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Wired | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jeff Beck
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 4904
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 85439
UPC: 696998543928
EAN: 6969985439288
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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The zenith of Jeff Beck November 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think this is Jeff Beck's finest recording. A notch better than its predecessor and a more comfortable fit than many of the other formats this experimental guitar hero has tried, Wired seems to fit his frantic guitar runs, his sonic bends, his unique phrasing, and his sweet-hot tone like a glove. It is doubtless due in part to the instrumental nature that this album stands above the rest. Beck doesn't have to battle a vocalist; he simply steps into the spotlight and wails. Rod Stewart came close, but in the end, none of those singers could keep up with him or give him the Plant to the Page that so many other musical acts have. He was simply too good for anyone to sing along with him. Rather than play tired pop songs or try to make something work within that formula, he chose to move into the world that best suited him - instrumental music.
There are some of his better known songs such as Led Boots and Blue Wind, but it is the quieter moments, such as Love is Green or Charles Mingus' Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, that I enjoy equally as much. Another feather in the cap for this cd is the stellar backing musicians that make these songs leap out of your speakers. This cd is pure listening pleasure.
In an outtake included in the re-issue of Beck-Ola, Beck does his take on B.B. King's "Sweet Little Angel." Therein, he plays with such fury that it literally sounds as if he is strangling his guitar; choking notes out of it that are far from the pentatonic parameters that most blues guitar work stays within. In that showcase number, it is clear that the blues is far too limited for him, as was the soul/r & b flavored phase that followed it. It was with this foray into the free-form of jazz that Beck shines brightest. I see in Beck's career arc the same route that Jimi Hendrix might have taken, and Wired is arguably the apex. Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise that Beck never achieved the popularity of his peers, for in so doing, they painted themselves into corners which were difficult to escape from. No one will ever accuse Beck of selling out in his career or falling into a rut because he has always been more of a restless genius than a disciple of a genre.
If there is one Jeff Beck album to own or start with, I recommend this one. If your jaw doesn't drop after a few songs, I don't really know when it would.
Edgy, jazzy guitar classic November 3, 2008
I listened to these albums (Wired & Blow by Blow) when they first came out in the 70's. Recently bought both in CD format and don't regret that decision one bit.
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a fine example of Jeff Beck's creativity coupled with ten-best-guitarists-ever technical chops. Max Middleton and Beck combine a fine sense of interplay during the former's well-varied solo shots. Middleton's leads also demand attention. Drums and bass are also exceptional. The opening, funky bass work on "... Backstage Pass" is representative of the superb musicianship of Beck's sidemen.
I've always like both rock and jazz, including greats such as Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, Jean-luc Ponty on one hand, and Jimi Hendrix on the other, great soloists all. Jeff Beck belongs in this group.
cd review November 1, 2008
An older Jeff Beck album which sounds great on cd . Very happy with the quzlity, sound and timeliness of shipment. Thanks
Essential August 11, 2008
Along with "Blow by Blow," this ranks among, not only essential Beck listening, but essential "fusion" and guitar instrumental music. Sure I'm a bit biased because I'm a guitar player, and we tend to adore Beck, but this is music that anyone can get down to. Beck is not just for people who play and can appreciate his breathtaking musicianship. Without a bit of musical knowledge, tracks like "led boots" and "come dancing" are irrestibly funky and danceable, tracks like the wonderful cover of "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" emotional and sexy, and all the rest of the album enjoyable and largely memorable.
classic Jeff Beck July 25, 2008
What can be said? Jeff with Jan Hammer, Max Middleton, Narada on drums and others. Classic Jeff Beck and a precursor to the live album they did together. Beck fusion at it's finest.
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