The presenter says that Jeff Beck's strings seem very light compared to those used by Paco - meaning Paco de Lucia, who had also appeared on the series. The series was broadcast on the BBC during the early 1970s - I think it was called something like 'The Seven Faces of the Guitar' (although I could be wrong). Guitarists featured included Jeff Beck, Julian Bream & Paco de Lucia.
I like the comment about how he has weak flesh on his fingers. I've heard him say he was diagnosed with thin skin on his fingers and you can tell. Sometimes when he is inbetween playing he flips his fingers like they hurt. Wow! Peter Framptan? Do you feel like we do. I love Jeff Beck. He's always on the cutting edge.
I like the comment about how he has weak flesh on his fingers. I've heard him say he was diagnosed with thin skin on his fingers and you can tell. Sometimes when he is inbetween playing he flips his fingers like they hurt.
Is it just me, or does the interview part of this clip remind you of Chris Guest's brilliant "Nigel Tufnel" character in "This is Spinal Tap?" No offense to Mr. Beck, arguably the world's finest electric guitarist, but I keep hearing Tufnel's voice saying "These go to 11" and "Don't touch it, don't even look at it.." Seriously, great post. Does anyone know what ever happened to the drummer, who I think is Richard Bailey from "Blow by Blow" album? I've always loved Bailey's work there.
So funny. They actually showed part of this interview in the montage for Jeff Beck at the Hall of Fame induction. Directly after this clip, they showed the Spinal Tap clip. I'm sure he has a sense of humor.
How did a Glaswegian saturday salesman at Burtons menswear store get the job on mthis TV show .. my brother had a waistcoat just like that .. and a kipper tie.
"Some guitarists use feedback" Jeff invented the use of feedback as an instrument at Eel Pie Island etc when he was in the Nightshift and the Tridents in the early sixties. No-one used feedback then, but he had a bad amp that always squealed so he learned to tame it and blend it into his playing and change notes using it. After a while it became part of his style, used it more prominently and blew peoples minds
Thatnks for posting this because I was sort of unaware of that fact. Sometimes when I think of the changes in technology, such as tape echo going to digital and everything else, I forget where it started, in this case as you say with Jeff and feedback.
Can't believe he only has 3 effects here. He has the greatest sound ever, and shows less is more. What was his complete setup, because on Wired and blow by blow, you hear more effects?
It's famous for its sustain. I mean, you can just hold it, "aaaaaaaaaaaaa...!" And you can go... go and have a bite, "...nyaaaaaaaaah!", 'an you'll still be hearing that one.
The first record that I remember hearing with one of those Voice Box's being used was Steppenwolf's record of 'Hey Lawdy Mama' around May, 1970. John Kay, although not a highly skilled player, was playing it . I thought to myself, is that a new kind of wah-wah? The only thing he was saying was ah, ah ooh, ah
I remember hearing about the "Voice Bag" but I never saw one. I had one of the 1st commercially available voice boxes in the UK. It was loaned to me by a rep for Coloursound. Bloody awfull. Used to make me feel sick. Iused it for about three gigs then gave it back thinking it would never catch on. Then bloody Frampton made that album......
i wanted one for some many years, than i got one. It really does make the user nauseas, and it was ackward to manipulate. id rather listen to one than play one
I had 2 of those exact same coloursound pedals in 1978 .. i gave them away like an idiot .. they were the best overdrive/boost pedals I ever had .. if you see and original grab one !!
Haha I love Jeff's face through the whole thing. He has a look like he's gonna kick the guy's ass. Sorta like "Stop askin' me what I'm using, you poof dad!"
Guitar amps are mic'd to record the guitar and also for live performances, the mic'd signal is usually sent to a mic preamp/console and then sent to a recording deck or to a live P.A. where it is mixed and amplified with the other instruments.
Somebody please educate me... What is that god-forsaken pouch thing? I saw one in a Nazareth video a while back... It's driving me insane. They call them "talk boxes" nowadays and you hear them all over the place. But I ain't ever seen Slash with a leather cow's stomach hanging off his shoulder. Right? I know about stompboxes. But these things are straight up weird. How do they work? Do they still make them? How do find them on Google (I've tried). Seriously, it's KILLING me!!!!
