Beck, Bogert & Appice were a hard rock supergroup and power trio formed by guitarist Jeff Beck and evolving from The Jeff Beck Group. The line up included bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice who were both previously in Vanilla Fudge and Cactus. (More from Wikipedia)
After Cactus (initially) broke up in 1972, Jeff Beck joined with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice in a short-lived power trio called Beck, Bogert & Appice. While Rod Stewart was long gone, they represented ¾ of the originally planned line-up for Cactus. A lot had happened in rock music in the two years since Jeff Beck had his motorcycle accident – Crosby, Stills and Nash for one – so the surnames sufficed to name the band. Also, Beck had recorded two albums with the Jeff Beck Group in the interim.
Their sole album Beck, Bogert & Appice came out in March 1973 and is one of the first rock albums that I can remember being advertised on television; I can still hear the announcer solemnly intoning: “Beck . . . Bogert . . . Appice!” The album hit #12 on the Billboard album charts and has been reissued several times. A live album by the band was issued only in Japan. The predictably unpredictable Jeff Beck abruptly abandoned work early in the preparation of the second album by Beck, Bogert & Appice, and that was that.
(April 2014)
