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| | Product Details | | Audio CD Release Date: | March 27, 2001 | | Studio: | Sony | | Number Of Discs: | 1 | | Format: | Original recording remastered | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 102 reviews |
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| | Track Listing | | 1. | You Know What I Mean | | 2. | She's A Woman | | 3. | Constipated Duck | | 4. | AIR Blower | | 5. | Scatterbrain | | 6. | Cause We've Ended As Lovers | | 7. | Thelonious | | 8. | Freeway Jam | | 9. | Diamond Dust | |
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 he's the greatest May 16, 2010
I saw Jeff Beck in concert few weeks and realized that i had never seen anything quite like my whole life.
The guy is fast, but there are many fast guitarists.
The guys is a bluesman, but there's plenty of other bluesmen.
And yet, Jeff Beck is something absolutely special. when you see walking on stage, you understand why--he needs to position himself in a way that allows him to send the guitar in feedback and do things that nobody has ever done.
He makes use of the electricity and sound waves to create sounds that nobody had ever conceived before he did.
Blow by Blow, which is Jeff Beck's best known album, showcases Jeff Beck's guitar genius at his best.
When I hear his version of 'we ended as lovers', i always hope he had recorded a 25 minute version of it. Jeff Beck is so good in that song, that you kind of wish that he played it longer: 5 minutes is not enough, 10 minutes would not have been enough, that's we would have needed a 25 minute recording.
Jeff Beck is more than a guitar hero, he's an innovator and musical genius--this is what Blow by Blow is all about. and i love it.
 Compositional come-up Feb 26, 2010
Beck hones his funktasticly fused chops to the fore to create one of if not his most sustainable artistic response.
WOW Feb 22, 2010
I've loved this album since the 70s, great to have it on CD. JB was and is a pure original!! Still inspiring all these years later.
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the best jeff beck Dec 26, 2009
Of all the Jeff Beck music that I have heard, this is the best album that I have heard. Admittedly, I have not heard all of him, but I have been listening to this album for over 20 years. It has stood the test of time. As a former guitar player, I have a very high appreciation of the guitar work on this album. Both the foreground and the background. So subtle and yet so tasteful. Anyone who is attuned to artistic guitar work should appreciate this album. And the drumming is also excellent. The keyboards and bass are just sort of so-so, but the guitar orientation and tasteful drumming have made this a long time favorite.
I also think that a previous review was incorrect in suggesting that Jeff uses a "wah" pedal. To my ears, it is a "volume" pedal, which can be easily mistaken.
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Blow By Blow=TIGHT!!! Dec 10, 2009
This is a brilliant piece of jazz-rock-funk fusion from the height of the period.
What can you say about Jeff Beck? He was tapping before Eddie Van Halen, using the blower well before "Frampton Comes Alive", pioneering psychedlic rock with his first Yardbirds' track "Heart Full of Soul", using Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking ala Mark Knopfler(Dire Straits)/Lindsay Buckingham(Fleetwood Mac), using the wah pedal in a unique way (different from Clapton/Hendrix) and experimenting with heavy rock sounds (on songs like "Plynth, Water Down the Drain") before Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin. This disc is one of many career highlights whereby Jeff is finding new sounds, putting his playing in different contexts and challenging himself to create something new.
I think the Jeff Beck Group would have been a formidable band for the ages had Rod Stewart and Ron Wood stuck it out just a little bit longer...but each of them went on to create wonderful things anyway, so no harm done. Rod's voice is classic, Ron Wood does the two-guitar attack very well with Keith Richards & The Rolling Stones-imagine what he and Beck might've done in that vein if given the time.
The highlights for me on THIS album are as follows: Jeff's interpolation of the Beatles' "She's A Woman" using the blower, the frenetic intensity of "Scatterbrain" which is vaguely reminiscent of the classical piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" (but has a crazy time signature like "Blue Rondo A La Turk" from Dave Brubeck), the feel-good "Freeway Jam" which is just about the perfect soundtrack for motorin' down the highway, and the funky masterpiece "Thelonius" (by Stevie Wonder) which is so down and dirty that I believe it is illegal in 10 states. "'Cause We've Ended As Lovers" by Wonder is obviously a great ballad also-but it's received heavy airplay over the years and can be found in multiple places now (including the "Secret Policeman's Other Ball" soundtrack from Amnesty International, the "Beckology" box, the "Best of Beck" compilation, "Live at Ronnie Scott's", etc.).
Enjoy!
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