British guitarist reacts to Jeff Beck's spellbinding performance
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2018
- I'm taking a look at Jeff Beck, who's playing can be compared to Roy Buchanan stylistically but Jeff added a new element.
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Few players can stop your breath with three notes and have you holding back tears. The beauty of pure sound and emotion is what Jeff brings.
It’s like a spiritual experience. Jeff is Britain’s national treasure.
I can't think of another guitarist as good as Jeff. Especially on whammy bar. He is also keenly aware of the value of silence/rests. His comping with vocalists is also perfectly start and stop right on time. Thanks, Jeff!
Totally agree. I think it comes from his sense of melody. His innate feel of when to play and what to play. His whammy bar skills are so much harder than playing fast. I have never seen another player who could do it.
You're aware we lost Jeff yesterday, right? There will NEVER be another one like him. Unmatched in every degree of being the "master of the stratocaster". Now we all have to learn his music so we can do a fine tribute to his legacy. He was a personal hero to me, my favorite, a guitarist who one could actually listen to and be amazed at his ability. RIP Jefferey Arnold Beck...
Yes I am very sad. He appeared in our class in Sutton East when he was 14 and we were 13 in Art One. He came in late in the year. We were a special class in Art at SUTTON EAST SECONDARY SCHOOL, and the Head Master was George E Mackley, the famous artist, wood engraver and printer. We as a class, heard that Jeff was always in trouble., and in fights. This information would trickle through from time to time. We did not really know him as he came late in the year. One day he came in late before the bell went, We watched him come in with a bundle of wires and bits of wood. He went straight to the Teachers cupboard at the back of the room and sat down on the floor inside. He was near the boys he got on with, and spoke with when he came into class. They relayed to the rest of our class that Jeff was trying to make a guitar!! We watched with baited breath. I could not see how he could possibly make a guitar with such a small amount of equipment and tangled wires. Jeff always electrified the class. We would watch his every move. Suddenly blues notes came from the cupboard. I could hardly believe it! How could he make any sounds like that from this tangle??? I do not know! However I was very excited, to her the blues. I did not like Rock around the clock, and preferred the blues. Like Jeff, my mother was a trained concert pianist who also unlike Jeff's mother, had played jazz professionally. So we had similar backgrounds She did not like "Pop" and neither did my mum but I heard fantastic jazz and other serious music on record and and Bach, Schuman, Rachmaninov, etc, which Jeff Beck's mum liked to play. When I heard the few notes that I had no idea how he created, with that jumble,-I immediately reacted and thought about how he must someday become famous. I was sure of it and wanted to tell him. but I was too shy. After we all left school, I looked out for anything to do with Jeff Beck and eventually found the Yardbirds. I searched quite a lot but did not find anything much. I got married and went to Yorkshire and did not have a television. As Jeff said, after, "Hi Ho, Silver Lining" I did not find much because the British promotion system was a Dead Duck, and Jeff ended up working very nicely in America and Japan. I got married and for a few years did not see much, until he joined a group called BECK, BOGART AND APPICE, when I was a fully qualified Art Teacher. With Wow! Zoom! I realised that he had found his way at last and had been doing this for a few years while I was in a dark place with my children. I was so pleased for him. He knew what he wanted to do, and did it HIS WAY! HE IS NOW CONSIDERED THE GREATEST, which is an enormous achievement, as he composes and arranged music in his own style and he is so quiet about it and polite and thankful, to those who were and are support musicians of great calibre. I was extremely sad about his passing. I wish he could have stayed with us a bit longer. He is a truly great composer, and arranger and stuck to the sounds HE wanted to create and play with those who understood. So many of his fellow musicians are great ones, but he stands out in a very different way, and expresses his musical abilities with musicians who are part of a Jeff Beck orchestra. I hope his Mum and Dad could see what he had achieved here on earth! Love to you Jeff and condolences to his wife and sister. I will remember you always, and see you and listen to you on You Tube!! Cynthia Allen McLaglen
I consider Jeff Beck to be one of the greatest guitarists of our time.