The talk box is a smal speaker connected to a poly tube. The sound goes up the tube which goes in your mouth. You shape the tone - phase and flange and wah like sounds with your mouth. The sound is picked up by a mike and amplified via the pa or whatever. Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton and David Gilmour have recorded classic talk box tracks - listen to Floyd's Pigs on the wing and Keep Talking and , Frampton's show me the way. Youd know less about stomp boxes than you think fellah. Rock on dude!
As easy as it is to mock this video... Truth be told--- this is one of the most informative and in-depth rock interviews of all time. A true gem. Props to the poster.
Did you catch the interviewer comment around 1:59 about the "vast selection" of 'switches and gear'... and the camera pans down... and IT'S THREE FUCKING PEDALS!!!! THREE!!!!! 3!!!!! Oh My God they were so ignorant back then!!! And one of them is a freaking volume pedal... Does that even count as a 'pedal' nowadays? The other is a Wah... and the one in the middle is probably a distortion. Dude, this is like every 8th grader's setup. Funny stuff... "Time makes fools of us all".
ahem... Its amazing how Jeff could do all that with only 3 pedals, true talent. And little 8th grader bitches need 70 just so that they can sound like the Dixie Chicks! Time makes fools of us all...
Thanks Kev, I just remember a segment in that movie where Cream was on some show and they went thru the instuments, and the pedals and such, but yea that would have to have been '69 or before. Peace
It was a BBC documentary series that was broadcast in the early 70s. Each week the show looked at a different aspect of the guitar. I can vaguely remember watching it the first time around - I remember that Julian Bream was featured in one episode.
Seems to me -- a rank newb on guitar -- to be a halfway sensible show. The host was asking rational questions and Jeff seemed OK with it. If he was annoyed, I didn't catch it.
Pretty interesting. Beck still kicks ass but now play a Stratocaster rather than a Les Paul. Both great guitars and original in their own right. Thanks for this video, never seen it before. I love youtube.
there is some good footage of "the bag" being used by NAZARETH on youtube on the early vids of "hair of the dog" the singer uses the mouth tube, while the guitarist plays the notes
Very interesting. Did you notice the tiny little Fender Vibro Champ amp to the left of the Ampeg amp? I used to have one at the time this video was made. Jeff probably used it as an equalizer, maybe. Well, that's what I did.
They're just a driver (speaker) enclosed in a bag. All the 'talk' boxes are just that - a driver that can handle 100 watts RMS power... but you don't need a hi wattage amp to drive 'em because it just needs t o be loud enough to supply sound through the hose into you're mouth. Other than the lack of comfort, I'm surprised no one has "re issued" 'The Bag' It wouldn't be difficult, and you could probably charge a fortune for a "reissue"...
I thought JB was being generous to discuss the effects/techniques he was using at the time, and as for omitting info on the Heil Sound in his bag, one needs to keep a little mystery, I guess, otherwise there is no 'magic'. Kudos to Walsh and Wonder for leading the way on it, though.
And Im told you use a "pick" ? Could you please explain its function. Mr Beck what color are your socks today? And these round knob "thingys" on your instrument,? what tonal qualities and functions do they provide todays "Hard Rock" guitarists? And Im told that is a "Shirt" you're currently wearing would you say its a rather "Nice" "Shirt"????
And about these three fellows playing along side you. Would you refer to them as a "Band"?
Years later. The other guitarist he refered to is Peter Frampton. He gave him the set-up and instructions, so to speak. Peter was jamming with one since the Herd days.
Peter was first shown one by his mentor, Joe Walsh. Jeff Beck and The James Gang shared many stages way back. I figured that was where Jeff got it from.
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it is clear that beck brought the talkbox to the mainstream. read your history and listen to beck when he tells the world that he got the bag from an anonymous old schooler. beck, as usual, was ahead of the game. ask frampton or walsh who used the box first THAT THEY KNOW OF and they will say JEFF BECK.
Very nice piece of history here. Stevie Wonder used the "Talk Box" 4 yrs. before Jeff Beck did. And some guitarist gave it to Beck, could that guitarist be Joe Walsh maybe? Rocky Mountain Way, was this song done before 1974? Very interesting! Well, Peter Frampton still made the talk box known to the world more than anyone else. Gotta give him credit for that. I like Jeff Becks top secret bag for the talk box! (ha) The secrets out of the bag Jeff!
