Beckology by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar from early days with The Tridents through to his Guitar Shop album in 1989. The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Volume 1 includes previously unreleased tracks from The Tridents, earthy mono recordings of Yardbirds classics like "Steeled Blues" and "Heart Full of Soul", and four tracks from a Yardbirds BBC session, and concludes with Jeff's first solo singles.

• Volume 2 covers the Jeff Beck Group albums and the later Beck, Bogert and Appice collaboration. Highlights here include the reworking of the Yardbirds' Shapes of Things with Rod Stewart on vocals, the driving "Plynth", the beautiful guitar work on Definitely Maybe and the interesting reworking of Stevie Wonder's Superstition.

• Volume 3 tracks through what the sleeve notes call the "instrumental era" of the 1970s with tracks from the jazzy Blow by Blow and the acclaimed George Martin produced Wired albums. There is a live performance of "Freeway Jam" with major collaborator Jan Hammer with whom Jeff was still touring in 2004, before arriving at the end of the 1980's with Guitar Shop tracks like Big Block and Where Were You.

A 60 page booklet comes with the album. Gene Santoro's biography is easy to read and comprehensive, and the collection of photographs is absorbing. Mono as a single word can refer to: single-channel audio, a shortened form of monaural Infectious mononucleosis, also referred to as the kissing disease an open source implementation of the Microsoft . ... The Yardbirds were an early British rock band, noted for spawning the careers of several of rock musics most famous guitarists, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. ... ... The term solo has different meanings in different contexts. ... The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Blow By Blow is Jeff Becks solo album. ... For the author, see George R. R. Martin. ... For the slang usage of live in music to contrast recordings, see concert performance. ... Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948) is a composer and musician. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ...