Why JEFF BECK is UNCOPYABLE

so this past weekend I went to see Jeff Beck actually this is on Saturday night so two days ago and one of my really good friends is his front of house engineer and uh I was lucky enough to stop by and see the sound check before the show and I've seen Jeff play probably three or four times in the past over the last 25 years or so Jeff's now 78 years old I've never made a video on Jeff Beck because as I said in my interview with Eric Johnson he had mentioned that the first solo he learned was Jeff Beck for Yardbirds uh I think with New York City Blues I think that was the song one of the first things I learned New York City Blues by The Yardbirds you know we were learning that and when I was learning it I was so young I couldn't understand what Jeff Beck was doing and then learning the Nazar blue and when you talk about the sound of the guitar being in the hands his sound is completely in his hands I was in the audience at the front of house and then I was lucky enough to go and stand next to the monitors and watch from the side of the stage you can't even tell what he's doing it's really incredible I'm going to show some videos uh here where you can see his right hand and left hand one thing is he plays the most unique phrases of anyone I can think of I have a really good friend Harper who said he went to see Jeff play in Alabama the other night and he said he is one of one and I thought that was the perfect description he is one of one no one sounds like Jeff Beck and no one could no one could sound like Jeff Beck I went and was looking at Jeff Beck videos for Jeff Beck videos on YouTube transcriptions people just playing a lot of stuff there's almost nothing why because he's uncopyable you can't really copy Jeff you'd have to spend your whole life trying to play like that he plays the most beautifully interesting Melodies he never plays a bad note but his uniqueness is just it's almost impossible to talk about so let's actually look and listen to his playing and I'll talk about it the first tune I want to start with is because We've Ended as Lovers which is off the blow by blow record which came out in 1975 which was actually produced by George Martin here's Jeff with Vinnie Kel udon drums and Tal Wilkenfeld on the bass last time I saw them play together was a few years ago I'm trying to think of when it was maybe it was five years ago or something I saw them them played together as a group with a keyboardist but uh but you'll see mainly in this you'll see the three of them so let's just start this off here [Applause] foreign [Music] bar there just the the odd way he holds his hand he's going below the notes above them with the vibrato [Music] he never plays a bad note [Music] and every note like I said is a different volume it has a different oh [Music] sus to the to the major third there beautiful the space between phrases [Music] oh beautiful lydian lion [Music] here's a solo [Music] mm-hmm [Music] he never plays the whammy bar in the same way either [Music] [Music] he doesn't use the same fingerings you notice he uses pinky in that then he went to his third finger [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign there's never a bad phrase there's never it's just just flow I remember when I interviewed Vinnie I always bring this back up I've known Vinnie since the mid 80s or so and my first question to him was Vinnie tell me about Flo and he said thought is the enemy of flow and Vinnie as you can hear him back on the drums just flows and that's what Jeff does this is just a flow of Melody he's there's never any question where he's gonna play things he's never fishing for notes or anything everything is spontaneous yet it's so well constructed every idea just leads to the next idea but the thing that's amazing and and the other person that's like this is Pat Metheny because Pat talked about this about never playing notes the same volume he's always playing into notes differently and he always is playing every notes dynamically differently and Jeff every note is dynamically differently every tone is different every attack is different it can be swelled into it can be attacked where you know we'll attack it really hard and it'll have a lot more gain on it and it'll just jump out at you or the phrases will just move well I'll play it again listen you'll hear it foreign [Applause] [Music] that just don't do anything [Music] every Bend perfectly into all [Music] I love when he plays the sustained notes with him it's at low E on the C chord and pulls it down to a low sea beautiful [Music] and then he always is one to give credit to the other people that he's playing with I did get to meet Jeff during sound check or or actually in between soundcheck and the show he actually had walked back in and I was introduced to him and I mean it's Jeff Beck I mean what a legend I mean it really blew me away it really did and he was so nice I just said hello to him but but it just kind of was like uh wow that's Jeff Beck and I've met a lot of well-known people but this was just kind of blew my mind I want to play a little bit of another song here to show you some other techniques that he does some of the faster things it does which is really great [Music] notice how when he grabs his whammy bar [Music] he grabs it differently each time and he uses it it's always using it differently [Music] he does a quick tap on it the thumb there [Music] because what is that [Music] foreign [Music] play I just start thinking of these players like Eddie Van Halen the harmonics that he was doing the other night and and the the sounds like this [Music] all right [Music] that was at the end of the bar there see that I can't even fathom how he's just improvising like that it's really unreal to see it like this up close it didn't matter the other you know the other night so this is from probably 10 years ago or so and he sounds just as good at 78 years old there's hands you know just what he's got in the hands and the sounds that he's able to pull out of the guitar it's like nothing I've ever heard and I heard him soundcheck he came back in to try out a different amp and it didn't matter if he was playing through a different amp it's he just sounded like him and the other thing was during sound check he'd never was messing around it was all music it could have been the gig so he's he's doing sound checking he's playing and every phrase every articulation everything it's just it that's What flows out of him it's unbelievable so this is my why Jeff Beck is uncopyable video and and uh love to hear your thoughts I know there's a lot of huge Jeff Beck fans that follow this Channel please let me know any personal stories or anything of seeing him this is really incredible like I said I've seen him I think four times in the last 25 years or so and to see him now at this age and he's as good as he ever was just blew me away thanks so much for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

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Length: 11min 43sec (703 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 04 2022