On tonight’s Travelin’ Music, the only Beck worth a listen
Rolling Stone magazine lists Jeff Beck as No. 14 on its list of Top 100 “guitar gods” (Top Five: Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King, the unknown guy playing with Beck on this song and of course Robert Johnson). And I don’t think that placement is really worth debating — being included at all on a list like that ought to be enough.
One of the prerequisites for inclusion into the guitar pantheon is the development of a signature sound that immediately identifies you. This song, “‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers,” displays the plaintive Beck sound very well. I love the way he lets you hear both sides of the final conversation, without a word being said.
Enjoy the weekend folks.
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stands for decibels
July 30th, 2010
3:55 pm
Some of your post got eated.
As for the list, to have Tom Verlaine of Television but not Richard Lloyd is nuts.
stands for decibels
July 30th, 2010
3:56 pm
Anyway, here are acoustic Pixies doing Monkey Gone to Heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1OE2C-ANw
Still apropos.
stands for decibels
July 30th, 2010
3:56 pm
I’ll call Squirrels downstairs.
HG3
July 30th, 2010
4:00 pm
JB – Don’t forget his Somewhere Over the Rainbow, or his People Get Ready with Rod Stewart. Both showstoppers. Especially the anthemic guitar tone in the latter.
Pogo
July 30th, 2010
4:03 pm
Jay, I don’t agree with you on practically anything. But Jeff Beck’s “Blow by Blow” is one of the best albums ever produced. Beck is one of the all-time greats in jazz/rock fusion. Good call.
Jay
July 30th, 2010
4:07 pm
i played that one til the grooves wore through to the other side, pogo.
Jay
July 30th, 2010
4:09 pm
Agreed, HG3. I love the guy’s work, but I imagine guitar players find things in him that the rest of us miss.
Finn McCool
July 30th, 2010
4:11 pm
I was never properly introduced to Jeff Beck. I should probably give Blow by Blow a listen.
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:12 pm
not exactly what you might expect from him…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hijzkOrnk
Normal
July 30th, 2010
4:13 pm
I’m Back! They always miss this guy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8pJlbrEIQ&feature=related
Bobo Jenkins
July 30th, 2010
4:15 pm
Enter your comments here
Normal
July 30th, 2010
4:15 pm
…and this guy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U&feature=related
Granny Godzilla
July 30th, 2010
4:17 pm
there is another
G Cancryn
July 30th, 2010
4:17 pm
Contusion
stands for decibels
July 30th, 2010
4:19 pm
A guy who admits to not “getting” Stevie Ray Vaughan.
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/true-confessions_29.html
just for those who are curious about such things.
He’s similarly not that into Zappa:
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-frank-zappa-problem-and-yours.html
(I’m ambivalent about the former; used to think the world of the latter, now, more like “FZ, he was an ok high-schooler’s guitar hero.”)
stands for decibels
July 30th, 2010
4:19 pm
Yeah, GG, I hear “Beck” and I think Odelay.
(Certainly not that Glenn guy.)
Normal
July 30th, 2010
4:20 pm
..or this guy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh3_SSZElXg
Gotta go again…date with my honey…
Southern Comfort
July 30th, 2010
4:21 pm
Jay
I don’t know about that list. There’s some good guitarist on that list, but I don’t think many of them would be gods. I’m guessing they limited it to not include bass guitarists. Very few bass guitarist could be considered gods, but here’s one from the godfather of bass, Larry Graham.
First, the technique that created his signature sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_SreKsg2k
Then, here’s the finished product:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IuD6F3R5I
Pogo
July 30th, 2010
4:22 pm
Didn’t matter if you were in the “right state of mind” or just listening at 7AM in the morning about to go to work. Becks Blow was feel good music.
Out of here to be “out on the weekend” so to speak. Or maybe, I should say “inside on the weekend”. Damn this global warming (that’s a joke son, that’s a joke)!
Jefferson
July 30th, 2010
4:27 pm
Skydog is my fav but JB is the master.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 30th, 2010
4:29 pm
rolling stone knows whining but music, eh, not so much.
Just sayin…
AmVet
July 30th, 2010
4:29 pm
Wow, just got back and already I’m deluge in an avalanche of guitar goodness.
Sweet.
Steve Howe. Nuff said…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPOTg-7pV64
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:31 pm
Had another one I had pulled up for him, but since the theme is master guitarists…Here’s to you President Sarkozy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oGtZi47jE&feature=related
Lord Help Us
July 30th, 2010
4:34 pm
In addition to Beck, please don’t ever forget ‘Beck’er, Walter…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZV4Mx7tw8&feature=related
A true innovator, who should be on the list along with Carlos Santana and Mark Knopfler…
BADA BING
July 30th, 2010
4:41 pm
How many grooves are on one side of the standard 33 1/3 vinyl album?
