Jeff’s Playlist: Beck, Bogert & Appice

Looking back over the years of my life, I have real­ized that 1973 was a great year for my kind of music.

Albums like the fol­low­ing were released:

Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd
Goats Head Soup — The Rolling Stones
Count Down to Ecstasy — Steely Dan
The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get — Joe Walsh
Quadrophenia — The Who
Tales From Topographic Oceans — Yes
Time Fades Away and Tonight’s the Night — Neil Young
Aladdin Sane — David Bowie
Mind Games — John Lennon
Living In A Material World — George Harrison
Houses of the Holy — Led Zeppelin
Beck, Bogert & Appice was released in 1973 and fits nice­ly into this list.

My friends and I loved these ren­di­tions of “Black Cat Moan” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” If you haven’t heard these, you will prob­a­bly agree when you do. Vocals are ques­tion­able at times, but I lis­ten for the hard-dri­ving bass, drums, and gui­tar solos. You get plen­ty of that here.

Bogert and Appice are from the rock band Cactus. I nev­er was famil­iar with Cactus but I real­ly do like these guys in a trio with Beck. In fact, this trio was hailed as the next super­group after Cream and Led Zeppelin, but they only made it through one stu­dio album and a short tour.

Again, RIP Jeff Beck.

Album Information

1.      “Black Cat Moan”               Don Nix    3:44
2.      “Lady”                                 Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert, Carmine Appice, Pete French, Duane Hitchings 5:33
3.      “Oh to Love You”               Beck, Bogert, Appice         4:04
4.      “Superstition”                     Stevie Wonder  4:15
5.      “Sweet Sweet Surrender” Nix   3:59
6.      “Why Should I Care”         Raymond Louis Kennedy 3:31
7.      “Lose Myself with You       Beck, Bogert, Appice, French 3:16
8.      “Livin’ Alone”                     Beck, Bogert, Appice         4:11
9.      “I’m So Proud”                   Curtis Mayfield 4:12

Total length:       36:57

Jeff Beck – gui­tar, vocals; lead vocals (track 1)
Tim Bogert – bass, vocals; lead vocals (tracks 4, 6 & 7)
Carmine Appice – drums, vocals; lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8 & 9)
Jimmy Greenspoon – piano
Duane Hitchings – piano, Mellotron
Danny Hutton – back­ground vocals

Released          March 26, 1973 (NK) April 6, 1973 (UK) August 1973 (US Quadraphonic)
Recorded         December 1972 – January 1973
Length               36:57
Label                 Epic
Producer           Don Nix, Beck, Bogert & Appice