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God bless him love him, man

When we was young, Mate. We've lost a Great One.

私も悲しいです。😭from japan

A Titan .

Nice one Joan The best Jeff Beck one I've seen It really rocks! Lucky you got to go to that concert in LA Wish you had a photo from back when that you could have got through to him. Dad that he passed on. RIP

C'est vrai!et c'est sa curiosité à jouer plein de styles,de ne jamais se contenter de se qu'il maîtrisait déjà qui en fait un maestro.RIP Jeff BECK

Which is all the time!

@@kathy2trips At least when he's not obsessed about the next hot rod he's going to build.

Agree 100%. As a guitarist myself, I can tell you he is the hardest to copy. His phrasing, tone and attack are all so uniquely his.

Apparently there was a phone call between Jimmy Page and Clapton that went something like: ring ring...Jeff is getting really good. Yeah, I know. No, no. He's getting *really* good.

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Yes he doesn't need to but he does pose a bit though.

You should have seen Segovia in his later years. Never danced a step. Great to watch.

Yet he does though! All subtle little flares! I love it!

Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today...

Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....

Have you never heard of Frank Marino a brilliant guitarist also . Wired and flash were my fav Jeff albums.

​@@ih9368 a canadian boy

Float down stream like lennon screamed on tomorrow never knows on revolver ? It is not dying ... 😊

his guitar is more his voice than his actual voice. Jimmy Page always said Beck was the better player. He is right.

I agree.

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and never forget that Jeff came up with the opening drum beat to Superstition! Funk supreme

@@blues4ray Jeff is a living legend!

@Chris James: McLaughlin has mastered even more styles of music.

Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....

One of the very few exceptionally non conformist soloist. So glad to have seen him and SRV in Fullerton!

@@scottgretencord478 Nice!

I agree!

Can't you? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mr1dequqrbDKhX0.html

Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen would like to have a word with you

Who's that Bass Player?

Stefano Tuttobene asking the right questions here

The incredible Stephen Amazing, aka Stephen Fields.

Sadly, Fields, and now also Jimmy Copley, are both deceased.

Thank you wayne.

I agree. The only other guitarist for me like that was Frank Zappa. He sounded like no one else to me.

Totally agree with you. The musical concepts here were not only flowing in abundance but were varied in nature. Hendrix, Page, Popovic, Beck. All demonstrate brilliance with a river profuse with ideas and artful executions. But Beck has a gift that raises him above the others. A sophistication that transcends virtuosity, a generous musical intellect, and a restraint from the ordinary. Ahhhhhhh

@@mark7146 well said my friend yes I agree with you my first experience with Jeff was the there and back album I saw it for $10 go figure

RIP Jeff

All true statements

On a Gibson using a pick

yeah those were the days; he was good picker.

Just like clapton...

Does he even realize how ridiculously good he sounds on a Gibson?

@@nyg1954 You seen The Rock 'n' Roll Party honouring Les Paul?

Listen to Alvin Lee, "She's so heavy".

@@readbetweenthelineslll1635 Check it out. Unless you don't like Lee's soloing style, he's pretty in your face, it's awesome.

Well, then tries Eddie Hazels version of she’s so heavy

Plus Sir George Martin produced the classic 'Blow by Blow' album on which this appeared

I'm surprised too. I never thought anyone would be able to make a Beatles song worth listening to.

he is only in the top 5 if the other 4 are also Jeff Beck 😁😁😁

@@lyndonlisk8961 Well said!!

Indeed! The others being, in my own opinion: Robert Fripp, Pat Metheny, Steve Hackett and Mick Taylor👍🙌

@@zigzag2510 replace Hackett with Steve Howe and you’re on to something !

It's hard to say Beck is underrated. Maybe you're just talking to the wrong people. ;-)

@@Relayer6a Yeah, anybody knows who Jeff Beck is? Nope. Just chug that beer and put Billy Gibbons and Richie Sambora up there at the top.