I saw Jeff Beck in 2010 @FOXWOODS in Conn. USA and he played Over the Rainbow as he is playing in the video here. Everyone was MESMERIZED by his playing. Even my boyfriend ( who was a truck driver) had tears in his eyes, it was a spellbinding performance. So so lucky to have seen him. I still have flashbacks of that concert to this day 🎸🤘☮️♥️
Jeff Beck has such perfect technique his playing transcends technique and what you hear is pure music.The ONLY guitar player you never hear hit his physical limitations and struggle. Never to be topped, pure genius.
You can see his years of playing and operating the whammy bar by seeing how he holds that bar. It is like a separate instrument for him. Very nice narrative from Fil here.
No one is ‘the greatest’ guitar player in the world (to quote Clapton “... there’s one in every crowd) but I’d be surprised if there’s another that most guitarists admire more than Jeff Beck 🎸
I've watched the Ronnie Scott performance several times. Jeff Beck is nothing short of amazing. His ears and his touch are incredible, and his taste...wow.
Practice all you want. This sound is his!
Beautiful. I always thought J. Beck was way better than Clapton. Clapton was great at blues. Jeff was great at music. Just my opinion! Another good analysis vid!!!
I like Clapton but Jeff Beck is ... well, Jeff Beck. He could come up with an entire new way to play Happy Birthday To You.
He's almost as good as Truth but yer talkin about a bit different styles of guitar player Jeff is the better Jeff ...hehehe. but T is better...
Completely agree. Beck has taken Guitar playing to a new level.
Great as all the Yardbirds alums are, I believe Page and Clapton both are awed by Beck. Not that he's starving, lol, but ironically he's the least commercially successful of the 3 (i.e. Buchanan).
@@discernment8963 have gotta agree with that , it's cool to know the greats have had that same awe that everybody has had...
A guitar master, his sound is unique, precise and precious. His guitar is his voice and there are no words.
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Jeff does things no one else does on the guitar , we dream 🎶🙏
There are many incredible rock guitarists and then there's Jeff Beck!
Amen!
There are many you tubers , and then there is the incredible Fil. A legend of a man, he brought fine guitar playing to the unwashed masses. On this day, we honour Fil.
ELO Ron - Wouldn't have a idea but it doesn't take away the basic fact that Jeff Beck is a step ahead of about every big name rock player out there.
Paul Simmons : I had a lover that was strictly #JeffBeck!
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Rory Gallagher....
For those of you new to Jeff Beck, you need to see the entire performance "Live at Ronnie Scott's". Truly amazing.
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I remember watching an interview with Eric Clapton in which Clapton was discussing Beck’s technique. Clapton said something like, « There’s a reason no one copies Jeff’s style. It’s because what he does with the vibrato with his left hand, while his right fingers hit the strings, constantly move the whammy bar and use the knobs, is damn hard.
Yep!
I rarely use a plectrum and justify it by saying " neither does Jeff Beck".
He's one of a kind. Probably one if the most interesting guitarists out there to listen to. Always unpredictable.
Definitely!
And to watch and see how he gets the sounds.
This is one of my favorites by Jeff it shows his virtuosity how he can control the guitar and pretty much make it sound like anything he wants. It isn't just a his technique I've heard him make a Fender Telecaster sound like a banjo, like a harmonica and an opera singer that was so close to the opera singer you couldn't tell if it was his guitar or the opera singer the man is beyond amazing.
It's like Jeff is a master impressionist painter...only he paints with sound. And we get to interpret what it means to each of us. All these years later, even after hearing this many times, I'm still moved nearly to tears. I had a poster if Jeff playing his tele over my bed all through Highschool. One of my early teachers in music school said to be careful who you make a musical hero because that will influence your playing and limit you. Jeff has no limits. I would look at that poster every day while tuning and warming up for my 10 hour practice. I would say "One day Maybe I'll play like that". He inspired me, and others like Holdsworth, Scofield, SRV to find my own voice. If we only listen deeply, what wonderful teachers we have been given. They are a gift.
Amen!
Chidambara Prem Well put! Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was introduced to Jeff Beck for the first time listening to his album "Wired" in the 70s. After listening to the album a few times, my hair actually became nappy! What energy! My favorite song on the album was his interpretation of "goodbye pork pie hat". Just wonderful!
He is cupping the volume and using the whammy bar at the same time. That and his amazing control is what makes him sound different than anyone else. I don’t think I have seen any other guitarist with his control of the whammy bar.
It seems as if his right hand's five fingers are doing five different jobs.
@@stephenzanichkowsky4434Exactly. You know it and I know it, but most people won’t understand what he is doing.
I remember Jeff from the Jeff Beck Group when he played a Les Paul. He has evolved into a totally different unique player. You are so right about what guitar is about. Most young players feel they have to play fast to show their chops, forgetting it’s about the music. If you do great songs they will be played forever.
This one from Jeff is truly angelic. Been following him since I was about 10 years old 1972. Has influenced my guitar playing incredibly.
This is not just the most beautiful piece of guitar music I've ever heard it's the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard full stop. Jeff isn't just a great guitar player he's better than that he is a musical genius, he alone takes the guitar where others cannot and dare not follow, he can take you to places musically that you never knew existed. It's no coincidence that all the top players including the likes of Schon to Van Halen and great players of other instruments go to Jeff Beck's shows.It's interesting to note that back in the late sixties/early seventies the 'Big Three' as they were called were - Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. Both Page and Clapton peaked around 1973, while jeff left them behind and peaked some thirty five years later. The 'Big Three' now?, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson and Joe Bonamassa. As Joe Perry said, there's Jeff Beck and then there's everybody else.
Joe Bonamassa in The Big Three? Have you not heard Guthrie Goven?
Jeff is so underrated. He's a master of so many techniques while making it all come together as good music.
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He really loved to play rockabilly. Also songs of different genres.
Beck's a musical high wire trapeze artist without a safety net - love is brave.
Great guitarists can make a guitar sound like it's talking but Jeff Beck makes his guitar sound like it's reciting poetry! Live he is unbelievable.
Right! You do know that Jeff and Roy were friends. I've seen Jeff live more than any other rock guitarist, and I have seen Led Zeppelin 7 times. You've also covered Robin Trower who I saw a lot as well. Again, I want to say cheers to you, being so young, and knowing the right things about these players. What you have to say is right on!!! I am 64, and have been playing since the 60s. So, to find a youngster who has the correct insights as you do is quite refreshing and exciting. I returns my sense of hope for real music. Keep at it young man!!!
Also worth noting that Jeff is one of the few Rock guitarists who doesn't use a pick. He gets suck dynamics from those fingers, also working on his car engines means he has strong hands :) Known Frank Zappa quote : "Jeff Beck is the best guitarist on the planet."
What a beautiful performance and this is why he is my favorite.
In 1971Jeff Beck attended a gig by a new band called Mountain, where he raved about their guitarist , Leslie West. His comments were reported in the Disc magazine under the front page headline "Mountain man taking the Clapton crown". Beck reckoned West was the best guitarist he'd ever seen. Leslie West played techniques with the whammy bar and volume control which Beck incorporated into his playing. Both men occupy the top table in my pantheon of guitar gods, alongside, amongst a couple of others, the one and only Roy Buchanan.
Jeff Beck is such an innovator and has such an distinctive, iconic sound and style. I think he's kind of the Miles Davis of guitar, both in the raw emotion he brings to each note and being a such ground breaker, always moving forward. I've seen Jeff three times and hope to see him again.
Awesome!
When asked who the greatest guitarist was that he'd ever recorded Sir George Martin without hesitation replied Jeff Beck.
Considering the incredible players he would've worked with...pretty much validated by this performance..
Perfection
Thanks Fil... inspirational ❤️
The whole of Live at Ronnie Scotts is absolutely phenomenal !! The melodic element of his playing shows up on Cause we Ended as Lovers and Day in the Life as well Jeff just makes his guitar sing so sweet. !! His rhythm section of Tal Wilkinfeld on bass and Vinnie Colaiuta is spectacular. Love to see another Track from this performance at Ronnie Scotts covered. Perhaps Cause We Ended as Lovers ???
JB has a new bassist and drum kit'ist these days....Rhonda Smith (Prince's bass player for 10 years), and skins and bones legend Narada Michael Walden playing drums
Just magic... Rest in Heavenly Peace
🎸Jeff Beck 🌹
My favorite guitar solo of all time. Every hair on my body stands to attention. Sounds just like a beautiful human voice. A banshee wailing her desire. Un-freaking-believable!!
As always, Beautiful Reviews. I had the Pleasures, of seeing live in 1980, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer and Simon Phillips. It was quite an encounter with their Muses. Their collective Majesty stays with me to this writing and recollection.
The skill to recreate the recorded track of this song, when it requires such insane guitar skills! is what makes Beck one of the greatest ever.
Jeff playing "you need love" with Clapton during the same concert has one of my all time favourite solos. Jeff manages to make his guitar sound like a distorted harmonica, it's absolutely incredible to see his control. Jeff remains musically innovative and fresh when his contemporaries are happy to rest on their laurels and play the same old songs.
My favorite song also
Totally agree Amazing!
Pound for pound, Jeff Beck is the world's greatest living guitarist.
made me laugh, he must weigh one thirty wet? Actually I never really looked at how tall he is?
Pound for pound Kenny Rodgers was the best Kenny Rodgers
@@farrellbrent8189 hehehe he was definitely in the top 3 Kenny Rogers of the 3..but you gotta remember Jeff is the best ....Jeff. ..people kill me..
@@farrellbrent8189 pound for pound your the greatest clown around
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Beck is flat out amazing.
His right hand, his imagination, and his total command of the ergonomic layout of the Strat.
You can listen as far back as the Yardbirds, and there are hints of it all.
He seems to have been in a state of life long refinement of all of these things. But he doesn't rehash his former anything. It's been built upon.
He's some kind of journeyman ninja of electric guitar.
Yeah he really kicked on with his career after the Yardbirds, crafting his unique sound.
Jeff Beck reinvented himself. From an early age his playing has always been relevant to my musical brain. Now at 67, new or old creations I still adore. What better way at age 14 to learn guitar hammer ons, pull offs, harmonics than to try to master Jeff's Boogie.
The very best concert that I ever heard, was Jeff Beck at the Music Hall in Houston, in the 70's (lost my ticket) when he made the slide guitar sound like symphony, playing past the 12th fret lots!
Had the great good fortune to see Jeff Beck in concert about five years ago and have collected a good representative sample of his recordings over the years, including the classics like "TRUTH" and "BECK-OLA" with those great vocals provided by Rod Stewart. His is one of the most historically significant careers in guitar playing and rock music, and in the event I had to limit my music library drastically, Jeff Beck would be well represented in my reduced collection.
Jeff's talent is so immense that he never really found a place to fit in, he's just an incredible oddity.
Jeff Beck makes the guitar sing and cry.
Listen to Jeff Beck with Jools Holland playing Ray Charles, drown in my tears, He gets a standing ovation.Saw him with the Yardbirds when I was 15 and just learning to play. Stood right in front of him. Made me want to give up. Never be able to play like that. If God Played Guitar would he be as good as Jeff Beck.
Jeff knew he played a blinder that night i was lucky enough to attend one of the performances with my late father, they were filming on the night but the performance we see was filmed on a different night. Variations in all his sets but this particular performance was one he'll be remembered for. He's in good company Vinnie Colaiuta, Jason Morrelo and Tal Wilkenfeld are all world class. Good stuff.
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There is no one else who can bring so much out of a guitar. He is a Master and he is King of the guitar. I caught him on his There and Back tour and have a piece of one of his broken strings.
Jeff Beck was a maestro, wonderful guitar player he will be remembered forever more we miss you so much Jeff God Bless You my friend R.I.P. THE GREAT, GREAT JEFF BECK THANK YOU.
How could you not be spellbound ? I'm so glad he took that technique totally into his practises and brought it in as one of his own accomplishments. A great trademark and sound. Outdoor concert with Jeff Beck ..would be nice. 🤘
This performance is simply astonishingly brilliant. Genius.
Amen!
I've seen Jeff Beck many times including on a double bill with Stevie Ray Vaughn on The Guitar Shop Tour. Jeff's drummer was Terry Bozio and it was one of the most amazing live shows I've ever had the pleasure to witness...and that says a lot.
One of the most unique guitar players to ever hold a pick (oh, wait a sec, he doesn't use a pick anymore!) Just a beautiful player. I was fortunate enough to see him on the There and Back tour, which changed my view on guitar players forever.
That Ronnie Scott blu-ray is amazing. You could close your eyes and pick any song and find incredible techniques laced through it. I don't know why, but the Imogen Heap song is never available on streaming. Shout out to myself: Saw the Blow by Blow concert in LA back in day. Was blown away ( pun haha ) by Jeff Beck, but also by the drummer. Years and years and years later, I found out it was Bernard Purdie.
The most creative and clean rock guitarist ever with an amazig technique
Jeff Beck is an amazing and unique guitarist. I think he is the best in the world right now.
He has such wonderful control and feel
He leaves the other 'gurus' for dead
I got to see Jeff Beck live when he toured with SRV in the 80's. While I am not a huge fan of his music, he is the best at what he does. I really appreciate his talent and he is definitely one of the all time greats. A true innovator!
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One of the amazing things about Jeff Beck (among many) is that he's still putting out great stuff!
Yeah!
Live Wired was my first real introduction to Jeff as a young guitarist and his technique seemed god-like, an amazing album from Jeff Beck.
i saw Mr Beck in 2001 at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Best performance i have witnessed and i have been checking out live rock and blues acts since 1979. Love the work you do here Wings!
Thanks!
it's not just the notes that Jeff is playing melodies on, it's the harmonics he's creating as well. Untouchable (so far....)
Amen!
Thanks for breaking this down Fil. Absolutely haunting playing by Jeff. Reminds me of a guy playing a saw I witnessed in a European churchyard.
Thanks for the video and for your appreciation of melody and emotion over speed and chops. Jeff has it all, but what separates him from everyone else is his sense of melody and phrasing. Awesome that you put that first!
No problem, thanks Kurt!
I have seen Jeff do this tune a couple of times. It's crazy beautiful.
Ahhhhh, Mr. Beck!!!! I have had the great pleasure of getting to meet him a few times now. Such an incredible guitarist.....nice man.....and loves animals. So humble he is....wishing I could have been to the shows he came over here to do. Tonight...he is with Rod Stewart at the Hollywood Bowl. Thank you for this!!!!
I was @Ronnie Scott's for Jeff Beck's Ronnie Scott's residency,actually it was 6 shows in 5 days. And put in the front row,dead center, after the first show,by Jeff's management, because someone was standing up playing 'Air Guitar' and ruining all the footage at the first show. It was NOV 2007,so many memories,and it was about as close as I'll ever get to heaven's gate in my lifetime...
At 70+ years old...Jeff is way ahead of the curve..never to be duplicated
Amen! He's still got it!
