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BECK, BOGERT & APPICE
ORIGINAL UNUSED CONCERT TOUR TICKET SUPER LOW TICKET NUMBER LAST ONE WE HAVE!

JULY 13, 1973

FORT HOMER HESTERLY ARMORY

TAMPA, FLORIDA

Like many rock musicians in the early 1960s, JEFF BECK began his career working as a session guitarist. In 1965, following a gig with the Tridents, Beck was recruited to join the Yardbirds (after Eric Clapton had left the group for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers). It was during his tenure with the Yardbirds that they recorded most of their hits. His volatile temper, coupled with the unreliable nature of amplifiers in those days, resulted in many incidents of taking out his frustration on his equipment, although he rarely actually destroyed his guitars. That gimmick was understood to belong to Pete Townshend of The Who; when Beck was asked by Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni to smash a guitar during the Yardbirds' appearance in the 1966 film Blowup, he was reluctant to "steal" the gimmick from Townshend but did so anyway. In 1966, he shared the dual-lead guitar role with Jimmy Page. His time with The Yardbirds was short, allowing Beck only one full album, Roger the Engineer (1966); Beck left after 18 months, partly for health reasons. While on the surface Beck seems to have departed the group because of his health, Jimmy Page, who had been invited into the band in 1966 by Beck himself, tells a different story: âeoeIt was on that Dick Clark tour âe" t were a few incidents. One time in the dressing room I walked in and Beck had his guitar up over his head, about to bring it down on Keith Relfâe(tm)s head, but instead smashed it on the floor,âe Jimmy Page recalled years later. âeoeRelf looked at him with total astonishment and Beck said, âe~Why did you make me do that?âe(tm) F*cking hell. Everyone said, âe~My goodness gracious, what a funny chap.âe(tm) We went back to the hotel and Beck showed me his tonsils, said he wasnâe(tm)t feeling well and was going to see a doctor. He left for L.A., w we were headed anyway. When we got t, though, we realized that whatever doctor he was claiming to see must've had his office in the Whiskey. He was actually seeing his girlfriend, Mary Hughes, and had just used the doctor bit as an excuse to cut out on us.âe

Jeff Beck Group

The following year, Beck formed a new band, the Jeff Beck Group, which featured him on lead guitar, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Micky Waller on drums. The group produced two albums, Truth in 1968 and Beck-Ola the following year. These two albums are highly acclaimed, and are considered by some to be among the precursors to heavy metal. Owing to friction within the band, Stewart and Wood left the group in 1969 to replace Steve Marriott in the Small Faces. This new lineup, which included Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones shortened its name to the "Faces".

Fusion

Beck went on to form a third incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group, which featured Clive Chaman (bass), Max Middleton (keyboards), Cozy Powell (drums), and Bob Tench (vocals). This group took Beck in a new direction with increased levels of sophistication, entailing a varied melding of rock/pop with elements of R&B and jazz. They released two albums: Rough and Ready (1971, produced by Jeff Beck) and The Jeff Beck Group (1972, produced by Steve Cropper). After this second Jeff Beck Group disbanded in 1972, Beck formed the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice, with Carmine Appice on drums and Tim Bogert on bass. This group, too, failed to attract much critical attention and soon split up, although they did have a minor hit with a version of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" (Beck had earlier played lead guitar on Wonder's Talking Book album). In 1975, with the assistance of producer George Martin, Beck went into London's AIR Studios to record a solo, all-instrumental jazz fusion album entitled Blow by Blow, with a band that included Max Middleton (keyboards), Phil Chen (bass), and Richard Bailey (drums). The album received unexpectedly positive critical reviews and su...

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