Jeff was my friend. Met him in 1977, between Blow By Blow, and Wired. He was getting inspiration from trying different things. 1. The slide bar 2. The Whammy Bar 3. A constant innovator 4. He was focused. But having problems at that time trying to get the Jeff Beck Group back together. I had just gotten to California from Fla. And wanted to sing. He arranged for me to do a recording at a studio. He Helped other musicians up. And Collaborated with lots of well knowns, but was shy like to. Always thinking ahead. I had just discovered his music. And got to help assist him at his home. I am totally crushed to know he is gone. He pushed himself on that Tour. I didn't know that I would be at one of his last concerts. I was honored. And a long time fan. I sent notes back stage trying to reconnect. He is gone but his music lives on.
Nice one Joan The best Jeff Beck one I've seen It really rocks! Lucky you got to go to that concert in LA Wish you had a photo from back when that you could have got through to him. Dad that he passed on. RIP
Apparently there was a phone call between Jimmy Page and Clapton that went something like: ring ring...Jeff is getting really good. Yeah, I know. No, no. He's getting *really* good.
I honestly think Beck is the greatest technician of all time - just because of how many genres he has completely mastered. Funk, Rock, Pop, Jazz Fusion, Blues, Blues Rock. Nobody else can do what he does
Jeff Beck had so many tools in his kit, it's absolutely amazing. The way he seamlessly switched from pick to fingers, all the sonic tricks he had, there will never be another like him. The best of the best for me right there.
I really love the fact that he uses a pick, where he finds it most useful and his fingers likewise - he doesn't cling dogmatically to one or the other, but utilizes all possible assets to make great music, as a musician really should!
@@MadsBoldingMusic I don't think he uses the pick at all anymore, but it's in no way a limitation. I could be wrong, but I feel I've read that he got tired of the pick falling out of his hand. The tone he gets with his fingers is otherworldly incomparably sublime and second to none, in my opinion.
@@michaelgarza8271 I largely agree - he seems to use a pick only when he has to play old tunes of his that can be played no other way. Scatterbrain is an example of this: For the main riff; pick, for the B-section and jazzy jams; fingers.
Beck can certainly burn down the house with his solos, but he can also get some of the most soft, gentle, cloud-like tones out of his guitar. I feel like I could drift off, relax and "float downstream".
Its going above the level of exceptional this performance....it's why I keep getting drawn back to it....its become a pilgrimage for me...I can't stop coming back to watch Jeff play this.
Most underrated guitarist ever. Total command of the instrument. Excellent phrasing and control. This was the 70s and it still sounds like heaven today.
@@briweeks71 So you think Sambora and Gibbons deserve the same billing? Besides, I'll bet you can find more people who don't know who Billy Gibbons is than Jeff Beck.
@@Relayer6a Ha ha! Ask anybody on the street about Blow by Blow, and you'll get ..blow what? Then ask about Sharp Dressed Man or Living on a Prayer, yep, they know that, Van Halen, Hendrix, they know that. Beck? You mean that I'm a Loser dude? lol
@@briweeks71 Keep moving those goalposts. lol Ask them the name of the guitarist on Sharp Dressed Man and most won't have a clue. And just because a song has more commercial success doesn't mean the public has a clue who the guitarist on the album is. Besides, it's not like Sambora or Gibbins doesn't deserve to be famous. You putting them down like you are actually shows what you know, or don't know, about guitarists.
Well, it's been a very long time since I listened to Jeff Beck. But after listening to a bunch of stuff, old and new, on youtube tonight, I am again convinced he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
I saw him live in 99 or 2000. I was 17 or 18. Better than any one I saw before or since. I was so far back I never saw the guys face before RUclips. Still had the exact same haircut. I could see the hair on both sides that’s it. Took me 2 decade to realize he had a face.
@@vicferrari89 you probably haven’t listened to much jazz- although he isn’t a jazz player per se a lot of this is jazz music. You should hear how boring real jazz players are lol. It’s an acquired taste can be very difficult to appreciate. Real jazz guitarists don’t even bend the strings- he puts a lot more life into this music then many are used to.
At 62 years of age I have heard almost every phenomenal guitarist you can imagine even Django Reinhardt with that being said, I am not going to say that Jeff Beck is the greatest guitarist in the world but I will say he is the only greatest guitarist in the world that can do what he does nobody else can copy him nobody sounds like him nobody has his feel sensitivity phrasing all of it he's a one-of-a-kind and is always an eargasm musically and raises the bar with every album he puts out. I have never in my lifetime heard another guitarist that has a command of the instrument like Jeff and who has also mimicked the human voice operatic at that!! nobody can do what Jeff does. they still try. 😋
Totally agree with you. The musical concepts here were not only flowing in abundance but were varied in nature. Hendrix, Page, Popovic, Beck. All demonstrate brilliance with a river profuse with ideas and artful executions. But Beck has a gift that raises him above the others. A sophistication that transcends virtuosity, a generous musical intellect, and a restraint from the ordinary. Ahhhhhhh
Jeff Beck is unbelievably phenomenal. When pitted against other guitarist the thing people don't talk about is that Jeff Beck's music is all instrumental, he expresses his musical vision without words,very vividly, better than anybody else, not just the song here or there but whole albums. He will be sorely missed 🙏
It's funny how many people love his stuff, music, cars, guitars, personality, bands etc etc for years. I put on a recording of hi ho silver lining and folks will say... who's that singing?
Just wonderful. He has no peers among guitar players. Nobody sounds like him, writes like him, or performs like him. Nobody attempts to emulate him (at least on stage, some of us try in private, but don't get very far).
The culmination of falling in love with the electric guitar while still a toddler. Tried to make his ow several times before finally getting a real one. Years and years of playing, listening to records at slow speed, backwards and forwards to find out how his guitar heroes did it. No, another Jeff Beck will never come around again. Irreplaceable.
