Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean - Live 1975 Midnight Special

[@GordMcknob]

I was 17 years old in 75 coming home from Saturday night parties .. As per usual , I’d make myself a sandwich in the kitchen and have the TV on to watch The Midnight Special , I actually remember seeing this one .. Always made sure the volume was low or my old man would come marching down the stairs yelling “ turn off the God dam TV and go to bed ! “ 😂🤷‍♂️

[@zeronfkvb]

Stories like yours are one of the reasons why I pay for the internet.

[@ThePhoenixcompanies]

Ah, a brother from another mother.

[@williamweiss6128]

They played fusion on Sundays on my favorite FM station. Where I heard this, RTF, Brand X, Dixie Dregs, Cobham, etc. Gave my drumming another direction to pursue. Still love this stuff.

[@Frankie_Zappa]

I was 15 in '75 and the TV was in the parlor, right next to my parents' bedroom that had a drape as the separator. No possible way to have the TV on that late. As well, my father called any kind of rock music "Hopped-up n-word music." I watch the entire episodes of Midnight Special every Friday night here on YT. It's a blast!

[@paulofernando8512]

I was 22 years old in 75 finishing my passage in the college and I understand very well what you said about Great times best years of my life...70's decade.. Cheers.

[@wmhhealth2018]

Whenever I listen to Jeff Beck so do my neighbors!

[@tedcabana]

It's only too loud when the police knock at your door.

[@fletchsrv]

Love this. Just turned this one up to 9 on the Marantz amp too!

[@bobschaffersjoboftheweek-ur3no]

I so wish I had such neighbors. . .

[@tedcabana]

My Neighbors called the fucking police!

[@blueyestu7950]

Playing a Les Paul and using a pick. Amazing how he changed his playing style and became even better.

[@erestube]

Gotta love the way this was Billy Preston's show and he lets Jeff come out and take the spotlight. What a man.

[@stevedavis8329]

listen to this, then listen to eric clapton from roughly the same time frame and it's like the two aren't even in the same universe. beck will always be my favorite of the british bluesmen, just because his range was so much more extensive than the others.

[@SlearBlaneheart]

Honestly, Clapton is the most overrated ever. Most of his shit sucks.

[@KMC544]

Peter Green!

[@sunkmanitutankaowaci2733]

I think Beck and Clapton are both great and I can even give the nod to Beck however Clapton on Roger Waters pros and cons of hitchhiking blew my mind after years of so so Clapton. Easily as good or better than gilmour, especially based on how weird the songs are. That’s pretty versatile coming from the blues

[@will5150]

Loved Max Middleton. The Jeff Beck Group was so good.

[@SeeCSeesCC]

Childhood neighbor of Albert Lee

[@anthonyrichard461]

I still think was the best and coolest guitar player ever.

[@henryhueffed4904]

Jeff''s attack on the strings was unlike any other guitar player which is what made him so recognizable throughout his career.

[@larryhorsman338]

J.B. is the best electric guitar player ever in my life time. I am 73 years old.

[@timhays332]

Yeah best ever!

[@alanwatson3367]

Even when using a pick 😮

[@donjohn2695]

Jeff beck had such mastery of the electric guitar arguably the greatest to ever do it

[@johnbauer-fb6qs]

simply, the master

[@johnstix7874]

Without quesstion the finest live version I have come across. There's enough players (2 keyboards) to get all the parts out. The song is new and the band is on fire. Jeff was simply the best and this is among his best.

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

Agree with your great comment 👍🎵

[@harpman1876]

I saw Jeff with Jan Hammer in June of '76. Outdoor gig in Minneapolis. Jeff opened for Fleetwood Mac. I was such a music snob back then that we left after Beck. I kind of regret doing thst now.

[@Iggythemovieman]

I remember concerts being so cheap that you could go see the backup band then leave. I saw Pink Floyd in 77 for 10 dollars

[@vlzmusik]

Max Middleton & Billy Preston, what a combo!

[@iamgumbydammit2217]

Hands down the best of the best - and he makes it look effortless.

[@ChrisAyres-do4fz]

All on that Stage were just next level 😮 Theres a Reason Hendrix had Buddy Miles as his Drummer for example 👍

[@joaquinsandoval5370]

Amazing ❤ Real music at its finest.

[@MBH5587]

This is the Jeff Beck I was introduced to in the 70’s as a Young Bass player..

