@NeilGmusic Hey I love SRV as much as the next guy, but here is a quote from SRV on Beck. "Jeff makes me sound like a 5 year old with broken fingers."
I personally believe that Beck is the greatest of all time. Better than even than Hendrix. I say that because of the length of his career & the variety of genres that Beck has dabbled in. When above average artists die young they gain legendary stauts. Cobain is another that IMHO is overrated in most respects. Why? Cuz he died young. Beck = GOAT
Holy Fuckin Shit, Is this How Heaven feels like? I am speechless, two great guitarist just speaking to each other through their guitars. Long Live The Blues!
@lesapt59 You sound like a complete douche. First of all it's Jeff's song, why do you think he's playing mostly? Also, this is 1984 so who cares what guitar is played.
It mustve been awesome for Stevie to play this with Jeff considering it was one of the 1st songs Stevie ever learned Note for Note beginning to end when he was like 12-13..Incredible!!
I'm not really a fan of this song, although I think Stevie could have salvaged it, but only if Jeff put down his guitar and picked up, I dunno, a tambourine or something. Or maybe a cowbell?
And that's not even really a knock against Jeff; I actually like him. The fact is that there were very few (if any) musicians who should've made an attempt to play as SRV's equal. Jeff is an amazing guitarist, a true virtuoso. The problem is, I'm pretty sure Stevie was actually God on vacation.
@dontdamnme84 your putting down beck as a guitar player, when SRV was as one dimensional as a Hendrix tribute band which he basically was. He could play good blues and that's it. Beck is much better all around player than SRV. You think SRV could crossover to Jazz and make one of the greatest Jazz albums ever like Beck did? I think not. Blues is great, but lets not get carried away, technically, jazz is harder to play, give Beck his props for being one of the most well rounded guitar players
@MerkinMuffly Fair enough, I'm biased as hell. But you tell me to not get carried away, and then refer to SRV as merely a "Hendrix tribute band". That's lame. And do I think SRV could have successfully crossed over to Jazz? Probably. Unfortunately, he was dead at 35.
@MerkinMuffly Stevie Ray can play anything he wanted. No doubt. He started playing as a child. If I can play just about anything, Stevie Ray Vaughan sure can...
@MerkinMuffly ever heard the song Riviera Paradise? great jazz song. or perhaps his version of boilermaker, that was rather jazzy as well. so do your research before you say someone cannot play a certain style.
@MerkinMuffly hendrix tribute band really he never was once was in a tribute he may have dressed like him but they did orginal songs in his early career
jeff actually plays the jackson for certain songs when he either needs a floyd rose or 24 frets. he still owns this guitar. but his main guitar is (and has been ever since the album Truth, back when he used a les paul) and probably will stay the strat
to all those complaining of beck playing a jackson, what does it really matter? he's played all kinds of guitars over the years, and this happened to be a time where he played jacksons which happen to be great for his style of play. its not like it doesn't sound like him playing...
@schultz970 You should learn to respect other people`s opinion without assaulting them. Otherwise you will never be a grown-up. So, now Im going to rush for my violine lessson. -
@schultz970 Sorry you are not astute enough to know when you're being ridiculed. And your belittling comments about 2 guitar legends was idiotic. Yeah, it's just a little blues ditty and not supposed to be anything more.
@schultz970 I think...NO I KNOW you've misunderstood my comments. If you scroll down and read what gilan5 wrote I was replying to HIM saying this was 'awfully played' and 'not music' I was insulting HIM. JB and SRV are fucking Gods to me and I've probably seen them live more times than most people. And by the way this 'little blues ditty' is Jeff's Boogie - a classic from Yardbirds days. Do a little further reading and maybe your 'astuteness' will kick in. Schools out, you're excused.
@janderson2000 ....wow... way to apologize for being so thoroughly wrong, insulting, and clueless. I think 'JEFF'S boogie' is not EVEN blues song but a re-work of an old Chuck Berry song "Guitar Boogie" with alot of Les Paul influence interwoven in it. Anything else?
@janderson2000 As some unastute person once said "Keep your idiotic opinions to yourself if you don't want to be ridiculed." Your CLEARLY a fuck-tard. .....'go away' hahaha ....go get your diaper changed, your crabby because you got schooled.
@schultz970 If you do not recognize the clearly blues-based progression, you are beyond retarded. I clearly know what I'm talking about as anybody who reads our exchange can see. Now, go back to being an idiot elsewhere. You don't belong on a Jeff Beck video. You're way too clueless.
@janderson2000 Fuck you dude, my youngest strat is 6 years older than you. I DO know what I'm talking about ..just done wasting it on you junior. Yeah, I'm sure you have alot of fans of your 'exchanges'. Here and the Justin Bieber vids right? But thanks - you've inspired a song about you called, "Douche-bag blues" with a clearly blues based progression just for you.
@schultz970 Sorry if I bored you, because your stupidity is quite entertaining to me. BTW, I own a 1965 Strat and 1968 Telecaster. I'm sure you lose in the guitar collection aspect as well...
@janderson2000 yeah ...and I got a unicorn in my garage next to my Les Paul signed by Beck, Page and Clapton....dude, know when the crickets are chirping. This all started because YOU read something incorrectly and then started calling ME stupid. And now we have to hear a fake inventory or your imaginary belongings. Who cares. Those guitars - if you actually owned them - don't blow away my best by any means. But that's not even important to me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. Grow up.
@schultz970 I'm sorry my real life guitar collection makes you try to escape to your fantasy world. I also have a 1979 V which is pretty nice, but not in the absolute vintage range as the Fenders.
@janderson2000Here's my reality junior - '57 Tele, '63, '72, '82 & JB signature Strats, '63 Jaguar,'64 Rickenbaker, 69 &'73 Les Paul, 2 , and various Ovations. Saying you have a '79 V is like telling me you just got a new model airplane kit. You're out of your league here kid.
'57 tele is nice, if it's all original & not re-finished or molested in any other way. Don't give a fuck about jaguars. Ovations generally suck ass. I have a 1963 D-28, so I laugh at Ovations. My 79 V would most likely destroy your 82 Strat. I've owned a 72 Strat, even, but sold it because it couldn't hold a candle to the pre-CBS stuff.Anyway, it's great you have some nice guitars...doesn't change the fact that you have your head up your ass and can't even recognize a blues progression.
@janderson2000 all of a sudden after seeing what i have - your list goes up....hmmm. A '57 tele is "nice"...wow. Should I have said it's made of platinum with flawless diamonds in the frets? You'd give a fuck about this Jag, it's pretty sweet for that sound. Junior, you could listen to just about ANY genre and say 'that's a blues progression." THIS AIN'T A BLUES SONG.
@schultz970 No, you CAN'T grandpa. This is blues. If you want to split a hair and call it blues rock you're not making yourself look any brighter. And I never gave you my list. I don't recall mentioning my original Steinbergers. Yes, a 53 tele is an incredible guitar, but I have a feeling yours is a chopped up franken-tele with a paint job.
@janderson2000 No actually my tele is the real deal and what's more is it was obtained from a rummage sale for 20.00 in 1981. Beautiful condition. Belonged to a young man killed in Viet Nam. Sat in an attic forever. And it's a '57 ...there you go not thoroughly reading again.
when jeff was into all that whammy bar shit made it look like he un learned how to play a bit but stevie kick his ass playing going down on this tour aw man if i was a roadie
@Noseheros I think he used the Jackson because it had 24 frets which is needed to reaching the higher notes at the bottom of the fretboard. But why he picked the Pink model, who knows??
Sometimes the 21 frets of a standard Strat just isn't quite enough. But hey Stevie did an awesome!! job, but yeah, I think that's why.
@kassemir You can get a strat with 24 frets, Im pretty sure he wanted the floating bridge too but I just meant Jeff Beck being associated with Jackson, when he was suck a classic guitar guy before this, nothing against it, just saying
@Noseheros I'm not entirely sure you can get a Strat with 24 frets without doing some serious re-building on it at least. Strats use a very wide scale for their fret boards, and on the 22-fret Strats, the last fret is right in front of the neck pick-up. And the natural harmonic for what would basically be the 24th fret is right on top of the neck pick-up.
But yeah, he probably wanted the floating bridge as well, but I agree seeing Jeff with a Jackson, just don't seem right.
@Noseheros Must have been an endorsment deal!!! I mean reallly a hot pink Jackson YUK!!! But after all he is Jeff Beck and can play anything he want's
I love how at 2:06 Vaughan plays a lick that is very similar to the one Beck played on the original recording (he used to play along to this tune when he was a kid) and then Beck is like "oh, ok then, try THIS on for size" and busts into the sick ass lick at 2:20. that lick is like game over. Beck simply can't be out-Beck'd, I don't care how shitty whatever guitar he happens to be playing on a particular evening
I don't know. Everytime I hear a cool original sounding lick I look up and it's Jeff Beck. When I hear cliched blues/rock gtr it's SRV. I saw SRV 4 or 5 times usually opening up for someone. He could play great but usually went through the motions cause he was so stoned. Beck plays different everytime. But SRV has hard-core fans. I wish he was still around cause he had straightened out and was playing better than ever, and I'm sure he'd have gotten into other styles.
I think they both are great guitarist I like early stuff from Jeff Beck I don't care for his new stuff but that doesn't mean he isn't a great guitar player.I prefer the blues and when I watch Stevie play he just flows.The real deal was Jimi he was so far ahead of every body. Nobody could play like Jimi.We will never know how good either of them could have been
Stevie simply spoke a different language with his guitar than any other guitar player in history of music, trully one of a kind. Only one who can compare to him is probably and only Jimi Hendrix. Jeff Beck is not even close. He is an amazing guitar player, but not even close to Stevie's talent, passion, fire, versatiliy, voice, intensitiy, speed, etc...
That's cause you're a moron that knows nothing about music. Everybody in the music world including Jeff Beck knows that Stevie Ray was revolutionary, one of a kind and that there will never be another one like him. He is known as a "musician's musician", the greatest white man that ever played the blues and one of the greatest and most talented guitar players of all time. You're a moron so fuck off!
SRV came up with blues music,when everybody else was fiddling around with synthesizers and digital recording technique and stuff - in one word the 80's.
It was dam impressing to have s.o. playing straight forward blues and shuffle, old school style, that's what made him spectacular, he revived guitar playing but didn't revolutionize it, -maybe in terms of playing a shuffle, ok..
@dockaiser That's right. Blues and Blues-Rock literally died during the second half of the 1970s. I think that synthesizers literally killed the spirit of Rock, and C&W stole their audience, because it wasn't a bunch of computerized noise.Yes, and it got progressively worse over the last 3 decades didn't it?
SRV wasn't "revolutionary." He was simply a great blues player with a new sound who revitalized the blues when it seemed like it was dying. As for the "greatest white man" stuff, I think Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Peter Green, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Sonny Landreth, Roy Buchanan and a lot of others might disagree. There will never be another like any of these players.
You can say that about a lot of players in that time and even now. Guaranteed if you ask players who their influences were, Hendrix was mentioned somewhere in their list. But SRV introduced a lot more element; a human element to his guitar playing. It didn't play; it sang, screamed, weeped and most importantly, bled blues. He came up with the rake method of playing (Pride And Joy being the most evident) and used a very unique blues-rock approach (Dumble/Fender Amps with two tube screamers)
Jeff is great, but Stevie is simply better, by far the greatest guitar player since the days of Jimi Hendrix. Stevie was like from another planet, coming from some deep and raw place that nobody will ever capture and do again what he did to that Fender Strat, a god among gods!
Not so sure. Love both but Stevie is nowhere near as innovative or versatile as Mr. Beck. SRV reminds me of Johnny Winter and Hendrix but Beck reminds me of only BECK!
I totally respect your opinion, but to me, Stevie was way better than Jeff. Yeah, Jeff was maybe slightly more inovative but that's all unfortunately, generally for me Stevie was a better guitar player, had a better style, a cooler and tastier tone, had a better stage pressence, not to mention that the guy had a beautiful voice that went on pretty well with his guitar playing, totally jaw dropping in any way. Jeff Beck? Not really, amazing, but never achieved with his guitar what Stevie did!
