RIP Jeff Beck

[Midnight Toker]

So Eric Clapton and Beck's widow are putting on a 2 night Jeff Beck Tribute show at the Royal Albert Hall on May 22-23rd. (I hope it's filmed and released w/ proceeds going to charity, if not live streamed.)

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2023/a-concert-for-jeff-beck/

This might also be the last chance to coerce Jimmy Page back on a stage, but I have my doubts. I'm sure he'll be in attendance and will likely get up to say a few words, but his performance days seem to be well behind him.
(He could certainly still pull off Train Kept a Rolling, or strumming rhythm on Becks Bolero...but that would be the extent of it in my honest opinion)

 

[Guildedagain]

Pagey's done?

He certainly doesn't need to embarrass himself endlessly like Keef, well like since the 70's for him, or like Malcolm, when you forget the songs. At least I never learned them, nothing to forget, but thx for a million great riffs. My greatest guitar pleasures growing up was being up all night all alone with my stereo playing Zeppelin and AC/DC Let there be Rock etc on my turntable, me playing my Angus like 60's SG Standard through '68 Plexi Marshall matching Angus note for note, same with al the Zep albums up to Houses of the Holy and a little beyond.

Page was an even better acoustic player and I hear him in my playing, a lot.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Pagey's done?

He certainly doesn't need to embarrass himself endlessly like Keef, well like since the 70's for him, or like Malcolm, when you forget the songs. At least I never learned them, nothing to forget, but thx for a million great riffs. My greatest guitar pleasures growing up was being up all night all alone with my stereo playing Zeppelin and AC/DC Let there be Rock etc on my turntable, me playing my Angus like 60's SG Standard through '68 Plexi Marshall matching Angus note for note, same with al the Zep albums up to Houses of the Holy and a little beyond.

Page was an even better acoustic player and I hear him in my playing, a lot.

Page hasn't performed on stage in 10 years and has turned down many chances. He's basically retired, having mostly been involved with tidying up the Zep archives, and being in legal battles w/ neighbors to protect his Victorian Tower House built in the gothic revival style from damage from excessive building projects. His house is registered as a building of significant historical importance that gives it the same protections as Buckingham Palace, yet next door neighbor Robbie Williams wants to build an underground man cave, complete w/ swimming pool. Any unnecessary vibrations from excavation could certainly damage Page's über ornate interior. Page has spent the better part of the last decade in and out of public hearings and court rooms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_House

 

[Guildedagain]

Quote no longer attributable to Patton, but "Nuts".

I didn't know/never heard. I need to relearn the Rainsong again, what a cool tuning.

Getting the Led out.

 

[walrus]

I'm torn between missing whatever Page might have done had he kept recording (an instrumental album would have great by me!), and being glad he didn't keep playing, touring, etc. too long like some of my other favorite artists.

I give him credit for knowing when to stop, and keeping his legacy intact.

walrus

 

[Guildedagain]

It's kinda like watching early Skynnyrd do Zep, very cool. I've been playing a lot of Sr. Jeff, nailing down Two Rivers on my Strats, quite a commitment/chainging the action radically, but for the better, but Page was way more influential on me formatively. I never tried to play like Beck, before now.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I never tried to play like Beck, before now.

That's sort of like relearning how to play guitar!! And oddly, it gets more difficult as Beck's discography progresses chronologically. I have a much easier time w/ some of his 70's stuff than I do his 90's/00,s stuff. Not that any of it is easy to nail just like he did it. Most of it downright impossible!

 

[Guildedagain]

It's doing good things for my style. I play vocal melody on the guitar, and playing with the bar in hand and the ability to up 1/2 step opens up a ton of territory.

This is Eddie playing Dweezil Zappa's (?) vintage Strat backstage set up to float, something that Eddie wasn't really aware of and didn't set up his guitar like that so he thought it was amusing.



But it sounds fantastic.

 

[Guildedagain]

Due diligence researching Sir Jeff.

"I remember seeing Little Richard's band also had a Tele, in the same film, The Girl Can't Help It, in the background—a really nice battered-looking Tele—which we used to get mouth-watering at.



Quite an important film, then?


The most pivotal film in my career, and my life, really."

 

[Guildedagain]

Last words of Tony Bacon's interview.

"I'm the sort of bloke that's like a ton of bricks, you know? I won't be moved until I hear something that really sends me up in the air, then I'll be around pestering everybody, playing for them. I can't see the point in putting out an album, kidding yourself that it's great, if you don't believe it. You've got to believe in what you're doing—and then you can take all the crummy reports that are going to come, and you can say, 'Well, sod you, I like it.' And that's the main thing."

 

[adorshki]

When it comes right down to it, we all know what really motivates rock stars: