Guest pirateflynn Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 I love the Truth album. Here's a montage of clips wth Shape of Things as a soundtrack:http://youtube.com/watch?v=IL7ixSWdvCc&search=jeff%20beck
tbabinec Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 Yeh, Jeff Beck's playing with the Yardbirds and on Truth has stood the test of time. The band does borrow some songs from American blues players - You Shook Me and I Ain't Superstitious are penned by Willy Dixon, while Rock My Plimsoul and Blues Deluxe are B.B. King. In early Led Zep fashion, these latter tunes are not credited, if my memory serves me. Beck's Bolero has Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, John Paul Jones, and Nicky Hopkins! Beck was playing a Les Paul in those days, I think. Page took You Shook Me and made it Zep's on Led Zep I.
Buzzy Fretts Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 those are some fine played songs. I caught Jeff at BB's a couple years back and he sizzled.
Bruiser Brody Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 I love the Truth album. +1. Alotta JB fans don't like it..esp if they were introduced to it after they heard Wired or Blow By Blow..but I dig it. Classic album 'fo sho. And hey Pirate..maybe I'm starting to get 'Kinda Blue'..a track came on the ipod on shuffle and I dug it!...Could have been that I was dodging the INSANE drunks driving thru Dallas on July 4th and it was soothing to hear while trying survive thru that highway pinball machine!
Willie G. Moseley Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 "Shapes of Things" had a couple of "firsts" that probably stopped a lot of listeners---particularly players---dead in their tracks:1. The first time most of us had heard a raspy-voiced "singer" named Rod Stewart. Somehow his gargling-with-sandpaper voice made sense but it may have taken some getting used to.2. A cover of a song Beck did with his previous group. ???---talk about audacity, which ultimately meant you paid attention to make comparisons, if for no other reason. The Beck version was different enough to where you didn't ultimately miss the whiplash sound from the earlier version. 3. Wasn't Mickey Waller the drummer? He always had a listenable but raucous style that was more controlled than Keith Moon...barely.IMO, the tune that holds up the best from TRUTH over the decades is "Beck's Borlero"....and I understand that "Borlero" (that's the Ravel composition heard in '10', not the Beck song) got re-inserted back into the James Gang's "The Bomber" a while back on some re-issue. Another great guitar song (if a medley) that stands the test of time.
ArnieZ Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 I had the pleasure of seeing that lineup twice at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. I recalled that Jeff Beck used a pick in those days which you can see in the video. His live playing and tone were superb, though I don't remember the effects being so close to the record as on that video. Rod was clearly not a pop singer in those days!ArnieZ
Jakeboy Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Becky rocked in those days!I lOVE the whiplash pedal steel all distorted & cranked on "SHapes of Thngs"!Also his tone on Plimsoul & my fave "Let Me Love You".Monster.
cmatthes Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Beck is one of those "must see in your lifetime" players in my book. I've managed to catch him twice, and was blown away both times. Smaller venues may have helped, because I was less than 20 feet away from him for both shows. That guy is amazing, even 40 years later.
silentman Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 I never got Beck. Saw him live on the co-headlining tour with SRV, but I wasn't moved.
MCChris Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 I never got Beck. Saw him live on the co-headlining tour with SRV, but I wasn't moved.Well, he's no Petrucci, that's for sure.Interpret that as you will.
harry65 Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 I never got Beck. Saw him live on the co-headlining tour with SRV, but I wasn't moved.best live player i ever saw, and imho the best electric rock player ever, and this is coming from a shredhead, his phrasing is otherworldly...............................
slider313 Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 I saw Beck a couple of times. The ARMS concert at MSG was the first time. Clapton's band opened the show. We thought he sounded real good and the band was on. He finished his set, the lights went out and five minutes later a one note bend FILLED MSG. Jeff Becks tone made Clapton sound like a child using a Mickey Mouse guitar and amp set. The second time I saw him was at Jones Beach LI opening for Santana. Great tone again, until his Marshall blew up and they brought him out a Fender stack. At that show he was using both a Marshall and Fender stack then two Fender stacks when the Marshall blew. The tone Beck was getting on the recent Crossroads Festival wasn't near as good IMO. I personally think he's sounded 10 times better and I didn't like it at all; but hey, who the hell am I to say.
Funkengrooven Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 I never got Beck. Saw him live on the co-headlining tour with SRV, but I wasn't moved. I get him....one of my favourites...The most amazing thing was he and his band suddenly showing up in a movie backing up a female singer, whose name I know but can't recall.... that was a ...HEY !!!!! That's Jeff Beck!! and he was doing it like CRAZY... Now SRV...him I don't get...or maybe it is every darn crummy alleged blues guitar player doing his tunes that is trying to kill him all over again...
Matt Mattson Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Video has been removed.Yeah -- that didn't take long. I guess Jeff's on the forum . . .
hamersandstrats Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 IMO, Jeff Beck is in a league all his own. Lots of people can cop Hendrix, EVH, etc. note for note (well not me, but they are out there), but I've never heard anyone do a convincing Beck.He just seems to be able to say whatever he wants to on the guitar, he is a complete virtuoso in every sense of the word. With that said, I have some live Beck that was, well, noisy and disappointing.
bubs_42 Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 That album has a permanent spot in my CD Player.... I even take it to work with me.
Pieman Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 I bought when it came out. I was in high school. I just heard a track the other night on the Little Steven radio program while I was walking the dog. That music is part of my DNA now for sure.Here's how "Truth" has stood the test of time. My nephew (now a sophomore in high school in Boulder) has been playing violin since he was four and guitar for the last five years. He has become quite a good player, plays all modes up and down the neck. I recently sent him a box of old Vintage Guitar magazines, some videos, DVDs and "Truth." According to my sister, he immediately grabbed "Truth," plugged in and played along for three hours. Oh to be fifteen and have that sort of time to burn.
Punkavenger Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Truth is a fantastic album ... now THATS something I should have on vinyl! I listened to "rough and ready" a lot growing up ... it's a bit of an odd one but I really like it anyway.
bubs_42 Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Truth is a fantastic album ... now THATS something I should have on vinyl! I listened to "rough and ready" a lot growing up ... it's a bit of an odd one but I really like it anyway. I've got it on Vinyl, Sounds Great !
harry65 Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 IMO, Jeff Beck is in a league all his own. Lots of people can cop Hendrix, EVH, etc. note for note (well not me, but they are out there), but I've never heard anyone do a convincing Beck.He just seems to be able to say whatever he wants to on the guitar, he is a complete virtuoso in every sense of the word. With that said, I have some live Beck that was, well, noisy and disappointing.+1, he seems to be one of those guys that if he's on he is almost godlike but if he's not feelin it,well.............i saw him around 2001 in ny and about 2000 people including myself walked out that night in a dazed stupor, it was flatout the best guitar show i've ever seen, musical,intense,beautiful,nasty, every emotion you can think of rolled into one evening........................
kizanski Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Personally, I can't listen to ANY song where the "singer" is Rod Stewart, even if it is a Jeff Beck song. I tried. Just can't do it.Give me an instrumental any day!
Punkavenger Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Personally, I can't listen to ANY song where the "singer" is Rod Stewart, even if it is a Jeff Beck song. I tried. Just can't do it. Give me an instrumental any day! not even "hot legs" ?
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