Just amazing, no one is as original these days. I wish young guitar players would listen to pure artistic music and attempt to carry on our fine tradition of electric guitar. Most are a buncha' pro-tools--auto tune wanna be's
Youre right about this being his blues blues is about feeling isnt it and hes found his way of expressing it not only does it with amazing technique but with pure emotion.
happily, i have quit reading most of the comments regarding all these great artists. i just will say this....musicians know. with jb you are seeing something you won't see again. genius all his own.
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Okay. Last dance. The point is, I don't for a second believe Jeff thinks he's playing the blues here. He's always been careful to differentiate what he does from what the forefathers did. When he plays Mingus' "Porkpie Hat", I don't think he thinks he's playing jazz either. It's all "Jeff Beck" music to him.
Great seething Barabajagal! Methinks there's perhaps a swindle afoot. . . yet nonetheless, I swear on a stack of Rodder's Journals my expressions are merely playful blather.
Nobody denies the value of having a functional vernacular for discussion/appreciation of a creative form. I initially posted an objection to a viewer asserting this piece to be "blues". If you're gonna call this rendition "blues", you're gonna have to get real busy with qualifying information because the performance has precious little to do with an identifiable idiom but everything to do with Jeff's glorious showboating.
Blues wasn't a marketing tool in the eyes of Alan Lomax when he went out to record a vanishing form of American music, nor was it to the Chess brothers when they sought to capitolize on it. It wasn't a marketing tool when Limey art school kids scarfed up vinyl from Chess, Arhoolie, et al by folks who referred to the music as blues.
When Muddy Waters - a self-identified "bluesman" - spent time with his blues-envious acolyte, Eric Clapton, they talked blues.
Swampdaddy, all musical labels are only useful in describing music that people haven't heard yet, blues is no exception, so it certainly can be used as a marketing tool, as well as a tool to discuss music with fellow musicians as you describe. If we just listened to music, we wouldn't need to describe it, other than whether we liked it or not.
Yeah Jeff is great, you wanna see some more crazy guitar check out Rory Gallagher...now HE is without a doubt the most underrated guitarist of the 70's. (And ive seen him tapping before van halen was around, and the guy from genesis and kiss both tapped before van halen...and van halen was inspired by jimmy page to start tapping..so uhh. enough of this "oh van halen is so great cuz he tapped" nonsense)
Did you guys know, this song is a cover of Ray Charles: Drown in my own tears? His guitar is in place of the vocals from the original song. Fortunately Beck doesn't need a talkbox to make his guitar sing :D. That would have been a nightmare...
Sorry Muck, I am a HUGE Beck fan, saw him numerous times, bought all the albums going back to the Yardbirds. But the fact is, he NEVER tapped until Eddie made it popular. And as great as Beck is, he never developed a tapping technique anywhere near as good as Eddie. Beck's style is so ggod he really doesn't need to do hammer ons.
B.B. would make a wonderful father figure indeed, except he ain't their father, yo. Dig: Henry Ford's crowd designed and manufactured the 32 Ford. From that, hot rodders concocted the Deuce Coupe, after radical alterations to the frame and body has been refitted a complete rethinking of the drive train, said drive train now being muscled up to preposterous ratios. At this point it ain't Henry's 32 Ford no more.
One can build a house with brick, block, mortar and wood. Or you can build a garage. Or a pizza shop, a police station or an insane asylum.
Lessee here . . . Nicky Hopkins is dead, so's Keith Moon, so neither can testify, though they were there. Ron and Rod were there, as was Mick Waller. And Jeff. Someone ask any of 'em if they ever thought they were in a rhythm and blues band.
Uhhh . . .if that was a blues song, John Lee Hooker played salsa music.
As regards Jeff's "early blues stuff with Rod Stewart", I don't think anyone - Jeff, Rod, Micky Most (the producer)or Jimi or Janis or my Aunt Isabel - ever thought for two seconds that what they were recording was "the blues".
Congrats Bosco, you might be the first to thus label it.
Blues is a marketing term. Creative artists play whatever they feel, and businessmen call it whatever makes people buy it. I sincerely doubt that Robert Johnson referred to himself as a bluesman, as much as we now he agree that he was one. RJ played plenty of other stuff, but his white producers were going for an effect: "Blues".
jeff beck should win the award "most obnoxious overuse of a whammy bar in a blues song" award...also the finger tapping thing kinda died in the 80s with the van halen clones...but some of beck's early blues stuff with rod stewart was pretty cool
I'm a Beck fan, but he didn't tap when I saw him between mid-60s (Yardbirds) & mid 70's. There's some stuff on records that sounds like it might be tapped, but it's simple enough to have been left hand techniques. It was all left hand in person, I assume the recordings were, too. There's been tapping (at least) since Tal Farlow in the late 40's, but EVH is the first to make extensive use of it. He was doing it in LA clubs in 1976 at the latest.