@@briweeks71 So you think Sambora and Gibbons deserve the same billing? Besides, I'll bet you can find more people who don't know who Billy Gibbons is than Jeff Beck.

@@Relayer6a Ha ha! Ask anybody on the street about Blow by Blow, and you'll get ..blow what? Then ask about Sharp Dressed Man or Living on a Prayer, yep, they know that, Van Halen, Hendrix, they know that. Beck? You mean that I'm a Loser dude? lol

@@briweeks71 Keep moving those goalposts. lol Ask them the name of the guitarist on Sharp Dressed Man and most won't have a clue. And just because a song has more commercial success doesn't mean the public has a clue who the guitarist on the album is. Besides, it's not like Sambora or Gibbins doesn't deserve to be famous. You putting them down like you are actually shows what you know, or don't know, about guitarists.

You must known of chicken picking a.k.a. hybrid picking for the academic out there.

@@einarabelc5 I certainly do, and so does Jeff Beck for sure ^^

@@MadsBoldingMusic I don't think he uses the pick at all anymore, but it's in no way a limitation. I could be wrong, but I feel I've read that he got tired of the pick falling out of his hand. The tone he gets with his fingers is otherworldly incomparably sublime and second to none, in my opinion.

@@michaelgarza8271 I largely agree - he seems to use a pick only when he has to play old tunes of his that can be played no other way. Scatterbrain is an example of this: For the main riff; pick, for the B-section and jazzy jams; fingers.

@@MadsBoldingMusic See ya in 2031....

Es que con tanta palanca no se le ve.the tremollo hide di artista,TE DAS CUEN

@@e.s.p.a.n.a ?

It's not about the guitar, but the playing.

@@herrbonk3635 exactly

@@herrbonk3635 Les Pauls are muddy pieces of shit though.

Definitely!

The ultimate badass.

I heard Jeff Beck would do that ascending run as a warmup and someone said he should throw it in a song

Peerless IMO

Clapton was being interview many many years ago when asked about jeff beck he said there is something mean and nasty about Ole Becky that beats everyone else

Certainly!!

Truth

I saw him live in 99 or 2000. I was 17 or 18. Better than any one I saw before or since. I was so far back I never saw the guys face before KZfaq. Still had the exact same haircut. I could see the hair on both sides that’s it. Took me 2 decade to realize he had a face.

I would say, maybe, one of the most boring, but, hey, who am I?

@@vicferrari89 you probably haven’t listened to much jazz- although he isn’t a jazz player per se a lot of this is jazz music. You should hear how boring real jazz players are lol. It’s an acquired taste can be very difficult to appreciate. Real jazz guitarists don’t even bend the strings- he puts a lot more life into this music then many are used to.

I don't think he plays Guitar...he seems to channel it through his soul....it's in another dimension of awesomeness.

Its going above the level of exceptional this performance....it's why I keep getting drawn back to it....its become a pilgrimage for me...I can't stop coming back to watch Jeff play this.

One of a (very) few guitar virtuosos. Nobody quite like Jeff.

Watching an artist that’s mastered their craft is sublime .

@@AlanAttack What a wordsmith you are! Couldn’t have said it better !

The best IMO.

I think now he never uses a pick. Is this about the time he switched?

Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....

David O'Donovan True. It was some of his best work.

+RichaTord Rodriguez to me he got more expressive, I have enjoyed his later work immensely.

Great!

+David O'Donovan I like all of Jeffs playing, but I do agree with you Blow by Blow and Wired very deep music.

+drumheadthe1st Depth, yes you are spot on there. Cheers

I came here to post the same thing. I keep having to come back to listen to it over and over. With the keyboard in the mix, it's super 70's Les Paul soul.

Listen to his cover of A Day in the Life

Listen to Alvin Lee "She's so heavy". I hesitate to label anything in music BEST, but it's another excellent cover.

Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....

Long life to Jeff! God bless him 🙏

Could not agree more...JB is simply the best!

