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A unique collaboration between Ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck and two former members of Vanilla Fudge. Features a mixture of genres, including some ballads. (US:12 UK:28)
“Power trio hard rock at its best. A mixture of genres, and they are all great. Funk, soul, psych, bluesy hard rock are all over this LP. Toe-tappers are scattered throughout. Jeff Beck was rarely better. If early 70s rock turns you on, this album will too.”
“Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice, formerly with US psychedelic rock group Vanilla Fudge, and Jeff Beck, legendary guitar player with The Yardbirds, teamed up together to perform some blue-eyed soul-funk-blues-hard rock.”
“This album is a rather odd mixture of stomping proto-metal and some rather lame ballads. It seems strange that a power trio with this much raw firepower would put out so much soft material. It's almost like they were scared of what they could do. Buy it for the hard stuff.”
“Jeff Beck's opportunity to try something different and flex his guitar muscle in a power trio format. Beck Bogert & Appice is an excellent heavy rock album full of Beck's snarling furious guitars and Appice's absolutely crushing drums. These songs are mainly total avalanches of sheer blasting power, including a total demolishing of Stevie Wonder's Superstition.”
“On this LP, Beck returns to a much heavier sound. Though he had already progressed from this type of rock, he apparently decided to give it one last stab as a Cream type, power-trio. The result is an uneven mix of fast, hard rock, and soft and slow, almost spiritual ballads. Lacking any clearly dominant vocalist, there are, nevertheless, moments of nice vocal harmony, and of course, Beck's outstanding guitar work, featuring some slide.”
“Great guitar licks, tasty bass and driving drumming are the basic elements behind this recording, which also includes support from a bunch of musician friends. The tracks are mostly written by the trio, with some adaptations of tunes from other sources. The only drawback is the absence of a strong lead vocalist, but it is nevertheless a true classic rock memento.”
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