The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Basvarken on January 11, 2023, 04:30:48 PM
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...passed away today.
RIP Jeff beck
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/12/legendary-rock-guitarist-jeff-beck-dies-aged-78
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It goes without saying that he was one of the most iconic rockers who ever lived. RIP Jeff Beck.
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The train to Jordan just picked up a legendary passenger. Safe travels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43m6dcMk6U
No one could make the guitar cry like him.
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I am glad I did get to see him once - In '76 with (of all groups) Aerosmith and Starz.
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I saw Beck with Jennifer Batten in Massey Hall , in Toronto.
and am thankful I did
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An adoration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9bnaqqfq8
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Bacterial meningitis, I had forgotten that you can still die from that disease. Crap, once you're 78 not even antibiotics can save you all the time. It's not like he was a physical wreck or anything, he had only toured (and recorded) recently and looked healthy, even lithe for his age.
He's already recorded the ultimate instrumental version of a funeral classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L0v79Km_e8
I always loved what did on this track too, it really was like asking Miles Davis "to add something to a song":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4nK3C4cwio
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That last video is unavailable in the U.S.
It has been years since I've even heard anyone say the word meningitis it is so seldom a problem for people now. Now I'm sadly hearing it again.
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Can this be seen in the Land of the Free then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_rvmyjftU
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We can see that one Uwe. Shame about Jeff. I thought Bacterial meningitis was something only college kids had to worry about.
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We can't have this thread without a reference to this song and his two solos in it. He was just goofing around with an acoustic guitar to get a feel for the track (the solo was planned to be played on electric guitar), yet luckily the recording lights were on and they kept what he did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hev2qx1y2IU
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RIP Jeff
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https://youtu.be/GJErzI-aP1M
Love the part at the end where Letterman asks him about the RRHOF.
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Wired was my first real exposure to Beck in the late 70s. Summer of 1980, I was 16 and had been playing bass for three years. I dug deep into Wilbur Bascomb's grooves, and it really elevated me as a player. It was my gateway to things like Jean Luc Ponty, Return to Forever, Brand X, Bruford, and so on. He wasn't a prolific writer, but he could take other people's compositions and make them his own. He was a very soulful "singer", but he did his singing through his guitar. He did not compromise. He remained relevant to the end. And he will be greatly missed.