Try taping your index to the whammy bar. I never tried it, might work though lol

The culmination of falling in love with the electric guitar while still a toddler. Tried to make his ow several times before finally getting a real one. Years and years of playing, listening to records at slow speed, backwards and forwards to find out how his guitar heroes did it. No, another Jeff Beck will never come around again. Irreplaceable.

He didn't as Simon Phillips said, write anything. Jeff said it too. He re-harmonized other great's music. But he was fantastic.

its called "overplaying"

@@markfrost2707 Jeff does have his moments, but nobody can "overplay" like he does! :)

Its unreal, he really uses that big thumb alot?

Well said! That helps “ just be happy we coexisted” thanks.

Me 2 brother! ✌️💜🎸

@@sandeedobberstine5591 We're justified in our gratitude for having lived on Earth with men and women of unusual greatness in our common earthly time together, a time which is both brief and fleeting.

Simon Warner A nice looking one at that.

All is not what it seems...this is actually a 1954 Gold Top with the wrapover bridge, not the best for staying in tune or for string bends. It was stripped and re-finished with a dark red-brown colour that became known as oxblood and also had the P 90 pick ups replaced with humbuckers. So in fact this a close relation of Neil Young's Old Black guitar, also originally a Gold Top from 1953-4

The bridge effects the intonation, not how easy the guitar goes out of tune. There is no way to adjust the intonation with that bridge, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is any intonation problem. The LP has no bigger problem staying in tune that any other 3-tuner-on-a-side guitar. That's why the g-string can be a pain in the ass on a lot of guitars. My 70's LP Custom also has a 3-piece neck which is stable as hell. I'm afraid the truss rod nut might be frozen because I never have to tweak it. I wish I could say that for my Strat, it's truss rod is always begging for attention.

toomuchrose Well it had Schaller machine heads they are pretty solid.

He was never quite the same when he switched to Strats.

and if you ask Tal Wilkenfeld & Carmen Vandenberg, the talk about him with true reverence: "He's a great man," Carmen says in an interview, & if you haven't seen Tal's deeply-moving tribute on Twitter the day he died, you absolutely _must_ find it.

He is no more 😢

Sorry but Gary Moore is all around best!

Peerless IMO

Check out the wonderful studio version on the 'Blow by Blow' album .

You are a Beck fan and don't own "Blow by Blow"? You lie, man! Oh, IMHO, Beck is overrated. There, I said it.

I don't strangely, think of him as an improviser. Having seen him in concert at his - in my opinion, mid-70's peak, he played, in opening for Aerosmith, note for note what was on Blow-By-Blow and Wired. Not so much as a grace note's difference. I think of him as a fantastic interpreter. He worked up 'charts' in his head; complicated 'jazzy' if you like, versions of various other composers tunes.

@@allancerf9038 -- I've seen him at least six times over a 38-year stretch, and with the exception of a few tunes on the "There and Back" tour, I've never heard him play spot-on, note-for-note renditions of anything. He was always pushing the envelope and coming up with variations on melodic themes and taking off the beaten path rhythmic excursions. Among his contemporaries, he struck me as the wellspring that never seemed to dry up. A lot of KZfaq content on Beck's performances bears that out as well.