Thanks for the info. I thought so! Joe Walsh is a beast himself guitarist! Your right about Jeff too. Only time I seen him lay back and be amazed, was with Stevie Ray Vaughan. Any other time he's cutting heads!
@buckelastard ive read that mike pirena or however you spell it (from iron butterfly) let jeff borrow it, and he liked it so much he refused to give it back. fuck thats the best sounding talkbox there is.
it's great to see this up again (it was mysteriously down for a while before) but the quality's a little worse than the original, i think. as if someone took the original from youtube (as a flv), converted it and split it and reupped it.
i think i read on a different video that he did cause we've ended as lovers on a tv show with the les paul, and i was just wondering if this was it and if you have it
I never noticed that before. It looks like a Badass bridge to me (of course, I could be wrong).I've got a 70s Kramer guitar that's fitted with a Badass bridge and it looks very similar.
i have that same bridge added on my 1957 les paul special, its a wrap around bridge with individual adjustable saddles. they aren't that uncommon i don't think, i like mine quite a bit. The earlier Les Pauls had a single saddle bridge assembly.
I think actually Stevie Wonder was the 1st to use one of those silly contraptions. They still make an up to date version today. The concept becomes tiresome though and i think it was overused by Frampton & Beck. I much preferred Beck's cleaner guitar tone as on "Goodbye Porkpie Hat".
my uncle was a player (and accordingly a huge Beck fan) back then, he referred to something Beck used as an air bag, so that's that. but today, yeah a talk box.
Yes, i had a "Colorsound" wah/fuzz/swell pedal (3-in-one) back in 1975. I think it cost me 15 quid. The wah used to pick up radio signals from minicabs and police.Highly embarrassing!
most are though lol
thendara69 1 month ago
the scottish guy's an asshole
thendara69 1 month ago
1:00 Those used by who?
PBANDSNOW 4 months ago
@PBANDSNOW
The presenter says that Jeff Beck's strings seem very light compared to those used by Paco - meaning Paco de Lucia, who had also appeared on the series. The series was broadcast on the BBC during the early 1970s - I think it was called something like 'The Seven Faces of the Guitar' (although I could be wrong). Guitarists featured included Jeff Beck, Julian Bream & Paco de Lucia.
Kev3542 3 months ago
2:50 I wish that was my theme song.......
jabaltar84 8 months ago
I like the comment about how he has weak flesh on his fingers. I've heard him say he was diagnosed with thin skin on his fingers and you can tell. Sometimes when he is inbetween playing he flips his fingers like they hurt. Wow! Peter Framptan? Do you feel like we do. I love Jeff Beck. He's always on the cutting edge.
chuckbyf1 10 months ago
I like the comment about how he has weak flesh on his fingers. I've heard him say he was diagnosed with thin skin on his fingers and you can tell. Sometimes when he is inbetween playing he flips his fingers like they hurt.
chuckbyf1 10 months ago
This must be Beck's audition for the part of Nigel Tufnel. ""What's it's called?" It just a bag. I won't tell you what's in it."" That is so funny!!!
LetzBeaFranque 11 months ago
Is this Nigel Tuffnell from Spinal Tap? Dont even point at it!
coltsuperocean10 1 year ago
i'm trying to figure out what kind of amps he has....i know one's an ampeg.
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago
Guitar secretions of Jeff
bond00777777 1 year ago
0:35 "these got to 11"
flowerdrop1 1 year ago
what he plays at :55 sounds exactly like the unreleased zeppelin track "sugar mama"
Lavall9000 1 year ago
Nigel Tufnel!!!
Wilthomer66 1 year ago
anyone know the model of Ampeg this is?
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago
so i answer San5a's question....scrolled down to the other comments, and found that he'd been answered at least 20 times.
