Two time TP cover star - surprised it wasn't more (I may be missing a call-out here or there.). Of meningitis. https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65213#msg-65213 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:42:18 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65225#msg-65225 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65225#msg-65225 Blow-Up is on YouTube or someplace.]]> Delvin Trouser Press Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:44:52 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65224#msg-65224 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65224#msg-65224 Nightdrive Trouser Press Fri, 13 Jan 2023 05:31:59 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65223#msg-65223 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65223#msg-65223 There and Back is actually my favorite of the fusion records.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:55:04 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65222#msg-65222 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65222#msg-65222 There and Back. That one hasn't been critically lauded; the reviewer on allmusic.com compares it to a Christmas letter from a rarely-heard-from friend ("Everything's fine, still playing guitar"). Still, our local rock radio station played it a lot in 1980, and I came to appreciate the way Beck could let it rip on guitar without stretching out to indulgent lengths, and without forgetting that there were actual songs behind his guitar playing.

Still, There and Back remained the only Jeff Beck album on my shelf for at least three decades. Friends tried to bend my ear with albums like Wired, Blow By Blow and Beck, Bogert & Appice, but they never really got me going. I did eventually pick up a copy of Truth along with the Yardbirds' BBC sessions.

The man was an outstanding technician on guitar, and he played with great feel for what the instrument could do (and sometimes pushed the envelope on it). But when I hear him play, I seldom get a sense of much emotion in his playing. Still, one does get the sense that he didn't spend his career turning out one album after another just for the sake of keeping his name in the market (unlike Clapton). And he may have kept his hairstyle rockin', but keeping it jet black into his seventies got a bit ridiculous.

Okay, enough from me. Rest in peace, Jeff, and thanks.]]> Delvin Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:35:16 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65221#msg-65221 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65221#msg-65221
It’s the same reason I have all those Crosby Stills and Nash albums… you see them and pick them up to expand the now-ridiculously big library. (note I said expand, hopefully not dilute!)

I’ve never lunged for the needle on the rare occasions I do listen. Which I did today. From what I heard, Jeff Beck can rest knowing he was indeed no slouch on the guitar!!]]> Bip Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:39:21 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65220#msg-65220 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65220#msg-65220 upper90 Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:44:28 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65219#msg-65219 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65219#msg-65219 And as Phillipe says, I always respected his integrity. He played what and when he felt like it, according to his own schedule and preferences, and if that meant he went five years without doing anything but work on his vintage car collection, by god, that's what he did. And props to the guy for rocking that haircut for 60-odd years.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:33:21 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65218#msg-65218 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65218#msg-65218
I was surprised about the project with Johnny Depp as well, but the two seem to have been very close in the last couple of years and Depp was one of the first persons to announce Beck's passing.]]> Philippe Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:07:53 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65217#msg-65217 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65217#msg-65217
Spinal Tap: Break Like The Wind

Oldie CD-5: Deep Purple - "Hush" b/w Yardbirds: "For Your Love" Which was bought to get the rockin' "Hush."

Malcolm McLaren: Waltz Darling

That last one knocked me for a loop. What a crazy, fascinating album. When I read Alex Petridis' obit in The Guardian I was shocked to see Beck's last album was with…Johnny Depp? And featured covers of "Venus In Furs" [VU], Don't Talk [Put Your Head On My Shoulder] [Beach Boys], Death + Resurrection Show [Killing Joke], and "Ooo Baby Baby" [Smokey Robinson]!! That's some eclectic choices there. But at 78 it's hardly shocking to have him expire suddenly.]]> Post-Punk Monk Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:13:56 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65216#msg-65216 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65216#msg-65216 zoo Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:46:57 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65215#msg-65215 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65215#msg-65215 BCE Trouser Press Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:28:01 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65213#msg-65213 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65213,65213#msg-65213 breno Trouser Press Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:49:11 -0600