Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smart play by both forwards and halfbacks, along with effective utilization of the forward , kept the pressure on Princeton. Harvard's persistence finally paid off when Rod Baldwin scored on a try from five yards out. Joe Daly made the conversion and Harvard...
...wasn't Beck's idea to remain idle. He wanted to start a new group, a group he could call his own. In 1968 the new Jeff Beck Group released its album simply entitled Truth. Till this day, Truth stands as the epitome of the hard rock album. Featuring Rod Steward (Beck's personal discovery) on vocals, Truth influenced just about every hard rock album that followed it, including Led Zeppelin I. A combination of classic blues ("I Ain't Superstitious" and "You Shook Me") given a new breath of life, and innovative rock ("Shapes of Things" and "Beck...
Disillusioned by the success of imitators like Led Zeppelin and Cream when they themselves could not achieve commercial success, the Jeff Beck Group dissolved. Lead singer Rod Stewart and bassist Ron Wood joined the Small Faces where they both became rich and famous, and pianist Nicky Hopkins took to hanging around the Rolling Stones, eventually joining the Quicksilver Messenger Service. Beck was invited to join the Vanilla Fudge but he never had a chance to accept the invitation. Early in 1969 he was involved in an auto accident that was to keep him inactive for almost three years...
...into a slide guitar solo that proved that Mick Taylor still has a lot to learn, the audience threatened to mob the stage. Beck sensed the crowd's enthusiasm and fanned the flames as he went into his classic version of "Morning Dew." As vocalist Bob Tench is no Rod Stewart, the song was lacking something...
...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...