Jeff was my friend. Met him in 1977, between Blow By Blow, and Wired. He was getting inspiration from trying different things. 1. The slide bar 2. The Whammy Bar 3. A constant innovator 4. He was focused. But having problems at that time trying to get the Jeff Beck Group back together. I had just gotten to California from Fla. And wanted to sing. He arranged for me to do a recording at a studio. He Helped other musicians up. And Collaborated with lots of well knowns, but was shy like to. Always thinking ahead. I had just discovered his music. And got to help assist him at his home. I am totally crushed to know he is gone. He pushed himself on that Tour. I didn't know that I would be at one of his last concerts. I was honored. And a long time fan. I sent notes back stage trying to reconnect. He is gone but his music lives on.
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
Jeff Beck had so many tools in his kit, it's absolutely amazing. The way he seamlessly switched from pick to fingers, all the sonic tricks he had, there will never be another like him. The best of the best for me right there.
Beck can certainly burn down the house with his solos, but he can also get some of the most soft, gentle, cloud-like tones out of his guitar. I feel like I could drift off, relax and "float downstream".
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.
Jeff Beck is unbelievably phenomenal. When pitted against other guitarist the thing people don't talk about is that Jeff Beck's music is all instrumental, he expresses his musical vision without words,very vividly, better than anybody else, not just the song here or there but whole albums. He will be sorely missed 🙏
I honestly think Beck is the greatest technician of all time - just because of how many genres he has completely mastered. Funk, Rock, Pop, Jazz Fusion, Blues, Blues Rock. Nobody else can do what he does
I really love the fact that he uses a pick, where he finds it most useful and his fingers likewise - he doesn't cling dogmatically to one or the other, but utilizes all possible assets to make great music, as a musician really should!
@@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.
Gotta say, the band backing Jeff are no slouches either. Man, that is some nice bass playing too....much appreciated if anyone can fill me in on the other players here :-)
Most underrated guitarist ever. Total command of the instrument. Excellent phrasing and control. This was the 70s and it still sounds like heaven today.
@@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.
At 62 years of age I have heard almost every phenomenal guitarist you can imagine even Django Reinhardt with that being said, I am not going to say that Jeff Beck is the greatest guitarist in the world but I will say he is the only greatest guitarist in the world that can do what he does nobody else can copy him nobody sounds like him nobody has his feel sensitivity phrasing all of it he's a one-of-a-kind and is always an eargasm musically and raises the bar with every album he puts out. I have never in my lifetime heard another guitarist that has a command of the instrument like Jeff and who has also mimicked the human voice operatic at that!! nobody can do what Jeff does. they still try. 😋
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
Gutted - just gutted. He was just the master of the instrument. His touch, his tone, his phrasing and his melody choices - just way ahead of the pack. I feel privileged to have seen him live. Thankfully there is so much footage available for us to tune into. But knowing he has gone is still hard to accept. RIP Govenor !! You were and are one of a kind.
Well, it's been a very long time since I listened to Jeff Beck. But after listening to a bunch of stuff, old and new, on youtube tonight, I am again convinced he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
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 TH-cam. 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.
@@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.
He's a Prodigy. Highly gifted. Like no other. He's still around isn't he. Listened to him since I was 17. I'm going on 63. He is a Master and looks pretty dam hot doing it!
God Bless Him and God speed. This man taught me so much about music, and the possibilities of what can be done with 6 strings and some wires and wood. RIP , Jeff Beck...you changed everything.
Just wonderful. He has no peers among guitar players. Nobody sounds like him, writes like him, or performs like him. Nobody attempts to emulate him (at least on stage, some of us try in private, but don't get very far).
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.
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.
I have listened to Jeff since the Yardbird days , Remember , " Over under sideways down , The nazz are blue ., He didn't dick around just let it rip and it is really pleasant to know that he is still doing it . God bless you sir , you are a true professional .
Devastated by the news. I was lucky to see him in concert in Dublin back in 2014. I just stood in awe for the whole night, an incredible performance. He was a genius. Rest in Peace Jeff, you’ll never be forgotten 😔🎸🙏🏻
This is superb… he was arguably one of the most inventive guitarists in rock, he did seem to really enjoy pushing the creative envelope rather than just relying on a comfort zone style.
There will never ever be another musician whith such and incredible approach to the instrument he plays, and with the capability of taking it two steps beyond. Such wonderful weirdness, such mechanical, physycal knowledge of the guitar, and an intuition paired with such talented musical gift. In a million years, there will be no player to nail Nadia, or Where were yo, or this one. He was way ahead of the curve. Untoucheable. Rest in music, Jeff. And thanks.
Okay, I've never heard anything like this before; but then again this is The great Jeff Beck. Superb. I had to listen again just to believe my ears .😢❤.
RIP Jeff so thankful i saw you in concert and you far exceeded expectations - it was a highlight for me that night - you were brilliant -- God bless you Jeff, safe journey to the world we can't see...RIP
I can only write 4 days later (3 days after hearing of Jeff Beck’s passing). It’s such a loss, to music and to mankind. He was an inspiration and an example of how to be. God bless you Jeff Beck ❤🎶 RIP 🎶❤️
One of the best aspects of Jeff is that he gave so many young musicians a start and some limelight to get their careers going. What better resume could you have than;" I played with Jeff Beck".
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.
I always loved this Beatles song for it's musicality and tempo and thought it was underrated. Jeff Beck proves me right. Brilliant rendition, has me awestruck. RIP Genius.
i was a bartender at this place back in the day when jeff beck flew into town to play a free concert with this line up the entire place was jumping the air was electrified place was packed way over capacity people were spilling out onto the street the mos eisley cantina would never be the same...
Jeff's improvisational skills were off the charts, chain, whatever. What he does at 1:29 shows how deftly he would play in the pocket and produce pearls in a flash. So talented, so unique, and he embodied those qualities until the very end. Jeff Beck's music has been a part of my life for over 40 years, and it will ring in my ears until it's my time--I can think of no better soundtrack. Godspeed, Jeff.
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 TH-cam 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.
I strongly urge you to watch Max Ostro “CA house” “Rhumba” “I switched to semi hollow guitars” “waterbear” “JTC sessions” and many more. Him and JB are my 2 favorite guitarists. The guitar is in good hands. There’s even guys like Matteo Mancuso that are also incredible. But Max is magical. There’s a difference.
His timing phrasing groove feel taste tone versatility .... he is the ACE since 1962... for many reason he's really one of the greatest electric guitar player ever, probably the number 1
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
The greatest guitarist of all time is Jeff Beck - he should be Sir Jeff Beck. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life. Sadly. Jeff has left us. Too upsetting for words.
I've never hear a guitar player phrase or feel out the interpretation of a song like Jeff is doing here. He just juices every note for what it's worth...and puts it all together in a soulful way. One of my Fav videos of Jeff Beck. Best guitar groove I've heard in my 36 years of listening and playing guitar!
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.
RIP Jeff, one of the best guitarists to ever exist. Even though it's a sad moment, I'll be happy that I coexisted with this man. RIP and God bless you.
@@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.
So expressive, you would have to have that sound in your head first, the way it changes tempo, Jeff finds notes, that kiss the melody and slows it right down. The atmosphere is far greater than the instrument, he is communicating what he is feeling. Masterful
Remember watching this as a spotty teenager, and being blown away. Viewing now, as an old fart, I am still blown away. I think Jeff was a the height of his powers at this point, although I love his playing today. Great quality on the clip. I first saw it in black and white, simpler times....ha!
Jeff was my friend. Met him in 1977, between Blow By Blow, and Wired. He was getting inspiration from trying different things.
1. The slide bar
2. The Whammy Bar
3. A constant innovator
4. He was focused. But having problems at that time trying to get the Jeff Beck Group back together. I had just gotten to California from Fla. And wanted to sing. He arranged for me to do a recording at a studio. He Helped other musicians up.
And Collaborated with lots of well knowns, but was shy like to. Always thinking ahead. I had just discovered his music. And got to help assist him at his home. I am totally crushed to know he is gone. He pushed himself on that Tour. I didn't know that I would be at one of his last concerts. I was honored. And a long time fan. I sent notes back stage trying to reconnect. He is gone but his music lives on.
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
He was the definition of Cool without even trying to be cool. He just was
We just lost Jeff Beck about an hour ago. A tremendous loss for the music world. Jeff was one of the greatest guitar players to ever live.
