Jeff Beck - Pork Pie Hat

[TheHavalaff]

Splendid track off Jeffs best ever jazz-rock album.

[abnerfm]

Genius

[shuten1]

Oooo! Sexy classic ROCK sound.I wish Jeff Beck,Forever...I Do Love him.

Please come back soooooon! Anybody break out JEFF!

[Cleew6]

Yes, there are lyrics and Joni did sing it but its not very good.

[jlhyz2]

@Cleew6 I thought she sang it really well

[TheRealTommyRock]

one of my fave jb jams, when I bought this back in the 70's I didn't know anything about mingus!

[watanuki1207]

Don't forget ' GOOD BYE' word.

[bbyrd009b]

he's still performing in Europe.

[buddarasta]

She is a singer she had to made some up.



[wedsong1]

Brings Back Some Fine Memories - In The Duster w/ Kevin Steve Jimmy Tony WOW MMmmmm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sportsportsport]

Sublime! 

[conorthealien]

feeling

[vanseventy]

great peace! and the organist went on to do the miami vice theme and other scores.wheres the credit for we keyboardist????????????

[jax1moi8]

I've been listening to this one since it was released in the mid-70's and it's still fresh ... and I'm still in awe.

[Kynatics]

Beautifully smooth piece. Ties "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" as my favorite Jeff Beck song.

[puntagordy]

Who cuts his hair! Tight pants and high top sneakers are back in, glad I still have mine and can still fit in to them at 52 years of age.

[puntagordy]

Who cuts his hair!

[pooperscoopr69]

I've long since argued that Beck's body of work dwarfs his former bandmates Clapton + Page.

[SteveShogren]

This song changed the way I looked at playing guitar. I never even knew what dynamics were until I heard all the subtle nuances of the playing in this song. Jeff Beck has got to be my all time favorite guitar player.

[cardhang]

@SteveShogren Good for you dude,

Hearing music and really listening to a song is two different things.

[chrisvb7]

pure beauty

[SunnyDays951]

Who could EVER replace this Meistro ????

[SumDoood]

@SunnyDays951 Once Jimi had died, of course.

[ror312gallery19]

slick sweet mingus homage' for all the drummers,like ronnie hutter in cleveland!!

[keefjunior]

in a way, i think instrumentals are actually a lot better than regular songs with vocals. the vocals tell you directly the emotions and thoughts that are going through their head, using clever metaphores and stuff, but instrumentals let you interperit it any way you want. you can make up your own story in your head, while the absence of lyrics are meaningless. to me, writing instrumentals shows much more skill if you can get it accross to people. go jeff!

[teenmetalhead666]

@keefjunior pork pie hat isnt by jeff beck, its written by charles mingus

[lavasmokechile]

@teenmetalhead666 I'm glad that you brought Charles into light. I heard a story that John Fogerty (after he left CCR) jumped back into the scene when one of his friends warned him that people were going to think that Ike and Tina Turner were the original singers of "Proud Mary!"

[jonahtran1]

@keefjunior You obviously haven't heard some good songwriters man. A good songwriter will be able to do exactly what you described. I advise Paul McCartney's album "Band on the Run." Some of his best in my opinion.

[driverofsound]

A great mood swinger to the other levels or some such!...

[ror312gallery19]

mingus magic,!!

[MrBluesrules]

The Jeff. The One. The Great Jeff Beck!

[andremacedoduarte]

What a beautiful fusion!

[mikulasvselicha]

what has McLaughlin and this song in common?

[Slayerplsko]

@mikulasvselicha John recorded an acoustic version on his 1971 album My Goal's Beyond and then played the tune live now and then.

[igluver15]

What else can be said...this is the kind of music that stix w/you long after the sound is gone!!!

[puntodeebullicion]

That`s the most true you`ve said my big bro Masterxelpud

[KingCrimson776]

Love this tune, the Mingus version is untoppable imo, but it's hard to make this tune bad, and Beck does a wicked cool version.

[autoracer1man]

It's good how Marcus Miller took this song and added it too along with his grammy award winning album Mc2.A pure classic composition!

