For Beckoholics Only
Jeff Beck Group
Bob Tench- lead vocals
Jeff Beck- guitar
Max Middleton- piano and electric piano
Clive Chaman- bass
Cozy Powell- drums
Hara Arena
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
May 11, 1972
audience reel master > cassette > CD > CD extractor (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
runtime: 67:28 (minutes/seconds)
(this recording has some significant speed fluctuation in it)
1: ice cream cakes 7:43
2: morning dew 6:22
3: going down 3:29
4: tonight I'll be staying here with you 5:35
5: glad all over 3:29
6: definitely maybe 6:53
7: Jeff's boogie 3:58
8: situation 5:35
9: I've been used 9:35
10: let me love you 5:26
11: got the feeling 9:18
a this and spazzed glasburns production.
(first one of those, hopefully the last)
do not sell this recording.
(if you'd buy this one, you are certified terminally incurable beckoholic)
Share freely, losslessly, gaplessly,
(and hopefully eventually speed correctedly).
thanks to luciferburns for providing this recording.
I believe eventually many will be quite grateful for it
(but maybe not right away, it needs some speed fixin'.)
comments:
anyone who listens to this should be forewarned, this isn't some fancy title
to hide officially released content, or disguise another uploader's post,
or to appease some achoholic beverage manufacturer.
there is a reason for that title. this recording has very annoying
speed variation issues almost constantly through the show.
I don't know if it was in the original recording but I suspect it is.
this comes from luciferburns and he has not had any significant transfer
issues that I have noticed in anything he's sent me to post.
apparently this is a new to circulation recording, and JBG shows are not
in a great abundance. otherwise there's no way I'd post this. too bad about
the speed issue because otherwise it sounds like a pretty decent recording,
all the instruments can be heard rather well, whch isn't always so with JBG
auds of this era. if some Beckoholic out there with very good speed adjusting
talents (and great patience) wants to post a remaster of this with speed adjusting
and has the time to do it right, the result would be quite enjoyable, and even as it is,
just think of it as what it's like for a person with a nervous twitchy disorder
(rather common in many countries this world including the U.S. unfortunately)
to see a Jeff Beck group concert. the recording has many brief speed spazzes,
but the rest of the time it seems pretty close to the right speed.
it's NOT going to be fixed by adjusting it all to a single speed.
it is good enough to be able to tell, this is a pretty good show and seems to
be all of it. I'm not certain about the track 9 title. I am sure of the others.
this was the 1st Jeff Beck group I ever saw (in Boston, about 6 months earlier),
and the 1st real rock concert I ever saw. that was a great concert, and alot of the
songs that made it great sound pretty good in this one too.
when an artist has a career of 40+ years it's easy to understand that many great
songs get lost in the setlist shuffle down rock and roll's long road.
there's only so many times I can hear freeway jam and some of the 80's and later Beck
songs, but this stuff never gets old with me. never had a chance to.
all these songs (except "going down" and "Jeff's boogie", probably my 2 least favorite
songs in here) were dropped off Jeff's setlist like school busses dropping off
the kids, around the time I was just starting junior high school.
I miss this band, and these songs, definitely (maybe) enough to post this thing.
(that's one of those songs Jeff should be fined for scrubbing from his set!)
Jeff is rarely known for vocal music, but Bob Tench is still the best vocalist to
perform in any Jeff Beck group I've heard (imho), lots of soul and energy in here.
even at this early point, Jeff Beck was already a "classic" rock artist who had
gained popularity in the mid 1960's as a member of the Yardbirds (as was at one
time also Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton).
before this outfit, Jeff Beck was rockin' out with Rod Stewart in 68 and 69.
I believe the JBG had to add 2nd show for their Nov. 71 Boston concert due to
popular demand.
This was the 1st group (of many to follow) with Jeff Beck as the headline title
attraction, and the first many had heard of the rest of this band.
I know there are others out there who have even more acute beckoholia than I have,
and that's who this one is for.
maybe it's not a fair analysis, since I've never seen Clapton, seen Jimmy Page just
once (with the Firm) and seen Beck 3 times (71,75 and 89).
unless I had seen a Blind Faith show (MAYBE if I had, I never have) I might not feel
so sure, but I am sure who my favorite rock guitar player is. I love John McLaughlin
and Al DiMeola and Robert Fripp and a few others and they're good but that's not rock.
if you like to rock out, nodody rocks like Jeff Beck rocks. period.
(guitar) case closed.