Jeff Beck's un-released recordings

[Cato]

check out Combine Appice's website

http://www.carmineappice.net/02_gallery_b.html

[ThrillsNSpills]

shame the link's dead.

[Hardrock69]

The site works fine though. Somewhere in my collection I have an unreleased Beck, Bogert & Appice album.

[Cato]

related social group > http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/group.php?groupid=2

[chefcraig]

I know that this is sort of a daunting question to ask, yet does anyone have a recording from a series of dates performed in Japan by Beck, Stuart Copeland and Stanley Clarke? These recordings may in truth be totally mythical, yet I recall reading long ago of a brief series of shows that were actually recorded by CBS/Epic, long before the Sony takeover. Time-wise this would have had to be sometime in the late seventies/early eighties, and possibly may have been for private, "industry-only" audiences.

There is scant mention of this time period in the Crazy Fingers bio by Annette Carson, and Copeland has never mentioned it when talking of his various side projects. So...does anyone have any insight to offer here? Any help would be appreciated at this point.

[Blackflag]

I know that this is sort of a daunting question to ask, yet does anyone have a recording from a series of dates performed in Japan by Beck, Stuart Copeland and Stanley Clarke? These recordings may in truth be totally mythical, yet I recall reading long ago of a brief series of shows that were actually recorded by CBS/Epic, long before the Sony takeover. Time-wise this would have had to be sometime in the late seventies/early eighties, and possibly may have been for private, "industry-only" audiences.

There is scant mention of this time period in the Crazy Fingers bio by Annette Carson, and Copeland has never mentioned it when talking of his various side projects. So...does anyone have any insight to offer here? Any help would be appreciated at this point.

Oooh, I'd like to hear that.

[chefcraig]

Oooh, I'd like to hear that.

The thing is, I have a handful of Japanese shows from the There And Back era featuring a band consisting of Beck, Fernando Saunders on bass, Simon Phillips on drums and (I think) Tony Hymas on keys. At this time, the group was already performing a version of The Impressions "People Get Ready" (with Saunders on vocals) that somehow wound up with Rod Stewart singing it. The track was shelved for a few years, then ended up on Flash.

So I'm uncertain of the time-frame when these shows (Beck, Copeland and Clarke) would have taken place. Clarke and Copeland played together in the short-lived Animal Logic group, yet that did not occur until around 1988-89.

[Blackflag]

So you're just kind of dreaming this whole thing up, aren't you? Admit it.

[chefcraig]

So you're just kind of dreaming this whole thing up, aren't you? Admit it.

Ummm...no. There were articles in not only Guitar Player, yet the some what lesser respectable Circus magazine and (at the time) Guitar World, that spoke of the recordings taking place. In fact, there were black and white photos provided of the trio on stage.

So, no...I am not pulling this entirely out of my ass.

[Cato]

Jeff Beck is the greatest. period.

( related social group > http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/group.php?groupid=2 )

[flappo]

true dat

i watched that bbc jeff beck at ronnie scott's the other night

he fucking owned , amaaaaaaazing stuff

legend !

[Diamondjimi]

Great performance.

Jeff beck= A legend who doesn't rest on past laurels. ( cough,cough :ED)

[chefcraig]

Jeff beck= A legend who doesn't rest on past laurels. ( cough,cough :ED)

Indeed, and here's the guy talking about why he doesn't.

Jeff Beck Opens Up About Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gigs With Clapton, Jeff Beck Group Reunion

Twenty-one years ago Jeff Beck was involuntary dragged onstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to play “Satisfaction” and “Like A Rolling Stone” alongside the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, George Harrison, the Beach Boys and countless other A-listers. “It was one of the worse cacophonies I’ve ever heard in my entire life,” Beck says on the phone from Western Australia, where he’s rehearing for a tour. “Just horrendous.”

On April, 4th Beck will have the stage all to himself when he’s inducted as a solo artist, 17 years after he was honored as part of the Yardbirds. “I couldn’t believe I was even nominated,” Beck says. “I thought the Yardbirds was as close as I’d get to getting in. I’ve gone on long after that and gone through different musical changes. It’s very nice to hear that people have been listening.” He plans to perform at the ceremony with his band, and is currently looking at booking American shows around the event.

