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Beck-Ola | 
| Artist: Jeff Beck
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £4.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 9756
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724357875028
EAN: 0724357875028
ASIN: B0001XLXN4
Release Date: May 10, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | All Shook Up | | • | Spanish Boots | | • | Girl From Mill Valley | | • | Jailhouse Rock | | • | Plynth (Water Down The Drain) | | • | The Hangman's Knee | | • | Rice Pudding | | • | Sweet Little Angel | | • | Throw Down a Line | | • | All Shook Up (Early Version) | | • | Jailhouse Rock (Early Version) |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Quite Some Super-Group! August 19, 2008
Why is it when you tell the common-or-garden Rod Stewart fan that their idol sings on two of Jeff Beck's finest albums, they look at you as if you're the village idiot?
Not that this album or 'Truth' need their sales to be increased by Rod's status in the band, but it's just that those people think you're having a laugh, when in fact you're trying to do them a favour.
But never mind, it's their loss, and whilst Rod might be billed as 'vocalist extraordinaire,' he isn't the only 'name' on here, there's Ronny Wood and Nicky Hopkins, too; and Tony Newman was quite a well-renowned and straight-ahead rock drummer, too.
If you're into rock music in general or British rock, then this will keep you more than happy.
The original 7 track LP we bought year's ago was an axcellent piece of Jeff Beck rock 'n' blues, and it came along quite naturally after he left The Yardbirds. OK, he suffered 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining' but I bet he's never turned down a Royalty cheque from the proceeds, but here we have another 4 tracks from the vaults as the now trendy 'bonus tracks' to tempt those who bought the album originally, into doing so all over again.
Excellent Power Rock! April 5, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album along with truth clearly show where in inspiration for Led Zeppelin came from. The dis integration of the band is also an object lesson on what a short sighted (figuratively rather than literally) twit Micky Most was during the 1960's He frittered away amazing talent on his own short term goals. Iknow there is lots of evidence that excellent pop songs can arise out of factory farming methods used by many of the siccessful American label (e.g. Mowtown) but Jeff was always going to be much more album orientated. This could have been a huge band but for the meddling of Most. Thank god for Peter Grant who recognised the real potential of the direction the Jeff Beck Band was going when he was helping Jimmy Page build a new band from the ashes of the Yardbirds. The most annoying thing about what Micky Most did to undermine the rest of the musicians in Jeff Becks band was that it left Rod Stewart with a degree of paranoia about his position in the Faces so that he developed twin track group and solo careers. Had the Jeff Beck Group been allowed to develop as a true group who knows what a different slice of musical history we would be looking at now, (much more significant I think). Although there is much to admire about Jeff's work to date, and I do really love many of his albums, he has been plagued by unstable groups and bad luck and the world could have done without Rod Stewart in leopard skin print spandex and "Hot Legs" being a true lead singer in a powerful Jeff Beck Group might have spared us a lot of that
 Jeff Beck IS the man August 3, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's really proof that not all great bands come to be, I really wish Jeff Beck had done more albums together as this is fantastic. Jeff strikes the perfect balance between mojo and virtuosity. The songs, while not all original are performed well, and this is a great rocking album because of this, producing results ranging from the subtle foot tapping to the involuntary air guitar and super-puckered guitarist lips. You know the kind I mean! If you dig good guitar and good rock & roll this'll be right up your street.
Rod-tastic January 10, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Despite the fact that, according to the liner notes, this album was thrown together in a hurry as a follow-up to 'Truth', it's still a very good slice of British hard rock. If you only know Beck for 'Hi Ho Silver Lining' then you''ll be pleasantly surprised by this heavy offering: opener 'All Shook Up' is great slice of bawdy R'n'B showcasing the talents of pre-Faces Rod Stewart, and the other Elvis cover, 'Jailhouse Rock' is a good, heavy re-interpretation. Throw in some quality originals ('Spanish Boots', 'Hangman's Knee') and the playing of Beck, and you have a worthwhile album - which could have been truly 5-star had it featured a few more originals and less covers and instrumentals.
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