[WELLBRAN]

This was a superb Album I still got it in vinyl...now which cupboard was it in... great to hear it again after all these years

[ibigdaddy]

Children. children, settle down. Originally, there were no lyrics to this . Then , the guy who WROTE this song, Charles Mingus, asked Joni Mitchell, to write some before he died . They are featured on her album, strangely enough, titled MINGUS. BTW, Mingus sent Beck a letter saying this is how he meant the song to be played.

[jae19882005]

there was a sample of a beck song on me dads computer in the early 00's, i no its a long shot but has any got any idea what it could have been?

[JavidM]

epic beck.truly beautiful

[fiveknuckhool]

just for the record,there are lyrics to this song. rashaan roland kirk sang them

[fasteddy60]

Outstanding !!

[Igotbadjoints]

Becks voice, is...... His Guitar.....!

[scientististheshit]

this track takes me back to my high school days,still holds up today.

[kmanick]

masterful version of this song

Beck was on top of his game for suere with "Wired"

[mqblues]

My favorite version of this great Charles Mingus song. Love to listen to this on long flights. The guitar solo is deceptively simple but grinds along like a human voice and grabs me every time.

[Rikk303]

Jeff does such a strange thing music.Whether it had lyrics originally or not, his guitar sort of makes up words.His Beatles covers make you wanna mouth the original words and his impros do all sorts of weird things with your mouth with no lyrics handy.God bless him and all that wail with him xxx

[fornofsky]

I remenber buying this vinyl i loved Beck then , still do he is way up with Django and Jimi ...

[Steacy783]

Ya know ,, Maybe I just happened to hang around with a few better than average Guitar players, and we all liked to, back then, Jam a couple JEFF BECK tunes off this album and then, considered it Blues, type stuff ! My favorite Led Boots ! But then I was learning the drums by ear !

[DitchDiggers]

thats not improvising on the number, it's leaving it because 'I' can't. Hank Marvin listens to jazz...

[johnnyBird512]

so good. that note at 1:43 gives me chills

[Ravenite1]

I wish I could play like that...

[wassermeister]

@Ravenite1 is not that hard, you just have to put it soul

[Ravenite1]

@wassermeister yeah sometimes I pull it off sometimes I dont, but still I know I will never play like Beck hes a style in of himself

[bluelibra65]

he plays with his fingers --

fuckin' amazing

[sexymonkiegirl12]

@bluelibra65 ilove music too but why the fucking expletives?

[tobia54]

there's no one else that can play guitar this way!

[jc19641]

Uma lenda viva. Jeff Beck Eric Clapton Jimmy Page ensinaram o mundo a tocar guitarra com felling

[WitHappens]

This is an amazing showcase of really difficult techniques which aren't about speed, and which sound truly amazing. One of my all time favorites!

[ibigdaddy]

This was Mingus' favorite version. Good enuff for me.

[foreal1992]

Nice

[jnrkln]

As the legendary guitarist, Frank Zappa, once said, don't get tripped up by WORDS. Beck's take on Pork Pie Hat is as valid as any. And in his genre' it is an AWESOME interpretation.

[WeCamefortheDead]

Pre' good version. I'm not going to come in here and be all 'OMG! MINGUS' VERSION IS BETTER!!!'...Though I do think it was, Jeff Beck still did a formidable version. He made it his own version. Not just a shitty cover by a jazz band...But a cover of a jazz song by Jeff Beck. It may aswell be its own genre.

[Tchaikovsky31]

Tenho esse vinil. Lindo demais!!!

Deu até vontade de fumar um...

[overdose1966]

mortalisimo

[jsilence418]

Wilbur Bascomb :Bass, check him out on u tube !

[Biozene]

I love when it kicks in proper at 1:19. Probably the best moment in the song for me.

[MasterXelpud]

Firstly, there never were vocals to this song.

Secondly, you don't need to have vocals in a song for there to be singing. In a way, Beck's "singing without words" if you get what I mean.

