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Jeff is definitely my favorite Rest in peace Jeff

I was fortunate enough to see him in Kansas City. MO in 1998. He made my jaw drop. In my humble opinion he is simply the world's greatest guitarist.

@pobinr

2 жыл бұрын

Apart from allan holdsworth

@razeshbudhathoki

2 жыл бұрын

@@pobinr Holdsworth is definitely above all the creature !!

@bbsoni4814

Жыл бұрын

better thhan hendrix, peter green and freddy king? haha

@mj.l

Жыл бұрын

@@bbsoni4814sure

RIP Jeff.. your legacy lives on

@haroldgilbert6707

Жыл бұрын

❤

"Don't touch it!!!" I was just looking at it. . ."Well don't even look at it!"

@3riverclipper853

5 жыл бұрын

Just listen to the sustain, well if it were plugged in you would hear it

@ryanteti4063

4 жыл бұрын

SPINAL TAP

@mj.l

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanteti4063😞

He does stuff no other guitarists will even attempt.Absolute guitar monster.Wired is my favourite of his work.He kills you one note at a time.As Clapton said-“With Jeff,it’s all in the hands”.

That's is correct.JEFF BECK is alone on top of the guitar world!!!!

He is the Guitarman. Commited to his music - and his cars. He is not chasing gold but life!

Mr. Beck; pure genius just like Jimi and EVH. The three of them broke the sound barrier.

Jeff Beck is a true transcendental artist of our time.

@iamanovercomer3253

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

Considering when it was released, Jeff Beck sounds like someone from outer space on Over Under Sideways Down! Awesome, absolutely awesome!

Give it back to Jeff Beck!

JEFF EFFING BECK, humble genius.

I love 2008 youtube. No graphics jumping out of the screen all the time, no explosions, no colorful letters every 5 seconds.

@devs3720

6 жыл бұрын

rafasounds2010 Jesus you are stupid

@rafasounds2010

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong. I'm a genius

@devs3720

6 жыл бұрын

rafasounds2010 You're a moronic shithead over his head.

@rafasounds2010

6 жыл бұрын

That's your problem.

@rafasounds2010

6 жыл бұрын

Of course it is your problem. You are so tough. I'm so offended.... Give me some more of that adolescent internet thing, come on. I'm waiting.

King of the Strat! 🎸🎼🇨🇦

I love it at the end when he is talking about the first time he saw a Strat and held it... That's why he never asked for his old Esquire back. Jeff is very practical and down to earth -- and hilarious. Happy 70th Jeff and a very many more! Blessings

Jeff Beck. Quite simply...a legend.

RIP Jeff ❤😢

What a dude. RIP

He's always been an exceptionally good storyteller! A raconteur!

Beck used a Tone Bender fuzz box with the Yardbirds. He definitely used it on Heart Full of Soul and may well have used it on Over Under Sideways Down.

@christophertodd1980

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely sounds like a Tonebender on Over Under Sideways Down

Jeff introduced himself to me and gave me free tickets to his concerts.

Not a big fan of Jeff Beck, but how uses the tremolo on a strat is incredible. One of the most expressive guitarist I have seen and heard.

It's true that the Stratocaster can do what no other guitar can do. No doubt about it. But having played one for the first time recently, there's a sense that the Esquire can also do what no other guitar can do.

I like the fact that one of the most gifted and respected guitarists of all time still talk about Jimi Hendrix many decades after the man's death. Would have loved to see a Jeff Beck / Jimi Hendrix Co. Concert in the 70's (like one of those Concerts Eric Clapton does nowadays with different people). That could been amazing!

@MyBarkingdog

10 жыл бұрын

The Jeff Beck Group played a week at "The Scene" in NYC in 1968 and after their set, Jimi and Jeff jammed all night. Now that would have been something to see!

@thedmtfp

10 жыл бұрын

that would be epic!

@SoWhat.BigDeal.

6 жыл бұрын

When I saw Jeff Beck and Santana touring together in the '90s, the PA system played nothing but Jimi, both before the show and then between acts. Like you, I loved seeing the respect coming from these guys.

@emosucks31

6 жыл бұрын

There is a bootleg dude

@Djarra

6 жыл бұрын

They also jammed with Eric in London at what was the furniture college students union, the building became apartments and storage for a shoe shop in the mid 90s but the NME put a plaque up.

I swear, Seymour Duncan is like a wizard. He's basically the Merlin of the guitar world; dilly dallying in this and that / making things sound awesome. His pickups are exquisite too.

