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Music : BLOW BY BLOW
Rating: 
- Not my kind of music.
I bought this album after listening to (and really liking) Joe Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien'. Before then I had not been very interested in purely instrumental music though I always appreciated great guitar playing. Having read about Jeff Beck many times in guitar magazines and hearing praise along the lines of him being 'the greatest living guitarist', I thought I was on to a winner. After all, these were the same sources that had introduced me to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen, Buddy Guy and Mark Knopfler. So, I was surprised after trying hard to like it that I did not enjoy the album at all. I am also surprised that almost all negative reviews (site-wide) are found 'unhelpful' by readers. Personally, I find it very useful to find out why people really dislike a product as well as why someone else really likes it. If you have a broader taste in music than I do I think you will really like listening to this album. If, however, you are not fond of jazz music or you are not a guitar enthusiast think long and hard before you buy - then answer 'Was this review helpful?' with NO! Have fun.
Rating:
- Superb.
An astounding and in it's day, a groundbreaking album by the Universe's greatest guitarist.Still fresh after all these years.
Rating:
- blow by blow
Not bad for a British Rocker. Jeff really does play some lines here, and odviously has way more chops than say Clapton. The Grooves are mainly funky rather than bombastic; more headhunters than Return to Forever. It is funny to see that customers who bought this also bought Yardbirds, Zeppelin etc. Really this music is much more inline with Herbie Hancock type sophistifunk. Don't forget Jeff was friends with and playing on Stevie Wonder records at this time, and producer John Martin also did a record with another English guitar god, namely John Mclaughlin.
If you like funky stuff but also some overdriven guitars [they a were never meant to be so segregated] then this is worth having
Rating: - Starsky and Hutch music
"What the hell is this?" That's what I thought when I first heard this cd. I thought Jeff Beck was a rock guitarist like Jimmy Page. This album is not rock, I don't know what it is. The closest thing I can compare it to is the type of music you used to hear in 70's cop shows like Starsky and Hutch, or maybe one of Clint Eastwoods Dirty Harry movies. "Scatterbrain" in particular, with it's sweeping orchestral parts and the organ just sounds so horribly dated. To Jeff Beck fans, or perhaps fans of 70's cop shows, this is probably a classic. To a fan of 70's heavy rock like Zeppelin or Sabbath, this is basically unlistenable.
Rating: - Superb Throughout
As the 1970's dawned Jeff Beck was becoming bored with the constraints of rock music, and, never one to remain in a rut, he wisely expanded his horizons to include jazz rock. In fact, Jeff Beck was one of the first to explore the possibilities of making a rock album with no lyrics whatsoever. Beck was never one to enjoy singing (To this day he still hates singing Hi Ho Silver Lining), and tired of sharing the limelight with a lead singer, he focassed all his attention on the music, it's arrangements and the complex guitar solos he would play with characteristic aplomb. Blow by Blow was a tremendous success when it was first released in the early 1970's, thrusting Beck into a whole new area of serious jazz rock. This whole area of music was sufficiently exciting and original to attract the attention of George Martin, no less, who produced this magnificent album. Beck's strength's lie firmly in guitar playing and his arrangements of solo's. Various sources are credited with the writing of the songs on this album, whilst Beck concentrates wholly on the guitar. The result is a genuine innovation and one that would equally astound and infuriate Beck's fans and critics. Some thought Beck should stick purely with blues and rock like his old mate Eric Clapton, while others thought this album was truly an original piece of work, easily out classing other less adventurous guitarists. Needless to say, the album is well produced by George Martin, with a couple of tracks being enhanced by strings, arranged by Martin. The whole thing is so utterly compelling and refreshing now, it must have seemed breathtaking at the time. Such a success this album was that Beck turned his back completely on pure rock music to concentrate his efforts instead upon his own blend of highly charged jazz rock.
- Not my kind of music.I bought this album after listening to (and really liking) Joe Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien'. Before then I had not been very interested in purely instrumental music though I always appreciated great guitar playing. Having read about Jeff Beck many times in guitar magazines and hearing praise along the lines of him being 'the greatest living guitarist', I thought I was on to a winner. After all, these were the same sources that had introduced me to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen, Buddy Guy and Mark Knopfler. So, I was surprised after trying hard to like it that I did not enjoy the album at all. I am also surprised that almost all negative reviews (site-wide) are found 'unhelpful' by readers. Personally, I find it very useful to find out why people really dislike a product as well as why someone else really likes it. If you have a broader taste in music than I do I think you will really like listening to this album. If, however, you are not fond of jazz music or you are not a guitar enthusiast think long and hard before you buy - then answer 'Was this review helpful?' with NO! Have fun.
Rating:
- Superb.An astounding and in it's day, a groundbreaking album by the Universe's greatest guitarist.Still fresh after all these years.
Rating:
- blow by blowNot bad for a British Rocker. Jeff really does play some lines here, and odviously has way more chops than say Clapton. The Grooves are mainly funky rather than bombastic; more headhunters than Return to Forever. It is funny to see that customers who bought this also bought Yardbirds, Zeppelin etc. Really this music is much more inline with Herbie Hancock type sophistifunk. Don't forget Jeff was friends with and playing on Stevie Wonder records at this time, and producer John Martin also did a record with another English guitar god, namely John Mclaughlin.
If you like funky stuff but also some overdriven guitars [they a were never meant to be so segregated] then this is worth having
Rating:
- Starsky and Hutch music"What the hell is this?" That's what I thought when I first heard this cd. I thought Jeff Beck was a rock guitarist like Jimmy Page. This album is not rock, I don't know what it is. The closest thing I can compare it to is the type of music you used to hear in 70's cop shows like Starsky and Hutch, or maybe one of Clint Eastwoods Dirty Harry movies. "Scatterbrain" in particular, with it's sweeping orchestral parts and the organ just sounds so horribly dated. To Jeff Beck fans, or perhaps fans of 70's cop shows, this is probably a classic. To a fan of 70's heavy rock like Zeppelin or Sabbath, this is basically unlistenable.
Rating:
- Superb ThroughoutAs the 1970's dawned Jeff Beck was becoming bored with the constraints of rock music, and, never one to remain in a rut, he wisely expanded his horizons to include jazz rock. In fact, Jeff Beck was one of the first to explore the possibilities of making a rock album with no lyrics whatsoever. Beck was never one to enjoy singing (To this day he still hates singing Hi Ho Silver Lining), and tired of sharing the limelight with a lead singer, he focassed all his attention on the music, it's arrangements and the complex guitar solos he would play with characteristic aplomb. Blow by Blow was a tremendous success when it was first released in the early 1970's, thrusting Beck into a whole new area of serious jazz rock. This whole area of music was sufficiently exciting and original to attract the attention of George Martin, no less, who produced this magnificent album. Beck's strength's lie firmly in guitar playing and his arrangements of solo's. Various sources are credited with the writing of the songs on this album, whilst Beck concentrates wholly on the guitar. The result is a genuine innovation and one that would equally astound and infuriate Beck's fans and critics. Some thought Beck should stick purely with blues and rock like his old mate Eric Clapton, while others thought this album was truly an original piece of work, easily out classing other less adventurous guitarists. Needless to say, the album is well produced by George Martin, with a couple of tracks being enhanced by strings, arranged by Martin. The whole thing is so utterly compelling and refreshing now, it must have seemed breathtaking at the time. Such a success this album was that Beck turned his back completely on pure rock music to concentrate his efforts instead upon his own blend of highly charged jazz rock.