BECK, BOGERT & APPICE
Beck, Bogert & Appice is the eponymous debut album by the 1970s band Beck, Bogert & Appice. They were a supergroup and power trio, with the line up of guitarist Jeff Beck (who had already been a member of The Yardbirds and The Jeff Beck Group), bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice (both formerly members of Vanilla Fudge and Cactus). The album had solid sales in 1973. One of the most notable tracks is Beck’s version of the famous song of Stevie Wonder’s and his creation: “Superstition”. This was the band’s only studio album, as Beck left the band without warning during the recording of their second album, forcing a sudden dissolution in 1974. (More from Wikipedia)
The sole album by Beck, Bogert & Appice, 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.
(April 2014)
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I decided this year that it was way past time that I made a big-time purchase at Maynard’s Music, “the” record store on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; and I made off with a half shelf of great finds. I have made 11 (!) orders from my buddies at Bomp! mailorder in Burbank, California in 2019, though I already told them that they could put off delivering the last 2 until after the first of the year.
While at my 50th High School Reunion, I kept a promise to look over my good friend Cynthia Jennings’s record collection. I took the records with me to my brother Tom’s house in Winston-Salem where I was staying, and I started going through them the day after – two big boxes full. I figured, maybe I would take home 20 or 30 albums like usual when I do a little record-shopping on a trip; but I kept finding albums that I did not have yet. She had a bunch of Chicago albums, but not the first two that I already had. Same with Joni Mitchell – no overlaps that I could remember. It kept going on and on like that. When I finally got to the end, I had found precisely one album that I wanted but already had – Beck, Bogert & Appice. Coincidentally, that happened to be the album that was on top of the haul from Maynard’s Music on my record racks back home. Naturally I took that one also. The albums are still at my brother’s house, though hopefully, I have arranged a caravan that will eventually bring them down here by the end of next year.
(Year 10 Review)