OK. agreed, Hendrix was an originator and a hero of mine as well. I guess I was just trying to say that it's the shame that Jimi died because of drugs, because he could have produced so much more great music....and I think Beck DOES do a great job...had Jimi lived who knows what else he might have done
everything you said was about Eric Clapton. Hendrix admired Clapton, he wanted to meet Clapton, he adopted some things from Clapton.. i.e. wah wah pedal.. you read the wrong biography
let's face it, they're both innovators. Jimi was copping Jeff's licks before his first record even came out. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was WAY ahead of everybody in '66. Jimi took up from there & took it WAY beyond, it's true. Jeff has been the 1st to acknowledge that ("totally unchained" he's said) BTW, it's all opinion-(who's better?) Jimi WAS a huge admirer of Beck though. That is fact. The 2 things he wanted when arriving in the UK was 1. Marshall amps & 2. To meet Jeff Beck.
@kurt9hendrix Judging by your handle you are into Hendrix.. I've seen Hendrix 3 times live and he was amazing however Jeff Beck is very much in his league . I've seen most of the greats more than once .Comparisons are silly. I've been a student of guitar for 45 years and I do listen carefully .
what i find truly amazing is he didnt have any effects. hes different. to me, hes similar to stanley clarke in that he does something completely different which gives him a different sound. i mean, hendrix's sound was different, but jeff's sound is more outside the bix different per se. im not sure if you guys understand what i really mean
To:LordMoe... Underrated?? Jeff Beck is & has for the past 30+ yrs been regarded as one of the finest, most unique guitarists to come out of England. his albums in 75 & 76 blow by blow & wired are masterpieces..
But I guess you just recently got wind od him, thats cool. check out those albums, you'll be glad you did.
I've been a Beck fan since i found my brothers copy of Wired back when a small child. Truly he is frickin' Yoda of the electric guitar. He can slay with one bent note.
Jeff is the most influential guitar player of his (or indeed, any other) generation. There is no-one who can play across all the genres as well as him. Thank you for posting this.
He sure influences me to listen to more of his work. Unfortunately the junk, by "famous artists", that usually gets airtime and becomes popular by being force-fed to the sheep--is pitiful in comparison.
That lever when pressed moves the bridge of the guitar changing the string tension and depending on whether you push it towards the guitar (loosen strings) or pull it away (tighten) you get different effects - thats how jeff beck and indeed all guitarists get there guitar to moan like he does in this video
called a tremolo bar, when u pull it the bridge goes up and makes the notes higher and when u push it it makes them looser so the notes go lower, he uses it to manipulate the notes into sounds u usually cant get without it
Tremelo refers to 3 different effects: 1/ Double picking to sustain notes, (as on Italian mandolin pieces, & Dick Dale tunes).2/Rhythmic alternation of 2 volume settings, (commonly associated w/ an effect on Fender amps. 3/ A variety of vibrato: Rhythmic alternation of two close-together tones, (achieved electronicly, w/fingers, or w/whammy bar).
The fist time i saw jeff beck was around 78/79, Even though i was younger,this girl took me to see jeff beck at Toronto's maple leaf gardens.When it was over i thought it doesn't get better than this.Beck,schenker,tommy bolin,zappa,hendrix,blackmore,page are also among the greats.. Iknowi'veleftsomeout.anyoneknowwhotheyare? stratcat.
i bought a recent JEFF BECK album that is just amazing. Its titled "YOU HAD IT COMING" MAN O MAN what a F album. I really didn't care for his old stuff, but this album is amazing. Very different than i thought, highly recommend.
Cheers to a true prodegy of the guitar, one that created a new dimension of playing that people like vai, eddie, satch, and all the experimental guitarists! but does anyone know where i can download this particular version of the song, or how i can record it so it can be on my iPod?
Just amazing - Jeff is in a different stratosphere to most guitarists. I dont think I have ever heard him play a 'normal' solo...ever. Even on 'Hi Ho Silver Lining ..his big pop hit. Thanks
Beck, though revered by many (including myself) as the greatest all time Les Paul swinging Blues Rockers, has proven time and again that there are no boundaries for his musicality, as his playing continually evolved throughout the years. Marvelous tone and amazing touch... no one - with the exception of Hendrix - can make a Strat talk like Mr. Beck.
Most likely those criticizing (downplaying...) this performance have either (a) never heard a good vocal rendition of "Drown in my own Tears" (Ray Charles, for example) and therefore can't the guitar sounds with the lyric, or (b) are hopeless when it comes to the music/emotion connection, as most experience it.
In fact, case in point: check out the Norah Jones version on YouTube. Some might prefer it. Heck, she's a big star really raking in the money and accolades. However, maybe JB instead of her should have been on the tribute to Mr. Charles, considering his talent dwarfs that of all the PR machine dictated celebs.
