OT: MGoObituary - Guitar legend Jeff Beck dead at 78
Title says it all, but here's a link if you need it...
January 11th, 2023 at 5:26 PM ^
Merde. Death of a guitar legend. The man could bend the strings and blur his sound with the absolute best of them. Absolutely *crushed it* at Filmore East in 69.
Two time inductee in Rock HOF (Yardbirds and Jeff Beck Group). Truth. Beck-Ola. Blow By Blow.
RIP.
(Edit/add: his band mates (Stewart and Wood) left to join Small Faces. My error and apologies for originally indicating Beck was also in Small Faces).
January 11th, 2023 at 5:39 PM ^
Wasn’t in the Small Faces.
January 11th, 2023 at 5:40 PM ^
Faces (not small) and Yardbirds...
Edit: Actually he was in neither the Faces or the Small Faces...
Double Edit because of Beta edit :)
January 11th, 2023 at 6:13 PM ^
Hey. Old guys sometimes need a few tries remembering stuff correctly through the fog of the 60s and 70s, ya know?
😉
January 11th, 2023 at 6:48 PM ^
Trust me...
January 11th, 2023 at 8:45 PM ^
The Yardbirds.
Beck, Page, Clapton, Topham, et al.
I can't think of another band that had so much influence on a genre that people barely think of.
RIP
January 11th, 2023 at 8:53 PM ^
Beck Ola. What an album.
January 11th, 2023 at 9:53 PM ^
saw him at cobo in the 70's, maybe my second concert ever.
blue wind, free way jam. classics.
January 12th, 2023 at 10:50 PM ^
So you got to see Jeff with Jan Hammer? I always thought the Jan really inspired Jeff (and some vice versa, but Jan did some really great work in the Mahavishnu Orchestra). Great show…
January 11th, 2023 at 6:17 PM ^
I think he was saying that Wood and Stewart left to join the Small Faces.
Wikipedia says:
After Small Faces split, Lane, Jones and McLagan joined forces with two former members of The Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood.[6] along with Art Wood and Kim Gardner to form Quiet Melon. Four singles were recorded before the lineup minus Art and Kim, became Faces
January 12th, 2023 at 8:27 AM ^
If someone who never heard Rock and Roll asked for a definition of what it is. I would play "Stay with Me".
That tune has it all.
January 12th, 2023 at 4:06 PM ^
His face was just too big.
January 11th, 2023 at 5:37 PM ^
He was the best at bringing a jazz sound to his solid underpinnings of rock and blues. He loved hot rods and pretty ladies, too. His 1968 album Truth was probably the inspiration for the sound Led Zeppelin perfected.
January 11th, 2023 at 5:51 PM ^
great point
January 11th, 2023 at 6:05 PM ^
He was very versatile and brilliant in many different genres. He played with everybody - it was always about the music.
Although i had seem him perform live before, my son and I were very lucky to have seen him with a small but excellent group of musicians perform at the Michigan Theater in A2 in 2015. We were a couple of rows from the stage. What a treat.
I'm sad that he is gone.
January 11th, 2023 at 8:57 PM ^
I got to see him during his brief fling with Beck, Bogart, and Appice (a couple of ex-Vanilla Fudge units). They were working a power trio thing, but Beck stood out even in that format.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:25 PM ^
Loved hot rods and pretty ladies you say? What a rare find!
January 11th, 2023 at 11:51 PM ^
It would have been cool if Page invited Beck to join the New Yard Birds leading to Led Zeppelin.
January 12th, 2023 at 12:04 AM ^
I am not sure you could fit all that talent in one group for very long. Whew!
January 11th, 2023 at 5:42 PM ^
a truly unique and talented guitarist - sad. RIP
January 11th, 2023 at 5:47 PM ^
Terrible news. He was one of the greats! RIP
January 12th, 2023 at 1:42 AM ^
I was at this concert. I was most excited to see Jeff Beck and Steve Winwood. This was a great performance.
January 11th, 2023 at 5:57 PM ^
Warm weather, a frisbee, some beer, and Blow By Blow album on the boombox. A nice way to spend an afternoon it was. Another piece of my teenage years gone. RIP
January 11th, 2023 at 5:58 PM ^
Wow. Queuing “Dunkirk” and tipping a glass to him. Thankful for the hours of joy listening to him. Never caught him live. My bad. 78 seems young these days.