JB is my favorite rock guitarist ever...in the Universe.....of all all time....been a fan since the Yardbirds.
Halfway thru Guitar Shop, Jeff chuck'd his pick, and it's been nothin' but fingers and busted knuckles (he builds hot rods) ever since. He has never stopped moving forward. From "Who Else" to "You Had It Comin'" to "Jeff", his best records are the stuff he's put out in this millennium...and he is still crankin'm out.
I only recently discovered your channel and I am a new avid fan. I’m learning so much from you. I grew up with Beck et al performing. Thank you
0:38 Oh LORD.... ANGELS can get melancholic with this man.. WHAT a melody what an utter master.. " The Jeff Beck Group" A bluesy masterpiece Beck, Stewart, Wood
Jeff Beck Group
DATE
May 2, 1969
VENUE
Fillmore East (New York, NY)
My sister was there
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@@wingsofpegasus Yeah and ROD the MOD hit on her. She was 16 😲 but MOD did sign her "Shapes" of things" 45 rpm" ANd when she got married she played that as the wedding song . I have a COOL family!
Jeff Beck's sound here is sacred, so beautiful each note breaks your heart. Thank you for your analysis--I love the sounds from guitars so much and it is great to understand a little more about how they are created.
No problem!
The kind of COMPARING analysis you share with us is the kind of COMPARING which is really expanding our view of life so the COMPARING you do Fil is beautiful and I and we thank you for the luv you bring.
Thanks, but these are really just analysis videos saying what I see ☺
@@wingsofpegasus I see your playing Shawn... Thanks
Jeff Beck can get sounds out of his Stratocaster that no one has ever made before with a guitar. Definitely in the top five guitar players of all time.
Yeah originality is king.
Check out Jan Akkerman
only a virtuoso like JB CAN DO IT. Perfect dynamic, feeling, intensity. Total control over the instrument. Only on the hands of JB a Stratocaster can sound like this
Simply the best. Great analysis Fil. I had this concert on my DVR but that was a few DVR's ago:)
Thank you Wings of Pegasus. This is so detailed and recognises what Jeff Beck has achieved in a development of a particular technique,that is different and only his.
Very cool! I'll be looking through all of your Jeff Beck videos! You have great taste in music ,Phil,and you do a great analysis on each of these great artists!!! Sincerely,BobbyK
Ah man Jeff Beck and his tremolo plus harmonics. I love when he does slide like on that Truth album. Love Freeway jam. Great description. Thanks for putting that up.
Thanks so much for the descriptions of what Jeff Beck does on his guitar in such detail. He also had a trained Concert playing mother who, like my concert playing mother was encouraged to collect music in the form of records or concerts so as to enlarge and extend their knowledge of sounds from different parts of World Music, and different Genres. When one hears these sounds as a child it really goes in and stays. I remember Yuma Sumac singing Inca songs on our child's wind up gramophone and also listening to Various Tribal music from Kenya where we spent our early childhood. This background must have gone into Jeff's Imagination when he was younger and he also listened to Jazz when he took rides in his Uncle sports car,- obviously he was influenced by the music all around him, and fell in love with interesting old cars as well., and is why he collected them and was always covered in oil. Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
Amazing guitarist. The albums Blow by Blow and Wired were stunning. His version of somewhere over the rainbow in Jules Holland was incredible too.
thumbs up if you have seen Jeff live?
I wish!
twice at the colston hall.
Hywel 4. twice at REH in Clearwater, FL. 22nd row then 4th row. Highlight was Over The Rainbow and Day in the Life. Manifique!
the second time i saw jeff he did over the rainbow and day in a life.
with rainbow he stalled before the last note and then pointed up then down indicating the pitch of the next note; we all pointed up and he hit it. something to remember.
Hywel 4. We are among the many fortunate who have witnessed his prodigious talent.
Jeff Beck - member of the core 4. Hendrix, Clapton, Page and Beck. Love Goodbye Pork Pie Hat...
