(Studio FLAC)
Jeff Beck Group
"Reel Masters"
various studio locations
1971-xx-xx
Live Soundboard material 1971-08-22;1972-06-29; 1972-07-23
Lineage- Liberated Boot
"Jeff Beck Reel Masters-Big Daddy label" purchased several years ago> EAC disc extraction> TLH Wav to flac formatting> TLH torrent creation
Jeff Beck-guitar
Bob Tench-vox, guitar
Clive Chaman-bass
Max Middleton-keys
Cozy Powell-drums
Disc 1-studio outtakes 1971
01 - Got The Feeling 4:52
02 - Situation 5:10
03 - I've Been Used 3:45
04 - Short Business 2:36
05 - July 13th (Instrumental) 3:28
06 - Got The Feeling 4:41
07 - Situation 5:06
08 - Short Business 2:33
09 - I've Been Used 3:25
10 - Situation 5:09
11 - I've Been Used - 3:44
12 - Short Business - 2:34
13 - July 13th (Instrumental) 3:30
14 - Short Business 2:37
15 - Rayne's Park Blues (Instrumental) 8:28
16 - Situation - 5:08
17 - I've Been Used 3:28
Disc 2 - live soundboards
01 - New Ways - Train Train 7:48 (Turku,Finland 08/22/1971)
02 - I Got To Have A Song 6:51 Turku
03 - I've Been Used 4:43 Turku
04 - Situation 6:14 Turku
05 - Jody 7:00 Turku
06 - Ice Cream Cakes 7:18 Turku
07 - Morning Dew 5:04 London, England 06/29/1972 (Paris Theatre)
08 - Going Down 4:02 London 6/29
09 - Definitely Maybe 7:22 London 6/29
10 - Got The Feeling - Let Me Love You 12:02 London 6/29
11 - Jeff's Boogie 5:55 London 07/23/1972 (The Roundhouse)
This was a boot on the "Big Daddy" label.It's a strange hodge podge of really good quality soundboard live material from this Beck Group and alternate studio versions from the Rough and Ready sessions. To me, that's the real draw of this. The 2 albums that Beck did with this band are my all time favorite material from him, and this is a great chance to hear some different versions of just about all of the songs from the Rough and Ready release, plus 2 versions of an unreleased track called July 13th. Only the album closer, Jody, is not here. Rayne's Park Blues was what Max's Tune was called on the LP version of this I bought when it was first released. Somewhere along the line it was re-named Max's Tune, and that's what it's been labeled as on later LP pressings and all of the cd issues of this material. Some of these songs are fairly similar to what you're familiar with from Rough and Ready, but all have something different, whether it's Cozy Powell's bass drum pattern, Max Middleton's comping, Bob Tench's vocal, Clive Chaman's feel or fills, Beck's Wah Wah rhythm pattern or solo, or an altogether different feel or performance. This studio material apparently came from tape reels of the sessions that Cozy Powell owned. These surfaced as a 5 cd set (one for each reel) on a Japanese bootleg label. That set went for a ridiculous price, and is not widely available. This 2cd set that I'm liberating has one disc containing all or almost all from these Cozy reels, and another disc of really good live material that's probably been up here in one form or another before. All together, it's a great listen and a great snapshot of Beck in one of his more overlooked eras.
