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by: Jeff Beck

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Average Rating: Rating: - One of instrumental rock's all time best This CD is a classic, I mean before then I wasn't really into instrumental rock but when I first heard Freeway Jam on a digital station, I quickly fell in love with it and it was Jeff Beck's first gold record. It begins with You Know What I Mean, another Jeff Beck classic, She's a Woman was originally done by the Beatles, Constipated Duck is the shortest track on this CD, AIR Blower is a classic headbanging tune and it's a good song to listen to when you feel down about yourself, Scatterbrain kind of has the vein to AIR Blower, Cause We've Ended as Lovers is a beautiful instrumental with an excellent guitar solo, Thelonious is a decent track but nothing really special, the FM staple Freeway Jam is easily the best song on this album, and remember he was one of Aerosmith's idols, Diamond Dust is a beautiful masterpiece clocking in at over 8 minutes long. If you love instrumental rock or classic rock, then you should get this album cause they don't make music the way they used to and I wish that they did.....Highly Recommended. Also Jeff Beck was also a member of the Yardbirds as well as the project band Beck Bogert Appice. Rating: - Best blow around I bought this recently on the strength of reviews here having never heard it before, though I have had Beck Ola and Truth since they came out as LPs, and have personally seen the Jeff Beck band in performance with lead singer Rod Stewart. I was not disappointed. This is a truly wonderful and totally original album of instrumental jazz rock fusion that really succeeds in carrying it off. I have been a bit disappointed in some guitar albums I have listened to recently. For example, Santana's Caravanserai has way too much aimless noodling, displaying the weakness of the rock star who doesn't quite have whatever it is that you need to do jazz, and Roy Rogers' Slideways shows you what happens when you have an instrumentalist who is not really a composer. You could say the same about Beck, but the difference here, I think, is that this album was produced by Sir George Martin (the Beatles producer) and seems to be superbly balanced and arranged. There are even some strings at some point, but it is all very tasteful. Anyway, I'm not going to comment track by track, and all I'm going to say is that this is a superb album. Rating: - A Generation Later, BLOW BY BLOW Still Dazzles The Ear Though BLOW BY BLOW had antecedents in the seminal heavy fusion of Coryell, Cobham, Larry Young's Spaceball, etc, for Jeff Beck this was a quantum leap forward in sound, an inspired mix of styles/genres that not only works, but single-handedly made the all-instrumental rock album, heavy on lead guitar, commercially viable. BLOW BY BLOW featured Beck out of his usual guise - noise merchant strangling his Strat - and his artistic restlessness leads him into subtler and more varied hues of playing on such diverse offerings as "You Know What I Mean" (jagged-edge funk), "Scatterbrain" (high-powered fusion) and "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" (permafrost blues), to cite only three. This opened the doors-of-perception of any number of guitar-hero acolytes at the time (quite a few journeys towards the inner mounting flame pitstopped at this album for refueling on the way), as well as cementing Beck firmly in the all-time Guitar Pantheon. People who don't know guitar players from Adam know who Jeff Beck is - at least partially, if not mostly, due to this terrific album. To some of us who bought this on vinyl Way Back When, BLOW BY BLOW's huge sales and high profile are hopeful signs that now and again, even if by accident, the public-at-large actually gets it.

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