'B' Is Also For...
Jul. 6th, 2018 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanContinuing the tour through the music collection...
'B' is also where the best electric guitarist of the last 60 years lives... in my music collection at least...
Jeff Beck
First coming to fame as the replacement for Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds, he very quickly established himself as something entirely different to all the white boys trying to play the Blues - notably when a sitar player had been hired for a session, but was taking ages to tune up & play the part... So Jeff plugged in, overdrove his amp & played the sitar line himself. This was the result...
Then he hooked up with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood to form the Jeff Beck Group. Still playing it his way, here's how he describes his version of 'You Shook Me' "The last note is my guitar being sick. Well so would you be if I smashed your guts for two & a half minutes"
In 1974, he decided to dispense with singers altogether & let the guitar do the talking... & wailing & shouting & crying
With only a few exceptions, that's pretty much what he's done ever since, in a variety of styles from jazz to metal to 50s rock to electronic. Seeing him live is a revelation... a music lesson... an inspiration...
'B' is also where the best electric guitarist of the last 60 years lives... in my music collection at least...
Jeff Beck
First coming to fame as the replacement for Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds, he very quickly established himself as something entirely different to all the white boys trying to play the Blues - notably when a sitar player had been hired for a session, but was taking ages to tune up & play the part... So Jeff plugged in, overdrove his amp & played the sitar line himself. This was the result...
Then he hooked up with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood to form the Jeff Beck Group. Still playing it his way, here's how he describes his version of 'You Shook Me' "The last note is my guitar being sick. Well so would you be if I smashed your guts for two & a half minutes"
In 1974, he decided to dispense with singers altogether & let the guitar do the talking... & wailing & shouting & crying
With only a few exceptions, that's pretty much what he's done ever since, in a variety of styles from jazz to metal to 50s rock to electronic. Seeing him live is a revelation... a music lesson... an inspiration...
