Note: All tourdates are from the The Jeff Beck Group, except if noted otherwise.
690100A January -
February: THE
JEFF BECK GROUP. London, Kingsway Studios;
London, Trident Studios; London, Abbey Road Studios.
Producer: Mickie Most. Sound engineers: Martin Birch, Ken Scott, Alan
Parsons. Recording sessions for the upcoming album Beck-Ola. Incl.
- All Shook Up I (Elvis Presley/Otis Blackwell) -early version, Abbey
Road 8.1.69
- Throw Down A Line (Hank Marvin) -Trident, 7.2.69
Line-up: RW (bass)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Nicky Hopkins (p)/
Tony Newman (dr)
Note: Both tracks were released as bonus tracks in May 2004 (see
RS040510B).
690114A 14th
January: London, The Marquee
(You Shook Me-Let Me Love You/Plynth [Water Down The Drain]/
It’s My Own Fault/Jeff’s Boogie/Rock My Plimsoul/Shapes Of Things/
I Ain’t Superstitious/Jailhouse Rock)
690205A 5th
February: Tolworth, The Tallyho Pub or Toby Jug
Note: Last gig with Micky Waller on drums.
690200A February
(?):
London, Bermondsey Street, Rolling Stones-rehearsal space
RW (bass) jams with Leigh Stephens (gtr) and Micky Waller (dr)
7th - 23rd March:
THE JEFF BECK GROUP. 3rd US tour.
Line-up: RW (bass, bvoc)/Jeff Beck (gtr, bvoc)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Nicky
Hopkins
(p)/Tony Newman (dr)
Note: RW did not play the first gig of the tour (in Alexandria,
Virginia on March 1)
690307A 7th March:
Stony Brook, New York, State University
690307B 7th March: West Hempstead, New York, Island Garden
Arena
690308A 8th March: Cleveland, Ohio, The Grand
690309A 9th March: Toronto, Canada, Electric Theater
690314A 14th March: Chicago, Illinois, Kinetic Playground,
Psychedelic Ballroom
690315A 15th March: Chicago, Illinois, Kinetic Playground,
Psychedelic Ballroom
690316A 16th March: Baltimore, Maryland, Civic Center
690321A 21st March: Detroit, Michigan, Grande Ballroom
690322A 22nd March: Detroit, Michigan, Grande Ballroom
690323A 23rd March: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Labor Temple
690400A April:
Henley-on-Thames, England, Old Forge (RW’s cottage)
RW (gtr) jams with Ronnie Lane (bass), Ian McLagan (keyb) and Kenney
Jones (dr)
690403A 3rd - 19th
April: THE JEFF BECK GROUP. London, De Lane Lea Studios.
Producer: Mickie Most. Sound engineer: Martin Birch. Recording sessions
for the upcoming album Beck-Ola. Incl.
- Jailhouse Rock I (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) -early version
+ contents of Beck-Ola-album
Line-up: RW (bass)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/Nicky Hopkins (p)/
Tony Newman (dr)
Note: The early version of 'Jailhouse Rock' was released as bonus track
in May
2004 (see RS040510B).
Parts of the sessions were filmed by Lasse Hallstrom (see 690428A) and
edited for a 'Plynth (Water Down The Drain)'-promofilm.
690421A 21st - 25th
April: THE JEFF BECK GROUP. London, Kingsway Studios.
Producer: Mickie Most. Sound engineer: Martin Birch. Overdubbing and
mixing
for Beck-Ola.
690425A 25th April:
London, The Lyceum
690428A 28th April:
Swedish TV (TV1) ‘Kram’, Mickie Most-portrait by Lasse Hallstrom,
incl. footage of the Jeff Beck Group working at De Lane Lea Studios,
incl.
- Plynth (Water Down The Drain) (RW/Nicky Hopkins/Rod Stewart) -part
only
2nd May - 9th May: THE
JEFF BECK GROUP. 4th US tour.
Line-up: RW (bass, bvoc)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Jeff Beck (gtr, bvoc)/Nicky
Hopkins
(p)/Tony Newman (dr)
Note: Making up for some cancelled shows in early April.
690502A 2nd May: New York City, Fillmore East
690503A 3rd May: New
York City, Fillmore East
(Plynth [Water Down The Drain]/I Ain’t Superstitious/Shapes Of Things/
Jeff’s Boogie/Rock My Plimsoul/Jailhouse Rock/Wee Wee Baby)
Note: With special
guest Joe Cocker sharing lead vocals on ‘Wee Wee Baby’.
690506A 6th May:
Boston,
Massachusetts, Tea Party
(Plynth [Water Down The Drain]/All Shook Up/Let Me Love You/Rice
Pudding/
unidentified or improvised blues/Rock My Plimsoul/Spanish
Boots/Jailhouse
Rock/Shapes Of Things/Jeff's Boogie)
690507A 7th May: Boston, Massachusetts, Tea Party
(All Shook Up/You Shook Me/Plynth/Rice Pudding/Rock My Plimsoul/
Spanish Boots/Let Me Love You/I Ain't Superstitious/Shapes Of Things)
690508A 8th May: Boston, Massachusetts, Tea Party
(Plynth [Water Down The Drain]/I Can't Hold Out/Jeff’s Boogie/Blues De
Luxe/Shapes Of Things/Rock My Plimsoul/Rice Pudding/Jailhouse Rock/
I Ain’t Superstitious/Wee Wee Baby)
690509A 9th May: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, Woolsey
Hall (1st show)
690509B 9th May: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, Woolsey
Hall (2nd show)
690516A 16th and
17th May:
DONOVAN. London, Olympic Sound Studios.
Producer: Mickie Most. Incl.
- From Here On, Your Guess Is As Good As Mine (Donovan Leitch)
-unverified
- Goo Goo Barabajagal (Donovan Leitch)
- Homesickness (Donovan Leitch)
- Stromberg Twins (Donovan Leitch)
- Suffer Little Children (Donovan Leitch) -unverified
- Trudi (Bed With Me) (Donovan Leitch)
Line-up: RW (bass)/Donovan Leitch (gtr, voc)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/Nicky
Hopkins (p)/
Micky Waller (dr)/Madeline Bell and Lesley Duncan (bvoc)
Note: Stromberg Twins was not released before 2005 (see RS050509B).
690500B May or June:
THE
QUIET MELON. Oxford, England, 'May Ball'
Line-up: see below.
690500C May or June:
THE
QUIET MELON. Surrey, England, 'University Ball'
Line-up: RW (gtr)/John Baldry (voc & maybe harm and/or gtr)/Rod
Stewart (voc)/
Ian McLagan (keyb)/Kenney Jones (dr)/Jimmy Horowitz (keyb)/
Kim Gardner (bass)
690602A 2nd June: THE JEFF BECK GROUP.
7“ single (Epic 5-10484, -US). Producer: Mickie Most.
A: Plynth (Water Down The Drain) (RW/Nicky Hopkins/Rod Stewart)
B: Jailhouse Rock (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
Note: Around the same time a European version of this single was
released
(Columbia 1C 006-90 346) with 'The Hangman’s Knee' as B-side.
690600A June: ROD STEWART. London, Olympic Sound
Studios & Lansdowne Studios.
Producer: Lou Reizner (and uncredited Rod Stewart).
Recording of his first solo album together with RW (see 691100A).
690600B June: ART WOOD’S QUIET MELON. Cambridge,
England, unidentified
studio. Producer: unknown, maybe Art Wood. Incl.
- Engine 4444 I (Art Wood) -CD-single version (see RS951100A)
- Engine 4444 II (Art Wood) -shorter Sugarlumps-version (see RS050418A)
- Engine 4444 III (Art Wood) -Pop Masters-stereo version (see RS051122A)
- Diamond Joe I (Art Wood) -instrumental (see RS951100A)
- Diamond Joe II (Art Wood) -CD-single version (see RS951100A)
- Diamond Joe III (Art Wood) -shorter, edited Sugarlumps 2-version (see
RS070319A)
- Diamond Joe IV (Art Wood) -Pop Masters-stereo version with overdubbed
horns
(see RS051122A)
- Right Around The Thumb ( ) -unverified
- Two Steps To Mother ( ) -unverified
Line-up: RW (gtr)/Art Wood (voc)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Ian McLagan (keyb)/
Kim Gardner (bass)/Kenney Jones (dr)
Note: The Pop Masters- and Sugarlumps-versions were remixed and edited
later,
most probably without the consent of the original musicians.
690600C June: THE QUIET
MELON.
Cambridge, England, 'University Ball' (1st show).
690600D June: THE QUIET MELON. Cambridge, England,
'University Ball' (2nd show).
Note: Both shows had the same setlist, incl (all unverified):
- Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon)
- I Got My Mojo Working (Preston Foster)
- What’d I Say (Ray Charles)
Line-up: RW (gtr)/Art Wood (voc)/Kim Gardner (bass)/Ian McLagan (keyb)/
Kenney Jones (dr)
690626A 26th June: DONOVAN.
UK TV (BBC1) ‘Top Of The Pops’, London, BBC
Television Centre.
- Goo Goo Barabajagal (Donovan Leitch)
Line-up: RW (bass)/Donovan (voc, gtr)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/Tony Newman (dr)/
Rod Stewart (bvoc)
Note: Telecast on the 24th July.
690627A 27th June: DONOVAN.
7“ single (Pye 7N 17778). Producer: Mickie Most.
A: Goo Goo Barabajagal (Donovan Leitch)
B: Trudi (Donovan Leitch)
Line-up: see 690516A.
690630A 30th June: THE JEFF BECK GROUP.
LP ‘Beck-Ola’ (Epic BN 26478, -US). Producer: Mickie Most. Sound
engineer:
Martin Birch.
A: - All Shook Up (Elvis Presley/Otis Blackwell)
- Spanish Boots (RW/Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart)
- Girl From Mill Valley (Nicky Hopkins)
- Jailhouse Rock (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
B: - Plynth (Water Down The Drain) (RW/Nicky Hopkins/Rod Stewart)
- The Hangman’s Knee (RW/Nicky Hopkins/Rod Stewart)
- Rice Pudding (RW/Jeff Beck/Nicky Hopkins/Rod Stewart)
Note: Not released in the UK before the 5th September (Columbia SCX
6351).
2nd - 26th July: THE
JEFF BECK GROUP. 5th US tour.
Line-up: RW (bass, bvoc)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Jeff Beck (gtr, bvoc)/Tony
Newman (dr)
690702A 2nd July:
Schenectady, New York, Aerodome
690703A 3rd July: New York City, Fillmore East
690704A 4th July:
Newport, Rhode Island, Festival Field, ‘16th Annual Newport Jazz
Festival’
(I Ain’t Superstitious/You Shook Me/Plynth [Water Down The Drain]/Rice
Pudding/The Sun Is Shining/Rock My Plimsoul/Shapes Of Things/Jeff’s
Boogie)
690711A 11th July:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,The Spectrum, ‘1st
Summer Music Festival’
690712A 12th July:
Laurel, Maryland, Race Course, ‘Pop At Laurel Festival’, incl.
(Rock My Plimsoul/The Hangman's Knee/Blues De Luxe/Jeff's Boogie)
690713A 13th July:
New
York City, Flushing Meadow Park, Singer Bowl, ‘The Singer Bowl
Bowl Music Festival’.
Note: With special guests Jimmy Page (gtr), Robert Plant (voc), Glenn
Cornick (bass), John Bonham (perc), Ric Lee (dr) and Carmine Appice
(dr) during 'Jailhouse Rock'. John Bonham jammed also on 'Rice
Pudding'.
690714A 14th July: New
York City, Central Park, Wolman Memorial Rink,
‘Schaefer Music Festival Series’ (1st show)
690714B 14th July: New York City, Central Park, Wolman Memorial Rink,
‘Schaefer Music Festival Series’ (2nd show)
Note: One of the two shows included the following set:
(All
Shook Up/The Hangman’s Knee/Rock My Plimsoul/The Sun Is Shining/
Rice Pudding/Shapes Of
Things)
690700B July: RON WOOD & ROD STEWART. North
Woodmere, New York, Harris
Sound Studios. Producer and sound engineer: B. Harris. Jam-session.
