Your favorite performance video...

[drummer5359]

I'm guessing that this has been done here before, but not for some time from what I can see.


Tell us about a performance video that just knocks your socks off and why.

Then post a link to it on youtube so that we can see (and hear) why.

I'll start.

First off, full disclosure. I 'm big fan of Jeff Beck and have been pretty much forever. So, of course I'm going to offer up a clip of Mr. Beck in action. To most, a clip of his performance at the Crossroads festival with Tal and Vinnie would be an obvious choice.

I'm going with one less obvious. He did a Les Paul tribute show in which he collaborated with Imelda May and her band. They cover "Walking in the sand" and just knock it out of the park. They horn section is great, they are swaying along to the music. Drummer Steve Rushton just kills it and Imelda's voice is as pretty and unique as she is.

Enjoy.

[ramone57]

nice! that tribute to Les is amazing from start to finish

[uwe]

Once you are Jeff Beck, you shouldn't be obsessed with timing, too much vibrato or a bum note here and there. 

I'm not knocking it. He plays in parts "over the music and its beat" as Carlos Santana does too. Try doing that as a bass player and not have the band at your throat. I think the only guy who gets away with that (a little) is Jack Bruce.

[nofi]

there are no rules in music, unless you are uve. you can play major, minor and whatever else you want in the same song. how do you play in that musical straitjacket of yours?

"if you're thinken' you're stinken'"

[Pilgrim]

That Walking in the Sand video is great!  Love Imelda's voice...I see Lou Marini on the sax at the end, too.

[FrankieTbird]

Does that song have anything to do with Les Paul?  I'm only familiar with the Shangri-Las & Aerosmith versions.

[uwe]

there are no rules in music, unless you are uve. you can play major, minor and whatever else you want in the same song. how do you play in that musical straitjacket of yours?

"if you're thinken' you're stinken'"

I don't have issues with rule breaking, Jeff Beck is certainly allowed to his share of it. I break or at least strain rules playing bass all the time, mostly consciously though, i need some control even when transgressing. Always playing by the rules is boring, never doing it can be grating, Beck generally has a nice mix of both, in recent years he has become rather conservative in playing (and staying close to) the vocal melody of songs (the above track, A Day in the Life, Somewhere over the Rainbow etc)  on his Strat, something that went generally out of fashion long ago (I kinda like it). But then he does something off-the-wall'ish to spice it up.

[gweimer]

This one is one I love. I have to get the full documentary sometime.

[OldManC]

Has Beck done that fluttering thing with the vibrato for a long time? All I could think of whenever he did that was Brad Gillis but that's going back a few years, and I don't really picture Jeff Beck being an Ozzy or Night Ranger fan.

[uwe]

Since his Jan Hammer days, his playing has become a lot more sparse and vibrato -both finger and whammy - has taken on a larger role. Isn't that what happens to all of us: Your fretting hand does more tone shaping as you progress and your picking hand less? Of course, Beck's exquisite picking technique plays a major role in his sound.

[Dave W]

A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. 

Still in love with the fiddle player.

[drummer5359]

This one is one I love. I have to get the full documentary sometime.

Love it!

[drummer5359]

A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. 

Still in love with the fiddle player.

Giddy up!

[OldManC]

Ah, thank you Dave. That was nice. And the fiddle player is definitely my favorite as well. And I'm not trying to turn this into a girly video thread but the first thing that came to mind after watching that was this; also a nice performance.

[amptech]

A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. 

Still in love with the fiddle player.

Now this woud be a great look for the Nasty Habits!