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I never got into Jeff Beck, but the dude has some cool rides.
Did anybody happen to catch "Car Crazy" on the tube tonight? I guess he's been into them forever... probably old news to many of you.
I can't imagine what people over in England think when they see them old hot rods cruisen around.

Jay Leno & Billy F. Gibbons have an impressive collection !
And Boy... They get a lot of Tush in those...


Jimmie K.

Cars and guitars go hand in hand!!!!!

Yeah but....
crewsin over in England has to be an absolute blast in a "milner" yellow coupe,
Bet they be tough on them open headers!

monsterwalley wrote: I never got into Jeff Beck, .

Uh-oh, let's not start that one again....

Some people think Beck is a recluse and only releases albums every ten years. Truth is he is a car nut who plays guitar. He's been quoted as saying he only tours when he needs money for a new hot rod!

He has been in to cars for years. Even had a split window when he was living in LA around the Yardbirds time. He once said he loves hanging with Cozy Powell because Cozy is "really good at spotting cops when we're tearing up the highway". BTW, I think Cozy died in a bike accident.

Beck was in a bad wreck in his T bucket that laid him up for a couple of years right when he was supposed to form BBA. Critics say that would have been the first power trio becasue it would have been before Cream and the Experience.

Cozy Powell died on the motorway in England,driving a Saab that hit the median divider and flipped,crushing him beneath.I think he was talking on the phone at the time as well.
Great drummer whom I saw with the JBG,in London (Orange album).
He was to tour with Gary Moore on the After the War tour,but it was not to be.
Yngwie308

Seen him with Rainbow twice. I'll say Cozy was a great drummer all right!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuK2msTzec

Beck lesson.

I have kind of used the forum being down to lick my wounds as it were,but I have read this debate over Jeff Beck,and I feel that I must weigh in.
I saw Jeff twice,the aformentioned Jeff Beck Group show,with Cozy Powell,Max Middleton,Clive Tench,ect.
Jeff on his Strat by then,unbelievable,then I saw BBA,was no more than 5 feet from Jeff,general admission.I really had a lesson in guitar playing that night,the famous '54 Oxblood Les Paul that the Chief and I both love,but he has one!!
When Tim Bogart's bass rig packed it in during the gig,Jeff played some unaccompanied scat blues playing that was truly masterful and was absolutely brilliant.
I think the issue is,a lot of guitarists just don't get Jeff,I don't know why really,but of the trio,Clapton,Page and himself,Jeff is the only one who continuously reinvents himself,and the other two freely admit,he is the one who has taken the music farther than anyone else.
Try playing a Strat with the trem floating up in mid air and obtain the microtonality that Jeff does.He can play Mary Had a Little Lamb,and it will bring tears to your eyes.
This arguement about fusion is silly,Jeff is living daily fusion!
He took the jazz/rock genre to a new level,with Jan Hammer,but had the time to admire and encourage the late,great Tommy Bolin.Tommy played his last gig in Miami the night before he died,with Jeff,as the support band.
Spectrum by Billy Cobham is brilliant,all Tommy,but the inspiration is from Jeff.
Anybody who slags off Jeff Beck,is opinionated and deaf to musical,magical guitar mastery.Is it always easy listening,no.But if you go with him,it is a journey well taken.
As far as the barrage of opinions lately,I became so upset and frustrated with it all,that I felt like leaving the forum.
On my Malmsteen forum,they said dissing EVH on this forum,was comparable to entering a gay bar and shouting,"I hate fags!"
I will never change my opinion,and sometimes think my emotions overide my brain when it comes to music,but that is why I love music,because opinions and the thinking/critical brain,can be left behind,to focus on the emotion of music.
Cheers to all,and come back Bainzy,I know you are at university,but surely you have a computer there,lol!!
Regards
Yngwie308

Chiefs right! my bad... I definetely started out wrong on the wording of my comment in light of recent differences.
I merely ment to say I wasn't knowledgeable enough with him or his background to know that he is a car nut which whether you can play guitar or not is cool in my book. and I find it really cool that HIS stuff doesnt sit in garages or on pedestals as some of the INVESTORS in other countries do for the sheer value of driving up the market or saying they have a piece of us history. He actuall gets out and "rods" these things around as they should be.

I know Billy Gibbons and Jay Leno are heavy hitters in the "Roddin" field but the fact that Jeff Beck is Cruizen U.S. iron abroad I found pretty cool.

Hope we can keep the post going for the reason it was intended, and keep it light

Moonsterwalley,of course Jeff Beck is a cool hot roddin' guy,always has been,I didn't want to start a new thread,with the associated B.S..
I have always loved cars since I was 4 or 5 years old,Beck loves to build his own rods,with his own hands,which is totally cool.Jeff rode in Vette's on his first trip to the States with the Yardbirds.
His roddin' accident in England,many say changed his personality somewhat,he was supposed to form that supergroup with Bogart and Appice,when that happened.Jeff is a humble guy,and has the right priorities in life,guitars and hotrods!
Long live Jeff
Yngwie308

yngwie308 wrote: On my Malmsteen forum,they said dissing EVH on this forum,was comparable to entering a gay bar and shouting,"I hate fags!"

Oh man, the truth hurts!!!!

Right Flames,but there is truth in the other things I have said in the past,but they were passed over as the red mist passes over the eyes of the EVH lovin' bunch.I choose not to reply to all of the Malmsteen criticsm,as I really don't care much,what people say about him here.
But I would like to see people own up to their remarks.
I am not accepting the criticism of Yngwie here,as valid,by any means.
When the horse is dead,it is useless to flog it.
We all need to own up to our mistakes,and the truth here is somewhat subjective,lol.
There is only one God,and he dosen't play guitar,he is the one I reserve all theglory for.
Yngwie308

Here's the one Beck annihilates Clapton and Clapton freely acknowdleges it. Yeah, this is fusion all right...

I'm like Dave and his Yngwie defense. Someone beat me over the head one day to realy listen to Beck. Once I did I saw it. The man is one THE masters that started this shit. EVH CANNOT touch his genius. Sorry man, that is FACT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tXqFlcl20

Here you go NY Chief,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zeYtEF3xzA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk42Nryq ... ed&search=
Hijacking this thread to Jeff Beck land!
Yngwie308