It's too hard to say adieu Jeff...
So lets just say hors D'oeuvre.
Posted on 01/11/2023 2:14:00 PM PST by Drew68
Edited on 01/11/2023 10:05:37 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Jeff Beck, among the most innovative and certainly the most unpredictable of ’60s guitar heroes, has died. He was 78.
A fleet, imaginative soloist, Beck brought formidable instrumental firepower to British band the Yardbirds, which he joined in 1965 as a replacement for Eric Clapton. Entirely at home with the group’s blues roots, he burnished their pop hits with an adventurous and virtually unprecedented use of feedback, sustain and fuzz.
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Reading the well-written article is more fun than listening to Beck’s music. Sad how the brilliant Beck was “afflicted with tinnitus.” Ear protection should be worn by every worker and fan in the rock industry, just as they do in the lumber industry.
RIP.
now this guy was an innovator...doing the feed back/distortion/dive bomb thing way before Hendrix and Page and Clapton etc.....r.i.p...
This death really hurts. Jeff was quite a creative guitarist who continued to get better and better with age. He always appeared to be in such good shape based on concert photos and videos. So this is a shocker to me.
I saw Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page together with the Yardbirds. The YB only gigged with that dueling lead configuration for a few months.
Jeff was a pioneer and will be sorely missed. RIP.
It is the passing of an era as all the greats will be leaving —in turn all the listeners and fans will also be leaving this mortal plane too
Freeway Jam, and I’m Going Down amongst my favorites. Blow by Blow was a pretty good LP. Maybe a top 5 all-time guitarist, but in general he was not my preferred style of music.
It's too hard to say adieu Jeff...
So lets just say hors D'oeuvre.
I was just reading earlier today that Jeff Beck played on Stevie Wonder’s album that included the song “Superstitious”, which I did not previously know.
Which sort of ties into the fact that Beck got a fairly big hit from a cover of Wonder’s “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers.”
Turns out that Wonder was going to give Beck “Superstition”, but Motown told him “No”, because they could see it was going to be a big hit, and they didn’t want to give it away, so Wonder gave him “Cause we’ve Ended as Lovers”, and Beck did “Superstition” on a subsequent album.
And i think he wanted it that way.
I saw him at the Ronnie Lane Appeal for ARMS Concert in 1983 at Madison Square Garden- Beck was fantastic and everyone was hyping it as the start of his grand comeback. He then went back into seclusion once the tour ended rather than capitalizing on it.
What the F#$%. Big Beck fan since forever. Wow. RIP you will be missed. Beck’s Bolero
One of the greatest of all time.
Yep. The next decade is going to take out about 95% of these 1960s rockstars still left. They’ll be dropping like flies.
We’ll be left with Keith Richards, David Crosby, Grace Slick, and Ozzy. The ones who embraced good health and sobriety.
Truth is still one of my favorite albums.
Dang
RIP
Oh, no!
Yes. We all need to start thinking about what sort of world we are going to be leaving Keith Richards...
one of the greatest!
I saw all three in a concert in the early 80’s. They played separately and then together. Jeff Beck was clearly a class above.
Our childhood heroes are getting old.
RIP Jeff Beck.
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