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| 1. Led Boots |
| 2. Come Dancing |
| 3. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat |
| 4. Head For Backstage Pass |
| 5. Blue Wind |
| 6. Sophie |
| 7. Play With Me |
| 8. Love Is Green |
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Jeff Beck had given us more than a glimpse of where he was heading with the previous year's fine 'Blow by Blow' album - but this one took some kind of quantum leap into the stratosphere, making it one of the strongest instrumental rock albums ever made.
Pooling together members of his existing band with keyboard master Jan Hammer and a young Narada Michael Walden on drums ( who also provided many of the tunes ) everything seemed to gel together beautifully.
Capping it all was George Martin's hugely sympathetic sound production, giving everything a very hard, loud, up-front feel. Perfect.
Sounding off about musicianly 'technique' - as anyone is likely to do with a record like this - might well prove to be a bit of a turn-off but one listen will demonstrate that such technique, jaw-dropping as it is throughout, is not all you can pull from a guitar in the hands of Jeff Beck
An album that'll appeal to headbangers, jazzers and fans of instrumental guitar music alike. Oh, and crank up the volume !!
Pooling together members of his existing band with keyboard master Jan Hammer and a young Narada Michael Walden on drums ( who also provided many of the tunes ) everything seemed to gel together beautifully.
Capping it all was George Martin's hugely sympathetic sound production, giving everything a very hard, loud, up-front feel. Perfect.
Sounding off about musicianly 'technique' - as anyone is likely to do with a record like this - might well prove to be a bit of a turn-off but one listen will demonstrate that such technique, jaw-dropping as it is throughout, is not all you can pull from a guitar in the hands of Jeff Beck
An album that'll appeal to headbangers, jazzers and fans of instrumental guitar music alike. Oh, and crank up the volume !!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Jeff Beck is one of the greatest guitarists ever, and along with it's predecessor 'Blow By Blow', Beck's 1976 album 'Wired' is considered to be his finest effort, and one of the best exponents of the 'fusion' genre, a kind of rock/jazz hybrid.
Purley instrumental from start to finish, Beck is given an entirely free rein, with which he creates some of the most groovy and funky hard-rock guitar sounds ever comitted to tape. 'Wired' whizzes past at just over 35 minutes in length; I always want it to go on longer.
Beck's soloing is mind-blowing throughout, but his backing never fails to impress; there's some heavy-handed drumming from Narada Michael Walden, some relentless bass from Wilbur Bascomb, and renowned synthesist Jan Hammmer lends his talents. To cap it all, this gem of a record is produced by legendary Beatles man George Martin.
Instrumentals can be a bit dodgy, boring, or just plain background wallpaper, but 'Wired' is one of the rare ones that is never anything less than enthralling and will keep you riveted throughout. Unlike many other instrumental albums, it gets more and more rewarding with each play. Required listening for guitarists by official law, b.t.w!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Jeepers it's great to have a copy of this on my shelf again, it having gone out of my life when I ditched my vinyl some decades back. I give it five because it is a classic, but I would still do so even if the only decent track on it was Jeff's version of Charlie Mingus's Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat, which is one of the most amazing pieces of electric guitar work ever committed to tape (as it was back then). What is it about that great little tune, with its superb chord progression, that has attracted so many fantastic covers? Is it perhaps to do with the way that it is the closest jazz gets to its deep blues roots, or the jazziest blues can get while staying true blues? John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell and Jeff have all managed to make definitive personal statements out of it, and have made it so popular that just about any jazz jamming group will play with it sooner or later. Alongside this heavenly gem there are plenty of epic tracks that represent the gamut of what was going on in music at the time, from hard rock, to disco funk, withering blues or the more soulful kind of jazz. The teaming up with ex-Mahavishnu Keyboards Jan Hammer proved to be a killer combination, one that initial producer George Martin didn't know how to handle, eventually giving rise to his departure from the project saying that he didn't understand where Jeff was trying to go. Actually, Jeff barely knew himself. Hammer stepped into the studio and remixed all the tracks bar one, with a totally innovative sound that clearly anticipates what Quincy Jones was going to be doing soon after with Michael Jackson, George Benson, Chaka Khan and all those classic folks. And yet with the coruscating edge of Jeff's Hendrix like chops exploding like dynamite all over it. For serious fans I can utterly recommend Annette Carson's Jeff Beck, Crazy Fingers, if you want an entertaining and very satisfying insight into just how central a figure Jeff has been in rock history.
It's a hot summer evening and I'm about to start cooking, and I can think of no better accompaniment than to crack a tinny and slap this into the player. Time to wake up people.
It's a hot summer evening and I'm about to start cooking, and I can think of no better accompaniment than to crack a tinny and slap this into the player. Time to wake up people.
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Great 70's Beck
One of the few fusion albums that can be mentioned in polite society. Strong tunes , great playing and a sympathetic production job make this a set that can be readily appreciated... Read more
Published 8 months ago by os
Avant garde
The Wired album from Jeff Beck, is one of my favorite Beck albums. The whole sound of the album is unbelievable, The recording engineers in those days usually had excellent ideas,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Blues Fan 2000
The superb follow-up to Blow By Blow...
This 1976 jazz/rock instrumental album ,together with the previous year's release,"Blow By Blow" ,represents,in my opinion, the creative pinnacle of Jeff's career. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Brian I Davidson
Impressive, but hard to love
This follow-up to BLOW BY BLOW carries many of the personnel from that masterpiece -- most importantly, keyboard player Max Middleton and Beatles producer George Martin. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2007 by Gavin Wilson
One of the great guitar tracks
Despite the general overall quality of this album, for me it is defined by the superb, head ripping rendition of 'Goodbye pork pie hat' -surely one of the greatest pieces of... Read more
Published on 28 July 2004 by Mr. E. Neil
Superb
A stunning album by the universe's greatest guitarist.This album was years ahead of it's time.It still astounds me.
Published on 18 Jan 2004 by Clive Culbertson
I never thought that Hendrix could be equalled..............
This is the man! His playing reflects so much that of Hendrix's - particularly if you compare their live performances. Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2000
Mr Beck takes us on a star cycle............................
Brilliant - sheer pure genius - the one true rocker who can remind us of the power that the Guitar Gods of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Mark Knopfler, himself and Hendrix generated... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2000
One of the few musicians who can adapt to a range of styles.
I first saw Jeff Beck play on the video of the 1983 ARMS gig and I have to say it was some of the finest fretwork ever performed by a guitarist. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2000
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