Beck, Bogert & Appice

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One of the great things about Jeff Beck is his utter unpredictability. It's also one of the most maddening things about him, too, since it's as likely to lead to flights of genius as it is to weird detours like Beck, Bogert & Appice. It's hard to tell what exactly attracted Beck to the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge and Cactus -- perhaps he just wanted to rock really loud and really hard, beating Led Zeppelin at their own game. Whatever the motivation, the end result was the same -- a leaden al...

One of the great things about Jeff Beck is his utter unpredictability. It's also one of the most maddening things about him, too, since it's as likely to lead to flights of genius as it is to weird detours like Beck, Bogert & Appice. It's hard to tell what exactly attracted Beck to the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge and Cactus -- perhaps he just wanted to rock really loud and really hard, beating Led Zeppelin at their own game. Whatever the motivation, the end result was the same -- a leaden album, with occasional interesting guitar work smothered by heavy riffs and rhythms that don't succeed on a visceral level. It's a loud, lumbering record that may be of interest for Beck archivists, provided they want to hear absolutely everything he did. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine (AMG) 4/5 Stars -- Credits Carmine Appice -- Drums, Performer Jeff Beck -- Guitar, Performer Baker Bigsby -- Engineer Tim Bogert -- Bass, Performer Mike Colchamiro -- Engineer John D. Fox -- Surround Sound John Fry -- Remixing Jimmy Greenspoon -- Piano Kenichi Handa -- Engineer, Remixing Duane Hitchings -- Keyboards, Mellotron, Piano Danny Hutton -- Vocals, Vocals (Background) Ed Lee -- Cover Design Fred Lombardi -- Photography Robert Margouleff -- Mastering Brad S. Miller -- Mastering, Producer Patricia Miller -- Producer Don Nix -- Producer Debra Parkinson -- Digital Transfers Gary Starr -- Engineer Tamoo Suzuki -- Engineer, Mastering, Remixing Yuji Takahashi -- Production Director Adrian Van Velsen -- Mastering Recording date -- May 18, 1973 - May 19, 1973 Release date -- 1973 Label -- Epic Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.