His GREATEST Solo Was Played On a BEAT UP Partscaster?
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He was my favorite musician. I still can't believe he's gone. Nobody can play ballads like him and his trem work is out of this world. RIP Jeff! 😢
Nobody can play anything like him.
I watch that clip and I start crying. Jeff Beck - you are genius.
Thanks Tim for all that you share!😸
I love the whole of the Guitar Shop album that Where Were You comes from, a real showcase for his command of the guitar.
Wow, was this a guitar lesson or a music history class? Mind blown!
What a GREAT broadcast. Loved it!!!!
7:36
Even though, I've seen / heard this before. , I got those goosebumps, as usual.
Jeff Beck can do that , "sometimes"
8:28 what ?!
Ha ha ha
Would love to know how many springs are in the Strat on Where Were You, Lol
I could’ve sworn that that was Pete Thorn in the thumbnail.
A “Thorn-nail” as it were.
Live at Ronnie Scotts must have played a hundred times in my living room. I'm still filled with sadness that he was taken so suddenly. Thank god we have his library of amazing music to remember his incredible talent
Absolutely the best live performance I can think of from anyone ... His music was so
"take off running" ... Not much counting in on a Jeff Beck song... I am also greatly sad of his passing... I also have the DVD in my player in my guitar room ... I watch it over and over without being bored
That video is only one of two that I keep local on my phone. The other is Concert for George
That week of shows was Jeff at his finest. He was having a ball on his home turf with an amazing group of players. I saw him live in 2019, 5th row, right in front of him. I had to really shake up my schedule to make it happen, and almost didn’t. So glad I did. Sure never figured that would be my last opportunity. 😔
Saw him at ,The Horden Pavilion in Sydney around 76, he was so good I went and bought tickets for the following night. "Unforgettable".
Amen...
And Jeff is not only using the vibrato to play melodies, he is using the volume knob for violining in the same time
Pure acrobatics and testimony to his originality
He took some idea from Roy Buchanan I believe , regardless just incredible control of the guitar
Exactly: he used the volume knob in a similar way to Roy Buchanan's, to whom the song is dedicated.
I copied as best I could what Mr. Beck did with 'caused we've ended as lovers' when it was current and I've been playng it ever since. He taught me more with that song than any other song that I ever learned. I'm 67 now, and have played since I was 11. I learned from copying everbody and wearing out records moving the needle back over and over. That's how I learned from Jeff Beck. Still on a level of his own. Thanks, Tim!!
I’ve lived a similar story with this tune. Floored me when I heard it at 12; I’ve been playing along to it ever since (I’m 60).
Ditto this ^^^^ 67 too and immersed myself in JB early on and was fortunate enough to be in bands that could go along with playing many of these tunes.
Surprised since you were obviously doing your recording copying (literally in your case) in the '70's you didn't use a cassette tape recorder - much easier than records.
Regardless - whatever you did worked for you!
Saw Jeff Beck live twice. Totally blown away both times. We lost a good one there. R.I.P. mate.
I saw him back in 09 with his Ronnie Scotts line up. Insane!
The greatest gift Jeff Beck's music gives to me is that a thirty second clip of him playing will inspire me to pick up my guitar and play for a couple of hours, without fail. Every note he plays is a reminder of how much beauty and joy this instrument can summon, and the infinite depth of expression and color it is capable of producing. One need only be oneself, be still, listen with a caring ear and mind, and let your musical intuition guide you there.
Well said!
It's incredible that his latest performances of the song were even better than the recorded version. He just got better and better. He sounded more like a human voice than any other guitar player. For me, he is the GOAT.
most people can't even play anymore at 78. Beck was better than ever. Even if you compare back to performances of 10 years ago, he was better in 2021.
I thought Baphomet was the GOAT.
“Cos we’ve ended as lovers”… oh man…. Blow by blow and wired are two of the greatest albums ever… the songs (compositions and arrangements), artists and playing are all superb
Yeah forsure my favourites to.
Jeff Beck was one of the most inventive and spectacular guitarists of all time. One of a kind player and brilliant improviser. Love that solo from Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers. Such a great song.
Kudos for your work on the best album ever: Amused to Death. With Jeff Beck's best solos (heart breaking even on the ballad of Bill Hubbart) ever.
