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Jeff Beck

May 04, 2023

This article is about the English guitarist. For the American musician, see Beck. For the English cricketer, see Geoffrey Beck (cricketer).

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock and electronica.

Jeff Beck
Beck performing in Amsterdam, 1979
Background information
Birth nameGeoffrey Arnold Beck
Born(1944-06-24)24 June 1944
Wallington, Surrey, England
Died10 January 2023(2023-01-10) (aged 78)
East Sussex, England
Genres
OccupationsMusician
InstrumentsGuitar
Years active1964–2023
Labels
Formerly of
WebsiteOfficial website

Beck was ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists rankings of the greatest guitarists.[4][5][6] He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist".[7] Rolling Stone described him as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock".[8] Although he recorded two successful albums (in 1975 and 1976) as a solo act, Beck did not establish or maintain commercial success like that of his contemporaries and bandmates.[7][3] He recorded with many artists.[9]

Beck earned wide critical praise and received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance six times and Best Pop Instrumental Performance once. In 2014, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.[10] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: first as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and secondly as a solo artist (2009).

Early life

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

Jeff Beck[11]

Beck was born on 24 June 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck at 206 Demesne Road, Wallington, Surrey (now in Greater London).[12] As a ten-year-old, Beck sang in a church choir.[13] He has a sister, Annetta. He attended Sutton Manor School[14] and Sutton East County Secondary Modern School.[12]

Beck cited Les Paul as the first electric guitar player who impressed him.[11] Beck said that he first heard an electric guitar when he was six years old and heard Paul playing "How High the Moon" on the radio. He asked his mother what it was. After she replied it was an electric guitar and was all tricks, he said, "That's for me".[15] Cliff Gallup, lead guitarist with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, was also an early musical influence, followed by B. B. King and Steve Cropper.[16] Beck considered Lonnie Mack "a rock guitarist [who] was unjustly overlooked [and] a major influence on him and many others."[17]

As a teenager he learned to play on a borrowed guitar and made several attempts to build his own instrument, first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes[18][19][20] for the body and an unsanded fence post for the neck with model aircraft control lines and frets simply painted on it.[21]

After leaving school, he attended Wimbledon School of Art (now Wimbledon College of Arts).[22] Then he was briefly employed as a painter and decorator, a groundsman on a golf course, and a car paint sprayer. Beck's sister Annetta introduced him to Jimmy Page when both were teenagers.[23]

Career

1960s

While attending Wimbledon College of Art, Beck played in a succession of groups, including Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages during 1964 when they recorded "Dracula's Daughter"/"Come Back Baby" for Oriole Records.[24][25]

In 1963, after Ian Stewart of the Rolling Stones introduced him to R&B, he formed The Nightshift with whom he played at the 100 Club in Oxford Street.[25][26] Beck joined the Rumbles, a Croydon band, in 1963 for a short period as lead guitarist, playing Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly songs, displaying a talent for mimicking guitar styles. Later in 1963, he joined the Tridents, a band from the Chiswick area. "They were really my scene because they were playing flat-out R&B, like Jimmy Reed stuff, and we supercharged it all up and made it really rocky. I got off on that, even though it was only twelve-bar blues."[27] He was a session guitarist on a 1964 Parlophone single by the Fitz and Startz titled "I'm Not Running Away", with B-side "So Sweet".

 
Beck (top left) in 1965 with the Yardbirds

In March 1965, Beck was recruited by the Yardbirds to succeed Eric Clapton on the recommendation of fellow session musician Jimmy Page, who had been their initial choice.[28] The Yardbirds recorded most of their Top 40 hit songs during Beck's short but significant 20-month tenure with the band allowing him only one full album, which became known as Roger the Engineer (titled Over Under Sideways Down in the U.S.), released in 1966. In May 1966, Beck recorded an instrumental titled "Beck's Bolero". Rather than members of the Yardbirds, he was backed by Page on 12-string rhythm guitar, Keith Moon on drums, John Paul Jones on bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. In June, Page joined the Yardbirds, at first on bass and later on second lead guitar.[28] This dual lead-guitar lineup was filmed performing an adaptation of "Train Kept A-Rollin'", titled "Stroll On", for the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow Up. [29]

Beck was fired during a U.S. tour for being a consistent no-show—as well as difficulties caused by his perfectionism and explosive temper.[30] In 1967, he recorded several solo singles for pop producer Mickie Most, including "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and "Tallyman", which also included his vocals.[31] He then formed the Jeff Beck Group, which included Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums (replaced by Micky Waller).[32]

The group produced two albums for Columbia Records (Epic in the US): Truth (as Jeff Beck, August 1968) and Beck-Ola (July 1969). Truth, released five months before the first Led Zeppelin album, features "You Shook Me", a song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters, also covered on the Led Zeppelin debut with a similar arrangement.[26] It sold well (reaching No. 15 on the Billboard charts). Beck-Ola saw drummer Micky Waller replaced by Tony Newman, and, while well-received, was less successful both commercially and critically. Resentment, coupled with touring incidents, led the group to disband in July 1969.

In his autobiography Nick Mason recalls that during 1967 Pink Floyd had wanted to recruit Beck to be its guitarist after the departure of Syd Barrett[33] but "none of us had the nerve to ask him."[34] In 1969, following the death of Brian Jones, Beck was approached about joining the Rolling Stones.[30]

After the break-up of his group, Beck took part in the Music from Free Creek "super session" project, billed as "A. N. Other" and contributed lead guitar on four songs, including one co-written by him. In September 1969, he teamed with the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge: bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice (when they were in England to resolve contractual issues), but when Beck fractured his skull in a car accident near Maidstone in December the plan was postponed for two-and-a-half years, during which time Bogert and Appice formed Cactus. Beck later remarked on the 1960s period of his life: "Everyone thinks of the 1960s as something they really weren't. It was the frustration period of my life. The electronic equipment just wasn't up to the sounds I had in my head."[35]

1970s

In 1970, after Beck had regained his health, he set about forming a band with the drummer Cozy Powell. Beck, Powell, and producer Mickie Most flew to the United States and recorded several tracks at Motown's famed Studio A in Hitsville U.S.A. with the Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band, but the results remained unreleased. By April 1971 Beck had completed the line-up of this new group with guitarist/vocalist Bobby Tench, keyboard player Max Middleton, and bassist Clive Chaman. The new band performed as "The Jeff Beck Group" but had a substantially different sound from the first line-up.[36]

Rough and Ready (October 1971), the first album they recorded, on which Beck wrote or co-wrote six of the album's seven tracks (the exception being written by Middleton), included elements of soul, rhythm-and-blues, and jazz, foreshadowing the direction Beck's music would take later in the decade.[citation needed]

 
Beck in 1973

A second album Jeff Beck Group (July 1972) was recorded at TMI studios in Memphis with the same personnel.[37] Beck employed Steve Cropper as producer[38] and the album displayed a strong soul influence, five of the nine tracks being covers of songs by American artists. One, "I Got to Have a Song", was the first of four Stevie Wonder compositions covered by Beck. Shortly after the release of the Jeff Beck Group album, the band was dissolved and Beck's management put out the statement that: "The fusion of the musical styles of the various members has been successful within the terms of individual musicians, but they didn't feel it had led to the creation of a new musical style with the strength they had originally sought."[39]

Beck then started collaborating with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, who became available following the demise of Cactus but continued touring as the Jeff Beck Group in August 1972, to fulfill contractual obligations with his promoter, with a line-up including Bogert, Appice, Max Middleton and vocalist Kim Milford. After six appearances Milford was replaced by Bobby Tench, who was flown in from the United Kingdom[40] for the Arie Crown Theatre Chicago performance and the rest of the tour,[41] which concluded at the Paramount North West Theatre, Seattle. After the tour, Tench and Middleton left the band and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice emerged. Appice took on the role of vocalist with Bogert and Beck contributing occasionally.[42]

They were included on the bill for Rock at The Oval in September 1972, still as "The Jeff Beck Group," which marked the start of a tour schedule of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. Another U.S. tour began in October 1972, starting at the Hollywood Sportatorium Florida and concluding on 11 November 1972 at The Warehouse in New Orleans.[43] In April 1973 the album Beck, Bogert & Appice was released (on Epic Records). While critics acknowledged the band's instrumental prowess the album was not commercially well received except for its cover of Stevie Wonder's hit "Superstition".

On 3 July 1973 Beck joined David Bowie onstage to perform "The Jean Genie"/"Love Me Do" and "Around and Around." The show was recorded and filmed, but none of the released editions included Beck. During October 1973 Beck recorded tracks for Michael Fennelly's[44] album Lane Changer.

Early in January 1974 Beck, Bogert & Appice played at the Rainbow Theatre in London as part of a European tour. The concert was broadcast in full on the U.S. show Rock Around the World in September of the same year. This last recorded work by the band previewed material intended for a second studio album, included on the bootleg At Last Rainbow. The tracks "Blues Deluxe" and "BBA Boogie" from this concert were later included on the Jeff Beck compilation Beckology (1991).[45]

Beck, Bogert & Appice dissolved in April 1974 before their second studio album (produced by Jimmy Miller) was finished. Their live album Beck, Bogert & Appice Live in Japan, recorded during their 1973 tour of Japan, was not released until February 1975 by Epic/Sony.[citation needed]

After a few months, Beck entered Underhill Studio and met with the band Upp; he recruited them to be the backing band for his appearance on the BBC TV program Guitar Workshop in August 1974. Beck produced and played on their self-titled debut album and their second album This Way Upp, though his contributions to the second album went uncredited. During 1974 he participated in recording sessions for the first album by former Jeff Beck Group member Bobby Tench's band Hummingbird'[46] but did not contribute to the album.[47] In October the same year Beck began to record instrumental sessions at AIR Studios with Max Middleton who was also associated with Hummingbird,[48] bassist Phil Chen and drummer Richard Bailey using George Martin as producer and arranger. These formed the basis for Beck's solo album Blow by Blow (March 1975)[49] and showcased Beck's technical prowess in jazz-rock. The album reached number four in the charts and is Beck's most commercially successful release. Beck, fastidious about overdubs and often dissatisfied with his solos, often returned to AIR Studios until he was satisfied. A couple of months after the sessions had finished producer George Martin received a telephone call from Beck, who wanted to record a solo section again. Bemused, Martin replied: "I'm sorry, Jeff, but the record is in the shops!"[11]

Beck put together a live band for a US tour, which was preceded by a small and unannounced gig at The Newlands Tavern in Peckham, London. He toured through April and May 1975, mostly supporting the Mahavishnu Orchestra, retaining Max Middleton on keyboards but with a new rhythm section of bassist Wilbur Bascomb and noted session drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, who interestingly was also associated with Hummingbird.

In a May 1975 show in Cleveland at the Music Hall, he became frustrated with an early version of a talk box he used on his arrangement of the Beatles' "She's a Woman", and after breaking a string, tossed his legendary Yardbirds-era Fender Stratocaster guitar off the stage. He did the same with the talk box and finished the show playing a Les Paul guitar without the box. During this tour he performed at Yuya Uchida's "World Rock Festival", playing eight songs with Purdie. In addition, he performed a guitar and drum instrumental with Johnny Yoshinaga and, at the end of the festival, joined in a live jam with bassist Felix Pappalardi of Mountain and vocalist Akira "Joe" Yamanaka from the Flower Travellin' Band. Only his set with Purdie was recorded and released.[citation needed]

He returned to the studio and recorded Wired (1976), which paired ex-Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer and composer Narada Michael Walden and keyboardist Jan Hammer. The album used a jazz-rock fusion style, which sounded similar to the work of his two collaborators. To promote the album, Beck joined forces with the Jan Hammer Group, playing a show supporting Alvin Lee at The Roundhouse in May 1976, before embarking on a seven-month-long world tour. This resulted in the live album Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live (1977).[citation needed]

At this point Beck was a tax exile and took up residency in the US, remaining there until his return to the UK in the autumn of 1977. In the spring of 1978, he began rehearsing with ex-Return to Forever bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Gerry Brown towards a projected appearance at the Knebworth Festival, but this was cancelled after Brown dropped out. Beck toured Japan for three weeks in November 1978 with an ad hoc group consisting of Clarke and newcomers Tony Hymas (keyboards) and Simon Phillips (drums) from Jack Bruce's band.[citation needed]

Work then began on a new studio album at the Who's Ramport Studios in London and continued sporadically throughout 1979, resulting in There & Back in June 1980. It featured three tracks composed and recorded with Jan Hammer, while five were written with Hymas. Stanley Clarke was replaced by Mo Foster on bass, both on the album and the subsequent tours. Its release was followed by extensive touring in the US, Japan, and the UK.[citation needed]

1980s

 
Beck in 1985

In 1981 Beck made a series of historic live appearances with his Yardbirds predecessor Eric Clapton at the Amnesty International-sponsored benefit concerts dubbed The Secret Policeman's Other Ball shows. He appeared with Clapton on "Crossroads", "Further on Up the Road", and his arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Cause We've Ended As Lovers". Beck also featured prominently in an all-star band finale performance of "I Shall Be Released" with Clapton, Sting, Phil Collins, Donovan, and Bob Geldof. Beck's contributions were seen and heard in the resulting album and film, both of which achieved worldwide success in 1982. Another benefit show, the ARMS Concert for multiple sclerosis featured a jam with Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, during which they performed "Tulsa Time" and "Layla".[citation needed]

In 1985 Beck released Flash, featuring a variety of vocalists, but most notably former bandmate Rod Stewart on a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready".[50] The aforementioned cover song was also released as a single which went on to become a hit. A video was made for the track and the clip achieved heavy rotation on MTV. The two also played a few dates together during this time but a full tour in tandem never materialized.[51] At Stewart's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Beck gave the induction speech saying of Stewart, "We have a love hate relationship – he loves me and I hate him."[52][53] During this time, Beck made several guest appearances with other performers, including one in the 1988 movie Twins, where he played guitar with singer Nicolette Larson.[citation needed]

After a four-year break he made a return to instrumental music with the 1989 album Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop, the first album to feature Beck as a fingerstyle guitarist, leaving the plectrum playing style.[citation needed] It was only his third album to be released in the 1980s. Much of Beck's sparse and sporadic recording schedule was due in part to a long battle with tinnitus.[citation needed]

1990s

 
Beck at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, 2009

In the 1990s Beck had a higher musical output. He contributed to Jon Bon Jovi's solo debut album "Blaze of Glory" in 1990, playing the main solo of the album's title song, which was also the theme song to the movie Young Guns II. The same year, he was a featured performer on Hans Zimmer's score for the film Days of Thunder. He played lead guitar on Roger Waters' 1992 concept album Amused to Death, and on the 1993 albums The Red Shoes by Kate Bush and Love Scenes by Beverley Craven.[54] He recorded the 1992 instrumental soundtrack album Frankie's House, as well as Crazy Legs (1993), a tribute album to 1950s rockabilly group Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and their influential guitarist Cliff Gallup.[citation needed]

Beck rehearsed with Guns N' Roses for their concert in Paris in 1992, but did not play in the actual concert due to ear damage caused by a Matt Sorum cymbal crash, causing Beck to become temporarily deaf.[55] The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. In Beck's acceptance speech, he humorously noted that "Someone told me I should be proud tonight ... But I'm not, because they kicked me out ... They did ... Fuck them![56]

He accompanied Paul Rodgers of Bad Company on the album Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters in 1993. Beck's next release was in 1999, his first foray into guitar-based electronica, Who Else!. The album was Beck's first collaboration with a female musician, Jennifer Batten,[57] in touring, writing, and recording as well as the first time he had worked with another guitarist on his own material since playing in the Yardbirds. Beck continued to work with Batten through the post-release tour of You Had It Coming in 2001.[58]

2000s

Beck won his third Grammy Award, this one for 'Best Rock Instrumental Performance' for the track "Dirty Mind" from You Had It Coming (2000).[59] The song "Plan B" from the 2003 release Jeff, earned Beck his fourth Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and was proof that the new electro-guitar style he used for the two earlier albums would continue to dominate.[citation needed] Beck was the opening act for B.B. King in the summer of 2003 and appeared at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004. Additionally, in 2004, Beck was featured on the song "54-46 Was My Number" by Toots and the Maytals as part of the album True Love which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.[26][60]

 
Beck with Tal Wilkenfeld on the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival tour

In 2007, he accompanied Kelly Clarkson for her cover of Patty Griffin's "Up to the Mountain", during the Idol Gives Back episode of American Idol. The performance was recorded live and afterward, was immediately released for sale.[citation needed] In the same year, he appeared once again at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, performing with Vinnie Colaiuta, Jason Rebello, and then 21-year-old bassist Tal Wilkenfeld.[citation needed]

Beck announced a world tour in early 2009 and remained faithful to the same lineup of musicians as in his tour two years before, playing and recording at Ronnie Scott's in London to a sold-out audience.[citation needed] Beck played on the song "Black Cloud" on the 2009 Morrissey album Years of Refusal and later that year, Harvey Goldsmith became Beck's manager.[61] 2009 also saw Beck inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on 4 April;[62] the award was presented by Jimmy Page. Beck performed "Train Kept A-Rollin'" along with Page, Ronnie Wood, Joe Perry, Flea, and Metallica members James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Jason Newsted.[63] On 4 July 2009, David Gilmour joined Beck onstage at the Albert Hall. Beck and Gilmour traded solos on "Jerusalem" and closed the show with "Hi Ho Silver Lining".[64]

2010s

Beck's album, Emotion & Commotion, was released in April 2010. It features a mixture of original songs and covers such as "Over the Rainbow", Puccini’s Nessun Dorma and Benjamin Britten’s Corpus Christi Carol, interpreted through Beck’s "uniquely sensitive touch."[65] Joss Stone and Imelda May provided some of the guest vocals.[66] Two tracks from Emotion & Commotion won Grammy Awards in 2011: "Nessun Dorma" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Hammerhead" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.[67] Beck collaborated on "Imagine" for the 2010 Herbie Hancock album, The Imagine Project along with Seal, P!nk, India.Arie, Konono N°1, Oumou Sangare and others and received a third Grammy in 2011 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the track.[68][69]

Beck's 2010 World Tour band featured Grammy-winning musician Narada Michael Walden on drums, Rhonda Smith on bass, and Jason Rebello on keyboards. He released a live album titled Live and Exclusive from the Grammy Museum on 25 October 2010. On 9 June 2010 Beck with Imelda May's band recorded a DVD named Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul), of a concert at the Iridium in NYC featuring several Les Paul songs (with Ms. May doing the Mary Ford vocals).

In 2011, Beck received two honorary degrees from British universities. On 18 July 2011, he was honoured with a fellowship from University of the Arts London in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the field of Music".[70] On 21 July 2011 Beck was also presented with an honorary doctorate from University of Sussex (by Sanjeev Bhaskar, the university's chancellor), stating the honour acknowledged "an outstanding musical career and celebrated the relationship between the university and the Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM)".[71][72]

In 2013, it was announced that he would be performing on Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson's solo album (alongside Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks) on Capitol Records.[73] On 20 June, Wilson's website announced that the material might be split into three albums; one of new pop songs, another of mostly instrumental tracks with Beck, and another of interwoven tracks dubbed "the suite".[74] Beck also accompanied Wilson (along with Jardine and Marks) on an eighteen date fall 2013 tour which started in late September and ended in late October (prior to which, Beck made clear he regarded sharing the stage with Wilson as a complete honour for him).[75]

In 2014, to mark the beginning of Jeff's World Tour in Japan, a three-track CD titled Yosogai was released on 5 April; the album had yet to be finalized at the time of the tour.[76] In November 2014 he accompanied Joss Stone at The Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. He released the album Loud Hailer in 2016. [77]

 
Beck in 2018

2020s

On 16 April 2020, Beck released a new single, in which Beck collaborated with Johnny Depp to record John Lennon's song "Isolation", explaining that this was a first record release from an ongoing musical collaboration between the two men. They had been recording music together for some time, with the track being produced the year before, but Beck explained that the decision to release it was influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: "We weren't expecting to release it so soon but given all the hard days and true 'isolation' that people are going through in these challenging times, we decided now might be the right time to let you all hear it".[78][79]

On 2 June 2022, Beck appeared in the news after Depp appeared with him at The Sage in Gateshead, following his victory in the high-profile defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Both also had performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier in the week.[80] Beck and Depp's first single from their collaborative album 18, titled "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr", was announced on 10 June 2022.[81]

Beck is featured on two tracks (the title track and "A Thousand Shades") from Ozzy Osbourne's album Patient Number 9, which was released on 24 June 2022.[82]

Style and influence

 
Beck at the 2009 MOJO Awards

Described by Rolling Stone magazine as "one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock",[8] Beck cited his major influences as Les Paul, the Shadows, Cliff Gallup, Ravi Shankar, Roy Buchanan,[83] Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Steve Cropper and Lonnie Mack.[84][11] Beck said John McLaughlin "has given us so many different facets of the guitar and introduced thousands of us to world music, by blending Indian music with jazz and classical. I'd say he was the best guitarist alive."[85]

According to musicologist and historian Bob Gulla, Beck is credited for popularising the use of audio feedback and distortion on guitar. Before Beck's arrival, guitar playing generally conformed to the "clean, bright, and jangly" sounds of early-1960s British Invasion bands or the bluesy aesthetic of 1950s African-American performers like Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. During his short time with the Yardbirds, Beck's experimentation with feedback, distortion, and "fuzz" tone "pushed the band into directions that would open the door for psychedelic rock" while "jolt[ing] British rock forward", according to Gulla.[86] While Beck was not the first rock guitarist to experiment with electronic distortion, he nonetheless helped to redefine the sound and role of the electric guitar in rock music. His use of a commercial fuzz box for the Yardbirds' "Heart Full of Soul" (June 1965) has been cited as perhaps the first significant use of the effect.[87][88] Beck's work with the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group's 1968 album Truth were seminal influences on heavy metal music, which emerged in full force in the early 1970s.[89] Gulla identifies one of Beck's characteristic traits to be his sense of pitch, particularly in exercising the whammy bar to create sounds ranging from "nose-diving bombs to subtle, perfectly pitched harmonic melodies".[86]

According to guitarist and author Jack Wilkins, Beck is regarded alongside Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton as one of his generation's greatest guitarists, receiving praise for his technical skill and versatile playing.[90] Stephen Thomas Erlewine finds him to be "as innovative as Jimmy Page, as tasteful as Eric Clapton, and nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix", although unable to achieve their mainstream success, "primarily because of the haphazard way he approached his career" while often lacking a star singer to help make his music more accessible.[3] On his recorded output by 1991, Erlewine remarked that "never has such a gifted musician had such a spotty discography", believing Beck had largely released "remarkably uneven" solo records and only "a few terrific albums".[91] In Christgau's Record Guide (1981), Robert Christgau essentialised Beck as "a technician" and questioned his ability to "improvise long lines, or jazz it up with a modicum of delicacy, or for that matter get funky",[92] although he later observed a "customary focus, loyalty, and consistency of taste".[93]

In 2015, Beck was ranked No. 5 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists". In an accompanying essay, guitarist Mike Campbell applauded Beck for his "brilliant technique" and "personality" in his playing, including a sense of humour, expressed through the growl of his wah-wah effects. Campbell also credited Beck with expanding the boundaries of the blues, particularly in his two collaborations with Stewart.[94] The character of Nigel Tufnel in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap was based on Jeff Beck.[95]

Technique and equipment

Beck stopped the regular use of a guitar pick in the 1980s. He produced a wide variety of sounds by using his thumb to pluck the guitar strings, his ring finger on the volume knob, and his little finger on the vibrato bar on his signature Fender Stratocaster.[96] By plucking a string and then 'fading in' the sound with the volume knob he created a unique sound that can resemble a human voice, among other effects. He frequently used a wah-wah pedal both live and in the studio. Eric Clapton once said, "With Jeff, it's all in his hands".[97]

Along with Stratocasters, Beck occasionally played Fender Telecaster and Gibson Les Paul models as well. His amplifiers were primarily Fender and Marshall. In his earlier days with the Yardbirds, Beck also used a 1954 Fender Esquire guitar (now owned by Seymour W. Duncan, and housed in the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[98]) through Vox AC30s. He also played through a variety of fuzz pedals and echo units along with this set-up and used the Pro Co RAT distortion pedal. The pickup is based on a Gibson pickup rewound by Duncan and used in a salvaged Telecaster dubbed the "Tele-Gib" which he had constructed as a gift to Beck.[99] Scott Morgan of the Rationals, who at one point shared a dressing room with the Yardbirds, recalls how Beck amplified his lead guitar through a Vox Super Beatle while using banjo strings for the unwound G string on his guitar because "they didn't make sets with an unwound G at that point."[100]

Personal life and death

From 1963 to 1967, Beck was married to Patricia Brown. In 2005, he married Sandra Cash. He had no children. At the time of his death Beck lived in a Grade II-listed house called Riverhall in the civil parish of Wadhurst, East Sussex. [101][102][103] Beck became a vegetarian in 1969 and was a patron of the Folly Wildlife Rescue Trust.[104][105] He also had an interest in classic Ford hot rods, performing much of the work on the exteriors and engines of the cars by himself.[106]

Beck died from a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near Riverhall on 10 January 2023, at the age of 78.[103][107][108] Within minutes of his death announcement, musicians and friends began paying tribute; Jimmy Page wrote that "The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal emotions. Jeff could channel music from the ethereal. His technique unique. His imaginations apparently limitless. Jeff I will miss you along with your millions of fans." Mick Jagger expressed his condolences, writing "With the death of Jeff Beck we have lost a wonderful man and one of the greatest guitar players in the world. We will all miss him so much." Ronnie Wood, a former bandmate of Beck's, stated "Now Jeff has gone, I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world, and I’m going to dearly miss him."[109] The interment of Beck's remains took place at St. Mary's Church in Beddington on 3 February.[110]

Awards

Beck was the winner of eight Grammy awards,[111] the first being Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "Escape" from the album Flash at the 1986 Grammys.[112][113]

Grammy Awards

Information is taken from Grammy.com.[59]

  • 1976 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance – Wired – (nominee)
  • 1985 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Escape" – (winner)
  • 1989 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas – (winner)
  • 1992 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Hound Dog" (track) – (nominee)
  • 1993 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Hi-Heel Sneakers" (track) – (nominee)
  • 1999 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "A Day in the Life" (track) – (nominee)
  • 1999 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "What Mama Said" (track) – (nominee)
  • 2001 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Dirty Mind" – (winner)
  • 2003 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Plan B" – (winner)
  • 2009 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "A Day in the Life" – (winner)
  • 2010 – Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals – "Imagine" – (winner)
  • 2010 – Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "Nessun Dorma" – (winner)
  • 2010 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance – "Hammerhead" – (winner)
  • 2010 – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – "I Put a Spell on You" – (nominee)
  • 2010 – Best Rock Album – Emotion & Commotion – (nominee)
  • 2011 – Best Rock Album – Rock 'N' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul – (nominee)