Incl.
- instrumental ( ) 0.46
- Sweet Georgia Brown (Maceo Pinkard/Ben Bernie/Kenneth Casey) 1.52
- blues improvisation #1 (RW/Rod Stewart) 3.05
- blues improvisation #2 "Carnation Supply" (RW/Rod Stewart) 4.33
-
Down By The Riverside (Trad.) 1.47
- The
Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde #1 (Mitch Murray/Peter Callandar) 2.01
- The Ballad Of
Bonnie & Clyde #2 (Mitch Murray/Peter Callandar) 1.13
- improvisation
(RW/Rod Stewart) 0.35
- blues improvisation #3
(RW/Rod Stewart) 0.41
- blues improvisation #4 (RW/Rod
Stewart) 2.12
- blues improvisation #5 "Spotty Blues"
(RW/Rod Stewart) 2.19
- blues improvisation #6 (RW/Rod Stewart) 3.29
- instrumental ( ) 1.12
- blues improvisation #7 (RW/Rod Stewart) 4.14
Line-up: RW (gtr, voc; some perc)/Rod Stewart (voc,
gtr;
some perc)/& some
others (occasional bvoc)
Note: Times are only approximative.
690718A 18th July:
Dania, Florida, Pirate’s World Amusement Park, Pirate’s Cove
690719A 19th July: Dania, Florida, Pirate’s World Amusement Park,
Pirate’s Cove
690721A 21st July: Ellenville, New York, Tamarack Lodge,
‘Mountain Rock Festival’
690722A 22nd July: Lowell, Massachusetts, Commodore Ballroom
690726A 26th July:
Detroit, Michigan, Grande Ballroom
(All Shook Up/You Shook Me-Let Me Love You/The Hangman’s Knee/
unidentified or improvised blues/Rice Pudding/Morning Dew/Jeff’s Boogie/
Rock My Plimsoul/Shapes Of Things)
Note: Last concert of the Jeff Beck Group with RW & Rod Stewart.
690800A August: MARSHA
HUNT. London, IBC Studios. Producer: Kit Lambert.
- Desdemona I (Marc Bolan) -maybe with RW on bass; unverified
acetate-version
without backing vocals
-
Desdemona II (Marc Bolan) -maybe with RW on bass; album-version
- Lonesome Holy Roller (Marsha Hunt) -maybe with RW on bass
-
Keep The Customer Satisfied (Paul Simon) -maybe with RW on bass
- Wild Thing I
(Chip Taylor)
- Wild Thing II (Chip
Taylor) -duet with RW; unverified
Line-up: RW (bass)/Marsha Hunt (voc)/Pete Townshend (gtr)/Ian McLagan
(org)/
Kenney Jones (dr)
690811A 11th August: DONOVAN.
LP ‘Barabajagal’ (Epic BN 26481). Producer: Mickie Most. Incl.
- Goo Goo Barabajagal (Donovan Leitch)
- Trudi (Donovan Leitch)
Line-up: RW (bass)/Donovan Leitch (gtr, voc)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/Nicky
Hopkins
(p)/Micky Waller (dr)/Madeline Bell and Lesley Duncan (bvoc)
690800B Summer:
FACES. London, Bermondsey Street. The embryonic Faces
(without Rod Stewart) rehearse at the Rolling Stones’ rehearsal
space. Incl.
