Joe Bonamassa: Let's talk about Jeff Beck… 

Damn! You saw him LIVE, in ‘64!? You lucky sunuvagun! That’s amazing! What a memory to have. God bless you.👍🏽🎸

@@MarkChocolate We saw Jeff in The Tridents a few times at Eel Pie Island. I recall Jeffrey usually looked somewhat "out of it" on stage. Perhaps he was bored or maybe it was down to him puffing weed. It was clear he was a terrific player though, even then. I also have an interesting anecdote involving Jimmy Page and Jeff if you are interested.

@@boxyboy46 Jeff could not hide his “boredom”, if he wasn’t feeling excited by the music, if he felt it gone stale for him. So to speak. A Jeff & Jimmy anecdote…do tell.👂🏽

@@MarkChocolate Well, in 1965 I was in a local 5 piece band [west London] playing bluesy rock stuff just like all the other groups around at that time. We called ourselves Nite-Sect. I was 18 at the time and I was going out with a girl named Melody. One evening I'm walking Mel home when she said, "I'll bring my cousin Jimmy down to hear your band." I said, ''sure, why not...who's your cousin Jimmy anyway?" "Jimmy Page" she replied. "Whooooa, Jimmy Page the session guitarist?" I'd been seeing Melody for about 9 months at this point and she never mentioned this before??! So we booked a small function room upstairs at a pub next to the railway crossing gates on the Bedfont Lane in Feltham. It was called The Railway Tavern. Not there now. The bastards pulled it down to build a block of flats. How dare they! On this Saturday afternoon we loaded our gear up into this room, set up, and in walked Melody with cousin Jimmy. He was a good looking dude then. Clapton had recently left the Yardbirds and he said they had asked him to join. He turned it down saying he was earning good money playing on so many sessions in London studios, and his previous experience of being on the road with Neil Christian had laid him low with glandular fever. Jim said he had recommended Jeff as they were friends since their art college days. He told us Jeff could be a little "vague" sometimes. Jim said he had given Jeff a pair of shoes, and when he saw him a week or so later and asked how the shoes fit, Jeff said he had lost one of them. "Who loses one shoe?" Jim said. We played a few numbers and Jim said he liked the band [being polite no doubt] and he had just returned from a trip to LA [he was romancing Jackie de Shannon at the time] and there was a band who played a residency at Ciro's nightclub. Jim said they weren't that good as a live band, but they had a sound which he thought was going to be big. He said they are called The Byrds. Sadly, he didn't spell it for me. He gave us 3 songs for us to learn and he would get us a deal on Decca as he was tight with the A&R man there. The songs were, Bells of Rhymney by Pete Seeger, and Tambourine Man and All I really Wanna Do both by Dylan. I went to my local store that sold mostly vacuum cleaners, TV sets and washing machines but also had a booth selling records. Looking at release info, she could find none of the songs mentioned but there was a British band at the time called The Birds [Ronnie Wood et al] and they had a record out called Leaving Here. I ordered that record and got on a bus into Hounslow to a shop called Bell Music that sold sheet music. I found the sheet for All I Really Wanna Do, so we learned that Dylan song but in the style of Ronnie Wood and his pals. It was rather heavy. We booked the room over the pub again and Jimmy came down to hear us play this abomination. "No, it goes like this" said Jimmy picking up my guitar. I showed him the record I had bought by The Birds. Jim said "no, it's spelled with a Y. I have never punched a rock legend in the mouth but it came pretty close that day. Anyway, Tambourine Man by the Byrds flew into the charts in no time so our chance for stardom was gone. A few personnel changes and 3 years later we did get a couple of record releases but they flopped miserably. I wrote and recorded a song about this incident. It's called Tavern Blues. Get onto my channel at boxyboy46 and have a listen if you fancy it. Turn the volume right up.

@@boxyboy46 Wow! That’s a GREAT little story, to call your own. Your recall for detail is impressive. It put me right there “in the room”, as they say. Thank you so much, for sharing that story w/me. I appreciate it. And yes, I will definitely give a listen to the track. Thanks again for sharing this. Be well, and God bless. Cheers!🍻

He couldn't sing but vocalized with the guitar.

Completely unique.

The thing is.. Joe knows for a FACT - that he is "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" !

