Words and video from Mick

With the death of Jeff Beck we have lost a wonderful man and one of the greatest guitar players in the world. We will all miss him so much.

Video

https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1613312367160397824?s=20&t=lx-kYxHYRCnDzln...

I'm shocked! (really), one of the best ever!

I'm going to share a couple of tracks with Jeff Beck produced by Frank Zappa (taken from our Nicky Hopkins website), this was recorded in 1969, The Jeff Beck Group was touring the US and Frank invited them to record this with the groupie band GTOs, only Jeff, Rod and Nicky played in the album

These are the tracks, enjoy!

Track 1: https://rocksoff.org/nicky-hopkins-zappa-jeffbeck-rodstewart-etc.mp3
Track 2: https://rocksoff.org/nicky-hopkins-zappa-jeffbeck-rodstewart-gtos.mp3



Tracks are Rodney / The Ghost Chained To The Past, Present, And Future (Shock Treatment) / Love On An Eleven Year Old Level / combined!

Above tracks come from the album "Permanent Damage" by the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously). This is a band of groupies produced by Frank Zappa.
Nicky Hopkins - Piano
GTOs - Vocals (Misses Pamela, Sandra, Cinderella, Christine, and Mercy (Pamela Des Barres)
Rod Stewart - Vocals
Jeff Beck - Guitar
Frank Zappa - Tambourine and spiritual guidance
Mother Don Preston - Synthesizer
Mother Roy Estrada - Bass
Mother Jimmy Carl Black (The indian of the group) - Drums
Mother Ian Underwood - Keyboards

The Wick wrote on Jan 12^th, 2023 at 2:04pm:


Exactly, I'm preparing the radio program for tomorrow dedicated to him and found that he recorded (official releases only and not counting Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group and his solo albums) with 173 artis, from prog to heavy, Spinal Tap, Alice in Chains to Kate Bush or Luciano Pavarotti, here the list, this also include a few artists doping covers of songs composed by Jeff Beck:

Alex Conti
Alice in Chains
Ange
Apple
Armaggedon
Axe
Badger
Barbra Streisand
Bee Gees / Peter Frampton
Ben Schultz Band
Beth Hart
Beverley Craven
Big Town Playboys
Billy Preston
Boiled in Lead
Bon Jovi
Box of Frogs
Brian May
Brian Tarquin
Brothers of the Baladi
Buddy Guy
Byther Smith
Carmine Appice / Tim Bogert / Vargas, Bogert & Appice / Javier Vargas
Carmine Appice / Travers & Appice / Pat Travers
Chesterfield Kings
Chrome Cranks
Cold Chisel
Cozy Powell
Cyndi Lauper
David Bowie
David Lumsden
David Matthews
Davide Pannozzo
Demics
Denis Charolles / David Chevallier / Maggie Nicols
Diana Ross
Dion
DJ Pogo
Donovan
Duane Allman
Duff McKagan
Ed Palermo / Ed Palermo Big Band
Eddie Harris
El Becko
Eric Clapton
Erik Lindgren
Fabian
Fernando Pareta
Frankie Avalon
Frankie Valli
Free Creek
Gary Thomas
Gene Vincent / Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps
George Martin
Graham Gouldman
Greeting Cards
Hawkwind
Helgen
Herbie Hancock
Hollywood Vampires
Ian Matthews
Imelda May
Imogen Heap
Jackie Lomax
James Gang
Jan Hammer
The Big Town Playboys
Jeff Beck / Stanley Clarke / Simon Phillips
Jeff Beck / Steve Lukather
Jeff Beck / Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jeff Sturges
Jim McCarty
Jimmy Copley & Friends
Jimmy Page
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Cocker
John Kruth
John McLaughlin
Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Finn
Jools Holland
Joss Stone
Junkyard
Kate Bush
LeAnn Rimes
Les Paul
Leslie West
Luciano Pavarotti
McCarty-Hite Project
Mick Clarke
Mick Jagger
Moodswings
Morrissey
Motu
Murray Head
Narada Michael Walden
Ole Frimer
Ozzy Osbourne
P.O.B.
Paul & Barry Ryan
Paul Johnson
Paul Jones
Paul Rodgers
Pezband
Philip Bailey
Pretenders
Rick Derringer
Rick Hirsch's Big Ol' Band
Rod Stewart
Roger Taylor
Roger Waters
Roni Lee
Roy Buchanan
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Saxon
Scott Finch
Scotty Moore
Screaming Lord Sutch
Seal
Sharon Corr
Sharon Sheeley
Smoke & Fire
Spinal Tap
Stacy Glen Tibbetts
Stanley Clarke
Steve Alexander / Jennifer Batten / Jeff Beck / Randy Hope / Randy Hope-Taylor
Steve Vai
Steve Winwood
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Wonder
Sufjan Stevens
Sugarloaf
Suzi Quatro
Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart
The Almost Three
The Angry Kids
The Count Five
The Crusaders
The G.T.O.'s
The Gentrys
The Head Cat
The Hentchmen
The Honeydrippers
The Iguanas
The Leathercoated Minds
The Litter
The Nazz
The Program
The Smoke
The Space Negros
The Stairs
The Turtles
Thirsty Perch Blues Band
Three Ring Circle
Tina Turner
Todd Rundgren
Tom T. Hall
Tony Hymas
Toots & the Maytals
Tower of Power
Travers & Appice
Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Two Tons o' Fun
Upp
Utopia
Van Morrison
Vanilla Fudge
Will Lee
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd / The Judds / Wynonna
Zapp
Zucchero
ZZ Top