@@tswrench I'm a professional musician with really good relative pitch. But you don't have to have those qualities - you just have to listen TO youtube - to hear it borne out. Like THIS video where you find yourself commenting. This is precisely the same set of notes as the album version Beck's cover of She's a Woman. LOL. Tell me what notes and in which bars Jeff plays something different? The Beck that played at the Seattle Center Coliseum was in his prime and played the songs note for note. Indeed JAN HAMMER improvised far more than Jeff. Immensely more. And I counted it as a good thing. His Ronnie Scott Gigs on You Tube are quite good, but he's not in his absolute zenith as a player. Often musicians aren't as good in their sixties. At Ronnie Scott's Jeff's tapping for instance is not as good as before - though tapping is not a huge part of his technique - thank God! So some of the playing from 2007 forward is different - a tad diminished at times. Not to say he didn't have some great nights, still...but a slightly diminished technique is not improvising. If you compare the amount of improvising Clapton for example does, Beck is a tiny fraction of that. I agree he may change the rhythms up...if you can find one example on youtube where he goes off with a variation on a melodic theme - please let me know. If he re-harmonizes, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, or Star Cycle - I'd love to hear it in all seriousness. Jeff is, according to Simon Phillips and Jan Hammer and many others who played with him on/off for years - and according to me and most folks, a "follow the melody guy." People LIKE to hear what's on the recordings, me included. And Jeff poured so much energy (I almost wrote pours until I remembered he's died, which is quite sad) into his arrangements, well, here is what he said tswrench: He said that his arrangements, his 'parts' are so demanding that he has to pay attention to what he's playing. What's on the records is demanding enough. Anyway, you're lucky if you saw him six times playing very different parts to the records. I don't mean to argue. If anyone can point to any Beck performance that doesn't mainly VERY closely, follow the melodic lines on the records, I'd love to hear them. I think we both agree the man's playing was phenomenal and enjoyable. Take care.

@@allancerf9038 -- Uh-huh. Whether you're a professional musician or no, who cares? I was eulogizing one of my favorite guitar players and respectfully observing his passing. I think it's obvious that that IS the point. In that context it's hard to see your point as being one worth making--at all. And yet, that didn't deter you. Way to read the room. So, you feel you've detected some misstatement in the original post concerning my use of the word 'improvisation,' as it applies to Jeff Beck's playing. That, in turn, triggered you to do a little dyspeptic dance designed to validate your point at the expense of mine. Frankly, your drive-by is not appreciated. You wasted a lot of perfectly good white space to contentiously blurt out answers to questions no one was asking. I took some music theory courses in college, and I play (that's how I know when one of my favorite guitarists is playing note-for-note or not.) So, what is improvisation if not playing what you feel like playing in the moment? It's spontaneous creativity away from manuscript and rote memorization, no? I imagine you might relish the opportunity to put a finer point on it, but I'm really not interested in picking fly shit out of pepper with anyone over this. I just wanted to pen a personal tribute to a great musician who influenced millions over the course of a career that spanned over 6 decades. Notwithstanding your personal views, here's what the following query, 'Was jeff beck a great improvisational guitarist,' yielded right out the gate: "He was known for his improvising, love of harmonics and the whammy bar on his preferred guitar, the Fender Stratocaster. 'Jeff Beck is the best guitar player on the planet,' Joe Perry, the lead guitarist of Aerosmith, told The New York Times in 2010." Beck is solidly ensconced in every list of "10 Best Rock Improv Guitarists" I looked at (and I'm not even into that shit--how quickly we forget the axiom that correctly says--it's all subjective). Sorry for the surliness (I've had better days) Good luck

@@tswrench You're not very bright - out the gate. Joe Perry was there the night Beck stole the show; just become some guy in his 70's makes an erroneous statement, doesn't mean it's true. You've wasted 10 seconds of my time dissembling. You overreact because a friendly person was simply saying Jeff Beck was NOT known by and large as an improviser, and especially not, as Simon Phillips noted, a writer. Rather a brilliant soloist who in his own words, improvised so little because what he had to recreate from the recordings took all his attention. "But I get my name on the tickets" as Jeff joked, and he was fine with that. This very clip of She's a Woman, you thick idiot, bears that out. Sure he riffed out (the icing) but the attraction is the unchanged 'cake' - the note-for-note recreation of his records. And it was no different when you saw him during the There And Back Tour, no matter how many Bud Lights you guzzled, or what your Led Boots, tin ear, made you think you heard. I shudder to think to think of your 'music.' If it's as bad as your syntax, I can only suggest you not, eulogize, but - euthanize your guitar and your word processor. Maybe take a breath and put the latex back where it started it's round-trip journey.