Author Topic: Saw Jeff Beck play last night (Read 12221 times)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #15 on:** August 07, 2006, 10:21:09 PM »

March. Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread!!

I bought Wired, Blow By Blow and Who Else on Saturday. I was in HMV in Reading and bought the Chillis' new album and I was standing in the shop thinking 'I need something else what is it?' Jeff Beck! So I bought all the ones they had in stock which I haven't got.

My god I'm so glad that I did!! Angels (Footsteps) on Who Else has left me completely blown away it's incredible!!

Thanks again mate!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

March · « **Reply #16 on:** August 07, 2006, 11:45:15 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

March. Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread!!

I bought Wired, Blow By Blow and Who Else on Saturday. I was in HMV in Reading and bought the Chillis' new album and I was standing in the shop thinking 'I need something else what is it?' Jeff Beck! So I bought all the ones they had in stock which I haven't got.

My god I'm so glad that I did!! Angels (Footsteps) on Who Else has left me completely blown away it's incredible!!

Thanks again mate!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

You are more than welcome! :)

But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I stand by what I said at the beginning of this thread - Jeff Beck is the best rock guitarist on the planet IMHO.

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2006, 01:54:00 AM »

Quote from: March

Quote from: Johnny Mac
March. Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread!!

I bought Wired, Blow By Blow and Who Else on Saturday. I was in HMV in Reading and bought the Chillis' new album and I was standing in the shop thinking 'I need something else what is it?' Jeff Beck! So I bought all the ones they had in stock which I haven't got.

My god I'm so glad that I did!! Angels (Footsteps) on Who Else has left me completely blown away it's incredible!!

Thanks again mate!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

You are more than welcome! :)

But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I stand by what I said at the beginning of this thread - Jeff Beck is the best rock guitarist on the planet IMHO.

He is an amazing bloke full stop!

I'll have to check that one out March. What do you think of Angels (Footsteps)?

Stand by it mate! His musical imagination and playing are beyond compare! 8)

March · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2006, 08:11:23 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

Quote from: March
Quote from: Johnny Mac
March. Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread!!

I bought Wired, Blow By Blow and Who Else on Saturday. I was in HMV in Reading and bought the Chillis' new album and I was standing in the shop thinking 'I need something else what is it?' Jeff Beck! So I bought all the ones they had in stock which I haven't got.

My god I'm so glad that I did!! Angels (Footsteps) on Who Else has left me completely blown away it's incredible!!

Thanks again mate!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

You are more than welcome! :)

But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I stand by what I said at the beginning of this thread - Jeff Beck is the best rock guitarist on the planet IMHO.

He is an amazing bloke full stop!

I'll have to check that one out March. What do you think of Angels (Footsteps)?

Stand by it mate! His musical imagination and playing are beyond compare! 8)

Live it was possibly my favourite track. Just typical Beck, stunning and definately one of may favourites from his recent output.

Love the switches between normal fingered notes and slide, a feature of Jeff's playing.

His slide playing is so expressive and like so much of what Jeff does, defies popular approach to employing such techniques.

So we are agreed.... Jeff Beck is not human?! :D

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #19 on:** August 08, 2006, 08:18:37 PM »

Quote from: March

Quote from: Johnny Mac
Quote from: March
Quote from: Johnny Mac
March. Just wanted to thank you for starting this thread!!

I bought Wired, Blow By Blow and Who Else on Saturday. I was in HMV in Reading and bought the Chillis' new album and I was standing in the shop thinking 'I need something else what is it?' Jeff Beck! So I bought all the ones they had in stock which I haven't got.

My god I'm so glad that I did!! Angels (Footsteps) on Who Else has left me completely blown away it's incredible!!

Thanks again mate!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

You are more than welcome! :)

But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I stand by what I said at the beginning of this thread - Jeff Beck is the best rock guitarist on the planet IMHO.

He is an amazing bloke full stop!

I'll have to check that one out March. What do you think of Angels (Footsteps)?

Stand by it mate! His musical imagination and playing are beyond compare! 8)

Live it was possibly my favourite track. Just typical Beck, stunning and definately one of may favourites from his recent output.

Love the switches between normal fingered notes and slide, a feature of Jeff's playing.

His slide playing is so expressive and like so much of what Jeff does, defies popular approach to employing such techniques.

So we are agreed.... Jeff Beck is not human?! :D

:lol: Agreed! I can't get these new tunes out of my head and it's so good!

Like i said earlier I only had the best of album that I bought in 1996, the pump though, that was something else hearing the subtlety's of his playing. But some of this stuff I bought Sat' is leaving me speechless!

My girlfriend is a classical music teacher and freely admits to knowing nothing about the stuff I'm into. So I'm going to try some Jeff Beck and see how she reacts! Could be interesting! Watch this space March!

Oh and thanks again! I just need reminders now and again as to what to spend my CD money on!

Tellboy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 19, 2006, 10:50:43 PM »

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But Jeff Beck stole the show. I saw Satriani play at the Hammersmith Apollo the other week and fell asleep (no joke), it was the fourth time I had seen him and to be honest, one of the worst gigs I have ever been to. Well, this Beck gig was everything the Satriani gig was not.

He had tone, his melodies were spot on, but his sheer control and command over the guitar is something I have never seen anyone else even come close to mastering. His style is unique, his ability to play melody lines just using the trem jaw dropping... awe inspiring.

One of the best lessons in guitar playing I have ever witnessed.

Interesting - I found this snippit -

Virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani claimed that if he could take a lesson from one player, it'd be Jeff Beck, saying "One of the most amazing things about Jeff is that he sounds even more like Jeff Beck today than he did before... He plays a classic guitar, doesn't use a pick, doesn't use any unusual equipment -- yet he sounds more amazing and pure with each outing."

As I said above when I saw him first I was convinced he was using some magic gear/pedal but he has this amazing feel/empathy with his guitar.

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #21 on:** August 20, 2006, 09:16:31 AM »

^ Thats some quote coming form someone as respected as JS!
I must go and see him live too asap!

I bought 'You Had It Coming Last Weekend'. That's a very good one. He uses beats and samples but to a very creative effect. Lot's of different time sigs' and they change within a tune. Not for the sake of it though as it all fits perfectly.

As for my new girlfriends take on it all from a classical musician/conductor/teacher. She was very honest with me. She liked Jeff Beck because it was all different to her. She thought his playing was very good and his use of time sigs other than 4/4 kept her interest. She plays percussion too so that quite important from her persepctive. Her tips to this world from her's are get away from 4/4 all the time. Use it more selctively. She says try 7/4!

Here's something from her world she said to try it's Maslanka 'A Childs Garden Of Dreams'

Anyone familiar with this one? I can't find it in the ether.

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #22 on:** August 20, 2006, 09:29:31 AM »

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But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I've got it on now March!

It's everything you say!

Have you got a guitar that you use to get into this frame of mind and drift away?

He uses a roller nut on his strat doesn't he? Anyone had any experience with one?

March · « **Reply #23 on:** August 24, 2006, 12:17:32 AM »

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But I guess the real thanks must go to Jeff for just being such an inspiration. :) I cannot stop listening to 'Suspension' from You Had It Coming at the moment. It's such a simple melody, but hauntingly beautiful.

I've got it on now March!

It's everything you say!

Have you got a guitar that you use to get into this frame of mind and drift away?

He uses a roller nut on his strat doesn't he? Anyone had any experience with one?

I can get close to this tone with my black Strat (loaded with Irish Tours and a VHII). [Homer Simpson Mode]Mmmm, nice and Beck'ish! [/Homer Simpson Mode].

I had an LSR nut once but never installed - the Graph Tech nut doing a good enough job. That's the magic of Beck though. It does not have to be overly technical to have you going 'Wow!'.

chrisheyes · « **Reply #24 on:** September 04, 2006, 11:08:32 PM »

I'm going through a Jeff Beck Purchase Peroid here, snapping up all I can get on this amazing player.

I am smitten with 'Cause We've ended as Lovers" !

Written for him by Stevie Wonder - loads of feeling and emotion.

Check out this live version on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3H1XDswBBA

Look at what he does at 4:17 - He makes a lonely bell tone. The camera pans to his face. He's got a smile on it which to me says " Yup, I pulled that one off "

38thBeatle · « **Reply #25 on:** September 05, 2006, 07:28:23 AM »

Great stuff- I like some of the other vids there too-Blue Wind and Led Boots- sod it, it is all brilliant.

DeanS · « **Reply #26 on:** September 05, 2006, 08:56:13 AM »

Yaeh, one hell of a player, a real one off. I'm always amazed by his tone- almost like some kind of wind instrument?

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #27 on:** September 06, 2006, 05:58:07 AM »

Hey Steve I got my ipod fixed when i was on the cannonball trip!

Oh man i have my control back.

Jeff beck goes on each and every time after some slag trys to cut me up! It works! Instant dissolve of anger.

I mean why would you want to argue with a skip lorry with me driving it? Some people just don't get the self preservation thing do they!

This week can only get better.

38thBeatle · « **Reply #28 on:** September 06, 2006, 07:23:50 AM »

I kmnow what you mean-Jeff kinda draws you into his music. I first heard Blow By Blow when it was released( gulp) at the home of a switched on bass playing mate-at the time most people knew him for H* H* S*lver L*ning.

LiamH · « **Reply #29 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:51:28 PM »

I remember listening to him on Jagger's "she's the boss" album and thinking that he sounded like something from the future. When I got into metal in the 80's the sound did not come of a real shock....maybe it was JB's fault