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Beck's other consistent focus is two guys named Bogart and Appice. He's wanted to play with them since the collapse of their original band, Long Island's infamous Vanilla Fudge (for which they were bassist and drummer, respectively.) Beck, Bogart and Appice make for Beck's fifth new band since...
...have never been able to figure out why Bogart and Appice. If they were steeped in the Young Rascals--NYC lounge tradition, we could chalk it up to white soul, but they aren't. Maybe it's magic. Anyway, BBA is not the holding action Beck claims his two previous bands were. They are new to each other, though, and their Boston show Tuesday last opened with a vague feeling of indirection. The song was new, and, as a show opener, had a definite warm-up feeling to it, while making sure the audience recognized Beck's tendencies towards...
...band's attack. He is not interested in Hendrix's wall of sound, or Clapton's trio virtuosity. Again, Beck is primarily interested in hearing himself play. In fact, my theory is that he tends to surround himself with relative mediocrities just in order to emphasize his own talents. Bogart and Appice are perfect examples: Rod Stewart and Ron Wood were not. His songs are thus simplistic, riff-oriented, and written with spaces only Jeff can fill...
...chord held with vibrate closed "Tonight" and opened "People Get Ready." An old Vanilla Fudge standby, Beck, Bogart and Appice blended their voices beautifully one time for an exquisite gospel version of the song (at least for rock shows). Beck varied volume and intensity to alter mood. I heard the best single lick of the evening during "People." Beck moved into a transitional chord, picked two bars acoustically at very low volume, boosted the volume, and came out in a single note run. In the space of one chord, maybe seven seconds...
Vittorio de Sica's Bicyale Thief and Roberto Rossellini's Open City, two Italian neo-realist classics, the former wearing a bit with age, the latter as powerful as when first released after World War II, at the BRATTLE THEATER. Thief at 6 and 9:30. City at Bogart is Back, again, at the HARVARD SQUARE THEATER, with Woody Allen's comic homage Play It Agaln Sam at 3:25, 6:10 and 9:40 and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca...