The Story of JEFF BECK | World's Greatest Guitarist

[@ReceivetheWordofGod]

Jimi Hendrix showed us we could travel to outer space but Jeff Beck showed us where to travel in outer space once we got there. Miss you Jeff Beck. Your guitar playing inspired us all and brought me thru hard times.

[@charlesgraham4286]

Every note and riff Jeff played came from his souls and beyond

[@DanielFeinstein]

There can't be enough tributes to him! I'm 49 years old, and my mother dated a guy when I was 11 years old, that passed the album, Truth, on to me. I'd heard it, and it blew me away! "Morning Dew" from that album, is one of my all-time favorite songs. Brought me to tears when I'd first heard it. One thing though...from all accounts that I'd read over the years, it was Jeff that broke up the original Jeff Beck Group before Woodstock. He had a history of insubordination, or...shooting himself in the foot when things were going great for him. I think he was on the fence about fame, and notoriety for most of his career? The thing that I'd always found very funny about him, was that as incredibly, gifted as he was on the guitar, he seemed to want to work on cars more. There was a period, where it seemed to me, as a fan, that making records, and touring was, merely, a means...ALMOST a hassle, just to feed his hobby of restoring old hot rods!

[@brahmburgers]

I'm 8 yrs Jeff's junior. My first professional club gig (with a Fender Strat, of course) was at age 15 in a smokey little blues club in Madrid Spain, 1967. At that time, I was already a fan of Beck. I've always liked and admired him. He was the epitome of a great electric guitarist, and a great fellow.

[@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY]

Rock on!

[@richardbarnes5529]

I am now 76 and always said Jeff is the best ever Whenever I need a Beck fix I go to TRUTH and listen to Rock my Plimsoul. The solo will still be enjoyed 100 years from now

[@MochaDaisy8645]

Thank you for this video. I first saw Jeff Beck in 1989 (already 25 years into his career) and it was not just memorable, it forever changed the way I looked at live performances. I made a point of seeing every tour from then until 2003, then from Halloween of 2011 right up to last November, never knowing when he would call it a career. I never ruled out that last concert being my final time seeing him but I certainly didn’t seeing it all end the way it did. I had just lost 3 family members (human and canine) all within a month of Christmas and losing Jeff didn’t help. I am deeply shattered now that he is gone 💔😢

[@helena20000]

❤#JeffBeck❣️

[@dolly5279]

Jeff Becks mother was a trained concert pianist. His Uncle used to take him on trips in his old sports car in which his uncle turned on his car radio, and played jazz. The vehicle and the music had a great influence on Jeff as he eventually had his own garage and he loved being a mechanic on his hot rods at his home after he became a successful artist. Unfortunately he liked to drive fast and had several crashes in which his hurt his head badly. The serious music he heard on record and from his mother's playing and the jazz he heard in his uncles car were a great impression on him. He also went to the cinema and heard popular music which had a great influence on him. Cynthia Allen-McLaglen

[@Kenneth-c4j]

Jeff Beck gave Jimmy a Fender Telecaster to thank for recommending Beck to the Yardbirds. Page still has that guitar.But Page had other guitars before 1965.

[@freddylopez7536]

I love love this one so much. TY

[@scotttaubold4121]

I really like your Roots channel. I saw Jeff Beck in November of 2022 in Reno Nevada. I always said he was the best guitar player ever. I put seeing him on my bucket list. I think I saw him at his last concert because it seemed right after, I heard the bad news of his passing. Then all the other guitarists could and did admit, he was the best!

[@MochaDaisy8645]

@scotttaubold4121 You are right, that was JB’s last live performance ever. I was at the show before the tour finale at Hard Rock Live Sacramento (although it’s 40 miles north). One of my closest friends was at that concert and the one in Reno. He was in utter shock and disbelief not only when he passed but that he caught his last two shows

[@arkteosss]

Jeff released guitar shop in 89, before that wired in 77. Who else in 99 and you had it coming in 2000. You missed those

[@musefan69]

There is a whole lot more to him BUT this brief overview is better than none at all...he is also by all acct's my fave.

[@LastChanceTinyHouse]

I liked your history of Jeff, there isn''t enough words to say how amazing he was/is. I am surprised you didn't mention his last words.