Jeff Beck or Stevie? Best ever is rather silly, but these two are top 6 ever in my book. Stevie was a fantastic blues guitarist, just incredible. Yet what guitarist that ever (!!) lived has Jeff Beck's range? Perhaps Page said it best, "when Jeff's on, he is the best".
jeff answered some questions about this gig, i recall him asking SRV when he wanted to rehearse and he said he didn't, so really this whole thing is them jamming and having fun, just goes to show how incredible they BOTH are.
You think Beck didn't have soul in his playing or that he didn't have a great tone? Have you ever heard "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" or "Where Were You?"
Are you fuckin stupid or what? I never said that Jeff Beck doesn't have soul in his playing and that he doesn't have a great tone, he has it both, but Stevie had it more than anybody else on the planet that you can ever mention, he is the true king of soul and tone, nobody compares to him!
Hahaha... The jerk that commented below me obviously knows nothing about guitar playing and especially about SRV. SRV is the greatest blues guitar player that has ever lived, considered by many to even be the greatest guitar player after Jimi Hendrix. Yeah, Jeff Beck is great, but SRV is the ultimate Strat master, king of tone, king of making the guitar sing and talk in a way that nobody else can replicate, period, he's a guitar god, a legend, there will never be another one like him.
Dude, let's do that but surely we could put alot of people on that copter with Britney? Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush..the whole American Administration, corporations, military, secret societies...the Vatican..Actually, we'd need a pretty big copter..My mother-in-law would have to be on there and she's a BIG woman. I have the time travel machine ready...you find the Copter.
nope, it's '84 - the video has been making the trading circles since at least then (i have had it in my collection since 'that era). i also suspect the gig here is on maui (the old "blue max" club) and not honolulu...i gather this event was a CBS record execs' convention.
Jeff didn't get a whole lot of radio play on his own, but what he did was fast tight and unique. Goin' Down is a more understandable Beck for us novices. Face it, he made his own style and "it was good." Stevie's music will stand the test of time nothing more need be said. Two of many great guitar talents that need to be appreciated for their own works.
I saw these two play at Arco Arena just months before Stevie's demise and let me tell you it was one hot jumpin' boogie night. Two totally diverse styles that came together fusion style the like of which will never be seen again. Beck cannot be touched when it comes to Beck playing Beck in his blues/jazz/fusion style.
Jeff beck does `tricks' on the guitar - lots of flashy harmonics and stunts, but he aint that big on melody - thats probably why, outside of The Yardbirds, he never made any great music.
I think Jeff's version of People Get Ready was a very lyrical song. I think he has a very fluid solo voice. He does tricks, but I think it makes his guitar sound more like the human voice. Freeway Jam was cool too. Blue Wind, Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Beck's Bolero, all made me think of good music.
This is the first time I have seen Jeff Beck play. They have totally different styles. Stevie is more "natural" and "blues", Beck seems "heavy metal". This also isn't the best showcase for either player. But my opinion, based on my personal tastes, is Stevie is far more enjoyable to listen to. Not sure how the drugs were effecting him this night, but I have seen him to some amazing playing in other clips...
check out other jeff beck stuff, he is a legend. I can not think of another guitar player who is capaple of reproducing the human voice in the way beck does. thats vibrato.
On srv's cd solos,sessions & encores,there's a version of Goin' Down credited to this concert, it is the same version that is on the box set,in New Mexico 1989.
You guys are seeing what you want to see. Trust me, Jeff Beck can hold his own. Jeff was probably the main inspiration for the path the guitar took in the late sixties, but has received little credit for it. Go back and listen to those old Yardbird Records. The 1st musical guitar with a fuzz box. The 1st musical feedback with "The Nazz Are Blue" Jimi came along and took all the attention away. But Jeff was a big influence on Jimi. Not in style but creativity.
Jimi was a lot more creative and inovative than Jeff. There is a reason why Jimi is claimed and regarded as the most inovative and most creative guitar player of all times.
True, Jeff was and still is great and he for sure he is versatile and creative as a guitar player, but nothing even close to Jimi's level. Also, Jimi was never influenced by Jeff. He liked Jeff's work and they were good friends, but if there was anybody influenced, than that was Jeff who took a lot from Jimi as many others.
You've got your head up your A*@s . Jimi & Jeff were not "Good " friends, they knew each other yes, but good friends I don't think so. But much more important Jeff is soooo.....!!!! much more of an influence on creative guitar. Jimi created alot of the tricks we all use today, and I love him for it . Jeff is just a better guitarist.
First of all I meant no disrespect to Jimi I merely offered my opion, and I stand by it. But to your remark that I am not a guitar player, at least I post some of my music. I went to your site and found nothing of you just other people you wish you could be. and sure you can go to my site & flame me all you want, I know what I'm capable of........and by the way Jimi and Jeff were not 'Good Friends'.
If he is better than how come that all magazines, guitar players, musicians, basically the whole musical world, critics and musical fans till this day still rank Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitar player of all time?
I'm still not sure why you keep talking about Jimi here he's not in this video and he had been dead for years when this video was made. And he never played Jeffs Boogie once. Not only that .....there is no greatest guitar of all time......because it's not a contest.......it's 'MUSIC'
Not a whole lot of true critics do. . . Although I still enjoy Jimi's tone/playing/songs more than most others, Jeff Beck is easily on the same playing field as him.
who cares about beck playing a jackson he's jeff beck! he could have a shit $50 guitar and still make it beautiful
zenmac13 1 week ago
SRV Just shat on beck.. but was I expecting anything else from SRV??...
NeilGmusic 1 month ago
@NeilGmusic Hey I love SRV as much as the next guy, but here is a quote from SRV on Beck. "Jeff makes me sound like a 5 year old with broken fingers."
I personally believe that Beck is the greatest of all time. Better than even than Hendrix. I say that because of the length of his career & the variety of genres that Beck has dabbled in. When above average artists die young they gain legendary stauts. Cobain is another that IMHO is overrated in most respects. Why? Cuz he died young. Beck = GOAT
TNO73 2 days ago
:WTF is lower case beck doing with a Jackson
glutamine001 2 months ago
Got my feet and body moving and at 65 that's a miracle.
jdleonard999 2 months ago in playlist jdleonard999's favorites
How do you pick 2 masters playing at this caliber and say who`s better. I cant.. There both awesome!
BOGATA9 3 months ago
Holy Fuckin Shit, Is this How Heaven feels like? I am speechless, two great guitarist just speaking to each other through their guitars. Long Live The Blues!
LocoPelirojo13 3 months ago
jacksons are good with a lot of distortion thats it
guithero11 4 months ago
SRV baby!!!
espdemon 5 months ago
Damnnn man Beck was a real dick in this one...like Stevie play for more than once
Not only that, while I admire his virtuosity some of those licks just sounded repetitive...too much horizontal playing and not enough vertical
AND A JACKSON HA
lesapt59 5 months ago
@lesapt59 You sound like a complete douche. First of all it's Jeff's song, why do you think he's playing mostly? Also, this is 1984 so who cares what guitar is played.
presatito 2 months ago
@lesapt59 The tune is called Jeff's Boogie FFS and nothin wrong with a Jackson,especially back in the day
misred1 1 month ago
Boredom
jyomat 6 months ago
It mustve been awesome for Stevie to play this with Jeff considering it was one of the 1st songs Stevie ever learned Note for Note beginning to end when he was like 12-13..Incredible!!
dooniehead 7 months ago
Both were perfectly matched for what they play.
kevoishere1 7 months ago
True men
cristytovar 7 months ago
I seen this show in 1989 and Jeff used a Strat. Thank god!
fatstrat6969 9 months ago
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aroxon 9 months ago
Jeff is out of his league here with Stevie. Stevie makes Jeff sound mediocre - at best !
q2w3bn876 9 months ago
I'm not really a fan of this song, although I think Stevie could have salvaged it, but only if Jeff put down his guitar and picked up, I dunno, a tambourine or something. Or maybe a cowbell?
And that's not even really a knock against Jeff; I actually like him. The fact is that there were very few (if any) musicians who should've made an attempt to play as SRV's equal. Jeff is an amazing guitarist, a true virtuoso. The problem is, I'm pretty sure Stevie was actually God on vacation.
dontdamnme84 9 months ago
@dontdamnme84 your putting down beck as a guitar player, when SRV was as one dimensional as a Hendrix tribute band which he basically was. He could play good blues and that's it. Beck is much better all around player than SRV. You think SRV could crossover to Jazz and make one of the greatest Jazz albums ever like Beck did? I think not. Blues is great, but lets not get carried away, technically, jazz is harder to play, give Beck his props for being one of the most well rounded guitar players
MerkinMuffly 9 months ago
@MerkinMuffly Fair enough, I'm biased as hell. But you tell me to not get carried away, and then refer to SRV as merely a "Hendrix tribute band". That's lame. And do I think SRV could have successfully crossed over to Jazz? Probably. Unfortunately, he was dead at 35.
dontdamnme84 9 months ago
@MerkinMuffly Stevie Ray can play anything he wanted. No doubt. He started playing as a child. If I can play just about anything, Stevie Ray Vaughan sure can...
fatstrat6969 9 months ago
@MerkinMuffly ever heard the song Riviera Paradise? great jazz song. or perhaps his version of boilermaker, that was rather jazzy as well. so do your research before you say someone cannot play a certain style.
elcottonball 8 months ago
@MerkinMuffly hendrix tribute band really he never was once was in a tribute he may have dressed like him but they did orginal songs in his early career
Sly6035 8 months ago
@MerkinMuffly you are just an idiot and you're STUPID opinion doesnt matter
tx51chevy 6 months ago
@dontdamnme84 "The problem is, I'm pretty sure Stevie was actually God on vacation..." (*_-)
monahawk 4 months ago
This is awesome.Good thing no one lit a match because their would have been an explosion in the room.
BobReidy 9 months ago
this sounds like a shreds video.
t0psecretshit 10 months ago
lol stevie kicks beck's ass in this song
maryfaraday 10 months ago
@maryfaraday this is not perfect.
aquinshire 10 months ago
PLEASE CUT THE NEGATIVE VIBES. THEY ARE HAVING FUN KEEPING EACH OTHER ON THEIR TOES.
chiefashley56 10 months ago
Stevie played this back in 1966 for Doyle Bramhall, Jimmie's friend ! ♥
diann46 1 year ago
What's wrong with Jacksons? Theres good and bad guitars made by every make.
chillilover1 1 year ago
god damn this song is garbage
iaedean 1 year ago
I love both of these guys but this song sucks!
unclelight13 1 year ago
yea jeff on a fender , fender does own jackson guitar company,,
azruneblade 1 year ago
jeff actually plays the jackson for certain songs when he either needs a floyd rose or 24 frets. he still owns this guitar. but his main guitar is (and has been ever since the album Truth, back when he used a les paul) and probably will stay the strat
1JAT1 1 year ago
to all those complaining of beck playing a jackson, what does it really matter? he's played all kinds of guitars over the years, and this happened to be a time where he played jacksons which happen to be great for his style of play. its not like it doesn't sound like him playing...
chrisshootsicd 1 year ago
dos bestias !!!!!!!
tataso 1 year ago
the handshake at the end is so awkward
combelue 1 year ago
SRV was just too good for this world...
srvcrossfiresrv 1 year ago
Shredded! ! !
gamoonbat 1 year ago
oh man 1:17 srv with a great lick hahah fits perfect with jeffs boogie
RuttermusiC 1 year ago 9
it's not a contest! THESE GUYS JUST SHRED THE GNAR!!!!
Bassist10288 1 year ago 4
the guys arguing....seriously shut the fuck up and indulge in this gold mine
pinto4646 1 year ago
Stevie come back !!!
Braccioni 1 year ago 2
Awfull piece of music, awfully played. This is not music.
gillan5 1 year ago
@gillan5 aren't you late for your violin lesson. awfully played...what stage are you on tonight?