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago
I love that funk bit he was playing
santanaincubus 1 year ago
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santanaincubus 1 year ago
What stupid questions!
ronsmithguitar 1 year ago
he goes up to 11!!!
yanis3 1 year ago
@San5a, Colorsound Powerbooster.
dtcarter66 1 year ago
The Colorsound booster is still being made, check out Macari's in London.
gigspy 1 year ago
Is it just me, or does the interview part of this clip remind you of Chris Guest's brilliant "Nigel Tufnel" character in "This is Spinal Tap?" No offense to Mr. Beck, arguably the world's finest electric guitarist, but I keep hearing Tufnel's voice saying "These go to 11" and "Don't touch it, don't even look at it.." Seriously, great post. Does anyone know what ever happened to the drummer, who I think is Richard Bailey from "Blow by Blow" album? I've always loved Bailey's work there.
freen981 1 year ago
@freen981 The Tufnel character was based, at least in part, on Jeff!
igliis 1 year ago
what incisive interviewing!
dreamawaythemiles 1 year ago
the booster's made by Colorsound.
ajdunning63 1 year ago
What a cool video...thanks for posting!!
electrixladyland69 1 year ago
The one & only true master that goes to 11!
basssman 1 year ago
it's a Colorsound Powerboost / Overdriver
styx49 1 year ago
great simplistic but awesome inspiring days....
arnolf 2 years ago
so this is definitinely the inspiration for the gear scene in Spinal Tap
PageandPlant4Life 2 years ago 14
"These go to eleven!"
Thirdgen83 2 years ago
hahahaha at 6:08-6:10 the host just looks over at the camera and is like.....wha??
LedZeppelinisgod100 2 years ago
his wah jam even tho it was like 10 secs wow it was sick
ele523 2 years ago 4
i wish they would do this on american television.
jkh988 2 years ago
"You get S.H." "S.H?"
"Ssh"
So funny. They actually showed part of this interview in the montage for Jeff Beck at the Hall of Fame induction. Directly after this clip, they showed the Spinal Tap clip. I'm sure he has a sense of humor.
expellerpress8 2 years ago
Where's the part where Jeff says, "This one goes to eleven..."
kickstar1 2 years ago 2
"This guitar is famous for its sustain..."
KoolKatDave 2 years ago
"This pickups are very powerful"
HELL YEAHHH!!!
5 stars.
RawRiffRock 2 years ago
jeff's a legend who kept improving, not many can say that.
nouoriel 2 years ago 2
How did a Glaswegian saturday salesman at Burtons menswear store get the job on mthis TV show .. my brother had a waistcoat just like that .. and a kipper tie.
backthisway 2 years ago
Interviewer == assclown.
Jeff Beck == guitar god.
The rest of the band should have come up, clubbed the interviewer like a baby seal, then sacrificed his remains to Jeff on top of an altar.
CaesarDux 2 years ago
LOL.
kickstar1 2 years ago
what a treat!
thanks for the post!
septip123 2 years ago
"Some guitarists use feedback" Jeff invented the use of feedback as an instrument at Eel Pie Island etc when he was in the Nightshift and the Tridents in the early sixties. No-one used feedback then, but he had a bad amp that always squealed so he learned to tame it and blend it into his playing and change notes using it. After a while it became part of his style, used it more prominently and blew peoples minds
mrhosehose 2 years ago 3
Thatnks for posting this because I was sort of unaware of that fact. Sometimes when I think of the changes in technology, such as tape echo going to digital and everything else, I forget where it started, in this case as you say with Jeff and feedback.
stratoleft 2 years ago
Can't believe he only has 3 effects here. He has the greatest sound ever, and shows less is more. What was his complete setup, because on Wired and blow by blow, you hear more effects?
seventhsamuel 2 years ago
that interviewer is a freaking douche.
ejfan1 2 years ago
This interviewer is unintentionally hilarious!!
Interviewer: 'Jeff, what are these things at the ends of your arms?'
Jeff: "Those are called hands.'
KoolKatDave 2 years ago 3
Don't even look at it.......
jonesilo 2 years ago 2
"These go to eleven"...
laurenseye 2 years ago 10
How much more black could it be? And the answer is none...none more black...
Seriously, this one is oxblood finish over a gold-top.
KoolKatDave 2 years ago
It's famous for its sustain. I mean, you can just hold it, "aaaaaaaaaaaaa...!" And you can go... go and have a bite, "...nyaaaaaaaaah!", 'an you'll still be hearing that one.
jspartacus 2 years ago 3
The first record that I remember hearing with one of those Voice Box's being used was Steppenwolf's record of 'Hey Lawdy Mama' around May, 1970. John Kay, although not a highly skilled player, was playing it . I thought to myself, is that a new kind of wah-wah? The only thing he was saying was ah, ah ooh, ah
panzerschnott 2 years ago
I remember hearing about the "Voice Bag" but I never saw one. I had one of the 1st commercially available voice boxes in the UK. It was loaned to me by a rep for Coloursound. Bloody awfull. Used to make me feel sick. Iused it for about three gigs then gave it back thinking it would never catch on. Then bloody Frampton made that album......
brightwhite1 2 years ago
i wanted one for some many years, than i got one. It really does make the user nauseas, and it was ackward to manipulate. id rather listen to one than play one
benjammin420420 2 years ago
Those talk boxes used to loosen the fillings in your teeth !!
backthisway 2 years ago
This is very true!! I built one and had to place a 12v car tail light bulb in series to compress it
groovee63 2 years ago
I had 2 of those exact same coloursound pedals in 1978 .. i gave them away like an idiot .. they were the best overdrive/boost pedals I ever had .. if you see and original grab one !!
backthisway 2 years ago
You mean The Colorsound Overdriver !
Awesome pedal:
Macaris still makes them!
Try the Power Boost .
lidesnowi 2 years ago
Throw this asshole a bone-he's obviously jealous
cincyrocked 2 years ago
Beck is being modest hes got the hands of a lumberjack
wisesatyr72 2 years ago
Haha I love Jeff's face through the whole thing. He has a look like he's gonna kick the guy's ass. Sorta like "Stop askin' me what I'm using, you poof dad!"
Vomitore 2 years ago
Geez... This just TOtally cracks me up..can't think of ANY other music show where the host asks a musician of Beck's
caliber to talk about his gear! Where did this show come from ? Was it Scottish?
I think Beck was really a good sport about it.... he just kinda played along.
timjmoran 2 years ago
tell us jeff does it go to 11
tompaste 3 years ago
i know hold the power of jeff beck...muhhaa
ragingstorm33 3 years ago
It looks like there is a mic in front of the speaker (around 3:30 and after that). What is it doing there? Sorry for the boneheaded question.
Tsugaheterophylla 3 years ago
Guitar amps are mic'd to record the guitar and also for live performances, the mic'd signal is usually sent to a mic preamp/console and then sent to a recording deck or to a live P.A. where it is mixed and amplified with the other instruments.
darryleyeman 3 years ago
Somebody please educate me... What is that god-forsaken pouch thing? I saw one in a Nazareth video a while back... It's driving me insane. They call them "talk boxes" nowadays and you hear them all over the place. But I ain't ever seen Slash with a leather cow's stomach hanging off his shoulder. Right? I know about stompboxes. But these things are straight up weird. How do they work? Do they still make them? How do find them on Google (I've tried). Seriously, it's KILLING me!!!!
engelbe 3 years ago
The talk box is a smal speaker connected to a poly tube. The sound goes up the tube which goes in your mouth. You shape the tone - phase and flange and wah like sounds with your mouth. The sound is picked up by a mike and amplified via the pa or whatever. Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton and David Gilmour have recorded classic talk box tracks - listen to Floyd's Pigs on the wing and Keep Talking and , Frampton's show me the way. Youd know less about stomp boxes than you think fellah. Rock on dude!
hafstrat 3 years ago
As easy as it is to mock this video... Truth be told--- this is one of the most informative and in-depth rock interviews of all time. A true gem. Props to the poster.
engelbe 3 years ago 3
Did you catch the interviewer comment around 1:59 about the "vast selection" of 'switches and gear'... and the camera pans down... and IT'S THREE FUCKING PEDALS!!!! THREE!!!!! 3!!!!! Oh My God they were so ignorant back then!!! And one of them is a freaking volume pedal... Does that even count as a 'pedal' nowadays? The other is a Wah... and the one in the middle is probably a distortion. Dude, this is like every 8th grader's setup. Funny stuff... "Time makes fools of us all".
engelbe 3 years ago
ahem... Its amazing how Jeff could do all that with only 3 pedals, true talent. And little 8th grader bitches need 70 just so that they can sound like the Dixie Chicks! Time makes fools of us all...
