Hammerhead (Jeff Beck song)

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"Hammerhead"
Instrumental by Jeff Beck
from the album Emotion & Commotion
Released13 April 2010 (2010-04-13)
GenreHard rock, instrumental rock
Length4:15
LabelAtco
Composer(s)Jeff Beck, Jason Rebello
Producer(s)Steve Lipson
Emotion & Commotion track listing
10 tracks
  1. "Corpus Christi Carol"
  2. "Hammerhead"
  3. "Never Alone"
  4. "Over the Rainbow"
  5. "I Put a Spell on You"
  6. "Serene"
  7. "Lilac Wine"
  8. "Nessun Dorma"
  9. "There's No Other Me"
  10. "Elegy for Dunkirk"

"Hammerhead" is the second track from

2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
.

Overview

whammy bar effects on his guitar and Wilkenfeld’s bass is distorted.[5]

Grammy Award

It just proves if you keep going you just might get there

Jeff Beck on his 2011 Grammy wins.[6]

In February 2011 "Hammerhead" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance,

Imagine" from Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project.[7]

Personnel

Beyond original version

Two live versions of the song have also been commercially released. It is the second track on Beck's Live and Exclusive from the Grammy Museum. On this version drummer Narada Michael Walden and bassist Rhonda Smith join Beck and Rebello.[10] The other live version was recorded live by Beck at the June 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival and is available on the CD and DVD Crossroads Eric Clapton Guitar Festival 2010.[11] He also played the tune with The Who's touring band at the Killing Cancer benefit concert at the Hammersmith Apollo on 13 January 2011.[12]

References

  1. ^ Wood, Mikael (13 April 2010). "Jeff Beck's Emotion & Commotion". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  2. Consequence of Sound. Archived
    from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  3. ^ Emery, Patrick (30 March 2010). "Blow by blow, guitar god as brilliant as ever". The Australian. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  4. Allmusic. Archived
    from the original on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  5. ^ Gundersen, Edna (12 April 2010). "Emotion & Commotion: Jeff Beck stirs up a lot of both". USA Today. Archived from the original on 27 January 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  6. ^ Chilton, Martin (14 February 2011). "Jeff Beck prepares for reunion with Rod Stewart". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  7. ^ a b Danton, Eric R. (13 February 2011). "53rd Grammys Award Winners". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  8. MLive.com. Archived
    from the original on 26 January 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  9. Grammy Award. Archived
    from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  10. ^ Landers, Rick. "Jeff Beck Live From The Grammy Museum". Guitar International. Archived from the original on 6 March 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  11. ^ "Up & Down Beats: Clapton's ultimate guitar jam". New Straits Times. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  12. ^ "The Who, Jeff Beck, Richard Ashcroft unite at London charity gig". NME. 14 January 2011. Archived from the original on 17 January 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
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