S9E453 - Jeff Beck 'Blow By Blow' with Peter Spirer
Technically Jeff Beck's seventh solo album - but only the second to bear only his name on the front cover - 1975s 'Blow By Blow' became a million-selling top-5 album, and proved once and for all there was truly nothing Jeff Beck could not do with a plank of wood and six strings. This week's guest, Filmmaker/Musician Peter Spirer (Rugged Entertainment), joins Rob as they attempt to unpack this instrumental classic.
Songs discussed in this episode: Freeway Jam (Live, 1976) - Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group; Devil's Road - Sacred Cowboys; Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt; Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck; Blues Jam - The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Beck); Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; She's A Woman - The Beatles; She's A Woman - Jeff Beck; Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith; Constipated Duck, Air Blower - Jeff Beck; Stroll On - The Yardbirds; Pink Moon - Nick Drake; Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck; Frame By Frame - King Crimson; Lookin' For Another Pure Love - Stevie Wonder; Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck; 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk; Thelonious, Freeway Jam, Freeway Jam (Live, 1976), Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck; Horrors - Hummingbird; The Lonely Ones - Z Toyz
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Filmmaker/Musician
Peter Spirer, President/CEO of Rugged Entertainment, and Co-Founder of One Bowl Productions is an Academy Award and Emmy Award Nominated director and producer whose films have twice been official selections at Sundance Film Festival. He has produced and/or directed over 32 films including the feature films Just Another Day with Wood Harris and Jamie Hector from The Wire and Dunsmore with W. Earl Brown, Talia Shire, and Kadeem Hardison. His vast catalog of documentaries includes the groundbreaking music doc Rhyme and Reason, on Rolling Stones’ list of 40 greatest music documentaries. Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life, and The Legend of 420 (on the legalization of cannabis) amongst others, as well as the coproductions with QD3: BEEF series of films (I-III), Thug Angel: Life of an Outlaw (on slain rapper Tupac Shakur), Feel Rich (featuring many of today’s urban music artists and impresario Quincy Jones).
Spirer directed and produced Spirit Game: Pride Of A Nation, a documentary about the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team and their efforts to create awareness of their Native Sovereignty. Spirit Game is now included as part of a permanent installation in the Smithsonian Museum Of The American Indian in New York City. His film; Sacheen: Breaking the silence revisits the achievements of Sacheen Littlefeather, who declined the Academy Award on Marlon Brando’s behalf for the Godfather. She is the first woman of color to utilize the Academy Awards to make a political statement.
Recently Spirer has taken film projects in search of distribution under his …Read More