Jeff Beck - Ruis Rockfestival Beat Club & BBC 1971 & 1972 , Mid Valley (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)
Jeff Beck
August 22, 1971 
Ruis-Rockfestival 
Runsala-Parken, Turku (Mid Valley) 

Jeff Beck - guitar 
Bob Tench - vocals 
Cozy Powell - drums 
Clive Chaman - bass 
Max Middleton - keyboards 

01. New Ways> Train Train 
02. I Got To Have A Song 
03. I've Been Used 
04. Situation 
05. Jody 
06. Ice Cream Cakes 

Rip from my Ruis Rockfestival Beat Club & BBC 1971 & 1972 , Mid Valley silvers 

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Jeff Beck 
March 25, 1972 
Beat Club 
Radio Bremen's TV Studio 
Bremen 

01. Got The Feeling 
02. Situation 
03. Morning Dew 
04. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You 
05. Going Down 
06. Definitely Maybe 

Rip from my Mid Valley silvers, High resolution scans of artwork included 

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Jeff Beck 
June 29, 1972 
BBC In Concert 
Paris Cinema 
London 

Rip from my silvers, High Res scans of art included 

01. Introduction 
02. Ice Cream Cakes 
03. Morning Dew 
04. Going Down 
05. Definitely Maybe 
06. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You 
07. New Ways / Train Train 
08. Ain’t No Sunshine 
09. Got The Feeling, 
10. Let Me Love You 

Ruis Rockfestival Beat Club & BBC 1971 & 1972 is a Mid Valley budget release featuring the three best sounding documents of the second incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group. This project featured Clive Chaman (bass), Max Middleton (keyboards), Cozy Powell (drums) and Bob Tench on vocals and stood in contrast to the first group. The fun and loose feeling provided by Rod Stewart and Ron Wood was replaced by a tight, professional and diverse group with very interesting material. 

This group lasted just about a year and a half and produced only two albums, Rough And Ready and Jeff Beck Group before being disbanded. 

Mid Valley present three excellent sounding professionally recorded documents dating from just before the release of Rough And Ready to the BBC appearance a few weeks before the end. All of these tapes have been released before including Going Down To The BBC (Refine Masters) released last year. While the Refine Masters is a great release, Mid Valley is more complete. 

It is presented in a fatboy jewel case with EV’s super cheap, stupid and totally unhelpful garbage packaging. The front and back are generic TMoQ artwork with only an insert to describe the contents. I guess they want to bring back the days of vinyl when the LPs were stored in plain white sleeves with only an insert in the plastic, but even at the low price this is offered merits more effort. 

The new Jeff Beck Group finished recording Rough And Readyin July, 1971. One of their first live appearances was on August 22nd in the Ruis Rockfestival in Turku, Finland. Five songs from an excellent soundboard recording have been available and were pressed many years ago on Flying High Helsinki 1971 (EVSD 51), one of Empress Valley’s finest efforts. Three songs, “I Got To Have A Song,” I’ve Been Used” and “Situation” are found as filler on Going Down To The BBC (Refine Masters). 

WGPSEC describes the intensity of the set, and it starts off with the first song “New Ways / Train Train” which races by. What is apparent in this recording is the key role played by pianist Max Middleton. Throughout the short recording Beck and Middleton playing off one another, like in the “Jody” where they play a call and response game before the short drum solo and the segue into “Ice Cream Cakes.”