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BECK, BOGERT & APPICE - SEATTLE 1973 [JEFF BECK R.I.P. 1944 - 2023]

April 19, 2019 – 4:34 am

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JEFF BECK R.I.P. 1944 - 2023

Jeff Beck, the beloved guitar player who rose to fame with English rock band The Yardbirds, has died on January 10. He was 78. His family confirmed Beck’s death in a statement on Wednesday. “On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s Passing,” the statement began. “After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family asks for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.”

Beck rose to fame in 1965 when he took over as guitarist for The Yardbirds, replacing Eric Clapton. The next year, he founded his own group, The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. They released two albums together: Truth and Beck-Ola.  After The Jeff Beck Group broke up, he joined Vanilla Fudge for a short stint and later recreated The Jeff Beck Group with new members. In 1972, he fronted Beck, Bogert & Appice before breaking up in 1974.

He also recorded two albums in the ’70s as a solo act called Blow by Blow and Wired. He released Loud Hailer in 2016. “I really wanted to make a statement about some of the nasty things I see going on in the world - greed, lies, injustice - and I loved the idea of being at a rally and using this loud device to shout my point of view,” he said in a bio on his official website. Most recently, the rocker released a collaborative album titled 18 with Johnny Depp in July 2022. - people.com

Often described as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Beck - whose fingers and thumbs were famously insured for £7m – was known as a keen innovator. He pioneered jazz-rock, experimented with fuzz and distortion effects and paved the way for heavier subgenres such as psych rock and heavy metal over the course of his career. He was an eight-time Grammy winner, recipient of the Ivor Novello for outstanding contribution to British music and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame both as a solo artist and as a member of the Yardbirds.

Musicians and longtime friends began paying tribute minutes after the news broke. On Twitter, Jimmy Page wrote, “The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal emotions. Jeff could channel music from the ethereal. His technique unique. His imaginations apparently limitless. Jeff I will miss you along with your millions of fans.”

“With the death of Jeff Beck we have lost a wonderful man and one of the greatest guitar players in the world,” Mick Jagger wrote. “We will all miss him so much.”

“Now Jeff has gone, I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world, and I’m going to dearly miss him,” Ronnie Wood tweeted.

Ozzy Osbourne tweeted, “I can’t express how saddened I am to hear of Jeff Beck’s passing. What a terrible loss for his family, friends & his many fans. It was such an honour to have known Jeff and an incredible honor to have had him play on my most recent album.” - theguardian.com

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BECK, BOGERT & APPICE
Seattle 1973 [D&D Archive Master Series Vol 35, 1CD]
Live at the Paramount Northwest, Seattle, WA; April 26, 1973. Fairly to very good audience recording.

Thanks to tapers TDave Departee and Donn Amick; and to JEMS and KRW_CO (first-gen copy) for sharing the show at Dime.

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JEMS is proud to partner with and present many of the choice recordings in the D & D archives. Some have been around for years but none of the master tapes or safety copies in some cases have ever been digitized until now. Dave and Donn taped many shows in and around the Seattle area in the 70’s and also contemporaries of some of the JEMS members.

To date, JEMS has released more than 30 D&D recordings, though the series slowed down in recent years as we covered most of the key shows. But after finding a paper clue inside a vintage reel, it occurred to me to ask longtime JEMS ally Taperpat, who knew Donn back in the day, what tapes he had gotten from him and if in fact he had a BBA recording by D&D since that wasn’t one of the shows JEMS had among our tapes. Sure enough he did, along with a couple of other shows not included in our D&D collection. Taperpat was kind enough to send me the first-gen cassette Donn copied for him and I made a fresh transfer of what turns out to be a highly listenable stereo recording.

Knowing KRW_CO’s interest in BBA, I sent the files their way for posting. Good quality, stereo audience masters from this period aren’t common, so I hope fans are excited to hear this resurrected recording.

BK for JEMS

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Lineage:
unknown stereo mics > Sony TC-126 stereo cassette recorder
JEMS 2018 Transfer: first-generation cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96 capture to .wav) > iZotope RX and Ozone (24/96) > Audio Cleaning Lab for Krw track marks and edits > Wav 16/44.1 > Traders Little Helper Flac 8

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Track 01. Superstition 5:01
Track 02. Livin’ Alone 6:04
Track 03. I’m So Proud 6:06
Track 04. Lady 6:38
Track 05. Morning Dew 4:35
Track 06. Drum Solo/Morning Dew (reprise) 6:22
Track 07. Sweet Sweet Surrender 4:53
Track 08. Lose Myself With You 3:02
Track 09. Bass and Drum Jam/Lose Myself With You 7:48
Track 10. Black Cat Moan 5:31
Track 11. You Shook Me/Black Cat Moan 4:07
Track 12. Why Should I Care 10:16
Track 13. Plynth 2:00
Track 14. Shotgun 3:04
Track 15. Jeff’s Boogie 2:37
78 mins

Lineup:
Jeff Beck - guitar and vocals
Tim Bogert - bass and vocals
Carmine Appice - drums and vocals

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