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 You should learn to respect other people`s opinion without assaulting them. Otherwise you will never be a grown-up. So, now Im going to rush for my violine lessson. -
gillan5 1 year ago
@gillan5 yes mother...you should learn to spell violin. P.S. you were'nt assaulted you were insulted. Did I say violin. I meant banjo.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 Keep your idiotic opinions to yourself if you don't want to be ridiculed.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 When was I ridiculed? What opinion do you find idiotic?
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 Sorry you are not astute enough to know when you're being ridiculed. And your belittling comments about 2 guitar legends was idiotic. Yeah, it's just a little blues ditty and not supposed to be anything more.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@schultz970 I think...NO I KNOW you've misunderstood my comments. If you scroll down and read what gilan5 wrote I was replying to HIM saying this was 'awfully played' and 'not music' I was insulting HIM. JB and SRV are fucking Gods to me and I've probably seen them live more times than most people. And by the way this 'little blues ditty' is Jeff's Boogie - a classic from Yardbirds days. Do a little further reading and maybe your 'astuteness' will kick in. Schools out, you're excused.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 Why are you responding to yourself???? That's fine if you're not an idiot and appreciate Beck and Vaughan. Great. Carry on then.
(btw...Beck's boogie is just a little blues ditty. Thoroughly enjoyable, but... WTF do you think it is?)
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 ....wow... way to apologize for being so thoroughly wrong, insulting, and clueless. I think 'JEFF'S boogie' is not EVEN blues song but a re-work of an old Chuck Berry song "Guitar Boogie" with alot of Les Paul influence interwoven in it. Anything else?
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 You're an idiot. It's clearly blues. Fucking moron. Go away.
janderson2000 1 year ago
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schultz970 1 year ago
@janderson2000 As some unastute person once said "Keep your idiotic opinions to yourself if you don't want to be ridiculed." Your CLEARLY a fuck-tard. .....'go away' hahaha ....go get your diaper changed, your crabby because you got schooled.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 If you do not recognize the clearly blues-based progression, you are beyond retarded. I clearly know what I'm talking about as anybody who reads our exchange can see. Now, go back to being an idiot elsewhere. You don't belong on a Jeff Beck video. You're way too clueless.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 Fuck you dude, my youngest strat is 6 years older than you. I DO know what I'm talking about ..just done wasting it on you junior. Yeah, I'm sure you have alot of fans of your 'exchanges'. Here and the Justin Bieber vids right? But thanks - you've inspired a song about you called, "Douche-bag blues" with a clearly blues based progression just for you.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 I don't give a fuck how old you are...it just means you've been stupid for a LONG FUCKING TIME. This is CLEAR.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 .....yawn.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 Sorry if I bored you, because your stupidity is quite entertaining to me. BTW, I own a 1965 Strat and 1968 Telecaster. I'm sure you lose in the guitar collection aspect as well...
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 yeah ...and I got a unicorn in my garage next to my Les Paul signed by Beck, Page and Clapton....dude, know when the crickets are chirping. This all started because YOU read something incorrectly and then started calling ME stupid. And now we have to hear a fake inventory or your imaginary belongings. Who cares. Those guitars - if you actually owned them - don't blow away my best by any means. But that's not even important to me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. Grow up.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 I'm sorry my real life guitar collection makes you try to escape to your fantasy world. I also have a 1979 V which is pretty nice, but not in the absolute vintage range as the Fenders.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000Here's my reality junior - '57 Tele, '63, '72, '82 & JB signature Strats, '63 Jaguar,'64 Rickenbaker, 69 &'73 Les Paul, 2 , and various Ovations. Saying you have a '79 V is like telling me you just got a new model airplane kit. You're out of your league here kid.
schultz970 1 year ago
'57 tele is nice, if it's all original & not re-finished or molested in any other way. Don't give a fuck about jaguars. Ovations generally suck ass. I have a 1963 D-28, so I laugh at Ovations. My 79 V would most likely destroy your 82 Strat. I've owned a 72 Strat, even, but sold it because it couldn't hold a candle to the pre-CBS stuff.Anyway, it's great you have some nice guitars...doesn't change the fact that you have your head up your ass and can't even recognize a blues progression.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 all of a sudden after seeing what i have - your list goes up....hmmm. A '57 tele is "nice"...wow. Should I have said it's made of platinum with flawless diamonds in the frets? You'd give a fuck about this Jag, it's pretty sweet for that sound. Junior, you could listen to just about ANY genre and say 'that's a blues progression." THIS AIN'T A BLUES SONG.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970 No, you CAN'T grandpa. This is blues. If you want to split a hair and call it blues rock you're not making yourself look any brighter. And I never gave you my list. I don't recall mentioning my original Steinbergers. Yes, a 53 tele is an incredible guitar, but I have a feeling yours is a chopped up franken-tele with a paint job.
janderson2000 1 year ago
@janderson2000 No actually my tele is the real deal and what's more is it was obtained from a rummage sale for 20.00 in 1981. Beautiful condition. Belonged to a young man killed in Viet Nam. Sat in an attic forever. And it's a '57 ...there you go not thoroughly reading again.
schultz970 1 year ago
when jeff was into all that whammy bar shit made it look like he un learned how to play a bit but stevie kick his ass playing going down on this tour aw man if i was a roadie
megajames3000 1 year ago
What a historic, awesome moment.
Prestostark 1 year ago
What a rush it must have been to see these two greats playing together live! Thanks for posting!
kurtb8474 1 year ago
i gotta get me a trade mark look
54taqiyya 1 year ago
stevie's time is outerwordly! well, apart from his sheer energy.
thailow117 1 year ago
is it me or did jeff beck kind of run off at the end...?
joshua9312 1 year ago
Beck just kills!
unclelight13 1 year ago
1:43-1:47
Stevie has some nice solid dance moves. That was great! he just kind of slid back and forth.
mikeyaaa 1 year ago
It's almost a shame (to me at least) to see Jeff on a Jackson, good thing he's back to good old fender now
Noseheros 1 year ago 22
@Noseheros I think he used the Jackson because it had 24 frets which is needed to reaching the higher notes at the bottom of the fretboard. But why he picked the Pink model, who knows??