I have been a MasterClass Member for 1-1/2 years. It is a tremendous value for the price of admission. Tim is an amazing teacher.
honestly thinking about doing it
You said master
Hey Tim
I am pretty sure Seymour built 2 tele bibs..
One with a Gibson tunamatic/stop tail peice and one with a chopped down tele bridge...
The one the late JB received from Seymour had the chopped down tele bridge.
That makes sense. Judging by the pictures you see online. Thanks for the comment :-)
how does Tim manage that many different heads? I can see how you can switch the guitar to a variety of heads, but how to you power soak so many of those heads in order to switch between them easily?
KHE ACS does that easily from a midi footswicher
He doesn’t, the cabs are all downstairs, isolated, at full volume, mic’d, a mic pre for each cab. He is listening only to his monitors in his little booth. What I don’t understand is how he remembers all these different patches, maybe he has a list on a computer, his set up to me is a fantastic example of extreme option paralysis 😳. His work flow seems so simple….it’s not😳 a mind for small detail…
My first live Tim event - thank you for the lessons my man!
Very welcome!
Lukather always plays a very nice interpretation of Jeff's tunes.
Check out Greg Koch's version of cause we've....
how about having johnny marr play beck in a biopic.
"Where Were You" is one of my all-time favorite songs that Mr. Beck did. Really, one of my all-time favorite songs period. There was/is no one like him. RIP. 😥
At 1:53 in the original track, I could swear a Strat in position 2 (neck + middle) is punched in… is there any way to get that tone from an HH configuration?
@Tim - check out Chris Buck and how he stores his pick to move between fingers and pick
Yes, where were you,has to be THE guitar song.
When a guy like Tim Pierce says Jeff Becks playing is awe inspiring you know without question that Beck was a true master.
Jeff was truly the most incredible electric guitarist of all time. Complete mastery of the instrument, all the things it can do and pushing it beyond it's limits.
Saw him many times. Last time was 3 months before he passed.
Also saw him years before opening for Santana. He used that guitar.
RIP JB
As amazing as that clip of "Where Were You" is, the one on his Live at Ronnie Scott's DVD is even more amazing.
Thanks for the comment. I'll have to check it out. :-)
@timpierceguitar Thanks for the reply, and for the great content on your channel.
@@timpierceguitarThe Ronnie Scott version of that tune is absolutely beyond belief. Maybe the most incredible display of guitar mastery captured on film.
It is from his 89 studio LP Guitar Shop
There are people un familiar with Guitar Shop?
Almost as amazing is JB's ability to pull every harmonic - especially at the 2nd fret!!!
Jeff Beck is one of a kind, what a beautiful player and unique touch he had😢
At one point in this video you told the story about your wife and you said: when you back up the great ones.... YOU ARE ONE OF THE GREAT ONES!!
Thank you Tim Pierce for explaining in detail just what Jeff Beck played, and what certain notes and phrases because of his determination, probably with some guitar that he had tried to make when he was young; he was so determined to control certain notes , that he became very good at doing the impossible. He did that quite a lot , because he could. He was so determined, that he never gave up. Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
Greg Koch does it amazingly at his shows!
I had thought …the song was dedicated to Roy Buchanan…The swells ….and Roy did a tune my friend Jeff?…Nobody plays like Jeff did with thumb..volume swells..and his whammy bar….with the roller nut …sadly missed
I played an early 70s SG with P-90s on the vol 7,10 settings you are digging here. Rarely ever on a single pickup. I think Pete Townshend used it some, and if you're in a higher gain/vol situation, you can do the Townshend toggle-switch stutter between both at 7,10, and just the lead pickup at 10.
I'm a non guitar player, and a non musician, but I was captivated listening to this chap. He speaks a different language to all but skilled musicians, but even as an interloper I can take real enjoyment from listening to an expert enjoying his craft.
Bravo🙂
The essence is this: it is not the guitar, it is the musician whose hands are on it, the moment. The Jeff Beck contribution to the track 'Lookin' for Another Pure Love' in Stevie Wonder's Talking Book is Mastery. No amount of analysis/paralysis will ever capture that. Nobody ever can replicate such a capture. ( imho) All this is - is 'following the scent' of genius. How sweet is that!
Sat in on a garden party jam with some locals and damn, so much talent but so little originality. I really miss Jimi and Jeff
Not only Jeff is working with the whammy bar he is also riding the volume knob
Thanks for 6:51 the very rare footage of Jeff Beck on stage wearing a shirt with any kind of sleeves for the last time ever.
