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...Vanilla Fudge broke up with the passing of the psychedelic age. Carmine Appice, the drummer, and Tim Bogert, the bass player, asked Jeff Beck to come over from England to see if they couldn't cash in on the success of the "heavy" sound being popularized by Cream and Jimi Hendrix. But Beck was involved in an auto accident and never made it. So Tim and Carmine hung around Long Island wondering what to do. Somehow they got hooked up with Jim McCarty, former lead guitarist of the Buddy Miles Express, and vocalist Rusty Day. This meeting produced a group...
...real surprise of the evening, though, was Beck's new version of "I Ain't Superstitious." When Beck first did the song on Truth it was performed in a rough, raunchy fashion with plenty of wah-wah pedal added for effect. In the new version, however, the song is performed as a slow blues number. Cozy Powell, the drummer, was good all night, and was brilliant during this number; Max Middleton, the pianist, showed himself to be every bit as good as Nicky Hopkins. Bob Tench, who was troubled by microphone distortion throughout the evening, also seemed to settle down...
...serenity was not to last. "Got the Feeling," a fast-paced Beck original followed and had the audience dancing and clapping in the aisles. Beck was running about on stage, banging his guitar one minute, playing it between his legs on the next. The audience was whipped into a frenzy, and then suddenly it was over. Beck thanked everyone and left...
...audience clapped and stomped for over five minutes, demanding that Beck return. When he finally came back on stage for an encore, he said only "we're going to rock this place," and true to his promise, he launched back into "Got the Feeling," sending the crowd into pandemonium...
...Well, Beck's back. His new album, while though not the best he's done, shows that he is still the English guitarist. With Led Zeppelin breaking up, Eric Clapton playing as a studio musician somewhere in London, and many other former competitors dead from heroin overdose, Beck should gain the commercial success he has long deserved. Remember, Jeff Beck discovered Rod Stewart; not the other way around...