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Released
  
19 November 1991

Length
  
223:48

Artist
  
Jeff Beck

Label
  
Legacy Recordings

Recorded
  
1963–1989

Beckology (1991)
  
Frankie's House (1992)

Release date
  
19 November 1991

Genres
  
Rock music, Blues

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Similar
  
Jeff Beck albums, Blues albums

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Beckology by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar, from early days with The Tridents through to his Guitar Shop album in 1989.

Contents

  • Volume 1 includes previously unreleased tracks from The Tridents, earthy mono recordings of Yardbirds classics like "Steeled Blues" and "Heart Full of Soul", four tracks from a Yardbirds BBC session, and Jeff's first solo single sides.
  • Volume 2 covers both incarnations of The Jeff Beck Group which each released two albums and finishes with Beck, Bogert and Appice tunes. Highlights here include the reworking of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" with Rod Stewart on vocals, the driving "Plynth", the beautiful guitar work on "Definitely Maybe" and the reworking of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".
  • Volume 3 tracks through what the sleeve notes call the "instrumental era" of the 1970s with tracks from the jazzy Blow by Blow and the acclaimed George Martin produced Wired albums. There is a live performance of "Freeway Jam" from 1977 with Jan Hammer, with whom Jeff had been touring and collaborated with as most recently as 2004, before concluding at the 1980s with Flash tracks like "People Get Ready" and Guitar Shop tracks like "Big Block" and "Where Were You".

    • A 60-page booklet comes with the album, and includes a biography by Gene Santoro.

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    Reception

    Allmusic gave an enthusiastically positive review of the set, asserting that the mastering quality is far superior to any previous release while applauding the selection of material: "to survey Jeff Beck's entire career […] would be a hopeless task, given the amount of anonymous session work that the guitarist did circa 1964–1966, but Beckology still manages to touch a few unexpected bases, even as it strings together all of the obvious and most of the important sides in Beck's output."

    Volume One

    1. "Trouble in Mind" – The Tridents
    2. "Nursery Rhyme" (live) (Bo Diddley) – The Tridents
    3. "Wandering Man Blues" – The Tridents
    4. "Steeled Blues" – The Yardbirds
    5. "Heart Full of Soul" – The Yardbirds
    6. "I'm Not Talking" – The Yardbirds
    7. "I Ain't Done Wrong" – The Yardbirds
    8. "Train Kept a Rollin'" – The Yardbirds
    9. "I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley) – The Yardbirds
    10. "Shapes of Things" – The Yardbirds
    11. "Over Under Sideways Down" – The Yardbirds
    12. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" – The Yardbirds
    13. "Hot House of Omagarashid" – The Yardbirds
    14. "Lost Woman" – The Yardbirds
    15. "Rack My Mind" – The Yardbirds
    16. "The Nazz Are Blue" – The Yardbirds
    17. "Psycho Daisies" – The Yardbirds
    18. "Jeff's Boogie" – The Yardbirds
    19. "Too Much Monkey Business" (live) – The Yardbirds
    20. "The Sun Is Shining" (live) – The Yardbirds
    21. "You're a Better Man Than I" (live) – The Yardbirds
    22. "Love Me Like I Love You" (live) – The Yardbirds
    23. "Hi Ho Silver Lining" – Jeff Beck
    24. "Tally Man" – Jeff Beck
    25. "Beck's Bolero" – Jeff Beck

    Volume Two

    1. "Shapes of Things" – The Jeff Beck Group
    2. "I Ain't Superstitious" – The Jeff Beck Group
    3. "Rock My Plimsoul" – The Jeff Beck Group
    4. "Jailhouse Rock" – The Jeff Beck Group
    5. "Plynth (Water Down the Drain)" – The Jeff Beck Group
    6. "Drinking Again" – The Jeff Beck Group
    7. "Definitely Maybe" – The Jeff Beck Group
    8. "New Ways Train Train" – The Jeff Beck Group
    9. "Going Down" – The Jeff Beck Group
    10. "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You" – The Jeff Beck Group
    11. "Superstition" – Beck Bogert Appice
    12. "Black Cat Moan" (live) – Beck Bogert Appice
    13. "Blues Deluxe/BBA Boogie" (live) – Beck Bogert Appice
    14. "Jizz Whizz" – Beck Bogert Appice

    Volume Three

    1. "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" – Jeff Beck
    2. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" – Jeff Beck
    3. "Love Is Green" – Jeff Beck
    4. "Diamond Dust" – Jeff Beck
    5. "Freeway Jam" (live) – Jeff Beck
    6. "The Pump" – Jeff Beck
    7. "People Get Ready" – Jeff Beck featuring Rod Stewart
    8. "Escape" – Jeff Beck
    9. "Gets Us All in the End" – Jeff Beck
    10. "Back on the Street" – Jeff Beck
    11. "Wild Thing" – Jeff Beck
    12. "Train Kept A Rollin'" – Jeff Beck
    13. "Sleep Walk" – Jeff Beck
    14. "The Stumble" – Jeff Beck
    15. "Big Block" – Jeff Beck
    16. "Where Were You" – Jeff Beck

    Songs

    Trouble in Mind2:19
    Nursery Rhyme (live)5:50
    Wandering Man Blues3:29

    References

    Beckology Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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