I love that Joe wears his heart on his sleeve when it comes to every one of his guitar influences and heroes. Good dude.. Thanks Joe. 😊

When I first saw Jeff Beck in 1964 in a band called The Tridents playing at Eel Pie Island, he was playing a beaten up Telecaster.

@MarkChocolate

2 ай бұрын

Damn! You saw him LIVE, in ‘64!? You lucky sunuvagun! That’s amazing! What a memory to have. God bless you.👍🏽🎸

@boxyboy46

2 ай бұрын

@@MarkChocolate We saw Jeff in The Tridents a few times at Eel Pie Island. I recall Jeffrey usually looked somewhat "out of it" on stage. Perhaps he was bored or maybe it was down to him puffing weed. It was clear he was a terrific player though, even then. I also have an interesting anecdote involving Jimmy Page and Jeff if you are interested.

@MarkChocolate

2 ай бұрын

@@boxyboy46 Jeff could not hide his “boredom”, if he wasn’t feeling excited by the music, if he felt it gone stale for him. So to speak. A Jeff & Jimmy anecdote…do tell.👂🏽

@boxyboy46

2 ай бұрын

@@MarkChocolate Well, in 1965 I was in a local 5 piece band [west London] playing bluesy rock stuff just like all the other groups around at that time. We called ourselves Nite-Sect. I was 18 at the time and I was going out with a girl named Melody. One evening I'm walking Mel home when she said, "I'll bring my cousin Jimmy down to hear your band." I said, ''sure, why not...who's your cousin Jimmy anyway?" "Jimmy Page" she replied. "Whooooa, Jimmy Page the session guitarist?" I'd been seeing Melody for about 9 months at this point and she never mentioned this before??! So we booked a small function room upstairs at a pub next to the railway crossing gates on the Bedfont Lane in Feltham. It was called The Railway Tavern. Not there now. The bastards pulled it down to build a block of flats. How dare they! On this Saturday afternoon we loaded our gear up into this room, set up, and in walked Melody with cousin Jimmy. He was a good looking dude then. Clapton had recently left the Yardbirds and he said they had asked him to join. He turned it down saying he was earning good money playing on so many sessions in London studios, and his previous experience of being on the road with Neil Christian had laid him low with glandular fever. Jim said he had recommended Jeff as they were friends since their art college days. He told us Jeff could be a little "vague" sometimes. Jim said he had given Jeff a pair of shoes, and when he saw him a week or so later and asked how the shoes fit, Jeff said he had lost one of them. "Who loses one shoe?" Jim said. We played a few numbers and Jim said he liked the band [being polite no doubt] and he had just returned from a trip to LA [he was romancing Jackie de Shannon at the time] and there was a band who played a residency at Ciro's nightclub. Jim said they weren't that good as a live band, but they had a sound which he thought was going to be big. He said they are called The Byrds. Sadly, he didn't spell it for me. He gave us 3 songs for us to learn and he would get us a deal on Decca as he was tight with the A&R man there. The songs were, Bells of Rhymney by Pete Seeger, and Tambourine Man and All I really Wanna Do both by Dylan. I went to my local store that sold mostly vacuum cleaners, TV sets and washing machines but also had a booth selling records. Looking at release info, she could find none of the songs mentioned but there was a British band at the time called The Birds [Ronnie Wood et al] and they had a record out called Leaving Here. I ordered that record and got on a bus into Hounslow to a shop called Bell Music that sold sheet music. I found the sheet for All I Really Wanna Do, so we learned that Dylan song but in the style of Ronnie Wood and his pals. It was rather heavy. We booked the room over the pub again and Jimmy came down to hear us play this abomination. "No, it goes like this" said Jimmy picking up my guitar. I showed him the record I had bought by The Birds. Jim said "no, it's spelled with a Y. I have never punched a rock legend in the mouth but it came pretty close that day. Anyway, Tambourine Man by the Byrds flew into the charts in no time so our chance for stardom was gone. A few personnel changes and 3 years later we did get a couple of record releases but they flopped miserably. I wrote and recorded a song about this incident. It's called Tavern Blues. Get onto my channel at boxyboy46 and have a listen if you fancy it. Turn the volume right up.