[fiveknuckhool]

@MasterXelpud for the record, there are words, and rashaan roland kirk sang them.

[tialuce]

@fiveknuckhool Roland Kirk and Joni Mitchell both added words to the piece years after Charles Mingus wrote it. At least Mitchell was collaborating with Mingus. I reckon the instrumental is best.

[GuyLiguili]

@MasterXelpud : There is vocal on Joni Mitchell's version !

[newberry58]

Wired -- great album .. I had this album in high school .. I was so way a head of my class mates ..

[thirtysevenfred]

Then go listen to someone else!

[Kyletbassist]

Who is the bass player?

[thirtysevenfred]

Phil Chenn

[halcon7000]

You can hear the influence Beck had on Vai on the Flexable record.

[sergiodal1]

In my opinion this is his best performance ever... If someone would ask me "who's Jeff Beck?" I would say " listen this... this is JB!"

[LakeErie100]

Beck masters that guitar... emotion in every note. I love him :)

[CaevanOShite]

A real classic; very expressive and full of nuance. Soulful and toneful. Absolutely LOVE the bits of ring-modulation, and how he so smoothly blends it in instead of its standing out like some weird and sudden "special effect" effect. Now, was that a Maestro, or a Dan Armstrong Green Ringer?

[jfusion10]

@CaevanOShite I think a Maestro. Thats what he uses live currently.

[RoccoDylon69]

This cover rocks so much! I'm in love with it...

[jacquelien9]

this is fantastic.

[chef4cook]

Beck is the best!

[lklkhjhjdfs]

On remerciera jamais assez Jeff Beck de nous avoir mis ce morceau dans la lumière qu'il méritait ... Débarrassé des arrangements de mingus , électrifié , acceléré au niveau du tempo . Good Bye Pork Pie Hat prend enfin sa pleine dimension celle d'un chef d'oeuvre .

[blargfromouterspace]

I shunned Jeff Beck for years because I bought his 'Guitar Shop' album. No matter how hard I tried i just don't like it. This, however is fuckin awesome. I dig this type of playing, a little bit of Roy Buchanan in there. There's space, but it's not sparse, there's feeling but it's not whingey like Gary Moore. Bravo

[DarkHalo08]

Dont know too much about Jeff Beck but I know talent when I hear it. This guy is better than good.

[krelbar]

Jeff's control over the instrument is unparallelled. He never hits a wrong note live in the 5 times Ive seen him, his intonation is spot on. He is the king of the 60's guitarists between Hendrix, Clapton and Page as far as I am concerned. And he PROGRESSED. Cant really say that about Page and Clapton playing-wise, and it wouldn't be fair to levy that assumption on Hendrix.

[lidesnowi]

This guy is better than God!

[Biake22]

is this jazz?

[daryl060761]

Good question. I'm still trying to figure out if this is jazz, after 23 years. This album is a joy to listen to. Number of artists out there today making records like this: zero baby! What a gem. Attention all guitar heroes: be tuneful!

[mrhosehose]

Yeah, I second that - it's gotta be interesting. Blow by Blow and Wired didn't sell as well as they did without a singer and lyrics because of speed and repetition etc. It's gotta be interesting and quirky and full of minute detail and emotion. Taste and tone is essential as well as letting a melody breathe: spewing out a long line of notes can make many people fall asleep

[tomjunowak]

This would be Jazz Fusion. The original is a Jazz tune though. You should check it out so you can caompare the two.

[GassyMaskz]

This wouldn't be Fusion. The head still maintains the same rhythmic patterns of the original, making it jazz, but not fusion, since fusion is basically jazz with rock rhythm patterns. But the solo just appears to be blues-rock, so it's jazz, then blues, not both at the same time.

NOT FUSION!

[tripblokhgertsa123]

What a moron. You sound like the gay hair stylist I went to at fantastic Sams when my real barber got sick: "It looks like they started with a number 4 blade then switched to a number 2 blade. Then those sides look like a number 1 blade...."