[@sauletto1]

I was in high school and there was a local bad named "Wintergreen" that played on a flatbed semi-trailer a some big school thing. Not sure if it was in Nj or Florida .... but they played Jeff Beck's "Freeway Jam" almost exactly ! I found the live with Jan Hammer Jeff Beck album and it's still my favorite J.B. song. in fact I''m gonna spin it up right now ! 😎🎸🎸🎸

[@rick6582CNCMedicalParts]

Jeff Beck was Great ..My 3 Fav are Jeff Beck Jimmy Page & SRV..Great Channel ! Best to you

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Respects But SRVis not in the same class with Beck and Page. Thanks!

[@careystuart]

The only one close to Jeff was Stevie Ray Vaughn. Beck surpassed the genres of rock, blues and jazz. He was the true Stratocaster Master, And I had the privilege of seeing him 3 times. The last was the tour with Stevie Ray, 2 weeks before his death.

[@JoeAvila-u6y]

I'm the number one fan

[@AlainCliche]

nice video, but you forgot to mention Wired, Jeff Beck With the Jan Hammer Group Live and There and Back...

[@lennyharp]

Jeff and Stevie Wonder traded work a few times. Tal was a young giant talent and their work together was great. I followed Jeff from early Yardbirds to his Death.

[@Yardbird68]

😆 Been a Jeff Beck fan since discovering him through my ALL-TIME favorite group the Yardbirds in around 1979. I never knew he was married to Ms. Brown 😆 So, I guess Jeff was having an affair at the time with actress Mary Hughes then. Mary is mention in Jeff's Yardbirds song "Psycho Daisies". Jeff is still my all-time favorite guitarist and has been a long time inspiration to me. Enjoyed your video. Thank you!

[@jerryschipano8385]

Jeff was waiting for Stevie Wonder saw a drum kit started laying down a beat when Stevie came in he asked whats that beat your doing? So the story gos that Jeff layed out the openning drum beat on Superstition, never took any writers copyright. I've heard this but never believed till I heard a FM radio interview about how they meet up and Superstition was to be a song for Jeff, a Board Jeff and a drum kit is the only non-guitar story I know of him.Other than after see him and Stevie Ray play a happy Jeff played Sending Sweets a very rare tune he plays when he is happy as after the show he had rustly soon to be hot rod or rod parts picked up at the venue the local newspaper stated the venue didn't get the message and tryed to get them removed LOL no wonder he was sooo happy at the show. Brake like the Wind. Spinal Tap has lost a drummer turned guitarist RIP a fan.

[@nclarke372]

I'd like to hear your take on Tal Wilkenfeld.

[@gregparrott]

Thanks for posting a tribute to Jeff. It dates me, but I've followed him since the mid 1960's. After breaking up with Stewart, his ~1975 'Freeway Jam' was my next favorite. Two items may be of interest to you.#1) I Much later, I learned that in 1974 he released an album with the band and album title called 'Upp. On a song titled 'Down in the Dirt', a video shows Jeff effortlessly playing complex riffs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKunoqSugNOKadE #2) Jeff had a strong following in Japan. Beck, Tokyo 1999: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWTUc6aMj9B8jrM Beck+Santana, Nagano 1986 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4fPamaoic-EiZY,, Beck, Sapporo 1975 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZevi6OGiZllh68

[@tomfoolery2082]

Yes , the girl tht played bass was a bad ass no doubt .

[@mach1timingsystem-dragraci174]

Nice, but you missed Wired, There and Back, Who Else, You Had It coming, and Jeff! And that he was selected for Pink Floyd and the Stones, and his car crash before BBA....

