Comments on: Jeff Beck at the Royal Albert Hall http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/ Science and music hurtling earthwards at eye-watering velocity Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ronnie kerrigan http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/#comment-8348 ronnie kerrigan Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:50:14 +0000 http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/?p=4083#comment-8348 Review of Jeff's RAH show posted with pics, including Jeff's set list at: http://www.themagicmusichouse.com/2009/08/concert-review-jeff-beck-royal-albert.html http://theclassicrocksociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Ronnie%20Kerrigan Review of Jeff’s RAH show posted with pics, including Jeff’s set list at:

http://www.themagicmusichouse.com/2009/08/concert-review-jeff-beck-royal-albert.html

http://theclassicrocksociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Ronnie%20Kerrigan

]]> By: Brien Comerford http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/#comment-8210 Brien Comerford Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:23:08 +0000 http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/?p=4083#comment-8210 Timinator is inarguably correct. Jeff Beck coaxes and caresses a universe of sounds from his guitar. His fretboard virtuosity and whammy bar magic are captivationg. His guitar, roars, yearns, cries and sings. He does not need a vocalist! Timinator is inarguably correct. Jeff Beck coaxes and caresses a universe of sounds from his guitar. His fretboard virtuosity and whammy bar magic are captivationg. His guitar, roars, yearns, cries and sings. He does not need a vocalist!

]]> By: Timinator http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/#comment-8208 Timinator Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:34:41 +0000 http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/?p=4083#comment-8208 Ok, Del Boy, strictly speaking instrumentals aren't songs. Call them tunes, compositions, tracks, or whatever. But I'm a little surprised that anyone would come to a Jeff Beck concert and find it odd that there was almost no singing. Have you never listened to the man's albums? As for rock 'n' roll not being instrumental: I think that the Allman Brothers, Duane Eddy, the Ventures, Link Wray, Rush, Booker T and the MGs, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Pink Floyd, Mogwai, the Edgar Winter Group, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Explosions in the Sky, Jimi Hendrix, and plenty of others might disagree. Ok, Del Boy, strictly speaking instrumentals aren’t songs. Call them tunes, compositions, tracks, or whatever.

But I’m a little surprised that anyone would come to a Jeff Beck concert and find it odd that there was almost no singing. Have you never listened to the man’s albums?

As for rock ‘n’ roll not being instrumental: I think that the Allman Brothers, Duane Eddy, the Ventures, Link Wray, Rush, Booker T and the MGs, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Pink Floyd, Mogwai, the Edgar Winter Group, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Explosions in the Sky, Jimi Hendrix, and plenty of others might disagree.

]]> By: Del Boy http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/#comment-8206 Del Boy Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:59:31 +0000 http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/?p=4083#comment-8206 Hmm, you say they were songs but instrumentals AREN'T songs are they, they're tunes; and sorry, I'm afraid two hours without lyrics to me isn't on... Sure he's a great instrumentalist but - especially in the setting of the RAH - this was more akin to 'classical' music with the lead instrument being the electric guitar rather than a rock or pop concert. Surely rock and roll was NEVER meant to be like this. The audience may have seemed to like it but ask yourself would you truly pay to see this again any time soon..? I know I wouldn't. Imelda May on the other hand was exceptional!!! Hmm, you say they were songs but instrumentals AREN’T songs are they, they’re tunes; and sorry, I’m afraid two hours without lyrics to me isn’t on… Sure he’s a great instrumentalist but – especially in the setting of the RAH – this was more akin to ‘classical’ music with the lead instrument being the electric guitar rather than a rock or pop concert. Surely rock and roll was NEVER meant to be like this. The audience may have seemed to like it but ask yourself would you truly pay to see this again any time soon..? I know I wouldn’t.
Imelda May on the other hand was exceptional!!!

]]> By: Brien Comerford http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/jeff-beck-at-the-royal-albert-hall/#comment-8204 Brien Comerford Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:09:11 +0000 http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/?p=4083#comment-8204 Thank you for a very nice review. Jeff Beck is inimitable and peerless. I also greatly admire David Gilmour. Thank you for a very nice review. Jeff Beck is inimitable and peerless. I also greatly admire David Gilmour.

]]>