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The start of There And Back is excellent and very exciting with Star Cycle featuring spectacular sequencing by Jan Hammer, a powerful and propulsive rhythm-section with a catchy beat and distinctive Jeff Beck guitar work with fiery and biting runs.
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There & Back is the fourth studio solo album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in June 1980 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 10 and 21 on the U.S. Billboard Jazz Albums and Billboard 200 charts respectively, and No. 36 on the Swedish albums chart.
Jan Hammer never get's the credit he deserves, even though he personified the 80's in synths at the same time as Herbie Hancock did with "Rockit". Hammer is so unique, Jeff Beck wanted to play with him before Blow by Blow, and then got him for Wired.
Worse, the star opens There and Back with three strikes against him, all of them the work of fuzak keyboardist Jan Hammer, with whom Beck cut a 1977 live album.
Also in 1978, he wrote and performed on three songs for Jeff Beck's next album, There and Back, which was released in 1980. One of the album tracks, "Star Cycle," went on to become the theme for the British television series The Tube .
1980 Jeff Beck – There And Back. Jan Hammer, Jeff Beck, Mo Foster, Simon Phillips, Tony Hymas. There & Back is the third studio solo album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in June 1980 through Epic Records.
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Next Hammer contributes "Too Much to Lose," featuring another memorable melody line performed by Jeff over Jan's ethereal keyboards and surprisingly authentic bass lines. Simon Phillips supplies an irresistible groove as Beck launches into a slinky guitar ride overhead.
