[Music] Jeff Beck - RIP

[East Staffs Gull]

Saw him play in Birmingham with Jonny Depp last year. Truly brilliant. RIP Jeff.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Hendrix gone, Peter Green gone , Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher gone…. and now Jeff Beck gone too.
It is a sad thing to see your musical heroes dying before we do. Anyway RIP Jeff Beck your name will live among the greats.

 

[raymondo]

Bloody hell, what is going on??!!

We're getting older...

 

[jakarta]

Think Vini Reilly is next...

 

[raymondo]

Very sad news. Here he is live at Ronny Scott's, playing Nadia by Nitin Sawhney: a favourite tune by a favourite guitarist.

 

[aolstudios]

The best guitarist I've seen in person.
RIP.

Me too

 

[VAL1850]

Guitar hero forever... RIP...

 

[Horses Arse]

We're getting older...

Yes but this last few months has seen so many, some younger than expected too. Seems like so many more than other years. Jamie Branch passing at 39 too back in August, a right old cluster

 

[Horses Arse]

He peed on Mrs Hamilton's foot at a party once.

Now that is the sort of acknowledgement I would love to receive at my passing.

Fantastic!

 

[raymondo]

Yes but this last few months has seen so many, some younger than expected too. Seems like so many more than other years. Jamie Branch passing at 39 too back in August, a right old cluster

Yes, it does feel that way

 

[raymondo]

Me too

Lucky guys

 

[WATFORD zero]

RIP Jeff. Great guitarist, many years ago I got his autograph at a festival where we were playing and he was in the audience

 

[Insel affe]

R.I.P Jeff Beck

A truly talented guitar player and lover of Rock'a'Billy.

 

[raymondo]

RIP Jeff. Great guitarist, many years ago I got his autograph at a festival where we were playing and he was in the audience

...and I hope he got YOUR autograph too

 

[zefarelly]

Just listening to ‘Truth’ on spotify, it was remastered and they’ve filtered out the squeaky hi-hat. Wrong.

 

[Binney on acid]

Saw him at The Dome, and at The Royal Albert Hall. I think Ronnie Wood joined him on stage that evening. Wasn't that keen on Beck's choice of material - a bit too jazzy for me. However, rather than regurgitate the same riff for the past 60 years, he chose to endlessly push the boundaries. There were no limits. Have I ever seen a better guitarist ? Difficult to say. Possibly only Harvey Mandel, and that was back in the old Canned Heat days.

 

[Lever]

A real talent... RIP Jeff Beck

 

[raymondo]

A real talent... RIP Jeff Beck

Lovely

 

[Norman Potting]

For once the phrase ".....giant among rock guitar legends...." seems very inadequate.

I regret that I know little of his output apart from the one song that probably gave him a firm financial foundation. A friend was a huge fan of his "Wired" album and I must educate myself on his catalogue

I saw him once, not on stage but loading his Waitrose shopping into his car. I vaguely recognised his face but the show room condition and colourful "muscle car" he was driving gave it away!

 

[el punal]

The best guitarist I've seen in person.
RIP.

My two claims to ‘fame’ with regard to Jeff Beck - firstly, I saw him at the Dome when he was in the Beck, Bogert and Appice band. Secondly, a friend of mine was best mates, and a neighbour, of Jeff. We visited Jeff’s house (he wasn’t in, unfortunately) and I had the dubious pleasure of picking up one of his guitars and having a little strum.

R.I.P. Jeff - you were a damn good guitarist.