Rafterman123 3 years ago
Respect the past dude.. without it you'd be back there yourself!!!
hafstrat 3 years ago
these go to 11.
baughb42 3 years ago
Damn! How cool was this to see this legend go through his rig on a televised show?! Neat post, man!
dieselboy64 3 years ago
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San5a 3 years ago
I'm afraid I don't.
Kev3542 3 years ago
Colorsound Overdriver. Throbak and Prescription Electronics make very good clones of this pedalnow, and it's also available in a reissue form.
capnovenmitts 3 years ago
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San5a 3 years ago
@San5a It's a Colorsound Overdriver.
lidesnowi 1 year ago
@San5a
It looked like it said 'Colorsound'.
MajesticSuperiorHen 1 year ago
Colorsound.
nresnik 1 year ago
@San5a It is a Colorsound Power Booster
TheSterlingSound 1 year ago
@San5a It looks like a ColorSound.
Hereistone 1 year ago
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San5a 1 year ago
@San5a its a colorsound or sola I think. Maybe a three knob tonebender?
dwmfender13 1 year ago
@San5a colorsound power booster.
dwmfender13 1 year ago
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San5a 1 year ago
@San5a its a Colorsound Overdriver
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago
@San5a colorsound
emjee 1 year ago
@emjee it's a fuzz not a booster!
san5a89 1 year ago
Thanks Kev, I just remember a segment in that movie where Cream was on some show and they went thru the instuments, and the pedals and such, but yea that would have to have been '69 or before. Peace
mykedubya 3 years ago
Is this the same show that's in Creams Farewell Concert as well? Thanx..
mykedubya 3 years ago
I don't think so - this was broadcast by the BBC back in 1974.
Kev3542 3 years ago
Is this nigel tufnel from spinal tap?
bobcat19641964 3 years ago
I think it's understood that Tufnel was partially an homage to Beck, who is ranked on par with the likes of Hendrix.
slbiggs36 3 years ago
Why don't you just have a knob go to ten and have that be the loudest?
This one goes to 11.
itsthatguy12 3 years ago
what is this show about? a 'guitar how to' show? he mentions paco - paco de luca? anyone know the origin of this clip?
benabz 3 years ago
It was a BBC documentary series that was broadcast in the early 70s. Each week the show looked at a different aspect of the guitar. I can vaguely remember watching it the first time around - I remember that Julian Bream was featured in one episode.
Kev3542 3 years ago
Seems to me -- a rank newb on guitar -- to be a halfway sensible show. The host was asking rational questions and Jeff seemed OK with it. If he was annoyed, I didn't catch it.
ProspectorSam 3 years ago
How many young people saw this and bought a guitar soon after? Awesome!
guym2222 3 years ago
Pretty interesting. Beck still kicks ass but now play a Stratocaster rather than a Les Paul. Both great guitars and original in their own right. Thanks for this video, never seen it before. I love youtube.
rleary1 3 years ago 2
piece of music history
thanks for sharing !!
GuitarFloat 3 years ago
there is some good footage of "the bag" being used by NAZARETH on youtube on the early vids of "hair of the dog" the singer uses the mouth tube, while the guitarist plays the notes
econoroller 3 years ago
"...just listen to it. Listen."
"I don't hear anything."
"....you would, though, if it were playing."
"No, don't touch."
"I wasn't touching, I was pointing."
"Well don't point at it. It can't be played, ever."
"Can I look at it-"
"No. You've seen enough of that one."
BillyShears06 3 years ago 4
Exactly ha!
Hilarious I never knew they took it from this.
:)
niallvan 3 years ago
He really likes to wear the bracelet,
I saw he wear this very offen
so twinkling bracelet~
Nice~
rockbeckpage 3 years ago
Does the bag have a name?
I mean like just like Wah-Wah or other effect....has a formal name?
Is that Jeff's creation?
rockbeckpage 3 years ago
It was made by Kustom - the same people who make those cool tuck-and-roll covered amps.
And it was just called, of all things, "The Bag". Also used extensively by Wah Wah Watson.
mootbooxle 3 years ago 2
dont forget Joe Perry too! Sweet emotion.
phlizmo 3 years ago 2
Very interesting. Did you notice the tiny little Fender Vibro Champ amp to the left of the Ampeg amp? I used to have one at the time this video was made. Jeff probably used it as an equalizer, maybe. Well, that's what I did.
panzerschnott 3 years ago
I think the Vibro Champ is powering 'The Bag', seeing that the Ampeg is his main amp. It would have been easier to use the champ for the bag.
rolandgp8 3 years ago
You could be right. I always wanted one of those "bags". Never could figure out how they worked.
panzerschnott 3 years ago
They're just a driver (speaker) enclosed in a bag. All the 'talk' boxes are just that - a driver that can handle 100 watts RMS power... but you don't need a hi wattage amp to drive 'em because it just needs t o be loud enough to supply sound through the hose into you're mouth. Other than the lack of comfort, I'm surprised no one has "re issued" 'The Bag' It wouldn't be difficult, and you could probably charge a fortune for a "reissue"...
rolandgp8 3 years ago
I thought JB was being generous to discuss the effects/techniques he was using at the time, and as for omitting info on the Heil Sound in his bag, one needs to keep a little mystery, I guess, otherwise there is no 'magic'. Kudos to Walsh and Wonder for leading the way on it, though.
mikey50077 3 years ago
The "Talk Box " used by JB was a Heil Sound HT-1 (circa 1973). Jim Dunlop took over manufacturing the HT-1 in the 1980's (you can still buy them).
mikey50077 3 years ago
And Im told you use a "pick" ? Could you please explain its function. Mr Beck what color are your socks today? And these round knob "thingys" on your instrument,? what tonal qualities and functions do they provide todays "Hard Rock" guitarists? And Im told that is a "Shirt" you're currently wearing would you say its a rather "Nice" "Shirt"????
And about these three fellows playing along side you. Would you refer to them as a "Band"?
or a "Group"??? lovely......
Biguns 3 years ago
ha (me thoughts exactly). In fairness, it was newer stuff at the time.
zalman595 3 years ago
heee, Jeff was extremely patient, I was hoping he would explain the magnetic inductance of pick-up windings
Biguns 3 years ago
I like the talk box so much in "she is a woman", but also I like it in "day triper" (Whitesanke version).
I´m gonna try to make a talk box, if I make it. I´m going to explain how to do in a video.
Jeff is a real king in original sounds!!
emarto666 3 years ago
Joe Perry used a talk box also.
bostonrocker69 4 years ago
Years later. The other guitarist he refered to is Peter Frampton. He gave him the set-up and instructions, so to speak. Peter was jamming with one since the Herd days.
peaceonearth777 3 years ago
Peter was first shown one by his mentor, Joe Walsh. Jeff Beck and The James Gang shared many stages way back. I figured that was where Jeff got it from.
BlindPenguin 3 years ago 3
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it is clear that beck brought the talkbox to the mainstream. read your history and listen to beck when he tells the world that he got the bag from an anonymous old schooler. beck, as usual, was ahead of the game. ask frampton or walsh who used the box first THAT THEY KNOW OF and they will say JEFF BECK.
itzjoeymac 4 years ago
Very nice piece of history here. Stevie Wonder used the "Talk Box" 4 yrs. before Jeff Beck did. And some guitarist gave it to Beck, could that guitarist be Joe Walsh maybe? Rocky Mountain Way, was this song done before 1974? Very interesting! Well, Peter Frampton still made the talk box known to the world more than anyone else. Gotta give him credit for that. I like Jeff Becks top secret bag for the talk box! (ha) The secrets out of the bag Jeff!
buckelastard 4 years ago 9
Yep!!
Joe Walsh gave it to him as a present..
Typical Jeff' M.O..
Take credit for everything,block the competition..joe was hot back then..
Jeff did this with many others,
good call!
busstarr 4 years ago 4
Thanks for the info. I thought so! Joe Walsh is a beast himself guitarist! Your right about Jeff too. Only time I seen him lay back and be amazed, was with Stevie Ray Vaughan. Any other time he's cutting heads!
buckelastard 4 years ago 7
@buckelastard your wrong about stevie wonder, jeff beck used it on his 1968 album truth....so i mean stevie wonder didnt use it before him
allah211 1 year ago
@buckelastard ive read that mike pirena or however you spell it (from iron butterfly) let jeff borrow it, and he liked it so much he refused to give it back. fuck thats the best sounding talkbox there is.
coitussnakes 1 year ago
Which amp is that?
LesCrapio 4 years ago
Ampeg Rocket ;)
fuzzbox85 4 years ago
He is shy to talk. Let him play.
LesCrapio 4 years ago
it's great to see this up again (it was mysteriously down for a while before) but the quality's a little worse than the original, i think. as if someone took the original from youtube (as a flv), converted it and split it and reupped it.
vac 4 years ago
whew, great post.
I play more acoustic than electric but had to sneak in some JB licks on a CSN cover, of all things (on my U2b page). Sorry if anyone is offended.
gtar101 4 years ago
this one still has the old tagger on it... never been played...
dpell123 4 years ago
lol :D
mrnugget 4 years ago
this is hilarius. i can see the insparation for spinal tap!
JeffBeck13 4 years ago
Shut up and play yer guitar! Just kidding. Fascinating.
pegleyjr 4 years ago
Pwahahah good one. FRANK ZAPPA?!
dapunkof1975 4 years ago
i think i read on a different video that he did cause we've ended as lovers on a tv show with the les paul, and i was just wondering if this was it and if you have it
sflores231 4 years ago
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whoa hes pretty amazing, my band is called megadeth you should look us up wer influenced alot by him
ef6854 4 years ago
great JB ! i suppose they saw this vid before doing the " spinal tap" movie
zeguitarman 4 years ago
His Les Paul has a single bridge!
tommyhilfiger101 4 years ago
I never noticed that before. It looks like a Badass bridge to me (of course, I could be wrong).I've got a 70s Kramer guitar that's fitted with a Badass bridge and it looks very similar.
Kev3542 4 years ago
i have that same bridge added on my 1957 les paul special, its a wrap around bridge with individual adjustable saddles. they aren't that uncommon i don't think, i like mine quite a bit. The earlier Les Pauls had a single saddle bridge assembly.
jaikwillis 4 years ago
It's a '54 LP refinished goldtop wraparound routed for humbuckers.
edwina9 4 years ago
Nigel Tufnel...
Hangar189 4 years ago
yes this is exactly what Nigel was based on
jaikwillis 4 years ago
A priceless gem. Thanks for posting it.
sd006 4 years ago
Que pelotudo el que subio esto
luisfiori 4 years ago
What is that bag he's using called?
longliveWHO515 4 years ago
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen ......FOURTEEN.I LOVE IT!
hotswirlgrl1 4 years ago
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So what are these metals strands up and down the face of the thing, what do they do... bloody wogs! Beck is the best.
ricardomontalban07 5 years ago
Hilarious tutorial on the material construction of the electric guitar.
devilsclickingcanes 5 years ago
I see he's got here his famous Ox-Blood coloured Les Paul as used on "Blow By Blow".
What an amazing sound it had.
mojoelem 4 years ago
Great clip! What is the name of the thing he was useing with his mouth?
bassrockin 5 years ago
I've heard it called a talk-box or, sometimes, a vocoder. Very popular in the 70s, as per Peter Frampton & Micky Moody.
Kev3542 5 years ago
I think actually Stevie Wonder was the 1st to use one of those silly contraptions. They still make an up to date version today. The concept becomes tiresome though and i think it was overused by Frampton & Beck. I much preferred Beck's cleaner guitar tone as on "Goodbye Porkpie Hat".
mojoelem 4 years ago
my uncle was a player (and accordingly a huge Beck fan) back then, he referred to something Beck used as an air bag, so that's that. but today, yeah a talk box.
vac 4 years ago
If only it went to eleven.
specialfreakingk 5 years ago
this is great old footage,if you love guitar beck's got it all..
rickyboyjojo 5 years ago
This is great! Reminds me of my gear back then (I had
a Coloursound Wah instead of booster, and a BigMuff PI
through a Sound City 50 watt head along with a univox
Univibe.) Jeff is the coolest.
randallcasters 5 years ago
Yes, i had a "Colorsound" wah/fuzz/swell pedal (3-in-one) back in 1975. I think it cost me 15 quid. The wah used to pick up radio signals from minicabs and police.Highly embarrassing!
mojoelem 4 years ago
thanks for uploading those clips
Freddiere 5 years ago