Track Listing

1. All Shook Up
2. Spanish Boots
3. Girl From Mill Valley
4. Jailhouse Rock
5. Plynth (Water Down The Drain)
6. The Hangman's Knee
7. Rice Pudding
8. Sweet Little Angel
9. Throw Down a Line
10. All Shook Up (Early Version)
11. Jailhouse Rock (Early Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13045 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered

CD Description
1969's BECK-OLA would prove to be the last Jeff Beck album featuring the vocal talents of Rod Stewart and future Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood (although Wood plays bass here).An all-time '60s heavy rock classic, BECK-OLA proves that this Beck lineup could have ruled the hard-rock roost had it remained together just a bit longer (the group split up right before a scheduled appearance at the Woodstock festival). Still, you can't go wrong with a pair of turbo-charged, radically reworked Elvis Presley covers ("All Shook Up" and "Jailhouse Rock") or the Led Zeppelin-worthy stomp of "Spanish Boots".

Customer Reviews

Rod-tastic
Despite the fact that, according to the liner notes, this album was thrown together in a hurry as a follow-up to 'Truth', it's still a very good slice of British hard rock. If you only know Beck for 'Hi Ho Silver Lining' then you''ll be pleasantly surprised by this heavy offering: opener 'All Shook Up' is great slice of bawdy R'n'B showcasing the talents of pre-Faces Rod Stewart, and the other Elvis cover, 'Jailhouse Rock' is a good, heavy re-interpretation. Throw in some quality originals ('Spanish Boots', 'Hangman's Knee') and the playing of Beck, and you have a worthwhile album - which could have been truly 5-star had it featured a few more originals and less covers and instrumentals.

Jeff Beck IS the man
It's really proof that not all great bands come to be, I really wish Jeff Beck had done more albums together as this is fantastic. Jeff strikes the perfect balance between mojo and virtuosity. The songs, while not all original are performed well, and this is a great rocking album because of this, producing results ranging from the subtle foot tapping to the involuntary air guitar and super-puckered guitarist lips. You know the kind I mean!

If you dig good guitar and good rock & roll this'll be right up your street.

Excellent Power Rock!
This album along with truth clearly show where in inspiration for Led Zeppelin came from. The dis integration of the band is also an object lesson on what a short sighted (figuratively rather than literally) twit Micky Most was during the 1960's He frittered away amazing talent on his own short term goals. Iknow there is lots of evidence that excellent pop songs can arise out of factory farming methods used by many of the siccessful American label (e.g. Mowtown) but Jeff was always going to be much more album orientated. This could have been a huge band but for the meddling of Most. Thank god for Peter Grant who recognised the real potential of the direction the Jeff Beck Band was going when he was helping Jimmy Page build a new band from the ashes of the Yardbirds. The most annoying thing about what Micky Most did to undermine the rest of the musicians in Jeff Becks band was that it left Rod Stewart with a degree of paranoia about his position in the Faces so that he developed twin track group and solo careers. Had the Jeff Beck Group been allowed to develop as a true group who knows what a different slice of musical history we would be looking at now, (much more significant I think). Although there is much to admire about Jeff's work to date, and I do really love many of his albums, he has been plagued by unstable groups and bad luck and the world could have done without Rod Stewart in leopard skin print spandex and "Hot Legs" being a true lead singer in a powerful Jeff Beck Group might have spared us a lot of that