BENCH STRENGTH
It's been one Old Timers Day after another for Hall of Fame axe-handler Jeff Beck over the past year or so. First he turned up at the A.R.M.S. benefit, jamming with Jimmy Page and singing Hi Ho Silver Lining, and then he strolled into the studios where many of his former colleagues (not, fortunately, Jan Hammer or Donovan) were toiling over their reunion/comeback/reputation-resuscitating (pick one) attempts, the results of which are now in record stores everywhere.
BENCH STRENGTH
BOX OF FROGS (Epic)
ROD STEWART Camouflage (Warner Bros.)
VANILLA FUDGE Mystery (Atco)
Mitchell Cohen
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It's been one Old Timers Day after another for Hall of Fame axe-handler Jeff Beck over the past year or so. First he turned up at the A.R.M.S. benefit, jamming with Jimmy Page and singing Hi Ho Silver Lining, and then he strolled into the studios where many of his former colleagues (not, fortunately, Jan Hammer or Donovan) were toiling over their reunion/comeback/reputationresuscitating (pick one) attempts, the results of which are now in record stores everywhere. Beck does his specialty on each of these LPs: on two, three or four cuts per, he comes up with guys on base and sprays some wicked liners to knock them home, then saunters back to the dugout (in the '80s, this is called 'pulling an Eddie Van Halen,' but the phrasemakers have something to learn about the geneology of the Guitar Hero as DH).