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Great Comeback Harking to the Inventive "Blow By Blow" days!

Frederick Baptist | Singapore | 12/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a great comeback album for guitar innovator/pioneer Jeff Beck. After a long hiatus, Beck returns with a strong backing lineup and strong, inventive tracks with a sense of humour as well. There are spoken verses throughout a couple of the tracks and "Where Were You" really stands out among other great tracks. This version comes in a mini-lp replica sleeve and has been remastered and so the sound is quite good but not great. Years back when I first got the cassette tape, I noticed that the sound quality was quite poor and so I'm guessing the original master wasn't all that well produced and so given that, I guess the remastering has really cleaned up the original sound quite a bit so that it's decent but not great. I guess we've been spoiled by the great production on "Blow By Blow" (Sir George Martin!) and "Wired" but although sound quality-wise this album doesn't stack up to those two, the song quality comes real close. This is probably the best version of this album that is out there and is highly recommended for all Beck fans."