Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart - Studio Session For The Beck-Ola album, London 4-14-1969! 

truly one of the best albums ever!!

RIP Jeff Beck

I ran a small 8-track studio for 12 years and am a guitarist. I have sympathy for Jeff here. This is "The Jeff Beck Group" so he is the star and is expected to deliver. Putting down a lead solo as an overdub is not the same as doing it with the rest of the band live. There is a communication between the musicians and a buzz in the air that just doesn't happen with a playback and overdub. Onstage or even in rehearsal you are "warmed up", the band has gelled together and everyone else is concentrating on getting their bit right. - in the studio, you're sat drinking cofee and talking about random stuff whilst you wait for someone else to finish their bit. Then suddenly you get called in to do your bit and need to go from Zero to Fabulous in a few seconds and while the engineer, producer and the rest of the band stare at you through the glass wondering why you're such a bumbling incompetent! 😀 You can also see that they are talking to each other and probably sometimes laughing and you cannot hear what they are saying. For all you know, they are saying how your current performance confirms their doubts about you and are arranging where and when they will audition your replacement or leave to form their own band. It's Pressure! The multi-track studio can be a bad place for perfectionists as well...... In a live show, your solo spot comes around and you give it your best shot and that's in. Whatever mistake you made or however uninspired it was it's GONE, it's over. But in the studio you can just keep trying again and that in itself can make it that no take is ever good enough, there is always some slight mistake or little phrase or section that you feel could have been better. It's VERY easy to go chasing rainbows and then crumble if you can't catch one. I am astonished by the capabilities of modern recording software - these days almost anything can be fixed completely or at the very least dramatically improved. Plus there are unlimited tracks to use so you can do twenty takes because you have the editing ability to pick the little good sections from each and stick them all together to make a "perfect" track. (Called "Comping" because it's a composite track) Of course, even on 8-track tape you could do "drop-ins" aka "punch-ins" where you play the track back and then just punch into Record-mode for a bar or two to replace a little section but it sounds easier to do than it is. You are literally erasing and recording over whatever was on that section beforehand so both the performer and the recording engineer need to get it right "live" - there is no "Undo" button so if you mess it up you destroy whatever was there originally and have to re-record the whole solo.

RIP Jeff Beck. Truly one of a kind.

Every member of that band a superstar in his own right.

I'd love to hear Beck and Hopkins isolated!!

Rod's best period, with Jeff.

I'm sitting here in my lonely room--and i can remember buying this album when it was released in 1969. Totally unbelievable that i am watching segments of this iconic album in the making, before my very eyes!!! It's as if i was part of the crew there, like a home 8mm-16mm movie. Seen Jeff almost every time he played Detroit. One of my all time favorite Guitarists & Character. The people here knocking Mickey Most don't have a clue. Truth & Beck-Ola were landmark albums of the day, and still hold up to this very period and beyond. Not a whole helluva lot of Producers/Arrangers of the day can even begin to make that statement---let alone put out such a creative effort. Also, look at Mickey Most's career, it is staggering!!!

Rice Pudding = Masterpiece.

Mickie Most did such a great job on Beck's first two solo albums. "Beck-Ola" , a central part of my early youth.

beck fan since 1971

This is freaking awesome.

It was the end of the '60s . . . .a difficult time , because that vibe has not returned since , and musicians and artists would know this , in their souls . . . Rod has done a good job , carrying on thru . . :)

This is awesome. Not much footage from this era unfortunately

great raw rock!

Man, that drum break...

Jeff Beck , Six Strings Wizard Great Guitar Master , Sounds Still Alive ln Our Soul Forever. Rest In Peace 🙏

R.I.P. to the legend Jeff Beck

Love the intro ivorys then thumping guitar 😄 absolute classic stuff... Jeff Beck such a one off

Hi Bob, imagine the positive energy in those studios back then, all those superstars just jammin thanks for sharing Bob Portland Oregon

Great sound and vocals

This is a time trove. Thank you very much.

The best of the best. Greatest stuff off the 60s. Under rated

*I love 💕 **#RodStewart** and **#JeffBeck*

Time to dust off my copy of Beck Ola, RIP Jeff Beck a class act

rest in Peace Jeff

Fantastic video. How historic it is! Thanks🌷👍🏻

I just purchased original vinyl Beckola and Truth - - those were the days

RIP, J.B. Brazil 🇧🇷

Jeff Beck today admits that he himself was very difficult to work with, and temperamental.

Thank you!

This was a super group I missed at the time.

I don't think they realised what utter magic they were laying down, not least Mr Most.

Takes me back to when this 1st came out.

Great historic video

What a classic gem. Stellar jam seesion with some smokin grooves!

A great clip. Mickie Most makes a lot of sense. It would have been a tough gig shepherding rock bands of that era through a recording session. Like herding cats.

Wonderful bit of history🙂👍🙂

I LOVE this

Amazing footage. Great album!

the only time I liked Rod Stewart was with Jeff. Then he turned into. "Romantic Rod"

Super Cool. Rocky

Classic RIP. Jeff Beck..................********* .

This is great sitting in on a session with these guys

Next to Robert Plant, Rod Stewart was one of the best frontmen of the late 60s and early 70s.

I've only seen the short clip of this-Amazing to watch this in full-Thank-you. 🎸

GREATEST SINGER EVER

This is from Swedish TV ('Popside' to be exact).

I went to see this band at the "Starlight ballroom" in Greenford and still remember how good they were. I read today that Ronnie Wood played bass in the band but I didn't know of him back them.

The interviewer speaks Swedish. BTW this album is still brilliant. Just crank up the volume.

Mickie Most was a baby sitter. Makes me love Jeff Beck even more, Ha ha.

Amazing!!

That’s metal right there

Esses tempos não voltam mais... Muito som

“Being diplomatic and getting the job done.” Exactly. It wasn’t necessarily easy being a record producer for a rock group back then.

Jeff and producer Mickie Most had a difficult time with the second LP finding inspiring material. This is a fascinating inside look at the process.

Fantastic

Rip Jeff Beck

“When you are done being a record producer you can become a politician”. LOLZ!!!!!!!

Christ didn't Rod have a great voice back then, and that incredible run of solo albums in the early 70's before he started asking if we thought he was sexy...led Zep certainly filled the gap that the JB Group left...pity they never did more stuff.

Wow!

At about 40 seconds we get a quick glimpse of the machine their recording on, appears to be a 1 inch 8 track. Soon after this they doubled the tape width and we got 16 track 2 inch. After a while they reduced the width of each track and manged to squeeze 24 tracks onto the 2 inches and that was the pinnacle of 2 inch tape. Later it became possible to link two of the 24 track machines together so that they stayed in sync with each other and you therefore had 46 track (because one track on each machine had to be used for SMPTE code to enable the sync.)

The bit from 2:40 where Mickie Most frills and chastises Jeff is so funny - uncomfortable - but funny. Don't get me wrong, I am Jeff's biggest fan and he is a sharp, intelligent and eloquent fella, but that clip reminds me of Christopher Guest recalling an exchange he witnessed in an airport that was inspiration for Spinal Tap: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VqNFPB3bNpw.html Also, watch the MTV interview with Jeff and Rod from about 1985 to promote Rod's single Infatuation on which Jeff played. During the interview Jeff says something like "4 days ... that's the way to make an album, in and out, don't sit around" - ha! A different attitude to 1969!! Rod then interjects: "you should know, you've made 5 albums in 12 years" or something to that effect. It's also amusing to hear Most comment that they hadn't even got an album cover yet. Thank God for me that that was the case!! The JBG's lack of organisational skills obviously meant that they just swiped a Margritte painting for the album cover, which is of a big green apple. The extent of my Jeff Beck knowledge in 2007 was Hi Ho Silver Lining (I'm ashamed to say) and I ignorantly and lazily couldn't understand why he was ranked alongside Hendrix, Clapton and Page. I was sifting through CDs in a music shop in Nottingham trying to find things to blow my student loan on when I spotted a big green apple, feint wording that looked like Beatles and the EMI logo. Being a Beatle maniac from early childhood, I thought I had fallen through a portal to another dimension and stumbled upon a lost fab four album! Alas, no, but decided to buy it - Beck-Ola - along with a load of other albums that I've probably never listened to more than once. This decision changed my musical journey. I had already been big into heavy rock, blues and funk, but Jeff's career tied it all in together for me and sent me in other directions. His playing, tone, musical decisions and personality expressed through the guitar are unrivalled.

Rod Stewart he kicked ass back in the day and when he made the song you ya think I'm sexy a lot of people hated it because it had a disco feel to it carman appece wrote.that song mabie some of you mates🇬🇧🇬🇧don't know that but he did up the irons!!;maiden manic🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🤘🤘🤘🎼🎼🎸🎸🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵

Mickie Most feels like a boss!

well, so now we know what the infamous Mickie Most looks and sounds like - the bloke who pushed such trivia as "Hi Ho, Silver Lining" on Beck and "Little Games" on the Page era Yardbirds, because he didn't understand the oncoming wave of FM radio and album oriented tracks. Not saying he's a terrible person, but it is ironic that the discussion about "when do you think it would be time to get out of producing?" was not all that far down the road for Most at that juncture.

We don’t get the lead guitar in this, watch the original, so good

What was and what could have been!

Brilliant comments from the producer.

Many rock stars.are very hard to get along with Richie Blackmore was one but what a fantastic guitar player he is I wonder if he and Ronnie James Dio got a long and Richie he was a moody at that up the irons maiden manic we all get moody sometimes rock star or not rip Jeff Beck🎵🤘🤘🎼🎼🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶🇬🇧

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Micky Most. You're welcome.

The language sounds like either Swedish or Danish, from Swedish or Danish TV.

If it wasn’t for that smokey voice, Mick Jagger would be my favorite singer.

Who is mickey most I never heard of him up the irons!!maiden manic😺💍🎸🎼🎼

Was that Micky “ make the worst of it”Most ? Pre New Faces?

Shame that Micky Moist didn't recognise Rod's great talent.

Yep, fuckin' awesome! Great song. Is it Kenny Jones or Mickey Waller on drums?

Ye Olde De Lane Lea studios, London.

You didn't see Mickie Most's name on lots of albums back in the 60's but the work he put out was usually exceptional, kind of raw, controlled Kaos.

Anyone see ronnie wood in this ?

Like Hendrix , if Beck has decent studio quality , a decent producer to steer his arraignments etc Beck could easily have been the greatest .

Summer 1968. Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart were at the log cabin in Laurel Canyon and had a food fight. ru-vid.comq8Qch2El17E

Great but not the final mix-take left for the album.

The foreign language spoken at 2:30 is Swedish I think, not German

Was'nt it recorded in late '68?

Swedish...

It must have been from Swedish TV as they speak Swedish not German!

De lane de lea?

What was the first song

Interesting. Live vocal but JB hasn’t competed solo that was on Beck Ola.

2:30 what language was that? Just curious

Swedish commentator

not much of a fan of Rod Stewart solo. but he sounded kikemass in The Jeff Beck Group! With his awesome voice the music is what does it! JBG!

Mickie Most with his usual face on like a slapped arse. Very clever guy but here he has a look of someone who doesn't quite know what he is seeing. I wonder if he realised that he was witnessing the birth of probably the best rock vocal talent we've ever seen

Jeff pulling a moody ha,ha

Is it done by a swede? I can hear a swede make comments i swedish. So not german😄

Rod Stewart was brilliant. Unfortunately he went from champ to chump....

Micky Most - "A record producer has to be very diplomatic" LMAO - also Most to JB when he's being a bit ....ahm....uninspired feeling in the studio --- "Well no not really, you didn't show up last Saterdee, we've sposed to have been doin'g it over two Saterdee's these things, you didn't show up last Saterdee, ya went out ......fridee, cause ya didn't feel well, didn't show up saterdee so he's lost another day, so it's a day and a half gone" Jeff -'That's what i mean you know throwing it all into one session" Jeff voices his concerns at being driven hard - Most again - buts in aggressively - "I know but you know - the rest of the wold can't hang around waitin' for Jeff Beck"......Beck continues that he "could do the whole bloody lot in two hours but I'd like four just to be on the safe side - I'd like to be playin' my best" - Most again aggressively - 'Well I'd like to finish today but if it's gunna be rubbish" - F Me! - If that's 'diplomatic' I'd hate to see Mickey being pushy....LMFAO What an ego tripper Most was '