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[smj]

Now here is one album I would love to hear!

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/02/25/j eff-beck-on-his-legendary-unreleased-1970-motown-album/

James Jamerson on bass... wow.  A fascinating read even if I never get to hear it.

Sean Meredith-Jones
http://www.seanmeredithjones.com

[Bob Olhsson]

There's a whole LOT more to the story than that...

[jetbase]

Bob Olhsson wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 10:19

There's a whole LOT more to the story than that...

Oh Bob, you're just going to leave us hanging?

[PRobb]

jetbase wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 18:26

Bob Olhsson wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 10:19 There's a whole LOT more to the story than that... Oh Bob, you're just going to leave us hanging?

Seriously, sir, you can't just say that and leave!

[Waltz Mastering]

Bob Olhsson wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 18:19

There's a whole LOT more to the story than that...

Do tell..... when you have time of coarse.

His new album "Emotion and Commotion" is due out April 13th.
http://hesawhore.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-jeff-beck-cd-emoti on-and-commotion.html

Also highly recommend "Live at Ronnie Scott's" DVD

[Bob Olhsson]

It's a long story.

First, I absolutely loved Cozy Powell's drumming but Beck's playing was a train wreck. He had been in the middle of a contract dispute with Mickey Most for months. Basically they were not speaking to each other but couldn't pass up coming to Motown and pretending to be recording.

[Waltz Mastering]

I've read he was a big fan of the Motown sound, which probably him them there.

Was that around 70 -71 or so? Do you remember any of the other musicians on the dates? Max Middleton?

[McAllister]

This got me thinking.
Does anyone use that room for recording anymore?

If not, why not?

Chess used to be a museum & a working room - is it still?

hmmm

[Bob Olhsson]

Only Beck and Powell came along with Mickey Most. As soon as our musicians figured out that there wasn't going to be any serious recording done, most of them felt insulted and bailed. They wound up calling in Babbitt and it was just him, Powell and Beck jamming. Meanwhile Mickey Most was partying in the control room.

Beck wanted Babbitt to return to England with him but Bob had recently signed a recording contract with the rest of a new band and couldn't get out of it. Think of the sea change in both rock and R&B history that would have created!

[Waltz Mastering]

smj wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 16:45

Now here is one album I would love to hear!

Cool article.  Thanks for the 411 Bob.

[zmix]

Bob Olhsson wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 11:41

It's a long story.

Indeed.  Jeff Beck told me about those sessions when I worked with him in 2003.
He said that at that time Cozy Powell had an enormous drum kit and that while they were hauling out some gear to make room for the kit, a guy walked up to Jeff and asked him:

"You come here to get the Motown sound, right?"

Jeff said "Oh, yeah! Sure!"

The man, pointing at the studio's small drum kit as it passes out through the door in the hands of Cozy's roadies, replied: "Well, there it goes!"

[smj]

Bob Olhsson wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 16:41

It's a long story. First, I absolutely loved Cozy Powell's drumming but Beck's playing was a train wreck.

Beck's train wrecks are probably better than my best days!

Sean Meredith-Jones
http://www.seanmeredithjones.com

[RSettee]

I'm still waiting for Neil Young and Rick James' Motown album to come out.

[Bob Olhsson]

There was only a single. It was folk rock, more like what you'd expect from Neil than from Rick James.

[RSettee]

Bob Olhsson wrote on Sun, 14 March 2010 00:04

There was only a single. It was folk rock, more like what you'd expect from Neil than from Rick James.

Did you record it? I've always thought that was one of the more interesting pairings on paper....