Jeff Beck
March 25, 1972
Beat Club
Radio Bremen's TV Studio
Bremen

01. Got The Feeling
02. Situation
03. Morning Dew
04. Tonight I�ll Be Staying Here With You
05. Going Down
06. Definitely Maybe

Rip from my Mid Valley silvers, High resolution scans of artwork included


Ruis Rockfestival Beat Club & BBC 1971 & 1972 is a Mid Valley budget release featuring the three best sounding documents of the second incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group. This project featured Clive Chaman (bass), Max Middleton (keyboards), Cozy Powell (drums) and Bob Tench on vocals and stood in contrast to the first group. The fun and loose feeling provided by Rod Stewart and Ron Wood was replaced by a tight, professional and diverse group with very interesting material.

This group lasted just about a year and a half and produced only two albums, Rough And Ready and Jeff Beck Group before being disbanded.

Mid Valley present three excellent sounding professionally recorded documents dating from just before the release of Rough And Ready to the BBC appearance a few weeks before the end. All of these tapes have been released before including Going Down To The BBC (Refine Masters) released last year. While the Refine Masters is a great release, Mid Valley is more complete.

It is presented in a fatboy jewel case with EV�s super cheap, stupid and totally unhelpful garbage packaging. The front and back are generic TMoQ artwork with only an insert to describe the contents. I guess they want to bring back the days of vinyl when the LPs were stored in plain white sleeves with only an insert in the plastic, but even at the low price this is offered merits more effort.


The appearance on Beat Club is one of their very few television appearances. �Definitely Maybe� appears on the the Refined Masters release as a bonus, but this contains the whole half hour telecast but without any talking or commentary between numbers. Releases with this set are very hard to find and it along can justify the cost of owning the set.

The set they chose for this is a good mix between songs from Rough And Ready and from the new album Jeff Beck Group. �Morning Dew� is the only non-album track included in the session. The entire performance is great, but the standout number is the last. The haunting melody is augmented by Middleton playing a pretty counter melody to Beck�s guitar in the middle.

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