggae artist.
Jeff Beck is confirmed to appear at the Crossroads Guitar Festival on Sunday 6th June 2004 at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas.
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 Jeff Beck.com
Beck left the band in 1967 and formed The Jeff Beck Group, which featured Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood on bass.
Beck again dissolved the group and formed a power trio with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, which released “Beck, Bogert and Appice” (1973).
Beck returned to the studio in 1993 backed by the Big Town Playboys to record “Crazy Legs,” a tribute to seminal rockabilly artist Gene Vincent and his guitarist Cliff Gallup.
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 Encyclopedia: The Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electronic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical voltage.
Truth (1968) was the first full-length album by Jeff Beck and his backing group.
Beck Ola (Cosa Nostra) was the second full-length long player by Jeff Beck and his backing group.
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Jeffrey Arnold Beck was born in the English town of Wellington, Surrey on June 24, 1944.
At the age of thirteen Jeff was inspired to build his own electric guitar.
Likewise, they are a testament to Jeff Beck's undying quest to evade any one particular label that might get placed upon him or his music.
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 Fender Players Club - Jeff Beck
Hailed by many as the greatest rock virtuoso guitarist of all time, Jeff Beck's career stretches back to the early days of the British Invasion and leads up to the present day, where he can still be found out on the road playing an ever-evolving sound.
One of the early experimenters with feedback and distortion, Beck was getting session work from his friend Jimmy Page in the early '60s, dazzling other studio guitarists, such as the young Ritchie Blackmore, with his wildly experimental style.
In the early '70s there was another version of The Jeff Beck Group, followed by Beck Bogert and Appice.
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 Nice2know Store :: Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jeff's solos on this song are fun but, IMHO, somewhat cliche and disjointed relative to much of his other guitar work.
Jeff Beck was critizied for the song selection he chose and for his chosen guitar arrangements, they were unline anything the guitar world had ever heard before.
But this, Jeff Beck Group is one of the finest pieces of blues/rock in the history of the genra, so do yourself a favor and pink up this amazing album.
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 JEFF BECK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
JEFF BECK, born June 24, 1944, Wallington, Surrey, England
Beck’s later experiments with blues rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion and new wave rockabilly offered further evidence of his facility in an encyclopedic range of styles.
Instead, the group recruited the relatively unknown Beck, who immediately positioned himself in the forefront of guitar innovators, emulating the Indian sitar by filtering his guitar through a fuzzbox in "Heart Full of Soul" (Epic 9823; 1965; #9).
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 Jeff Beck
This group, too, failed to attract much critical attention and soon split up, although they did have a minor hit with an instrumental version of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" (Beck later played lead guitar on Wonder's Talking Book album).
In 1975, Beck did a solo, all-instrumental jazz fusion album entitled Blow by Blow which received unexpectedly positive critical reviews.
Beck's work with the Yardbirds was a seminal influence on heavy metal music, which emerged in full force in the early 1970s.
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 The Jeff Beck Group (Knights In Blue Denim)
Beck took The Yardbirds - and the rock world in general - by storm, playing a ferocious psychedelic blues.
Beck has always loved being his own man. Having left the Yardbirds he made a couple of illjudged singles (with OK B-sides!) on the fervent advice of Mickie Most but then formed the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass and (finally) Mickey Waller on drums (i.e.
Originally Ron Wood was to be second guitarist and Dave Ambrose (from Brian Auger's group) was meant to be the bassist, but Jeff asked Ron to switch to bass instead and Ambrose was out in the cold.
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 Amazon.com: Truth: Music: Jeff Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At first glance, the first group effort helmed by guitar god Jeff Beck upon his rocky departure from the Yardbirds has more than a few striking parallels with the debut of fellow ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page's Led Zeppelin.
But the blues-rock of the Rod Stewart-fronted Jeff Beck Group's freshman effort far outshines Zep's riff and wail, infusing its guitar heaviness with subtle jazz and R&B shadings that foreshadow much of Beck's later work.
"Beck's Bolero" is not only one of the all time greatest instrumentals in rock,but it features a John Bonham on drums,somebody named John Paul Jones on bass, and a session guitarist known as Jimmy Page dueling with Mr.
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1972's JEFF BECK GROUP shows that Beck was already moving beyond his soul-rock hybrid and sowing the seeds for his exceptional mid-'70s jazz/rock fusion work.
JEFF BECK GROUP also serves as a precursor to Beck's next project, the blues-soul-rock trio Beck-Bogart-Appice.
Beck himself has criticized it but I feel it does represent some of his most diverse and tantalizing playing, certainly a springboard for much he accomplished later on.I believe it has withstood the proverbial test of time very well.
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When it was originally released in June 1969, Beck-Ola, the Jeff Beck Group's second album, featured a famous sleeve note on its back cover: "Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it's almost impossible to come up with anything totally original.
But that doesn't detract from the album's overall quality, due both to the guitar work and the distinctive vocals of Rod Stewart, and Beck-Ola easily could have been the album to establish the Jeff Beck Group as the equal of the other heavy bands of the day.
Beck canceled out of a scheduled appearance at Woodstock; he was in a car accident that sidelined him for over a year; and Stewart and bass player Ron Wood decamped to join Faces, breaking up the group.
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 The Partial Observer - Spotlight On: The Jeff Beck Group - Truth
But before that, Beck surged on with his idea and formed the Jeff Beck group, featuring a then relatively unknown Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, and Mick Waller on drums.
Beck reworked his group, changing its format and members several times, but he never recaptured the magic of the original group.
The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin are as different as their respective leaders, yet they trace their roots back to the same place, and it is impossible to deny Truth and Beck-Ola their influence on what became Led Zeppelin’s sound.
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 Beck-Ola - The Jeff Beck Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
But for the Beck fans, for completion sake.
Comment: This a great jam band--the 2nd album with Jeff and Rod Stewart--great remaster of this album--great sound and liner notes on the making of the album and the apparent riffs between the band members-Beck, Stewart, and Wood.
Extra cuts include a 7 minute live blues song-Sweet Little Angel-which sounds like it should have been on the 1st album-Truth and another song written by Stewart (studio cut) which sounds great-also should have been on the 1st album.
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 The Jeff Beck Group - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Jeff Beck Group - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Their major era was in the late 1960's and early 1970's.Jeff Beck is considered to be one of the best guitar players ever; along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about The Jeff Beck Group contains research on
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 Jeff Beck - biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Furthermore, he was simply too idiosyncratic, moving from heavy metal to jazz-fusion within a blink of an eye.
The group's lone studio album -- a live record was released in Japan but never in the UK or US -- was widely panned due to its plodding arrangements and weak vocals, and the group disbanded the following year.For about 18 months, Beck remained quiet, re-emerging in 1975 with Blow By Blow.
Again, Beck entered semi-retirement upon the completion of the tour.In 1992, Beck played lead guitar on Roger Waters' comeback album, Amused to Death.
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 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: B: Beck, Jeff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Chrome Oxide - A sessionography and discography of the Jeff Beck Group w/Rod Stewart.
Jeff Beck - Fan site offering a discography, tour information, photos, sound clips, back issues of fanzines, and links.
Jeff Beck - Search for Himself - A November 1976 article on Jeff Beck from RATW.
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