Japonaliya: It's OK not to care for JB's style, but his way is passion and also a raw, primitive genius. I think he got rid of picks 'cause his ideas go straight from his heart to his fingers, right into the wire and pickups....
jeff is the greatest guitarist alive today without a doubt - hes got the feel in perfect balance with his technical ability - the definition of greatness - theres lots of players who are technically gifted but emotionally they are vacuous and immature - jeffs playing talks - hes head and shoulders above vai and satriani and the others - no disrespect - hes just better!
Jeff definitely has his own style and stands out. As far as being on of the best ever.....well, that's a matter of opinion. We all like different things in music, sometimes the same things. I think Jeff is really good. HOwever, he never floored me as much as say Danny Gatton. Again, that's just my 2 cents AND two very different styles.
Oh.. 20 years "13" albums..my mistake, but even 20 years ago (86) he was not Jeff Beck anymore. I am talking about 40!!! years ago...he was actually more inventive with the Yardbirds than now.. all things considered.
I have all his albums..i am not saying Beck isn't great..he is..but if you saw what I saw in 1969 when Ron Stewart slid across the stage, mike in tow, and Beck blasts the first notes of "You Shook Me" on a amazing violin-toned Les Paul, you would know what i mean. 13 years ago? Beck was gone by then. Jan Hammer ruined him. He was a fantastic blues-rock guitarist without peer, but tweaks and squeaks are Vai and Zappa territory.
There is and never be anyone who can play like this man. Anyone that thinks this guy is not #1 needs to sit down and shutup, watch him play, and listen!! What passion- Not to mention he will be 64 years old in June. May you live forever Jeff!!
I am a guitarist, and I don't profess to be a guitar-god, but I can do much of what Beck does...it may be experimental, be the experiment is a failure. Listen to Beck play with BB King on A&E. King is simple and sweet, Beck is incomprehensible, though at the end of Rock Me Baby, he plays an exquisite blues riff like the Beck of old...too bad he isn't !!
Japonaliya- why don't you post a video of you playing like this? I saw him last month in Az, And in Ca- And let me tell you there is not a soul on earth who can play like this man. He soars with such passion as I have never seen- And I have seen them all except Hendrix. It's called passion
My playing isn't the Q. you are not paying $100. to see ME! Listen to Jeff's Boogie, then to the noise passing for music now. I watched the Teme concert..embarassing..Music is supposed to hit a chord..Beck doesn't even play chords anymore!
Japonaliya- I have been listning to Jeff for 22 years now. I have seen him 13 times live. I met him 4 years ago and he is quit the humble man for who he is. The true sign of a musical genius is constant progressing change. He is night and day better than he was from the time period you are stuck in. Sit down and listen to his last three albums- listen to Nadia- Music isn't about staying in the same place.
I saw Jeff Beck (the first time) w/ Rod in 68 at the Fillmore...the post car wreck Beck is an imposter! Listen to the org. vers. of Blues Deluxe from the Truth alb. and you will know why.
If I want weird guitar sounds, I can listen to Van Halen or Hendrix.
A guitar, an amp, a cord. Pretty astonishing playing. Meanwhile, if you live in the US and get the Speed Channel on cable, Jeff's going to be on "Car Crazy" April 9
Not only is he one of the best players of all time, but he's a really nice guy, very humble indeed. I've been fortunate to sit down and chat with him.
No. To which "fancy moves" do you refer, Andy? Harmonics, tapping, whammy bar? Seems to me those activities contribute to the music. Just listen, don't watch if the techniques are too dazzling is my advice. Or watch the guy in The Who windmill, leap, and slide across the stage on his knees.
great artists create. the last time i saw him he used his slide and played a song off the pick-ups! that is what makes him so much fun to watch............
The way he incorporates the whammy bar, harmonics, vibrato, volume, and the dynamics of the guitar give me a hard on!! Seriously though, he guy is like no other.
he is the perfect example of not having to play fast to sound impressive, in fact its what he gets out of a few notes that is so amazing. he can play fast, but thats not what he is about, he is singing & breathing when he plays & all w/o a pick. ya gotta love it. i bought blow by blow when it came out in 74 or 75 and i have been hooked ever since.
Jeff Beck is by far one of the most innovative guitarists. What a treat to see and hear this. Seen him in concert twice. there is none other! Just wish there was a DVD dedicated to performances of him Haven't really seen anything out there. I've played for close to 30 years and made a great living out of it... nothing better than doing what you love.
this is music porn to watch him play guitar
jz900 3 months ago
Just amazing, no one is as original these days. I wish young guitar players would listen to pure artistic music and attempt to carry on our fine tradition of electric guitar. Most are a buncha' pro-tools--auto tune wanna be's
Jeff's the greatest!!!
absurdplanet 3 months ago
Need your love so bad?:D
Stratozenfan 1 year ago
jeff can play anything - way more styles than Jimi - not fare to compare them they are both great
RDblues47 1 year ago
THIS MAN IS SO FANTASTIC!
burjo100 1 year ago
Youre right about this being his blues blues is about feeling isnt it and hes found his way of expressing it not only does it with amazing technique but with pure emotion.
