A muso mate lent me this album and Wired back in ‘78 and I’ve been a Jeff Beck fan since then – really liked Blow by Blow but loved Wired … “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is still my all time favourite Jeff Beck performance!
Blow by Blow was such an incredible reinvention of the Guv’nor’s style, as an instrumentalist – it’s a classic and the one most fans refer to with good reason.
For me, a key difference between those two albums is that Wired seems more cohesive. Blow by Blow is more of a general collection of tunes imho and I wonder if George Martin might have segued some of the tracks to give it more cohesion?
Jeff Beck was a genius who never grew old musically 🎸
Had to bail just as you folks were starting on side 2. Just caught the rest of show. Well done again guys, a fitting tribute to the late Jeff Beck! 👏👏👏 Looking forward to seeing Hugh on the ranking of Hell To Pay! 👍
Always really good hearing your observations, thoughts and rankings! 🙂 “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” the stand-out track for me – famously a ‘thank you’ (or apology) to Jeff from Stevie Wonder. The story was Jeff jamming on drums (!) inspired Stevie’s riff on “Superstition” – he was going to give that song to Beck but the record company had other ideas. Interesting to hear Simon’s comment about the title – I’d always thought that too and concluded, from the mood of the piece, it was the end of a relationship. I read later that Stevie had written it for his first wife, who he’d divorced, amicably, in 1972 …
I’m looking forward to catching up with this one 👍
A muso mate lent me this album and Wired back in ‘78 and I’ve been a Jeff Beck fan since then – really liked Blow by Blow but loved Wired … “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is still my all time favourite Jeff Beck performance!
Blow by Blow was such an incredible reinvention of the Guv’nor’s style, as an instrumentalist – it’s a classic and the one most fans refer to with good reason.
For me, a key difference between those two albums is that Wired seems more cohesive. Blow by Blow is more of a general collection of tunes imho and I wonder if George Martin might have segued some of the tracks to give it more cohesion?
Jeff Beck was a genius who never grew old musically 🎸
It always surprised me that Phil Chen went on to join Rod Stewart – much as I liked that band!
Had to bail just as you folks were starting on side 2. Just caught the rest of show. Well done again guys, a fitting tribute to the late Jeff Beck! 👏👏👏
Looking forward to seeing Hugh on the ranking of Hell To Pay! 👍
Always really good hearing your observations, thoughts and rankings! 🙂 “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” the stand-out track for me – famously a ‘thank you’ (or apology) to Jeff from Stevie Wonder. The story was Jeff jamming on drums (!) inspired Stevie’s riff on “Superstition” – he was going to give that song to Beck but the record company had other ideas. Interesting to hear Simon’s comment about the title – I’d always thought that too and concluded, from the mood of the piece, it was the end of a relationship. I read later that Stevie had written it for his first wife, who he’d divorced, amicably, in 1972 …
Andrew , Brad and Simon thank you for the opportunity for me to listen to this record today . Cool show guys
Catching up now boys, got a few to watch.
Another great show chaps. It just keeps getting better. All my best 😎😎🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶👍👍👍👍
Just watching now