The Jeff Beck Group - Rice Pudding - 1969 Line Up: Jeff Beck -- guitar Rod Stewart -- vocals Nicky Hopkins -- piano and organ Ronnie Wood -- bass Tony Newman -- drums
Thanks for posting this. I’ve always loved “Rice Pudding”. During my freshman year (‘69, the year the album came out) in college (Rose Poly -now Rose-Hulman- in Terre Haute) I had a weekly Wednesday night show on the campus carrier-wave radio station. This was the show’s closing song (it was pretty effective given the abrupt ending on the album). (If anyone cares, the opening theme was the Byrds’ “Captain Soul”.) P.S. As I’m typing this I just realized that “Rice Pudding” and “Rose Poly” had the same initials…
Second that! For me 2nd and 3rd are Zappa and Page. Zappa not as technically pristine and Page did not remain as relevant as Beck still pushing boundaries
@@mechcavandy986 oh Hell Yeah. Nobody compares to Zappa as composer, arranger, performer - and his entire catalogue - but I meant purely as a guitarist - in my opinion! Beck is the guitarists guitarist. I happen to enjoy Zappa’s solos and riffs every but as much. Beck is slightly more “polished” and kept pushing hilmself to improve while Frank might only pick up his guitar on tour - (which in a sense makes him even more “natural”)
Studio version of Rice Pudding with footage from a Fillmore East show. Mick Waller is on drums here, not Tony Newman. Waller wore glasses, Newman did not during this time, though he may have later on.
I was looking for Mick Waller and wondered what happened... Thanks for clearing up the snafu. I learned the name Mick Waller after attending Beck's debut USA tour in 68 hearing him at the Fillmore East. The entire band floored me...
Both Beck and Stewart have said in recent BBC programmes that neither of them regretted the decision - which considering what happened to the majority of performer was, perhaps, the right decision. Neither suffered career damage as a result.
There's nothing wrong with dubbing the album version over live footage but it should be mentioned in the description the same as a TV commercial puts "actor portrayal" at the bottom of the screen.
@@tomthalon8956 Do you find my request unreasonable dickless? In what way? Please tell me how a simple disclaimer informing the viewers that it's a studio rather than live audio is beyond pale. You should be good at "simple".
@@frankfrank7921 I find a lot of things here, Frankels. I find your comment lacking any "request." I find your opinion just making excuses for a lame bootleg, shitty quality video with no audio. I find you in general, pretty stupid.
It would be nice if you at least got the line-up right - and the year - for this concert footage that you plastered a not-yet-recorded studio tune over - that's Micky Waller on drums, and he was fired (unfortunately) from the band before "Beck-Ola" was recorded ....
That's not Tony Newman on drums and they're not playing Rice Pudding in the video (that song had not even been recorded at the time this film was shot). Beck used a Stratocaster on Rice Pudding with a lot of tremelo arm- here, he's playing a Les Paul. That's Micky Waller on drums in the film. Waller was fired earlier in 1969, and Newman replaced him, hence this is an older clip of the Jeff Beck Group at the Fillmore East likely before their last tour with Newman. Still interesting to see a video of the band at the Fillmore East.
Loved Mickey Waller. Eccentric individual, and eccentric drumming. He really shined on those early Rod Stewart solo albums. It was my all-time favorite rhythm section -- Waller on drums and Ron Wood on bass.
Aren't there any absolutely live performance videos of this group? I've seen several live videos of the second "Rough & Ready" Group -- and many of Jeff's various bands over the years -- but none of this original band.
J W I have some.. Just a matter of getting a good transfer from Video tape to a digital upload. If anyone has a good tip of the best current method.. let me know !
Is that his gold +flower top LP (the Gibson) after Gibson rebuilt the car crashed body they replaced the kneck with JB initials by the cutaway 14th fret? What yr LP?
Might well be; That light show was ubiquitous at the time. I watched most of my Fillmore East shows from the little balcony booth over the door that went from the FOH to the backstage. Fun times.
I wish I could remember who I was standing with when it came on one night (during a Grateful Dead show, probably the Dead At Midnight series in summer 1970) and I mentioned how much I disliked the light show. And whoever it was responded with "Yeah, it likes like psycho sperm." I nearly laughed up a tonsil. Perfect.
This isn't the Grande Ballroom in Detroit Richard Rybinski. The Grande light show was called Trans-Love Energies, and was totally lame compared to the Joshua White Light Show at the Fillmore East. There was NO Theatre Hall that could hold a candle to this Powerful Light Mecca!!! This is definitely the Jeff Beck Group at the Fillmore East, which housed the JWLS.
It's no wonder he never achieved the success of many of his contemporaries. Very bland and repetitive background music that only rises during the limited amount of time when Jeff is actually jamming. Very disappointing for 7 minutes live of one of the better songs on the JBG's second album.
