Jeff Beck...

[Basvarken]

...passed away today.

RIP Jeff beck


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/12/legendary-rock-guitarist-jeff-beck-dies-aged-78

[westen44]

It goes without saying that he was one of the most iconic rockers who ever lived.  RIP Jeff Beck.

[uwe]

The train to Jordan just picked up a legendary passenger. Safe travels.



No one could make the guitar cry like him.

[TBird1958]

I am glad I did get to see him once - In '76 with (of all groups) Aerosmith and Starz.

[morrow]

I saw Beck with Jennifer Batten in Massey Hall , in Toronto.

and am thankful I did

[uwe]

An adoration:

[uwe]

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.



I always loved what did on this track too, it really was like asking Miles Davis "to add something to a song":

[westen44]

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. 

[uwe]

Can this be seen in the Land of the Free then?

[4stringer77]

We can see that one Uwe. Shame about Jeff. I thought Bacterial meningitis was something only college kids had to worry about.

[uwe]

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.

[Rob]

RIP Jeff

[westen44]

Love the part at the end where Letterman asks him about the RRHOF. 

[gearHed289]

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.