January 11th, 2023 at 5:59 PM ^
Dude could shred some guitar strings with the best of them... Beck, Page, Clapton, Hendricks... The 60's had some legends that started a golden age for rock and roll. The 70's followed with a whole slew that carried well into the 80's. Classic rock is still my preferred music of choice.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:03 PM ^
Dammit
RIP
January 11th, 2023 at 6:09 PM ^
I was fortunate to catch him a couple time relatively recently at a small venue in Phx.
Once pre covid and once post. Having seen him twice recently, I opted not to see his last show here this past November - touring with Johnny Depp - who actually joined Beck for encores at both of the previous two shows I attended.
He was fabulous... Such a loss...
Go see these old guys when you get a chance - you never know when they will be gone, and more times than not, they are still really really good.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:19 PM ^
Yep, agreed. I got the chance to see Johnny Winter in a tiny venue shortly before he died. They actually had to help him get into and out of the chair on stage but --- his fingers could still fly and he was still smiling. It was beautiful !
Much different than when he used to smoothly glide around the stage - wearing dark blue with his white hair flowing/glowing in the bright spot lights.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:55 PM ^
Sadly one of the many I was not fortunate enough to see. Or missed when I had the chance more accurately.
I watched a documentary which followed Johnny very late in his career - similar to what you described when you saw him. He was fragile, but as you said, could still bring it!
Rock on brother!
January 11th, 2023 at 7:03 PM ^
I saw Peter Frampton and Steve Miller on Frampton's last tour before he announced he would no longer be touring. They were both amazing, so glad I went. I also saw The Who ten years ago on their Quadrophenia tour, and knew it would be my last time. I couldn't stomach seeing them older than that. A friend saw them recently and said they sounded good but seeing Roger barely able to throw the microphone around 10 years ago was unsettling for me. They were my teen years.
January 11th, 2023 at 10:34 PM ^
Agree, Frampton was fantastic live. Also saw him a number of times over the last five-ish years including his final tour. Great sense of self deprecating humor. Finished the set with I Don’t Need No Doctor and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Which given his health situation was very Frampton.
I also saw the Who Quad tour as well as a few months ago. Rodger sounded better more recently than the Quad tour. Great show, but I actually liked the Quad show better. It’s just such a fantastic album cover to cover. Also loved how they incorporated Keith and John E into the show. They didn’t do that in the recent show.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:16 PM ^
WTF this news has me Over Under Sideways Down!!! Love Jeff Beck. No one can copy the style or sound of Jeff Beck.
Glad I got to see him many times
January 11th, 2023 at 8:53 PM ^
"Where Were You" was truly impossible guitar. RIP
January 11th, 2023 at 6:19 PM ^
A master among guitar masters, I don't think there was anything Jeff Beck couldn't play with those magical fingers.
RIP and thanks for the amazing music.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:20 PM ^
Semi-random, here he is in "Blow Up":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
Lip-synching: Not great. :)
That scene makes sense only as part of the movie.
January 12th, 2023 at 9:52 AM ^
That is a great scene. My recollection is that the director wanted The Who for that scene but due to costs “settled” for the Yardbirds.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:31 PM ^
Never knew who Jeff Beck was until I saw him on Letterman. I became a fan and bought many albums and seen him many times
January 11th, 2023 at 6:36 PM ^
Wasn't he touring with Johnny Depp just recently?
January 11th, 2023 at 6:43 PM ^
Damn that sucks. Loved him in the Yardbirds. He also the album Truth with Rod Stewart is amazing. Basically Zeppelin before Zeppelin. RIP.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:44 PM ^
RIP Mr Beck 🙏🎸
January 11th, 2023 at 6:45 PM ^
More!
January 11th, 2023 at 6:54 PM ^
Wow, this is really hard to believe. One of the all time best, without question. Was lucky enough to see him twice in 95 and 99. It may not be all well known as his other work, but I'll always be partial to the BBA album. Short-lived but man, what a record! Here they are with their version of "Morning Dew" with Jeff playing a Les Paul, no less! He will be greatly missed.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:56 PM ^
Fine, if no one else put it up I will. Look at the line-up, and they weren't even a group.
January 12th, 2023 at 4:48 PM ^
Beck's Bolero, written by.... Jimmy Page. Of course.
January 11th, 2023 at 6:57 PM ^
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There is a great doc. called Still on the Run the Jeff Beck Story
Jeff with Ozzy
Jeff with Jimmy Page
Beck's Bolero into Immigrant Song
what gets me about this video is how well Jeff can make his guitar sound like Robert Plant