The induction comes at a busy time for the 64-year-old guitar virtuoso. At the tail end of his Australia/Japan tour he has two shows booked in Saitama-shi, Japan, with the man he replaced in the Yardbirds: Eric Clapton. “It was unthinkable we’d ever play together other than the [1983] Arms charity concert,” Beck says. “He came to play on a couple of numbers I did at Ronnie Scott’s last year and it was really good fun. There was no sort of ‘I’m better than you’ thing going on.” What will the shows be like? “We’ll do two separate sets and we’ll link arms in the end,” says Beck. “Each night will end with a collaboration. How long, I won’t know. We’re working on suitable material, neutral material.” Might they break out some Yardbirds gems? “Eric doesn’t like the Yardbirds,” says Beck. “I don’t think he’ll go back that far.”

Beck is willing to consider more shows with Clapton, but fans of the original Jeff Beck Group shouldn’t hold their breath for a reunion. In 2004 Rod Stewart told Rolling Stone about rehearsal sessions he had with Beck and Ron Wood for a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall:

“Woody was playing bass and I was singing and it sounded fucking brilliant,” Stewart said. “We did ‘Rock My Plimsoul’ and ‘I Ain’t Superstitious,’ and everybody was glued to it. But Jeff phoned me up two days before the show and said he didn’t want to do it. He canceled. I’ve given up trying to reunite the Jeff Beck Group.”

When told about Rod’s desire for a Jeff Beck Group reunion, Beck starts laughing. “That’s what Rod said?” he chuckles. “They’re still full of shit after all these years. I saw Rod recently at Kenny Jones’ birthday party. He made a mockery of people asking if we’d reform, though I guess I’m not sure if he was talking about us or the Faces. Reformation of bands is never my idea of a good idea. Leave well enough alone, especially 35 years after it happened. It usually indicates there isn’t anything else happening in someone else’s career, otherwise you wouldn’t entertain it — let’s face it. We weren’t together in the heyday of money. We were playing small clubs and dives and broke up just before Woodstock, so we never had any big money gigs. It would be fun if we did it in private to see if it would sound any good, but leave it well enough alone and remember it for being groundbreaking at the time.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...ion-prospects/

[jhale667]

Jeff Beck is the greatest. period.

( related social group > http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/group.php?groupid=2 )

And even at 64, is still getting better...

[GAR]

The site works fine though. Somewhere in my collection I have an unreleased Beck, Bogert & Appice album.

i have released my hot brown curlfishes this morning.

[flappo]

beck has SUCH integrity and SUCH talent !!!

i admire him SO much

brian may , slash , dave gilmour , jimmy page , eric clapton and eddie vh do too

nuff said

[GAR]

Speaking of brown.. It's not been widely featured yet, but the Blow By Blow guitar has been reproduced by Gibson and is limited to 100 pieces in the original dings and scrapes condition, as well as another version in 300 pieces in undistressed condition.

excellent - it's the only guitar Gibson's ever done in solid brown like this.

[GAR]

"piece count" I should say. Leave it to Jeff Beck to leave 'em in dozens of pieces on the stage floor.

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[flappo]

i liked david hemmings in 'deep red'

ever seen that ?

[Hardrock69]

1. I have that BBC special. A DVD of the performances was supposed to have been released in December.

2. I also have been looking for any boots of the Japan tour with Stanley Clarke. It was around 1977-1978. I have put in requests on bootleg forums, without success.

I have seen him live twice. Absolutely astonishing.

[GAR]

I seen him once, standing talking to Mark Knopfler, Entwhistle and Blackmore which I find later it pretty rare to be seeing Blackmore around anywhere. Tried to butt an introduction as a teen, he just glared at me like "uh uh get lost".

Another time he just outright said politely "fuck off". He won't waste a moment I think he's suffered brain injuries or something to be so enclosed like that.

Seen him play one years' event with Buddy Guy, it must be on Youtube by now. I would say his playing was "perfect" more than stellar.

He's not a stellar player, he's different than anybody else theres no comparison.

[Hardrock69]

BBC4 Special.