Sometimes the 21 frets of a standard Strat just isn't quite enough. But hey Stevie did an awesome!! job, but yeah, I think that's why.
kassemir 1 year ago
@kassemir You can get a strat with 24 frets, Im pretty sure he wanted the floating bridge too but I just meant Jeff Beck being associated with Jackson, when he was suck a classic guitar guy before this, nothing against it, just saying
Noseheros 1 year ago
@Noseheros I'm not entirely sure you can get a Strat with 24 frets without doing some serious re-building on it at least. Strats use a very wide scale for their fret boards, and on the 22-fret Strats, the last fret is right in front of the neck pick-up. And the natural harmonic for what would basically be the 24th fret is right on top of the neck pick-up.
But yeah, he probably wanted the floating bridge as well, but I agree seeing Jeff with a Jackson, just don't seem right.
kassemir 1 year ago
@Noseheros Must have been an endorsment deal!!! I mean reallly a hot pink Jackson YUK!!!
ckelley63 9 months ago
@Noseheros Must have been an endorsment deal!!! I mean reallly a hot pink Jackson YUK!!! But after all he is Jeff Beck and can play anything he want's
ckelley63 9 months ago
@ckelley63 yeah thats exactly wut I think! just love to see him on a strat
Noseheros 9 months ago
@Noseheros It was the 80's give him a break
CreamyCommotion 8 months ago
I love how at 2:06 Vaughan plays a lick that is very similar to the one Beck played on the original recording (he used to play along to this tune when he was a kid) and then Beck is like "oh, ok then, try THIS on for size" and busts into the sick ass lick at 2:20. that lick is like game over. Beck simply can't be out-Beck'd, I don't care how shitty whatever guitar he happens to be playing on a particular evening
primeDecomposition 2 years ago
Stevie Ray definitely blessed!
cveiga2010 2 years ago
@cveiga2010 Probably the best ever combination:Beck and Vaughn
panzerschnott 1 year ago
Jeff's playing was awesome, but that jackson guitar is a piece of shit
PageandPlant4Life 2 years ago 17
@PageandPlant4Life surely he wouldnt use it if it was a piece of shit... you could just say you dont like it.
rapeyadog 1 year ago
@PageandPlant4Life Jeff sucks it doesnt matter the guitar... he sucks
25Ragz 11 months ago
@25Ragz prove it then! he may not sound good on this guitar but give him å fender and he'll play your face of!
larstheguitarguy 10 months ago
@larstheguitarguy i disagree i honestly think he sucks... nbd though.
25Ragz 10 months ago
@25Ragz well its your opinion, so i'll respect that. c: stevie's hell of a player though :'D
larstheguitarguy 10 months ago
@larstheguitarguy Yeah definitely.He's one of the greatest of all time
25Ragz 10 months ago
@25Ragz so is beck
cjrocker1 9 months ago
@cjrocker1 No... he kinda sucks.
25Ragz 9 months ago
@25Ragz not at all if he sux why would stevie play with him
cjrocker1 9 months ago
@cjrocker1 Im sure stevie respects him.Its ok you like him i just think he sucks thats all.
25Ragz 9 months ago
@PageandPlant4Life It was the 80's give him a break
CreamyCommotion 8 months ago
I don't know. Everytime I hear a cool original sounding lick I look up and it's Jeff Beck. When I hear cliched blues/rock gtr it's SRV. I saw SRV 4 or 5 times usually opening up for someone. He could play great but usually went through the motions cause he was so stoned. Beck plays different everytime. But SRV has hard-core fans. I wish he was still around cause he had straightened out and was playing better than ever, and I'm sure he'd have gotten into other styles.
flazjsg 2 years ago
...you took the words right outta my mouth...
dockaiser 2 years ago
I think they both are great guitarist I like early stuff from Jeff Beck I don't care for his new stuff but that doesn't mean he isn't a great guitar player.I prefer the blues and when I watch Stevie play he just flows.The real deal was Jimi he was so far ahead of every body. Nobody could play like Jimi.We will never know how good either of them could have been
cleanbluesguy1 2 years ago
Stevie simply spoke a different language with his guitar than any other guitar player in history of music, trully one of a kind. Only one who can compare to him is probably and only Jimi Hendrix. Jeff Beck is not even close. He is an amazing guitar player, but not even close to Stevie's talent, passion, fire, versatiliy, voice, intensitiy, speed, etc...
grga888 2 years ago
total bullshit. Everything SRV plays is traditional stuff, where as Jeff is the innovator the sorcerer - the god
dockaiser 2 years ago
Hahaha... Your mama is bullshit you uneducated retard. Get a clue about music first than dare to say something.
grga888 2 years ago
I guess your mama called you " Pain in the ass" when you were born.
She mistook you for the after birth.
I guess she refused to give you breast feeding this morning which leads to aggression, stupidity and fanaticism as in your case.
dockaiser 2 years ago
SRV revolutionized everything about blues. period
live4491 2 years ago
Everything SRV plays is nicked from Hendrix and them other blues guys, nothing revolutionizing to me.
Btw, are you from Texxas ?
dockaiser 2 years ago
That's cause you're a moron that knows nothing about music. Everybody in the music world including Jeff Beck knows that Stevie Ray was revolutionary, one of a kind and that there will never be another one like him. He is known as a "musician's musician", the greatest white man that ever played the blues and one of the greatest and most talented guitar players of all time. You're a moron so fuck off!
grga888 2 years ago
^agreed. I wouldn't say he's a moron though; he did get the influences sorta right.
live4491 2 years ago
SRV came up with blues music,when everybody else was fiddling around with synthesizers and digital recording technique and stuff - in one word the 80's.
It was dam impressing to have s.o. playing straight forward blues and shuffle, old school style, that's what made him spectacular, he revived guitar playing but didn't revolutionize it, -maybe in terms of playing a shuffle, ok..
dockaiser 2 years ago 2
@dockaiser That's right. Blues and Blues-Rock literally died during the second half of the 1970s. I think that synthesizers literally killed the spirit of Rock, and C&W stole their audience, because it wasn't a bunch of computerized noise.Yes, and it got progressively worse over the last 3 decades didn't it?
swingincowboy08 1 year ago
SRV wasn't "revolutionary." He was simply a great blues player with a new sound who revitalized the blues when it seemed like it was dying. As for the "greatest white man" stuff, I think Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Peter Green, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Sonny Landreth, Roy Buchanan and a lot of others might disagree. There will never be another like any of these players.