[@kentkippes5773]

Unbelievable you didn't mention the album Wired with Jan Hammer. That album made him known among everybody else in the USA because of Miami Vice

[@PK1971PK]

Hi! I like your enthusiasm and the concept of your channel. And am also a big fan of Tal's. Hate to start off negatively, but you seem very confused in the segment about Blow By Blow. First, Lennon and McCartney didn't write any songs for the album, much less several. They wrote "She's a Woman" for the Beatles which became a hit for them in 1964, more than a decade earlier. Jeff covered it--or more like reworked it into an instrumental piece that is barely recognizable compared to the original Beatles version. Second, and most confusing to me, is the where in the world did you get the idea that Jeff didn't release any albums between Blow By Blow and Emotion & Commotion? A year after Blow By Blow, Jeff put out Wired, making two of the best jazz-rock fusion albums of all time. Even Wikipedia got this right--"Writing for AllMusic, Mark Kirschenmann said, 'Within a two-year span, the twin towers Blow by Blow and Wired set a standard for instrumental rock that even Beck has found difficult to match. On Wired, with first-rate material and collaborators on hand, one of rock's most compelling guitarists is in top form.'" And then a year later he put out an excellent live album in collaboration with the Jan Hammer group--all three of these albums were a prize in my vinyl collection in the late seventies. Then after those he put out six more albums before the one you mention, maybe the best of which was Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop in 1989. Since your channel is about roots history, you should check out some of Jeff's rockabilly revival stuff, especially with Imelda from just a few years ago. Search KZbin for those two should yield plenty of results. Imelda is one of my favorite newer artists, even after abandoning her signature look and de-emphasizing rockabilly around 2017. Think she would be a nice subject for your studies.

[@nickmonk7945]

When did he change from playing the Les Pauls to the strat w/- whammy bar? Love your channel, subbed 😄🎵

[@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY]

I should have added this! It was after Beck Ola in 1969ish timeframe. He thought the les Paul sounded too consistent with his studio work and the strat had more dynamic sounds , isn’t that funny

[@nickmonk7945]

@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY thanks for that!

[@LucasHaneman]

He said some interesting things about LP style, guitars, saying that they felt like toys compared to Stratocasters. Of course, his opinion on all of this changed over the years, and by the end of his career, he was bringing an LP on tour again for a few songs to my knowledge. As a guitarist who has been really into Beck’s music for a long time I can say that the transition from LP to Strat started in the late sixties/early 70s, but he was still using mainly humbucker equipped guitars through the recording of blow by blow and 1974. He used a little Stratocaster on that album, but the main guitars are his telecaster with PAF pickups and NLP. By the time he got to the wired album in 1977-ish he was mainly a Strat player from that point on. I’ve got to say, I really love his playing on both the less Paul and Stratocaster, as well as the telecaster for that matter. I find he approaches all of these instruments very differently, more so than many guitarists, so it’s nice to dig back and hear him play all of them. I even saw a video of him doing a rockabilly set around 2010 playing a Gretsch.. that’s some really cool stuff as he’s digging back into players like Cliff Gallup, etc

[@nickmonk7945]

@@LucasHaneman now THAT answers my question! Thank you very much. 🎸

[@JoeAvila-u6y]

You don't know the whole library of his songs like I do

[@boxyboy46]

Jeff was 20 when he joined The Yardbirds.

[@JoeAvila-u6y]

Jeff even called me a few times

[@tomfoolery2082]

I'd be interested in hearing more about Tal da bass girl .

[@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY]

Love your username, haha! And def subscribe and I might do her next!

[@finarollerz]

Let’s get name and age right Tal Wilkenfeld 😅

[@brandycat8513]

Jeff's got secret children all over the world. And if they're boys, their mothers get them to study guitar, in the rather vain hope.... lol

[@adrianguggisberg3656]

It's Tal Wilkenfeld not Tal Wilkinson.

[@raywayne]

Tal Wilkenfeld

[@maxtransitrv3658]

Not sure where you got your facts but you got a lot of things wrong. Beck was already making a name with the Tridents when he joined the Yardbirds. He made more of a name with them but got frustrated with management and touring. He plus Rod Stewart and mate Ronnie Woods created the original Jeff Beck Group, but Beck had health problems (and cold feet) and pulled them out of Woodstock. Following which Stewart and Woods joined Faces. This is all public info and the notion that you got ALL THIS wrong indicates you have no idea what actually took place.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

also never she mentioned loud hailer, his last effort with two younger female musicians

[@user-mp5gc1vc6d]

Making it seem like it took johnny depp for ppl to know beck pussed me off! Beck is a legend and depp can barely play. Beck is the first to use reverb and distortion!!!

[@user-mp5gc1vc6d]

Trust, more than enough ppl know who tal is