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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.
There & Back is the fourth studio solo album by guitarist Jeff Beck, released in June 1980 through Epic Records. [3] The album reached No. 10 and 21 on the U.S. Billboard Jazz Albums and Billboard 200 charts respectively, [6] and No. 36 on the Swedish albums chart. [7]
Hammer also returned to solo work with the release of Black Sheep in 1978. [2] He then formed a new band, known as "Hammer". [2] Also in 1978, he wrote and performed on three songs for Jeff Beck's next album, There and Back, which was released in 1980. [1]
May 28, 2016 · There and Back, Jeff Beck's first new studio album in four years, found him moving from old keyboard partner Jan Hammer (three tracks) to new one Tony Hymas (five), which turned out to be the difference between competition and support.
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.
Jan Hammer still has a substantial role here but he's not the dominant force that he was on previous projects. "Star Cycle" starts with some swirling, cosmic synthesizers and Hammer, in his percussionist persona, combines real and electronic drums for the rhythm track.
Star Cycle is a typical start to a late 70’s Beck album with the usual Jan Hammer-type of keyboard intervention and somehow, you can almost hear the Miami Vice theme that Hammer will make a fortune on much later in the decade.