How could I not give you a thumbs up Tim. Every one of your Videos are exceptional.
Beck‘s Guitar Shop was my first „real“ introduction to his art, back in 89. „Where were you“ really was sort of unreal (This was before you could see how it is done, besides the impossibility that Tim is mentioning).
Same here got the cd when it came out, still have it
I'd never seen footage of Beck doing that live (the BBC footage). I've heard an audio recording of it, but not with close-up video like that. I'm pretty sure this footage crowns Jeff Beck as great...Actually, I would say that footage puts Mr. Beck (God rest his soul) in the region of greats like Isaac Stern. Mr. Beck you are still inspiring guitarists.
Thanks for the free lessons and explaining Jeff Becks mastermpiece
The Tele-Gib is definitely my favorite of his guitars. What an extraordinary player.
Greg Koch does a great version of this. When he played it at Policeman's Ball...man...so fortunate that was captured on film. It's not a long song, but just proved he was one of the absolute best. It was like watching/hearing Paganini.
Cool song! I've never heard it before.
Where is that backing track??? YEs!
Jeff Beck played the LB Auditorium during the Blow By Blow period. Bernard Purdy, Max Middlton,...maybe Clive Chapman.
His solo on Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” is also a work of art. Amazing technique in that solo.
Thanks so much for showing Jeff's performance. Amazing. R.I.P. Jeff.
My big brother took me to see Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray not long before Stevie died. When Jeff played that song that night it was SO loud but so delicate. It was a beautiful summer night and the cool breeze was blowing through the arena after a hot day. That whole atmosphere, with the music and everything gave me goosebumps that didn't go away for about an hour. Every time I hear it now it gives me goose bumps all over again. Thanks for playing it for us.
Stevie wrote this for Syreeta who released it in 1974. Jeff’s came out in 1975 on the superb Blow By Blow album, which I bought on release. It’s been my favourite album over the last almost 50 years.
I would contend that Diamond Dust is his finest work from that period.
Check out Joe Bonamassa and John McLaughlin’s version of Cause We Ended from the 2023 Crossroads Festival.
PLAY DIAMOND DUST
That Leslie affect is pretty dang good
Yeah, the one Tim uses sounds great. I use an EHX Lester, which is less expensive, but sounds very good. I used to lug around real Leslie cabs... ugh, so heavy.
"Let me love you" from the album "Truth" still floors me, just a killer tone!!
I saw the Master in 1980 There and Back Tour. Never seen a concert better than that. R. I. P. Jeff will never be another like you.
I’ve met Seymour .. I’ve held his Tele Gib.. the JB Humbucker and the John Milner bucker
IMHO Goin Down was such a great set of solos. Maybe his best. Innovations ... the stuff he played was astounding. Breaking new ground. Maybe that's why I like it so much.
There's a version from 1986 live in Japan with Jan Hammer and Simon Philipps. Jeff plays a white Tele through Fender Twin Reverb amps and it sounds almost exactly like the original. Great version with a slight different harmony. Check it out, it is available on RUclips. Thanks, Tim, for this interesting video!
The Ronnie Scott's performance of CWEAL has an equally astounding bass solo by a 20-year-old Tal Wilkenfeld.
I actually build my JB tribute when he died, its an all black, blackout strat.
With aged atiquity JB jazz pickups, the tele-gibb wiring.
Graphite nut, rolling string trees.
Super stable player! I absolutely love it.
Perhaps I should make a video on it.
Jeff Beck was, is, & will ALWAYS be my favorite guitarist. Saw him 15 times. His playing puts me in a place no other musician can. The day he died devastated me. Cried like a baby all day/night.
JB was a Mechanic…… that’s what was going on….. perfectly adjusted.
I think you've missed a key part of the Partscaster story. My understanding is that Seymour Duncan took Jeff's Esquire (that featured on all those Yardbirds' classics) in exchange. It was only after he'd left the studio that Jeff realised what he'd allowed I believe that Esquire is now part of the Hard Rock empire.
PS I never knew that Seymour Duncan worked at the Soundhouse in Soho square, which was a regular hangout and dream machine of mine. I once played a 12-string MIM Strat there. It would never compete with my Rick, but was great for slide in open G. Ahhh, memories.
People should check out Tommy Emmanuel's acoustic live version of "Since We've Ended as Lovers". It will not disappoint you.
