Dennis Wilson's "Time," meanwhile, is a dynamic tour de force, exploding after a gentle start and highlighted by Vinnie Colaiuta's high-wire drum attack. His lyrical playing on Davy Spillane's "Midnight Walker," the Beach Boys' "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)" and the Miracles' "Ooo Baby Baby" is soaring, and his shredding sears on renditions of the Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs," Killing Joke's "Death and Resurrection Show" and John Lennon's "Isolation." He laces through the lyric melody of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," with Pino Palladino paying reverent homage to James Jamerson's dancing bass line. Nevertheless, 18 is a curio, a mix of originals (two written by Depp) and covers that is most definitely a Beck album. As for Depp, Beck isn't one to work with someone just as clickbait, so if fellow Vampires Alice Cooper and Joe Perry haven't convinced us that Depp is for real, then Beck's endorsement should douse remaining doubts. You know each project will yield something special. Is it good? That answer starts from the point that most anything Beck gets into has merit the guy's been on rock guitar's Mount Rushmore since the '60s and has never rested on laurels or adhered to expectations. The album announcement, coming shortly afterward, wasn't as surprising as it might have been otherwise but was still another example of Beck's daring-do idiosyncrasy and devil-may-care history.
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The two raised eyebrows during the spring when Depp began joining Beck onstage in Europe while his sensationalized defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard was wrapping up. But, really - who saw this one coming?ġ8 finds Beck joining forces with Johnny Depp, he of Pirates of the Caribbean and the all-star Hollywood Vampires. And he then makes them sound like something that fits as easily as a 12-bar progression. From his comings and goings in various ensembles - even the group that bore his name - to stylistic excursions into jazz fusion, Gene Vincent and opera, and collaborations with Jan Hammer, Roger Waters, Kate Bush, Imelda May, Herbie Hancock, Kelly Clarkson and others, the guitar legend keeps us guessing. Surprise has been one of the sharpest arrows in Jeff Beck's quiver for more than six decades now.
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