Meet Jeff Beck’s new touring band
Jeff Beck in 1976 WIRED mode. That album featured Narada Michael Walden, who's touring as Beck's drummer in June. Jeff Beck can be spotted in "Twins," the 1988 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and...
View ArticleJeff Beck’s latest is heavy on the emotion, light on the commotion
Jeff Beck during the EMOTION & COMMOTION sessions in Los Angeles. Don't let my headline fool you. I love Jeff Beck's new album, EMOTION & COMMOTION, which is finally available today on iTunes....
View ArticleI’ll be at Iridium Jazz Club tonight watching Jeff Beck’s Les Paul tribute
I'll be at this show tonight -- sort of. Well, sort of. I'll actually be at Ellen's Stardust Diner, the restaurant upstairs from Iridium Jazz Club, watching the show as it unfolds -- via closed-circuit...
View ArticleReview of Jeff Beck at Iridium Jazz Club, June 8, 2010
Jeff Beck at Iridium Jazz Club, June 8, 2010. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. I made the trek into NYC last night (Tuesday) to see Jeff Beck's Les Paul tribute show at Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway...
View ArticleThe rest of Jeff Beck’s June 8 Iridium set list
Brian Setzer arrives at Iridium, June 8. Photo by Cindy Moorhead, Vista High School, Class of '87! In my last blog post, I started writing a song-by-song account of Jeff Beck's set at Iridium Jazz Club...
View ArticleScottish invasion continues with release of a new Teenage Fanclub album
SHADOWS, the new one by Scotland's Teenage Fanclub. Things have been very Scottish around here lately. One of my bands, The Blue Meanies, played a gig Saturday night with our friends Itchycoo Park...
View ArticleA look back at some of the best music of 2010
I'm watching a rerun of a Season 3 episode of "Californication" right now. It's a very inspiring show -- and not just because of the very nice Gibson Les Paul that makes random appearances in Hank...
View ArticleA trademark nightmare for C.F. Martin & Co.
Here's some one-month-old news forwarded to me from a friend in Texas. Apparently these fellows showed up at a music-trade show in China pretending to be C.F. Martin & Co., as in, Martin guitars....
View ArticleJeff Beck ties Lady Gaga with three Grammys
Jeff Beck, seen here looking a lot like the guy on the cover of BLOW BY BLOW, won three Grammys last night in Los Angeles. Jeff Beck's late-career resurgence -- which began the night he and bassist Tal...
View ArticleJeff Beck and Imelda May coming to New Brunswick March 29
PHOTO: LARRY BUSACCA/GETTY IMAGES. Jeff Beck and Imelda May at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City last June. I was there! Guitarist Jeff Beck -- the eternally mop-topped, 66-year-old icon of British...
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