After Cactus (initially) broke up in 1972, Jeff Beck joined with Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice in a short-lived power trio called Beck, Bogert & Appice.  While Rod Stewart was long gone, they represented ¾ of the originally planned line-up for Cactus.  A lot had happened in rock music in the two years since Jeff Beck had his motorcycle accident – Crosby, Stills and Nash for one – so the surnames sufficed to name the band.  Also, Beck had recorded two albums with the Jeff Beck Group in the interim. 

Their sole album Beck, Bogert & Appice came out in March 1973 and is one of the first rock albums that I can remember being advertised on television; I can still hear the announcer solemnly intoning:  “Beck . . . Bogert . . . Appice!”  The album hit #12 on the Billboard album charts and has been reissued several times.  A live album by the band was issued only in Japan.  The predictably unpredictable Jeff Beck abruptly abandoned work early in the preparation of the second album by Beck, Bogert & Appice, and that was that. 

(April 2014)