JEFF BECK Beck-Ola - Original UK LP - Rod Stewart Faces Ron Wood Birds Creation

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JEFF BECK

Beck-Ola

Original UK LP released on Columbia / EMI Records in 1969. Flipback sleeve. Black & silver Columbia labels with one 'EMI' box.

YAX 3870-1   /   YAX 3871-2

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Beck-Ola, the Jeff Beck Group's second album, features a famous sleeve note on its back cover: "Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it's almost impossible to come up with anything totally original. So we haven't. However, this disc was made with the accent on heavy music. So sit back and listen and try and decide if you can find a small place in your heads for it."

Beck was reacting to the success of peers and competitors like Cream and Led Zeppelin here, bands that had been all over the charts with a hard rock sound soon to be dubbed heavy metal, and indeed, his sound employs much the same brand of "heavy music" as theirs, with deliberate rhythms anchoring the beat, over which the guitar solos fiercely and the lead singer emotes. Two songs are rehauls of Elvis Presley standards ("All Shook Up" and "Jailhouse Rock") and one is an instrumental interlude contributed by pianist Nicky Hopkins, promoted from sideman to group member, with the rest being band-written songs that serve basically as platforms for Beck's improvisations.

But that doesn't detract from the album's overall quality, due both to the guitar work and the distinctive vocals of Rod Stewart, and Beck-Ola easily could have been the album to establish the Jeff Beck Group as the equal of the other heavy bands of the day. Unfortunately, a series of misfortunes occurred. Beck canceled out of a scheduled appearance at Woodstock; he was in a car accident that sidelined him for over a year; and Stewart and bass player Ron Wood decamped to join Faces, breaking up the group. Nevertheless, Beck-Ola stands as a prime example of late-'60s British blues-rock and one of Beck's best records.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

All Shook Up
Spanish Boots
Girl From Mill Valley
Jailhouse Rock

Side Two

Plynth (Water Down The Drain)
The Hangman's Knee
Rice Pudding

Released on 'Columbia / EMI Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. SCX 6351

Disc is in VG+ condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition

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