Jeff Beck's 1969 Beck-Ola has some sick breaks and grooves.
Well, Jeff Beck anyway. Justin Hoy, founder of Vermont’s Halogen Records brought DJ G.I. Joe by the shop on Friday. A few of the guys were in, helping clean some records, getting some new stuff out on the shelf. My buddy James pulls out a nice clean copy of Jeff Beck’s groundbreakingly heavy 1969 release “Beck-Ola”, featuring Rod Stewart on vocals. We all start talking about what a great album it is. Meanwhile G.I. Joe and Nate are putting some other records on the listening station.
As G.I. Joe is paying for his records, his ear catches the drum break in Jeff Beck’s version of the King’s Jailhouse Rock. He’s gotta have it. So we pull that off the house turntable and then James says, “can we listen to this”? I can’t remember what it was exactly, but it was some demented early seventies childrens folk duo we’d been dying to check out, simply because the picture on the back had that “this is going to be interesting” look to it. Pop that on the house system and G.I. Joe’s gotta have it too, borrowing more money from Justin.
It was cool to see this DJ with a great gig (he’s the DJ for Immortal Technique), still just so into and excited about honing his craft , find new beats, and a new spot to score some records that the other DJ’s hadn’t gotten to yet.
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