Beckology

Infobox Album
Name = Beckology
Type = box
Longtype =
Artist = Jeff Beck


Released = November 19, 1991
Recorded = 1963-1989
Genre = Rock, Blues
Length = 223:48
Label = Epic / Legacy
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:08qog4fttv3z]
Last album = "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop"
(1989)
This album = 'Beckology'
(1991)
Next album = "Frankie's House"
(1992)

"Beckology" by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar from early days with The Tridents through to his "Guitar Shop" album in 1989.

*Volume 1 includes previously unreleased tracks from The Tridents, earthy mono recordings of Yardbirds classics like "Steeled Blues" and "Heart Full of Soul", four tracks from a Yardbirds BBC session, and Jeff's first solo single sides.

*Volume 2 covers The Jeff Beck Group's albums and the later Beck, Bogert and Appice collaboration. Highlights here include the reworking of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" with Rod Stewart on vocals, the driving "Plynth", the beautiful guitar work on "Definitely Maybe" and the interesting reworking of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".

*Volume 3 tracks through what the sleeve notes call the "instrumental era" of the 1970s with tracks from the jazzy "Blow by Blow" and the acclaimed George Martin produced "Wired" albums. There is a live performance of "Freeway Jam" with major collaborator Jan Hammer with whom Jeff was still touring in 2004, before arriving at the end of the 1980's with "Flash" tracks like "People Get Ready" and "Guitar Shop" tracks like "Big Block" and "Where Were You".

A 60 page booklet comes with the album, and includes a biography by Gene Santoro.

Track listing

Volume One

# "Trouble in Mind" - The Tridents
# "Nursery Rhyme" (live) (Bo Diddley) - The Tridents
# "Wandering Man Blues" - The Tridents
# "Steeled Blues" - The Yardbirds
# "Heart Full of Soul" - The Yardbirds
# "I'm Not Talking" - The Yardbirds
# "I Ain't Done Wrong" - The Yardbirds
# "Train Kept a Rollin'" - The Yardbirds
# "I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley) - The Yardbirds
# "Shapes of Things" - The Yardbirds
# "Over Under Sideways Down" - The Yardbirds
# "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" - The Yardbirds
# "Hot House of Omagarashid" - The Yardbirds
# "Lost Woman" - The Yardbirds
# "Rock My Mind" - The Yardbirds
# "The Nazz Are Blue" - The Yardbirds
# "Psycho Daisies" - The Yardbirds
# "Jeff's Boogie" - The Yardbirds
# "Too Much Monkey Business" (live) - The Yardbirds
# "The Sun Is Shining" (live) - The Yardbirds
# "You're a Better Man Than I" (live) - The Yardbirds
# "Love Me Like I Love You" (live) - The Yardbirds
# "Hi Ho Silver Lining" - Jeff Beck
# "Tally Man" - Jeff Beck
# "Beck's Bolero" - Jeff Beck

Volume Two

# "Shapes of Things" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "I Ain't Superstitious" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Rock My Plimsoul" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Jailhouse Rock" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Plynth (Water Down the Drain)" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Drinking Again" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Definitely Maybe" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "New Ways Train Train" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Going Down" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You" - The Jeff Beck Group
# "Superstition" - Beck Bogert Appice
# "Black Cat Moan" (live) - Beck Bogert Appice
# "Blues Deluxe/BBA Boogie" (live) - Beck Bogert Appice
# "Jizz Whizz" - Beck Bogert Appice

Volume Three

# "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" - Jeff Beck
# "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" - Jeff Beck
# "Love Is Green" - Jeff Beck
# "Diamond Dust" - Jeff Beck
# "Freeway Jam" (live) - Jeff Beck
# "The Pump" - Jeff Beck
# "People Get Ready" - Jeff Beck featuring Rod Stewart
# "Escape" - Jeff Beck
# "Gets Us All in the End" - Jeff Beck
# "Back on the Street" - Jeff Beck
# "Wild Thing" - Jeff Beck
# "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" - Jeff Beck
# "Sleep Walk" - Jeff Beck
# "The Stumble" - Jeff Beck
# "Big Block" - Jeff Beck
# "Where Were You" - Jeff Beck