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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 .
Jeff set up the Fender Amp and Guitar in his living room one time and played for me, and it just made me cry. I will always remember this. Joan Bryant
As long as we have Jeff Beck on TH-cam, we have a LOT!
Jeff Beck had so many tools in his kit, it's absolutely amazing. The way he seamlessly switched from pick to fingers, all the sonic tricks he had, there will never be another like him. The best of the best for me right there.
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
A masterclass on how to let your guitar convey the passion in your soul. No lyrics necessary!
"Jeff Beck has left the building and it is a lonelier place without him" - Sir Paul McCartney
The nuances here are just gorgeous....gosh I miss the goat!
He makes the Guitar sing . No doubt there is no other like him in the world and never will be . Rest in peace Jeff ..
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
Jeff Beck so amazing in every way and able to play with any other group so beautifully and not taking over, just there delivering the best.
Beck can certainly burn down the house with his solos, but he can also get some of the most soft, gentle, cloud-like tones out of his guitar. I feel like I could drift off, relax and "float downstream".
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.
Only Jeff Beck could take a Beatles song, and turn it into this.
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 turned up the volume to make a note sustain longer. That is so incredibly clever, it blows my mind.
He's probably the most gifted of the guitar heroes from his era. When he's into it, he's without equal.
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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Jeff Beck is unbelievably phenomenal. When pitted against other guitarist the thing people don't talk about is that Jeff Beck's music is all instrumental, he expresses his musical vision without words,very vividly, better than anybody else, not just the song here or there but whole albums. He will be sorely missed 🙏
I've always loved how he doesn't dance all around. He's just chill. Love him
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...
Jeff Beck, 1944-2023. One of the absolute greatest rock guitarist's ever, a true musical legend. R. I. P.😪
Jeff Beck's playing was always off the Planet👍...now he's gone back to his Planet😉...R.I.P...Mr Jeffrey Beck😇
I honestly think Beck is the greatest technician of all time - just because of how many genres he has completely mastered. Funk, Rock, Pop, Jazz Fusion, Blues, Blues Rock. Nobody else can do what he does
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.
you can't play any better than this.
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?
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Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen would like to have a word with you
jeff beck on a gibson= perfection
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?
OMG. My day's just had an upgrade!
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
I'm still recovering from Jeff, knowing full well there'll never be a time I won't miss him!
RIP, Jeff, we still love you! See you up in Heaven!
I really love the fact that he uses a pick, where he finds it most useful and his fingers likewise - he doesn't cling dogmatically to one or the other, but utilizes all possible assets to make great music, as a musician really should!
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....
What a tone! I know Jeff Beck is better known for his strat but he's making the les Paul shine on this one!
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.
Gotta say, the band backing Jeff are no slouches either. Man, that is some nice bass playing too....much appreciated if anyone can fill me in on the other players here :-)
Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jeff Beck Jammin in Heaven.
R.I.P brothers
Most underrated guitarist ever. Total command of the instrument. Excellent phrasing and control. This was the 70s and it still sounds like heaven today.
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.
Gotta give that bass player some major credit too
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.
At 62 years of age I have heard almost every phenomenal guitarist you can imagine even Django Reinhardt with that being said, I am not going to say that Jeff Beck is the greatest guitarist in the world but I will say he is the only greatest guitarist in the world that can do what he does nobody else can copy him nobody sounds like him nobody has his feel sensitivity phrasing all of it he's a one-of-a-kind and is always an eargasm musically and raises the bar with every album he puts out. I have never in my lifetime heard another guitarist that has a command of the instrument like Jeff and who has also mimicked the human voice operatic at that!! nobody can do what Jeff does. they still try. 😋
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
The best as far as I’m concerned!
Gutted - just gutted. He was just the master of the instrument. His touch, his tone, his phrasing and his melody choices - just way ahead of the pack. I feel privileged to have seen him live. Thankfully there is so much footage available for us to tune into. But knowing he has gone is still hard to accept. RIP Govenor !! You were and are one of a kind.
Well, it's been a very long time since I listened to Jeff Beck. But after listening to a bunch of stuff, old and new, on youtube tonight, I am again convinced he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
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 TH-cam. 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.
There are Gibson guitar players and Fender guitar players. And then there is Jeff Beck❤
Jeff Beck. Play on, brother. Play on guru.
1:42 Dear God what a talented player he is.
I heard Jeff Beck would do that ascending run as a warmup and someone said he should throw it in a song
He's a Prodigy. Highly gifted.
Like no other. He's still around isn't he. Listened to him since I was 17. I'm going on 63. He is a Master and looks pretty dam hot doing it!
Definitely!
The ultimate badass.
God Bless Him and God speed.
This man taught me so much about music, and the possibilities of what can be done with 6 strings and some wires and wood.
RIP , Jeff Beck...you changed everything.
To Jeff Beck the greatest guitar player in the world May you rest in peace
Same thing happens every time I watch this......I play the video again....and again......and again.....extraordinary awesomeness.
My hero Jeff Beck. The master of fusion.
Rock boogie shred melodic tone bending genius.
Legendary guitarist. In my humble opinion he’s one of the top five best of all time
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 !
Just wonderful. He has no peers among guitar players. Nobody sounds like him, writes like him, or performs like him. Nobody attempts to emulate him (at least on stage, some of us try in private, but don't get very far).
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.
..almost un-imaginable: the pleasure one must get from being able to play a guitar this well. As a spectator this is exquisite talent to behold.
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 !
I like Beck's playing the most in this era
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
Sadness overcomes me. There will never be another. Thank you, Jeff.
The most amazing thing about Jeff, was he could tell such a story with his notes. Look at Where were you. Emotion, Angst, and Resolve all in one song.
I have listened to Jeff since the Yardbird days , Remember , " Over under sideways down , The nazz are blue ., He didn't dick around just let it rip and it is really pleasant to know that he is still doing it . God bless you sir , you are a true professional .
Devastated by the news. I was lucky to see him in concert in Dublin back in 2014. I just stood in awe for the whole night, an incredible performance. He was a genius. Rest in Peace Jeff, you’ll never be forgotten 😔🎸🙏🏻
Gone from this earth but will live in our hearts forever ❤
I just cannot believe he’s gone. His music will live on forever.
RIP Jeff Beck. So sad you are gone, you are a guitar legend! 💞
Hello, how are you doing today and the entire family and friends doing today....
This is superb… he was arguably one of the most inventive guitarists in rock, he did seem to really enjoy pushing the creative envelope rather than just relying on a comfort zone style.
There will never ever be another musician whith such and incredible approach to the instrument he plays, and with the capability of taking it two steps beyond. Such wonderful weirdness, such mechanical, physycal knowledge of the guitar, and an intuition paired with such talented musical gift. In a million years, there will be no player to nail Nadia, or Where were yo, or this one. He was way ahead of the curve. Untoucheable. Rest in music, Jeff. And thanks.
One the all-time, genuine, unique guitar heroes.
Okay, I've never heard anything like this before; but then again this is The great Jeff Beck. Superb. I had to listen again just to believe my ears .😢❤.
RIP Jeff so thankful i saw you in concert and you far exceeded expectations - it was a highlight for me that night - you were brilliant -- God bless you Jeff, safe journey to the world we can't see...RIP
I can only write 4 days later (3 days after hearing of Jeff Beck’s passing). It’s such a loss, to music and to mankind. He was an inspiration and an example of how to be. God bless you Jeff Beck ❤🎶 RIP 🎶❤️
Jeff Beck is a GREAT guitarist! 🎸
Peerless IMO
This is the greatest performance on a guitar ever.
One of the best aspects of Jeff is that he gave so many young musicians a start and some limelight to get their careers going. What better resume could you have than;" I played with Jeff Beck".
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.
RIP Jeff. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Almost came to see you and SRV on that tour in the late 80's. Big regret.
I always loved this Beatles song for it's musicality and tempo and thought it was underrated. Jeff Beck proves me right. Brilliant rendition, has me awestruck. RIP Genius.
Jeff Beck is Amazing.... Hes got that funk in his groove!
I've loved this man for 52 years. Not much else lasts that long. He does this song with so much sweetness and emotion it kills me. Long live JB!
R.I.P gone but your awesome solos are still with us and you spirit will remain in rock n roll
Jeff Beck, such a legend ..