At one point in this video you told the story about your wife and you said: when you back up the great ones.... YOU ARE ONE OF THE GREAT ONES!!
Beck wasn't originally from Earth.. There's no other way to explain his use of the same tool as every other famous guitarist, with how far he took his understanding and use! This song is a masterpiece SQUARED! Maybe even CUBED to beyond three dimensional. IMO, the only song that comes close is Ten Years Gone. And they played together back in the day. Talk about DIVINE Intervention! Do you think you can use that bass to do a Wichita Lineman solo? That would be a nice fill for that evasive hole nobody really talks about.
I'm a bit confused as you mention a „tritone“ you play over the Gmaj7 (in movement 3) - in my understanding a tritone is basically 2 notes a tritone (flatted 5th) apart, but in a Gmaj7 chord you actually don't have that specific interval... (you would have in a regular dominant G7, though). What am I not getting here?
Huh? You do realize the first 2 Van Halen albums were basically recorded on junk partscasters right? Same with Surfing with the Alien, and also Passion and Warfare. The person makes the music, not the guitar.
The vibrato arm clip... technically, yes, very difficult, but was this the best example of virtuosic performance using that technique? Is he even the master of it?
That clip reminds me of Phil Keaggy, esp. with the synchronized volume knob control, and it makes me wonder why I've never heard you mention him. Is it because he doesn't fit with the L.A. crowd? Maybe you've covered him and I just missed it?
I still miss Jeff Beck. I think he’s the only guitarist who could literally move me to tears just by playing his guitar. No wait, Pat Metheny managed to do that to me once as well (with ‘Letter from Home’. Although that was more because of the beauty of the song itself).
I played ‘Cause we’ve ended as lovers’ when I graduated at the conservatory of music back in 1997. I always loved that Gmaj7 chord. You have no idea how many times I have seen bands covering this song, but changed the Gmaj7 into a G7. Apparently lots of people can’t get used to that sound. Their ears demand a dominant seventh chord to resolve into the C-7. 😬
Don't know whether this got through, so I'll try again.
Tim, I’m sure you’ve heard the saying ‘it’s not the joke, it’s the way you tell it’.
Well, the essence of that is true in so many fields and sphere’s. It highlights the artist not the material. And I, a keen guitarist for at least 55 years but who has only made progress in the past ten years once I decided to TRY a little harder and took jazz guitar lessons, am more inclined to ‘it’s not the guitar, it’s the music you produce with it’.
Basically, different electric guitars, different pickups, different amps and all the rest are a completely closed book to me. I don’t doubt, and will never deny, that all that means a great deal to better guitarists than me. But to me: zilch.
I am not decrying them. In fact, more likely I am decrying myself, but . . .
NB Blow By Blow and Wired are two of my favourites albums. A close second are Rough And Ready and The Jeff Beck Group. At the time I bought Beck, Bogert & Appice and was, er, disappointed. Yes, ‘great playing’ but certainly not the same brilliance as Blow and Wired.
All the best, Patrick from North Cornwall, UK.
The simplest songs are the most beautiful, perhaps?
I remember seeing Miles Davis with Mike Stern and Bill Evans (sax player) and they played a couple of 20 minute songs with 1 or at best 2 chords, just riffin" and solos.
That's why guys like you Tim are so good, you don't run out of good ideas even playing over simple, even childlike changes.
The old Longhorn Tele necks have been largely forgotten, - probably because the originals didn't have truss rods, - but those 3+ 3 headstocks draw Fender and Gibson designs ever closer.I'm still waiting for the standardized Gibson scale conversion necks to appear on Squier's,- why wouldn't they be offered as Paranormal or Pawn Shop? Scale length always makes a huge difference.
One of the things I noticed when I followed Tim's suggestion to watch Steve Lukather play the song is that Lukather's arrangement doesn't include the Gmaj7 chord. Luke uses Csus4-Cmajor in those bars. Kind of a shame as that Gmaj7 chord is the best part of the song.
Tim ...that solo is almost exactly like rhe Sax intro of the Careless Whisper song !
It is just played continuosly insted of in sections as Jeff did !!!
What you think ? Plaggio by George Michael ??
I love my Neo Mini Vent II - incredible pedal worth every penny of the $400 price!
Jeff Beck stole your girl. Your guitars also want to go to Jeff Beck. Happened to Page and Clapton, too. Good company.
