A nice reminder

gball said:
Of how great Beck sounds without that stupid, stupid wang bar (seriously, ever since he started playing Strats I can't stomach his music, it all sounds like those "shreds" videos to me. The man needs a vibrato intervention)

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I agree on all counts. Nice vid!
 
This is great - the old Oxblood, but I also love his contemporary music. I find his use of the trem innovative and musically relevant. But then I've watched him since his first debut with the Yardbirds. Between him, Page and Clapton he is the only one who has kept evolving and pushing the music forwards.
 
Like Don I think a lot of Beck's stuff is great when he plays a Strat too, but agree that his use of the vibrato is bordering on the excessive at times. But when he uses it with a bit of restraint he is fantastic.

One of my favorite performances by Beck is this one. The Jeff Beck group in 1972 doing Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You". He plays a Strat (but doesn't touch the wang bar until the very last solo). His band here is great too: Cozy Powell on drums, Max Middleton on keys, Bob Tench singing and Clive Chaman on bass.

 
DonP said:
This is great - the old Oxblood, but I also love his contemporary music. I find his use of the trem innovative and musically relevant. But then I've watched him since his first debut with the Yardbirds. Between him, Page and Clapton he is the only one who has kept evolving and pushing the music forwards.
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He has evolved. I am not sure whether he pushed music forward. Objectively speaking, to me this would require a showing that he did something not done before (however slight or in whatever form) and that others subsequently adopted it. I am not familiar enough with his work to render an opinion as to whether this is true or not.
 
One of the first "rock" t-s I ever owned was one like this with the THICK heavy transfer on the front ------made your chest sweat like a mofo but who cares --- its JEFF BECK!!!
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And another reminder...
Supposedly since 1989's Guitar Shop album, Jeff Beck stopped using a guitar pick.
 
I'm a pre and post whammy bar fan of Beck. But that last album release I didn't care for a whole lot.
 
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