Jeff Beck demos...

Rabs

Man I love watching him play so much.. 

Plectrum

He's a great player. He does seem to play a lot of Whale music though

Rabs

If only I could wail like that 

AlexC

Brilliant. One of my all time favourite players and influences. A true musician who understands and can control every aspect of a guitar. And he doesn't always bother with gonzo blues based rock or shrieking sweeping indulgence - which seems to alienate many.

57Deluxe

ask him to play Hi Ho and that'll take the smugness off....

richardhomer

Where Were You is truly lovely - but the use of the trem on everything irritates me. I wish he'd play 'straighter' from time to time - the trem thing really gets in the way of my enjoyment of his more recent work.

Sassafras

I like something with a bit more rhythm.

axisus

I like his playing a lot, but I prefer his live stuff overall. Listening to instrumental studio albums I almost get a bit ....... bored isn't the word, but I sure know when I've had enough.

I'm really into a live album of his at the moment, and in particular his rendition of a Day in the life.

guitars4you

I saw that show and recall he finished of with 'somewhere over the rainbow' - I went up to my guitar room after and spent about 2 hours playing around with that tune as some form of an instrumental - To be influenced by him and his ideas but not copying as such - Later my wife said she thought it was some of my best playing - I thought she was joking - I was so frustrated that such a simple tune could not be played in the way I wanted and it was the closest I have ever come to walking away from the guitar and packing in playing

stratman3142

Wonderful guitarist. Where Were You gets me every time.

mburekenge

Obviously, he is on a complete other plane of existance to other mere mortals...  he is exceptional. But has been mentioned, please leave that bloody wiggle stick alone.

Jalapeno

Love the quote of Barney Kessel's Cry Me A River intro at the start of the first video

Cirrus

I don't really know much of his work, except that he played on Roger Water's Amused to Death and that's got some killer guitar parts, so I like him. Where, as a novice, should I start listening with him?

Vaiai

Go back to the older stuff and you won't hear the trem so much - especially Wired and Blow by Blow

AlexC

Can I throw this into the mix...

Danny1969

For me it's the control of the trem and the volume control that gives him that expression .... what he does is insanely difficult but he makes it look easy but sound awesome 

Love this  

BluesyDave

Wired is still one of my fave recordings.  Goodbye pork pie hat for me is the stand out track.

SimpleSimon

Heard a new Van Morrison track on the radio the other day and im pretty sure its Beck playing guitar on it. Certainly sounded like his more recent warblings. His tone is incredible. I love his older stuff and i loved the JBJ young guns soundtrack stuff.

AlexC

@SimpleSimon Well spotted. I looked it up (I'm not apologising - I'm a nerd) and it's called Transformation, apparently.

impmann

AlexC said:

@SimpleSimon Well spotted. I looked it up (I'm not apologising - I'm a nerd) and it's called Transformation, apparently.

Yep, I heard that in the car and its unmistakably Jeff.

SimpleSimon

AlexC said:

@SimpleSimon Well spotted. I looked it up (I'm not apologising - I'm a nerd) and it's called Transformation, apparently.

Was waiting for some one to flame me for getting it wrong! So its good to know i was right! For once!