man, I could listen to Jeff Beck all day...

[hachikid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9H0j17XTyA

this is just amazing

 

[Updown]

Plus in a Duet on Bass  :icon_thumright: ...... With a great Aussie Bass player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39tchvgKxg&feature=related

Always, loved the Jeff Beck style  :guitarplayer2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blp7hPFaIfU&feature=related

 

[stubhead]

I sometimes do. He's one of those people who keeps looking for things to give him a kick. Former Michael Jackson & MTV-chick guitarist Jennifer Batten was interviewed in Guitar Player Magazine, and she said her dream job would be playing "rhythm" for Jeff Beck. So he hired her, she learned all the Tony Hymas and Jan Hammer keyboard parts doing her tapping thing, and they toured from 1999 to 2001. She later said that the best part of the job was all the ridiculous stuff he'd come up with in soundchecks and rehearsals. Here one is:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/JeffBeck2000-11-01TourRehearsalJapan.asx

75 minutes of the best. It's scary to think that besides being the only guitarist who can actually play the whammy, he's also one of the very best slide guitarists on the planet. I could listen to just "Nadia" all day. Or "Where Were You".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH2NghYDas

When they toured that "Guitar Shop" record, at the LA concert all the guitar hereos were there together - Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather, Slash, Larry Carlton etc... just shaking their heads, saying "nope, can't do that"... :sad1:

 

[vic108]

Jeff Beck can eat most folks lunch and send them home crying.
There are very few in his class... Adrian Belew perhaps, for
downright creative and off the wall wild playing.

EVH isn't worthy enough to tie Jeff's sandals (IMHO).

 

[Tempest]

Seen him live twice.  (more recently of course, I'm too young to have seen him back in the day)  Probably one of my favorite guitar players ever, by a mile.

 

[hachikid]

I've only seen him once, but was lucky enough to be front row, center.

I sometimes do. He's one of those people who keeps looking for things to give him a kick. Former Michael Jackson & MTV-chick guitarist Jennifer Batten was interviewed in Guitar Player Magazine, and she said her dream job would be playing "rhythm" for Jeff Beck. So he hired her, she learned all the Tony Hymas and Jan Hammer keyboard parts doing her tapping thing, and they toured from 1999 to 2001. She later said that the best part of the job was all the ridiculous stuff he'd come up with in soundchecks and rehearsals. Here one is:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/JeffBeck2000-11-01TourRehearsalJapan.asx

the link isn't working for me.

 

[stubhead]

You might have to go to the main sugarmegs site and set it to open Windows Media Player automatically. That's the devil they made the deal with - and for 34,000 streaming concerts, it's a devil I can like too.  :hello2:

http://sugarmegs.org/

 

[Alfang]

I saw him a few months ago, i was 3rd row center, The guy is good, but honestly by the 3rd song, I felt I'd heard all his stuff. It's all the same over and over, there wasn't even any Vocals all night and he barely talked to the crowd. and I mean he talked for like 15 seconds.

 

[stubhead]

People do get old... I do think that 1999 stuff was his last great burst. He may get another, but it seems like he's content to be sociable and jam with people. Coincidentally, I think John McLaughlin's last great stuff was 1999, with the Remember Shakti quartet. These guys are pushing 70, for pete's sakes. They ought to be playing shuffleboard in Florida.

 

[hachikid]

eh, I had a different view when I saw him. he totally, and thoroughly blew me away. also, his latest album is freaking incredible. I've heard that Jeff in concert is now one of those guys where he's off and on...but when he's on, he's just untouchable.

 

[AprioriMark]

I think everyone here is right.  for me, it's much more valuable to the soul to see an artist for the whole of who they are instead of deifying them.  I love JB when I'm in the mood, which is more often than not.

-Mark

 

[KaiserSoze]

Gotta fully agree.  He's the only guitar player where I've heard a lick and actually said out loud "No way he just did that."  The music is brilliant but accessible.  I mean, I can appreciate that someone like Holdsworth is brilliant but his music doesn't suck me in the same way.

I've also seen enough of him live to see that he seems to be a very unselfish musician, and loves to give members of his band some time to shine.  Thats confidence for you.  One of the many reasons I love YouTube is that I can see his performances I would never get to see.