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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What a find!, 9 Dec 2000
By A Customer
I've not listened to much Jeff Beck, and to be honest, I was looking for some real "guitar hero" stuff. This isn't that, but it is a great album, which simply reeks of the 70s. It's almost a rock/funk crossover in places, with most of the songs credited to Beck, but Max Middleton's piano and Rhodes influence heavily. Also has great bass from Phil Chen (I think), vocals from Bob Tench, and drumming from the incomparable Cozy Powell. (What a line-up.)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This CD is Beck's best early fusion of jazz/blues and pop., 5 Feb 2000
By A Customer
Beck demonstrates his chops and sense for jazz/blues and pop fusion in this effort, his first after the dissolution of his band with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. Although the members of the group on this CD are relatively unknown,except for the drummer Cozy Powell, the band has a definite chemistry and a strong sense of musical purpose.It seems that more people are familiar with this line-up's second effort, The Jeff Beck Group (which includes Going Down), however, Rough and Ready is by far the stronger effort. The production on this recording is certainly to be lauded. The enormity of the guitar sound, which is very rockish, is interestingly juxtaposed with the right-on pounding of Cozy Powell on drums and Max Middleton's jazzy piano. With the exception of Raines Park Blues, which is a rather aimless 8 minute piece, every composition on this CD either grabs you rhytmically or melodically and most always emotionally. It is just one more example of Beck's seminal status as a guitarist and musician; there is probably nobody better on the planet. I advise the reader of this review to pick this one up, for it is one of those obscure gems that the Beck aficionado will cherish for its freshness of vision and innovation.It is Rock music at its creative best.
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0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Model of preeminent sharpness and shape good guitar, 20 April 2006
It is the first work of the '71 year work and the second stage "Jeff Beck Group".
It was changeable to R&B color thick, heavy lock from the lock sound of the blues subject of the first stage.
The same R&B color thick, heavy lock is a sound that elegance is different from "Humble Pie" that the blues smell is strong and earthy.
The guitar of hard "Jeff Beck" that the distortion is few, and crisp melts to a city black contemporary (However, it is very heavy) this work and it has melted compatibility good.
It is made to listen widely in a hard lock number from music with the main guitar where the sorrow drifts from which it pushes with a powerful drum.
I feel the member's performance a sound that is the impression very relaxed, arose from each one's advanced sense and the idea like the overflow naturally in the jam session the sound, and emitted.
It is a sound more greatly more clearly than the first stage in tone quality and with the depth, and production staff's such as engineers holding out is big factors that this work finishes in the high quality.
"Beck" In this work, I like phrase where it runs in the album of "Beck" in special sharpness in the code work and the length and breadth mutualfinancing association that cuts it peculiar and sharply.
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