This is how the 3 way switch works on Esquire- Bridge: bypasses the tone-i.e. the tone knob doesn't work. Middle: connects to the capacitor and the variable resistance-i.e. the tone knob works Neck: connects to the capacitor but bypasses the variable resistance-i.e. the treble is fully cut, tone knob doesn't work.

"Over under sideways down" I had this 45 when I was a little kid. It was Jeff's guitar playin that got me on this song. Loved the Yardbirds!!

"No other guitar does what a strat can do. I think we all agree on that." Jeff Beck. (at the end).

@greyarea1004

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Beck he’s damn riht

@sporkfindus4777

2 жыл бұрын

He's definitely right. The Stratocaster is magical, but I have no idea why. I have a £550 Mexican Strat workhorse that I bought new about 6 years ago and it squeezes expression out of me. I'm not a guitar collector, but I bought a second hand Les Paul gold top last week for £745 and, as beautiful as it is, it does nothing for me. I don't necessarily regret my purchase, but I perhaps should've saved my money, as I already have the guitar that I want and need.

@jeffbeck6501

2 жыл бұрын

@@sporkfindus4777 The LP will be good to play for a while, and then you can sell it when you need the cash. ....but I agree with you. A Les Paul does nothing for me either. HAHAHA I want to play like a wild man, wild and free, while in lock down. Only a Strat will let me roam free on the range. A Les Paul feels like I am stuck in a suit and tie and a desk job. It also feels like it is going to break apart in my hands. Whereas a strat can take everything I can throw at it. And I can throw some stuff at it. I am left handed but play right handed so I can really control those bends like I am in command, and not the Strat. I love my Strat. I have 2 China strats that I play where I live, but in my collection I have old vintage stuff, and I prefer the vintage obviously, but I can get some sounds out of the China strats that I can't quite get out of the vintage, but also, with China strats, I am going direct through a Behingher VAmp3 and it sounds great to me. To me it sounds way better than all my expensive gear in the states. Plus it is way more convenient and way more practical. So yeah, enjoy that LP as a get away, and remember, you can always sell it for more than you paid for it probably, and always have that money sitting there as reserve money.

While I understand what Beck means regarding the Strat, he really did sound his best with a Telecaster/Esquire. I own a variety of guitars, and after you've been around one long enough, you'll realize that there is something very hard to put your finger on in terms of the Tele thing...it's a deceptively simple design with no pretense, yet at the same time, it's sort of at the root of all electric guitars, and capable of almost anything (it jangles, chimes, twangs, fools people into thinking they are hearing a vintage Les Paul solo, and can do a top-notch jazz tone). While my Strat is more complex in design with its 5-way switch, in contrast, it is five of the same sounds, while the Tele is 3 radically different sounds.

@richardtoy1600

8 жыл бұрын

+d'Etroit Ultramann A Tele keeps you honest.

@mooniejohnson

8 жыл бұрын

+d'Etroit Ultramann A tele only puts out what you put into it and you have to fight the bastards sometimes, but damned if it isn't the most inspiring thing.

@j_freed

7 жыл бұрын

I have one Tele after years of Strats + one good Gibson - the thing still scares me with what comes out of it, almost unbidden. But that bassy 3rd position is the one I can least deal with even having the well-made Lollar pickups.

@rhainellis531

7 жыл бұрын

In the strats defence, the 5 pickup positions are very different, and the Tele certainly can't reproduce the middle/neck position sound of a good strat

@The-Contractor

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm sure you are on par with Beck and so your opinion will go where it belongs, down the shitter.

All this talk about guitars is making me very happy. Thanks for posting!

WHAT a great interview and what a great bloke(still)- cant believe how good jeff looks still and he's gotta be 60 or over now- amazing, thanks a million for putting this on here

@iamanovercomer3253

4 жыл бұрын

75 now ❗🎸🎵🎶

I agree with that, love you Jeff!!!!

The Beck interview when he gets to the part about realizing he just traded away all that history and all of his heart just killed me..., Seymour ..., trade it back brother.

Jeff Beck always seems to be so cool and good natured. 👍🏻

I read somewhere that Jeff Beck gave Jimmy Page a Tele that he used for the guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven. It seems Jeff has been around a lot of famous teles.

@Sam-hm8wj

6 жыл бұрын

John B Jimmy used a tele throughout his time with the yardbirds and into led Zeppelin using it on the first album and parts of the second as well as on the stairway solo

@noname.___

4 жыл бұрын

@Yeah Whatever lots of people actually smh

@johnhulsker9123

3 жыл бұрын

What is this fascination with particular guitars? They are very basic instruments, it's the hands doing all of the work,

@mj.l

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhulsker9123not a guitar player huh?

