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Title: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Tellboy on October 12, 2011, 11:18:27 AM: Interesting video of some of Jeff's guitar collection. Worth watching even if you are not a JB fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YB9EX7YpFk&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YB9EX7YpFk&feature=related)
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Philly Q on October 12, 2011, 11:39:52 AM: I saw this on the "Rock'n'Roll Party" Les Paul tribute DVD. Pretty interesting, but it's a shame it isn't a longer feature talking about more of his guitars.
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Tellboy on October 12, 2011, 12:43:19 PM: Notice several of them were just 'given' to him (John McLaughlin, Jimmy Page..)
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Philly Q on October 12, 2011, 01:50:02 PM: Yeah, I've always had the impression he's not someone who actually accumulates a lot of guitars.

I remember him going on about that particular Gretsch model which was the only way of nailing Cliff Gallup's sound, but generally he doesn't seem all that bothered about gear.
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Ian Price on October 12, 2011, 05:35:57 PM: He strikes me as someone who isn't bothered about what he plays. He always sounds like Jeff Beck no matter what he is playing - pretty much the same way that I always sound like me no matter what I am playing :oops:
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: FernandoDuarte on October 12, 2011, 06:23:44 PM: Quote from: Philly Q on October 12, 2011, 01:50:02 PM
Yeah, I've always had the impression he's not someone who actually accumulates a lot of guitars.

I remember him going on about that particular Gretsch model which was the only way of nailing Cliff Gallup's sound, but generally he doesn't seem all that bothered about gear.

It's so hard to understand his british accent... My ears are untrained again, too bad I ain't got money to travel abroad again ¬¬

Lovely how it's described as "workhorse" his '54 all original telecaster... I want a workhorse like that too :lol:
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Afghan Dave on October 12, 2011, 07:25:07 PM: I saw two Jacksons! :P
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Philly Q on October 12, 2011, 10:21:39 PM: Quote from: Ian Price on October 12, 2011, 05:35:57 PM
pretty much the same way that I always sound like me no matter what I am playing :oops:

Me too! :lol:
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: MrBump on October 17, 2011, 03:49:27 PM: Thanks for that - it was really good!

Can't watch Beck without thinking of Nigel Tuffnel though...
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Ian Price on October 17, 2011, 04:05:13 PM: Quote from: MrBump on October 17, 2011, 03:49:27 PM
Thanks for that - it was really good!

Can't watch Beck without thinking of Nigel Tuffnel though...

I'd never made that connection before - look like I will from now on though!
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Philly Q on October 17, 2011, 04:14:23 PM: Quote from: Ian Price on October 17, 2011, 04:05:13 PM
Quote from: MrBump on October 17, 2011, 03:49:27 PM
Thanks for that - it was really good!

Can't watch Beck without thinking of Nigel Tuffnel though...

I'd never made that connection before - look like I will from now on though!

I think they go to the same wigmaker....
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Ian Price on October 17, 2011, 05:13:14 PM: :D

I'm still not warming to Becks guitar playing. Very technically gifted but it al leaves me a little cold to be honest.
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Philly Q on October 17, 2011, 06:51:39 PM: Quote from: Ian Price on October 17, 2011, 05:13:14 PM
I'm still not warming to Becks guitar playing. Very technically gifted but it al leaves me a little cold to be honest.

He is amazing, in the sense that he's always progressed whereas most of his contemporaries established their styles then pretty much just stuck with them. But I don't like what he does since he stopped using a pick and started doing all the microtonal stuff, playing melodies with the whammy bar etc. It tires my ears out very quickly.

Go back to the early stuff like "Truth" and "Beck-Ola" - much more straightforward and song-based.

Beck seems to think Page sort of nicked the concept of the Jeff Beck Group and jumped the queue on him with "The New Yardbirds". There may be some truth in it, but Zeppelin did it much, much better - Beck's group could never have had the same impact, but they are good. And it's nice to hear Rod Stewart singing something other than all that "American Songbook" pap he does nowadays.
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Tellboy on October 17, 2011, 09:03:19 PM: Quote from: Ian Price on October 17, 2011, 05:13:14 PM
:D

I'm still not warming to Becks guitar playing. Very technically gifted but it al leaves me a little cold to be honest.

Yep - seems to be no in between - you either do or don't like him. He was the first 'name' guitarist I ever saw live when I was 14. I thought he was amazing, the other guitarist with me thought he was cr@p. I prefer when he is playing rockier numbers with a singer.
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Matt77 on October 18, 2011, 12:35:53 PM: His solo stuff is innovative but not my cup of tea.

His session work is great. I love every solo on the young guns 2 soundtrack. The songs I'm not fussed either way.

I like it when he does covers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuK2msTzec
Title: Re: Jeff Beck Guitar Collection
Post by: Telerocker on October 18, 2011, 11:51:04 PM: He is a great guitarplayer for sure, but it never caught me somehow. Not like Eric Johnson does, by example.