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windmelody
A great electric guitarist - RIP Jeff Beck.
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emotionalbarbecue
Ron Wood recommends in twitter this (fantastic) song.
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Taylor1
RIP to one of the greatest guitarists ever.But his work on Jagger solo albums was strangely unmoving and underwhelming
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MelBelli
The solos on “She’s the Boss.” So amazing. “Hard Woman” - it lasts just a few bars. But it immediately dazzles you. The licks he had in his back pocket as “Lonely at the Top” fades out. Probably one take. A smoke show.
And then, later, “Throwaway”: his part on that song is so singular that it should’ve merited a co-write. It’s a song within a song.
We won’t hear another like him, ever.
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ProfessorWolf
so sad
he was so gifted and as many have pointed out his skills (like mick's) didn't diminish with age
it's something to note that even in his 70's his skills towered above professional guitarist a third his age
there likely will never be another like him
and it was so unexpected
after this i'm even more apprehensive about mick, keith, and ronnie given there ages
i'm not unaware that there old but things like this really bring home home the reality that they could be taken away from us at any time
value them while there here
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gotdablouse
I also saw him with Jennifer Batten, it was at the Warfield in San Francisco in 2001 and it was a bit of a low point in his career. I was delighted to finally get to see him but as some people posted in forums (was it a Jeff Beck forum ?) he'd become a bit of a cult act by that time, struggling to fill theaters. I seem to remember reading an interview by Jennifer Batten saying her goal was to put Jeff back on the map...Didn't really work out.
It did finally happen when Clapton put him back in the public eye in the mid 2000s, was it by inviting him to play at the Albert Hall with him ? I can't really find anything about this on Google for now.
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gotdablouse
I also saw him with Jennifer Batten, it was at the Warfield in San Francisco in 2001 and it was a bit of a low point in his career. I was delighted to finally get to see him but as some people posted in forums (was it a Jeff Beck forum ?) he'd become a bit of a cult act by that time, struggling to fill theaters. I seem to remember reading an interview by Jennifer Batten saying her goal was to put Jeff back on the map...Didn't really work out.
It did finally happen when Clapton put him back in the public eye in the mid 2000s, was it by inviting him to play at the Albert Hall with him ? I can't really find anything about this on Google for now.
I don't think that Jeff Beck needed Clapton to put him on the map again, certainly not from a musical point of view.
I have seen Jeff Beck with Jennifer Batten in July 1998, Paradiso Amsterdam.
The venue could have been sold out 30 days a month; a long row waiting to get in, people asking for tickets to see Jeff. I remember that Jennifer played technically great, but not as matured as a guitar player. Her sound was thin compared to Jeff, who's guitar sound was very fat, genuine, distinct signature Jeff, and no need for heavy distortion with EMG pickups. I got the impression that -apart from the fact Jennifer played with Michael Jackson- her goal wasn't to put Jeff Beck on the map, at least not that evening.. It was Jeff who did the lead and Jennifer did a great job on an extensive world tour, backing him up but definitely playing the second fiddle and Jeff promoting Jennifer on that particular evening in Amsterdam. Jennifer was replaceable. Jeff definitely not. It was a great concert of course: unforgettable.
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You can still download that concert, there's a link floating on the internet: File size: 474.3 MB MD5 Downloading: JeBe.1998-07-07.AmsterdFLAC.by.TUBE.zip
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