Music Magzine [Fall Super Sale] Jeff Beck Anthology [Book]

Jeff Beck passed away suddenly.
Focusing on his four special features in Record Collectors, this issue looks back on his career, reprinting his rivalry project with Eric Clapton, features on the Yardbirds and Beck, Bogart & Appice, and related articles.

Main articles included: Special feature: Jeff Beck [May 1989 issue]
◆Feature: Jeff Beck [February 2005 issue]
◆Feature: Beck, Bogart & Appice "Live in Japan" [November 2013 issue]
◆Feature: Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" [May 2014 issue]
◆Feature: Jeff Beck "Wired" [December 2016 issue]
◆Feature: Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck's Best 50 Songs [March 2009 Issue]
◆Feature: The Yardbirds [June 1987 issue]
◆Feature: The Yardbirds [August 1992 issue]
◆Tracing the Yardbirds' achievements through all their official recordings [March-April 2009 issue]


■ Color frontispiece □ Jeff Beck's 7-inch record [May 1989 issue]
□ Jeff Beck Rare Items [February 2005 issue]
□ Graphic Station - Original version of "Blow by Blow" and more [May 2014 issue]
□ Graphic Station - Original edition of "Wired" and others [December 2016 issue] (Mabo Yasuichiro/Paper Jacket Explorers)
□ Records related to The Yardbirds [August 1992 issue]

■ Beyond the realm of imagination: Remembering the life of a solitary artist who continued to express his unrestrained imagination through the guitar (Otaka Shunichi)

■ Jeff Beck [May 1989 issue]
□ The Journey of Jeff Beck, a Rock Guitar Icon (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ Album Guide (Otaka Shunichi, Torii Kaku, Nakamura Yoichi, Hagiwara Kenta, Yuasa Manabu, Yonemochi Takaaki)
□ Edited Albums (Akihiko Sato)
□ Jeff Beck video (Otaka Shunichi)
□ All records with guest appearances (Akihiko Sato)
□ Songs not included in the original album (Akihiko Sato)

■ Jeff Beck [February 2005 issue]
□ The foolish integrity of his dedication to guitar playing (Yoshio Tachikawa)
□ The secret of radical yet not just acrobatic playing (Shigeo Naka)
The first Jeff Beck Group (Mitsuji Wakui) combined the hard rock of garage rock with free-spirited guitar playing.
How 1966 became the first year of hard rock (Yamazaki Tomoyuki)
□ 20 Albums from the Early Days of Hard Rock (Yamazaki Tomoyuki)
□ The process of creating a unique crossover sound where elements of different genres spark off (Kanazawa Toshikazu)
□ An album to understand the background of the instrumental period: Approaching rock from the jazz side (Kanazawa Toshikazu)
□ The Second Jeff Beck Group: Related Albums by Musicians Who Supported the Instrumental Period (by Kanazawa Toshikazu)
□ Similar approaches by other rock musicians (Kanazawa Toshikazu)
□ Jeff Beck Discography □ Original Album (Dai Onojima)
□ Albums from the Yardbirds era (Onojima Dai)
□ Original album (Onojima Dai)
□ Edited Album (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ Singles/Rare Tracks (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ Video work (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ Video work (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ 50 selected songs from the session (Akihiko Sato)

■ Beck, Bogert & Appice "Live in Japan" [November 2013 issue]
□ Char Interview: Japan's leading guitarist talks about the true faces of the band members as seen from a "close distance" (Masayoshi Kondo)
□ BBA History (Yamazaki Tomoyuki)
□ The truth behind the "hard rock" direction of the trio formation (Naka Shigeo)
□ Complete guide to "Beck, Bogart & Appice" (Akihiko Sato)
□ "Live in Japan? 40th Anniversary Edition" Complete Track Guide (Akihiko Sato)
□ Remastered under the supervision of a recording engineer, bringing back a texture similar to that of an analog record (Akihiko Takeda)

■ The SA-CD multi-hybrid version of "Orange" and BBA, which allows you to fully appreciate the auditory difference even with normal stereo playback [September 2016 issue] (Masayoshi Kondo)
■ "Rough and Ready" [February 2017 issue], the final release in the SA-CD multi-hybrid series (Masayoshi Kondo)

■ Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow" [May 2014 issue]
□ A new era opened up by challenging the limits of the "singing" guitar (Shimpei Hosokawa)
□ Interview with Hiroyuki Otsuki - What's interesting is that even though the music is so well-crafted, the guitar sounds natural. (Masayoshi Kondo)
□ Interview with Richard Bailey - The man who absorbed a flurry of techniques with a supple groove (Hideji Tomioka)
□ A guitarist's bible whose colorful sound usage remains timeless to this day (Shigeo Naka)
□ "Jazz + Beatles" Methodology Inspired by John McLaughlin (Takumi Matsui)
□ "Blow by Blow" Complete Song Guide (Yoichi Aoyama)
□ SA-CD Multi Hybrid Edition Commentary (Akihiko Takeda)
□ Commentary on backing members: An overview of the careers of Max Middleton, Richard Bailey and Phil Chen (by Kanazawa Toshikazu)

■ Jeff Beck, Wired [December 2016 issue]
□ Talk between Hiroyuki Otsuki and Masayoshi Kondo? It feels like a one-take, but it's crafted with a level of precision different from the previous work. (Composition by Masayoshi Kondo)
□ Complete song guide (Shigeo Naka)
□ SA-CD Multi Hybrid Edition Commentary (Masayoshi Kondo)
□ Commentary on backing members: An overview of the careers of Jan Hammer, Wilbur Bascom, Narada Michael Walden, and Ed Green (by Kanazawa Toshikazu)
□ Jan Hammer's interactions with musicians associated with the PM/ECM label (Matsuo Shiro)

■ Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck's Top 50 Songs [March 2009 Issue]
Eric Clapton / Jeff Beck, their best 50 songs (Yoichi Aoyama, Kazumi Akaiwa, Hideyo Ito, Isao Inubuse, Kazuhiro Uda, Shunichi Otaka, Hitoshi Koide, Yukihiro Goto, Akihiko Sato, Yoshio Tatekawa, Masanori Terada, Kaku Torii, Shigeo Naka, Kenta Hagiwara, Masahito Funabiki, Yoshihiro Hoshina, Mutsumi Mae, Takumi Matsui, Haruo Miyake, Tomoyuki Yamazaki)
□ Talk between Yoichi Aoyama and Shigeo Naka? If Beck could sing, he wouldn't play the guitar like that, and if Clapton couldn't sing...
□ Selector's Questionnaire: What Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck Mean to Me □ DVDs featuring the duo's collaboration and more (Kazumi Akaiwa)

■ The Yardbirds [June 1987 issue]
□ The group that sparked the rock explosion (Otaka Shunichi)
□ Major albums (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ A guide to easily available reissues (Kazumi Akaiwa)
□ Members and related parties (Kazumi Akaiwa)

■ The Yardbirds [August 1992 issue]
□ Simon Napier-Bell Interview: Former Manager Tells the Secrets of the Group (Hideyo Ito)
□ Five Years of Progress Traced Through Recording Records (Hideyo Ito)
□ Original recordings all available on CD (Masanobu Terada)

■ The Yardbirds: Tracing the achievements of the legendary group that marked the beginning of Clapton and Beck's musical career through all official recordings (Part 1 and Part 2) [March-April 2009 issue] (Isao Inubuse)

■ Corrections and additional information