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

@@MBH5587 Wow! Thankyou for sharing 🎵👍

[@jdnelson9538]

So fortunate to have seen the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck at age 12 on January 1, 1966 at the Seattle Collisseum as third act down (of seven acts total) from the headliner, The Beach Boys, as part of KJR and KOL Radio's "New Year's Spectacular". It was the first time I'd heard such loud electric guitar, as well as the deliberate use of guitar feedback, all brought to Seattle by one of rock guitar's major early innovators, Mr. Jeff Beck!

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

@@jdnelson9538 Thankyou so much for your wonderful comments, very much appreciated 👍🎶🎵

[@michaelmollamusic]

That's Billy freaking Preston!

[@TeleTonemonkey]

The giant red neon sign would tend to suggest that you are right!

[@tckcumming]

That's Buddy freakin' Miles!!

[@sgt.thundercok4704]

Quite the path he took in later years, eh?

[@Jimi_Lee]

I saw Beck in '75 in Honolulu. He did "Wired" and "Blow By Blow." Probably the best show I've seen for musical content.

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

Awesome 🎵

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

That sounds awesome; those are my two favourite albums from Jeff.

[@peteywheatstraws4909]

Those are my favorite Beck albums.

[@missiontotransition641]

i had a co worker at the Post Office in Georgia, always told me how he saw Jeff Beck in Hawaii in 75, what a great show it was.

[@Jimi_Lee]

@@missiontotransition641 Same show. 🤘😎

[@tone9930]

This guitar is going for half a million soon

[@mikekeeler6362]

Half a million is not much very recently auctioned off Roy Gallagher's guitar for 1,000,300,000

[@高橋たかはし-b5l]

バックのリズムがヤバい(すごい)と思ったらビリー・プレストンさんのバンドなんですかね!ジェフ・ベック先生が本気出してますね🎸すごいタイム感😊最近はジャズもよく聴くんですけどそれらを超えてる名演だと思います🎉

[@jnagarya519]

RIP Jeff Beck. Huge loss.

[@BPAV8788]

Not only was he the greatest player but he looks it also.Dude had the coolest haircut of all time.He just looked so cool without even trying.He just was.I saw him in Chicago about a month after this show and several times after.Definitely a once in a generation player.Sorely missed by all his fans.❤

[@edmondutleyjr.4504]

He was employing the same hair stylist as Rod Stewart at the time. I’m sort of kidding, I don’t know that. But they are remarkably similar. I’ve followed both intently over the years since I first heard “Truth”. Monumental album, most of it still holds up well.

[@FredericBodin-k5h]

As was his drummer Cozy Powell in the Jeff Beck group 😊

[@FeelingShred]

Haha I was precisely looking at his hair, nice observation 😂

[@dannym5345]

He ended up bald it was a wig lol

[@TheKeithbruce]

love that oxblood les Paul

[@markrushton1516]

Weren they Japan only? Joe Perry has one

[@brianmcdermott281]

Same they should really bring that color back, but knowing Gibson they would mark it “limited special series” and charge 10k

[@markrushton1516]

@@brianmcdermott281 Jeff Beck special edition with special case and certificate. $25k

[@12groney]

He was never afraid to get funky!

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

**Jeff Beck was Incredible!**

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

There's so little video on JB from that period. Amazing! Thanks for the post!

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

Our pleasure!

[@jameskeyes9112]

Jeff Beck Wired was my 1st taste of jazz fusion when I was about 15 yrs old. Exposed me to Mingus, which led me to a lifetime of jazz appreciation.

[@thebluesrockers]

A dude with a channel called "Midnight Lessons" has a lot of cool things to say about this performance. He also teaches a few Jeff Beck, licks from it too. Jeff Beck was mind blowing to watch. R.I.P. Another 6 stringer called home.

[@mr.sandman1177]

Jeff Beck was probably my favorite guitarist of all time! RIP Superstar!

[@theswampfox9584]

The Blow by Blow era - I preferred his music during this time period

[@StevenCarinci]

That 50s Les Paul sings.

[@Kan-o-tex]

I’ve read that he mostly played a Strat on the album (except for the modded Tele on Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers) and only posed with the Les Paul for the cover. I kind of doubt that; I saw the tour and remember the Les Paul, but who knows.

[@Kan-o-tex]

Also, didn’t he buy that LP from Rick Nielsen?

