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Wired |  | Artist: Jeff Beck
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 2025
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 696998543928
EAN: 0696998543928
ASIN: B00005AREP
Release Date: March 27, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Led Boots | | • | Come Dancing | | • | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | | • | Head For Backstage Pass | | • | Blue Wind | | • | Sophie | | • | Play With Me | | • | Love Is Green |
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Beck, drummer Narada Michael Walden, and producer George Martin here embark on a potent jazz-rock journey, making stops at the ferocious "Led Boots," the thumb-popping R&B of "Come Dancing," and the hooky "Blue Wind" (written by former Mahavishnu synth player Jan Hammer). Max Middleton's funky clavinet on "Play with Me" and his pulsing Rhodes piano work on "Sophie" add color and rhythmic urgency to Beck's searing guitar, with its unmistakable tone and vocal-like inflections. Released a year after the breakthrough Blow by Blow, Wired generally runs a little hotter, though its low-gear moments--in particular the emotional largesse of Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"--will blow your hair back. --James Rotondi
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| Customer Reviews:
beck gets hammered June 12, 2010
Paul S. Jellinek (New Jersey)
This one is a little unusual for Jeff Beck in the sense that Jan Hammer gets pretty much equal billing throughout most of the album. I'm not wild about all the sounds from Hammer's synthesizer, and some of the music sounds a little dated, but Beck's playing is so strong that in the end none of that really matters. Led Boots alone is worth the price of the album (and the drumming is way better than on Blow by Blow).
It started here for me May 26, 2010
R. Stephan (Arlington Texas)
I believe this was my first album from him... and the rest is history. Been following his path ever since...
Jeff Beck On A Roll May 2, 2010
Andre S. Grindle (Brewer Maine)
After the phenomenonally successful Blow by Blow album Jeff Beck was in a great possition to be in musically. He was one of the few rock stars of the day aside from Tommy Bolin who was not only making good on primarily instrumental music but making jazz-fusion-funk style records that were being easily marketed as "pop/rock" and no one seemed to care. Not only did it show how one simple label can make or break music in terms of it's popularity but that daring to be yourself could pay off in all ways. Rather than follow up his previous album with another in the exact same style Beck went for something quite a lot broader this second time around. Still produced by George Martin this album is,as another reviewer put it less based on melody and heavily crafted songwriting as it is on guitar solos and rhythmic invention. That's not to say it's a jam oriented album but the songs here have more of an improvisational quality to it and tend to lean more toward the jazz-fusion side of his personality than funk. "Come Dancing","Head For Backstage Pass" and...well most of "Sophie" are the only three songs on the album that have that flower,more fluid style of funk and whatever you say about them they're still intelligently executed and inventive songs. On songs like "Led Boots","Blue Wind","Play With Me" and "Love Is Green" Jeff's interactions between bassist Wilbur Bascomb,drummer Narada Michael Walden an occasionally keyboardist Jan Hammer are extremely strong,vibrant and especially on the version of Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" how much Jeff was expanding on more improvizational and sometimes horn like effects on his guitar than just playing as many possible variations on the 12 bar blues riff,which was pretty much the staple sounds of the rock guitarist during this era. Considering Beck's deep roots in blues rock this is a great thing for him because you see how he worked from the blues riffs up into jazz which,as many people already know is a style that grew directly from the blues to begin with. You not only hear that sense of musical expansion on the album in general but within the individual songs as well. While a more complex and musicianly album in many ways than it's predecessor this was the next creative step to take after that and has luckily been embraced by appreciaters of Jeff Beck and fusion throughout the years.
Jeff Beck's finest jazz fusion recording March 25, 2010
Dave Deubler (Pennsylvania)
Jeff Beck's transition from blues/rock to progressive jazz during the mid-70's was the riff heard `round the world. With his energy, intensity, and melodic power, his landmark "Blow by Blow" opened up fusion to a vast new audience. His next offering, "Wired" is, if anything, even more impressive.
"Led Boots" is rickety and raucously a-melodic, but ominous in its latent power. "Come Dancing" is smoother and funkier, while "Good-bye Pork Pie Hat" is a more traditional jazz performance of a classic tune by the legendary composer Charles Mingus. "Head for Backstage Pass" is a bass-centric bit of jazz-funk, but Jan Hammer's "Blue Wind" is a truly inspired work of real grandeur - Beck could've used more compositions of this quality. "Sophie" is a schizoid piece of fusion with alternating slow and fast sections. "Play With Me" is a bouncy number featuring dual guitar and synth lines. The disc closes with "Love Is Green": a quieter track with sort of a tender quality (showing Beck's versatility) but to my personal taste, it's the least successful offering.
Fans of jazz fusion should be much impressed by this release, but fans of Beck's earlier work may be disaffected by the complete lack of vocals, as well as by the more sophisticated melodic sense exhibited here. For those, might I instead recommend something from the catalogue of Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose guitar playing is just as amazing, but whose material may be a little more accessible.
WOW! BUY THIS ALBUM/DISC! February 26, 2010
Dan Stevens
WOW! JUST BUY THIS ALBUM/DISC, POUR YOURSELF A GLASS OF WINE OR ??, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND MOVE YOUR MUSICAL EXPECTATIONS UPWARD! OUTSTANDING GUITARIST, PRODUCTION, SUPPORTING MEMBERS, COMPOSTIONS...5 STARS???? YOU NEED TO MAKE SOME ROOM FOR THIS GUY!!
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