That is the seminal guitar instrumental album.

I was 16 when my brother & I got it, we wore it out. To me it had the most unique and original guitar work there was, has kept itself in the top 10 forty-eight years later

That wick little run on she’s a woman. He was the heads above

@@289hipo so coo!! I imagine it had the same effect on you as it did me. Incredible and unique album and player. I was a band geek kid and my teacher was a jazz guy. I think beck crossed over into jazz, rock fusion, which probably appealed to me at the time. Still does.

Alan holdsworth, Beck, Hendrix

Imagination and creativity = Alex Lifeson. Think of all the crazy Rush riffs. Eddie was great but he was kinda a one trick pony. No disrespect but he was pretty middle of the road. Caress of Steel, 2112,and Hemispheres alone qualify Alex as one of the most creative players we’ve had.

@@surfcollector Lifeson is a great player but he never inspired me as much. That's not to say that some people aren't inspired by him, it's to each their own.

I get it everybody achieves legendary status after they're dead. None of them has Pages level of talent. Jimmy Page wrote more legendary songs than all three combined. His library of songs is the most taught and advised teaching. Here come the dragon slayers.

Check Jan Ackerman 🎼to

Page was a songwriter first and a guitarist second!

@@ianthomas4568"In the late 1960s and throughout the Seventies, Jimmy Page helped shape and define the future of rock & roll with his work in the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. However, in the years prior, he’d already made an immeasurable impact on the sound of popular music by way of the hundreds and perhaps even thousands of recording sessions he sat in on as an anonymous face in the many studios that dotted London at the time." Rolling Stone

Very Well Said

Hendrix ,Beck,Page,and Johnny Winters for me

The ONE THING that got through QC is that the roller nut was basically only in 20 percent of the shelf cut for it. I wanted to take pics and send them to Fender but my local superhuman guitar tech had the roller nut completely and correctly installed. Regardless, it is STILL a $2,000 guitar and that kind of QC slop near had me return the entire guitar.

A couple times he always plays like a saxophone to me, but i forgot the songs. I used to listen to that and realize how far ahead he was, what a fantastic style of all styles. It was swelling the volume in the highest register, like he always does.

Max Middleton never has received the credit he deserved. He was great playing in the JBG2. It was his idea to play one slide guitar against another overdubbed slide guitar on the song “Definitely Maybe”. Max was not a “flash” keyboard player like Jan Hammer or Tony Hymas. He was a rock solid Fender Rhoads player mostly that played around the cords of the song. He was also a great songwriter. He played on the entire “Blow By Blow” album (Stevie Wonder played a Clavinet on “Thelonius” uncredited). Max and Jeff co-wrote or Max alone wrote most of the songs on that Platinum selling masterpiece. He played on a few songs on Wired also. He helped Jeff with bringing Jeff’s rock/fusion ideas that were in his head on to the fretboard. “Blow By Blow”would have been a different sounding album if Max was not the keyboard player!

"Ain't Superstitious". I saw Rod last July and he didn't once mention Jeff. I would have thought one song for the remembrance of someone who really helped start his career. Once Rod hit the disco era I stopped listening to him.

What amp.did you use for this video? 3:33 3:33

Jeff's playing makes that cover version a treat to listen to.

Me too! Too bad RU-vid wasn't around then, it would have saved me a lot of frustration!

Just say Jeff Beck was a legend and will live forever. That’s all. That’s it.

Beck was a brilliant guitar player. Page is a musical genius

I seen that tour with Terry Bozzio on drums. The back up band was Santanna . I seen Carlos standin=g at the side of the stage trying to get pointers lol

meh he’s not for everyone, you gotta really like instrumental stuff and jazzier things too, he can be pretty out there sometimes. If you like blues rock check out the jeff beck group and beck bogert & appice, its all stuff he did before he got smart and realized that the typical rock format wasnt for him and moved to instrumental music

And one of the rare Jeff vocals.

but jeff couldn’t evolve into a composer or decent songwriter nor could he play rhythm guitar

The live version at Ronnie Scott's is a masterpiece

Drugs killed Hendrix and derailed Eddie from what he could have been. Eddie could have been much better after the 80s. He wasted time being high. Jeff lived a long life and was always getting better and developing.