1970s[edit]

In 1970, when Beck had regained his health, he set about forming a band with
drummer Cozy Powell. Beck, Powell and producer Mickie Most flew to the United States
and recorded several tracks at Motown's famed Studio A in Hitsville U.S.A. with the Funk
Brothers, Motown's in-house band, but the results remained unreleased. By April 1971
Beck had completed the line-up of this new group with guitarist/vocalist Bobby Tench,
keyboard player Max Middleton and bassist Clive Chaman. The new band performed as
"the Jeff Beck Group" but had a substantially different sound from the first line-up.[citation needed]
Rough and Ready (October 1971), the first album they recorded, on which Beck wrote or
co-wrote six of the album's seven tracks (the exception being written by Middleton),
included elements of soul, rhythm-and-blues and jazz, foreshadowing the direction Beck's
music would take later in the decade.[citation needed]

Beck playing in 1973

A second album Jeff Beck Group (July 1972) was recorded at TMI studios in Memphis,
Tennessee with the same personnel.[26] Beck employed Steve Cropper as producer[27] and
the album displayed a strong soul influence, five of the nine tracks being covers of songs
by American artists. One, "I Got to Have a Song", was the first of four Stevie
Wonder compositions covered by Beck. Shortly after the release of the Jeff Beck
Group album, the band was dissolved and Beck's management put out the statement that:
"The fusion of the musical styles of the various members has been successful within the
terms of individual musicians, but they didn't feel it had led to the creation of a new musical
style with the strength they had originally sought."[28]
Beck then started collaborating with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, who
became available following the demise of Cactus but continued touring as the Jeff Beck
Group in August 1972, to fulfill contractual obligations with his promoter, with a line-up
including Bogert, Appice, Max Middleton and vocalist Kim Milford. After six appearances
Milford was replaced by Bobby Tench, who was flown in from the UK[29] for the Arie Crown
Theatre Chicago performance and the rest of the tour,[30] which concluded at the Paramount
North West Theatre, Seattle. After the tour Tench and Middleton left the band and
the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice appeared: Appice took on the role of vocalist with
Bogert and Beck contributing occasionally.[31]
They were included on the bill for Rock at The Oval in September 1972, still as "the Jeff
Beck Group," which marked the start of a tour schedule of UK, the Netherlands and
Germany. Another U.S. tour began in October 1972, starting at the Hollywood
Sportatorium Florida and concluding on 11 November 1972 at The Warehouse, New
Orleans.[32] In April 1973 the album Beck, Bogert & Appice was released (on Epic Records).
While critics acknowledged the band's instrumental prowess the album was not
commercially well received except for its cover of Stevie Wonder's hit "Superstition".
On 3 July 1973 Beck joined David Bowie onstage to perform "The Jean Genie"/"Love Me
Do" and "Around and Around." The show was recorded and filmed, but none of the
released editions included Beck. During October 1973 Beck recorded tracks for Michael
Fennelly's[33] album Lane Changer and attended sessions with Hummingbird, a band
derived from the Jeff Beck Group, but did not to contribute to their eponymous first
album.[34]
Early in January 1974 Beck, Bogert & Appice played at the Rainbow Theatre, as part of a
European tour. The concert was broadcast in full on the US show Rock Around the
World in September of the same year. This last recorded work by the band previewed
material intended for a second studio album, included on the bootleg At Last Rainbow. The
tracks "Blues Deluxe" and "BBA Boogie" from this concert were later included on the Jeff
Beck compilation Beckology (1991).[35]
Beck, Bogert & Appice dissolved in April 1974 before their second studio album (produced
by Jimmy Miller) was finished. Their live album Beck, Bogert & Appice Live in Japan,
recorded during their 1973 tour of Japan, was not released until February 1975 by
Epic/Sony.[citation needed]
After a few months Beck entered Underhill Studio and met with the group Upp, whom he
recruited as backing band for his appearance on the BBC TV programme Guitar
Workshop in August 1974. Beck produced and played on their self-titled debut album and
their second album This Way Upp, though his contributions to the second album went
uncredited. In October Beck began to record instrumentals at AIR Studios with Max
Middleton, bassist Phil Chen and drummer Richard Bailey, using George Martin as
producer and arranger.[citation needed]
Jeff Beck's solo album Blow by Blow (March 1975) evolved from these sessions and
showcased Beck's technical prowess in jazz-rock. The album reached number four in the
charts and is Beck's most commercially successful release. Beck, fastidious
about overdubs and often dissatisfied with his solos, often returned to AIR Studios until he
was satisfied. A couple of months after the sessions had finished producer George Martin
received a telephone call from Beck, who wanted to record a solo section again. Bemused,
Martin replied: "I'm sorry, Jeff, but the record is in the shops!"[7]

Beck performing in Amsterdam; 1979

Beck put together a live band for a US tour, preceded by a small and unannounced gig at
The Newlands Tavern in Peckham, London. He toured through April and May 1975, mostly
 supporting the Mahavishnu Orchestra, retaining Max Middleton on keyboards but with a
new rhythm section of bassist Wilbur Bascomb and noted session drummer Bernard
"Pretty" Purdie.
In a May 1975 show in Cleveland, Ohio (Music Hall), he became frustrated with an early
version of a talk box he used on his arrangement of the Beatles' "She's a Woman", and
after breaking a string, tossed his legendary Yardbirds-era Stratocaster guitar off the stage.
He did the same with the talk box and finished the show playing a Les Paul and without the
box. During this tour he performed at Yuya Uchida's "World Rock Festival", playing a total
of eight songs with Purdie. In addition he performed a guitar and drum instrumental with
Johnny Yoshinaga and, at the end of the festival, joined in a live jam with bassist Felix
Pappalardi of Mountain and vocalist Akira "Joe" Yamanaka from the Flower Travellin' Band.
Only his set with Purdie was recorded and released.[citation needed]
He returned to the studio and recorded Wired (1976), which paired ex-Mahavishnu
Orchestra drummer and composer Narada Michael Walden and keyboardist Jan Hammer.
The album used a jazz-rock fusion style, which sounded similar to the work of his two
collaborators. To promote the album, Beck joined forces with the Jan Hammer Group,
playing a show supporting Alvin Lee at The Roundhouse in May 1976, before embarking on
a seven-month-long world tour. This resulted in the live album Jeff Beck with the Jan
Hammer Group Live (1977).[citation needed]
At this point, Beck was a tax exile and took up residency in the US, remaining there until his
return to the UK in the autumn of 1977. In the spring of 1978, he began rehearsing with ex-
Return to Forever bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Gerry Brown towards a projected
app

o 1.1Formação (1985-1986)
o 1.2Appetite for Destruction e G N' R Lies (1987-1989)
o 1.3Use Your Illusions, "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1990–1993)
 1.3.1Use Your Illusion I e II
 1.3.2Use Your Illusion Tour
 1.3.3"The Spaghetti Incident?"
o 1.4Hiato e a polêmica sobre o "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere" (1994 - 1999)
o 1.5O "novo" Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy (1999-2011)
o 1.6Próximo álbum, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame e Tour 2012
o 1.7Bumblefoot, saída de DJ Ashba, reunião da formação clássica (2015-atualmente)
 2Membros
 3Discografia
 4Prêmios e nomeações
 5Ver também
 6Referências
 7Ligações externas

História
Formação (1985-1986)
O grupo foi formado no início de 1985 pelos membros do Hollywood Rose Axl
Rose (vocais) e Izzy Stradlin (guitarra rítmica); e membros do L.A. Guns Tracii
Guns (guitarra solo), Ole Beich (baixo) e Robbie Gardner (bateria). A nova banda criou o
seu nome a partir da combinação de dois dos nomes dos membros do grupo. Depois de
pouco tempo (várias fontes indicam que apenas dois ou três shows foram feitos com os
integrantes Guns, Beich & Gardner), o baixista Ole Beich foi substituído por Duff McKagan,
enquanto a falta de Tracii Guns nos ensaios levou à sua substituição por Slash.
Slash tinha tocado com McKagan no Road Crew e com Stradlin durante um curto período
no Hollywood Rose. A nova formação se reunira rapidamente, mas, pouco antes de
embarcar em uma turnê curta de Sacramento, na Califórnia, para Seattle, em Washington,
o baterista Rob Gardner saiu e foi substituído por um amigo de Slash, Steven Adler (que
também era do Road Crew). A banda, que continuou a ser chamada Guns N' Roses,
mesmo depois da partida de Tracii Guns, estabeleceu a sua primeira formação estável até
o chamado "Hell Tour".
A estreia nos palcos da nova formação aconteceu em 6 de Junho de 1986, no Troubador,
em Hollywood, para cerca de 150 pessoas. Após isso, a banda seguiu para Seattle, onde
teve a sua turnê de estreia, conhecida por Hell Tour. No caminho entre Los
Angeles e Seattle, a van onde viajavam quebrou, não restando alternativa a não ser
abandonar o veículo e pedir carona. Com isso, a banda demorou mais de dois dias para
chegar, atrasando seu primeiro compromisso em Seattle e causando, como consequência,
o cancelamento da turnê inicial do Guns N' Roses pelos Estados Unidos, fazendo com que
os membros da banda tivessem que vender parte do equipamento para voltar para casa.
Em 1986, contornando as dificuldades, gravaram um EP (disco de menor duração) com q