Jeff Beck, his guitars, related stuff & advert for the MLP Jeff Beck Social Group

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YouTube - Jeff Beck - Loose Cannon

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Loose Cannon

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Seymour Duncan New Products - SEYMOUR DUNCAN 35 LIMITED EDITION GUITAR

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The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles at Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:

"Imagine"
- Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
Track from: The Imagine Project
[Hancock Records]



Best Pop Instrumental Performance:

"Nessun Dorma"
- Jeff Beck
Track from: Emotion & Commotion
[Rhino]



Best Pop Instrumental Album:

"Take Your Pick"
- Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
[335 Records, Inc.]



Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance:

"Helter Skelter"
- Paul McCartney
Track from: Good Evening New York City
[Hear Music/Universal/Concord]



Best Hard Rock Performance:

"New Fang"
- Them Crooked Vultures
Track from: Them Crooked Vultures
[DGC/Interscope]



Best Metal Performance:

"El Dorado"
- Iron Maiden
Track from: The Final Frontier
[UMe]



Best Rock Instrumental Performance:

"Hammerhead"
- Jeff Beck
Track from: Emotion & Commotion
[Rhino]



Best Rock Song:

"Angry World"
- Neil Young
Track from: Le Noise
[Reprise; Publisher: Silver Fiddle Music]

Big congrats Mr. Beck, well deserved!!

YouTube - Herbie Hancock's "Imagine", featuring Pink, Seal, India.Arie

YouTube - Herbie Hancock's "Imagine", featuring Pink, Seal, India.Arie

YouTube - Jeff Beck -Nessun Dorma -Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Tokyo April 13th,2010

YouTube - Jeff Beck -Nessun Dorma -Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Tokyo April 13th,2010

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Tokyo April 13th,2010 Hammerhead - Dirty Mind

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Tokyo April 13th,2010 Hammerhead - Dirty Mind

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CD and DVD Review: Jeff Beck - "Jeff Beck's Rock 'n' Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul" - Premier Guitar

DVD
Jeff Beck’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul
(Eagle Rock Entertainment)



ALBUM
Jeff Beck’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul
(ATCO)



Jeff Beck’s latest release, Rock ’n’ Roll Party, is just that—a loud, fun-filled celebration of the music, life, and legacy of Beck’s biggest influence, Les Paul. For two nights last September, Beck descended to the underground stage of the Iridium in New York City where Paul held court almost every Monday night right up until his death in August of 2009. Backed by the Imelda May Band, Beck chose to interpret a collection of tunes made famous by Paul in addition to rockabilly and early rock ’n’ roll tunes that inspired him as a youngster. Both nights were shot and recorded for independent CD and DVD/Blu-ray releases, with the CD featuring 20 songs and the DVD/Blu-ray adding seven more and some cool bonus features to the mix.

Dressed in blue—reminiscent of the cover to Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps’ self-titled album—Beck kicks off the DVD with “Baby, Let’s Play House,” a tune made famous by Elvis Presley during his Sun Sessions. Standing in front of several small Fender combo amps, Beck tears into his blonde Gibson L-5 with the unbridled power of a teenager and a Zen master’s touch. Rhythm guitarist Darrell Higham strums his Epiphone Jumbo acoustic with gusto and totally cops a ’50s vibe in both look and sound with his vocals that channel Bill Haley. The rhythm section of Al Gare on bass and Stephen Rushton on drums gives the tunes a solid foundation without becoming too heavy handed. Early on, Beck digs into “Train Kept A-Rollin’,” a staple from his years with the Yardbirds. The tone on Beck’s solo is so fuzz-laden that you would think Paul Burlison himself sliced up the speaker cones with a rusty knife.

Playing the Mary Ford role to Beck’s Les Paul, Imelda May gives an intensely understated performance on “Cry Me a River.” The tune begins with Beck playing a chord melody intro that is equal parts Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. His jazz fills fill the spaces between May’s phrases perfectly and makes me want to hear him stretch out on more jazz tunes. They switch gears to head into Ford and Paul’s signature song, “How High the Moon.” To replicate the overdubbed vocals on the original, May sings to some pre-recorded tracks while Beck’s guitar plays a solo that combines his signature tone with elements of old-school bebop that serve as the most direct tribute to Les Paul’s style and catalog.

The special guests—Brian Setzer, Gary “U.S.” Bonds, and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews—do exactly what guest players should, they add to the energy without stealing the show. Setzer does a great job playing the Eddie Cochran role on “Twenty Flight Rock” and then returns for the blowout finale of “Shake, Rattle, and Roll.” On the DVD, Beck mentions in an interview that he invited Bonds to sit in on “New Orleans” after he heard Bonds was playing around the corner.

The DVD and Blu-ray version contain some excellent bonus features that were clearly directed at the guitar nerds that hang on Beck’s every note. The included 30-minute interview with Beck touches on everything from his first memories of hearing Les Paul’s music to a meeting arranged by Billy Squier that led to a lifelong friendship. You can tell that the interviewer hadn’t spent much time locked away in her bedroom trying to figure out the bridge to “Cause We Ended as Lovers” as the questions were a bit clichéd and over-rehearsed. Luckily, Beck’s irreverent personality kept things interesting.

Also included is a short video of Beck in what seems to look like an attic at his English estate where he goes through some of the highlights of his guitar collection. Make sure to check out the story behind the “TeleGib” that involved trading the Fender Esquire that he used in the Yardbirds to Seymour Duncan and some (momentary) regret. He also touches on the white Strat he used on Wired—which was a gift from John McLaughlin—and a plastic Maccaferri that came by way of Jimmy Page. The other included features are a behind the scenes montage from the Iridium shows and some vintage footage from a mid- ’80s Billy Squier show where Beck and Paul jam through a few blues tunes.

