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Rest in Peace the great Jeff Beck (1944-2023)
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A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.
- Jeff Beck
British guitarist Jeff Beck was widely acknowledged by his own musician peers as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Beck rose to fame in the 1960s when he replaced Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds. He left a year later to start his own group The Jeff Beck Group, featuring Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as part of the Yardbirds and inducted again in 2009 as a solo artist.
Beck was a guitar virtuoso and he is known as an artist who pioneered jazz-rock. Over the course of his career, his experimentation with distortion and fuzz effects paved the way for heavier subgenres like psych-rock and heavy metal.
An eight-time Grammy winner, Beck earned his first in 1985 for best rock instrumental performance for “Escape.” He went on to win five more times in that category.
Some of Beck’s most well-regarded songs include “Heart Full of Soul,” a 1965 single from the Yardbirds, “I Ain’t Superstitious” off his debut solo 1968 album with The Jeff Beck Group, “Truth,” and “Freeway Jam” from his second album, “Blow by Blow” in 1975.
RIP Jeff Beck (1944-2023)
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As a producer and songwriter, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour is drawn to floating, dreamy textures, but when he picks up his black Stratocaster to play a solo, an entirely different sensibility takes over: “I wanted a bright, powerful lead guitar tone that would basically rip your face off,” he says. He was a fiery, blues-based soloist in a band that hardly ever played the blues — his sprawling, elegant, relentlessly melodic solos were as bracing a wake-up call as those alarm clocks on The Dark Side of the Moon. But Gilmour was also adept at droning avant-garde improv, as seen in Floyd’s Live at Pompeii days, and could be an unexpectedly funky rhythm guitarist, from the slinky riff to “Have a Cigar” to the Chic-like flourishes on “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.” His pioneering use of echo and other effects — initially inspired by original Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett — culminated with his precision use of delay on “Run Like Hell,” which directly anticipates the Edge’s signature sound.
Key Tracks: “Comfortably Numb,” “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”
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#is 'kicked Keith and Mick up the ass' a euphemism for 'helped Mick take over to make a shit pop album and bought Keith enough weed to spend#the entire process faded out on the couch'?#also#the Paul McCartney thing is so funny#how would they ever have gotten him on the album without the former Miley Cyrus guitarist?#not like they've known him for 60 years or anything#this can go with Andrew's other greatest hits#like calling himself a super fan and then not knowing who founded or named the band#or having to ask Keith how he met Mick#because apparently he's too fucking stupid to operate Wikipedia#the rolling stones#mick jagger#old married band#keith richards#hackney diamonds#andrew watt
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European tour 2022 - my faves tagged 'Guitarists having fun'
If you follow my blog a bit, you will have noticed i have some recurring tags (some might even have blocked them 😇). To commemorate the end of the European leg of tour 2022, i'll do a reblog of some of my faves 😊
This is from the 'guitarists having fun' tag...not-guitarists-enthusiasts might want to scroll past really fast 😊 (gifs from various posts by @mrsfitzgerald from various sources, several from @derwahnsinn )
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(10 gifs is way too little to do this justice...❤️)
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I’ve wanted to transcribe this moment at 3:55 for MONTHS because Ray basically says that MCR was fated which, as the least prone to metaphor or grandiosity, has always really hit me that they all felt completely, 100 percent put on this earth to be making music together, anyway:
[Interviewer]: What are the first rehearsals like? Does anyone remember them?
[Gerard]: Um, I remember them really vividly. Yeah, there was like, it was me and Otter at first and we’d gotten together and we’d rented rooms ‘cause that’s all you could do. So we’d get money together and I’d play guitar and I would sing and he would play the drums. And that’s all it was– it was just us. And then I remember tha-that the stuff I was trying to sing was so complicated that I couldn’t– ‘cause I’m not a good guitar player so I couldn’t do it, y’know. I realized then that I wanted something more than three cord punk where someone was just singing over it, I didn’t want that sound.
So I, y’know, I remember seeing Ray in a band that played locally called The Rodneys and I remember feeling like when I saw him play I felt like “Wow, this is like the best guitar player I’ve ever seen,” so I called him up and he was doing something totally different with his life at the time. You were playing drums, right?
[Ray]: Yeah. I was playing drums in just a, like a local band with some friends (George Collazo’s band Dead Go West). Um, yeah and, you know, he’d given me a call– I was, you know we’d met I think through a friend of ours, mutual friend Shawn Dillon, that he’d gone to art school with and I knew Mikey. And, yeah, he just gave me the call and you know said that they were working on some, some, a new band, some songs and would you wanna come over and y’know just hang out and play really. And that was it.