Genessender 1 year ago 2
You can say that about a lot of players in that time and even now. Guaranteed if you ask players who their influences were, Hendrix was mentioned somewhere in their list. But SRV introduced a lot more element; a human element to his guitar playing. It didn't play; it sang, screamed, weeped and most importantly, bled blues. He came up with the rake method of playing (Pride And Joy being the most evident) and used a very unique blues-rock approach (Dumble/Fender Amps with two tube screamers)
live4491 2 years ago
Plus, factor in the massive strings he used and his own talent, and there you have it.
And no, I'm not from Texas. Greetings from Barrington, NJ.
live4491 2 years ago
Stevie, the best ever along with Hendrix!
grga888 2 years ago
Jeff is great, but Stevie is simply better, by far the greatest guitar player since the days of Jimi Hendrix. Stevie was like from another planet, coming from some deep and raw place that nobody will ever capture and do again what he did to that Fender Strat, a god among gods!
grga888 2 years ago
Not so sure. Love both but Stevie is nowhere near as innovative or versatile as Mr. Beck. SRV reminds me of Johnny Winter and Hendrix but Beck reminds me of only BECK!
itzjoeymac 2 years ago
I totally respect your opinion, but to me, Stevie was way better than Jeff. Yeah, Jeff was maybe slightly more inovative but that's all unfortunately, generally for me Stevie was a better guitar player, had a better style, a cooler and tastier tone, had a better stage pressence, not to mention that the guy had a beautiful voice that went on pretty well with his guitar playing, totally jaw dropping in any way. Jeff Beck? Not really, amazing, but never achieved with his guitar what Stevie did!
grga888 2 years ago
As Mr. Beck once said.... "Picking the best guitar player is like picking your favorite food'
itzjoeymac 2 years ago
Jeff Beck or Stevie? Best ever is rather silly, but these two are top 6 ever in my book. Stevie was a fantastic blues guitarist, just incredible. Yet what guitarist that ever (!!) lived has Jeff Beck's range? Perhaps Page said it best, "when Jeff's on, he is the best".
searunrd1 2 years ago
jeff answered some questions about this gig, i recall him asking SRV when he wanted to rehearse and he said he didn't, so really this whole thing is them jamming and having fun, just goes to show how incredible they BOTH are.
zeppelinstrat 2 years ago
WOW! Amazing! You can tell Stevie grew up listening to the Yardbirds. He knew the song insideout.
waynedanberry 2 years ago
doesnt matter...2 schools of thought..
there are the guys who look at speed and flash..distortion(steve vai/beck/others like that)
then us who hear the soul/tone in someones playing
(SRV/Knofler/the Kings)etc.
its all good..get out there and play and have fun!
bmahk1 2 years ago
You think Beck didn't have soul in his playing or that he didn't have a great tone? Have you ever heard "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" or "Where Were You?"
BlackMonk66 2 years ago
He did, but not nearly as Stevie Ray Vaughan, he is the king of soul and tone, nobody compares to him!
grga888 2 years ago
Are you fuckin stupid or what? I never said that Jeff Beck doesn't have soul in his playing and that he doesn't have a great tone, he has it both, but Stevie had it more than anybody else on the planet that you can ever mention, he is the true king of soul and tone, nobody compares to him!
grga888 2 years ago
Hahaha... The jerk that commented below me obviously knows nothing about guitar playing and especially about SRV. SRV is the greatest blues guitar player that has ever lived, considered by many to even be the greatest guitar player after Jimi Hendrix. Yeah, Jeff Beck is great, but SRV is the ultimate Strat master, king of tone, king of making the guitar sing and talk in a way that nobody else can replicate, period, he's a guitar god, a legend, there will never be another one like him.
grga888 2 years ago
Beck has always made his guitar sing and talk. Stevie's a great blues player but in the end nothing really new.
1971Goldtop 2 years ago
thanks for this, this is Heffin' greatstuff
ghostguy1 2 years ago
Jeff is better!
ReVox777 2 years ago
Stevie is amazing
If would like to send Britney Spears to that helicopter crash and take Stevie back.
world would be a better place
edominant7add9 2 years ago 24
Dude, let's do that but surely we could put alot of people on that copter with Britney? Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush..the whole American Administration, corporations, military, secret societies...the Vatican..Actually, we'd need a pretty big copter..My mother-in-law would have to be on there and she's a BIG woman. I have the time travel machine ready...you find the Copter.
stargate669 2 years ago
Really. GW is NOT fucking president. Put Obama and his dumbass cabinet in the helicopter in place of SRV.
coffeebeanfilms 2 years ago 3
You forgot Obama, Palosi, & Reid! LOL...
tedfio1tedfio1 2 years ago
yeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
CosmicRuna 2 years ago
@edominant7add9 A brutal statement, but it won't solve the problem. The problem is that alot of people don't have good taste like we do
swingincowboy08 1 year ago
@edominant7add9 love it. when they let me rule the universe, I'm making you a high ranking official. RIP Stevie.
schultz970 1 year ago
@edominant7add9 Though this is a year old comment, I would do you one better and put that Soulja Boy fuck in there instead and bring back Stevie.
MegaTronn 1 year ago
Only a few performances on YouTube truly rate 5 Stars.
This is one of them. A moment captured in time that sad to say can never happen again. Rest in Peace Stevie.
