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Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop Audio CD

A fair review of the Jeff Beck "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Jeff Beck reviews here, or go back to the Jeff Beck tabs.

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Title: Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
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Release Date: 1989-09-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Guitar Shop - Jeff Beck 2: Savoy - Jeff Beck 3: Behind the Veil - Jeff Beck 4: Big Block - Jeff Beck 5: Where Were You - Jeff Beck 6: Stand on It - Jeff Beck 7: Day in the House - Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas 8: Two Rivers - Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas 9: Sling Shot - Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas

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Absolutely correct. This CD was recommened in Tom Wheelers Strat book, as an excellent example of the phenomenal range of the stratocaster guitar and the music ability of Jeff Beck. A Jeff Beck fan or not, the pure music language and perfomance is astounding. If you are learning guitar, or desire to increase your guitar knowledge; how expansive guitar music can be, I highly recommend this CD. I knew Jeff Beck was an excellent guitarist, did not collect his music. This CD illustrates his gift, and now I look for his CD's or contribution to a CD. .


One of Beck's best records
It features the legendary musicians Terry Bozzio on drums (of Frank Zappa, U. 'Guitar Shop' is one of Jeff Beck's best records. K. and Missing Persons fame) and Tony Hymas on keyboards (he also appears on Beck's 'Who Else!' and 'Jeff' records).

And it won the Grammy award in 1990 for the best instrumental rock performace, and rightfully so. This is easily one of Beck's best records, and it's worth buying the album alone just to hear Bozzio and Beck jam together. Add Hymas' classic synth textures and classical style and you have a masterpiece.

Some of the highlights here are 'Guitar Shop,' 'Savoy,' 'Two Rivers' and 'Sling Shot. ' But the whole record is great.

If you enjoyed some of Beck's earlier records like 'Blow By Blow' or perhaps even 'Wired,' than chances are you'll love this record. It's a great Beck record that's well worth buying.

Highly recommended for any Jeff Beck or guitar lover. This is a great album. Buy it, you won't be disappointed. ENJOY!!! .


Ear Pollution
Over-Produced to the max. Being new to Jeff Beck's music (Crossroads '07 video found me wanting to know more) and after listening to "Blow By Blow" and "Wired," I found this recording to very unredeeming. It kinda sounds what a "garage" would look like. There are some great moments, but too few. The rip-off of Zappa is very apparent, but Zappa it ain't. One listening is enough.


One of my top five Beck albums
The result is by far the most diverse album in his career, containing several stabs at different genres that fail occasionally but succeed more often. Give credit where credit is due: Jeff realized Flash was a dead end and decided it was a good idea to continue following his own eccentric course. Really, the only experimental track that comes up short is the new wave-ish "A Day in the House", with gawky, David-Byrne like vocals - among the few on the album, though sadly some show up on the goofy toss-off title song, an advertisement for guitars set to a painfully obvious '80s rock beat. Much better are his stabs at. . . well, everything else. His lightweight, offbeat reggae experiment "Behind the Veil" is a definite plus; he cooks up two lovely ballads (the beautiful, intense "Two Rivers"; "Where Were You") that can be seen as modernized successors to "'Cause We've Ended As Lovers". Even more surprising is the fact that he succeeds with punk (the breakneck "Slingshot") and random '80s rock ("Savoy") in addition to the usual heavy blues-rock he just excels at in the first place ("Big Block", with a storming guitar riff - it takes a close second to "Two Rivers" as my favorite on the album). It's a shame that this gets overlooked as often as it does, in spite of a couple misfires - all the diversity makes it one of my favorite Beck records.


Not what I expected !!!!
It is a commercial CD at best, in my opinion. I was very disappointed with this CD. With the big name musicians, and reputations to match, I was very disappointed. It is a CD that's geared to a classic-rock minded listener who thinks what you hear on the radio is all that exists. It's boring, and simple.


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