Discography

Main article: Jeff Beck discography

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

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This article is about the English guitarist For the American musician see Beck For the English cricketer see Geoffrey Beck cricketer Geoffrey Arnold Beck 24 June 1944 10 January 2023 was an English guitarist He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck Bogert amp Appice In 1975 he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock hard rock jazz fusion and a blend of guitar rock and electronica Jeff BeckBeck performing in Amsterdam 1979Background informationBirth nameGeoffrey Arnold BeckBorn 1944 06 24 24 June 1944Wallington Surrey EnglandDied10 January 2023 2023 01 10 aged 78 East Sussex EnglandGenresBlues rock 1 instrumental rock 2 jazz fusion 3 OccupationsMusicianInstrumentsGuitarYears active1964 2023LabelsEMI EpicFormerly ofThe Yardbirds The Jeff Beck Group Beck Bogert amp AppiceWebsiteOfficial website Beck was ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines lists rankings of the greatest guitarists 4 5 6 He was often called a guitarist s guitarist 7 Rolling Stone described him as one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock 8 Although he recorded two successful albums in 1975 and 1976 as a solo act Beck did not establish or maintain commercial success like that of his contemporaries and bandmates 7 3 He recorded with many artists 9 Beck earned wide critical praise and received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance six times and Best Pop Instrumental Performance once In 2014 he received the British Academy s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music 10 He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice first as a member of the Yardbirds 1992 and secondly as a solo artist 2009 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1960s 2 2 1970s 2 3 1980s 2 4 1990s 2 5 2000s 2 6 2010s 2 7 2020s 3 Style and influence 4 Technique and equipment 5 Personal life and death 6 Awards 6 1 Grammy Awards 7 Discography 7 1 Studio albums 7 2 Collaborative albums 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksEarly life EditI was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it I just had to have one Jeff Beck 11 Beck was born on 24 June 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck at 206 Demesne Road Wallington Surrey now in Greater London 12 As a ten year old Beck sang in a church choir 13 He has a sister Annetta He attended Sutton Manor School 14 and Sutton East County Secondary Modern School 12 Beck cited Les Paul as the first electric guitar player who impressed him 11 Beck said that he first heard an electric guitar when he was six years old and heard Paul playing How High the Moon on the radio He asked his mother what it was After she replied it was an electric guitar and was all tricks he said That s for me 15 Cliff Gallup lead guitarist with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps was also an early musical influence followed by B B King and Steve Cropper 16 Beck considered Lonnie Mack a rock guitarist who was unjustly overlooked and a major influence on him and many others 17 As a teenager he learned to play on a borrowed guitar and made several attempts to build his own instrument first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes 18 19 20 for the body and an unsanded fence post for the neck with model aircraft control lines and frets simply painted on it 21 After leaving school he attended Wimbledon School of Art now Wimbledon College of Arts 22 Then he was briefly employed as a painter and decorator a groundsman on a golf course and a car paint sprayer Beck s sister Annetta introduced him to Jimmy Page when both were teenagers 23 Career Edit1960s Edit While attending Wimbledon College of Art Beck played in a succession of groups including Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages during 1964 when they recorded Dracula s Daughter Come Back Baby for Oriole Records 24 25 In 1963 after Ian Stewart of the Rolling Stones introduced him to R amp B he formed The Nightshift with whom he played at the 100 Club in Oxford Street 25 26 Beck joined the Rumbles a Croydon band in 1963 for a short period as lead guitarist playing Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly songs displaying a talent for mimicking guitar styles Later in 1963 he joined the Tridents a band from the Chiswick area They were really my scene because they were playing flat out R amp B like Jimmy Reed stuff and we supercharged it all up and made it really rocky I got off on that even though it was only twelve bar blues 27 He was a session guitarist on a 1964 Parlophone single by the Fitz and Startz titled I m Not Running Away with B side So Sweet Beck top left in 1965 with the Yardbirds In March 1965 Beck was recruited by the Yardbirds to succeed Eric Clapton on the recommendation of fellow session musician Jimmy Page who had been their initial choice 28 The Yardbirds recorded most of their Top 40 hit songs during Beck s short but significant 20 month tenure with the band allowing him only one full album which became known as Roger the Engineer titled Over Under Sideways Down in the U S released in 1966 In May 1966 Beck recorded an instrumental titled Beck s Bolero Rather than members of the Yardbirds he was backed by Page on 12 string rhythm guitar Keith Moon on drums John Paul Jones on bass and Nicky Hopkins on piano In June Page joined the Yardbirds at first on bass and later on second lead guitar 28 This dual lead guitar lineup was filmed performing an adaptation of Train Kept A Rollin titled Stroll On for the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow Up 29 Beck was fired during a U S tour for being a consistent no show as well as difficulties caused by his perfectionism and explosive temper 30 In 1967 he recorded several solo singles for pop producer Mickie Most including Hi Ho Silver Lining and Tallyman which also included his vocals 31 He then formed the Jeff Beck Group which included Rod Stewart on vocals Ronnie Wood on bass Nicky Hopkins on piano and Aynsley Dunbar on drums replaced by Micky Waller 32 The group produced two albums for Columbia Records Epic in the US Truth as Jeff Beck August 1968 and Beck Ola July 1969 Truth released five months before the first Led Zeppelin album features You Shook Me a song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters also covered on the Led Zeppelin debut with a similar arrangement 26 It sold well reaching No 15 on the Billboard charts Beck Ola saw drummer Micky Waller replaced by Tony Newman and while well received was less successful both commercially and critically Resentment coupled with touring incidents led the group to disband in July 1969 In his autobiography Nick Mason recalls that during 1967 Pink Floyd had wanted to recruit Beck to be its guitarist after the departure of Syd Barrett 33 but none of us had the nerve to ask him 34 In 1969 following the death of Brian Jones Beck was approached about joining the Rolling Stones 30 After the break up of his group Beck took part in the Music from Free Creek super session project billed as A N Other and contributed lead guitar on four songs including one co written by him In September 1969 he teamed with the rhythm section of Vanilla Fudge bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice when they were in England to resolve contractual issues but when Beck fractured his skull in a car accident near Maidstone in December the plan was postponed for two and a half years during which time Bogert and Appice formed Cactus Beck later remarked on the 1960s period of his life Everyone thinks of the 1960s as something they really weren t It was the frustration period of my life The electronic equipment just wasn t up to the sounds I had in my head 35 1970s Edit In 1970 after Beck had regained his health he set about forming a band with the drummer Cozy Powell Beck Powell and producer Mickie Most flew to the United States and recorded several tracks at Motown s famed Studio A in Hitsville U S A with the Funk Brothers Motown s in house band but the results remained unreleased By April 1971 Beck had completed the line up of this new group with guitarist vocalist Bobby Tench keyboard player Max Middleton and bassist Clive Chaman The new band performed as The Jeff Beck Group but had a substantially different sound from the first line up 36 Rough and Ready October 1971 the first album they recorded on which Beck wrote or co wrote six of the album s seven tracks the exception being written by Middleton included elements of soul rhythm and blues and jazz foreshadowing the direction Beck s music would take later in the decade citation needed Beck in 1973 A second album Jeff Beck Group July 1972 was recorded at TMI studios in Memphis with the same personnel 37 Beck employed Steve Cropper as producer 38 and the album displayed a strong soul influence five of the nine tracks being covers of songs by American artists One I Got to Have a Song was the first of four Stevie Wonder compositions covered by Beck Shortly after the release of the Jeff Beck Group album the band was dissolved and Beck s management put out the statement that The fusion of the musical styles of the various members has been successful within the terms of individual musicians but they didn t feel it had led to the creation of a new musical style with the strength they had originally sought 39 Beck then started collaborating with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice who became available following the demise of Cactus but continued touring as the Jeff Beck Group in August 1972 to fulfill contractual obligations with his promoter with a line up including Bogert Appice Max Middleton and vocalist Kim Milford After six appearances Milford was replaced by Bobby Tench who was flown in from the United Kingdom 40 for the Arie Crown Theatre Chicago performance and the rest of the tour 41 which concluded at the Paramount North West Theatre Seattle After the tour Tench and Middleton left the band and the power trio Beck Bogert amp Appice emerged Appice took on the role of vocalist with Bogert and Beck contributing occasionally 42 They were included on the bill for Rock at The Oval in September 1972 still as The Jeff Beck Group which marked the start of a tour schedule of the United Kingdom the Netherlands and Germany Another U S tour began in October 1972 starting at the Hollywood Sportatorium Florida and concluding on 11 November 1972 at The Warehouse in New Orleans 43 In April 1973 the album Beck Bogert amp Appice was released on Epic Records While critics acknowledged the band s instrumental prowess the album was not commercially well received except for its cover of Stevie Wonder s hit Superstition On 3 July 1973 Beck joined David Bowie onstage to perform The Jean Genie Love Me Do and Around and Around The show was recorded and filmed but none of the released editions included Beck During October 1973 Beck recorded tracks for Michael Fennelly s 44 album Lane Changer Early in January 1974 Beck Bogert amp Appice played at the Rainbow Theatre in London as part of a European tour The concert was broadcast in full on the U S show Rock Around the World in September of the same year This last recorded work by the band previewed material intended for a second studio album included on the bootleg At Last Rainbow The tracks Blues Deluxe and BBA Boogie from this concert were later included on the Jeff Beck compilation Beckology 1991 45 Beck Bogert amp Appice dissolved in April 1974 before their second studio album produced by Jimmy Miller was finished Their live album Beck Bogert amp Appice Live in Japan recorded during their 1973 tour of Japan was not released until February 1975 by Epic Sony citation needed After a few months Beck entered Underhill Studio and met with the band Upp he recruited them to be the backing band for his appearance on the BBC TV program Guitar Workshop in August 1974 Beck produced and played on their self titled debut album and their second album This Way Upp though his contributions to the second album went uncredited During 1974 he participated in recording sessions for the first album by former Jeff Beck Group member Bobby Tench s band Hummingbird 46 but did not contribute to the album 47 In October the same year Beck began to record instrumental sessions at AIR Studios with Max Middleton who was also associated with Hummingbird 48 bassist Phil Chen and drummer Richard Bailey using George Martin as producer and arranger These formed the basis for Beck s solo album Blow by Blow March 1975 49 and showcased Beck s technical prowess in jazz rock The album reached number four in the charts and is Beck s most commercially successful release Beck fastidious about overdubs and often dissatisfied with his solos often returned to AIR Studios until he was satisfied A couple of months after the sessions had finished producer George Martin received a telephone call from Beck who wanted to record a solo section again Bemused Martin replied I m sorry Jeff but the record is in the shops 11 Beck put together a live band for a US tour which was preceded by a small and unannounced gig at The Newlands Tavern in Peckham London He toured through April and May 1975 mostly supporting the Mahavishnu Orchestra retaining Max Middleton on keyboards but with a new rhythm section of bassist Wilbur Bascomb and noted session drummer Bernard Pretty Purdie who interestingly was also associated with Hummingbird In a May 1975 show in Cleveland at the Music Hall he became frustrated with an early version of a talk box he used on his arrangement of the Beatles She s a Woman and after breaking a string tossed his legendary Yardbirds era Fender Stratocaster guitar off the stage He did the same with the talk box and finished the show playing a Les Paul guitar without the box During this tour he performed at Yuya Uchida s World Rock Festival playing eight songs with Purdie In addition he performed a guitar and drum instrumental with Johnny Yoshinaga and at the end of the festival joined in a live jam with bassist Felix Pappalardi of Mountain and vocalist Akira Joe Yamanaka from the Flower Travellin Band Only his set with Purdie was recorded and released citation needed He returned to the studio and recorded Wired 1976 which paired ex Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer and composer Narada Michael Walden and keyboardist Jan Hammer The album used a jazz rock fusion style which sounded similar to the work of his two collaborators To promote the album Beck joined forces with the Jan Hammer Group playing a show supporting Alvin Lee at The Roundhouse in May 1976 before embarking on a seven month long world tour This resulted in the live album Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live 1977 citation needed At this point Beck was a tax exile and took up residency in the US remaining there until his return to the UK in the autumn of 1977 In the spring of 1978 he began rehearsing with ex Return to Forever bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Gerry Brown towards a projected appearance at the Knebworth Festival but this was cancelled after Brown dropped out Beck toured Japan for three weeks in November 1978 with an ad hoc group consisting of Clarke and newcomers Tony Hymas keyboards and Simon Phillips drums from Jack Bruce s band citation needed Work then began on a new studio album at the Who s Ramport Studios in London and continued sporadically throughout 1979 resulting in There amp Back in June 1980 It featured three tracks composed and recorded with Jan Hammer while five were written with Hymas Stanley Clarke was replaced by Mo Foster on bass both on the album and the subsequent tours Its release was followed by extensive touring in the US Japan and the UK citation needed 1980s Edit Beck in 1985 In 1981 Beck made a series of historic live appearances with his Yardbirds predecessor Eric Clapton at the Amnesty International sponsored benefit concerts dubbed The Secret Policeman s Other Ball shows He appeared with Clapton on Crossroads Further on Up the Road and his arrangement of Stevie Wonder s Cause We ve Ended As Lovers Beck also featured prominently in an all star band finale performance of I Shall Be Released with Clapton Sting Phil Collins Donovan and Bob Geldof Beck s contributions were seen and heard in the resulting album and film both of which achieved worldwide success in 1982 Another benefit show the ARMS Concert for multiple sclerosis featured a jam with Beck Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page during which they performed Tulsa Time and Layla citation needed In 1985 Beck released Flash featuring a variety of vocalists but most notably former bandmate Rod Stewart on a rendition of Curtis Mayfield s People Get Ready 50 The aforementioned cover song was also released as a single which went on to become a hit A video was made for the track and the clip achieved heavy rotation on MTV The two also played a few dates together during this time but a full tour in tandem never materialized 51 At Stewart s induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 Beck gave the induction speech saying of Stewart We have a love hate relationship he loves me and I hate him 52 53 During this time Beck made several guest appearances with other performers including one in the 1988 movie Twins where he played guitar with singer Nicolette Larson citation needed After a four year break he made a return to instrumental music with the 1989 album Jeff Beck s Guitar Shop the first album to feature Beck as a fingerstyle guitarist leaving the plectrum playing style citation needed It was only his third album to be released in the 1980s Much of Beck s sparse and sporadic recording schedule was due in part to a long battle with tinnitus citation needed 1990s Edit Beck at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney 2009 In the 1990s Beck had a higher musical output He contributed to Jon Bon Jovi s solo debut album Blaze of Glory in 1990 playing the main solo of the album s title song which was also the theme song to the movie Young Guns II The same year he was a featured performer on Hans Zimmer s score for the film Days of Thunder He played lead guitar on Roger Waters 1992 concept album Amused to Death and on the 1993 albums The Red Shoes by Kate Bush and Love Scenes by Beverley Craven 54 He recorded the 1992 instrumental soundtrack album Frankie s House as well as Crazy Legs 1993 a tribute album to 1950s rockabilly group Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and their influential guitarist Cliff Gallup citation needed Beck rehearsed with Guns N Roses for their concert in Paris in 1992 but did not play in the actual concert due to ear damage caused by a Matt Sorum cymbal crash causing Beck to become temporarily deaf 55 The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 In Beck s acceptance speech he humorously noted that Someone told me I should be proud tonight But I m not because they kicked me out They did Fuck them 56 He accompanied Paul Rodgers of Bad Company on the album Muddy Water Blues A Tribute to Muddy Waters in 1993 Beck s next release was in 1999 his first foray into guitar based electronica Who Else The album was Beck s first collaboration with a female musician Jennifer Batten 57 in touring writing and recording as well as the first time he had worked with another guitarist on his own material since playing in the Yardbirds Beck continued to work with Batten through the post release tour of You Had It Coming in 2001 58 2000s Edit Beck won his third Grammy Award this one for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the track Dirty Mind from You Had It Coming 2000 59 The song Plan B from the 2003 release Jeff earned Beck his fourth Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and was proof that the new electro guitar style he used for the two earlier albums would continue to dominate citation needed Beck was the opening act for B B King in the summer of 2003 and appeared at Eric Clapton s Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004 Additionally in 2004 Beck was featured on the song 54 46 Was My Number by Toots and the Maytals as part of the album True Love which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album 26 60 Beck with Tal Wilkenfeld on the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival tour In 2007 he accompanied Kelly Clarkson for her cover of Patty Griffin s Up to the Mountain during the Idol Gives Back episode of American Idol The performance was recorded live and afterward was immediately released for sale citation needed In the same year he appeared once again at Clapton s Crossroads Guitar Festival performing with Vinnie Colaiuta Jason Rebello and then 21 year old bassist Tal Wilkenfeld citation needed Beck announced a world tour in early 2009 and remained faithful to the same lineup of musicians as in his tour two years before playing and recording at Ronnie Scott s in London to a sold out audience citation needed Beck played on the song Black Cloud on the 2009 Morrissey album Years of Refusal and later that year Harvey Goldsmith became Beck s manager 61 2009 also saw Beck inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on 4 April 62 the award was presented by Jimmy Page Beck performed Train Kept A Rollin along with Page Ronnie Wood Joe Perry Flea and Metallica members James Hetfield Robert Trujillo Lars Ulrich Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted 63 On 4 July 2009 David Gilmour joined Beck onstage at the Albert Hall Beck and Gilmour traded solos on Jerusalem and closed the show with Hi Ho Silver Lining 64 2010s Edit Beck s album Emotion amp Commotion was released in April 2010 It features a mixture of original songs and covers such as Over the Rainbow Puccini s Nessun Dorma and Benjamin Britten s Corpus Christi Carol interpreted through Beck s uniquely sensitive touch 65 Joss Stone and Imelda May provided some of the guest vocals 66 Two tracks from Emotion amp Commotion won Grammy Awards in 2011 Nessun Dorma won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Hammerhead won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance 67 Beck collaborated on Imagine for the 2010 Herbie Hancock album The Imagine Project along with Seal P nk India Arie Konono N 1 Oumou Sangare and others and received a third Grammy in 2011 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the track 68 69 Beck s 2010 World Tour band featured Grammy winning musician Narada Michael Walden on drums Rhonda Smith on bass and Jason Rebello on keyboards He released a live album titled Live and Exclusive from the Grammy Museum on 25 October 2010 On 9 June 2010 Beck with Imelda May s band recorded a DVD named Rock n Roll Party Honoring Les Paul of a concert at the Iridium in NYC featuring several Les Paul songs with Ms May doing the Mary Ford vocals In 2011 Beck received two honorary degrees from British universities On 18 July 2011 he was honoured with a fellowship from University of the Arts London in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of Music 70 On 21 July 2011 Beck was also presented with an honorary doctorate from University of Sussex by Sanjeev Bhaskar the university s chancellor stating the honour acknowledged an outstanding musical career and celebrated the relationship between the university and the Brighton Institute of Modern Music BIMM 71 72 In 2013 it was announced that he would be performing on Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson s solo album alongside Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks on Capitol Records 73 On 20 June Wilson s website announced that the material might be split into three albums one of new pop songs another of mostly instrumental tracks with Beck and another of interwoven tracks dubbed the suite 74 Beck also accompanied Wilson along with Jardine and Marks on an eighteen date fall 2013 tour which started in late September and ended in late October prior to which Beck made clear he regarded sharing the stage with Wilson as a complete honour for him 75 In 2014 to mark the beginning of Jeff s World Tour in Japan a three track CD titled Yosogai was released on 5 April the album had yet to be finalized at the time of the tour 76 In November 2014 he accompanied Joss Stone at The Royal British Legion s Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall He released the album Loud Hailer in 2016 77 Beck in 2018 2020s Edit On 16 April 2020 Beck released a new single in which Beck collaborated with Johnny Depp to record John Lennon s song Isolation explaining that this was a first record release from an ongoing musical collaboration between the two men They had been recording music together for some time with the track being produced the year before but Beck explained that the decision to release it was influenced by the COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns We weren t expecting to release it so soon but given all the hard days and true isolation that people are going through in these challenging times we decided now might be the right time to let you all hear it 78 79 On 2 June 2022 Beck appeared in the news after Depp appeared with him at The Sage in Gateshead following his victory in the high profile defamation case against his ex wife Amber Heard Both also had performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London earlier in the week 80 Beck and Depp s first single from their collaborative album 18 titled This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr was announced on 10 June 2022 81 Beck is featured on two tracks the title track and A Thousand Shades from Ozzy Osbourne s album Patient Number 9 which was released on 24 June 2022 82 Style and influence Edit Beck at the 2009 MOJO Awards Described by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock 8 Beck cited his major influences as Les Paul the Shadows Cliff Gallup Ravi Shankar Roy Buchanan 83 Chet Atkins Django Reinhardt Steve Cropper and Lonnie Mack 84 11 Beck said John McLaughlin has given us so many different facets of the guitar and introduced thousands of us to world music by blending Indian music with jazz and classical I d say he was the best guitarist alive 85 According to musicologist and historian Bob Gulla Beck is credited for popularising the use of audio feedback and distortion on guitar Before Beck s arrival guitar playing generally conformed to the clean bright and jangly sounds of early 1960s British Invasion bands or the bluesy aesthetic of 1950s African American performers like Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley During his short time with the Yardbirds Beck s experimentation with feedback distortion and fuzz tone pushed the band into directions that would open the door for psychedelic rock while jolt ing British rock forward according to Gulla 86 While Beck was not the first rock guitarist to experiment with electronic distortion he nonetheless helped to redefine the sound and role of the electric guitar in rock music His use of a commercial fuzz box for the Yardbirds Heart Full of Soul June 1965 has been cited as perhaps the first significant use of the effect 87 88 Beck s work with the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group s 1968 album Truth were seminal influences on heavy metal music which emerged in full force in the early 1970s 89 Gulla identifies one of Beck s characteristic traits to be his sense of pitch particularly in exercising the whammy bar to create sounds ranging from nose diving bombs to subtle perfectly pitched harmonic melodies 86 According to guitarist and author Jack Wilkins Beck is regarded alongside Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton as one of his generation s greatest guitarists receiving praise for his technical skill and versatile playing 90 Stephen Thomas Erlewine finds him to be as innovative as Jimmy Page as tasteful as Eric Clapton and nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix although unable to achieve their mainstream success primarily because of the haphazard way he approached his career while often lacking a star singer to help make his music more accessible 3 On his recorded output by 1991 Erlewine remarked that never has such a gifted musician had such a spotty discography believing Beck had largely released remarkably uneven solo records and only a few terrific albums 91 In Christgau s Record Guide 1981 Robert Christgau essentialised Beck as a technician and questioned his ability to improvise long lines or jazz it up with a modicum of delicacy or for that matter get funky 92 although he later observed a customary focus loyalty and consistency of taste 93 In 2015 Beck was ranked No 5 in Rolling Stone magazine s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists In an accompanying essay guitarist Mike Campbell applauded Beck for his brilliant technique and personality in his playing including a sense of humour expressed through the growl of his wah wah effects Campbell also credited Beck with expanding the boundaries of the blues particularly in his two collaborations with Stewart 94 The character of Nigel Tufnel in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap was based on Jeff Beck 95 Technique and equipment EditBeck stopped the regular use of a guitar pick in the 1980s He produced a wide variety of sounds by using his thumb to pluck the guitar strings his ring finger on the volume knob and his little finger on the vibrato bar on his signature Fender Stratocaster 96 By plucking a string and then fading in the sound with the volume knob he created a unique sound that can resemble a human voice among other effects He frequently used a wah wah pedal both live and in the studio Eric Clapton once said With Jeff it s all in his hands 97 Along with Stratocasters Beck occasionally played Fender Telecaster and Gibson Les Paul models as well His amplifiers were primarily Fender and Marshall In his earlier days with the Yardbirds Beck also used a 1954 Fender Esquire guitar now owned by Seymour W Duncan and housed in the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 98 through Vox AC30s He also played through a variety of fuzz pedals and echo units along with this set up and used the Pro Co RAT distortion pedal The pickup is based on a Gibson pickup rewound by Duncan and used in a salvaged Telecaster dubbed the Tele Gib which he had constructed as a gift to Beck 99 Scott Morgan of the Rationals who at one point shared a dressing room with the Yardbirds recalls how Beck amplified his lead guitar through a Vox Super Beatle while using banjo strings for the unwound G string on his guitar because they didn t make sets with an unwound G at that point 100 Personal life and death EditFrom 1963 to 1967 Beck was married to Patricia Brown In 2005 he married Sandra Cash He had no children At the time of his death Beck lived in a Grade II listed house called Riverhall in the civil parish of Wadhurst East Sussex 101 102 103 Beck became a vegetarian in 1969 and was a patron of the Folly Wildlife Rescue Trust 104 105 He also had an interest in classic Ford hot rods performing much of the work on the exteriors and engines of the cars by himself 106 Beck died from a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near Riverhall on 10 January 2023 at the age of 78 103 107 108 Within minutes of his death announcement musicians and friends began paying tribute Jimmy Page wrote that The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal emotions Jeff could channel music from the ethereal His technique unique His imaginations apparently limitless Jeff I will miss you along with your millions of fans Mick Jagger expressed his condolences writing With the death of Jeff Beck we have lost a wonderful man and one of the greatest guitar players in the world We will all miss him so much Ronnie Wood a former bandmate of Beck s stated Now Jeff has gone I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world and I m going to dearly miss him 109 The interment of Beck s remains took place at St Mary s Church in Beddington on 3 February 110 Awards EditBeck was the winner of eight Grammy awards 111 the first being Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Escape from the album Flash at the 1986 Grammys 112 113 Grammy Awards Edit Information is taken from Grammy com 59 1976 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Wired nominee 1985 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Escape winner 1989 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Jeff Beck s Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio amp Tony Hymas winner 1992 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Hound Dog track nominee 1993 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Hi Heel Sneakers track nominee 1999 Best Pop Instrumental Performance A Day in the Life track nominee 1999 Best Rock Instrumental Performance What Mama Said track nominee 2001 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Dirty Mind winner 2003 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Plan B winner 2009 Best Rock Instrumental Performance A Day in the Life winner 2010 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Imagine winner 2010 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nessun Dorma winner 2010 Best Rock Instrumental Performance Hammerhead winner 2010 Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals I Put a Spell on You nominee 2010 Best Rock Album Emotion amp Commotion nominee 2011 Best Rock Album Rock N Roll Party Honoring Les Paul nominee Discography EditMain article Jeff Beck discography Studio albums Edit Truth 1968 Beck Ola 1969 by the Jeff Beck Group Rough and Ready 1971 by the Jeff Beck Group Jeff Beck Group 1972 by the Jeff Beck Group Blow by Blow 1975 Wired 1976 There amp Back 1980 Flash 1985 Jeff Beck s Guitar Shop 1989 Who Else 1999 You Had It Coming 2001 Jeff 2003 Emotion amp Commotion 2010 Loud Hailer 2016 Collaborative albums Edit Beck Bogert amp Appice 1973 by Beck Bogert amp Appice Frankie s House 1992 with Jed Leiber Crazy Legs 1993 with the Big Town Playboys 18 2022 with Johnny DeppReferences Edit Kreps Daniel Grow Kory 11 January 2023 Jeff Beck Guitar Virtuoso and Blues Rock Innovator Dead at 78 Rolling Stone Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 Retrieved 11 January 2022 Booth Philip 8 August 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Beck Guitars Sam Ash Spotlight Blog 24 June 2019 at https www samash com spotlight top 5 iconic jeff beck guitars Archived 12 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine The 7m fingers how Jeff Beck became a guitar hero by saying no New Statesman Archived from the original on 2 July 2018 Retrieved 30 August 2018 This was a musical ground zero for the sons of insurance clerks and factory workers they may have heard guitars but they couldn t see any so they made them Brian May of Feltham Middlesex from a fireplace Beck from cigar boxes Fricke David 4 March 2010 Clapton and Beck The Long and Winding Road Rolling Stone Archived from the original on 30 August 2018 Retrieved 30 August 2018 Beck who was a boy when he started working on cars with an uncle built his first instrument using a cigar box a picture frame for the neck and string from a radio controlled toy airplane I played with it for hours making noises he recalls happily Power 2012 p 12 But Beck was smitten by Paul s spark flying style and would not be deterred Jeff took to building his own demon machine It was basically a cigar box with I first picked up that guitar I thought this was the instrument that was made for me Fetherolf Bob 6 January 2014 The Guitar Story From Ancient to Modern Times BookBaby ISBN 9781483516837 Retrieved 30 August 2018 via Google Books English guitarist Jeff Beck has been described as an absolute master perhaps the at building his own guitar first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes for the body Bob Spitz Led Zeppelin The Biography p 50 Jeff Beck Still on the Run BBC Four BBC Archived from the original on 15 October 2018 Retrieved 30 August 2018 David Terralavoro Dick Wyzanski Jeff Beck Discography Ainian com Archived from the original on 18 April 2018 Retrieved 6 December 2016 a b Alan Clayson 2003 Peter Buckley ed The Rough Guide to Rock Rough Guides p 79 ISBN 9781843531050 a b c Power 2012 Carson 2001 p 29 a b Yardbird How He Became England s PDF Hit Parader April 1966 Archived 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