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Jeff Beck
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:40 pm
by NY Chief
One of my other fave players...
Did anybody see this over on the pp forum. Not Beck's playing by far but that fucking technique...
http://www.johnzguitar.com/JeffBeckDrown.wmv
Re: Jeff Beck
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:28 pm
by NY Chief
DoH! Should have said "...not Beck's BEST playing..."
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:45 pm
by Billy Batz
I hate to say this but Ive just never been able to get into Jeff Beck. I have almost all of his classic stuff.
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:37 pm
by Flames1950
I love the early stuff the best. His take on blues back then was just a little on the sick side and it was great. His tone tended to be a little sick at times too, and it too was great!!
As seen on that video posted at PP, his current take on the blues seems a either a little pedestrian and too reverent, or too over-the-top instead, with not much middle ground. Still, his current fingerpicking/whammy sliding/volume swelling phrasing kills me, he's absolutely liquid at it.
But enough of that damn tapped trill thing already.
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:09 pm
by Country Boy Shane
That man is in a world all his own. Very cool technique... especially for those strat players.
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:58 pm
by NY Chief
I was not a Beck fan until a mentor forced me to listen to Blow By Blow and Wired. Though at the time I didn’t like the style of music there was no mistaking the technique, phrasing and polish of those discs. Then he turned me on to the early stuff with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. THAT blew me away. Beck was always just ahead of everyone else. It’s been said that if he didn’t get in the accident when BBA was first trying to form that they would have been the first power trio before Cream and Hendrix. Even Hendrix has been quoted as saying he got feedback ideas from Beck. Beck has never been a true blues player (but not a bad one either). He definitely is a hot and cold player. Page said “When Jeff is on he is the best there is”. I really like the fact that he is kinda of like Rory was, true to his (own) music and always seemed to turn his back just as he was going to break big. The Jeff Beck group was supposed to play Woodstock. That would have opened a few eyes. I’m not a big fan of his techno stuff that he seems to really like but he is just so far advanced I guess that’s inventive for him. Clips like the one above almost never seem to paint him in his light. Being a hot and cold player he can’t just walk on to Letterman or Leno or whatever TV show and rock. I’ve seen this a number of times. Last time I saw him in LA he pulled out the old Duncan TeleGib and played a “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” that was phenomenal.
Hey Dan, when you come over to play the Zemaitis and JPP I’ll turn you on to some real good Beck and get ya converted!