Beck clearly wanted to pay tribute to Les Paul and the early rock axe-slingers that made him want to pick up the guitar. And you can hear the lineage that goes from early American rock ’n’ roll over to the British blues artists and back again. It’s hard to imagine another living artist who could accurately and authentically pay tribute to Les Paul, his music, and the spirit of innovation that he represented.

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Jeff Beck entering Iridium for his Les Paul Tribute show on 6/8/2010

YouTube - Jeff Beck entrance

YouTube - Jeff Beck entrance

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YouTube - Stevie Wonder & Jeff Beck - Superstition 2009(HD)

YouTube - Stevie Wonder & Jeff Beck - Superstition 2009(HD)

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YouTube - Jeff Beck - Interview (OGWT BBC 1981)

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Interview (OGWT BBC 1981)

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YouTube - A Tribute To Jeff Beck

YouTube - A Tribute To Jeff Beck

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At the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, 19 July 2008. Nigel Kennedy violin, Tomasz Grzegorski saxophone, Piotr Wylezol piano, Adam Kowalewski double bass, Pawel Dobrowolski percussion.

YouTube - Jeff Beck with Nigel Kennedy

YouTube - Jeff Beck with Nigel Kennedy

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Jeff Beck is featured in the Guitar World issue out on March 2nd 2011.

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During the pre-telecast ceremony Jeff Beck accepted one of his three Grammys at the 2011 Grammy Awards.

YouTube - JEFF BECK WINS THREE GRAMMYS

YouTube - JEFF BECK WINS THREE GRAMMYS

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YouTube - B-I-Bickey-Bi-Bo-Bo-Go - Jeff Beck and the Big Town Playboys

YouTube - B-I-Bickey-Bi-Bo-Bo-Go - Jeff Beck and the Big Town Playboys

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Jeff Beck: Performing This Week... Live at Ronnie Scott's [Blu-ray] (2009)

7 Track rockabilly set with the Big Town Playboys exclusively available on the Blu-ray version:

1) Race With The Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A Rollin'
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Rockabilly. @Ronnie Scotts

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Rockabilly. @Ronnie Scotts

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Originally Posted by planks

65 years old – still looks cool and plays better than ever – go figure!

must be the Cheap Sunglasses he borrowed from Billy Gibbons...

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Originally Posted by planks

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Rockabilly. @Ronnie Scotts

have the DVD format of "Rock 'n' Roll Party" and "Jeff Beck... live at Ronnie Scott's"

recently bought the Blu–Ray versions – WOW!

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Pics from Jeff Beck's show at Amager Bio, Copenhagen Denmark, 11 November 2010

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Red, White & Blues

Directed by Mike Figgis

Director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code) joins musicians such as Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Tom Jones, performing and talking about the music of the early sixties British invasion that reintroduced the blues sound to America.

During the 1960s, the UK was the location for a vibrant social revolution. London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle all had their own music scenes. Musicians from Belfast and Glasgow moved to London to be part of the club scene there.

The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements produced the fertile ground for a new kind of blues music — entirely influenced by the authentic black blues of the USA, and, for the most part, entirely ignored by the good citizens of the US. It was new in the sense that certain key musicians took the blues and molded it in an entirely personal way to fit the new awareness of the UK in the sixties. Importantly, for the most part they continued to pay homage to the originators of the music and to make a huge global audience aware of the likes of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, etc.

Mike Figgis' film examines the circumstances of this vibrant period. Figgis himself participated, albeit in a minor way, in this period of history, playing in a blues band with Bryan Ferry, a band that was the nucleus for the first Roxy Music.

A series of musical interviews with the key players of the blues movement is augmented with a live session at the famous Abbey Road recording studios. Tom Jones, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, and Lulu all improvise around some classic blues standards, accompanied by a superb band made up of younger and not-so-younger-musicians. The results are electrifying.

Says Figgis: "I'm interested in why there was such excitement about this black music among Europeans. To that end, I've put together a group of these musicians, augmenting the line-up with some younger talent as well. Hopefully the resulting recording session of some blues standards, and the discussions that follow, shine some light on why at a particular moment the blues was reinterpreted abroad and reintroduced in a new form that was universally embraced."


Performances in Red, White & Blues
Jeff Beck
Big Bill Broonzy
Cream
Lonnie Donnegan
Georgie Fame
Chris Farlowe
Tom Jones
B.B. King
Peter King
Alexis Korner
Albert Lee
Lulu
Humphrey Lyttelton
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Van Morrison
Rolling Stones
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Muddy Waters
Lead Belly
Jon Cleary

Interviews in Red, White & Blues
Tom Jones
Jeff Beck
Van Morrison
John Porter
Humphrey Lyttelton
George Melly
Lonnie Donnegan
Chris Barber
Eric Clapton
John Mayall
B.B. King
Albert Lee
Chris Farlowe
Bert Jansch
Eric Burdon
Stevie Winwood
Davey Graham
Georgie Fame
Mick Fleetwood
Peter Green

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Blues jam (Band Rehearsal)

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Blues jam (Band Rehearsal)

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Who's Sorry Now? (Band Rehearsal)

YouTube - Jeff Beck - Who's Sorry Now? (Band Rehearsal)

YouTube - Love Letters - Tom Jones and Jeff Beck

YouTube - Love Letters - Tom Jones and Jeff Beck

YouTube - Jeff Beck with Van Morrison - Rambler's Blues

YouTube - Jeff Beck with Van Morrison - Rambler's Blues

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