@MarkChocolate

2 ай бұрын

@@boxyboy46 Wow! That’s a GREAT little story, to call your own. Your recall for detail is impressive. It put me right there “in the room”, as they say. Thank you so much, for sharing that story w/me. I appreciate it. And yes, I will definitely give a listen to the track. Thanks again for sharing this. Be well, and God bless. Cheers!🍻

I know many people talk about the Beano album as the as the seminal Les Paul thru a Marshall moment but for me it was Jeff Beck and the Truth album that got me hooked.

Jeff always knew how to surprise, and always left you wanting more.

I always thought Jeff Beck's brain had to wired different than everybody else, to come up with the riffs and phrases that he played. He was the first rock guitarist (to my ears) to have a very distinct human voice element to his playing. The call and response between himself and Rod on the Truth album was something I'd never heard on record before, either. Always loved his playing.

@davidrpriest

2 ай бұрын

He couldn't sing but vocalized with the guitar.

Joe can bring a smile to my face with just a handful of notes.

@gary6449

2 ай бұрын

The thing is.. Joe knows for a FACT - that he is "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" !

Jeff Beck's spirit lives on. Any time you hear someone taking it to the next level on an electric guitar, the spirit of Jeff Beck is there!

And to think he was doing it all decades ago… he use to come the the Montreal Jazz Festival, there’s stories of him meeting drummers and them hanging out for days comparing notes on the different worlds of music they’re in. Down to earth guy like no other.

For me it was Blow by Blow. I was probably not even 10 years old when I bought that album, listened to it over and over again. Probably the first album I ever bought.

@easter_sunday

2 ай бұрын

That is the seminal guitar instrumental album.

@289hipo

2 ай бұрын

I was 16 when my brother & I got it, we wore it out. To me it had the most unique and original guitar work there was, has kept itself in the top 10 forty-eight years later

@MrRoundwound

2 ай бұрын

That wick little run on she’s a woman. He was the heads above

@johnnymossville

2 ай бұрын

@@289hipo so coo!! I imagine it had the same effect on you as it did me. Incredible and unique album and player. I was a band geek kid and my teacher was a jazz guy. I think beck crossed over into jazz, rock fusion, which probably appealed to me at the time. Still does.

Jeff was, and arguably is the best guitar player, overall, ever. RIP Jeff.

Big respect for Joe as you will be hard pressed to find a more humble and kind person in the music industry! He truly is a fan of his instrument and always shows reverence for those who we all listen to as our musical hero’s ! He’s a great resource for learning the history of the instrument for me! I really appreciate the way he’s kept the Blues players from Europe in his videos and playing ! He’s a goldmine wealth of knowledge and a young player could benefit so much just listening to him play and teach history of the guitar! He has always kept this child like and true fan appreciation for all the great players and he’s never lost it no matter how successful he becomes ! A true gentleman and I can’t express how much his pod cast and lessons mean to me! He’s so busy and he still finds the time to pay respect to all the cats I’ve loved since the music bug bit me in the early 60s! The guitar community appreciates you more than you will ever know ! Jimmy Peter Rory Eric Paul Gary and Jeff plus many others do as well. A great person well beyond his life as a player ! A true ambassador for the guitar!Thank you!

The solos on "Evil-Hearted You" and "Mister, You're A Better Man Than I" on "Having a Rave Up! with the Yardbirds" are still some of the most expressive and searingly lyrical electric guitars solos ever recorded. They moved me when I was eight in 1966 and they still get me.

Bravo for tributes to Legends of guitar, including you, exuding hearts & soul through playing these incredible instruments as you do; it’s a language mastered through strings. Thank you for sharing and love the ‘ole Rock & Roll and Blues that you share with us. Would have loved to see You & Jeff Beck play together! Thank you! Keep it rollin’!