Gotta say, the band backing Jeff are no slouches either. Man, that is some nice bass playing too....much appreciated if anyone can fill me in on the other players here :-)
I've never hear a guitar player phrase or feel out the interpretation of a song like Jeff is doing here. He just juices every note for what it's worth...and puts it all together in a soulful way. One of my Fav videos of Jeff Beck. Best guitar groove I've heard in my 36 years of listening and playing guitar!
He's a Prodigy. Highly gifted. Like no other. He's still around isn't he. Listened to him since I was 17. I'm going on 63. He is a Master and looks pretty dam hot doing it!
It’s about time that the country of his birth did something to commemorate the greatest guitarist to come from our shores.He deserves recognition for being the best of the best, so where is it ???????
Gutted - just gutted. He was just the master of the instrument. His touch, his tone, his phrasing and his melody choices - just way ahead of the pack. I feel privileged to have seen him live. Thankfully there is so much footage available for us to tune into. But knowing he has gone is still hard to accept. RIP Govenor !! You were and are one of a kind.
All is not what it seems...this is actually a 1954 Gold Top with the wrapover bridge, not the best for staying in tune or for string bends. It was stripped and re-finished with a dark red-brown colour that became known as oxblood and also had the P 90 pick ups replaced with humbuckers. So in fact this a close relation of Neil Young's Old Black guitar, also originally a Gold Top from 1953-4
The bridge effects the intonation, not how easy the guitar goes out of tune. There is no way to adjust the intonation with that bridge, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is any intonation problem. The LP has no bigger problem staying in tune that any other 3-tuner-on-a-side guitar. That's why the g-string can be a pain in the ass on a lot of guitars. My 70's LP Custom also has a 3-piece neck which is stable as hell. I'm afraid the truss rod nut might be frozen because I never have to tweak it. I wish I could say that for my Strat, it's truss rod is always begging for attention.
His timing phrasing groove feel taste tone versatility .... he is the ACE since 1962... for many reason he's really one of the greatest electric guitar player ever, probably the number 1
Clapton was being interview many many years ago when asked about jeff beck he said there is something mean and nasty about Ole Becky that beats everyone else
RIP Jeff, one of the best guitarists to ever exist. Even though it's a sad moment, I'll be happy that I coexisted with this man. RIP and God bless you.
@@sandeedobberstine5591 We're justified in our gratitude for having lived on Earth with men and women of unusual greatness in our common earthly time together, a time which is both brief and fleeting.
One of the best aspects of Jeff is that he gave so many young musicians a start and some limelight to get their careers going. What better resume could you have than;" I played with Jeff Beck".
and if you ask Tal Wilkenfeld & Carmen Vandenberg, the talk about him with true reverence: "He's a great man," Carmen says in an interview, & if you haven't seen Tal's deeply-moving tribute on Twitter the day he died, you absolutely _must_ find it.
The very best. The Master. Mr Beck could play anything and every guitar player should aspire to his creative exploration. I have friends who only like certain styles, but they are not really musicians and certainly not as gifted as Mr Beck whose duty it was to push the boundaries.
That Les Paul sounds so warmmmmmmmmmmmm ~ just beautiful. Same Oxford Blood standard Les Paul is illustrated on the cover of Blow by Blow ~ This is just awesome to see ~
Jeff's improvisational skills were off the charts, chain, whatever. What he does at 1:29 shows how deftly he would play in the pocket and produce pearls in a flash. So talented, so unique, and he embodied those qualities until the very end. Jeff Beck's music has been a part of my life for over 40 years, and it will ring in my ears until it's my time--I can think of no better soundtrack. Godspeed, Jeff.
I don't strangely, think of him as an improviser. Having seen him in concert at his - in my opinion, mid-70's peak, he played, in opening for Aerosmith, note for note what was on Blow-By-Blow and Wired. Not so much as a grace note's difference. I think of him as a fantastic interpreter. He worked up 'charts' in his head; complicated 'jazzy' if you like, versions of various other composers tunes.
@@allancerf9038 -- I've seen him at least six times over a 38-year stretch, and with the exception of a few tunes on the "There and Back" tour, I've never heard him play spot-on, note-for-note renditions of anything. He was always pushing the envelope and coming up with variations on melodic themes and taking off the beaten path rhythmic excursions. Among his contemporaries, he struck me as the wellspring that never seemed to dry up. A lot of RUclips content on Beck's performances bears that out as well.
@@tswrench I'm a professional musician with really good relative pitch. But you don't have to have those qualities - you just have to listen TO youtube - to hear it borne out. Like THIS video where you find yourself commenting. This is precisely the same set of notes as the album version Beck's cover of She's a Woman. LOL. Tell me what notes and in which bars Jeff plays something different? The Beck that played at the Seattle Center Coliseum was in his prime and played the songs note for note. Indeed JAN HAMMER improvised far more than Jeff. Immensely more. And I counted it as a good thing. His Ronnie Scott Gigs on You Tube are quite good, but he's not in his absolute zenith as a player. Often musicians aren't as good in their sixties. At Ronnie Scott's Jeff's tapping for instance is not as good as before - though tapping is not a huge part of his technique - thank God! So some of the playing from 2007 forward is different - a tad diminished at times. Not to say he didn't have some great nights, still...but a slightly diminished technique is not improvising. If you compare the amount of improvising Clapton for example does, Beck is a tiny fraction of that. I agree he may change the rhythms up...if you can find one example on youtube where he goes off with a variation on a melodic theme - please let me know. If he re-harmonizes, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, or Star Cycle - I'd love to hear it in all seriousness. Jeff is, according to Simon Phillips and Jan Hammer and many others who played with him on/off for years - and according to me and most folks, a "follow the melody guy." People LIKE to hear what's on the recordings, me included. And Jeff poured so much energy (I almost wrote pours until I remembered he's died, which is quite sad) into his arrangements, well, here is what he said tswrench: He said that his arrangements, his 'parts' are so demanding that he has to pay attention to what he's playing. What's on the records is demanding enough. Anyway, you're lucky if you saw him six times playing very different parts to the records. I don't mean to argue. If anyone can point to any Beck performance that doesn't mainly VERY closely, follow the melodic lines on the records, I'd love to hear them. I think we both agree the man's playing was phenomenal and enjoyable. Take care.
