Guitar Shop

Jeff Beck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMVQC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #10 in Music > Jazz > Jazz Fusion
  • #61 in Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists

Track Listings

1. Guitar Shop

2. Savoy

3. Behind the Veil

4. Big Block

5. Where Were You

6. Stand on It

7. Day in the House

8. Two Rivers

9. Sling Shot

Editorial Reviews

Backed by Terry Bozzio's pounding drumbeats and Tony Hymas' colorful keyboard textures; a must have for Beck fans everywhere! Guitar Shop; Savoy; Big Block; Day in the House , plus more!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest guitar albums ever recorded August 24, 2003

By Carl Savich

Format:Audio CD

GUITAR SHOP is without a doubt one of the greatest guitar albums ever recorded. This is what playing electric guitar is all about. This album is an essential primer on the electric guitar. GUITAR SHOP comes closest to capturing the futuristic electric guitar elan of the 1960s Jeff Beck sound. There are shades of SHAPES OF THINGS, OVER UNDER SIDEWAYS DOWN, BECK'S BOLERO, TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN, and HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO. There is the hard rock/heavy metal sound of the Jeff Beck Group as well as the jazz-rock fusion of BLOW BY BLOW and WIRED. There are no words to describe the effect of this album. GUITAR SHOP is Jeff Beck at his very best.

Every guitar player should own GUITAR SHOP. This is what it is all about. This is what virtuosity and musicianship sound like.

The best track on the album is WHERE WERE YOU, which has become a guitar classic and a Jeff Beck signature song. WHERE WERE YOU is arguably the best record Beck ever cut. Jeff Beck composed this track and so put his own musical and artistic vision into it. That is what is so remarkable. We see that guitar playing is all in the mind, not in the fingers or in the amplifier or the guitar brand or the pick you use. It is all in the mind. That is the secret revealed on this album. You cannot teach that. That is why every guitarist in the world should own this album. Every guitarist has to have his or her own voice or musical vision. That is the secret to playing great music. Today, all guitarists play the same styles that they imitate from what they are hyped into believing is the best. Guitarists play hackneyed cliches and unimaginative riffs that are just so much garbage and noise,i.e., musical trash. There is no originality or artistic vision, just copycat, plagiarism, xerox copies of what the "stars" play. It is all musical ... that makes one want to vomit and throw one's guitar in the garbage can or break it against the wall. Guitar music sounds so ... and one-dimensional. Guitar music sounds like it is created by cretins and morons. Yes, it is that bad. But, then, GUITAR SHOP came out in 1989....It was like a blind man who had regained his sight. This was what playing the guitar was all about. And Beck gets some remarkable sounds out of his guitar. SAVOY is just breathtaking. How does Beck do that? Again, it is all in the mind. TWO RIVERS is a remarkable slow ballad. Beck shows that less is more here. He shows what one can do with just a few notes...and some musical talent.

Every song on this album is remarkable and a revelation. It is all killer, no filler. It shows what all the fuss was all about.
Why did Jimi Hendrix want to meet Jeff Beck in 1966 when Chas Chandler brought him to the UK? Why did Jimi listen to and study Jeff Beck's guitar playing? Why did Jimmy Page say that Jeff Beck is the best guitarist that there is? This album shows us why. Beck's vision for the electric guitar is awe-inspiring. It is an artistic vision unlike any other. We all owe Jeff Beck our gratitude for taking the guitar out of the boring and banal into the unexplored country. GUITAR SHOP is more than just another album. It is a milestone. It shows us the possibilities of the guitar.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything is being Done! May 3, 2003

By Eric E. Weinraub

Format:Audio CD

After what most consider a disasterous outing, Flash, Jeff really came roaring back with this one fully decked out with long time contributer Tony Hymas on keyboards and ex-Frank Zappa/Missing Persons drummer Terri Bozzio. I found that if I put this on, I had to listen to the rest until it ended. There is a real continuity and flow that makes each song blend so well together. The production is good and the musicianship is top notch. This would be among my 5 mandatory JB releases, which also includes Blow by Blow, Wired, There and Back, and Truth.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Beck I own May 22, 2009

By Joe

Format:Audio CD

This is such a great departure for Jeff Beck, and though those who like his older stuff may not enjoy this album, those who love instrumental guitar rock, this is THE Jeff Beck album to buy. great songs from begining to end. I love to listen to this whole album on repeat.