MySubterraneanBlues 2 years ago
The Best. This is not Blues...this is HIS BLUES. Is Voice.
MAPORCADIQUELLACAGNA 2 years ago 2
Beck has a unique style... but it just doesn't please my ears.. just not my taste. Great guitarist, though, for sure
Scottmaster84 2 years ago
awesome! jeff truly is a guitar great
pechichemena 2 years ago
Ritchie Blackmore says that Jeff has notes on his guitar that no one else has.
stereoview 3 years ago 3
bestial!
livertad6900 3 years ago
This guy is IMPOSSIBLE to imitate.
slowmonkey156 3 years ago 6
nice
bluesfashion 3 years ago
Nice wig, nice guitar playing.
miki979797 3 years ago
It's not a wig :)
AxisofJustice21 2 years ago
If an actor needs to cry for a scene, all he or she has to do is listen to this song.
Such a powerful/emotional tune.
Love it!
Nickvideoguy 3 years ago 9
perfect
ryoichiryoichi 3 years ago
yeah !
redoredo 3 years ago
One Of My Favorite Ray Charles Songs
JG92987 3 years ago
Awsome nothing else to say no matter how many time I hear this awsome.
ajhnubia 4 years ago
there is a special about jb and his car collection from his estate in england. one of these car specialty channels.
coreyagraph 4 years ago
Awesome, just awesome :')
HumanGuitar 4 years ago
The BEST of the BEST !!
a.k.a.
Jeff Beck
lemonheater 4 years ago
This should have 5 star rating...completely...
Only a REAL douchebag wouldnt give up 5 stars for this...
lemonheater 4 years ago
I know this crowd. Bickereing, and crying over
whose the best. TA TA TA TA TA enough! You cant quit your bickering long enought to hear a NOTE!
So go on with your neddlepoint and old maids.
Rhere is nada more to say. It's been said, turn the page
twistoffate777 4 years ago
muito bom!!!
qualquer guitarrista deveria passar por essa aula de sentimento pela guitarra!!
Espetacular!!!
nelsondopinho 4 years ago
listening to jeff play will never get old
deepestpurple13 4 years ago
the tone and colours jeff manges to produce make him seccond to none at his craft long live Jeff beck
ajhnubia 4 years ago
happily, i have quit reading most of the comments regarding all these great artists. i just will say this....musicians know. with jb you are seeing something you won't see again. genius all his own.
coreyagraph 4 years ago
DAMN RIGHT! Wow.. finally someone gets it. Thank you.
AxisofJustice21 2 years ago
just brilliant i would cut off two toes to play like this for one night
swamismotel 4 years ago
i would settle for 1 song
coreyagraph 4 years ago
i would settle for 1 song
coreyagraph 4 years ago
That was a brilliant cover of "Need your love so bad". As Jimmy Page says, when Beck is at his best no-one can touch him.
ahorwood 4 years ago
Does anyone know where I can get this vid.
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pisoga9 4 years ago
How is this related to JB?
3dimensionalreality 4 years ago
Okay. Last dance. The point is, I don't for a second believe Jeff thinks he's playing the blues here. He's always been careful to differentiate what he does from what the forefathers did. When he plays Mingus' "Porkpie Hat", I don't think he thinks he's playing jazz either. It's all "Jeff Beck" music to him.
Ahh, Dimebag. Greatly missed.
swampdaddy 4 years ago
S.Daddy I'm certian I've been doing this long enough to know blues from jazz thank you J.B
yellowdeuce 4 years ago
Great seething Barabajagal! Methinks there's perhaps a swindle afoot. . . yet nonetheless, I swear on a stack of Rodder's Journals my expressions are merely playful blather.
My devoted advocacy, however, is anything but.
But . . . ahem . . . how about some more funk?
swampdaddy 4 years ago
Love the setting. Nice to see Jeff with a big band.
jcghooker 3 years ago
What's a Dimebag? Is that like a douchebag? Did I miss something? After Beck, Clapton, Hendrix?
tomtowle 4 years ago
Nobody denies the value of having a functional vernacular for discussion/appreciation of a creative form. I initially posted an objection to a viewer asserting this piece to be "blues". If you're gonna call this rendition "blues", you're gonna have to get real busy with qualifying information because the performance has precious little to do with an identifiable idiom but everything to do with Jeff's glorious showboating.
swampdaddy 4 years ago
man, blues music can just be like..emotionally expressed shit, or sad (even tho it can be happy soundin) shit...
he kinda looks like his pourin himself out into this one, so what else would you call it?
weloveyoudimebag 4 years ago
A true master! JEFF IS A GUITAR GOD!
iggyfritz 4 years ago
...and the guitar stays in tune!:D
Stratonikke 4 years ago
Blues wasn't a marketing tool in the eyes of Alan Lomax when he went out to record a vanishing form of American music, nor was it to the Chess brothers when they sought to capitolize on it. It wasn't a marketing tool when Limey art school kids scarfed up vinyl from Chess, Arhoolie, et al by folks who referred to the music as blues.
When Muddy Waters - a self-identified "bluesman" - spent time with his blues-envious acolyte, Eric Clapton, they talked blues.
swampdaddy 4 years ago
Swampdaddy, all musical labels are only useful in describing music that people haven't heard yet, blues is no exception, so it certainly can be used as a marketing tool, as well as a tool to discuss music with fellow musicians as you describe. If we just listened to music, we wouldn't need to describe it, other than whether we liked it or not.
blahdelablah 4 years ago
Yeah Jeff is great, you wanna see some more crazy guitar check out Rory Gallagher...now HE is without a doubt the most underrated guitarist of the 70's. (And ive seen him tapping before van halen was around, and the guy from genesis and kiss both tapped before van halen...and van halen was inspired by jimmy page to start tapping..so uhh. enough of this "oh van halen is so great cuz he tapped" nonsense)
strider238 4 years ago
dude...i had TENTH ROW SEATS to see this GOD.
and my dad didnt let me go...
im still NEVER gonna be able to live that down :(
weloveyoudimebag 5 years ago
And he plays without pick - I'm not alone! ;) Great sound ;)
JikoMuskato 5 years ago
Did you guys know, this song is a cover of Ray Charles: Drown in my own tears? His guitar is in place of the vocals from the original song. Fortunately Beck doesn't need a talkbox to make his guitar sing :D. That would have been a nightmare...
flyingfish555 5 years ago
Sorry Muck, I am a HUGE Beck fan, saw him numerous times, bought all the albums going back to the Yardbirds. But the fact is, he NEVER tapped until Eddie made it popular. And as great as Beck is, he never developed a tapping technique anywhere near as good as Eddie. Beck's style is so ggod he really doesn't need to do hammer ons.
yourtubesteak 5 years ago 2
This is beauty. People that can't appreciate this aren't true musicians.
liontone 5 years ago
B.B. would make a wonderful father figure indeed, except he ain't their father, yo. Dig: Henry Ford's crowd designed and manufactured the 32 Ford. From that, hot rodders concocted the Deuce Coupe, after radical alterations to the frame and body has been refitted a complete rethinking of the drive train, said drive train now being muscled up to preposterous ratios. At this point it ain't Henry's 32 Ford no more.
And this, pongos, ain't B.B.'s blues either.
swampdaddy 5 years ago
well said
voodoochild1991 5 years ago
ask their father...He's still alive...BB
silverr3 5 years ago
One can build a house with brick, block, mortar and wood. Or you can build a garage. Or a pizza shop, a police station or an insane asylum.
Lessee here . . . Nicky Hopkins is dead, so's Keith Moon, so neither can testify, though they were there. Ron and Rod were there, as was Mick Waller. And Jeff. Someone ask any of 'em if they ever thought they were in a rhythm and blues band.
It outta get a good laugh.
Don't let your confusion get you down.
swampdaddy 5 years ago
Uhhh . . .if that was a blues song, John Lee Hooker played salsa music.
As regards Jeff's "early blues stuff with Rod Stewart", I don't think anyone - Jeff, Rod, Micky Most (the producer)or Jimi or Janis or my Aunt Isabel - ever thought for two seconds that what they were recording was "the blues".
Congrats Bosco, you might be the first to thus label it.
Heh ... heh ... heh.
swampdaddy 5 years ago
OK i'm confused. He's playing with a rhythm and blues band using blues scales. What do you call it Swampdud?
stereoview 5 years ago
Blues is a marketing term. Creative artists play whatever they feel, and businessmen call it whatever makes people buy it. I sincerely doubt that Robert Johnson referred to himself as a bluesman, as much as we now he agree that he was one. RJ played plenty of other stuff, but his white producers were going for an effect: "Blues".
lazur1 4 years ago
jeff beck should win the award "most obnoxious overuse of a whammy bar in a blues song" award...also the finger tapping thing kinda died in the 80s with the van halen clones...but some of beck's early blues stuff with rod stewart was pretty cool
blues9981 5 years ago 3
he was finger tapping when Eddie Van Halen was in fucking diapers. You obviously play..nothing...but your stereo.
muckfunk9 5 years ago
I'm a Beck fan, but he didn't tap when I saw him between mid-60s (Yardbirds) & mid 70's. There's some stuff on records that sounds like it might be tapped, but it's simple enough to have been left hand techniques. It was all left hand in person, I assume the recordings were, too. There's been tapping (at least) since Tal Farlow in the late 40's, but EVH is the first to make extensive use of it. He was doing it in LA clubs in 1976 at the latest.
lazur1 4 years ago
I did'nt knew him, he's really good!!!!
Blues with a strat... what else?
apollon601 5 years ago
Jeff Beck is awesome. He's underated.
RED19W1NGS 5 years ago
If Hendrix hadn't taken drugs and died..this is what he might have sounded like
cafelifestyle 5 years ago
are u kidding me?? Hendrix kicks jeff becks ass... jeff bek is good and everything.. but he's not in hendrix's league.. no one is
kurt9hendrix 5 years ago 3
OK. agreed, Hendrix was an originator and a hero of mine as well. I guess I was just trying to say that it's the shame that Jimi died because of drugs, because he could have produced so much more great music....and I think Beck DOES do a great job...had Jimi lived who knows what else he might have done
Peace
cafelifestyle 5 years ago
everything you said was about Eric Clapton. Hendrix admired Clapton, he wanted to meet Clapton, he adopted some things from Clapton.. i.e. wah wah pedal.. you read the wrong biography
atl2maryland 5 years ago 2
let's face it, they're both innovators. Jimi was copping Jeff's licks before his first record even came out. "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was WAY ahead of everybody in '66. Jimi took up from there & took it WAY beyond, it's true. Jeff has been the 1st to acknowledge that ("totally unchained" he's said) BTW, it's all opinion-(who's better?) Jimi WAS a huge admirer of Beck though. That is fact. The 2 things he wanted when arriving in the UK was 1. Marshall amps & 2. To meet Jeff Beck.
surfercrow 5 years ago
It is not a SPORT. He kicks his ass. What in the hell are you talking about? Music or football?!!
muckfunk9 5 years ago
@kurt9hendrix Judging by your handle you are into Hendrix.. I've seen Hendrix 3 times live and he was amazing however Jeff Beck is very much in his league . I've seen most of the greats more than once .Comparisons are silly. I've been a student of guitar for 45 years and I do listen carefully .
ekpil 1 year ago
what i find truly amazing is he didnt have any effects. hes different. to me, hes similar to stanley clarke in that he does something completely different which gives him a different sound. i mean, hendrix's sound was different, but jeff's sound is more outside the bix different per se. im not sure if you guys understand what i really mean
blah148 5 years ago
he's tricky man. awesome player. definitely one of the most underrated guitarists out there
LordMoe 5 years ago
To:LordMoe... Underrated?? Jeff Beck is & has for the past 30+ yrs been regarded as one of the finest, most unique guitarists to come out of England. his albums in 75 & 76 blow by blow & wired are masterpieces..
But I guess you just recently got wind od him, thats cool. check out those albums, you'll be glad you did.
MOSKII58 5 years ago
The Jeff Beck Wired Album was the single most influential body of work that still guieds my throug my production today!
GeebzTV 5 years ago
Amen
cafelifestyle 5 years ago
Dang!
stereoview 5 years ago
Excellent!
valyuntbe 5 years ago
I've been a Beck fan since i found my brothers copy of Wired back when a small child. Truly he is frickin' Yoda of the electric guitar. He can slay with one bent note.
SixtyThreeStrat 5 years ago
Jeff is the most influential guitar player of his (or indeed, any other) generation. There is no-one who can play across all the genres as well as him. Thank you for posting this.
JimmyS1960 5 years ago
He sure influences me to listen to more of his work. Unfortunately the junk, by "famous artists", that usually gets airtime and becomes popular by being force-fed to the sheep--is pitiful in comparison.
strandwolf 5 years ago
That lever when pressed moves the bridge of the guitar changing the string tension and depending on whether you push it towards the guitar (loosen strings) or pull it away (tighten) you get different effects - thats how jeff beck and indeed all guitarists get there guitar to moan like he does in this video
finchfinch 5 years ago
Cheers :)
christina274 5 years ago
Wow.
I feel like an idiot asking this, but what exactly is that lever on the strat for?
christina274 5 years ago
called a tremolo bar, when u pull it the bridge goes up and makes the notes higher and when u push it it makes them looser so the notes go lower, he uses it to manipulate the notes into sounds u usually cant get without it
weloveyoudimebag 5 years ago
I hate to sound like a pedant, but the actual effect produced is vibrato. Tremolo bar is a bit of a misnomer.
engl63 5 years ago
Tremelo refers to 3 different effects: 1/ Double picking to sustain notes, (as on Italian mandolin pieces, & Dick Dale tunes).2/Rhythmic alternation of 2 volume settings, (commonly associated w/ an effect on Fender amps. 3/ A variety of vibrato: Rhythmic alternation of two close-together tones, (achieved electronicly, w/fingers, or w/whammy bar).
lazur1 4 years ago
Its called a whammy bar. and dont feel embarassed, you learn when you ask. you can hear it realy well in Van Halen song- Eruption.
Jenisonc 5 years ago 2
The fist time i saw jeff beck was around 78/79, Even though i was younger,this girl took me to see jeff beck at Toronto's maple leaf gardens.When it was over i thought it doesn't get better than this.Beck,schenker,tommy bolin,zappa,hendrix,blackmore,page are also among the greats.. Iknowi'veleftsomeout.anyoneknowwhotheyare? stratcat.
STRATCAT101 5 years ago
nobody plays like Jeff...NOBODY!!! Gonna see him this Sunday in Oakland, CAN'T WAIT!!
circusguy 5 years ago
i bought a recent JEFF BECK album that is just amazing. Its titled "YOU HAD IT COMING" MAN O MAN what a F album. I really didn't care for his old stuff, but this album is amazing. Very different than i thought, highly recommend.
motokev 5 years ago
Jeff is, without a doubt, the best rock guitarist on the planet!!! Incredible!
Bix12 5 years ago
you've got to be kidding it's music like this that makes me think I should just stop playing guitar this is one of the greats for sure
Frater8 5 years ago
Jeff beck is so cool.
tararico 5 years ago
Cheers to a true prodegy of the guitar, one that created a new dimension of playing that people like vai, eddie, satch, and all the experimental guitarists! but does anyone know where i can download this particular version of the song, or how i can record it so it can be on my iPod?
blah148 5 years ago
Jeff rules
Hooper77 5 years ago
One of the few who really gives "Life to the Guitar". Amazing!!
Rhuarc 5 years ago
Just amazing - Jeff is in a different stratosphere to most guitarists. I dont think I have ever heard him play a 'normal' solo...ever. Even on 'Hi Ho Silver Lining ..his big pop hit. Thanks
maxquadband 5 years ago
Another brilliant jeff beck performance. How did I miss this one - thanks
lookatmenow 5 years ago
Beck, though revered by many (including myself) as the greatest all time Les Paul swinging Blues Rockers, has proven time and again that there are no boundaries for his musicality, as his playing continually evolved throughout the years. Marvelous tone and amazing touch... no one - with the exception of Hendrix - can make a Strat talk like Mr. Beck.
AdrianoInacio 5 years ago
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton.
Ownedizzled 5 years ago 3
Hear, hear!
Most likely those criticizing (downplaying...) this performance have either (a) never heard a good vocal rendition of "Drown in my own Tears" (Ray Charles, for example) and therefore can't the guitar sounds with the lyric, or (b) are hopeless when it comes to the music/emotion connection, as most experience it.
strandwolf 5 years ago
In fact, case in point: check out the Norah Jones version on YouTube. Some might prefer it. Heck, she's a big star really raking in the money and accolades. However, maybe JB instead of her should have been on the tribute to Mr. Charles, considering his talent dwarfs that of all the PR machine dictated celebs.
strandwolf 5 years ago
Japonaliya: It's OK not to care for JB's style, but his way is passion and also a raw, primitive genius. I think he got rid of picks 'cause his ideas go straight from his heart to his fingers, right into the wire and pickups....
chiennoir54 5 years ago
jeff is the greatest guitarist alive today without a doubt - hes got the feel in perfect balance with his technical ability - the definition of greatness - theres lots of players who are technically gifted but emotionally they are vacuous and immature - jeffs playing talks - hes head and shoulders above vai and satriani and the others - no disrespect - hes just better!
bunterx 5 years ago
definately, of course i think the greatest guitarists alive right now are jimmy page and slash, but jeff beck is up there too:)
weloveyoudimebag 5 years ago
any1 got the audio to this they could seen me cos i cant find it
samhogg 5 years ago
On Jools Holland's Big Band Volume Two !!!!
voodoodentists 5 years ago
Jeff definitely has his own style and stands out. As far as being on of the best ever.....well, that's a matter of opinion. We all like different things in music, sometimes the same things. I think Jeff is really good. HOwever, he never floored me as much as say Danny Gatton. Again, that's just my 2 cents AND two very different styles.
soblueimblack 5 years ago 3
Oh.. 20 years "13" albums..my mistake, but even 20 years ago (86) he was not Jeff Beck anymore. I am talking about 40!!! years ago...he was actually more inventive with the Yardbirds than now.. all things considered.
japonaliya 5 years ago 3
I have all his albums..i am not saying Beck isn't great..he is..but if you saw what I saw in 1969 when Ron Stewart slid across the stage, mike in tow, and Beck blasts the first notes of "You Shook Me" on a amazing violin-toned Les Paul, you would know what i mean. 13 years ago? Beck was gone by then. Jan Hammer ruined him. He was a fantastic blues-rock guitarist without peer, but tweaks and squeaks are Vai and Zappa territory.
japonaliya 5 years ago 2
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tararico 5 years ago
There is and never be anyone who can play like this man. Anyone that thinks this guy is not #1 needs to sit down and shutup, watch him play, and listen!! What passion- Not to mention he will be 64 years old in June. May you live forever Jeff!!
