Word: tench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming Up for Air, George Orwell's fictional elegy for a vanished England, includes a celebration of boyhood fishing. The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge." Pike were beyond the boy's reach: "They'd have broken any tackle I possessed...
...Jeff Beck seems to return on Side Two, with songs like "I've Been Used," "New Ways," and "Train, Train." All of them are solid, rocking numbers, with the members of Beck's new band--Bob Tench, vocals; Cozy Powell, drums; Max Middleton, piano; and Clive Chaman, bass--in fine form...
...When Beck went 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...
...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 and evoke a great deal of emotion from his voice...