@@allancerf9038 -- Uh-huh. Whether you're a professional musician or no, who cares? I was eulogizing one of my favorite guitar players and respectfully observing his passing. I think it's obvious that that IS the point. In that context it's hard to see your point as being one worth making--at all. And yet, that didn't deter you. Way to read the room. So, you feel you've detected some misstatement in the original post concerning my use of the word 'improvisation,' as it applies to Jeff Beck's playing. That, in turn, triggered you to do a little dyspeptic dance designed to validate your point at the expense of mine. Frankly, your drive-by is not appreciated. You wasted a lot of perfectly good white space to contentiously blurt out answers to questions no one was asking. I took some music theory courses in college, and I play (that's how I know when one of my favorite guitarists is playing note-for-note or not.) So, what is improvisation if not playing what you feel like playing in the moment? It's spontaneous creativity away from manuscript and rote memorization, no? I imagine you might relish the opportunity to put a finer point on it, but I'm really not interested in picking fly shit out of pepper with anyone over this. I just wanted to pen a personal tribute to a great musician who influenced millions over the course of a career that spanned over 6 decades. Notwithstanding your personal views, here's what the following query, 'Was jeff beck a great improvisational guitarist,' yielded right out the gate: "He was known for his improvising, love of harmonics and the whammy bar on his preferred guitar, the Fender Stratocaster. 'Jeff Beck is the best guitar player on the planet,' Joe Perry, the lead guitarist of Aerosmith, told The New York Times in 2010." Beck is solidly ensconced in every list of "10 Best Rock Improv Guitarists" I looked at (and I'm not even into that shit--how quickly we forget the axiom that correctly says--it's all subjective). Sorry for the surliness (I've had better days) Good luck
@@tswrench You're not very bright - out the gate. Joe Perry was there the night Beck stole the show; just become some guy in his 70's makes an erroneous statement, doesn't mean it's true. You've wasted 10 seconds of my time dissembling. You overreact because a friendly person was simply saying Jeff Beck was NOT known by and large as an improviser, and especially not, as Simon Phillips noted, a writer. Rather a brilliant soloist who in his own words, improvised so little because what he had to recreate from the recordings took all his attention. "But I get my name on the tickets" as Jeff joked, and he was fine with that. This very clip of She's a Woman, you thick idiot, bears that out. Sure he riffed out (the icing) but the attraction is the unchanged 'cake' - the note-for-note recreation of his records. And it was no different when you saw him during the There And Back Tour, no matter how many Bud Lights you guzzled, or what your Led Boots, tin ear, made you think you heard. I shudder to think to think of your 'music.' If it's as bad as your syntax, I can only suggest you not, eulogize, but - euthanize your guitar and your word processor. Maybe take a breath and put the latex back where it started it's round-trip journey.
I came here to post the same thing. I keep having to come back to listen to it over and over. With the keyboard in the mix, it's super 70's Les Paul soul.
The Beatles are my favorite group, and I'm a huge fan of Jeff as well--yet I had no idea this performance even existed! Brilliant interpretation of a wonderful song!
Devastated by the news. I was lucky to see him in concert in Dublin back in 2014. I just stood in awe for the whole night, an incredible performance. He was a genius. Rest in Peace Jeff, you’ll never be forgotten 😔🎸🙏🏻
Remember watching this as a spotty teenager, and being blown away. Viewing now, as an old fart, I am still blown away. I think Jeff was a the height of his powers at this point, although I love his playing today. Great quality on the clip. I first saw it in black and white, simpler times....ha!
i was a bartender at this place back in the day when jeff beck flew into town to play a free concert with this line up the entire place was jumping the air was electrified place was packed way over capacity people were spilling out onto the street the mos eisley cantina would never be the same...
Omg I'm in love with this solo. Classic Beck, a handful of tricks you won't hear anywhere else, that don't require great technique, just the feel and the imagination. A rare kind.
This is superb… he was arguably one of the most inventive guitarists in rock, he did seem to really enjoy pushing the creative envelope rather than just relying on a comfort zone style.
I have listened to Jeff since the Yardbird days , Remember , " Over under sideways down , The nazz are blue ., He didn't dick around just let it rip and it is really pleasant to know that he is still doing it . God bless you sir , you are a true professional .
+Linki Link However, this song is from the 60s. And for me, the music of the 60 touched me more. Like a miracle, every week a new genius in music would show up. I can't even say which was the best. They were all amazing. Jeff Beck is one of them.
+Virginia Abreu de Paula In a world without decades the period from 66 to 76 is the best. let's soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of that period! Really Revolver started it all album wise.
So expressive, you would have to have that sound in your head first, the way it changes tempo, Jeff finds notes, that kiss the melody and slows it right down. The atmosphere is far greater than the instrument, he is communicating what he is feeling. Masterful
The greatest guitarist of all time is Jeff Beck - he should be Sir Jeff Beck. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life. Sadly. Jeff has left us. Too upsetting for words.
Dans une interview ancienne Jeff disait qu'il recherchait le "note bleue". Il l'a bien sûr trouvée ! C 'était un pur génie, un alchimiste sans compromissions. Comme le rappelle Page dans un bel hommage, il y a nous autres mortels et il y avait Jeff Beck...
Okay, I've never heard anything like this before; but then again this is The great Jeff Beck. Superb. I had to listen again just to believe my ears .😢❤.
He was so much better than anyone else in 1976 so 45 years later with his broad interest in many genres and his dedication to his craft there's no one even close. Thanks Mr. Beck for sharing your amazing skill and for being more patient with your interviews of late. Come back to Las Vegas soon
I strongly urge you to watch Max Ostro “CA house” “Rhumba” “I switched to semi hollow guitars” “waterbear” “JTC sessions” and many more. Him and JB are my 2 favorite guitarists. The guitar is in good hands. There’s even guys like Matteo Mancuso that are also incredible. But Max is magical. There’s a difference.
