Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - 31 Jan 2009 - Sydney, Enmore Theatre

[Musicalbeds69]

This is two songs; GPPH intro leading into Brush With The Blues.

[TrashcanBoogie]

andy summers (peggy's blue ceiling), great version. great album.

[pretorious700]

Stradivarious of the stratocaster

[utopiandesign]

Mr. Jeff Beck: The Lone Ranger of Modern Lyricism on electric guitar. The voice of his strings sums up the cry of the human spirit: in beauty, skill, sadness and hope. Just amazing, and awe inspiring!

[Amstrup77]

Jeff Beck is the Guitarists guitarist thats why he is not as popular by the masses as, lets say his good old mates page and clapton.

however both of them have said they are no where near beck in guitar skill...

beck uses overdrive flanger and a bit of reverb... the rest is in the hands, the whammy, and the volume/tone control...

so for all of you that dont play guitar or just are complete fanboys of whoever, this guy beck is the master of the masters when it comes to guitar control

[bluelibra65]

i think the whole performance would be much more exciting, if him & tal would come out front and do some brittany/madonna style dance steps.

[TheDarkSide599]

whoever that 1 person is who disliked this video must have a very shit taste in music

[jovannilucsi]

Good musik!!!!!!!!!!!

[mitcky]

I'll take four minutes and 12 seconds of this and consider myself fortunate. GREAT POST!!!

[hardyharhar9]

Tal Wilkenfeld is my dream girl.

[dapunkof1975]

dammit i hate when he plays brush with the blues why cant you just fuckin play goodbye pork pie hat?

[bluelibra65]

omg, this is so awesome, i just creamed my jeans, .... if you'll excuse me for a minute ....

[stratoleft]

So many people have a hard time trying to discern the sound and style on guitar. People can't relate to Jeff's sound so they try to describe it and can't. It's much like art, because, umm, it is art. Let's say you know nothing about painting and you see a painting, let's say Picasso, and you ask an art expert, "who is the artist ?" The art expert might not believe you even ask, because to him the answer should be obvious. "Can't you tell just by looking at it?" Jeff Beck's sound is the same.

[lensdarkly]

Well said sir, well said indeed. JB is JB. Noone comes close. If you like JB, you may also like Tommy Emmanuel, or his brother Phil Emmanuel, or Kevin Borich, or Steve Morse, or Steve Howe, or Jimmy Page, or Jimi Hendrix, or Mr Carlos Santana, in no particular order. But JB remains king of the slow attack, the long sustain, and above all fingertip control, not a bunch of fancy pedal effects. JB hardly touches the pedal board, it's all in his hands.

[stratoleft]

@lensdarkly and I must also say, very well said indeed.

[BillWalkerGuitar]

This guy has not lost a step, comparisons between him and other rock icons particularly ones that died too young are pointless INMH. The man has such command, one of the greatest to have ever picked up a guitar and still burning brightly. bless your socks JB

[chaircreature]

blardo ... jimi was great, but as a guitarist jeff is miles ahead in terms of technique and melody. Problem with Jeff is that he was never a songwriter. Glad he found Tal.

[javiceres]

I love Beck,he's one of my vey favourites and I like him more than Hendrix but I have to admit that Hendrix got further than anyone in almost every aspect of electric guitar playing and electric guitar based music, and if he'd lived one or two decades more, who knows.

Please, if you have the chance, listen to Electric Church Red House live, even in youtube.

[Cyclonex1CA]

Awesome

[RensStella]

Fantastic! thanks for recording & sharing with us

[Bluezking]

J Beck plays as if He's playin' back from future.

[MrStephensbakery]

Nobody carries Jeff Beck except jeff beck.

Ho Hum? You're not serious.

[blardosplats]

I was talking outta my hiney when I wrote that. Sorry, but at least I was listening to some d$^n good music at the time!