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

@@Kan-o-tex He played this Les Paul for the majority of Blow By Blow.

[@Kan-o-tex]

@@TheHumbuckerboy Makes sense; that’s what I remembered seeing live.

[@lawrencegreen4801]

If Jeff had joined the Stones in 75 when it was offered to him it would have upped the game so much it would have gone from Rolling Stones to Jeff Beck and the Stones.

[@AndyJay1985]

Brian Jones, followed by Mick Taylor, then Jeff Beck? Damn..

[@mitchellhunt8381]

Imo, the Stones couldn't do justice to much of Jeffs material, and his ability would be wasted on most of theirs.

[@miguelservetus9534]

Midnight Special was a remarkable show that brought modern music to small towns like mine with a AM radio. Rarely missed a broadcast. 17, My last week of my senior year in HS. The world was calling. Great life but I miss the optimism of youth.( And health).

[@hannapostill3545]

Thank you Midnight Special

[@lowellgarrett915]

Wow, I never understood until seeing this

[@markrobinson8410]

Wonderful, clips of Jeff in this time period are extremely rare

[@jamesw.5855]

Now I know who Nigel was mimicking. It just came to me.

[@mattdylan664]

Jeff was going to 11 here for certain!

[@petercontarino646]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@stephenrobinson9252]

I read somewhere that Jeff loved the movie too. They really nailed it with the hair, accent and attitude.

[@chriskroll4166]

It looks like Jeff is still using a pic but every once in awhile he palms the pic and uses his fingers like Roy Buchanan. Incredible guitar player he was. 😊

[@aschule5684]

I couldn't help but immediately notice first thing Jeff was using a pick watching this so I scrolled to get into the comments and mention it and couldn't help but laugh when I saw your comment right away "I wasn't the only one" a pick and a Les Paul, the great Jeff Beck

[@chriskroll4166]

@@aschule5684 yeah but in time Jeff would ditch that pic and start playing with his fingers totally. I think you said that one day he dropped a pic and played with his fingers the rest of the show and just kept doing it that way. It's an amazing style either way.

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Hybrid picking

[@MisterWade74]

Yeah it’s funny coz back in 1987 I read in ‘The Guitar Handbook’ by Ralph Denyer about Jeff Beck and his music, guitars, effects, picking style etc and always assumed from listening to certain albums that it sounded like he was using a pick. Then recently on KZbin I saw some guy blabbing on about “5 guitarists who never use a pick”, which included Jeff Beck. It just goes to show that not everything you read/see on the internet is true.

[@georgerodrigues4638]

@@MisterWade74 Ralph's book is a classic. Still have my original copy.

[@allanpeck8523]

Billy Preston is back there just happily digging it. I believe he and Jeff probably more than most loved their craft so much that just jamming with friends and other great musicians was pure joy to them. I remember watching this when it first aired and watching it again and again here, I'm grinning and getting into it just like Billy did. ❤

[@北上譲]

いやー❗ギターコピー❕出来ない‼️特にイントロ❗バックの、ハーモニーも、泣かせる❗最高の曲ですね‼️

[@paulatB2B]

Love Jeff's guitar mimicking a keyboard mimicking guitar licks from this period.

[@RobBjorgan]

Jeff Beck Blow By Blow Amazing show In Winnipeg so many years ago when I saw him in a auditorium Unforgettable 🎸

[@joemartines3545]

You lucky dog...

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

There’s that 54 Oxblood LP that’s going up for auction in January.

[@Jordan-h7x1u]

hard to believe hes gone

[@TheNaturalust]

I saw him perform this with Jan Hammer in Saint Louis in the late 70’s. Actually more fun to play than to listen to is my 2024 opinion.

[@brentabbott3954]

The groove is so tight

[@小河原国治]

文句なく！カッコいい！

[@jamesmack3314]

Killer…funked up version with a Stevie wonder superstition vibe….from one of the great albums of the 70’s

[@lawrencegreen4801]

JB/LP a sonic intoxication never equaled!!!

[@PrimitiveNoiseVideos]

I am Blow by Blown away by this recording! Beck was the guitar god!

[@cobar5342]

Oh Gosh! He was in a class of his own. Love him

[@Curtis-y9r]

And people wonder why I get so annoyed when they refuse to accept the fact that Jeff Beck does it better than everyone else.

[@cherryprs]

He was probably the best guitarist in the world. Hands down nobody does it like him.