Best Beatles cover ever performed, to my ears. (besides Dear Prudence by Siouxie)
The sensitivity and creativity of Jeff Beck and his crew.
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....
i was a bartender at this place back in the day when jeff beck flew into town to play a free concert with this line up the entire place was jumping the air was electrified place was packed way over capacity people were spilling out onto the street the mos eisley cantina would never be the same...
Great memories!
Goodbye Jeff, you were one of a kind. By far!
Greatest living player....see him live at all costs
He is no more 😢
Sorry but Gary Moore is all around best!
Jeff's improvisational skills were off the charts, chain, whatever. What he does at 1:29 shows how deftly he would play in the pocket and produce pearls in a flash. So talented, so unique, and he embodied those qualities until the very end. Jeff Beck's music has been a part of my life for over 40 years, and it will ring in my ears until it's my time--I can think of no better soundtrack. Godspeed, Jeff.
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 TH-cam 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.
RIP legend. It doesn't get any better than this! Unbelievably original!
January 10, 2023, the day the Music died ........ rest in peace Maestro Beck, we will always miss you
Jeff Beck... no other guitar player comes close in this generation. He was the BEST
I strongly urge you to watch Max Ostro “CA house” “Rhumba” “I switched to semi hollow guitars” “waterbear” “JTC sessions” and many more. Him and JB are my 2 favorite guitarists. The guitar is in good hands. There’s even guys like Matteo Mancuso that are also incredible. But Max is magical. There’s a difference.
Guitar god - love this guy - amazing and extremely influential for all modern guitar players. I salute Mr. Beck!
sweet Jesus that's so smooth...magical...totally in the zone
His timing phrasing groove feel taste tone versatility .... he is the ACE since 1962... for many reason he's really one of the greatest electric guitar player ever, probably the number 1
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
The greatest guitarist of all time is Jeff Beck - he should be Sir Jeff Beck. I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life. Sadly. Jeff has left us. Too upsetting for words.
The greatest guitarist, the master....
The Master at work.
RIP Jeff, amazing player, so sad to just hear of your passing.
The best of the best.
I've never hear a guitar player phrase or feel out the interpretation of a song like Jeff is doing here. He just juices every note for what it's worth...and puts it all together in a soulful way. One of my Fav videos of Jeff Beck. Best guitar groove I've heard in my 36 years of listening and playing guitar!
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?
That lick starting around 00:50 is one of my favourite pieces of guitar work ever, masterful
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.
There's two types of Guitarists
Jeff Beck & everyone else!
RIP Legend💔
RIP Jeff, one of the best guitarists to ever exist. Even though it's a sad moment, I'll be happy that I coexisted with this man. RIP and God bless you.
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.
I've seen Jeff Beck at least 7 times. Each group of musicians who played were amazing and Each style Beck played was INCREDIBLE.
SO cool to see footage of him switching back n forth with and without pick...
I think now he never uses a pick. Is this about the time he switched?
RIP JEFF BECK what a musician he was , always will be .
Gav Walsh Cohuna Victoria Australia xxxooo
What an amazing talent. I think he was the best guitar player in the world. this song is a great jam. R.i.p jeff.
I like he switched between pick and fingers without losing a note.
1.3m views should be 1.3 mill likes absolute genius on a guitar
In these times where you can listen to everything everywhere it's not often to get really suprised. But this is one of the best i ever heard
The best IMO.
So expressive, you would have to have that sound in your head first, the way it changes tempo, Jeff finds notes, that kiss the melody and slows it right down. The atmosphere is far greater than the instrument, he is communicating what he is feeling. Masterful
Remember watching this as a spotty teenager, and being blown away. Viewing now, as an old fart, I am still blown away. I think Jeff was a the height of his powers at this point, although I love his playing today. Great quality on the clip. I first saw it in black and white, simpler times....ha!
Such a beautiful song executed to perfection by Mr. Beck, a real joy to listen to.
... I just can’t believe he is gone 😢 never got to see him live or ever meet him in person...just a sad day 😢
Jeff Beck Zappa and JIMMY PAGE.....TOP THREE GUITAR 🎸🎸🎸 GRANDMASTERS OF MY LIFETIME....Beck is just a WIZARD