Madison Square Garden - 2016/07/22
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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Amen!
Rest In Peace.
Oh wow! One of the greatest! Now we have to go listen to Jeff Beck music for the remainder of the evening. He could literally make your jaw drop at his amazing talent!
Weren’t Clapton and Beck together with the Yardbirds for a time?
Jeff Beck was 78?
oh man...
RIP
Beck died from bacterial meningitis
Someone posted above that he and Page played together in the band for a few months.. not sure about Clapton.
All the rock musicians I grew up with are getting dead, dead, dead.
Everybody is dying. When will the madness stop?
“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...”
I saw Jeff using feedback with the Yardbirds - placing his guitar against the amp and then sitting down on stage and letting it howl. This was pretty radical for the period.
Hendrix and the Who did similar things and may have done it earlier. Jeff certainly was an aggressive and creative guitar player. He was like an oak tree and just got better with age. Few musicians do that.
Legend. RIP.
Finding out the ages of these great musicians as they pass is making me feel old! This is the music I listened to from my teens onward.
RIP. His influence will live on.
My favorite fusion guitarist. My favorite ablums, Blow by Blow, Wired, and There and Back. RIP.
He picked with his thumb - I wonder if he always did that.
I didn’t know he was unrecognized. I know little about guitarists, but everytime “the best” comes up, I do hear his name. Maybe it is just me-is he indeed obscure to the “general music public”?
That said, this is indeed a biggie. May he RIP. With luck, he will get a guitar instead of a harp, but...that will be interesting no matter if we are lucky enough to get there.
Imagine him playing a harp? Hahaha, pick it up and hold it sideways! Well, he brought lots of people music that they liked.
I guess this is not good day to be named “Beck”.
Sorry; I posted the same story after doing a search that yielded no results.
Also sorry about Jeff. One of my favorites. Put on a great live show, too.
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