Jeff set up the Fender Amp and Guitar in his living room one time and played for me, and it just made me cry. I will always remember this. Joan Bryant
Great memory Joan. What a blast. x
Cap
"Jeff Beck has left the building and it is a lonelier place without him" - Sir Paul McCartney
That's why he is minor Gentry or something?
To me this is the perfect Les Paul sound - not too overdriven, not too clean, just nice. It's kind of a shame he quit LPs
Heck yea. That LP sounded great!
I think that's just the Jeff sound...
Jeff was my friend. Met him in 1977, between Blow By Blow, and Wired. He was getting inspiration from trying different things.
1. The slide bar
2. The Whammy Bar
3. A constant innovator
4. He was focused. But having problems at that time trying to get the Jeff Beck Group back together. I had just gotten to California from Fla. And wanted to sing. He arranged for me to do a recording at a studio. He Helped other musicians up.
And Collaborated with lots of well knowns, but was shy like to. Always thinking ahead. I had just discovered his music. And got to help assist him at his home. I am totally crushed to know he is gone. He pushed himself on that Tour. I didn't know that I would be at one of his last concerts. I was honored. And a long time fan. I sent notes back stage trying to reconnect. He is gone but his music lives on.
Nice one Joan
The best Jeff Beck one I've seen
It really rocks! Lucky you got to go to that concert in LA Wish you had a photo from back when that you could have got through to him. Dad that he passed on. RIP
Yes, Jeff was very kind and well mannered. That was something that shone through. He had rules that he stuck to. Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
He was the definition of Cool without even trying to be cool. He just was
We just lost Jeff Beck about an hour ago. A tremendous loss for the music world. Jeff was one of the greatest guitar players to ever live.
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God bless him love him, man
When we was young, Mate. We've lost a Great One.
私も悲しいです。😭from japan
A Titan .
The nuances here are just gorgeous....gosh I miss the goat!
He's probably the most gifted of the guitar heroes from his era. When he's into it, he's without equal.
Which is all the time!
@@kathy2trips At least when he's not obsessed about the next hot rod he's going to build.
Agree 100%. As a guitarist myself, I can tell you he is the hardest to copy. His phrasing, tone and attack are all so uniquely his.
Apparently there was a phone call between Jimmy Page and Clapton that went something like: ring ring...Jeff is getting really good. Yeah, I know. No, no. He's getting *really* good.
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There are Gibson guitar players and Fender guitar players. And then there is Jeff Beck❤
What's the difference between a Fender and a Gibson is it the sound.
I honestly think Beck is the greatest technician of all time - just because of how many genres he has completely mastered. Funk, Rock, Pop, Jazz Fusion, Blues, Blues Rock. Nobody else can do what he does
I agree.
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and never forget that Jeff came up with the opening drum beat to Superstition! Funk supreme
@@blues4ray Jeff is a living legend!
@Chris James: McLaughlin has mastered even more styles of music.
Only Jeff Beck could take a Beatles song, and turn it into this.
Listen to Alvin Lee, "She's so heavy".
@@readbetweenthelineslll1635 Check it out. Unless you don't like Lee's soloing style, he's pretty in your face, it's awesome.
Well, then tries Eddie Hazels version of she’s so heavy
Plus Sir George Martin produced the classic 'Blow by Blow' album on which this appeared
I'm surprised too. I never thought anyone would be able to make a Beatles song worth listening to.
Jeff Beck had so many tools in his kit, it's absolutely amazing. The way he seamlessly switched from pick to fingers, all the sonic tricks he had, there will never be another like him. The best of the best for me right there.
C'est vrai!et c'est sa curiosité à jouer plein de styles,de ne jamais se contenter de se qu'il maîtrisait déjà qui en fait un maestro.RIP Jeff BECK
I really love the fact that he uses a pick, where he finds it most useful and his fingers likewise - he doesn't cling dogmatically to one or the other, but utilizes all possible assets to make great music, as a musician really should!
You must known of chicken picking a.k.a. hybrid picking for the academic out there.
@@einarabelc5 I certainly do, and so does Jeff Beck for sure ^^
@@MadsBoldingMusic I don't think he uses the pick at all anymore, but it's in no way a limitation. I could be wrong, but I feel I've read that he got tired of the pick falling out of his hand. The tone he gets with his fingers is otherworldly incomparably sublime and second to none, in my opinion.
@@michaelgarza8271 I largely agree - he seems to use a pick only when he has to play old tunes of his that can be played no other way. Scatterbrain is an example of this: For the main riff; pick, for the B-section and jazzy jams; fingers.
@@MadsBoldingMusic See ya in 2031....
Beck can certainly burn down the house with his solos, but he can also get some of the most soft, gentle, cloud-like tones out of his guitar. I feel like I could drift off, relax and "float downstream".
Float down stream like lennon screamed on tomorrow never knows on revolver ? It is not dying ... 😊
his guitar is more his voice than his actual voice. Jimmy Page always said Beck was the better player. He is right.
He makes the Guitar sing . No doubt there is no other like him in the world and never will be . Rest in peace Jeff ..
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
Have you never heard of Frank Marino a brilliant guitarist also . Wired and flash were my fav Jeff albums.
@@ih9368 a canadian boy
What a tone! I know Jeff Beck is better known for his strat but he's making the les Paul shine on this one!
Es que con tanta palanca no se le ve.the tremollo hide di artista,TE DAS CUEN
@@e.s.p.a.n.a ?
It's not about the guitar, but the playing.
@@herrbonk3635 exactly
@@herrbonk3635 Les Pauls are muddy pieces of shit though.
..almost un-imaginable: the pleasure one must get from being able to play a guitar this well. As a spectator this is exquisite talent to behold.
I don't think he plays Guitar...he seems to channel it through his soul....it's in another dimension of awesomeness.