JEFFBECKIS1 5 years ago
INCREDIBLE - HE IS THE BEST OF THE BEST.
JEFF IS GOD!
deddlybuzz 5 years ago
wicked.
surfercrow 5 years ago
Exactly! What IS the big deal???
I am a guitarist, and I don't profess to be a guitar-god, but I can do much of what Beck does...it may be experimental, be the experiment is a failure. Listen to Beck play with BB King on A&E. King is simple and sweet, Beck is incomprehensible, though at the end of Rock Me Baby, he plays an exquisite blues riff like the Beck of old...too bad he isn't !!
japonaliya 5 years ago 2
Japonaliya- why don't you post a video of you playing like this? I saw him last month in Az, And in Ca- And let me tell you there is not a soul on earth who can play like this man. He soars with such passion as I have never seen- And I have seen them all except Hendrix. It's called passion
JEFFBECKIS1 5 years ago
My playing isn't the Q. you are not paying $100. to see ME! Listen to Jeff's Boogie, then to the noise passing for music now. I watched the Teme concert..embarassing..Music is supposed to hit a chord..Beck doesn't even play chords anymore!
japonaliya 5 years ago 3
Japonaliya- I have been listning to Jeff for 22 years now. I have seen him 13 times live. I met him 4 years ago and he is quit the humble man for who he is. The true sign of a musical genius is constant progressing change. He is night and day better than he was from the time period you are stuck in. Sit down and listen to his last three albums- listen to Nadia- Music isn't about staying in the same place.
JEFFBECKIS1 5 years ago
This is one of best performances i have ever seen from jeff. JEFF BECK IS AWESOME!!
Aerozeppelin29 5 years ago
I saw Jeff Beck (the first time) w/ Rod in 68 at the Fillmore...the post car wreck Beck is an imposter! Listen to the org. vers. of Blues Deluxe from the Truth alb. and you will know why.
If I want weird guitar sounds, I can listen to Van Halen or Hendrix.
japonaliya 5 years ago
After the two major car wrecks he had and should have been "brain damaged" he sure plays well! Do not listen to doctors!
hamwinkie 5 years ago
my Strat saw this video and now she won't let me touch her. seems she is waiting for Jeff.
121212steve 5 years ago
Well you know he done old Leo Fender proud! For whatever musical beauty that can be generated with the Stratocaster...refer to the Guv'nor.
strandwolf 5 years ago
Best guitarist ever
Bigfatphony19 5 years ago
Jeff has really the knack of making you think he has invented the rock guitar. Outstanding guitar player.
ferini 5 years ago
this is very cool. Jeff will be in the SF area on the 4th of April.
jimmyq888 6 years ago
A guitar, an amp, a cord. Pretty astonishing playing. Meanwhile, if you live in the US and get the Speed Channel on cable, Jeff's going to be on "Car Crazy" April 9
misterarthur 6 years ago
amazing! the strat's a very versatile guitar.
InfectedGib 6 years ago
Not only is he one of the best players of all time, but he's a really nice guy, very humble indeed. I've been fortunate to sit down and chat with him.
Thanks for posting this clip!
moodyb 6 years ago
I really like Jeff Beck, but doesn't anyone else get tired of all his fancy moves? I mean sometimes they just get excessive....no?
andrewman99 6 years ago 3
No. To which "fancy moves" do you refer, Andy? Harmonics, tapping, whammy bar? Seems to me those activities contribute to the music. Just listen, don't watch if the techniques are too dazzling is my advice. Or watch the guy in The Who windmill, leap, and slide across the stage on his knees.
strandwolf 6 years ago
If you knew nothing about guitar and closed your eyes and just listened you'd never know they were fancy moves. It's just part of his song.
Ronsonic 5 years ago
great artists create. the last time i saw him he used his slide and played a song off the pick-ups! that is what makes him so much fun to watch............
coreyagraph 4 years ago
Damn the Yardbirds' guitarist all made history by being the best. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck
chakotay 6 years ago
The way he incorporates the whammy bar, harmonics, vibrato, volume, and the dynamics of the guitar give me a hard on!! Seriously though, he guy is like no other.
litjourney 6 years ago
he is the perfect example of not having to play fast to sound impressive, in fact its what he gets out of a few notes that is so amazing. he can play fast, but thats not what he is about, he is singing & breathing when he plays & all w/o a pick. ya gotta love it. i bought blow by blow when it came out in 74 or 75 and i have been hooked ever since.
MOSKII58 5 years ago
Jeff Beck is by far one of the most innovative guitarists. What a treat to see and hear this. Seen him in concert twice. there is none other! Just wish there was a DVD dedicated to performances of him Haven't really seen anything out there. I've played for close to 30 years and made a great living out of it... nothing better than doing what you love.
phillyguitar 6 years ago
What's amazing about this is that anyone would give it less than 5 stars. If "Clapton is God" who this guy?! Jeff's the best.
strandwolf 6 years ago