Finally saw Beck in Toronto back on August 1st. .... He was ALWAYS at the very top of my Bucket List. --- but I have NO IDEA what's "No. One" on the list now.

I have all the Arbors records, and have been a big fan of the Arbors for many years… 👍🏻

Saw him with my dad in the 90s. I have never before or since seeing anybody who was even remotely as good as him

Quite simply the best guitarist of my generation...!

Yeah! Bring on the music mr. Beck!

'Over, Under, Sideways, Down' by the Yardbirds.

Could listen to him for hours ...

The subtitles are hilarious! 😂

nice touch with that fender relic hotel room...

I got to see this at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So badass

Most Underrated Guitarist EVER!!!

Agree , Fender 🇺🇸 strat 🎸 & Jeff Beck 👍

I don't get it, in several interviews Jeff said that he got the Tele-Gib from Seymour Duncan and was so impressed with it that he shipped his Esquire, a sunburst Strat and his Oxblood Les Paul to him and told him "Take your pick and fix the other two up." And now he tells how Duncan proposed a trade.

@Head318Hunter

3 жыл бұрын

Mandela Effect

Greatest guitarist ever!!!

@hesch-tag

6 жыл бұрын

Alabaster Smidge after Jimi.

@lifegoeson2422

6 жыл бұрын

Hessel van der Wal Bwahahahaha

@hesch-tag

6 жыл бұрын

Joey Nash looks really educated.

@lifegoeson2422

6 жыл бұрын

Hessel van der Wal As Marty Friedman once said. I'd rather chew broken fucking glass then listen to Hendrix

@hesch-tag

6 жыл бұрын

Joey Nash bon appetit.

I don't know why so many people are concerned about Beck trading his guitar - Jeff doesn't seem unhappy about it. Look at it this way: Beck used his guitar to make great music. Duncan used that same guitar to help make better pickups for all the rest of us. In a way Seymour Duncan helped all of us simple guitar players channel a tiny bit of Jeff Beck.

@davidwatkins204

5 жыл бұрын

Jeff plays like a concert violinist

@danielstoddart

2 жыл бұрын

People forget that when Beck traded the Esquire to Seymour Duncan, there was *no* vintage market for guitars. It simply didn't exist yet in 1974. Guitarists didn't favor a guitar just because it was a little banged up. In 1974 what we now call vintage Fenders were less than 20 years old.

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff Beck didn't just pull new tricks out of his bag. . He invented a WHOLE NEW BAG and then pulled tricks out of the new bag!

Brilliant Guitarist

Ultimate guitar genius, no arguments

WHAT IS THAT SONG at the BEGINNING?? I LOVE IT!

@noname.___

4 жыл бұрын

Over under sideways down by the yardbirds

That has got to be the coolest looking Tele I've ever seen!

im a fan or the worn guitars, their really comfortable and sound great

I'm sure someone will correct me or have a go at me for saying it, but Jeff Beck always comes across as a really nice guy in interviews :)

@nyg1954

5 жыл бұрын

He really seems to have mellowed over the years.

esquires are awesome!

That guitar kicks ass!

Yeah the telecaster has some mystery to it,,but everyone talks about the strat. I've had a couple strats, one was a great funk guitar, along w a Halifax Les Paul, and the other strat had a decent tremolo arm, have a little fun w that. I always liked a Gibson Les Paul, had one like Becks on the cover of blow by blow, come to think of it that's probably why I bought it. I almost had a black Telecaster w a whammy bar, but it got sold from underneath me, really wanted that one. Jeff did as much for the strat as Jimi, but both w different styles. Amazing how they were all around one another, could probably play one another's solos , but did their own thing and prevailed. Jeff broke it w blow by blow, wired, still classics today, those guitar sounds and Jan hammer, doesn't get much better.

i`ve got 4th row seats next month in Sydney,still time for you to get here.

Join the Jeff Beck Appreciation Society on Yahoo Groups for info. Touring "down under" in 2009!

The best guitarrist of all the time...was a genius!!

😢😢😢❤❤❤ from Texas rip

@OsvaldoPaese Well said Sir!

Jeff is 1st to Me.. Earthly Work finished.. He play for the Audience and Cohorts .and the Money followed..oh he had fun too..

In 2005-6 in seen one of Jeff Becks either it 59. Telecaster Framed glass case Hanging on wall in Scottsdale Az.with Documention.price @ $42,000.00. The owner of store was the lead guitarist for Blackfoot. If only that Lottery Ticket was magic ticket.. guess we can Dream can't we.