Its going above the level of exceptional this performance....it's why I keep getting drawn back to it....its become a pilgrimage for me...I can't stop coming back to watch Jeff play this.
One of a (very) few guitar virtuosos. Nobody quite like Jeff.
Watching an artist that’s mastered their craft is sublime .
@@AlanAttack
What a wordsmith you are! Couldn’t have said it better !
Most underrated guitarist ever. Total command of the instrument. Excellent phrasing and control. This was the 70s and it still sounds like heaven today.
It's hard to say Beck is underrated. Maybe you're just talking to the wrong people. ;-)
@@Relayer6a Yeah, anybody knows who Jeff Beck is? Nope. Just chug that beer and put Billy Gibbons and Richie Sambora up there at the top.
@@briweeks71 So you think Sambora and Gibbons deserve the same billing? Besides, I'll bet you can find more people who don't know who Billy Gibbons is than Jeff Beck.
@@Relayer6a Ha ha! Ask anybody on the street about Blow by Blow, and you'll get ..blow what? Then ask about Sharp Dressed Man or Living on a Prayer, yep, they know that, Van Halen, Hendrix, they know that. Beck? You mean that I'm a Loser dude? lol
@@briweeks71 Keep moving those goalposts. lol
Ask them the name of the guitarist on Sharp Dressed Man and most won't have a clue. And just because a song has more commercial success doesn't mean the public has a clue who the guitarist on the album is. Besides, it's not like Sambora or Gibbins doesn't deserve to be famous. You putting them down like you are actually shows what you know, or don't know, about guitarists.
He turned up the volume to make a note sustain longer. That is so incredibly clever, it blows my mind.
XD Bro wait to realise he always have a finger on his Volume Knob xD
I've always loved how he doesn't dance all around. He's just chill. Love him
Yes he doesn't need to but he does pose a bit though.
You should have seen Segovia in his later years. Never danced a step. Great to watch.
Yet he does though! All subtle little flares! I love it!
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today...
you can't play any better than this.
@@scottgretencord478 Nice!
I agree!
Can't you?
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Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen would like to have a word with you
@@RoyPage1970EvH couldnt tie Becks shoes... only Jimi was anywhere near his level, but left too soon
jeff beck on a gibson= perfection
On a Gibson using a pick
yeah those were the days; he was good picker.
Just like clapton...
Does he even realize how ridiculously good he sounds on a Gibson?
@@nyg1954 You seen The Rock 'n' Roll Party honouring Les Paul?
Well, it's been a very long time since I listened to Jeff Beck. But after listening to a bunch of stuff, old and new, on youtube tonight, I am again convinced he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Certainly!!
Truth
I saw him live in 99 or 2000. I was 17 or 18. Better than any one I saw before or since. I was so far back I never saw the guys face before RUclips. Still had the exact same haircut. I could see the hair on both sides that’s it. Took me 2 decade to realize he had a face.
I would say, maybe, one of the most boring, but, hey, who am I?
@@vicferrari89 you probably haven’t listened to much jazz- although he isn’t a jazz player per se a lot of this is jazz music. You should hear how boring real jazz players are lol. It’s an acquired taste can be very difficult to appreciate. Real jazz guitarists don’t even bend the strings- he puts a lot more life into this music then many are used to.
At 62 years of age I have heard almost every phenomenal guitarist you can imagine even Django Reinhardt with that being said, I am not going to say that Jeff Beck is the greatest guitarist in the world but I will say he is the only greatest guitarist in the world that can do what he does nobody else can copy him nobody sounds like him nobody has his feel sensitivity phrasing all of it he's a one-of-a-kind and is always an eargasm musically and raises the bar with every album he puts out. I have never in my lifetime heard another guitarist that has a command of the instrument like Jeff and who has also mimicked the human voice operatic at that!! nobody can do what Jeff does. they still try. 😋
I agree. The only other guitarist for me like that was Frank Zappa. He sounded like no one else to me.
Totally agree with you. The musical concepts here were not only flowing in abundance but were varied in nature. Hendrix, Page, Popovic, Beck. All demonstrate brilliance with a river profuse with ideas and artful executions. But Beck has a gift that raises him above the others. A sophistication that transcends virtuosity, a generous musical intellect, and a restraint from the ordinary. Ahhhhhhh
@@mark7146 well said my friend yes I agree with you my first experience with Jeff was the there and back album I saw it for $10 go figure
RIP Jeff
All true statements
His bounce, swing and texture he can put in his playing is astounding.
Gotta give that bass player some major credit too
Who's that Bass Player?
Stefano Tuttobene asking the right questions here
The incredible Stephen Amazing, aka Stephen Fields.
Sadly, Fields, and now also Jimmy Copley, are both deceased.
Thank you wayne.
I like Beck's playing the most in this era
David O'Donovan True. It was some of his best work.
+RichaTord Rodriguez to me he got more expressive, I have enjoyed his later work immensely.
Great!
+David O'Donovan I like all of Jeffs playing, but I do agree with you Blow by Blow and Wired very deep music.
+drumheadthe1st Depth, yes you are spot on there. Cheers
Jeff Beck is unbelievably phenomenal. When pitted against other guitarist the thing people don't talk about is that Jeff Beck's music is all instrumental, he expresses his musical vision without words,very vividly, better than anybody else, not just the song here or there but whole albums. He will be sorely missed 🙏
I agree! You understand his music.
It's funny how many people love his stuff, music, cars, guitars, personality, bands etc etc for years.
I put on a recording of hi ho silver lining and folks will say... who's that singing?
Jeff Beck, 1944-2023. One of the absolute greatest rock guitarist's ever, a true musical legend. R. I. P.😪
OMG. My day's just had an upgrade!
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
My hero Jeff Beck. The master of fusion.
Rock boogie shred melodic tone bending genius.
Legendary guitarist. In my humble opinion he’s one of the top five best of all time
he is only in the top 5 if the other 4 are also Jeff Beck 😁😁😁
@@lyndonlisk8961 Well said!!