- Stone 1 (Ronnie Lane)
- Pineapple And The Monkey 1 (RW)
- Pineapple And The Monkey 2 (RW)
- first unknown/Looking Out The Window 1 ( )(Kenney Jones/Ian McLagan)
- second unknown 1 ( )
- second unknown 2 ( )
- second unknown 3 ( )
- third unknown 1 ( )
-
third unknown 2 ( )
-
Pineapple And The Monkey 3 (RW)
- Pineapple And
The Monkey 4 (RW)
- second unknown 4 ( )
-very long
- Stone 2 (Ronnie Lane)
- Pineapple And The Monkey 5 (RW)
- blues jam ( )
- Pineapple And The Monkey 6 (RW)
- Pineapple And The Monkey 7 (RW)
- Pineapple And The Monkey 8/Looking Out The Window
(RW)(Kenney Jones/
Ian McLagan)
- Devotion 1 (Ronnie Lane)
- Devotion 2 (Ronnie Lane)
- first unknown/Looking Out The Window 2 ( )(Kenney Jones/Ian McLagan)
+ Evil (Willie Dixon) -with Rod Stewart on vocals
+ Shake, Shudder, Shiver (RW/Ronnie Lane) -with Rod Stewart on
vocals
+ I Feel So Good (William Broonzy) -with Rod Stewart on vocals
Line-up: RW (gtr)/Ronnie Lane (voc, bass)/Ian McLagan (keyb)/Kenney
Jones (dr)
Note: The last three tracks were officially released in May 2004 (see
RS040628A).
Some or all of the other tracks might come from rehearsals at RW's home
in
Henley either.
691000A October: FACES.
London, Olympic Sound Studios. Producer and/or sound
engineer: Glyn Johns. Recording of six demos.
691000B October
and/or November: FACES. London,
Hanwell Community Centre.
Rehearsals.
691100A November: ROD
STEWART.
LP ‘The Rod Stewart Album' (Mercury SR 61237, -US). Producer: Lou
Reizner.
Arranged by Rod Stewart (except ‘Handbags And Gladrags’ which was
arranged by
Mike
D’Abo). Recorded in London at Olympic Sound Studios and Lansdowne
Studios during
one and a half weeks in June 1969.
A: - Street Fighting Man
(MJ/KR)
- Man Of
Constant Sorrow (Trad. arr.: Rod Stewart) -Rod Stewart on guitar
- Blind
Prayer (Rod Stewart)
- Handbags And
Gladrags (Mike D’Abo) -Mike D’Abo on piano
B: - An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down (Rod Stewart)
- I Wouldn’t Ever Change A Thing (Rod
Stewart) -Keith Emerson on organ,
Lou Reizner on vocals
- Cindy’s Lament (Rod Stewart)
- Dirty Old Town (Ewan McColl) -Rod Stewart on harmonica
Line-up: RW (gtr, bass)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Martin Quittenton (gtr)/
Ian McLagan (org, p)/Martin Pugh (gtr)/Micky Waller (dr)
Note: Released
in England as 'An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down’
(Vertigo VO 4) in February 1970.
691200A December: FACES.
Molesworth, England, US Air Force Base
691200B December -
January 1970: FACES. London,
De Lane Lea Recording Studios.
Producers: Faces. Sound engineer: Martin Birch. Recordings for their
first album
The First Step. Incl.
- Around The Plynth I (RW/Rod Stewart) -The First Step-version
- Around The Plynth II (RW/Rod Stewart) -single-edit
- Devotion (Ronnie Lane)
- Flying I (RW/Rod Stewart/Ronnie Lane) -alternate version, take 3
- Flying II (RW/Rod Stewart/Ronnie Lane) -The First Step-version
- Looking Out The Window (Kenney Jones/Ian McLagan)
- Nobody Knows I (RW/Ronnie Lane) -alternate version, take 2
- Nobody Knows II (RW/Ronnie Lane) -The First Step-version
- Pineapple And The Monkey (RW)
- Shake, Shudder, Shiver (RW/Ronnie Lane)
- Stone (Ronnie Lane)
- Three Button Hand Me Down (Rod Stewart/Ian McLagan)
- Wicked Messenger (Bob Dylan)
Line-up: RW (gtr, harm, bass, bvoc)/Rod Stewart (voc, banjo)/Ronnie
Lane
(bass, voc, gtr)/Ian McLagan (p, org, voc)/Kenney Jones (dr)
691231A 31st
December: FACES. London, Lyceum Ballroom
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