Bluntfacts 2 years ago 2
beautiful... two precious ways of playin'
amico78 2 years ago 2
thats not 84 i saw srv open for the police in summer 84 so this must be laterps bryan adams was the middle act on this last us policw final tour
fndr2u 2 years ago
nope, it's '84 - the video has been making the trading circles since at least then (i have had it in my collection since 'that era). i also suspect the gig here is on maui (the old "blue max" club) and not honolulu...i gather this event was a CBS record execs' convention.
dljone9 2 years ago
Look at Stevie's foots at 1:45- nice ;)
Great!!!!!
ivo1212 2 years ago
Jeff didn't get a whole lot of radio play on his own, but what he did was fast tight and unique. Goin' Down is a more understandable Beck for us novices. Face it, he made his own style and "it was good." Stevie's music will stand the test of time nothing more need be said. Two of many great guitar talents that need to be appreciated for their own works.
wslyder 2 years ago
I saw these two play at Arco Arena just months before Stevie's demise and let me tell you it was one hot jumpin' boogie night. Two totally diverse styles that came together fusion style the like of which will never be seen again. Beck cannot be touched when it comes to Beck playing Beck in his blues/jazz/fusion style.
wslyder 2 years ago 2
Jeff beck does `tricks' on the guitar - lots of flashy harmonics and stunts, but he aint that big on melody - thats probably why, outside of The Yardbirds, he never made any great music.
Danazawa 2 years ago
You're fucking nuts. Just because it's different don't make it bad. Clean the shit out of your ears.
infidel65 2 years ago
I think Jeff's version of People Get Ready was a very lyrical song. I think he has a very fluid solo voice. He does tricks, but I think it makes his guitar sound more like the human voice. Freeway Jam was cool too. Blue Wind, Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Beck's Bolero, all made me think of good music.
metalfiend124 2 years ago 2
This is the first time I have seen Jeff Beck play. They have totally different styles. Stevie is more "natural" and "blues", Beck seems "heavy metal". This also isn't the best showcase for either player. But my opinion, based on my personal tastes, is Stevie is far more enjoyable to listen to. Not sure how the drugs were effecting him this night, but I have seen him to some amazing playing in other clips...
NellsStuff 2 years ago
check out other jeff beck stuff, he is a legend. I can not think of another guitar player who is capaple of reproducing the human voice in the way beck does. thats vibrato.
santacruezz 2 years ago 2
Stevie seams like he is late on the notes. Maybe just me.
skipper8257 2 years ago
oh the old who's better than who debate. it's that attitude and the watch me wank fest of the eighties that almost killed rock guitar!
jaymc2112 2 years ago
steve ray vaughan is incredible
gleo123 2 years ago
On srv's cd solos,sessions & encores,there's a version of Goin' Down credited to this concert, it is the same version that is on the box set,in New Mexico 1989.
otitses 2 years ago
What is Jeff Beck doing with a pink Jackson? Nothing against pink or Jackson, but this is Jeff Beck! Where is his F#$king Strat!!?
mmay11 2 years ago
Not sure why he was using a Jackson, but it is the Jackson that Tina Turner autographed with a switchblade during the Private Dancer sessions.
reeyees134 2 years ago
I fixed your thumbs for you.
You guys are seeing what you want to see. Trust me, Jeff Beck can hold his own. Jeff was probably the main inspiration for the path the guitar took in the late sixties, but has received little credit for it. Go back and listen to those old Yardbird Records. The 1st musical guitar with a fuzz box. The 1st musical feedback with "The Nazz Are Blue" Jimi came along and took all the attention away. But Jeff was a big influence on Jimi. Not in style but creativity.
TheTruthIsWayOutHERE 3 years ago 4
Jimi was a lot more creative and inovative than Jeff. There is a reason why Jimi is claimed and regarded as the most inovative and most creative guitar player of all times.
True, Jeff was and still is great and he for sure he is versatile and creative as a guitar player, but nothing even close to Jimi's level. Also, Jimi was never influenced by Jeff. He liked Jeff's work and they were good friends, but if there was anybody influenced, than that was Jeff who took a lot from Jimi as many others.
grga888 3 years ago
You've got your head up your A*@s . Jimi & Jeff were not "Good " friends, they knew each other yes, but good friends I don't think so. But much more important Jeff is soooo.....!!!! much more of an influence on creative guitar. Jimi created alot of the tricks we all use today, and I love him for it . Jeff is just a better guitarist.
Panhead101st 2 years ago
You are obviously not a guitar player.
grga888 2 years ago
First of all I meant no disrespect to Jimi I merely offered my opion, and I stand by it. But to your remark that I am not a guitar player, at least I post some of my music. I went to your site and found nothing of you just other people you wish you could be. and sure you can go to my site & flame me all you want, I know what I'm capable of........and by the way Jimi and Jeff were not 'Good Friends'.
Knucklehead101st 2 years ago 3
Yeah, but you are still a moron and you know nothing about music. Stop embarassing yourself you jackass...
grga888 2 years ago
no one thinks you're cool for saying that man. just throwing that out there.
TheIrishStudios 2 years ago
Shut the fuck up, please!
grga888 2 years ago
Hehehe.. Jeff is not even close to Jimi's level.
If he is better than how come that all magazines, guitar players, musicians, basically the whole musical world, critics and musical fans till this day still rank Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitar player of all time?
grga888 2 years ago
I'm still not sure why you keep talking about Jimi here he's not in this video and he had been dead for years when this video was made. And he never played Jeffs Boogie once. Not only that .....there is no greatest guitar of all time......because it's not a contest.......it's 'MUSIC'
Knucklehead101st 2 years ago 11
@Knucklehead101st omg im glad someone finally fuckin gets it THANK YOU!!!
jpbaker60014 1 year ago
@Knucklehead101st lol, seriously though if it was a contest, don't count on hendrix being int the top ten, he really isnt the best
johngoo343 1 year ago
@johngoo343 Hendrix not in the top 10? Yea i guess Clapton Page Townsend & Beck won't either. When did you start researching guitar, YESTERDAY?
Peelick 1 year ago
@Peelick clapton and townshend wouldnt actually. but hendrix, beck, and page certainly would. along with SRV. and satriani. and a few other people
1JAT1 1 year ago
@johngoo343 lol actually might be clapton and beck def is, your are right that pete and page wouldn't
johngoo343 1 year ago
Not a whole lot of true critics do. . . Although I still enjoy Jimi's tone/playing/songs more than most others, Jeff Beck is easily on the same playing field as him.
Twistchawa 2 years ago 3