Size: A5
Number of pages: 320 pages
Jeff Beck passed away suddenly.
Focusing on his four features in Record Collectors, the book looks back on his career by reprinting a project featuring him against Eric Clapton, features on the Yardbirds and Beck, Bogart & Appice, and related articles.
[Main articles included]
01. Special Feature: Jeff Beck [May 1989 issue]
02. Special Feature: Jeff Beck [February 2005 issue]
03. Special Feature: Beck, Bogert & Appice "Live in Japan" [November 2013 issue]
04. Special Feature: Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" [May 2014 issue]
05. Special Feature: Jeff Beck, Wired [December 2016 issue]
06. Special feature: Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck's best 50 songs [March 2009 issue]
07. Special Feature: The Yardbirds [June 1987 issue]
08. Special feature: The Yardbirds [August 1992 issue]
Tracing the Yardbirds' achievements through all their official recordings [March-April 2009 issue]
[Table of Contents]
Color frontispiece
Jeff Beck 7 inch record [May 1989 issue]
Jeff Beck's Rare Items [February 2005 issue]
Graphic Station - Original version of "Blow by Blow" and more [May 2014 issue]
Graphic Station - Wired original edition and others [December 2016 issue] (Mabo Yasuichiro/Paper Jacket Explorers)
The Yardbirds Records [August 1992 issue]
Beyond the realm of imagination - Remembering the life of a solitary artist who continued to express his unrestrained imagination through his guitar (Otaka Shunichi)
Jeff Beck [May 1989 issue]
The Journey of Jeff Beck, the Iconic Rock Guitarist (Kazumi Akaiwa)
Album Guide (Shunichi Otaka, Kagaku Torii, Yoichi Nakamura, Kenta Hagiwara, Manabu Yuasa, Takaaki Yonemochi)
Edited Albums (Akihiko Sato)
Jeff Beck's video (by Shunichi Otaka)
All records with guest appearances (Akihiko Sato)
Songs not included in the original album (Akihiko Sato)
Jeff Beck [February 2005 issue]
The stupid honesty of the guitar playing supremacy (Yoshio Tachikawa)
The secret of radical yet acrobatic playing (Shigeo Naka)
The first Jeff Beck Group (Koji Wakui) combined the hard sound of garage rock with free-spirited guitar.
How 1966 became the first year of hard rock (Yamazaki Tomoyuki)
20 Best Albums from the Early Days of Hard Rock (Yamazaki Tomoyuki)
The process of creating a unique crossover sound that sparks off elements of different genres (Kanazawa Hisakazu)
An album to understand the background of the instrumental period - an approach from the jazz side to rock (Toshikazu Kanazawa)
The Second Jeff Beck Group - Related albums by musicians who supported the instrumental period (Toshikazu Kanazawa)
Similar approaches by other rock musicians (Kanazawa Hisakazu)
Jeff Beck Discography
Original Album (Onoshima Dai)
Album from the Yardbirds era (Onoshima Dai)
Original Album <Additional Information> (Dai Onoshima)
Edited album (Kazumi Akaiwa)
Singles/Rare Tracks (Kazumi Akaiwa)
Video work (Kazumi Akaiwa)
Video work <Additional information> (Kazumi Akaiwa)
50 selected songs from the session (Akihiko Sato)
Beck, Bogert & Appice "Live in Japan" [November 2013 issue]
Char Interview - Japan's leading guitarist talks about the real faces of the band members as seen from a 'closest distance' (Masayoshi Kondo)
BBA History (Tomoyuki Yamazaki)
The truth behind the "hard rock" direction of the trio (Shigeo Naka)
"Beck, Bogart & Appice" Complete Song Guide (Akihiko Sato)
"Live in Japan - 40th Anniversary Edition" Complete Song Guide (Akihiko Sato)
Remastered under the supervision of a recording engineer, the texture is close to that of an analog record (Takeda Akihiko)
The SA-CD multi-hybrid version of 'Orange' and BBA, which allows you to fully appreciate the audible difference even with normal stereo playback [September 2016 issue] (Masayoshi Kondo)
"Rough and Ready" [February 2017 issue], the last of the SA-CD multi-hybrid series (Masayoshi Kondo)
Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" [May 2014 issue]
Challenging the limits of the 'singing' guitar and opening up a new era (Hosokawa Shinpei)
Interview with Hiroyuki Otsuki - The guitar sounds so natural even though it's so well-crafted (Masayoshi Kondo)
Interview with Richard Bayley - The man who received a flurry of techniques with a supple groove (Hideji Tomioka)
A guitarist's bible whose colorful use of sound remains timeless to this day (Shigeo Naka)
"Jazz + Beatles" methodology inspired by John McLaughlin (Takumi Matsui)
"Blow by Blow" Complete Song Guide (Yoichi Aoyama)
SA-CD Multi Hybrid Edition Commentary (Takeda Akihiko)
Commentary on backing members: A career overview of Max Middleton, Richard Bailey and Phil Chen (by Hisakazu Kanazawa)
Jeff Beck, 'Wired' [December 2016 issue]
A conversation between Hiroyuki Otsuki and Masayoshi Kondo - It feels like a one-take film, but it's crafted with a different level of precision than the previous film (Written by Masayoshi Kondo)
Complete song guide (Shigeo Naka)
SA-CD Multi Hybrid Edition Commentary (Masayoshi Kondo)
Commentary on backing members: A look at the careers of Jan Hammer, Wilbur Bascom, Narada Michael Walden and Ed Green (by Hisakazu Kanazawa)
Jan Hammer's interactions with musicians associated with the PM/ECM label (Shiro Matsuo)
Eric Clapton/Jeff Beck: Their 50 Best Songs [March 2009 issue]
Eric Clapton / Jeff Beck, the best 50 songs of each (Yoichi Aoyama, Kazumi Akawa, Hideyo Ito, Isao Inubuse, Kazuhiro Uda, Shunichi Otaka, Hitoshi Koide, Yukihiro Goto, Akihiko Sato, Yoshio Tachikawa, Masanori Terada, Kaku Torii, Shigeo Naka, Kenta Hagiwara, Masahito Funabiki, Yoshihiro Hoshina, Mutsumi Mae, Takumi Matsui, Haruo Miyake, Tomoyuki Yamazaki)
A conversation between Yoichi Aoyama and Shigeo Naka - If Beck could sing, he wouldn't play the guitar like that, and if Clapton couldn't sing...
Selector's Questionnaire - What Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck mean to me
DVD works in which the two can be enjoyed together (Kazumi Akaiwa)
The Yardbirds [June 1987 issue]
The group that sparked the rock explosion (Otaka Shunichi)
Major albums (Kazumi Akaiwa)
A guide to affordable reissues (Kazumi Akaiwa)
Members and related parties (Kazumi Akaiwa)
The Yardbirds [August 1992 issue]
Simon Napier-Bell Interview: Former Manager's Secret Stories of the Group (Hideyo Ito)
A five-year journey traced through recording records (Hideyo Ito)
Original recordings all together on one CD (Masanori Terada)
The Yardbirds - Tracing the achievements of the legendary group that was the starting point of Clapton and Beck's musical activities through all official recordings (Part 1 and Part 2) [March-April 2009 issue] (Isao Inubuse)
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