[@Curtis-y9r]

@@cherryprs see, now I'm almost annoyed with you because you used the word" probably" but you get a pass because it's the afternoon so I haven't been drinking, that's a joke ( kinda) and my sciatica is killing me. Getting older can suck at times. Now I feel worse because it was either Fred Sanford or Granny Clampet that had problems with sciatica. Good grief. Peace.

[@sgt.thundercok4704]

Mature people get tired of those with the intellect of a child that always need to make one thing, person, band etc. 'the best'. More than anything it shows how little they actually know about what they profess.

[@Curtis-y9r]

@sgt.thundercok4704 mature people? Intellect of a child? Now I know that some dickhead who calls himself Sgt. Thundercok 4704 isn't the mature person you mention in your comment to me. And I also know that the same dickhead couldn't possibly be talking about me or anyone else as having the intellect of a child when he calls himself Sgt. Thundercok4704. So, who are you talking to and referring to in your comment, Sargeant? You must be a hit with the ladies. Must be tough having sex on your parents' couch, though, or haven't you got that far yet? Well, after whoever the lucky fella is that takes pity on you and pops your cherry, you can stop using that cool name you call yourself . Then you can stop trying so hard to sound like you are more intelligent than you are because that's not working for you and then learn to stay the fuck outbof conversations that you aren't involved in. Now run along and play with your G.I. Joe and Dream one day of not being the knob you are right now, OK little fella?

[@Curtis-y9r]

@sgt.thundercok4704 they removed my response to you and I don't feel like cleaning it up. But it was about the absurdity if someone who uses the name you do using words like mature and intellect when you obviously are short on both.

[@aschule5684]

The opening track on Blow By Blow complete with Les Paul and pick........ Master

[@Scott-sx1bf]

And Max Middleton on keys!

[@fmarkow]

Jeff Beck is the epitome of the cool guitar player.

[@lilajagears8317]

RIP Jeff, Buddy and Billy.

[@U2WB]

My favorite time of Jeff's was when he was playing his Les Paul with a plectrum (pick). Something very special about that era. A true guitar genius !

[@DankNstien]

Had blow by blow on 8 track bliss on a loop🥰

[@lloydmoss217]

And he had SUCH good rhythm and groove!!! He is missed!!!

[@bobl6139]

Wow never saw these two collaborate. Billy’s tour with the stones in 76 was one for the ages

[@JorgeCarlosGómez-r9n]

The Master at work, with some casual friends.

[@everts1698]

Jeff Beck the GOAT

[@gitaaa7740]

Thanks for uploading! This was when Blow by Blow came out. One my fav JB albums

[@Derivative_Guitarist]

This video makes me sad for the current state of guitar. Keep your instagram wannabes and just give me Jeff Beck, thank you very much

[@garyjohnson9505]

That's Jeff freakin' Beck!! You can Billy's smile from the back row!

[@CarlFrancis69]

That’s how you play drums for the song. And of course…JEFF BEST

[@meyou-dv8ns]

I was 5 years old in 1968 on Xmas day when my older brother who was 9 got The Beatles White Album as a Xmas present, we dropped all our toys and ran in his room to listen to it from start to finish, of course my two older brother locked me out of the room lol, but I could hear all the songs sitting right near the bedroom door on the out side, BACK in The USSR. , Dear Prudence and all the brand new Beatles songs- WOW. AT AG 60 I STILL REMEMBER THAT- SO FUCKING COOL- Then. in second grade I got into Jethro Tull. and in 5th grade Jeff Beck. all from my brothers getting into them first - then all of a sudden we went back in time and got into all the 50's dudes- Chuck Berry, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and all of them- Then in 7th grade 1976. I had $5. and on the way home in the record store I wanted to try a new band I never heard before that I was not into yet and the man behind the counter say. ZZ Top, I had no idea who they were. but he also said, Johnny Winter and Alice Cooper. BUT. I saw something I thought was really cool. , a album of a band called " Mountain" with this guy who looked to be about 600 pounds playing a guitar - the man that owned the record store said that's Leslie West, I was like WHO? Well I got the album and fell in love with Mountain, wow they were so fucking good !!!!!!

[@uubuuh]

great comment! yeah and along those lines I got the double album Tommy for some birthday like 10yo (some dark stuff in there for a tender lad, it went well with my Steppenwolf albums:-).

