Jeff Beck Shows Why The Volume Knob on a Strat is in Exactly the Right Place...

I love watching Beck for sheer technique, but paradoxically I don't much enjoy listening to his music. Of the three soloists in that clip I liked EC the best, Doyle 2nd and Beck third, so :hide:

And I feel both he and Clapton sound worlds better when they are playing Gibsons.
 
gball said:
I love watching Beck for sheer technique, but paradoxically I don't much enjoy listening to his music. Of the three soloists in that clip I liked EC the best, Doyle 2nd and Beck third, so :hide:

And I feel both he and Clapton sound worlds better when they are playing Gibsons.
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When was the last time they played a Gibson? I can't recall Beck on a Gibson...

From Beck:

Speaking with Total Guitar awhile back, Beck says that compared to a Gibson Les Paul or Fender Telecaster, “My Strat is another arm, it’s part of me.
“It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all. It’s an implement which is my voice.
“A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.
“With the Strat, instantly it becomes mine, so that’s why I’ve welded myself to that. Or it’s welded itself to me, one or the other.”
Beck also said the Strat inspires him to dig deeper.
 
Sp8ctre said:
When was the last time they played a Gibson? I can't recall Beck on a Gibson...

From Beck:

Speaking with Total Guitar awhile back, Beck says that compared to a Gibson Les Paul or Fender Telecaster, “My Strat is another arm, it’s part of me.
“It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all. It’s an implement which is my voice.
“A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.
“With the Strat, instantly it becomes mine, so that’s why I’ve welded myself to that. Or it’s welded itself to me, one or the other.”
Beck also said the Strat inspires him to dig deeper.
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He played a Les Paul a lot in his early/mid solo period, the very famous oxblood one (it's what he's playing in the terrible watercolor on the cover of Blow By Blow).

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I've personally never liked him on a Strat, although that seems to be the instrument most associated with him. It's the wang bar in particular that I just can't deal with - the man is obsessed with it and it's ruined his music for me.
 
By the time I started listening to Beck and Clapton it was the 70's. Clapton quick playing a Gibson in 1970 when he famously bought 6 Strats and created Brownie.
He also gave a couple away. One to Harrison and I can't recall the other. I've always know both as Strat players.
 
Sp8ctre said:
When was the last time they played a Gibson? I can't recall Beck on a Gibson...

From Beck:

Speaking with Total Guitar awhile back, Beck says that compared to a Gibson Les Paul or Fender Telecaster, “My Strat is another arm, it’s part of me.
“It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all. It’s an implement which is my voice.
“A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.
“With the Strat, instantly it becomes mine, so that’s why I’ve welded myself to that. Or it’s welded itself to me, one or the other.”
Beck also said the Strat inspires him to dig deeper.
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I can totally relate...
 
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