Indeed! The others being, in my own opinion: Robert Fripp, Pat Metheny, Steve Hackett and Mick Taylor👍🙌
@@zigzag2510 replace Hackett with Steve Howe and you’re on to something !
Just wonderful. He has no peers among guitar players. Nobody sounds like him, writes like him, or performs like him. Nobody attempts to emulate him (at least on stage, some of us try in private, but don't get very far).
Could not agree more...JB is simply the best!
Try taping your index to the whammy bar. I never tried it, might work though lol
The culmination of falling in love with the electric guitar while still a toddler. Tried to make his ow several times before finally getting a real one. Years and years of playing, listening to records at slow speed, backwards and forwards to find out how his guitar heroes did it. No, another Jeff Beck will never come around again. Irreplaceable.
He didn't as Simon Phillips said, write anything. Jeff said it too. He re-harmonized other great's music.
But he was fantastic.
Gotta say, the band backing Jeff are no slouches either. Man, that is some nice bass playing too....much appreciated if anyone can fill me in on the other players here :-)
A masterclass on how to let your guitar convey the passion in your soul. No lyrics necessary!
I've never hear a guitar player phrase or feel out the interpretation of a song like Jeff is doing here. He just juices every note for what it's worth...and puts it all together in a soulful way. One of my Fav videos of Jeff Beck. Best guitar groove I've heard in my 36 years of listening and playing guitar!
its called "overplaying"
@@markfrost2707 Jeff does have his moments, but nobody can "overplay" like he does! :)
Its unreal, he really uses that big thumb alot?
The Master at work.
He's a Prodigy. Highly gifted.
Like no other. He's still around isn't he. Listened to him since I was 17. I'm going on 63. He is a Master and looks pretty dam hot doing it!
Definitely!
The ultimate badass.
It’s about time that the country of his birth did something to commemorate the greatest guitarist to come from our shores.He deserves recognition for being the best of the best, so where is it ???????
Gutted - just gutted. He was just the master of the instrument. His touch, his tone, his phrasing and his melody choices - just way ahead of the pack. I feel privileged to have seen him live. Thankfully there is so much footage available for us to tune into. But knowing he has gone is still hard to accept. RIP Govenor !! You were and are one of a kind.
Always great to see JB with an LP!
Simon Warner A nice looking one at that.
All is not what it seems...this is actually a 1954 Gold Top with the wrapover bridge, not the best for staying in tune or for string bends. It was stripped and re-finished with a dark red-brown colour that became known as oxblood and also had the P 90 pick ups replaced with humbuckers. So in fact this a close relation of Neil Young's Old Black guitar, also originally a Gold Top from 1953-4
The bridge effects the intonation, not how easy the guitar goes out of tune. There is no way to adjust the intonation with that bridge, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is any intonation problem. The LP has no bigger problem staying in tune that any other 3-tuner-on-a-side guitar. That's why the g-string can be a pain in the ass on a lot of guitars. My 70's LP Custom also has a 3-piece neck which is stable as hell. I'm afraid the truss rod nut might be frozen because I never have to tweak it. I wish I could say that for my Strat, it's truss rod is always begging for attention.
toomuchrose Well it had Schaller machine heads they are pretty solid.
He was never quite the same when he switched to Strats.
His timing phrasing groove feel taste tone versatility .... he is the ACE since 1962... for many reason he's really one of the greatest electric guitar player ever, probably the number 1
Peerless IMO
Clapton was being interview many many years ago when asked about jeff beck he said there is something mean and nasty about Ole Becky that beats everyone else
SO cool to see footage of him switching back n forth with and without pick...
I think now he never uses a pick. Is this about the time he switched?
I'm still recovering from Jeff, knowing full well there'll never be a time I won't miss him!
RIP, Jeff, we still love you! See you up in Heaven!
Jeff Beck, such a legend ..
Same thing happens every time I watch this......I play the video again....and again......and again.....extraordinary awesomeness.
sweet Jesus that's so smooth...magical...totally in the zone
1.3m views should be 1.3 mill likes absolute genius on a guitar
RIP Jeff, one of the best guitarists to ever exist. Even though it's a sad moment, I'll be happy that I coexisted with this man. RIP and God bless you.
Well said! That helps “ just be happy we coexisted” thanks.
Me 2 brother! ✌️💜🎸
@@sandeedobberstine5591 We're justified in our gratitude for having lived on Earth with men and women of unusual greatness in our common earthly time together, a time which is both brief and fleeting.
This is the greatest performance on a guitar ever.
I just cannot believe he’s gone. His music will live on forever.
One of the best aspects of Jeff is that he gave so many young musicians a start and some limelight to get their careers going. What better resume could you have than;" I played with Jeff Beck".
and if you ask Tal Wilkenfeld & Carmen Vandenberg, the talk about him with true reverence: "He's a great man," Carmen says in an interview, & if you haven't seen Tal's deeply-moving tribute on Twitter the day he died, you absolutely _must_ find it.
The very best. The Master. Mr Beck could play anything and every guitar player should aspire to his creative exploration. I have friends who only like certain styles, but they are not really musicians and certainly not as gifted as Mr Beck whose duty it was to push the boundaries.
That Les Paul sounds so warmmmmmmmmmmmm ~ just beautiful.
Same Oxford Blood standard Les Paul is illustrated on the cover of Blow by Blow ~
This is just awesome to see ~
не совсем стандартный, у него отсутствует bridje
Jeff's improvisational skills were off the charts, chain, whatever. What he does at 1:29 shows how deftly he would play in the pocket and produce pearls in a flash. So talented, so unique, and he embodied those qualities until the very end. Jeff Beck's music has been a part of my life for over 40 years, and it will ring in my ears until it's my time--I can think of no better soundtrack. Godspeed, Jeff.
I don't strangely, think of him as an improviser. Having seen him in concert at his - in my opinion, mid-70's peak, he played, in opening for Aerosmith, note for note what was on Blow-By-Blow and Wired. Not so much as a grace note's difference.
