Jeff Beck- your favourite tracks/ vids/ moments- and maybe a place to start for the curious...

axisus

I was into the Yardbirds way back, an influence from my best pal's older bro. I bought an excellent bootleg tape with Jeff from a music fayre back in the late 70s. He kind of fell off my radar, but for some reason I bought the vinyl of Guitar shop when it was released in 89. Wow! amazing album, it blew my socks off! Still my fave album of his.



Other stuff of his came along, all good, but then my other real wow moment was getting the Live at Ronnie Scott's DVD & CD. This is absolutely Jeff at his best, a phenomenal aural treat of an album, and one that perfectly displays the player that he was.

EricTheWeary

My only link to Beck really was that I can claim to have played with one of the same musicians that he did. Mine was a jam at a wedding rather than a successful album but here’s Jeff with my piano player…

https://youtu.be/EiiVYP4CSyw

I never particularly enjoyed the fusion era stuff, clever musak to me unfortunately. So having pigeonholed him somewhere in my mind watching the Ronnie Scott’s gig on tv, out of curiosity, was a bit of a revelation. It’s been mentioned a few times already and if someone wanted a primer on Jeff it would seem to be as good a place to start as any. 

I really like the Loud Hailer album, which if nothing else showed that Jeff wasn’t as frightened of contemporary music as some of his fans seemed to be…

https://youtu.be/QrvfhDQbHHE

And this clip from 1965 suggest that Jeff came out of the womb wanting to create mayhem with a guitar…

https://youtu.be/mn6q_jcc0uo

scrumhalf

I can't do the link on my phone but go back n YouTube and search for Definitely Maybe on Beat Club. It's nothing short of magnificent. 

digitalkettle

scrumhalf said:

I can't do the link on my phone but go back n YouTube and search for Definitely Maybe on Beat Club. It's nothing short of magnificent. 

Allow me...

Strat54

Jeff on Jools Hollands Hootenanny 2002, just amazing. Been a favourite clip for the last 20 yrs...
https://youtu.be/9zi3V_HITo8