[sdylte]

fusion can be anything.. not only rock. you could call jazz mixed with metal and country fusion to. that might sound a bit weird

[JiMuKai]

yet most often the term 'fusion' refers to 'jazz fusion', the term on its own doesn't really convey a meaning of any kind

[pinkfloyd71meddle]

my favorite song of all time right here. no doubt

[dcbeatle58]

The best head medicine I have listened to in a good while.

[xxxavier63]

bravo!!!!

[juncajon]

beck page clapton beck is the best of the holy trinity

[cinema33]

This is guitar heaven.

[gtorres2009]

É isso aí galera! è o Jeff ARREBENTANDO !

Grande Jeff!

[flappospammo]

jeff beck rules , and this is imo the best track he ever played on

STUNNING phrasing

utter masterwork

[lidesnowi]

This is the greatest cover ever recorded.

[juncajon]

i absolutely completely agree

[CiccioDimundo]

great jeff

[maccreng]

this is a cover for a charlie mingus tune

[JIMMYmetalhead]

the music just make me fly away

[ruffbizness]

can't believe nobody has upped the title track! as much as i can tell from cursory searches. this tune almost has a led zeppelin like quality when the beat first drops.

[sdgakatbk]

Man, how come I didn't remember this from Wired?! I wonder what planet I was on!?

[itzjoeymac]

I still wonder what planet Beck is on... lol

[martinaxman]

It depends on the piece of music. Some don't require anything but staying on course. Pork Pie is one of those. The further from the core you go the worse it sounds. This is a "rockandrollized" take on a solid jazz/blues composition. IMHO way past where it sounds good. You can't improve on perfection. I like Beck, but this doesn't do a thing for me.

[onelovega]

Come on man perfection is all in the mind with music. You can play the same thing over and over without once messing up and when u do, your like "hum, well you know that didn't sound bad."

[KHayden4]

that's because you don't know good music!!!

[mqblues]

Beck has never sounded better than the two albums produced by George Martin -- Blow by Blow and Wired. I love Mingus and I think Jeff did a fantastic imterpretation of this song; the gitar tone and improvisational blues-rock lines stand the test of time.

[gtar101]

Yep, no sense squabblin' about his developmental years or the gems from "Guitar Shop", those two albums were his best.

[gameraxxx]

This video is boring.He just stands there,without moving,dancing,or twirling his guitar around like the guy from Ratt. Gawd! Do something flashy! You can't expect me to just close my eyes and listen to the song. How do you listen?

[onelovega]

Dude its the album cover, come on man. Also, if it helps you then yes close your eyes and listen cause its badass and I know you wish you could play it.

[HendrixcommaMartin]

I agree. He needs to learn how to be an entertainer. And what's with all the waves? It's like he's so high, I'M hallucinating.

[lowiejoe]

Be an entertainer? Take the wax out of your ears, you tone deaf idiot, and just listen. This is beyond "entertainment." The true master of the rock electric. He has no living match.

[HendrixcommaMartin]

dude, chill. It was a response to the fact that he 'doesn't move' in the photo.

[lowiejoe]

Got it, bro. Sorry. Lot of mindless rockers have criticized JB for not fitting into the American Idol mode over the years -- and I thought you were one. Trouble with text is the sarcasm doesn't always come through.

[BluesRockRevival]

the notes at 312-313 are perfect, as well as 426-428

[nouoriel]

4.27, what a note, floors me everytime.

[fiddlercrab3]

I've scrolled away from the video to read comments, and I think to myself "huh, wonder how far along I am in this video." Then THAT note happens. I just about creamed myself- yup, that's a winner. :-)

[GuitarFloat]

That's Terrific !!

great technique and perfect played !!

[eltridente1]

sutilesa y clase...

Beck, el inovador que no fue nunca bien ponderado

[gonsotube]

Touch of shit! He's not even trying to follow the harmony, in oher words, he's not improvising over Mingus. Please, Jeff, stay on the plain blues-rock style, it seems it's what you're born to.

