Jeff Beck group - Beat Club... Wow!

[miles'tone]

Today I was Facebooked this live studio set by a mate. Never really heard much of Jeff Beck apart from checking out some youtube links when Tal popped up on our collective radar.
This band sounds fantastic!
Clive Chaman on bass and Cozy Powell on drums.
Not come across Clive Chaman before but what a player! Awesome tone from his P-bass too.
Anyone know if this was a steady band for Jeff Beck or was this a one off kinda affair?
Either way they've got 'it' here...

Enjoy!

[geoffbyrne]

Link?

G.

[redstriper]

Could it be this one?

[media]http://youtu.be/X6dFeVos3X0[/media]

[miles'tone]

Bugger, I was so excited I forgot to paste the link! Sorry about that.
Anyway the link provided kindly here by Redstriper is in colour whereas mine was in black and white so cheers for that!

Edited June 10, 2013 by miles'tone

[chris_b]

That was a regular line up for awhile.


Also checkout the Blow By Blow album.

Edited June 10, 2013 by chris_b

[JTUK]

Beck blows down doors pretty much everywhere...and keeps pretty fresh, IMO.
which isn't easy to do with a career spanning decades.
Probably a player that every gtr player checks out from time to time.

[KevB]

Always had a soft spot for 'There and Back'. Quite a short album but some nice playing, Mo Foster on bass. Until I looked it up I didn't realise just how little of it Beck actually wrote though!

Edited June 10, 2013 by KevB

[Dingus]

According to older musos who were around at the time , Clive Charman ( along with Alan Spenner ) was considered by many to be the best bass player on the scene in London in the early 1970's . After he was in the Jeff Beck Group he ended up playing in a band called Hummingbird , with the truly great Bernard Purdie on drums and Bobby Tench on guitar :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yxyYor-w8

Pretty sure this track features Clive on bass . , too :

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BY4i9ZTm0s&list=PL15CC90C3001C47E3[/media]

Clive Charman was also a kind of mentor to Neil Murray ( Whitesnake ect .) when Neil first became a pro player in the early 70's . He used to dep for Clive in Cozy Powell's Hammer , and I think he replaced him in a band called Hanson . Last I heard , Clive was living a quiet life in Florida .

Edited June 10, 2013 by Dingus

[miles'tone]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1370869701' post='2106574']
According to older musos who were around at the time , Clive Charman ( along with Alan Spenner ) was considered by many to be the best bass player on the scene in London in the early 1970's . After he was in the Jeff Beck Group he ended up playing in a band called Hummingbird , with the truly great Bernard Purdie on drums and Bobby Tench on guitar :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yxyYor-w8

Pretty sure this track features Clive on bass . , too :

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BY4i9ZTm0s&list=PL15CC90C3001C47E3[/media]

Clive Charman was also a kind of mentor to Neil Murray ( Whitesnake ect .) when Neil first became a pro player in the early 70's . He used to dep for Clive in Cozy Powell's Hammer , and I think he replaced him in a band called Hanson . Last I heard , Clive was living a quiet life in Florida .
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Hey thanks for the heads up there regarding Hummingbird dingus. I love Bernard 'pretty' Purdie, one of my fave drummers!
Chaman and Purdie sound fantastic together on that track. That's another three albums on the shopping list!
As is 'Blow By Blow'. I've heard of that album forever so about time I gave it a whirl. (So many albums, so little time)

Cheers everyone.