Kudos to ZenArcher at Guitars101 for posting the links (gotta give credit where credit is due):


Jeff Beck - 2007-11-29 - London (dvd)
Jeff Beck
2007-11-29
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
London

Captured by smiler40, authored by Pawel

01. Interview
02. Eternity's Breath
03. Stratus
04. Behind The Veil
05. Nadia
06. Space Boogie
07. Angel (Footsteps)
08. People Get Ready [with Joss Stone]
09. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat/Brush With The Blues
10. Blanket [with Imogen Heap]
11. A Day In The Life
12. You Need Love [with Eric Clapton]
13. Where Were You



Band:
Jeff Beck - guitar
Tal Wilkenfeld - bass
Jason Rebello - keyboards
Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
Guest artists: Joss Stone, Imogen Heap, and Eric Clapton

Audio: MP2 256 kbps
Video: PAL 16:9, 3402 kbps average; includes removable subtitles
Lineage: BBC 4 (logo free) > Hauppauge Nova-S > DVB Viewer > VideoRedo Plus > DVD Maestro

http://rapidshare.com/files/15826616...art01.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15826845...art02.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15827129...art03.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15827425...art04.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15827834...art05.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15828415...art06.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15828967...art07.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15829454...art08.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15829952...art09.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15830379...art10.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15830735...art11.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15831115...art12.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15831524...art13.rar.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/15832329...art15.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15832764...art16.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/15833176...art17.rar.html

Jewel Case cover by Bozo D. Klown
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OHVA3UGD

According to stuff on the net, the official DVD and Blue-Ray will be released on March 30, 2009.

[Hardrock69]

Thanks to Asso at G101:

Jeff Beck with Eric Clapton - 2007-11-29 - London
(Soundobard mp3@192)

01 - Leo Green Introduction (0:53)
02 - Beck's Bolero (3:13)
03 - Breath Eternal (1:15)
04 - Stratus (5:14)
05 - Cause We've Ended As Lovers (4:55)
06 - Behind The Veil (4:52)
07 - You Never Know (3:29)
08 - Blast From The East (False Sta (0:27)
09 - Nadia (3:44)
10 - Blast From The East (3:22)
11 - Led Boots (5:22)
12 - Angel (Footsteps) (5:41)
13 - Scatterbrain (4:51)
14 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1:18)
15 - Brush With The Blues (5:25)
16 - Space Boogie (4:52)
17 - Big Block (5:35)
18 - A Day In The Life (4:56)
19 - Introduction Of Eric Clapton B (2:35)
20 - Little Brown Bird (With Eric C (4:31)
21 - You Need Your Love (With Eric (6:00)
22 - Where Were You (4:11)

http://rapidshare.com/files/11203954...ndon.CD.01.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/11204422...ndon.CD.02.rar

Mirror:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T1QEEW4Y
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6YVU3ZV0

Jeff Beck with Eric Clapton - 2007-11-30 - London
(Soundobard mp3@192)

01 - Leo Green Introduction (1:58)
02 - Race With The Devil (2:06)
03 - Crazy Legs (2:18)
04 - Train Kept A Rollin' (2:20)
05 - My Baby Left Me (2:42)
06 - Matchbox (2:40)
07 - Baby Blue (2:28)
08 - Honky Tonk (5:29)
09 - Beck's Bolero (3:40)
10 - Breath Eternal (1:29)
11 - Stratus (4:41)
12 - Cause We've Ended As Lovers (5:09)
13 - Behind The Veil (4:52)
14 - You Never Know (3:23)
15 - Nadia (3:27)
16 - Blast From The East (3:34)
17 - Led Boots (5:37)
18 - Angels(Footsteps) (5:38)
19 - Scatterbrain (4:40)
20 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1:19)
21 - Brush With The Blues (5:13)
22 - Space Boogie (4:37)
23 - Blanket (7:08)
24 - Big Block (5:35)
25 - A Day In The Life (7:30)
26 - Rollin' And Tumblin' (5:40)
27 - Where Were You (3:38)

http://rapidshare.com/files/11202476...ndon.CD.03.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/11203430...ndon.CD.04.rar

mirror:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M82COGF6
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Covers by BDK:


11/29/07

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7XAGSPAM

11/30/07

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=14VM38MH

[Diamondjimi]

excellent - it's the only guitar Gibson's ever done in solid brown like this.

Actually the colour is "Oxblood"...

[Diamondjimi]

BBC4 Special.




Jeff Beck - 2007-11-29 - London (dvd)
Jeff Beck
2007-11-29
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
London

.

