RIP Jeff Beck

[Guildedagain]

You need this in the morning.

 

[Bernie]

Lots of good live videos blossom these days ; 'Wired' lovers would surely enjoy this one (possibly not the best but still qualified in my book)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcyG0PgX6uQ (oustanding Mingus' Good Bye Pork Pie Hat "cover")

 

[Westerly Wood]

Maybe Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix are 2 of the greatest Fender Strat guitar players of all time...

 

[Midnight Toker]

Maybe Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix are 2 of the greatest Fender Strat guitar players of all time...

For me, yes, but any time "best" or "greatest" comes up w/ musicians, it's always purely subjective. Many would argue SRV, or Yngwie, or Eric Johnson, or Blackmore, or Clapton, or Gilmour, or Belew, etc. I always prefer to stick w/ "favorite" on forums or else it tends to just go round in circles. Also a lot of credit typically goes to who is first, or most popular, regardless if they are actually the overall most accomplished. Music is too uniquely personal for me to take any of the endless "best/greatest lists" with anything more than a grain of salt.

 

[walrus]

Maybe Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix are 2 of the greatest Fender Strat guitar players of all time...

For me, yes, but any time "best" or "greatest" comes up w/ musicians, it's always purely subjective. Many would argue SRV, or Yngwie, or Eric Johnson, or Blackmore, or Clapton, or Gilmour, or Belew, etc. I always prefer to stick w/ "favorite" on forums or else it tends to just go round in circles. Also a lot of credit typically goes to who is first, or most popular, regardless if they are actually the overall most accomplished. Music is too uniquely personal for me to take any of the endless "best/greatest lists" with anything more than a grain of salt.

All of these guitarists have their own styles. Jeff Beck was the greatest Jeff Beck.

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

For me, yes, but any time "best" or "greatest" comes up w/ musicians, it's always purely subjective. Many would argue SRV, or Yngwie, or Eric Johnson, or Blackmore, or Clapton, or Gilmour, or Belew, etc. I always prefer to stick w/ "favorite" on forums or else it tends to just go round in circles. Also a lot of credit typically goes to who is first, or most popular, regardless if they are actually the overall most accomplished. Music is too uniquely personal for me to take any of the endless "best/greatest lists" with anything more than a grain of salt.

how about "one of the coolest, most inventive and iconic fender strat players of all time."

 

[Midnight Toker]

how about "one of the coolest, most inventive and iconic fender strat players of all time."

For me personally (and even though I’m a 40+ year die hard Zep fan and mega collector) Beck is my all time favorite guitarist, period.
(And as much as I love Hendrix, he barely scratches my top 5 list of my all time fav Strat players. )

 

[Bernie]

This guy had to play a Guild at some point...Remember ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU5zqidlxMQ . Look from about 1'10" after watching first 5 seconds or so (would be nice if someone could show a photograph from the video, as I don't know how to do it)

 

[Guildedagain]

Maybe Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix are 2 of the greatest Fender Strat guitar players of all time...

Hear hear

Overwhelmingly so, the rest of the short list for me is Gilmour, Trower, Knopfler, EVH.

 

[Canard]

This guy had to play a Guild at some point...Remember ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU5zqidlxMQ . Look from about 1'10" after watching first 5 seconds or so (would be nice if someone could show a photograph from the video, as I don't know how to do it)

A song written by Graham Gouldman, later of 10cc.

Jeff uses the 12 string with a DeArmond pickup to cover Brian Auger's studio harpsichord work.

I have also seen a clip with the band lip synching the studio recording with Jeff faking it on the 12 string.

 

[Bernie]

Thanks Canard. Jeff looked like a serious boy in those days !

 

[Canard]

For Your Love

That Jeff was a really talent guy. Listen to how he makes that Guild 12 string sound just like Brian Auger on the harpsichord!




The promo film. Jeff can now see why Eric left.






The Yardbirds (as wannabe Beatles, doing pretty good job, too) -- For Your Love & Hang on Sloopy (This couldn't last, could it? Check out Jeff's level of enthusiasm during Hang on Sloopy.)

 

[Canard]

Ooops ... how did this sneak in here? Ummm ... like sorry, eh?




Umm ... like oooops and sorry, again, eh? Finirà - Lisa Beat e i Bugiardi

 

[LeFinPepere]

Hang on sloopy? Lovely quick lick around 7:32. Even better because it signals the end of the song!!They fired Beck, didn't they? ( he was probably bored to death with stuff like that !)
"What if we fired Jeff Beck from the band?...Yeah, good idea!!"

 

[Midnight Toker]

Ooops ... how this sneak in here? Ummm ... like sorry, eh?




Umm ... like oooops and sorry, again, eh? Finirà - Lisa Beat e i Bugiardi

It was a common practice up until the very late 60’s-70’s for a publishing company that has a potential hit song written by someone who didn’t record the song themselves…to have multiple artists in various languages/markets record it.

Here’s a rare piece from my vast Zep collection. Sheet music from Robert Plant’s pre-Zep single on CBS. Also recorded in Italian by Arnella Vanoni.

 

[Midnight Toker]

And as for Beck being “fired” from the YB. It may have been announced that way publicly to save face at the time, but story has it he was fed up w/ being on the Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars tour…a traveling circus of sorts w/ the YB being the only rock band on the bill and really having no business being part of it..artistically. The story goes that Beck simply got off the bus somewhere, and never got back on. He even left his Tele behind, which he later told Page to keep. (It would eventually become Page’s “dragon Tele”.) Plus, Peter Grant was the YB’s manager at that point, and he would also remain Jeff Beck’s manager up until late 69. After Zep blew up, he only focused on them.

 

[Canard]

Hang on sloopy? Lovely quick lick around 7:32. Even better because it signals the end of the song!!They fired Beck, didn't they? ( he was probably bored to death with stuff like that !)
"What if we fired Jeff Beck from the band?...Yeah, good idea!!"

Nothing really wrong with Hang on Sloopy. It is a catchy little pop number. The Davies brothers in the Kinks could have done a killer version of it replete with a straight-razor attack low-tech lead solo.

The thing here is Jeff. Go back (see Guildedagain's post above) and listen to what he was doing with The Tridents only a year or so earlier. He is, late in the song, trying to fit some lead fills in. It doesn't really work. He can't dumb it down enough.

I think the Yardbirds later abandoned their attempts to be a pop group with the advent of psychedelia and did more progressive stuff that ultimately lead to Led Zepplin. Jeff fit in better here. But I would imagine there was a bit of friction during the pop phase.

 

[Bernie]

See what one should go through to be a rock star
If at least we could become a good guitarist in the meantime...

Still a genuine mystery to hear all those chicks screaming like some strange animals just released from their cage after 10 years inside... Any explanation yet someone ?


So Brian Auger was playing harpsichord there ('For your love') I learned, then they booked Jeff coz he could do it on his 12 strings, and this was more handy to carry all around gigging places I guess.
Films and TV would have helped

Good thing about those days was that many things were done by hand still. It did require talent and skill...

 

[Guildedagain]

Any explanation yet someone ?

Repressed "hysteria"?

Don't shoot the messenger ;]

Back to our regular programming.



It's amazing at the end of the solo how much he belts out prototypical AC/DC riffs, almost impossible not to with Les Paul.

 

[bluesypicky]

Any explanation yet someone ?

Oestrogen. In the 60's.