Jeff Beck

Beck's work with the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group's 1968 album Truth were seminal influences on heavy metal music, which emerged in full force in the early 1970s. Signing with Sanctuary Records, they released "Truth Be Told" on August 5th, 2003. Beck was one of the first electric guitarists in the 1960s to experiment with electronic distortion (most notably in the Yardbirds 1966 album, Roger The Engineer), redefining the sound and role of the electric guitar in rock music and anticipating what Jimi Hendrix shortly thereafter took further. Sheehan's untimely death in 1999 and Popper's struggle with obesity have helped keep the group on the fringes of the mainstream, and A&M dropped the band after disappointing sales of their 2001 album "Bridge". The song "Plan B" from this release earned him his fourth Grammy Award, again, for 'Best Rock Instrumental Performance'. Their albums with A&M in the later 1990s include Straight on Till Morning and Bridge. The 2003 release of Jeff showed that the new electro-guitar style he used for the two earlier albums would continue to dominate. Blues Traveler's future releases were not able to live up to the quintuple platinum sales of Four, though they have maintained a loyal fanbase from the beginning of their career.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Jeff Beck recorded sporadically: Flash (1985, including performances with Rod Stewart and Jan Hammer), Guitar Shop (1989), Crazy Legs (1993), Who Else (1999), and You Had It Coming (2001). Jeff Beck won his third Grammy Award, this one for 'Best Rock Instrumental Performance' for the track "Dirty Mind" from You Had It Coming. Their fourth album, Four, was a late-blooming success thanks to the singles "Run-around" and "Hook". It was followed up by a collaborative effort with keyboardist Jan Hammer on the 1976 Wired album, which also received critical acclaim. Former member Bobby Sheehan (bass) died in 1999 of a drug overdose in New Orleans. charts. Blues Traveler is an American jam band, led by John Popper (vocals, harmonica) along with Chan Kinchla (guitar), Brendan Hill (drums), Tad Kinchla (bass) and Ben Wilson (keyboards). In 1975, Beck did a solo, all-instrumental jazz fusion album entitled Blow by Blow which received unexpectedly positive critical reviews and substantial sales, reaching number 4 in the U.S. Live on the Rocks, 2004.

This group, too, failed to attract much critical attention and soon split up, although they did have a minor hit with a version of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" (Beck later played lead guitar on Wonder's Talking Book album). Truth Be Told, 2003. After the failure of the second Jeff Beck Group (it disbanded in 1972), Beck formed the power trio Beck, Bogert, and Appice, with Carmine Appice on drums and Tim Bogert on bass. Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics, 2002 (compilation). Wood later joined The Rolling Stones. Live: What You and I Have Been Through, 2002. Owing to friction within the band, Stewart and Wood left the group in 1969 to form The Faces. Bridge, 2001.

The group produced two albums, Truth in 1968 and Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola the following year. Straight on Till Morning, 1997. The following year, Beck formed a new band, Jeff Beck Group, which featured him on lead guitar, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Mick Waller on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Live From the Fall, 1996. Beck's tenure in the Yardbirds was a short one; he left after 18 months, partly for health reasons. [[Four (album)|Four, 1994. In 1966, Jeff shared the dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page. 1,000,000 People Can't Be Wrong, 1994 (compilation).

In 1965, Beck joined the Yardbirds (after Eric Clapton left the group for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers). It was during Jeff's tenure with the Yardbirds that they recorded most of their hits. Save His Soul, 1993. Like many rock musicians in the early 1960s, he began his career working as a session guitarist. Travelers and Thieves, 1991. Beck was born Jeffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington. Blues Traveler, 1990. The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s.

Jeff (2003). You Had It Coming (2001). Who Else! (1999). Crazy Legs (1993).

Frankie's House (1992). Beckology (1991 anthology). Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop (1989). Flash (1985).

There And Back (1980). Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live (1977). Wired (1976). Blow by Blow (1975).

Live In Japan (1974 - Japan only). Beck Bogert Appice (1973). Jeff Beck Group (1972). Rough And Ready (1971).

Beck-Ola (Cosa Nostra) (1969). Truth (1968).