Jeff Beck has passed away.

[RunOutGroove]

Yeah, today I'll get be listening to something "live" that involves Jeff. Dunno which era, Yardbirds likely not, but JBG through circa '85 are in play. Often I prefer the Blow By Blow and environs era, don't hafta listen to a vocalist. AS much as I admittedly loved the sound of Rod The Mod, I'm not keen on his work w/ Beck. As for Tench... ugh, leave it out. Most likely something "live" from the '75 - '82 era.

I like the Rough and Ready album with Tench, but oddly hadn't heard the other one with him until just after the man died as I had recently gotten a copy of the CD but hadn't yet listened to it. I found that album underwhelming, but I do like Rough and Ready which will always be a favorite. It's kind of an odd hard rock, R&B mix, where most were mixing hard rock and blues. It's got an interesting flavor to it and though the guitar isn't featured as much as on some of Beck's other stuff, when he does play a solo it can be pretty intense.

 

[vinowino]

I have a lot of Jeff Beck albums. He wrote quite a few songs. On "Loud Hailer" 2016 (Possibly my favorite) he is credited with the other musicians as writing them all.
Does it matter? Is Leonard Bernstein any less of an artist because he did not compose Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture? He only conducted The New York Philharmonic.

 

[RunOutGroove]

I have a lot of Jeff Beck albums. He wrote quite a few songs. On "Loud Hailer" 2016 (Possibly my favorite) he is credited with the other musicians as writing them all.
Does it matter? Is Leonard Bernstein any less of an artist because he did not compose Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture? He only conducted The New York Philharmonic.

No doubt, interpretation does garner far more respect in the classical world than maybe anywhere else, but I believe that it's pretty universal that interpreting someone else's composition can be an art unto itself.

I'll be on the lookout for that Loud Hailer album. The newest JB recording that I have is still pretty old, "There and Back," a record that I wouldn't quite rate as brilliant but has one of my favorite tunes on it, "Star Cycle."

 

[vinowino]

I'll be on the lookout for that Loud Hailer album.

 

[RunOutGroove]

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Wild... with vocals, with all songs written or co-written by JB and with players that are all unknown to me. I'm intrigued... I listen to a lot of jazz and that's really the kind of thing where fans typically pay a lot of attention to the sidemen on the records. I do too, but I find that pretty often ones that have an all star cast aren't favorites and others with lesser known sidemen are...

 

[Bill Ferris]

Who are you ?

I held back earlier to making a reply comment to the disrespectful fungus making the comment about a recently deceased stellar guitarist referencing Brian Mays is superior as a song writer !

Truth be known, most well known guitarists held/hold Jeff Beck in the highest regard and respect, and some admitted in various print interviews that they had no idea how to play the tasty guitar parts that Jeff Beck will have forgotten how to play !

 

[RunOutGroove]

Truth be known, most well known guitarists held/hold Jeff Beck in the highest regard and respect, and some admitted in various print interviews that they had no idea how to play the tasty guitar parts that Jeff Beck will have forgotten how to play !

Though it's admittedly going back a long time ago, it's worth looking at the man's tenure in the Yardbirds to see just how brilliant he was. He may have not have had any input as far as the chord progressions, the vocal melodies or the lyrics of those songs but his guitar parts (which one would have to admit are really composed pieces of their own) are what really made songs like "Over, Under, Sideways, Down," "Shapes of Things," "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" and others what they were. With all due respect to Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, that band was far more of a typical blues based British band of it's time than the stuff that they created with Beck, which was something far more unique. He really was thinking far outside the box in creating those guitar parts and that's only addressing the creative part of it, not the virtuosity needed to play them...

 

[Bill Ferris]

Though it's admittedly going back a long time ago, it's worth looking at the man's tenure in the Yardbirds to see just how brilliant he was. He may have not have had any input as far as the chord progressions, the vocal melodies or the lyrics of those songs but his guitar parts (which one would have to admit are really composed pieces of their own) are what really made songs like "Over, Under, Sideways, Down," "Shapes of Things," "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" and others what they were. With all due respect to Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, that band was far more of a typical blues based British band of it's time than the stuff that they created with Beck, which was something far more unique. He really was thinking far outside the box in creating those guitar parts and that's only addressing the creative part of it, not the virtuosity needed to play them...

Thanks for the refresher, RunOutGrove, but I`ve been intensely following JB since his sixties tenure with the YBs after Clapton left.

 

[RunOutGroove]

Thanks for the refresher, RunOutGrove, but I`ve been intensely following JB since his sixties tenure with the YBs after Clapton left.

I wasn't really trying to school you or anyone else... just trying to make the case for the man's genius. Sure, anyone who's into the man's music is probably familiar with the Yardbirds stuff.

 

[Lou F Quincy]

https://www.premierguitar.com/news/jeff-beck-tributes

(And to uncool9, notice that Zakk Wylde gives tribute.)

 

[Ray Gianelli]

This very, very sad news effected me very deeply.

Two times in my life that I`ve openly wept from the untimely passing of a stellar talented guitarist whom had a amazing influence on me.
1st : Jimi Hendrix in Sept. 1970.
And now, Jeff Beck 1/11/23.

RIP Mr. Jeff Beck, Sir.
I deeply grieve for the world`s musical loss, with your untimely demise.

I hear you, Bill. I was working at the Record Shack in Cutler Ridge after school. When I walked up and saw they had posted in the door's glass that Hendrix had died I was stunned. I was a huge fan, and it just deeply affected me. And as with you, Beck's passing did as well.

 

[Bill Ferris]

I hear you, Bill. I was working at the Record Shack in Cutler Ridge after school. When I walked up and saw they had posted in the door's glass that Hendrix had died I was stunned. I was a huge fan, and it just deeply affected me. And as with you, Beck's passing did as well.

Thank you very much, Ray.

 

[beans]

Saw him live in Houston some time around 2008. I had the album Emotion & Commotion and wanted to hear some of that but don't remember him playing anything from it. Also was hoping that Tal would be there but she was off doing something else... Herbie Hancock I think. I have Live At Ronnie Scott's on DVD around here somewhere. Gotta dig that out now. RIP JB!!!!