Thursday, October 08, 2009

What Mama Said


About 2 years ago, I started to feature Women in Rock Music...I posted a piece on Jennifer Batten, the extraordinary guitarist who has done so much work as an anonymous session musician. She has recorded so much on her own and I featured her video of "The Flight Of The Bumblebee" here. It was a tour de force of heavy metal tapping technique.
She rose to prominence as a live performer as the guitarist for Michael Jacksons touring band in the 80's and early 90's.
She became a protege of Jeff Beck in the 80's and played with him through a decade or so, co composing and touring with him. Here in this live performance in 1999, the band performs her composition, What Mama Said, another tour de force of the tapping technique. Beck as uusual shows that there are no rules in his music tht bridges all modern genres of jazz, techno and rock. Just the audacity of his tone and the sheer humor of his phrasing establish him as one of the most innovative and recognizable instrumental voices of modern music.
I just read that he is going to be performing with Chick Corea in the near future, superglue down you wig hat on you heads.....

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great video. What a wonderful musical break that was.