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:43 pm
Pogo…here ya go…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43m6dcMk6U&feature=related
AmVet
July 30th, 2010
4:44 pm
LHU, not to go negative, but as the Scottish say, that list is CRAAAP!
But man, that Black Friday was outstanding. I’m bummed I only saw them once.
This guy didn’t make the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKaiHamPT54
But thankfully this guy was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On5372UztI0
Jay
July 30th, 2010
4:47 pm
good one, LHU. I was listening to that, and afterward cued up Kid Charlemagne, another great one.
Nice backup singers too, not that I noticed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylr2D4Pwn58&feature=related
Jay
July 30th, 2010
4:48 pm
How many grooves are on one side of the standard 33 1/3 vinyl album?
Bada Bing, it varies. For instance, there are none on a Perry Como LP.
J Greg
July 30th, 2010
4:50 pm
Jay, when you dis the Beck of “Loser” and “Where It’s At,” you hurt part of your readership base to the core. TO THE CORE, SIR!!!
All kidding aside, the song you selected is one of my favorite non-Rod Stewart and non-Yardbirds Jeff Beck tracks.
Safe travels.
BADA BING
July 30th, 2010
4:51 pm
Yes I have some blank ones, but on a recorded one, there is only one, one long continuous groove. Old joke.
Lord Help Us
July 30th, 2010
4:51 pm
Amvet, ‘I’m bummed I only saw them once.’
Don’t be too bummed. They were always better in the studio than live. Kind of a shame they didn’t even do live performances during their glory years. I have eight tracks, cassettes, albums, CD’s and MP3’s of everything they ever did…
Time for a some ‘Cuervo gold and fine coLUMbian…’ Tis’ the weekend…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzfwtX2kgOA
N-GA
July 30th, 2010
4:54 pm
Beck & Rod Stewart Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re4ut7EI4wc&feature=related
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:56 pm
LHU
@ 4:51
Great minds…beat me to it…
Lord Help Us
July 30th, 2010
4:56 pm
Thanks Jay,
Next time I see Scout, I’ll tell him…’we can’t dance together…we got nothin’ in common…’
BTW: the guitar rifts in Kid Charlemagne are some of my all time faves.
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:58 pm
N-GA
Beat you to it! 4:43…nut POGO got us both!
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
4:59 pm
oops
@ 4:58
Make that BUT Pogo got…not out to be nasty…
Mick
July 30th, 2010
5:00 pm
Nice pick jay – the guy ilooks age less for someone in his 60’s, here’s beck and that “other” guitar god-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zeza1xeWKM
BADA BING
July 30th, 2010
5:04 pm
Where did ‘Steely Dan’ get their name? GOOGLE it , I can’t reveal it here.
Pogo
July 30th, 2010
5:07 pm
And damned proud to be a “nut” Josef! Today, if you aren’t one you probably should be one or else you might go CRAAAAAZYYY dude! FREEWAY JAM!
josef nix
July 30th, 2010
5:11 pm
another one with beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvKcktaCNA
Mick
July 30th, 2010
5:11 pm
All three of em – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpxgxThG7s&feature=related
Lord Help Us
July 30th, 2010
5:13 pm
Bada…Can’t remember, but when I called home the other day my wife said she had ‘Steely Dan on…’
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
July 30th, 2010
5:14 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The recovery is losing so much momentum that employers are unlikely to step up hiring anytime this year, and unemployment could return to double digits.
Aahhh, it seems as though Recovery Summer is only happening inside obozo’s head, just sayin…
As long as he’s livin it up…
Jay
July 30th, 2010
5:16 pm
Man, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood (NOT on the list!!) back in their Faces days….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PVIt0gEyUc&feature=related
theyeshaveit
July 30th, 2010
5:19 pm
Anybody remember Faces? Rod Stewart does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcm53fb4qFE
theyeshaveit
July 30th, 2010
5:21 pm
Ah, Jay, you beat me to the punch.
Jay
July 30th, 2010
5:22 pm
Well, you see, I’m a professional… :>)
RW-(the original)
July 30th, 2010
5:23 pm
How many grooves are on one side of the standard 33 1/3 vinyl album?
I’ll go with one. That needle didn’t take to hopping over the groove walls very well.
Don't forget
July 30th, 2010
5:23 pm
A nomination for the list: Jimmy Herring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xi_Y9iEQDo&feature=PlayList&p=5D336ACA7E26A3A2&playnext=1&index=7