The two albums Jeff Beck did with Rod Stewart, and on which Ronnie Wood played bass, are two of the very best albums ever. Imo that was Stewart at his best.
Yes, I have that book. It's not perfect, but it is great. Imo there's a bit too much background about how he did the book. I suppose writers interested in the general fields of reporting and biography might find parts of that interesting, but the talk about his personal life gets to be too much at times. I found it interesting how the author was consciously aware of the distance between his position and that of his subjects, and yet was able to portray them convincingly as real, even mostly normal, people. Some more normal than others, and the author himself would probably answer how Jones was not what he would call a normal person. But on the whole that came across.
I don't think I heard the Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart/Ronnie Wood connection until maybe the early/mid-80's and when I first hear Ain't Superstitious and I think I played it 100 times in a row. I honestly thought Rod Stewart was the guy who sang Maggie May then converted to a club/disco guy singing If You Think I'm Sexy. I had no idea he had ever played with Jeff Beck who I loved from Blow By Blow and Wired. Funny, when I then listened to Greensleeves I thought I'd heard it before and then I remembered it was at my sister's piano recital. Love Rock My Plimsoul. _
Probably also the two best albums Ronnie Wood ever played on, as well as Rod. Fuck, you could make a credible argument for Beck.
I have tremendous respect for Jeff Beck as an innovative and individualized style guitarist. But as a band leader making recordings, he's been spotty. Not on those two albums, so yes that is a very credible argument.
So true. We just saw him, and he still brings it when on stage. You never get the feeling that he is mailing it in, as so many artists do. He is very frustrating when it comes to putting out new material. Earlier this year, he supposedly had a new album in the can. Now, the story is that it has mysteriously been cancelled.
Can't believe I'm saying this, but 40 really is young. I'm approaching 57 in a few weeks. Sorry about the knees, but on the bright side, you won't see the real drop off until the big 5-0.
In my clubbing days, I used to go to a place in New Rochelle. When I told my dad about it, he said he used to go to the same place to see Tommy Dorsey.
Ha... I remember when Q104.3 played hard rock and bands like Tool, Quicksand, Corrosion of Conformity and Helmet. Then they went Classic Rock and are now playing music from the mid 90's as classic rock.
I saw Jeff Beck live a couple of years ago. Other than the show being a tremendous sausage hang, it was spellbinding. Nobody plays like him.
Well to clarify, I got turned on to them in my teens. When they were already arctic fossils. But, yes I am a miserable old fuck. Get off my lawn.
Man that sounds like my dads record collection, honestly I like Clapton better with Cream than his solo stuff. My old man has this concert DVR'd of Winwood and Clapton, it was fucking phenomenal. IMO Winwood is one of the most underrated guys of his genre.
