JEFF BECK - ITALY 2010
July 17, 2010 – 3:57 am
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JEFF BECK
Lucca 2010 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Piazza Napoleone, Lucca Summer Festival, Lucca, Italy, July 13, 2010. Very good FM broadcast.
Jeff Beck sure knows how to pick his bassists. Earlier on, it was Australian Tal Wilkenfeld, who had been with Beck’s group since 2008 and played on Beck’s latest album, Emotion And Commotion. She had to pull out of Beck’s current tour because of scheduling problems and to replace her is funky bassist Rhonda Smith, who is no stranger to Prince fans.
Unlike Frank Zappa (when he was alive) or even Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band with their deep live catalogue, Beck live doesn’t offer that wide a variety. However, he makes up for it with intricate and passionate playing. For this gig and for the current tour, the presence of Rhonda Smith certainly helps - she really spikes up the tunes and her vocals aren’t too bad.
Beck may be promoting Emotion And Commotion but there are always dependable chestnuts such as Stratus, Led Boots, A Day In The Life and People Get Ready - he left out Over The Rainbow, which he covered on the album.
Solid and dependable, Jeff Beck won’t disappoint anyone, especially his fans, but it would be nice if he could surprise them as well… even once in a while.
Thanks to survivor69 who taped the show and shared the lossless tracks on Dime. survivor69 commented: “On Italian radio, the DJ speaks a lot in-between songs. And I mean a lot. His/her purpose is to introduce songs with bits of bio, or translate what the artists say. It may get VERY annoying and, trust me, it does, thus we might consider this recording ONLY FOR COMPLETISTS. But the songs, the actual music, are (usually) not spoken over. It has to be noted that Italian DJs are advised to talk that much by the record companies to prevent bootlegging.”
Also, thanks to rockitaly for the artwork.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s - sample rate of 320 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Track 01. Radio introduction 0.21 (806k)
Track 02. Eternity’s Breath 1.11 (2.7MB)
Track 03. Stratus 4.24 (10.0MB)
Track 04. Led Boots 4.05 (9.3MB)
Track 05. Hammerhead 4.51 (11.1MB)
Track 06. Mna Na Eireann 5.09 (11.8MB)
Track 07. Rhonda’s jam 3.02 (6.9MB)
Track 08. Rollin’ and Tumblin’ 4.49 (11.0MB)
Track 09. People Get Ready 5.03 (11.5MB)
Track 10. Big Block 5.54 (13.5B)
Track 11. I Want To Take You Higher 6.09 (14.0MB)
Track 12. A Day In The Life 5.04 (11.6MB)
Track 13. Encore break 0.56 (2.1MB)
Track 14. Nessun Dorma 3.24 (7.7MB)
Track 15. Outro and goodbyes 1.53 (4.3MB)
TT: 56′ 15″
Lineup:
Jeff Beck - electric guitars
Rhonda Smith - electric bass and vocals
Jason Rebello - keyboards
Narada Michael Walden - drums and vocals
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6 Responses to “JEFF BECK - ITALY 2010”
What Did She Say?
By bill on Jul 17, 2010
hey bigo, thanks! this is pretty good. the dj chatter is annoying, but it isn’t too bad. i have other boots with dj chatter.
i like people get ready and a day in the life.
as i recall, the last beck boot was grammy musuem, la, ca 4.22.10. that’s a good one too.
best,
ed
By Ed Saad on Jul 17, 2010
well actually, bigo, there was a boston music hall 75 late show offered too. another good one. like carla k says, i have a good memory.
best,
ed
By Ed Saad on Jul 17, 2010
WOW! Somebody HAS GOT TO post the pre-broadcast soundboard of this……! Thanks BigO!
By Walter on Jul 18, 2010
Also radiotransmitted&great were Eric Clapton with Derek Trucks&Doyle Bramhall II in 2006, July 7th.
Might that be available, too??
By fred on Jul 22, 2010
I’ll have to say that I’m a bit out of touch with many of Jeff Beck’s recent releases. I still admire him and I’ll always think of him as a true innovator — not to say genius. He was experimenting feedback, distortion and other stuff before Hendrix. Still an astonishing player even when the material is sometimes… huh…
Anyway, let’s try for that Lucca (!!!) gig and discover how he treated the Italian audience!
By Serge Zéni on Jul 30, 2010