Showing posts with label Jan Hammer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jan Hammer. Show all posts

Friday, 16 August 2024

Get Beck

Beatles cover versions are ten a penny. Some good, some, er, not so good. Plus ça change. As with any reworking of someone else's song, unless you're bringing something new to the table, it's probably wise to stay the hell away.

Jeff Beck knew the rules. As did Jan Hammer. Listen to them giving the B side to I Feel Fine a right seeing to. I love this. It first appeared on Beck's second solo studio album Blow by Blow in '73. But it was a couple of years later when I first became aware of it (albeit in a live setting) when Fluff Freeman would play Beck and Hammer's album to death on his Saturday afternoon rock show. Not 'arf!

Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group - She's a Woman (1977)