For the first time in five years, Jeff Beck crafted a new track titled "Tribal" that will be featured on his fifth concert compilation LP. Live+ will include Beck's best performances of 2014 and an ending of two new studio recordings.
Last year, the 70-year-old embarked on a summer tour and exchanged riffs with ZZ Top--complete with classics like "Going Down" and playing covers of fan favorites including Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come," and Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." Beck was one of three notable guitar players to jam with the Yardbirds, the other two being Eric Clatpon and Jimmy Page.
The latest track is backed by Veronica Bellino's Rhonda Smith on the bass and Ruth Lorenzo shouting vocals. "'Tribal' was the first thing I came up with, on day one of the L.A. recording sessions," Beck told Rolling Stone. "It was meant to be for extreme club/dance-type music, and it went through several radical changes that just didn't work. So with Ruth's vocal we stripped it back to just me and Veronica, with Rhonda's bass dubbed later, which brought back the wild roughness that I was originally after."
Beck's fifth concert LP since 2008 will see its release on May 19th via Atco Records--it can be pre-ordered here. When the joint Jeff Beck and ZZ Top summer tour was cut short after bassist Dusty Hill suffered a hip injury, the two acts spent time paying make-up shows. Beck will dedicate his next two weeks to mid-west solo shows.
"I think I've drawn attention. I've worked, worked, worked for the last three years. Now is the time really. My birthday is coming up, if you get me," Beck told Rolling Stone in February 21014. "I thought it was time for a really really good studio album I had control over and time to do properly instead of a budget problem. Even though I do have budget problems!"
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