[clubsandwedge]

shut the fuck up, it's good

[zakmarion]

Oh Jazz Police Musician-Wannabe! "Thou shalt play exactly as was written?" Check "related videos" section! Even musicians playing this WITH Mingus didn't follow the harmonies strictly, & Mingus adapted new harmonies from time to time. The emminent John McLaughlin added an easy-for-guitar extended Em section to solo over. Joni Mitchell added so many new sections to it; the sax player played but 1 or 2 scales throughout. So? The point with music: take it & make it your own. Jeff Beck RULES!

[pablosaxo]

very good comment, but i like more when they follow the originall harmony, sometimes musicians change it because it´s difficult

bye bye

[1251alexRR]

Clapton has said that Jeff is more Rockabilly than blues, he said the same about Jimmy as well.

[dstock911]

Dude, jazz is a genre where originality and improvisation are encouraged. Artists cover each other all the time, and believe me, they are always diverging in interesting ways from the original. Don't be such a snob.

[IncaRoad01]

Touch of class

[itzjoeymac]

Wow, I was really drunk the night I tried to argue with someone who has no life... lol. How can you win? They have nothing to lose! lol... Still, though, BECK IS YOUR GOD!!!!!!

[zeguitarman]

WOnderful

[dmkramerica]

My English Pointer bog would stand in front of speaker and tilt his head ans howl along with this version. Never the Mingus version, but only this one. he hits sound cool harmonic distortions that f'l with animals. AWESOME

[7646man]

I dont know if it went over my head or under my feet, but I didnt get it. Ill never get peoples facination with Beck. Theres a fine line between fusion and elevator music, YAAAWN.

[itzjoeymac]

That's because you have no soul.

[clubsandwedge]

it's because you have no soul

[itzjoeymac]

I will shutup now... lol.

[itzjoeymac]

I will eat your tongue.

[itzjoeymac]

Identify yourself punk and maybe we can meet and have a little standoff. I'll be Beck and you can be Clapton like in the vid where Beck shreds Clap's ass (as in every vid they do together). It will go the same for you... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! I will destroy you. I will eat your spleen and send your butt hairs to your mama.

[itzjoeymac]

Screw you, you little punk Beck hater who has nothing better to do than rag on someone far greater... like me. lol...

[itzjoeymac]

This is not really fusion. It is the blues and Beck rules it as he does almost any genre of music when he decides to play it. I do not think he is underrated. He is simply too unknown. I do think YouTube is changing that!

[ibigdaddy]

One of Jeff Beck's prized possions is a ltter from Mingus, telling Jeff that his version was the best, and the way the SONG was meant to be played. Nice compliment.

[ibigdaddy]

One of Jeff Beck's prize possesions is a letter he framed on his wall from Mingus, telling Jeff that he thought Jeff did the best version, playing the song the way it was meant to be played

[Kremeldazuie]

it's a pinnacle of the fusion idiom. Absolutely.

[chucke1963]

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Nobody could ever play this song like Jeff. SO much feeling and uniqueness. The fucking tone and expression this guy gets is unbelievable. Forget speed licks, it's all in the feeling!! Jeff is WAY underrated. I love this album and Blow By Blow. A must for any guitarist.

[4ropebottom]

Please realize...he doesn't play the Mingus song. He uses the song as a brief intro to a traditional rock/blues jam. There's a difference. Nobody could ever play this song like Jeff? I beg to differ - Mingus did a pretty incredible job himself...and he actually played the tune.

[theduck1158]

i love this album. also love sophie

[mjerina77]

JEFF BECK is the most UNDERRATED AND ARGUABLY the BEST GUITARIST EVER......as creative as hendrix and more accomplished as a musician if u ask me

[deanburgess69]

seconded, although most jimi fans would disagree as they tend to have no true musical inclination what so ever.

[MY599FERRARI]

Jeff......great jazz/fusion sound this CD and Blow by Blow are a must to have.

[trg127]

the first time I heard this album I was around 12.. led boots was my fav

[jimimurti]

Hi trg 127

I was 14 then in 76 loved led boots as well very much

[Steacy783]

Love this song after a hard day !

[Steacy783]

with a big bowl weed.

[Steacy783]

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