Jeff Beck: Truth 1968 + Beck - Ola 1969

 

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist who rose to

prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style of music with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica.
                             

Beck was ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists rankings of the

greatest guitarists. He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist". Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".
                               

One of the essential guitarists of the British Invasion, Jeff Beck possessed a mercurial, lyrical style that

sounded equally at home in thunderous blues-rock and soft-focus fusion. Beck played both styles in his long, unpredictable career, pioneering psychedelia, heavy metal, and jazz-rock as he did so. His prodigious talent was evident from the moment he joined the Yardbirds, nudging the group toward mind-bending rock on such seminal mid-'60s singles as "Shapes of Things" and "Over Under Sideways Down."
                            

Beck left the Yardbirds after spending just over a year in the group, turning his attention to the Jeff

Beck Group, a crushingly loud, heavy rock outfit featuring Ron Wood on bass and Rod Stewart on vocals. Truth, their 1968 debut, drew the blueprint Led Zeppelin would soon follow, but Beck never rivaled Jimmy Page's group in terms of popularity. During the early 1970s, he cycled through new bands, including a super trio with Vanilla Fudge's rhythm section Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, eventually settling into a slick jazz groove with the George Martin-produced 1975 LP Blow by Blow.
                             

From that point forward, fusion played a crucial role in Beck's music, sometimes taking the forefront --

as on a live 1977 album with the Jan Hammer Group -- but more often providing the glue on such adventurous rock records as 1989's Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop.
                           

Throughout his career, Beck balanced his solo recordings with guest appearances on albums by other musicians -- notably, he played lead guitar on Mick Jagger's 1985 solo debut She's the Boss and Roger Waters' 1992 set Amused to Death -- and sometimes these collaborations resulted in a full duet album, as it did on 18, his 2022 album with Johnny Depp.
                            

Jeff Beck – Truth & Beck-Ola
Label: EMI – CDP 7954692, EMI – 79 5469 2, EMI – CZ 374
Format:    CD, Compilation, Reissue
Country: UK & Europe
Released: Mar 5, 1991
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Hard Rock

TRUTH 1968   

                              

  
01. Shapes Of Things    3:21
02. Let Me Love You    4:44
03. Morning Dew    4:43
04. You Shook Me    2:33
05. Ol' Man River    4:01
06. Greensleeves    1:50
07. Rock My Plimsoul    4:14
08. Beck's Bolero    2:55
09. Blues De Luxe    7:33
10. I Ain't Superstitious    4:56
       

BECK - OLA 1969

                                 

  
11. All Shook Up    4:51
12. Spanish Boots    3:35
13. Girl From Mill Valley    3:47
14. Jailhouse Rock    3:16
15. Plynth (Water Down The Drain)    3:07
16. The Hangman's Knee    4:48
17. Rice Pudding    7:22

Total Time: [1:11:45.00]

                

FEATURING:

Rod Stewart
Ron Wood
Nicky Hopkins
Tony Newman
Mick Waller

MP3 @ 320 Size: 161 MB
Flac  Size: 394 MB

Jeff Beck on Urban Aspirines HERE