[Gerard]: And I remember I’d had like a good feeling about it, I had this weird feeling– I think I even said that, I remember even saying that on a phone to him “I think I have a good feeling about this”
[Ray]: I definitely remember you–
AUDIENCE LAUGHS
[Ray]: He was right, obviously right. If ever Gerard says he’s got a good feeling, go with it. No, I definitely remember and I think that’s something for all of us, like it definitely felt like we were fulfilling some kind of destiny or like, y’know, doing what we were really meant to do.
[Frank]: When you picked up the guitar for the first time, did like air, like wind flow [gestures around his head] and like it lit up?
[Ray]: It was a light from the heavens, c’mon.
[Gerard]: It felt like that when we played our first, almost full band– this was before Frank was in the band– we played our first actual rehearsal with Mikey playing bass, it kinda felt like that.
[Ray]: Yeah. It felt really special. And you know, we had all played, um. We had all played, uh y’know Gerard, Gerard and Mikey had played in bands together and I’d played but it uh, it didn’t feel– it never felt like that. There was something really special about just the music and his voice combined with everything and you knew you were--
[Mikey]: It was full of magic.
[Ray]: Yeah, you knew you were a part of something different
[Frank]: But then, a couple mouths later it felt real special!
[Ray]: It got even better.
CHORUS OF AGREEMENT/LAUGHTER
[Ray]: It really felt complete.
#also bonus rodneys mention my beloved. greatest guitarist in jersey! and his toilet punk band!#but yeah the confidence with which ray says#we were fulfilling a destiny. it KILLS me.#there's another section of this interview where ray's like. without the band idk what id be doing id be miserable it saved us and like.man.#anyway#my posts#mcr speaks out#sl
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emotional support TM
#aka i suffer from stomach ache and it's 2 am and hes my greatest distraction from pain#aka these are my fav selfies of him so far i mean look at his face dear god#uruha#if youre not the visual of the band idk who you are#(opinion that is TOTALLY biased jdjdhd)#a talented guitarist obviously#and bangers composer but also#anyway#sorry for the censored face katty ilu trully
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I just hope eagles tickets aren't stupid expensive, I want to take my dad.
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Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck
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not even joking mcr would be nothing without ray toro
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anyways beard is so bad at press interviews bc he does not talk about anything important
#he was asked about jamie being seen w ted and he instead went on a rant abt lust conquers all#and then the greatest guitarist.....#he gets sidetracked!#ooc. this is your planet speaking!
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I don’t care about the rules, if I don’t break the rules at least 10x every song then I’m not doing my job.
- Jeff Beck
British guitarist Jeff Beck was widely acknowledged by his own musician peers as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Beck rose to fame in the 1960s when he replaced Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds. He left a year later to start his own group The Jeff Beck Group, featuring Rod Stewart and Ron Wood. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as part of the Yardbirds and inducted again in 2009 as a solo artist.
An eight-time Grammy winner, Beck earned his first in 1985 for best rock instrumental performance for “Escape.” He went on to win five more times in that category.
Some of Beck’s most well-regarded songs include “Heart Full of Soul,” a 1965 single from the Yardbirds, “I Ain’t Superstitious” off his debut solo 1968 album with The Jeff Beck Group, “Truth,” and “Freeway Jam” from his second album, “Blow by Blow” in 1975.
RIP Jeff Beck (1944-2023)
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“Nancy could bust out this beautifully complicated flat-picking, then turn on a dime, dig in, and grind out a riff that could leave many a guitar dude humbled,” said Chris Cornell of Soundgarden. This statement is valid at any point in Nancy Wilson’s five-decade career, with Heart and as a solo artist. “Crazy on You,” from Heart’s 1975 debut, is a prime example. At just 21, Nancy’s scorching, flamenco-inspired instrumental asserted the acoustic guitar’s place in the hard-rock format. Wilson was always pushing the boundaries of how her instrument could serve not only rock, but folk, pop, and soul, and that versatility enabled her to lift and cradle her sister Ann’s towering vocals, amplifying their celestial power.—S.G.
Key Tracks: “Crazy on You,” “Mistral Wind,” “Dog and Butterfly”
#saved you a click#Nancy Wilson#Heart Band#250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time#Rolling Stone Magazine
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George Harrison listed as #31 on Rolling Stone’s “The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”
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God this news with Jeff Beck is really killing me right now. Im so lucky i got to see him live when he toured with ZZ Top. Literally so sad, I’m so heartbroken right now. As a guitarist he was definitely such an inspiration to my playing. Can’t imagine what close friends and family of his feel right now. My hearts with them.
Dammit, its so fucking sad. I dont feel like being eloquent right now. Im just so devastated.
Rest in Peace, Jeff. You were an incredible creator in the world of music. One of the greatest. Hope you are doing well wherever you have traveled to. 🎸✨
#jeff beck#you’ll be missed#rip#rest in peace my friend#classic rock#guitar god#guitarist#one of the greatest
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