I love Monterey and Ronnie Scott´s. They are easily among my favorite DVD´s and live albums.

they are definitely two of beck's least impressive albums imo. you've at least listened to some of; blow by blow, jeff, you had it coming, who else, flash, wired, emotion & commotion as well right?

whoa, very cool... i still think the hendrix bio needs something more... not that it's easy to capture everything about him... but i think his phrasing rarely if ever gets mentioned/appreciated... and i can't think of anyone in rock before hendrix whose phrasing arches were as extended and sophisticated and unbounded (and even overlapping!) as his, and i'd argue it took until the mid-70s for the rest of the rock world to catch up (mostly through the prog and fusion guys)

Like who?

well, i'm thinking j-mac, for example, and perhaps fripp in his wilder moments, though they were contemporaries of hendrix too

Yeah, I've heard all of those. I put on Roger since I figured it'd probably be good to have a Yardbirds album and Ronnie Scott's for a live album, but neither of those are up to par with the rest of his work, which is why I was doubting those on the list. Otherwise I tried to put in one for each "phase" of his career; Truth for hard rock, Blow by Blow for the more laid-back/funky jazz-rock, Wired for the more fiery jazz-rock, Guitar Shop for just plain-out normal rock, and Jeff for... Whatever Jeff is. Rock with electronic undertones I guess.

As far as the Hendrix bio goes, I agree phrasing would be a good thing to mention; I guess it's sort of in the Beck one too but never really mentioned by name, I might throw it in there.

BTW the reasons I was wondering about the others were:
Monterey is not quite up to par with Band of Gypsys, though still rather good and pretty iconic (although more for the guitar burning and it being his first US performance than anything else).
Woodstock is iconic, but kinda crappy.
WaCF and 5150 are both pretty good EVH albums but not radically different from their predecessors.

Thoughts?

Oh and also, while I'm at it, any good Yardbirds or solo material I should be going at while I go through Clapton?

I think that Ronnie Scott's is Beck´s 4th greatest album:

1. Truth
2. Blow by Blow
3. Wired
4. Ronnie Scott's

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