[@saj8]

Jeff Beck was a jazz guitarist who had a knack for playing rock.

[@paolocoletti1574]

Yea sure..

[@saj8]

@paolocoletti1574 Listen to Hello Jeff on Stanley Clarke"s Journey To Love album and tell me I'm wrong.

[@michaelgraham9774]

Jeff's kinda in his own world. No jazz or rock guitarists really sound like him

[@paolocoletti1574]

@@saj8Thanks for that, I still have the vinyl! As for the music piece, maybe that signifies jazz for you, and that's fine. But for me it's more like prog on the fast rigid riffs with the bass and then rock guitar throughout just like later background sports rock music that came later with the Satriani instrumental world of music guitarists.

[@paolocoletti1574]

@@michaelgraham9774 Lots of guitar players in their own world. For me it used to be Steve Hackett, much more interesting to me. Beck's is more mass appeal to me and I was never that impressed with the "tone" everybody goes on about? I prefer that there's feel. And that musical language just doesn't grab me. But that's about me, not a reflection on him. Nobody has universal appeal right?

[@ronnym1977]

He is quite the talent.

[@Alkymick1]

I think I'll give that another listen....

[@yuyas.7309]

海賊盤、ブートレグCDで聴いたあの音源、まさか映像が在ったとは！テレビ番組だったのですね。 ということは"Nothing From Nothing"、"Them Changes"、"Cause We've Ended As Lovers"の映像も在るということ？ いつか観ることが出来るのであろうか…

[@brianwells4507]

RIP 🙏 Jeff❤

[@TWTexasA1]

I loved what Jeff did back in the 70’s to me that when he was at his best …👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@brianmcnutt8850]

That's quite a damn band there!

[@Krisleigh1981]

I love his sound ❤

[@ShiningTrapezoid]

Sick. I used to have a poster of that guitar when I was a kid.

[@melaniezhou6789]

❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 excellent

[@srb20012001]

Jeff does the funk!

[@travelinben1966]

R.I.P. Maestro. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@darlenemcmillan5802]

This video screams 1975 and i love it❗❗❗👍👍👍

[@pabk7808]

i want to visit his grave R.I.P you guitar winner

[@virgilrobertsjr7870]

I remember this song and haven't heard in over 40 years! ☆☆☆☆☆ 💯

[@dawizard]

Nice all-star band!

[@thomasthompson3206]

I got to tell you, him and that Oxblood Les Paul have done some crazy stuff.

[@HopeIanHope]

Amazing band,

[@rdanalytics9197]

I love Nigel.

[@BrianKlobyGuitar]

Preston's band is mega awesome backing up Beck on this ☕🎸

[@The_Timinator]

Ummm Jeff's band was there in the Jam too, 2:13 there's Max Middleton on the Keyboards to the left.

[@donzxcv1]

Jeez, that band

[@walterkemp6558]

Fantastic. Wow.

[@andragg]

This song sure brings back memories. I played lead guitar in a fusion/rock band in the '70's and this was one of the songs we played, along with Freeway Jam. Me and the other lead guitarist played vintage Les Pauls with humbuckers but we never tried to emulate Beck. He was one of a kind.

[@jcsolomon6470]

So CooL!I Vintage wire guitars like the 50s and 60s in my area in Local Music Stores,with the PIO,Vintage tone caps,CTS 500k pots!Nuthin beats that vintage sound!Take care now!😊❤

[@marciohenrique1872]

SUPERB

[@Flare4roach]

This is about one month before Billy and Ollie joined the Rolling Stone's 1975 "Tour of the Americas". They had their chops all warmed up.

[@daulab]

Simply great❤

[@danizomba1794]

King

[@rodentcafeteria]

That's quite the lineup of musicians Beck is playing with.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

name them, please. Looks like Billy Preston on…the bongos lol. If THATS the case i wanna see this lineup play Goin’ Down. Buddy Miles, a man i used to party with 15-20 years later that i housed for a few nights…on percussion

[@SolveighTravis-wn4tx]

Absolute genius!

[@BabaGStar]

Indeed sir

[@BoomerLicks]

One of the coolest.

[@caseyeisenman]

Les Paul days!!! Amazing!

[@Cars-Guitars-Music]

Absolutely 🎵

[@TheDogPa]

The playing was ALWAYS great, but the music was just better in the LP days :O)

[@GordiansKnotHere]

Great show right there... Love that Les Paul.