Beck, Page, Hendrix, and EVH all expanded the possibilities of what the guitar could be, each in a different and wondrous way, capturing my attention and inspiring me. The first time I heard Beck, I couldn't believe I was hearing a guitar. What a genius!

@ianthomas4568

2 ай бұрын

Page was a songwriter first and a guitarist second!

@picksalot1

2 ай бұрын

@@ianthomas4568"In the late 1960s and throughout the Seventies, Jimmy Page helped shape and define the future of rock & roll with his work in the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. However, in the years prior, he’d already made an immeasurable impact on the sound of popular music by way of the hundreds and perhaps even thousands of recording sessions he sat in on as an anonymous face in the many studios that dotted London at the time." Rolling Stone

@robb4340

2 ай бұрын

Very Well Said

@kevinlentz7604

2 ай бұрын

Hendrix ,Beck,Page,and Johnny Winters for me

joe is dead on about the Blues deluxe solo, its like jeff saying let me take a solo that is not a blues solo and turn into a blues solo, pure brilliance

Hendrix, Beck, Van Halen. Top 3 imo when it comes to uniqueness, imagination , creativity, emotion and down right bad ass musical attitude.

@williamsporing1500

2 ай бұрын

Alan holdsworth, Beck, Hendrix

@surfcollector

2 ай бұрын

Imagination and creativity = Alex Lifeson. Think of all the crazy Rush riffs. Eddie was great but he was kinda a one trick pony. No disrespect but he was pretty middle of the road. Caress of Steel, 2112,and Hemispheres alone qualify Alex as one of the most creative players we’ve had.

@spitfireaace

2 ай бұрын

@@surfcollector Lifeson is a great player but he never inspired me as much. That's not to say that some people aren't inspired by him, it's to each their own.

@stevends3865

2 ай бұрын

I get it everybody achieves legendary status after they're dead. None of them has Pages level of talent. Jimmy Page wrote more legendary songs than all three combined. His library of songs is the most taught and advised teaching. Here come the dragon slayers.

@paulbuxton1326

2 ай бұрын

Check Jan Ackerman 🎼to

Growing up in the 60s hearing songs like Shapes Of Things and Over Under Sideways Down made me sit up because I’d never heard a guitar sound like that . There was a gap when I didn’t really hear Jeff particularly the Jeff Beck Group era on the radio but when Beck Bogert and Appice and Blow By Blow came out then that was a whole new ball game . Never missed a show in Scotland from BBA onwards until the last tour with Depp . Someone once described Jeff as the greatest off the wall guitarist and that’ll do for me .

I saw Jeff Beck play the Brighton Centre Sussex a few years ago. The man had so much soul, from Celtic ('Mná na h-Éireann') to opera, ('Nessun Dorma') jazz and rock. One of the best gigs I've been to, a mesmerising player.

You wear it well Joe. He'd be very proud.

Great reflection on the late great Jeff Beck. He was on a massive musical mountain of his own, throughout entire career. Four Jeff Beck concerts experienced between '89 through 2006 were outstanding. Magical, beyond inspirational. When "Wired" was released in the '70s, that was one LP couldn't stop playing for quite some time. One of my personal favs.

@alanmiller2250

2 ай бұрын

A couple times he always plays like a saxophone to me, but i forgot the songs. I used to listen to that and realize how far ahead he was, what a fantastic style of all styles. It was swelling the volume in the highest register, like he always does.

As always, sounds amazing ‼️🔥

The first time heard Jeff Beck was with The Yardbirds..I was awestruck how does he make those sounds ?!!! I followed his career and couldn't believe he was just relentless in his quest to new horizons...and then when I saw him open up for SRV..before SRV passed away I felt finally 🙏 I can go to sleep 😴 tonight..his band was amazing..but then tragically SRV passed away shortly after the concert..heartbreaking. Thank you for this post. It was greatly appreciated appreciated.

