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Playing as I type. Not my favourite Jeff Beck album by a long way - but - sheesh the sound of that guitar!

No wonder I like Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow and Wired so much.
Max was in so many groups and sessions.
Hummingbird and Mick Taylor's band for two examples.
And add Jan Hammer and Narada Michael Walden to Wired and wow!
The fusion era. Great stuff.
Cheers
Wait, what? Liner notes on Blow By Blow: George Martin produced and did the orchestral arrangements. He produced Wired too which was mixed at Caribou Studios Nederland, Colorado. I have friends who lived near there BITD. Beautiful place!

Four Winds Blow JB…

Floods: get out the way don’t just stand there dreaming….stay dry folks and hope this deluge lets up SOON!
Good vibes being sent your way!
Yeah, snowpack is the key…like money in the bank!

Up here on the western slope so far so good. Not too much shoveling as it’s mostly been piling up up the street where it belongs lol.

Howdy DMCVT: did you see the boys at Dartmouth in 78?
If so, do you recall if Bob was playing a blonde Ibanez Musician series instead of his custom model he usually played?

Great news for Demar!

I have been listening to 11/19/72
I love that show
A good candidate for release, Dave.

Seattle Times.com has a headline indicating "a slew of weather hazards" heading to Western Washington

I went immediately to Slewfoot 6/27/69.
A nice release candidate, Dave.

6/14/69 also would make a good release, Dave.

Dave? Dave?

DAVE?

He never listens to me.

Behind on this thread, but noticed the depressing news and Jeff Beck left us.

I've been listening to him since I was young and saw him twice.. One of the most gifted musicians I have ever had the opportunity to see live. One of the two times I saw him was with Clapton a bunch of years ago. I remember thinking to myself at the end of the night, Eric Who??? Great tone, skilled playing and so incredibly imaginative and creative balanced with the ability to bring it all home, tie things in a bow and leave you with a complete song/set/show that had unity and clarity throughout.

Holy cow, sad news.

So sorry for CA and hoping for the best in the days to come. Hang in there baby....

I was shocked and saddened by the news of Jeff Beck passing, of bacterial meningitis. Not the easiest thing to catch and it can kill in a few hours if left untreated. I only caught Jeff once, December 3, 1976 at the Jai-Alai Fronton. Tommy Bolin opened the show, his last show before he died of an overdose of cocaine and morphine. We drove down to Miami and got to the show ok, lots of traffic for early December and we wondered what was going on, never did figure out why there was so much traffic. As we got to the fronton, we consumed the shrooms and walked in. The stage was set against the back wall and we were all in front, just like a Jai-Alai game. The place was small, only holding about 6000 people and it was packed. Tommy had just released Private Eyes and was touring to promote that lp. The show started and Tommy and his band came on stage. The place went crazy as they tore into the title cut of his first lp, Teaser, the place was jumpin'. Then into People People, a slow tune and then a killer drum solo and Tommy came back out and showed us all how to play a guitar. His solo was loud, raunchy and delicious. So good. Then they broke into Wild Dogs and finished with Post Toastee which had an extended jam and a fantastic climax. And it was over, they left the stage to thunderous applause and never came back. Tommy Bolin would overdose that night after the show.
Jeff Beck was on that night, I have no setlist for his show, but I remember that Wired has just came out and I was a big fan of that lp, also Beck, Bogart and Appice had been released previously and I loved that lp. I do remember that he did some oldies (Ain't superstious) comes to mind and most of Blow by Blow. He also did a great solo, man, could he play that thing. I had gravitated away from Jeff Beck by the 80's and don't play him much anymore, but today I will break out Truth, B,B and A and Blow by Blow as a tribute to one of the greats.
To all you hippies in California, man, I feel for you all and I hope that you all get out of this deluge well and with little to no damage. This should fill Lake Mead up again, sad it had to all come in a week.

Thanks Daverock, I’ll check the Goodman out. The film with James Stewart is The Glenn Miller Story (originally enough!) and is pretty darn good. There’s a good part of the film when the band, in England, keep playing even when the flying bomb’s (V1) engine cuts out which means it’s going to land somewhere pretty close!

I was lucky enough to see Jeff Beck live 5 or 6 times from the mid 1990's to 2018. Incredible concerts - I never wanted them to end. Many great albums and live concerts out their to explore, too though. Some of my favourites include -

Everything from 1965-1966 he cut with The Yardbirds. That includes the album known as "Roger The Engineer" all the A sides and B sides of the singles he cut with them and the Live at The BBC recordings. Whatever the style of song, whenever he took a solo he took it into the stratosphere. Great tone-well, great everything.

Rock N' Roll Party honouring Les Paul - this is a live dvd from 2010, I think, and features Imelda May among other guests. One of the best rock n'roll gigs I have got on film.

Emotion and Commotion, a studio album also from around 2010. Amazing that he could play such contrasting music to the above, in the same timespan, with so much fire and virtuosity. This also features Imelda May, singing "Lilac Wine", which goes into "Nessun Dorma." I highly recommend this if you haven't heard it - breathtaking.

Frank - I don't know if it's the version you are referring to, but there is an amazing take of "Sing Sing Sing" on the Benny Goodman double cd "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert." 12 minutes long, with Gene Krupa tearing it up on drums.
I vaguely remember a film about Glenn Miller that was on telly when I was a child-starring James Stewart.

Vguy mentioned finding some old Glenn Miller records. This brings back many lovely memories. My father, who was in the RAF during the war loved Glenn Miller and the big jazz bands and passed that on to me. Two days before he died, I spent a lovely weekend with my dad doing household chores, chewing the cud and listening to a set of cds by Glenn Miller from his wartime broadcasts. That was a very special weekend for us both, made even more poignant by my father’s passing just a few days later.
Just recently many TV programmes have picked up on another star of the era - Benny Goodman, and in particular the number Sing, Sing, Sing. It’s a long piece notable for one of the best, most prominent examples of jazz drumming I’ve heard by the late, great, Gene Krupa. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

I am soooo glad I attended your show back in '17