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Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow (1975) [MFSL UDCD 727]

Posted By: Goodspeed

Date: 18 Jun 2010 17:43:21

Few people have used the guitar as voice so effectively as Jeff Beck. And few recordings in any genre have so beautifully melded guitar with instrumentation. Although Blow By Blow has weak and dated moments, its standout tracks are so startling that I keep referring back to it as a kind of touch-point…to my own past, to an eternal expectation of how really transcendant great music can be. Three tracks have not dated, will never date: "Because We've Ended as Lovers", "Scatterbrain" and "Diamond Dust". Each has a distinctive, difficult, complicated mood. Lovers weeps. Scatterbrain has a manic, brilliant energy and wonderful interplay with a lush, erotic backing string arrangement. But my favorite Jeff Beck song will always be Diamond Dust. Its mood is brooding, edgy, and yet elegiac. The opening bars introduce an uneasy melody against a counterpoint of piano. From there the melody twists around, punctuated by electric piano and the faint, brilliantly arranged strings. It builds and fades, sometimes bright, sometimes aching, and when it ends, you feel as if you need to think a while, maybe take a walk. It's one of the most complicated and beautiful songs in modern music and it amazes and hurts me that some people will die never having heard it.

Jeff Beck's fusion forays aren't for everyone. But there is no denying his musicianship, nor his intimate virtuosity with mood and subtle coloring. This recording has been on my shelves for twenty-five years and, God willing, it will be there for another fifty.

Tracklist:

1. You Know What I Mean 4:07
2. She's a Woman 4:31
3. Constipated Duck 2:48
4. AIR Blower 5:10
5. Scatterbrain 5:40
6. Cause We've Ended as Lovers 5:43
7. Thelonius 3:16
8. Freeway Jam 4:59
9. Diamond Dust 8:26

EAC Log

EAC extraction logfile from 5. May 2007, 16:48 for CD
Jeff Beck / Blow By Blow

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Other options :
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

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Track 4
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Track 7
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Track 8
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Track 9
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End of status report

Info:
Catalog #: MFSL UDCD II 727
Release date: June 1998
Original recording: October 1974
Original release date: March 1975

Personnel:
Jeff Beck (guitar);
Max Middleton, Stevie Wonder (keyboards);
Richard Bailey (drums, percussion).

Note: This is not my rip; I found it while surfing the Eternal Hunting Grounds!

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