Any Jeff Beck fans out there?

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To clarify. I wasn't saying he couldn't play with the stones, I was saying I think it would be a poor match. IMO, it would be like Ginger Baker playing in place of Meg White. He could do it, but it seems like a poor match.
 

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Beck fan here from way back. Wore the grooves out of Rough & Ready in high school. Beck stayed true to his roots, never once giving in to mainstream demands. Dude can flat out play.

Amazing to think Beck, Page and Clapton all played for the Yardbirds, though not at the same time.
 

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Beck fan here from way back. Wore the grooves out of Rough & Ready in high school. Beck stayed true to his roots, never once giving in to mainstream demands. Dude can flat out play.

Amazing to think Beck, Page and Clapton all played for the Yardbirds, though not at the same time.

From Wiki The Yardbirds - Wikipedia
Original lead guitarist Topham left and was replaced by Eric Clapton in October 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario Giorgio Gomelsky became the Yardbirds manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds toured Britain as the back-up band for blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II in December 1963 and early 1964,[11] recording live tracks on 8 December and other dates. The recordings would be released two years later during the height of the Yardbirds popularity on the album Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds.[12]

After the tours with Williamson, the Yardbirds signed to EMI's Columbia label in February 1964, and recorded more live tracks 20 March at the legendary Marquee Club in London. The resulting album of mostly American blues and R&B covers, Five Live Yardbirds, was released by Columbia nine months later, and it failed to enter the UK albums charts.[13] Over time Five Live gained stature as one of the few quality live recordings of the era, and as a historical document of both the British "rock and roll boom" in the 1960s and Clapton's time in the band.[14]

The Clapton line-up recorded two singles, the blues "I Wish You Would" and "Good Morning, School Girl", before the band scored its first major hit with "For Your Love", a Graham Gouldman composition with a prominent harpsichord part by Brian Auger. "For Your Love" hit the top of the charts in the UK and Canada and reached number six in the United States, but it displeased Clapton, a blues purist whose vision extended beyond three-minute singles. Frustrated by the commercial approach, he abruptly left the band on 25 March 1965, the day the single was released.[15] Soon Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, but not before he recommended Jimmy Page, a prominent young session guitarist, to replace him. Content with his lucrative sessions work, and worried about both his health and the politics of Clapton's departure, Page in turn recommended his friend Jeff Beck.[16]Beck played his first gig with the Yardbirds only two days after Clapton's departure.
Roger the Engineer was released in June 1966. Soon afterwards, Samwell-Smith quit the band at a drunken gig at Queen's College in Oxford[26] and embarked on a career as a record producer. Jimmy Page, who was at the show, agreed that night to play bass until rhythm guitarist Dreja could rehearse on the instrument.[26] The band toured with Page on bass, and Beck and Dreja on guitars, playing dates in Paris, the UK, the Midwestern US and the California coast.[27] Beck fell ill late in the latter tour, and was hospitalised in San Francisco. Page took over as lead guitarist at the Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco) on 25 August and Dreja switched to bass. Beck stayed in San Francisco to recuperate[28] with his girlfriend Mary Hughes,[29]while the rest of the band completed the tour. After the Yardbirds reunited in London, Dreja remained on bass and the group's dual lead guitar attack was born.[28]

The Beck–Page lead guitar tandem created the avant garde psychedelic rock single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" (with future Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on bass instead of Dreja), which the band recorded in July and September 1966. The single's UK B-side was "Psycho Daisies", two minutes of embryonic garage punk sludge[30] featuring Beck on vocals and lead guitar, and Page on bass. The single's B-side in the US, "The Nazz Are Blue", also features a rare lead vocal by Beck.

 

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One of my roommates in college was a big fan of both Clapton and Beck. He used to play a lot of Yardbirds, Bluesbreakers, Cream & Derek and the Dominoes. Was a great education for me. Little known Yardbirds trivia: Keith Relf the lead singer died after accidentally electrocuting himself playing a guitar. Not a musician myself but I understand getting shocked by an electric guitar was not all that unusual once upon a time. Relf was apparently not in the best of health and the shock combined with his other issues to do him in. Sad.
 

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When you think its all been done on the guitar someone else always pops up. Not exactly beck but his influence is obviously there. Smh....

 

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^^^^^Those two videos are exceptional. Dude can definitely play. And you're right about regardless of what we've heard and think it can't get any better--well, it may not necessarily be "better"--just "different". Case in point is Sonny Landreth. Lots of folks have never heard of him, but he's invited by Clapton to play every Crossroads Concert and he kills it with his style. If you're not familiar with him, he plays slide but takes it to a whole different level. Hard to describe because most everyone knows what slide is, and what's involved in playing it. Sonny on the other hand plays "behind the slide"....which completely boggles my brain. He's had Clapton in awe many times when they play together as Sonny uses the slide in the conventional manner, but adds to it by using his fret fingers on the backside of the slide! You have to see him do it to grasp what he's doing to change the pitch....I mean, that just isn't done! Dude can play a slide like no one else. This is one of his sig tunes....
 

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^^^^^Those two videos are exceptional. Dude can definitely play. And you're right about regardless of what we've heard and think it can't get any better--well, it may not necessarily be "better"--just "different". Case in point is Sonny Landreth. Lots of folks have never heard of him, but he's invited by Clapton to play every Crossroads Concert and he kills it with his style. If you're not familiar with him, he plays slide but takes it to a whole different level. Hard to describe because most everyone knows what slide is, and what's involved in playing it. Sonny on the other hand plays "behind the slide"....which completely boggles my brain. He's had Clapton in awe many times when they play together as Sonny uses the slide in the conventional manner, but adds to it by using his fret fingers on the backside of the slide! You have to see him do it to grasp what he's doing to change the pitch....I mean, that just isn't done! Dude can play a slide like no one else. This is one of his sig tunes....


I think what makes sonnys slide playing different is how much he infuses picked notes and lines while hes playing slide hence fingerpicking style with the slide. A lot of harmonized and therefore fuller sound. Not that other slide players don't intersperse picked notes in their playing but sonnys style lends to the bigger sound.
 

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I remember going down to the old Sam Wolfson Baseball Park to see Mountain. Leslie West and Felix Papalardi (sp). Great concert, prolly around 1970.
When I was in high school (Frostproof) in the sixties it was a must to have an 8 tract of Mountain with "Mississippi Queen" on it in your car!
 

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When I was in high school (Frostproof) in the sixties it was a must to have an 8 tract of Mountain with "Mississippi Queen" on it in your car!
My wife can sing Mississippi Queen word for word... but refuses to do it for the kids... I don't think they believe me because I've told them so much bullschit over the years! She can sing "Get in the Ring" by GnR words for f'n word too... they don't believe me about that either... f'n kids and their warped image of their mother!!!! ;)
 

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