I’m surprised Jeff never embraced PRS, with its superior tremolo system?
Jeff regularly created songs that made the angels cry: Definitely Maybe, Where Were You, The Final Peace, and Suspension come quickly to mind. I love to take late night drives, turn off the dash lights, and put Suspension on repeat. It cleanses the soul.
My Jeff Beck experience.. It was in i think 1999 I saw him at the Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City CA....a fantastic place to see someone 5000 seat intimate setting and great sound. Jeff was astounding as one would expect so much so that about 1/2 way through I had to go outside and catch a breath as I came out another door opened and there was a guy that had a look on his face that was exactly how i felt .. i quipped ..you to huh? we both laughed ...
Also, that 'imbalanced middle' position is my favorite lead tone on my Les Paul...call it my 'fat lead'. It's pretty simple since I do most of my rhythm playing in middle position with both volumes at around 7-7.5, then simply turn up the bridge volume for that lead tone, and then switch to bridge pickup only if I need it to cut more. Only thing is, it seems to work best on a Les Paul with '50s wiring' and audio taper pots with that quicker ramp of level.
Totally agree with the Leslie effect. But I still don’t believe a simulated Leslie in 2024 compares with the sound, texture and emotion of a real Leslie with its spinning horns and rotating speaker baffle (yes, I’m that old). Whiter Shade of Pale comes to mind as one of the great Leslie tunes of all time. Great video as usual, Tim. Thanks.
As Tim feels he needs to share I do too. Check Jeff at Ronnie Scott’s. Full show. Several guests. Amazing 🤙🤙
It would have been mind blowing if Beck played Giant Steps changes.
Hey Tim, I just watched a documentary on RUclips called hired guns fantastic documentary on the real musicians in the industry. I was hoping to see you on there because frankly, I think you’re the best guitar player I’ve ever seen.
Haven't the #### what your talking about, whatever I play notes that are in tune to the chords. But agree about Jeff, and caught him live in the 2000's
Fenders are over priced, can't afford them. Luckily China made affordable guitars, they are robust in design and sound just as good.
Not to be a pain. I realise everything is about taste I guess. My absolute favourite Jeff Beck piece is his take on Charles Mingus’s ‘ Good by Pork Pie Hat’ off the Wired album. Tim , you could write a thesis on the breakdown in this tune. Art of the highest order . Sonically unsurpassed . The snap and control when he hits the Octavia nearing the end of the tune is literally breathtaking . Anyway I would love for you or Beato to give it your full attention . Thanks so much for all you do. Cheers
The Only Concert ,i was 2 nd Row, Center Stage, at Miami Arena. Jeff Beck with Stevie Ray Vaughn.....'89 or '90...Both Sets were AMAZING.....Best Rock Show i ever saw!
Saw that at cap ctr. And out of nowhere. Srv stops in the middle of a song and got on a religious rant. And getting clean . The whole audience was confused . . Then he passed away after that it was nuts Did he do that at Miami show ??
@@godbyone No....straight up Rock Show, Beck Mellowed things out ....then they Jammed for a few Songs. The thing I remember most was bits of skin or string ripping out in the lights, and both legends had hands that looked like 80 year old men's hands , going Skeletal
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What color is that PRS? It's hard to tell if it's oxblood in color or not. It doesn't seem as reddish. I've thought about a McCarty in that color.
BTW, thanks for the lesson on this song. I love this song and now I will have to try to play/learn it.
Hi Tim. Love all your work. I bought a guitar from my electrician on a job in 2012. Been playing since then. Would love to meet you one day to sit down and finally find out why I sick at this.
Tim, sir. Your episodes are absolutely amazing. Love them.
Great youTube with 1 exception: the drummer is Carmine A PEACE
I have a Parts Tele with 2 humbuckers , flame maple top , rosewood fingerboard . I call it my Les Tell .
Hello, I am French and I love what you do. but I don't speak English so you could activate the French subtitles on your videos
Using a more or less stock vintage Fender style 6 point tremolo Beck, to get those pitches right requires OCD laser focus, a lot of talent and a hell of a lot of patience.
He could have used a double locking custom made by NASA nuclear powered one but Jeff never takes the easy way out.
I was never a big fan of Beck. I grew up with Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads and I thought the faster and louder you played the better you were. Now, I have an appreciation for the space between the notes. This Beck piece is just beautiful.
This song always reminds me of Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin.