Still blows me away 50 plus years later. The greatest, bar none. Only recently learned that Jeff didn't read music, did everything by touch, tone and feel, which makes me admire him 1000 times more. The consummate musician of our times. RIP JB, I'll be playing your music every day for the rest of my days, and I turn 70 this Friday. Plenty more to come!
Most of these guys didn't read music. You don't have too Hendrix Clapton George Benson Eddie Van Halen Paul MCartney And the rest didn't read music. Reading music is for academics.
This performance is pure genius by all Jeff Beck band members. The final result is complex music perfection. I have listened to this since 1972 and still enjoy it as much as the first time , 43 years later !
Beck-Ola, the album featuring this track, came out in 1969. I remember listening to it on the radio beneath the pillow late at night, since my parents wouldn't stand for it if they heard it!
THE greatest rock and roll guitar player of our time. Spare me the comparisons and arguments. Jimi says so. Eric says so. Jimmy says so. And so it is written.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be nice to have a radio station promote music like this? Wouldn't the younger generations then start to understand what we had? What we have! Jeff beck released a new album. Greatest Ever? No. But DAMNED GOOD. Will it get airtime? Heck no!
absolutely right I love zeppelin but stairway drives me insane as I have heard it 50 millon times and believe other great bands and artists such as beck need airtime
Along with Beck's amazing guitar, that's Nicky Hopkins filling with that heavenly piano, Ron Wood on bass, and Tony Newman doing a bashing job on the drums. "Rice Pudding" one of those balls-out jams between extraordinary rock musicians, never to be duplicated.
Jeff's slide, Rod's hoarse vocals and his and Ronnie's lyrics, PLUS Nicky's gorgeous old time stylings on the ivories gave Beck Ola like a whisky-soaked, gun slinging, wild west, saloon feel, which is utterly fabulous
What impresses me most about Jeff Beck, and there is no "best" guitarist, is that as great as he was he was always so kind to others and so complimentary to younger musicians while humble. Even Jimi Hendrix used this lick out of respect and admiration for Beck. A truly great musician who was my first more.modern influence as a kid. I've been listening to him for 62 years and never grown tired of his brilliance.
Totally offboarded how much I loved this song and was amazed I knew the drum work intuitively...love the cymbals throughout and of course the Nicky Hopkins piano...damn this work still holds up today beautifully.
ALWAYS nice to see fans acknowledge Nicky Hopkins(RIP) By far the best RnR pianist ever. Seems like whoever he was playing with did their best stuff. Rice Pudding ranks as one of the hardest and best instrumentals of Rock. The WHO, Beatles, Stones, Airplane, Kinks, QuickSilver, Steve Miller and many others, Whew! Awesome Nicky.
@@michaelm7116 I think he's right. Nicky was the best in my opinion too. The others were all great in their own way. But we're talking a pianist who played with the Beatles, the Who, Kinks, Jeff Beck... and the California Left Coast bands. He was the best
This musical pearl influenced a lot of classic Rock hits, from Joe Perry and your "Sweet Emotion" to John Sykes and your "Still of the Night". Beck is a true genius! Salute maestro!!!
The main riff has to be one of the best riffs of all time. It is a heavy and powerful riff, with weirdly syncopated rhythms that make you think, "What on earth?" Absolute genius.
still the greatest !! so glad i got to see them at the Singer Bowl Queens NY July 13, 1969 opening up for Vanilla Fudge ! members of Led Zepplin showed up and started playing with them onstage near the en it was wild ...i still see in my mind when Beck went to the front of the stage and with his guitar neck tapped off the policemans head while the cop was facing the crowd ...all in good fun back then Jeff you were the best !! RIP
Jeff Beck had been to Detroit at least twice, once with the Yardbirds, missed them at Mt. Holly. Had to play somewhere else that night. Then, he played the Grande Ballroom with this iteration of the Jeff Beck Group. That night had to play at the Palladium in Birmingham, before Johnny Winter. Then, he came back with the Jan Hammer tweedly dee dee act, with Micheal Walden on drums, playing the Masonic, Downtown D-town. All us guitar dweebs down front broke into spontaneous applause when he walked back to his amp to get a slide. Nobody, nobody like Jeff Beck, nobody,,,
The Jeff Beck Group started me on a lifelong road of having the life-saver of hard rock and heavy metal. When this album was first released, after listening to it scores of times, "Rice Pudding" became my favorite track. It is a disservice, here and now, to have taken off the track from the album upload to RU-vid, as all the songs were commensurate with the vinyl months ago, and loaded in this digital cover of "Rice Pudding."
@@stickman1742 You're Dead right. Jeff obviously had mixed feelings, see his quote quote from the Truth/Beckola compilation CD notes: " Old Jim was around quite a lot - after he heard Truth and saw us he actually came to America with Mickie Most when we went there. Some people say he came because he wanted to see what was going on, but nobody really knew, and he was hanging around an awful lot, staying at the same hotels and listening. I think it was NY when I first heard his demo of You Shook Me , my heart just sank when I heard it. I looked at him and said ‘ Jim , what ? ‘ and the tears were coming out with anger.”
Pure Genious; No buddy Is doing or comparing To This Today , Remember it well -69'., They got balls for Brains today and it dont Work .This Tune has about four Guitar Parts, all Different and it was Meant to Stone you; its not all here...Saw, J. Beck on His First U.S.Tour w/ Young Unknown Rod..
He left Rod and Ron in LA, cancels Woodstock appearance because he actually thought Rod couldn't bring it, and was envious of Robert Plant who Beck saw as 2nd coming of Elvis, he had no faith in this band. Tour was Beckola, this record, and that's where he went off the rails, the 2nd and more tasteful Yardbirds offshoot died, Rod Stewart goes on to be one of most popular artists of all time. Zep had better songs, Peter Grant, the Yardbirds touring apparatus etc. We spent a lot of time as teenage boys arguing the virtue of Beck, our personal favorite, after various incarnations, car accident, some lesser efforts like BBA, you know who ain't Robert Plant? Tim Bogert, that's who, so Beck fell off the trail, took, i picked him up at Wired/Blow by Blow, Sir George Martin helps him mature, abandon lead singers altogether, smaller market AOR jazz fusion, almost killed music. Beck survives, makes great instrumental music, big sales allude him. All the master shredders of the era, lorber, dimeola, holdsworth etc no memorables, Beck is only guy standing with songs we remember. Plynth was the track on Beckola i played the grooves off. I didn't understand music business at all, i practiced and learned the wrong stuff, Carlton!? Worthless, Guns and Roses showed me how wrong i was, i think Beck is our patron saint.
No one on earth (can't speak for other planets), so snazzily strangles a Strat like Jeff Beck! This album is proof maximus. Just add Guitar Shop, throw in Nadia and Where Were You and voilà, you've got the quintessential lesson on Stratocaster swank, spank, sizzle and squawk! :D
There is but One God and his name is Jeff Beck. Period. End of story. I knew this from the first night I saw the original Jeff/Rod/Woody/Micky lineup, ten feet from the stage. One year shy of fifty years ago and still noooooooobody can touch him OR that band.
jeff is the ultimate grinder going where no man ever thought of taking the guitar. I love duane 's style a whole bunch, too and taught ol' beck a thing or two, on slide guitar. but beck's riff's capture my ears, totally, on a bunch of songs. duane was gifted but not on every song
Steven Tyler said in a interview with Earl Bailey on SiriusXM's Classic Vinyl that he was humming Sweet Emotion to Sting backstage the bass line to play for a collaboration concert and Jeff Beck Chimed in and said I wrote that back in the 60's (Steven called it Bread Pudding in the interview)... Just heard the clip of it today on Earl Bailey's show today 08/02/2018
Great to have this seminal recording finally posted (you can pretty much hear the entire history of rock in this one performance). [The video is lovely, too]. But can you please squeeze on those last few, precious, thrashing seconds that are cut off here? Thanks!
The best thing that could happen to Beck would be for him to pick up one of his Les Paul's and a PICK, like he used to such as here................, thank you.
Compare/contrast to LZ’s ‘Moby Dick’. Saw the JB Group w..Rod 2 weeks after LZ’s 1st US tour. Jeff, Jimmy, Eric, Jimi, Peter Green all changed my world. To this day, JB gets more play time - try “Nessun Dorma” without a tear. BB King sought a woman’s voice with his guitar. JB captured it.
An astute observation, whatever else is the case, I reckon Beck’s playing is rather like a human singing. Watch him and he and the instrument are so intimately connected that it’s as if his playing is singing. The truly stunning thing is that he’s the only rock guitarist still innovating; possibly why the likes of Gilmour, Page and Clapton clearly adore him.
@@edfou5 Page was key in creating Beck's Bolero so he was apart of the original sound. Beck went his way with it and Page went his. Page was so important to 60s British music and guitar playing, I find it laughable when people try to say he just copied. He had been playing this shit for years, it just was longer before he got his band together.