Thank you Joe for educating us once again....always a joy

Spot on Joe. I had a similar epiphany when I first saw Jeff in The Yardbirds here in the UK. Later, my band, Sugarcane, played support to The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass. To watch Jeff from the wings was just amazing. I've loved, and been influenced by, his work all my life. His death was such a tragedy. He had bacterial meningitis, which is curable if diagnosed quickly, and intravenous antibiotics given immediately. I contracted it in my forties and very nearly died, but for the quick intervention by a second doctor at the hospital.

My Fender Olympic White USA Jeff Beck Strat is the best Strat I have ever had or even played. It is just an off the GC wall Sig. but damn that thing is incredible. I remember Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart put out a song and Beck had this MONSTER tone it is awesome.

@bryanmchugh1307

2 ай бұрын

The ONE THING that got through QC is that the roller nut was basically only in 20 percent of the shelf cut for it. I wanted to take pics and send them to Fender but my local superhuman guitar tech had the roller nut completely and correctly installed. Regardless, it is STILL a $2,000 guitar and that kind of QC slop near had me return the entire guitar.

Heart Full of Soul knocked me out as a 15-year-old budding guitar player that tone and feel!

There's a lot of guys like Jeff Keith Richards Eric Clapton on Jimmy Page I can go on that we really need to embrace these guys while we still have them because you will miss them terribly when they're gone

I dig Joe's commitment to educating the next generation of players on what he's gathered. We'll make a point of making a show next cycle through. Thanks Joe.

Thank you.

loved the jeff beck group. people forget about max middleton and jeff together.

@Notes-From-Underground66

2 ай бұрын

Max Middleton never has received the credit he deserved. He was great playing in the JBG2. It was his idea to play one slide guitar against another overdubbed slide guitar on the song “Definitely Maybe”. Max was not a “flash” keyboard player like Jan Hammer or Tony Hymas. He was a rock solid Fender Rhoads player mostly that played around the cords of the song. He was also a great songwriter. He played on the entire “Blow By Blow” album (Stevie Wonder played a Clavinet on “Thelonius” uncredited). Max and Jeff co-wrote or Max alone wrote most of the songs on that Platinum selling masterpiece. He played on a few songs on Wired also. He helped Jeff with bringing Jeff’s rock/fusion ideas that were in his head on to the fretboard. “Blow By Blow”would have been a different sounding album if Max was not the keyboard player!

Thanks Joe. You have great stories.

@MichaelVulcano-vo4hh

2 ай бұрын

What amp.did you use for this video? 3:33 3:33

I was 22 when I first saw Mr Beck, touring with BBA. So blessed because the trio format gave Jeff so much space to move around and cover hits from the mid sixties, his first two albums and some Detroit rock staples. I was in the first row and could savor every flash move. Nobody ever did flash guitar better than Beck

The Truth album. That opening riff you played grabbed me and 50 years later I cannot find a sound like that because it is Beck. Rod wasn't too shabby either. Thanks Joe. Ciao.

@spitfireaace

2 ай бұрын

"Ain't Superstitious". I saw Rod last July and he didn't once mention Jeff. I would have thought one song for the remembrance of someone who really helped start his career. Once Rod hit the disco era I stopped listening to him.

Tank you so much , it as taken time to digest the loss😢

Great tribute to my favorite guitarist. A lot of people only associate Beck with the Strat but he was a Les Paul player up until and including Blow By Blow.

Its often said that guitarists are one with their instrument. In Jeff Becks case it really was true.

One day Joe, I would love to see you play all of the Truth album. In my view the best album ever made.

Fabulous.

Beck is the greatest in my life time.

Every electric guitarist of the blues, rock, fusion and “oddity” genres at the very minimum respects Jeff Beck…..and probably the overwhelming majority gyrate in joyous smiles and laughter when we hear him play….i know I do and I know I have heard so many things he did and loved it all.

He was amazing. I still love his playing on, "People Get Ready" with Rod Stewart. Fantastic tone!

@princebonnie1357

2 ай бұрын

Jeff's playing makes that cover version a treat to listen to.

