Audio CD review:
Jeff Beck - Wired

Jeff Beck - Wired

Band: Jeff Beck Title: Wired Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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

Editoral Review Max Middleton's funky clavinet on "Play with Me" and his pulsing Rhodes piano work on "Sophie" add color and rhythmic urgency to Beck's searing guitar, with its unmistakable tone and vocal-like inflections. Beck, drummer Narada Michael Walden, and producer George Martin here embark on a potent jazz-rock journey, making stops at the ferocious "Led Boots," the thumb-popping R&B of "Come Dancing," and the hooky "Blue Wind" (written by former Mahavishnu synth player Jan Hammer). Released a year after the breakthrough Blow by Blow, Wired generally runs a little hotter, though its low-gear moments--in particular the emotional largesse of Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"--will blow your hair back. --James Rotondi .. You can see a complete list of all Jeff Beck discography, or go back to the Jeff Beck tabs