I think of him as a fantastic interpreter. He worked up 'charts' in his head; complicated 'jazzy' if you like, versions of various other composers tunes.
@@allancerf9038 -- I've seen him at least six times over a 38-year stretch, and with the exception of a few tunes on the "There and Back" tour, I've never heard him play spot-on, note-for-note renditions of anything. He was always pushing the envelope and coming up with variations on melodic themes and taking off the beaten path rhythmic excursions.
Among his contemporaries, he struck me as the wellspring that never seemed to dry up. A lot of RUclips content on Beck's performances bears that out as well.
@@tswrench I'm a professional musician with really good relative pitch. But you don't have to have those qualities - you just have to listen TO youtube - to hear it borne out. Like THIS video where you find yourself commenting. This is precisely the same set of notes as the album version Beck's cover of She's a Woman. LOL. Tell me what notes and in which bars Jeff plays something different?
The Beck that played at the Seattle Center Coliseum was in his prime and played the songs note for note. Indeed JAN HAMMER improvised far more than Jeff. Immensely more. And I counted it as a good thing.
His Ronnie Scott Gigs on You Tube are quite good, but he's not in his absolute zenith as a player. Often musicians aren't as good in their sixties. At Ronnie Scott's Jeff's tapping for instance is not as good as before - though tapping is not a huge part of his technique - thank God! So some of the playing from 2007 forward is different - a tad diminished at times. Not to say he didn't have some great nights, still...but a slightly diminished technique is not improvising.
If you compare the amount of improvising Clapton for example does, Beck is a tiny fraction of that.
I agree he may change the rhythms up...if you can find one example on youtube where he goes off with a variation on a melodic theme - please let me know. If he re-harmonizes, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, or Star Cycle - I'd love to hear it in all seriousness.
Jeff is, according to Simon Phillips and Jan Hammer and many others who played with him on/off for years - and according to me and most folks, a "follow the melody guy." People LIKE to hear what's on the recordings, me included. And Jeff poured so much energy (I almost wrote pours until I remembered he's died, which is quite sad) into his arrangements, well, here is what he said tswrench:
He said that his arrangements, his 'parts' are so demanding that he has to pay attention to what he's playing. What's on the records is demanding enough.
Anyway, you're lucky if you saw him six times playing very different parts to the records. I don't mean to argue. If anyone can point to any Beck performance that doesn't mainly VERY closely, follow the melodic lines on the records, I'd love to hear them.
I think we both agree the man's playing was phenomenal and enjoyable.
Take care.
@@allancerf9038 -- Uh-huh. Whether you're a professional musician or no, who cares? I was eulogizing one of my favorite guitar players and respectfully observing his passing. I think it's obvious that that IS the point. In that context it's hard to see your point as being one worth making--at all. And yet, that didn't deter you. Way to read the room.
So, you feel you've detected some misstatement in the original post concerning my use of the word 'improvisation,' as it applies to Jeff Beck's playing. That, in turn, triggered you to do a little dyspeptic dance designed to validate your point at the expense of mine. Frankly, your drive-by is not appreciated. You wasted a lot of perfectly good white space to contentiously blurt out answers to questions no one was asking.
I took some music theory courses in college, and I play (that's how I know when one of my favorite guitarists is playing note-for-note or not.) So, what is improvisation if not playing what you feel like playing in the moment? It's spontaneous creativity away from manuscript and rote memorization, no? I imagine you might relish the opportunity to put a finer point on it, but I'm really not interested in picking fly shit out of pepper with anyone over this. I just wanted to pen a personal tribute to a great musician who influenced millions over the course of a career that spanned over 6 decades.
Notwithstanding your personal views, here's what the following query, 'Was jeff beck a great improvisational guitarist,' yielded right out the gate:
"He was known for his improvising, love of harmonics and the whammy bar on his preferred guitar, the Fender Stratocaster. 'Jeff Beck is the best guitar player on the planet,' Joe Perry, the lead guitarist of Aerosmith, told The New York Times in 2010."
Beck is solidly ensconced in every list of "10 Best Rock Improv Guitarists" I looked at (and I'm not even into that shit--how quickly we forget the axiom that correctly says--it's all subjective).
Sorry for the surliness (I've had better days)
Good luck
@@tswrench You're not very bright - out the gate.
Joe Perry was there the night Beck stole the show; just become some guy in his 70's makes an erroneous statement, doesn't mean it's true.
You've wasted 10 seconds of my time dissembling. You overreact because a friendly person was simply saying Jeff Beck was NOT known by and large as an improviser, and especially not, as Simon Phillips noted, a writer. Rather a brilliant soloist who in his own words, improvised so little because what he had to recreate from the recordings took all his attention. "But I get my name on the tickets" as Jeff joked, and he was fine with that.
This very clip of She's a Woman, you thick idiot, bears that out. Sure he riffed out (the icing) but the attraction is the unchanged 'cake' - the note-for-note recreation of his records. And it was no different when you saw him during the There And Back Tour, no matter how many Bud Lights you guzzled, or what your Led Boots, tin ear, made you think you heard.
I shudder to think to think of your 'music.' If it's as bad as your syntax, I can only suggest you not, eulogize, but - euthanize your guitar and your word processor. Maybe take a breath and put the latex back where it started it's round-trip journey.
That lick starting around 00:50 is one of my favourite pieces of guitar work ever, masterful
I came here to post the same thing. I keep having to come back to listen to it over and over. With the keyboard in the mix, it's super 70's Les Paul soul.
Yup.. it's amazing. This and "Another Place" are just perfection.
The Beatles are my favorite group, and I'm a huge fan of Jeff as well--yet I had no idea this performance even existed! Brilliant interpretation of a wonderful song!
Check out the wonderful studio version on the 'Blow by Blow' album .
You are a Beck fan and don't own "Blow by Blow"? You lie, man! Oh, IMHO, Beck is overrated. There, I said it.