Diamond Dust is still my pick as Beck's pinnacle, but that was my era. First time I heard him though was OUSD. That rave-up in the outro, just 1 note, was a watershed moment for us aspiring guitarists. Thanks Joe!!

Thanks, Joe. That great big tone. Jeff didnt play guitar, he played music. Such original playing and composing. My favorite after Jimi.

My first intro to Beck had to be either Freeway Jam, or Blue Wind, both by hearing them on the radio. Got to see him live in "98" with Jennifer Batten, great show!

You sir, are right up there with Jeff Beck, BB KING, Muddy Waters and any other GREAT guitarist of the last 100 yrs...

Joe is just one cool dude. Would just love to sit down and yak with him about all this music stuff. Seems like a down to earth cool Joe.

What I liked best about him came from an interview where he said that he gets bored easily. You never knew what he was going to do next. I do wish he had played a bit with Danny Gatton. And Prince...

blow by blow blew my head off when it came out, you young bucks should check it out, very innovative back then

Jo Bonamassa - you are such a fantastic player - but I respect you more that you give appropriate credit to Jeff Beck!

Well said … i never thought was possible a world without BBKing and Jeff Beck … and here we are …

First I heard Beck was Blow by Blow. Completely blown away. I was 14. I listened to that record non-stop for a year. I completely couldn’t understand it.

Jeff is Jeff….. from Truth to last album. Diego Velazquez and Titian were are and will always be the Painter’s Painter. Jeff is the Guitar Hero’s Guitar Hero !

I'm always down for talking about Jeff Beck.

Good call Joe, we should talk about Jeff Beck.

Great shit

It is silly to try to compare artists or to try to say one is better than the other. But I will say that of the great triumvirate of Clapton, Page and Beck, Beck was always my favorite. I was fortunate enough to see him once and he was spectacular. It was back around 2018 or so. At that point he was playing Strats and he had stopped using a pick, preferring to play with his fingers. He had an amazing ability to coax all kinds of sounds out of his instrument.

Jeff was a once in a lifetime guitarist and musician.

You rock Joe, and you roll. Student of all things Guitar

A unique talent who never stopped pushing boundaries. Like Miles. Like Prince.

Still have my copy of “Truth” record in 1966 and 1968 and released in 1968. Brilliant LP. Personnel include Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood (bass), and Mickey Waller (drums). Also credited on the album are John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins, and Keith Moon. Amongst the uncredited is some chap called Jimmy Page, plus Madeline Bell, John Carter, Ken Lewis, and Aynsley Dunbar. Worth a listen if you haven’t heard it..

To me, Blow by Blow was the Jeff Beck album on which he established a style that was his signature “sound / method / tone / feel” that was recognizable to the end. Even though the album was recorded in Beck’s Les Paul days it was still connected to his playing after he switched to Stratocasters. His playing was recognizable among a thousand guitarists and was always interesting to hear and watch.

With all the respect to joe bonamassa he is a great player.but jeff beck was a legend and we lost a great guitarist .his music will live forever .🌹⚘⚘⚘🌹🙏🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍🌹🎸❤❤❤

@SixStringSicario

2 ай бұрын

Just say Jeff Beck was a legend and will live forever. That’s all. That’s it.

If I’m not mistakened early on he played a telecaster with humbuckers. Those pickups were supplied by Seymour Duncan himself, and were prototypes to what would eventually become the JB/Jazz set, one of the most iconic replacement pickups ever.

Truth was the first time I heard him

I once heard jeffs voice on his insturment described as angry. Im not saying it but it rings true to my ear most of the time

The FIRST time I saw Jeff Beck live was when The Yardbirds played the Alexandria Roller Rink, Alexandria, Virginia, December 23, 1965. WEAM(Am Radio) Holiday a Go-Go Show and Dance. Admission: $2.50. He was playing THAT legendary Esquire that everyone knows by now. My high school band, The Beau Street Runners, Franconia, Virginia, also played and was put on the printed playbill, that I still have to this day hanging on the wall of my home studio. Opening headliner was The Shangri-Las. The LAST time I saw him was September 21, 2019 at the Paramount Theater, Austin, Texas.