Hendrix also used the whammy bar for multi purpose reasons aside from vibrato. Clapton noticed that he used it to be in tune correct when his guitar would go out of tune during a particular performance.
But Beck did very much refines and crystallizes that ... his sound. ... more than incidental or coincidental use of the whammy bar.... just as you mentioned in your analysis. Love it.
I was lucky enough to be there at that nights performance, it was spellbinding and like you said not a sound from the audience. Jeff like all great guitar players borrowed lots of ideas from other players throughout his career but was clever and talented enough to use them to create his own unique sound that was always evolving . As usual Phil spot on analysis !
The master on the Stratocaster, Beck he's simply the best... 🌟🎶
Jeff acknowledges Roy on the Blow by Blow album. Jeff was also highly influenced by the "Spectrum" album (Billy Cobham) with the guitar playing of Tommy Bolin. Listen to Quadrant 4 to hear the whammy being used by Tommy to select very specific pitches. This is the first instance I'm aware of ('71) & I believe this is where Jeff received the inspiration to do the stunning whammy work he would go on to do years later.
Pure mastery, expressivity like no other, instantly identifiable. saw BBA, '72, 'Blow by Blow' '75, w/ Jan Hammer '76.
There is no way to watch Beck without being in awe. Period.
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Great video. I saw Jeff Beck twice live and met him. An amazing guitarist. One of the three Yardbirds guitar greats, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
Awesome!
Great mechanic too...
Astonishing! Absolutely incredible and beautiful ! Goals if I was fifty years younger ! 🎸🔥
What can be said about Jeff Beck. The most inventive guitarist in the world. My favorite is Jeff Beck and Tal Wilkenfeld on bass, especially their performance at Ronnie Scott's. They work very well together.
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and Jeff is a heck of a mechanic..loves old cars..the guy is so cool..so low key, classy guy..thanks for this fantastic example of iconic guitar mastery..
One fantastic guitarist!! Thanks for posting!
Love your insight into these legendary musicians , a lot of youtuber's can be a bit condescending and snide when it comes to classic rock, but I always find you to be fair in you're judgment of these gifted musicians. So much great music from the past just waiting to be discovered. Keep up the great work.👍👍
Thanks! No problem!
Seeing JB live really is Something else no pick or effects its all in the hands. He has evolved as a musician over time unlike his peers as much as i like them which is rare .Amazing show he puts on while the crowd sits quietly . Also check out how JB plays the Indian Song 'Nadia' then listen to the original . Also song 'Stroll on' from the film blowup from 68 where he is smacking his guitar up against his vox then busts it up no doubt he started the guitar Smashing thing among other things .
Thanks for the suggestions!
Great story about "Blowup." When Antonioni filmed that number you can see Jeff playing his Paul (and Jimmy Page is on stage, too, incidentally.) but when he smashes the guitar it's actually an old Harmony cheapie from a pawn shop. NO WAY was Jeff going to smash up a Paul, both as a matter of ethical principle and because he couldn't afford to replace it.
Jeff Beck is in his own musical zip code. He is a superb technician, but more than that,
he has, as you say, a unique sound, and a highly developed ability to make the guitar speak, and express emotion. I regard Beck as one of the grand masters of the electric guitar.
Great analysis, a mesmerizing piece, cheers
Thanks!
I had the chance to see him live during the "guitar shop" tour in Paris. anything but unreal. He's deffo the greatest to me. Plus, his performance at Ronnie Scott is one of the best recorded. Thank You for that! ( and I love Taj :)
This song is from "Guitar Shop", a 1989 album, so this is Jeff as of 25 years ago. I strongly recommend the Tokyo 2014 DVD to see Jeff in all his updated glory. As impressive as he is here, there's a lot more to his ability and technique that we don't see.
That Tokyo show is a feast for guitar players.
Thanks!
Jeff Becks playing is pure sublime.