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“That group was like a dragster when it burns out – you get a lot of noise, but it doesn't go anywhere”: Bassist Tim Bogert on why Beck, Bogert & Appice fell short despite its all-star lineup

The second track on the trio’s only studio album showcases Bogert’s freewheeling bass playing – even if he believed the band never lived up to its immense potential

Guitar World · Aug 1

“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

MusicRadar · May 23

“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

MusicRadar · Dec 28, 2025

“I turned up at George Martin’s office with a diabolically bad demo – but he could see there was something there”: How Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow triumphed against the odds to change instrumental guitar forever

50 years on, Blow by Blow remains an inspirational force – a turning point for Beck and guitar-led music in general

Guitar World · Feb 24, 2025

"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

Born out of hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge and contemporaries of Led Zeppelin, Cactus are the unsung innovators of 70s US rock

Louder · Aug 1, 2024

"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus

Louder · Jun 10, 2024

"To appreciate Cactus, your speakers have to be so loud that they create a wind": Why every home should own the debut album by Cactus

Cactus's first album sounds like they went into the studio, amped up, cranked up, and nailed the lot down one take

Louder · May 29, 2024

A Beck, Bogert & Appice live box set Jeff Beck was working on before his death will be released this fall

Live In Japan 1973/Live In London 1974 was remastered from recordings that had been sitting in Beck's vault for almost 50 years, and features the power trio's interpretations of Superstition, Going Down and more

Guitar World · Jun 22, 2023

Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

Louder · May 31, 2023

Jeff Beck: Virtuoso guitarist and one of rock’s all-time greats

The musician’s time in The Yardbirds and subsequent music career helped define a genre

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2023