For me Jeff will always be The Governor. I had the privilege of seeing 2 of his concerts. What he could do on a guitar, no-one else could. It’s an old cliche ‘making a guitar sing’, but Jeff really could.

Saw Jeff Beck about 5 years ago and he played the same white Stratocaster all night which he apparently never had to tune. No pick - nothing but fingers. Kept his pinky on the whammy the entire time he played. Not what I expected but there ya go.

For me it was Having A Rave up & 'Jeff's Boogie'. I worked so hard as a 15 year old kid to learn that one. Rode his coattails ever since.

@noahjuan2234

Ай бұрын

Me too! Too bad KZread wasn't around then, it would have saved me a lot of frustration!

Amen

I liked the live stuff Jeff did with SRV but Jeff had countless awesome songs

Ok then say it ain't so Joe say it ain't so? Am I the only one left it seems so say it ain't so better let it go ripping up and down looking all around say it ain't so better let it go. Damn good to see ya back in the saddle. Well done. Peace 😎 ✌️ from Canada, eh.

"TRUTH"!!

It’s strange, I never got much out of Jeff’s playing. And yet every single note Page plays moves mountains and filled the valleys.

@PlayerToBeNamedLater1973

2 ай бұрын

Beck was a brilliant guitar player. Page is a musical genius

TRUTH!

You're not too bad yourself Joe! 😂👍

Jimi Hendrix opened the door to a whole new world of what was possible on the electric guitar, Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen were two of the few who went through to explore that world, most have just stood at that doorway and imitate what they hear

@davidrpriest

2 ай бұрын

Drugs killed Hendrix and derailed Eddie from what he could have been. Eddie could have been much better after the 80s. He wasted time being high. Jeff lived a long life and was always getting better and developing.

1982.., I was 18, in the Marines.., & someone loaned me “Wired”.., wow! I bought a used Les Paul, somehow saved enough to also get a Peavey backstage II & tried & tried to get that kind of groovy sound.., never did. I am 60 now & play an Ibanez strat copy & bigger beefier Peavy 115 some pedals..,sometimes I get close..,

There’s so many examples of Becks brilliance but one of my favourites has to be where were you from guitar shop , he even made somewhere over the rainbow sound epic on guitar,,,,,,

@jimiplayscobo5877

2 ай бұрын

I seen that tour with Terry Bozzio on drums. The back up band was Santanna . I seen Carlos standin=g at the side of the stage trying to get pointers lol

Loved his work in the yardbirds, and his talent was unsurpassed in so many eras of his career. I think he expanded the role of guitar in numerous directions. That being said, like many virtuosos, much of his solo work was less approachable, and not for the casual listener. I own several of hi solo albums, probably about 10 of them and never spin them.

Jeff on the Les paul could be anyone Jeff on the strat is Jeff Beck unique one of a kind

👌😎

👍✌❤😎

Rest in peace...

The Truth album was just genius to me. Vocally Rod Stewart killed it. Jeff was shear genius. #3 on my favorite album list. Are You Experienced, Axis Bold As Love, Truth, Johnny WInter's first. To this day nothing compares.

His playing always advanced more than anyone I can think of. Of the 3 from his era, he went well beyond Clapton & Page, who sort of did their thing and stayed there, imo. Not to take anything away from them, but Jeff went the distance and then some!

I have often heard comments that Jeff couldn't play the blues , well I dont know what they have been listening to because I dont think there is a style that Jeff couldn't play .

I know you're probably already familiar with the tune, but if not. Check out the Nazz are Blue from the Yardbirds. One of the first times that I remember hearing feedback. Very cool.

@yardbird545

2 ай бұрын

And one of the rare Jeff vocals.

