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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWRRBX3TB0
His tech tested his guitar through the three Marshalls prior to the show starting. I thought ‘Jeez - that’s loud’ - and then realised what I was hearing was straight off the back line.
An insanely loud gig....
At gigs these days I often find it too loud and especially at band practice it's quite uncomfortable. The bass is good loud cause you can feel it but the guitar and drums just aren't pleasurable at high levels for me.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes in the car I'll turn it up to a level that would get me an asbo in the house but not to the ear piercing extremes of being feet away from a loudly played drum kit
seeing him in Nottingham in a few weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11yIXP4xJ0
Love the intro playing in this one
https://youtu.be/6qssu13_A6M?t=46
Beck is a seriously awesome guitarist, and comes across as a top bloke.
Not entirely necessary, that. It would be nice if there were hordes of fifteen-and-unders clamouring to watch a doc about Jeff Beck, but I'm guessing it's not likely.
The person he makes me think of most is Miles Davis - it's not so much the notes he's playing, but the wonderful sound he makes.
Knew him and Jimmy + EC all grew up in a similar area - Plus connection between Jimmy and JB via Yardbirds, but never knew they had met at such a young age
Never seen the sunburst 50's Strat before, that he used on video clips around the mid 70's around Wired + Blow by blow - not seen it since
Ditto for the LP with the Yardbirds around 66 period - had a black scratchplate on a burst - must have been a 58-60 model
anyone shed any light
Sutton is an old stomping ground, and I went there a couple of times before it was demolished in the mid 1970’s. Epsom was another well visited town near where i grew up. Its also where Jimmy Page lived, and where Jeff and Jimmy first met when Jefff went round to his house.
Sometimes these documentaries throw up little tidbits like this.
Another interesting thing for me is hearing directly from Jeff why he left the Yardbirds. At one level, a shame he did, because I thought they really could have gone places with Jeff. Hey ho, but pleased to discover Jeff went and did what he wanted to do.
We all know he’s such a unique guitarist, yet to me he’s a more accessible listening experience than say Holdsworth.
Some of JB’s playing is INSANE, and I can’t work out exactly what he’s doing. His phrasing and attack is like nobody else and his stuff was light years ahead of his contemporaries (Jimi excepted perhaps - I’d put them on a par).
It was great to see Jimmy Page looking so well, happy and ‘together’ - now he’s in that place, it’s high time someone sat down with him to talk about these historical things as his memory is still pin sharp. I loved the fact that he talked about *the* Fender Electric 12 that he used on Bolero, and the inference being that it’s the one he played Stairway on (no it wasn’t the ‘TV aerial ‘ Gibson).
If I was being greedy, I’d loved to have seen Jeff’s guitar collection - apparently he’s kept a *lot* of his old stuff.
As as for the burst with the black plate - yes, it’s a late 50s one and the plate was made for him specially after he broke the original (iirc) - and he wanted it to look ‘different’. I don’t know what became of it though.
Good to see some other clips - would have liked to have seen more of the clip from 'There and Back' era with Simon Phillips on Drums
Thanks for info on the LP - never seen him with it before