Plus, I am in love with Tal, and she acts like she doesn't even know I exist! ;-)

[blardosplats]

Jeff Beck only channels Hendrix in this video. Ho Hum.

Tal is carrying Beck these days..

[lensdarkly]

I don't recall Hendrix playing Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, thought that was more Mingus, McLaughlin and I like what Beck does with it. Noone carries Beck, but Tal is certainly his equal.

[roknroll3]

@lensdarkly

While I agree no one carries JB, Tal is just one of many fine bass players JB has played with and the only reason she made such a big spash is her age and she is a female.

[matcomarket]

@lensdarkly "Equal" isn't an appropriate word. She's a good compliment to his act, and she's talented. But Jeff Beck has been killing it for well over half a century. Kids still go nuts when they discover Wired and Blow by Blow for the first time—and both records probably predate Tal's parents. If Tal has recorded any solo albums of similar longevity and innovativeness, I've never heard of them. She's not his equal.

[fredzbassist]

@blardosplats. Nitwit!

[calicopark]

no one carries Beck ever, Tal is a revelation, there a real nod to Jaco in her

[edrjazz]

Master of the Statocaster.

every nut, bolt ,screw, spring, fret, wire, pot, pickup, yes and even probably the neckstrap... sheesh... you gotta love JB... what a band.!!!!!

[davethecaveman]

fuckin a!.greeings from the US...

[Floydfan717]

i'm from the united states, and i cant understand why JB is so underated here.the man is smooth genious -- get wired then get wired :)

[eddhouck]

He got Guitar Player magazine 2009 player of the year. Those who play get him and those who appreciate artistry over gimmickry but face it, this is not going to play on Top 40 radio! Brian May, Slash, Jimmie Page, and many others consider him the best. Brian May says all the great players he knows consider Beck the Mozart of our time. See May's site and you'll find his comments. So much for "monkey drool" comment from headforthetropics............

[headforthetropics]

OMG! What over-rated monkey-drool

[JazzmanJibilla]

Even Charles might have liked this.

[das728]

Jeff never ceases to thrill. the proof is in his putting....soft hands, emotion, this man is truly one with his guitar and utterly untouchable. saw him Tue and Wed last week. still basking in the afterglow of those performances.

thanks Jeff for the heaven you bring to us mere mortals here on earth, our only home.

[stratoleft]

Very well put, das. It never ceases to amaze me how he gives this illusion on guitar. Sometimes when he is doing those chords I'm thinking, "he's got to be using a slide like on a pedal steel", but as you can see, he's not. Jeff has and always has had his own trademark sound. Period.

[das728]

thanks....Jeff usually says it all, doesn't he? cheers and peace!

[tutokuka]

i was therrrree

[speedburnervideo]

Man I hope he will come to the US again SOOOOOON! He is THE BEST!

[wimidwife]

He is touring US in April. NY, Milwaukee, Boston, Chicago, LA...

[lensdarkly]

Do not miss JB man, he is still the best, age does not weary him, he just gets better, no really, he is better now than when I saw him 30 years ago when I was at Uni.

He's not about trick effects, or banks of effects pedals, he just has more feel for each string and fret than anyone does. He will get 2 totally different tones, from 2 consecutive notes, purely from his fretting and picking and aftertouches. His imitators are glued to their pedals, he rarely touches them.

[Christo355]

Wow I did not even know he was still touring.... I still remember flipping out over the Wired album when I was 13....

I made a cover with my own guitar, I learned the song way back in HS, audio recording only, from 2003

[Kirok]

Nobody's better than Becko. Just -- damn. He TOYS with mortal men and our concepts of music.

[itzjoeymac]

This is the beginning of PorkPie and the rest is Brush With The Blues. Get WIRED by JB from 1976 for the whole PORKPIE tune.

[Chatorisa]

sweet

[BillToabe]

Oh man...best version yet. The Blues Baby done Beck style.

The Master The Mistro

[healedbyblues]

Great song -thanks for putting it up