I thoght JB was a Clapton man but I'm glad he mentions Jeff who along with Mark Knopfler are my top 2 lead guitarists closely followed by Joe and Gary Moore

Jeff Beck kept evolving as a guitarist. His mastery of the whammy bar, using it to manipulate the pitch perfectly to play beautiful and complex melodies and harmonics, his technique just constantly evolved, incorporating jazz and fusion; his technique surpassed his peers by miles. Clapton and Page, no matter how good they were, stopped evolving or progressing technically speaking.

@knightfall9394

Ай бұрын

but jeff couldn’t evolve into a composer or decent songwriter nor could he play rhythm guitar

I missed the Beck train, even though I've heard him do some great stuff, and all the greats dig him... I'll have to go dig deeper I guess.

@knightfall9394

Ай бұрын

meh he’s not for everyone, you gotta really like instrumental stuff and jazzier things too, he can be pretty out there sometimes. If you like blues rock check out the jeff beck group and beck bogert & appice, its all stuff he did before he got smart and realized that the typical rock format wasnt for him and moved to instrumental music

For me there’s before Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers and after… changed my ideas forever

@user-qr7ee2cp4y

2 ай бұрын

The live version at Ronnie Scott's is a masterpiece

Blow by Blow did it for me...i was 12 when it was released. Then i bought Truth

Excuse me for telling another mans Jeff Beck story but I'm going to anyway. Years ago a friend had a 60's British invasion band playing Yardbirds, Who , Kinks etc and he told me they were playing a Hot Rod Show at the San Jose Ca fairgrounds. Tongue in cheek sort of , I had no idea where Beck was or had planned for the day of course, jokingly I said keep an eye out for Jeff Beck because he loves hot rods. Low and behold during a sound check in an empty room he looks up and there was Beck leaning on the back wall listening. My friend stops playing, as anyone who was murdering an old Yardbirds tune would do, and goes back to talk to him. First thing he said was "that AC-15 sounds great" or words to that effect. Any one who knows Vox amps might know the Ac-15 and the AC-30 look identical but only someone like Jeff Beck would tell by the sound hearing half a song in a band situation. They chatted a while about my buddy's obsession with all things Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. Conversation turned to collecting antiques which Jeff Beck did also and my friend told him his dad owned a small shop in a strip mall in a Podunk town called Milpitas California. The next day he showed up at the shop and bought a couple of lamps. He also told my friend Rod Stewart and himself were going to get back together for a tour and promised to let him know when it came together and would give him back stage passes to the show. Months later I was at my friends home and he gets a phone call from Jeff Becks manager and there's lots of shouting in the background and the manager apologized because the reunion was in the process, and at that very moment, of being cancelled. Mid arguments , heated argument to put it mildly, Jeff Beck had thought to call my friend and apologize. What a class act that man turned out to be. We all have good and bad days to be sure but anyone says something bad about Jeff Beck to me, I'm stepping up.

I first heard Jeff Beck when his Wired album came out, and I've been a fan ever since. RIP Jeff, you are missed.

Jeff Beck…the guitar hero’s guitar hero.

NOBODY (I mean NO BODY) can sound like Jeff Beck... !

Am almost ashamed to asmit i didnt really know anything about jeff beck… until the mid 80’s when i missed responding to columbia house tape club before they automatically sent their pick of the month . Which that months pick was “flash” …and sadly ,aside from the song “gets us all in the end “opening i barely listened to …he ripped in that songs stereotypical mid 80’s drum machine beat …it fascinated me as a teen but i soon forgot about him .many decades later i started trying to learn guitar and was looking up all the old school masters connected with my fav SRV… and eventually while down a music rabbit hole found his older stuff …which was so much more tasteful as well as masterful imo ..some periods of his music were a bit to “experimental “ (for lack of a better definition) for my tastes , like he sounded out of tune when bending etc.. to me…but some of the straight music hes made is incredible to my ears…rip (original) JB

One magical night I shook JBs hand and later anonymously paid for his table’s drinks in a bar in Calgary Alberta. The world is a wonderful place.

He did that with his fingers what is pick down when he played with Beck bogert in appacy