Beat Instrumental Magazine No 127 December 1973 Roxy Music Jeff Beck Thin Lizzy Rolling Stones Paul Kossoff Free Peter Frampton

Beat Instrumental Back issue No. 127 December 1973 

Features articles on Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Ian Dury, Pete Frampton, Tony McPhee, Nazareth, Barry Blue, Ricky Farr, The Coasters, Roxy Music, Free, Thin Lizzy and other features including equipment reviews, guitar keyboards and amplifier adverts, musicians classifieds and record reviews etc...

Front Cover Picture — Mick Jagger

The Power Behind The Rolling Stones 6

Soul Special —an appraisal of Black music 10

Jeff Beck — exclusive equipment details 14

New Bands — Kilburn and the High Roads, Punchin’ Judy, Curly 16

Jaki Whitren — the player, not the songs 18

Music Room No. 2— Pete Frampton 20

The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Groundhogs 22

On The Road With — Nazareth 24

Songwriter — Barry Blue 26

Dream Equipment —a Christmas fantasy 28

Ricky Farr — from promotion to PA 30

Along Comes Jones — remember The Coasters ? 32

Phil Manzanera — Roxy's valentine 34

Paul Kossoff— return of a Freeman 36

Eddie Harris — sax + effects = rock !! 38

Why Play Guitar ? 40

Album Reviews 44

Spectrum Ad Feature 47

Thin Lizzy — vagabonds get it on 52

Guitar Review — Fender Telecaster Custom 54

Plugging — the inside story 56

Instrumental News 59

Studio Playback 68

Drums Feature 76

Special Effects Feature 82

Listings — all the latest prices 89

Beat Instrumental wishes all its readers and advertisers a very happy Christmas and a prosperous and tuneful New Year.

Excellent+ condition. Will be posted in a cardboard envelope.

Beat Instrumental was a monthly UK pop and rock based publication aimed at musicians & readers interested the music industry. First published in May 1963 as the smaller sized Beat Monthly magazine it became Beat Instrumental Monthly with issue 18 and Beat Instrumental from issue 37. Unlike the weekly music press it was predominantly aimed at musicians, emphasizing instruments and production equipment in it's interviews and moving to progressive rock in the late 1960s and 70s.