Jeff played a Tele at the Secret Policeman's Other Ball in '81 and never sounded better.

@pabloperez4063

5 жыл бұрын

agree! never!!!

Makes perfect sense. Jeff has for a very long time been involved with Seymour Duncan.

yardbirds with jeff beck= f*cking rad.

no gear can make you play better or sound better then just make you sound different, sounding better or worse is completely subjective.

A lot of fans have made home-made replicas of Jeff’s fender Esquire .

Pos. 1 (closest to the bridge) Pickup wired to the volume control then straight to the jack. Middle Pos. Same as 1 but with the tone control also in the circut. Pos. 3 (closest to the neck) Pickup wired with a pre-set bassy sound like the sound of the tone control all the way down.

Absolutely, completely, 1000% true, imo.

I especially like the part right around 2:33 when the actual bloody INTERVIEW commences

I went for dinner with Jeff once and the whole topic of conversation was Hot Rods and cars! We didnt even mention guitars once!!

@Spartacus103uk exactly man!!

Listen to the part when he talks about the Blow by Blow sessions.

@JoyDivison92 i was lucky enough to play one of those guitars (Jeff beck tribute esquire, a collector friend of mine got it and called me up) i gotta say that this thing just reminded me about how much better, in my opinion anyway, the esquire is. this guitar, despite all the dings and wear marks, plays phenomenally. but the price tag is outrageous. cant argue with anyone on that.

@Abelle92 The Esquire only had one pick up at the bridge whist the Telecaster had 2 stes of pickups.

In response to Dogcatchersband in much older comments below ... Yeah I have a 2011 AVRI '52 Tele and if I want that 60's JB Heart Full Of Soul tone I use a Williams Vintage Tone MkI Fuzz box . Are relic Custom Shop guitars over priced? Yeah probably , but if I could afford one I would have one !

very fine talking jeff

Even Jeff's wall has received the RELIC treatment! Very interesting clip.

Rock In Peace 💪

50+ years of clubs/bars/stage playing :P

He said the only time he tours is to finance his next car creation! tongue in cheek probably! I said to him 'dont you worry about your fingers while doing all that welding and machine work' He just shrugged with a grin.

At 2:05 you can see - with the pickguard removed - the difference in color. It's fairly blonde being protected underneath the 'guard.

Buy a bullet telecaster for $119 and leave it outside for a year. Six months if you live in LA. Instant relic.

Jeff--the greatest living blues rock guitarist--offers what I think is a backhanded compliment to Jimi Hendrix, implying his act was just a showier version of all the stuff Jeff was already doing, yet I don't find enough musical evidence to really support this--and I've been buying Yardbirds releases both studio and live, official and bootleg for close to 40 years so I'm not new to Jeff's playing. I think he never got over Jimi's devastating effect on the music scene & status as guitar God #1.

@carolinelabe3542

Ай бұрын

In one interview, Beck compares the differences between post-war UK and US cultures to mirror the difference in his and Hendrix guitar styles. Beck infers growing up in the English class system minimized his confidence while Hendrix displayed uninhibited US no social restrictions exuberance.

RIP Jeff Beck 1944 - 2023

Well, their doesn't seem to be any artist here, shame. If you have ever played guitar, and felt the weight around your neck after awhile, it's uncomfortable. strats are a very light guitar, this beauty is hollow, and weightlessm and is a remarkable work of art and a wonderful tribute to the genius Jeff Beck, who has helped Fender sell a multitude of merchendise. Not to mention are completely blown away by his talent,! Those cars, and guitars are hand made. yes, ARTISTS

Love the ascott.

At 4:40 he mimes playing a guitar...left-handed. Probably played both ways. RIP Jeff Beck🎼

@Everywhere404 What's really funny is the Guitar Center near me has a couple of road worn/relic/whatever things, and they hang them way up on the wall out of reach unless you have assistance. I guess they don't want them getting "damaged".

@marshallkiller you mean over under sideways down by the yardbirds??

@Abelle92 this particular model is a recreation of Jeff Beck's famous Esquire, someone had sanded the body down to mimic a Strat's contour before Jeff Back acquired it. Now you know the whole story... and don't worry, you're not one of those who look like they know something about playin... ;-)

Peace be to you.

Hey Look, it's Seymour Duncan fiddling with the camera... He actually owns this guitar. It's what his Vintage Telecaster bridge pickups are baded on... I'm kinda confused as to why an Esquire has a control plate with a switch unless it's a phase switch or something... Any gearheads have any insight? I'll do some research to see what's up...