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Jeff Beck

adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
edited July 2006 in Other Music
What is everyone's thoughts on him? I'm thinking about getting into him. Any suggestions?
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  • nepalnepal Posts: 143
    Blow By Blow and Wired are my two favorite Jeff Beck albums, simply awesome!
    ...the dreams ain't broken down here now,
    they're walking with a limp
  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    I'll have to check those out. I've heard great things about Jeff Beck and don't want to miss out.
    I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me.
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  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    nepal wrote:
    Blow By Blow and Wired are my two favorite Jeff Beck albums, simply awesome!
    mine too. I have others however they aren't close to as good as those 2. Blow by Blow is the greatest guitar CD I have ever heard. Essential in my book. Definitely get that one.
  • RevolverRevolver Posts: 34
    Better than Clapton.
  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    Beck is like the anti-Clapton. If there hadn't been a Beck, there wouldn't be a Clapton. He is essential.
  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    suffragette wrote:
    Beck is like the anti-Clapton. If there hadn't been a Beck, there wouldn't be a Clapton. He is essential.

    Essential, definitely. But I don't really get what you're saying otherwise.
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  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    I mean Clapton is very media/Grammy-friendly. Beck is known to be rather surly. Clapton allows himself to be marketed, while Beck is content to be, well, surly.
  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    suffragette wrote:
    I mean Clapton is very media/Grammy-friendly. Beck is known to be rather surly. Clapton allows himself to be marketed, while Beck is content to be, well, surly.

    I should have clarified...I understood the anti-Clapton remark, but not the "if there hadn't been a Beck, there wouldn't be a Clapton" comment.
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  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Truth is my favorite Beck record. Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood on bass. Not very far in style from early Zeppelin. I agree that Blow by Blow is great. I haven't gotten around to getting Wired yet. You should also check out his stuff with the Yardbirds, especially Roger the Engineer. I also have a more recent album called You Had It Coming. It's techno rock and its very cool - and this is coming from someone who doesn't like techno at all. Very original guitar playing on it.
  • SDMikeSDMike Posts: 22
    I was a big fan of Wired when it came out but now when I listen to it, I think Jan Hammer ruins the whole thing. Too much of that screeching synthesiser shit. However, it's worth owning just for Goobye Pork Pie Hat.
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  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    pjny wrote:
    I should have clarified...I understood the anti-Clapton remark, but not the "if there hadn't been a Beck, there wouldn't be a Clapton" comment.

    I believe that Clapton took Beck's job in the Yardbirds when Beck left.
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    It was the other way around. Beck replaced Clapton. Then , for a little while, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were co-lead guitarists, then Beck left and it was just Page.
  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    So I'm an idiot and will get my british guitarists straight.
  • laudenumlaudenum Posts: 405
    check out "the jeff beck group" pretty old. "goin'down"
    one of the greatest rock songs.
    pj could do a wicked version of it too.
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    mooncalf agreed" THe BANd
  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    I think what doesn't put Beck up there with Clapton is the singing. He never had luck with a singer, except Rod Stewart. Clapton can sing his own stuff. Other than that, I would say that Beck is the more versatile and influencial of the two.
  • MetalGod75MetalGod75 Posts: 262
    Revolver wrote:
    Better than Clapton.
    10 million times better than Clapped out!:)
    Cornell pwns u
  • suffragettesuffragette Posts: 253
    Eric's real last name was Clapp. I would have changed it as well.
  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    suffragette wrote:
    I believe that Clapton took Beck's job in the Yardbirds when Beck left.

    Aah, I had a feeling this is where you were headed. As noted by hendrix78, it was the other way around.
    suffragette wrote:
    So I'm an idiot and will get my british guitarists straight.

    LOL, no worries man!
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  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    I'm just a geek when it comes to rock history stuff.

    I agree that Beck's problem is that he was never really able to put together a great band and keep it going. He was never much of a songwriter either. Most of his songs are covers or were written for him by others. I think the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood came closest to being a great vehicle for him, but I think it only lasted for a couple of albums. Lots of other guitarists have had the same problem. Mike Bloomfield and Roy Buchanan come to mind as examples of awesome guitar players who never really found a stable group that was a match for their talent.
  • Virgil CaineVirgil Caine Posts: 44
    Let's go over Clapton's resume a bit before we start dogging him.

    1. Yardbirds
    2. John Mayall's Blues Breakers w/ Eric Clapton - Many consider this the finest English Blues record of all time.
    3. Cream - Innovative work starting in 1966. Laid the ground work for every "heavy band" that followed.
    4. Beatles session work on the White Album
    5. Turned down an offer to join the Rolling Stones
    6. Blind Faith
    7. Delaney and Bonnie - turned D&B into a household name.
    8. First solo album - very, very under rated
    9. turned down second offer to join the Rolling Stones
    10.. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and other assorted love songs - fantastic album that was blasted by critics and was a commercial failure upon it's release. Not 1 weak track on the album.
    11. 461 Ocean Boulevard - excellent second solo album

    EC definitely shot his wad in the first 8 years of his career. But those first 8 years will stack up against anybody.
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