Best Beatles cover ever performed, to my ears. (besides Dear Prudence by Siouxie)
The sensitivity and creativity of Jeff Beck and his crew.
Listen to his cover of A Day in the Life
Listen to Alvin Lee "She's so heavy". I hesitate to label anything in music BEST, but it's another excellent cover.
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
January 10, 2023, the day the Music died ........ rest in peace Maestro Beck, we will always miss you
Devastated by the news. I was lucky to see him in concert in Dublin back in 2014. I just stood in awe for the whole night, an incredible performance. He was a genius. Rest in Peace Jeff, you’ll never be forgotten 😔🎸🙏🏻
Remember watching this as a spotty teenager, and being blown away. Viewing now, as an old fart, I am still blown away. I think Jeff was a the height of his powers at this point, although I love his playing today. Great quality on the clip. I first saw it in black and white, simpler times....ha!
i was a bartender at this place back in the day when jeff beck flew into town to play a free concert with this line up the entire place was jumping the air was electrified place was packed way over capacity people were spilling out onto the street the mos eisley cantina would never be the same...
Great memories!
In these times where you can listen to everything everywhere it's not often to get really suprised. But this is one of the best i ever heard
The best IMO.
Omg I'm in love with this solo. Classic Beck, a handful of tricks you won't hear anywhere else, that don't require great technique, just the feel and the imagination. A rare kind.
This is superb… he was arguably one of the most inventive guitarists in rock, he did seem to really enjoy pushing the creative envelope rather than just relying on a comfort zone style.
RIP legend. It doesn't get any better than this! Unbelievably original!
The most amazing thing about Jeff, was he could tell such a story with his notes. Look at Where were you. Emotion, Angst, and Resolve all in one song.
GREATEST EVER!
All notes in the right spot.
2:52 ～
This part is so cool, I can't stop looking at it.
I have listened to Jeff since the Yardbird days , Remember , " Over under sideways down , The nazz are blue ., He didn't dick around just let it rip and it is really pleasant to know that he is still doing it . God bless you sir , you are a true professional .
RIP Jeff Beck. So sad you are gone, you are a guitar legend! 💞
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
RIP Jeff, amazing player, so sad to just hear of your passing.
The music of the 70 was the best in the world,and of all time ,as you can hear.
+Linki Link However, this song is from the 60s. And for me, the music of the 60 touched me more. Like a miracle, every week a new genius in music would show up. I can't even say which was the best. They were all amazing. Jeff Beck is one of them.
+Virginia Abreu de Paula In a world without decades the period from 66 to 76 is the best. let's soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of that period! Really Revolver started it all album wise.
Well Beck has made good music in many different decades
Jeff Beck's playing was always off the Planet👍...now he's gone back to his Planet😉...R.I.P...Mr Jeffrey Beck😇
The best as far as I’m concerned!
Never gets old....just keeps getting better!
Long life to Jeff! God bless him 🙏
I've loved this man for 52 years. Not much else lasts that long. He does this song with so much sweetness and emotion it kills me. Long live JB!
So expressive, you would have to have that sound in your head first, the way it changes tempo, Jeff finds notes, that kiss the melody and slows it right down. The atmosphere is far greater than the instrument, he is communicating what he is feeling. Masterful
The greatest guitarist of all time is Jeff Beck - he should be Sir Jeff Beck. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life. Sadly. Jeff has left us. Too upsetting for words.
Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jeff Beck Jammin in Heaven.
R.I.P brothers
Too cool for words. Absolutely my favorite guitarist.
Guitar god - love this guy - amazing and extremely influential for all modern guitar players. I salute Mr. Beck!
Well, it doesn't get any better than this.
Marc van Driel watch the Width of a Circle Live
Jimi Hendrix Machine Gun Fillmore East.
Dans une interview ancienne Jeff disait qu'il recherchait le "note bleue". Il l'a bien sûr trouvée ! C 'était un pur génie, un alchimiste sans compromissions. Comme le rappelle Page dans un bel hommage, il y a nous autres mortels et il y avait Jeff Beck...
How fantastic..
.genius, one swims away with this!!!!
I love Clapton, Page and Green etc of course, but Beck was always the coolest guitarist…love him
Try to listen the best of the best Paul Kossoff.
Na minha humilde opinião, é o guitarrista mais completo da história. The Most Complete Guitarist in History. R.I.P, Jeff♥️
Greatest living player....see him live at all costs
He is no more 😢
Sorry but Gary Moore is all around best!
As long as we have Jeff Beck on RUclips, we have a LOT!
Coming back to witness this virtuoso again.
Okay, I've never heard anything like this before; but then again this is The great Jeff Beck. Superb. I had to listen again just to believe my ears .😢❤.
Jeff Beck is a GREAT guitarist! 🎸
Peerless IMO
He was so much better than anyone else in 1976 so 45 years later with his broad interest in many genres and his dedication to his craft there's no one even close. Thanks Mr. Beck for sharing your amazing skill and for being more patient with your interviews of late. Come back to Las Vegas soon
Jeff Beck so amazing in every way and able to play with any other group so beautifully and not taking over, just there delivering the best.
I seen this live in 1976 best show iseen him 5 times
Jeff Beck... no other guitar player comes close in this generation. He was the BEST
I strongly urge you to watch Max Ostro “CA house” “Rhumba” “I switched to semi hollow guitars” “waterbear” “JTC sessions” and many more. Him and JB are my 2 favorite guitarists. The guitar is in good hands. There’s even guys like Matteo Mancuso that are also incredible. But Max is magical. There’s a difference.
Oh Lord,. this is just perfect. He practically composed another song based on the original with sheer perfection.
he always amazes me. he comes up with stuff no one else does. I wish I could meet him one more time. tell him how much I love him
It's just incredible...
Just like you hehe. When I started to play 5 years ago I found your channel. Learned a lot from you before I could figure stuff out by ear. Thanks.
could listen to that forever
One of a kind. A complete mix of melody, technique and soul.