Got it a couple of months back, stellar video...

[Cato]

Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton are supposed to play together in Japan next month....

hey, I don't have that DVD. it's a boot, isn't it?

[chefcraig]

hey, I don't have that DVD. it's a boot, isn't it?

“Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's” was a tv special for BBC4. It was shown in October of last year, made available in album form about a month later by Eagle Records, and as a DVD in December by Eagle Vision. Both are official releases.

You can hear a few excerpts from the CD at this link:

http://www.eaglerockent.com/e-cards/JeffBeck/index.htm

[Hyman Roth]

I know that this is sort of a daunting question to ask, yet does anyone have a recording from a series of dates performed in Japan by Beck, Stuart Copeland and Stanley Clarke? These recordings may in truth be totally mythical, yet I recall reading long ago of a brief series of shows that were actually recorded by CBS/Epic, long before the Sony takeover. Time-wise this would have had to be sometime in the late seventies/early eighties, and possibly may have been for private, "industry-only" audiences.

There is scant mention of this time period in the Crazy Fingers bio by Annette Carson, and Copeland has never mentioned it when talking of his various side projects. So...does anyone have any insight to offer here? Any help would be appreciated at this point.

http://troward.blogspot.com/2008/12/...est-night.html

No Stewart Copland. He played with Copland in the late-80's in a group called "Animal Logic". That is the only time I am aware that Clarke played with Copland. Doesn't mean it never happened though...

[chefcraig]

http://troward.blogspot.com/2008/12/...est-night.html

No Stewart Copland. He played with Copland in the late-80's in a group called "Animal Logic". That is the only time I am aware that Clarke played with Copland. Doesn't mean it never happened though...

Thank you for the heads-up on that, man. It's appreciated. Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder if this is turning out to be a grail-like quest on my part.

[Hardrock69]

There must be some boots somewhere....

[Cato]

Hummm.........

[GAR]

Actually the colour is "Oxblood"...

Nope! It's a definate brown. I seen both, the one in distressed-form and the one painted clean as-new finish..

They are both solid-brown, a color Gibson's never done before and the guy in charge of the historic division's been working there almost 30 years who told me they've never done that color before.

He said he went to the UK and went thru Jeff's guitars, after being a kid fan himself with only the album as a visual reference to the guitars' existence. After doing the measurements and photo documentation, it was determined the neck was a mid70s replacement on a late 60's body.. which of course were old-stock 50s bodies and seconds sent thru assembly again in late 67 for reintroducing the Les Paul.. but he says Jeff told the guy he just gave the guitar to a tech or a freind he knew and it came back with another neck, painted that color.

So nobody knows the true color or manufacture, what they came to use had to be colormatched by eye to the digital photos.

[chefcraig]

Nope! It's a definate brown. I seen both, the one in distressed-form and the one painted clean as-new finish..

They are both solid-brown, a color Gibson's never done before and the guy in charge of the historic division's been working there almost 30 years who told me they've never done that color before.

He said he went to the UK and went thru Jeff's guitars, after being a kid fan himself with only the album as a visual reference to the guitars' existence. After doing the measurements and photo documentation, it was determined the neck was a mid70s replacement on a late 60's body.. which of course were old-stock 50s bodies and seconds sent thru assembly again in late 67 for reintroducing the Les Paul.. but he says Jeff told the guy he just gave the guitar to a tech or a freind he knew and it came back with another neck, painted that color.

So nobody knows the true color or manufacture, what they came to use had to be colormatched by eye to the digital photos.

The reason it's called Oxblood is because it was once a '54 gold top, the owner of which decided was too showy, so he had it sanded and repainted in a deep chocolate finish that used red "Oxblood" highlights. As a result, the guitar itself became known as Oxblood. The guitar was painted by a luthier employed at Strings And Things, the Memphis guitar shop that Beck purchased the guitar from in the early sixties. This has been verified in the exhaustive Crazy Fingers bio by Annette Carson.

[Diamondjimi]

Gibson 1954 Jeff Beck Les Paul Oxblood
January 23, 2009



The one-of-a-kind guitar that accompanied Jeff Beck during his transition from "Clapton's Replacement" to celebrated solo artist in his own right is one-of-a-kind no longer. The Gibson Custome Shop has seen fit to introduce the Gibson 1954 Jeff Beck Les Paul Oxblood.

According the Arthurian-type folk-history associated with the instrument, the original "Oxblood" was basically a heavily modded 1954 Les Paul Goldtop. The story, according to Gibson, goes thusly:


"While recording in Memphis, Tenn., Beck paid a visit to a popular music store called Strings and Things to check out the stock. The guitar that caught his attention was a ’54 Gibson Les Paul that a customer had dropped in for some very specific modifications. One request was that its original Goldtop finish be stripped off in favor of a deep chocolate-brown finish, a color that turned out to exhibit some oxblood tints in certain light. Other modifications included the installation of full-size humbucking pickups in place of the P-90s, altering the full and rounded early ’50s neck shape to a slightly thinner profile and changing the original tuners for modern replacements. Legend has it that the customer didn’t like the results. . . but Jeff Beck did."

While Gibson doesn't cite their sources, the story at least seems fairly believable, especially when you consider the fact that the customer who originally ordered the guitar was, in fact, John Mayall (it follows a pattern of rejection, see).

The other details that Gibson omits from their story are certain specifications (Burstbucker 2 and 3 pickups, aluminum wrap-over bridge, long-tenon neck joint) and the price: $8235 US MSRP. I wonder what Jeff paid for his.

[GAR]

The "legend" I'm telling you right now, is contrary to what the guy (got his faaakin bus card in the soup somewhere) in Historic Dept. told me.. only AFTER I said "hey, so this neck is like from ____ period, and the body looks like it's shaped from ______ " and I wasn't far off, so he tells me what I posted, which is of course different than what you posted.

Legend vs. what I've related seeing with my own eyes, you get your hands on one and see if I'm not correct!

Maybe it's a dogpile parts guitar but it's one helluva comfortable one with that wraparound bridge. However, you could do the same thing with an Epi Paul, just grind and reshape the top a bit, strip and paint it then do a wraparound bridge like Wilkinson or a titanium one from TonePros which is the shit.. if you do that though to any Paul you either have studs left behind for the tailpiece or you pull the stud bushings and dowel 'em up before painting.

[chefcraig]

Christ on a cracker, do you ever tire of being being proven wrong on a consistent basis? This is more or less the same nonsense you pulled in the Kennedy thread, wherein you chose to offer a clip from a video game to prove your (incorrect) theory. The guitar was not created some years after Beck initially purchased it out of odds and ends. You see, this would be beyond the very basis of the time and space continuum. So in effect (quantum physics aside), once again you are mistaken.

[Cato]

Gibson 1954 Jeff Beck Les Paul Oxblood
January 23, 2009



The one-of-a-kind guitar that accompanied Jeff Beck during his transition from "Clapton's Replacement" to celebrated solo artist in his own right is one-of-a-kind no longer. The Gibson Custome Shop has seen fit to introduce the Gibson 1954 Jeff Beck Les Paul Oxblood.

According the Arthurian-type folk-history associated with the instrument, the original "Oxblood" was basically a heavily modded 1954 Les Paul Goldtop. The story, according to Gibson, goes thusly:


"While recording in Memphis, Tenn., Beck paid a visit to a popular music store called Strings and Things to check out the stock. The guitar that caught his attention was a ’54 Gibson Les Paul that a customer had dropped in for some very specific modifications. One request was that its original Goldtop finish be stripped off in favor of a deep chocolate-brown finish, a color that turned out to exhibit some oxblood tints in certain light. Other modifications included the installation of full-size humbucking pickups in place of the P-90s, altering the full and rounded early ’50s neck shape to a slightly thinner profile and changing the original tuners for modern replacements. Legend has it that the customer didn’t like the results. . . but Jeff Beck did."

While Gibson doesn't cite their sources, the story at least seems fairly believable, especially when you consider the fact that the customer who originally ordered the guitar was, in fact, John Mayall (it follows a pattern of rejection, see).

The other details that Gibson omits from their story are certain specifications (Burstbucker 2 and 3 pickups, aluminum wrap-over bridge, long-tenon neck joint) and the price: $8235 US MSRP. I wonder what Jeff paid for his.

here's a pic of the back view of headstock



tuners are not the Schaller's unlike the original oxblood Jeff owns. that sucks!