JEFF BECK – Waterbury 1976 (1CD)

Audience 8.9 – One thing for certain, you can’t knock this recording for not having enough wide open and bright atmosphere!  Holy crap it’s got that in spades, at maybe at a little expense of the lower register – although the bass is present in a sort of brassy and sassy kind of way. If you want to hear that guitar detail and don’t mind that the recording favors that sort of mid band/upper high range of sound and less emphasis on deep bottom end (most people would prefer not being overloaded with bass as it tends to muddy the sound) than you will like this a lot. I did not miss having phatness in the bottom end because I cranked up my bass on the EQ and lo-and-behold there was bass!

Jeff Beck Group (with Jan Hammer)
Palace Theatre
Waterbury, Connecticut
October 12, 1976

01 – Earth (Still Our Only Home)
02 – Scatterbrain
03 – You Know What I Mean
04 – Bass Solo – Come Dancing
05 – She’s A Woman
06 – Diamond Dust
07 – Full Moon Boogie
08 – Blue Wind
09 – Led Boots

Jeff Beck – guitar
Jan Hammer – keyboards
Fernando Saunders – bass
Tony Smith – drums
Steve Kindler – violin