This is the "flyer" for tomorrow radio program with me, in case someone wanna listen this bastard



10:00 am Mexico City (CST USA), here the link to convert to your time zone http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

RIP Robbie Bachman, Drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Robbie Bachman, Drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Dead at 69

Bachman co-founded the band alongside his brothers Randy and Tim, as well as Fred Turner
Alex Young and Spencer Kaufman
January 12, 2023 | 11:35pm ET



https://consequence.net/2023/01/robbie-bachman-bachman-turner-overdrive-dead/

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jan 12^th, 2023 at 8:18pm:


Here the link to listen me https://www.rocksoff.org/headers2023/j3-jeff-beck-obi-20230113.mp3

The Jeff Beck Trees by Pete Frame, first the one from my book (1979) and the second the update on Beckology

Another big one! RIP David!

David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81

By Chris Morris
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https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-n...

Eight High Miles (Clark, McGuinn, Crosby)

Clark began writing the song's lyrics on November 24, 1965, when he scribbled down some rough ideas for later development, after a discussion with guitarist Brian Jones, before the Byrds made a concert appearance supporting the Rolling Stones. Over the following days, Clark expanded this fragment into a full poem, eventually setting the words to music and giving them a melody.[2] Clark then showed the song to McGuinn and Crosby. McGuinn suggested that the song be arranged to incorporate Coltrane's influence.[2] Since Clark's death, however, McGuinn has contended it was he who conceived the initial idea of writing a song about an airplane ride and that he and Crosby both contributed lyrics to Clark's unfinished draft.[2] In his book, Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds' Gene Clark, author John Einarson disputes this claim and ponders whether McGuinn's story would be the same if Clark was still alive

The above from Wikipedia

Here from McGuinn, directly https://twitter.com/rogermcguinn/status/1110933856335601665?lang=en

this from Song Facts

According to Gene Clark, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones had a hand in writing this song. In a 1983 interview, he said:

"I wrote the song and presented it to McGuinn and Crosby on tour - we were on a bus tour at the time, and we were listening to a lot of John Coltrane, a lot of Ravi Shankar, and they helped me finish the song. The melody and lyrics I wrote myself in a hotel room with Brian Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."

Asked if Jones wanted a credit, Clark said, "He didn't care. It just came out of a conversation."

And we're only in january...

Another Yardbird passed away... Top Topham, the original lead guitar player of The Yardbirds died yesterday. He was replaced by Eric Clapton, then came Jeff Beck and then Jimmy Page

The reason he left the band was that his parents did not give him permission to play in pubs late at night and go on tour with the band!!!

Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the Original Yardbirds Guitarist, Dead At Age 75

by PAUL CASHMERE on JANUARY 24, 2023
in NEWS

Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the first guitarist for The Yardbirds, has died just two weeks after his successor Jeff Beck. He was 75.

https://www.noise11.com/news/anthony-top-topham-the-original-yardbirds-guitarist...

Topham in 1963



Interview here https://guitarinternational.com/2011/04/20/top-topham-interview-the-original-yar...

Gazza wrote on Jan 24^th, 2023 at 7:42pm: