Jeff Beck - I've Been Used Lyrics

This album blew me away when I was 13 years old. I pick up a guitar and started playing

Great song. Drummer is killing it.

when this came out, i said, Jeff has discovered new music.

I remember this song in 1972.  All my musician friends used to freak out when they heard Beck's guitar.  Some said it sounded like an airplane coming in for  landing. Beck was famous for getting incredible sounds out of his guitar.  I saw him in concert years later with my son and we were overwhelmed with his virtuosity.

This album is a tour de force. All of the musicians including Beck are stellar. As a keyboardist, Max Middleton is one of the people I've always emulated. (But definitely not equalled.)

You're damned right. I prefer Max to Jan Hammer and he's held in high regard as well.

The audio on this video is muddy, go listen to it from a proper source to appreciate it properly.

Tell you what Jim, if you don't like the sound go buy the fucking CD and don't bother commenting here mate! Straight From New York fuck you troll!

@djclay33 sounds clear to me. The actual record came out 1971 so it wasn't exactly recorded on Protools! Some people are clueless.

My favorite LP of Jeff and his complete band- well recorded

If it had Goin' Down on it it would be THE GREATEST album of all time, since not tho it's "only" one of the top ten greatest. ;-)

JB is da real deal...always has been!

As a veteran Rock Radio Jock from 1976-1993 (KTFM-SanAntonio, KAZY Denver, KUPD-PhX , Rock96-Fresno, KSLX-Phoenix, KDKB Phoenix, Unistar Network-LA, to name a few) in this instance Beck assembles some of the best session musicians for that Golden Era,(except Bobby Tench- who worked with Freddie King, Van Morrison, Eric Burdon, Steve Marriott/Humble Pie) Beck airs it out + (Corrected) Cozy Powell on drums is flawless.

Uhhhh, that's Cozy Powell on drums.

@tommyZvoncheck Thanks for the correction. Memory a little faded.. :-0))

Love this song...music this good shouldn't be so unknown...love it

Every musician I knew had this album.

Classic Jeff solo to close out the song--I'll never get enough of this album--It is pretty much the perfect album--I'll never forget them in concert--

Cozy Time.

thanks' a lot Christy

Love this song!!!

I have not heard this since it came out.  One of the local FM stations in Boston played it when it was released.  I decided tonight that I would try and find it.  Yay:)

cozy freakin' powell

As a matter of fact , my band, Dr Bombay, will be performing this song live at "Elsewhere" in GSO,NC the first Friday of September, 2014. Anybody care to sing it?

They don't seem to have included this in their performance repertoire, huh? I don't find it anywhere.

This is my favorite of theirs, and one of my favorite all time albums. I've never understood why it isn't held in higher regard. 

I think because it's not exclusively a platform for Jeff's soloing. Prior to this, the keyboards of, say, Nicky Hopkins, were a very definite add-on to Jeff as the featured instrumentalist, while afterwards there's either none at all (i.e., Beck, Bogart, & Appice) or there is one, only with the singer now ditched to make room for it (i.e., the "fusion" period). This is his best period to me, too, because there's equal importance given Jeff, Max's piano, Bob's vocal, AND the songs as songs (rather than mere vehicles for guitar playing).

Got to disagree with you, Sublime. I blame Epic totally. They were so short sighted in retrospect. R&B was hot, Jeff's musicianship is superb and he WROTE a lot of this music.

Because the elitist pricks were huffing contraband camel cocks out of hukka hoses and were too stupid to even listen to this gem.

Probably because Beck didn’t really like the record. I love it as you do. My favorite band of Beck’s.

post flower power/drug bullshit brother....just like this presumed "enlightened"/tablet addict generation

A cornerstone song up in my room in 72.When that bass line breaks out in the final seconds with Powell's sparse head on timbre?Priceless!

This, winds of change and number 5 - Beck - Frampton and Miller - a little ... and some ... with a ... pure, unadulterated pleasure! you get the picture.

Saw them in 67 or 68; Rod Stewart was growing a beard. Love Beck to this day. This song sounds like hogs in heat at the end.

djclay33,I think I can speak for Theresa and myself that,you sir, are doing a public service for us all by uploading this.In my humble opinion I feel artist such as Jeff Beck should be played and taught in all public schools.Again,thank you,CDW

Mandatory

Theresa, Your brothers should be commended.I am 59 y.o. and I most certainly miss this music.I was lucky enough to see JB when he was w/ The Yardbirds at a small venue in Lakeland,Fl. when I was 15y.o. Since then always a fan.Theresa,thank you for your reply.CDW

Big compliment - thanks!! (I grew up with two older brothers who brought all of this music home as it came out in the 1960s-70s).

Theresa,make that 2,152.You have to be the only woman I know that loves this song.It's been my experience that girls say JB looks too rough and the song is too rough.Hello,hence the name of the album. cdw

I love this song and can totally relate to it. Bought this LP when it first came out (I was 14) and loved it immediately. Some JB albums take me a while to absorb all that 's going on, but this one hit instantly.

Why only 2,151? This is great.

Thanks for this upload a godsend.I bought this album back in '81 and was blown away! The whole group were amazing.Rod Stewart was great but i loved Robert Tench's voice with the Jeff Beck group a little better!

HEAVY METAL MOTOWN AT IT'S BEST!!!

This song sounds ahead of its time, but I can't explain why.

Because it is. Randy Rhoades used the tail end of this song on the 2nd M.Sharon album,though not with the Hendrix runs. The compressed slide volume control phase in was later a whole slide on The Pump.
Eddie Van Weiner stole most of his playing from Beck,not Clapton as he claimed. The distorted bass on this track makes the kids drool.

@spunbearing65 Ed Van Halen doesn't like Hendrix.