Jeff Beck Guitar Collection

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:49 pm

An interesting video from a humble guy.

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Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:05 am

Very cool vid, thanks for posting.

George · Post by **George** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:51 am

What a dude. Really enjoyed that.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:26 am

Seen it before and loved it, I prefer things like this, stories about players and the guitars they use and their inspirations. I wish a lot of the magazines would do like wise.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:23 pm

What can you really say about him, he's great and never stopped getting better.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:59 pm

Great video, nice way to spend 15 mins.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:23 pm

this guy is way better at guitar than me

George · Post by **George** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:36 pm

Check this out.

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Fucking awesome noises. Saxophone, harmonicas, synth-like volume swells. Just perfect control.

How does he get those warbly sounds with the trem? Anyone know?

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:41 pm

It is fun to see a guitarist who has fans and people who admire his style talk about guitars and guitarists he admires and were the reasons for getting some of his guitars. Fun to see someone with fans talk about who he is a fan of.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:56 pm

George wrote:Check this out.

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Fucking awesome noises. Saxophone, harmonicas, synth-like volume swells. Just perfect control.

How does he get those warbly sounds with the trem? Anyone know?

The trem needs to set floating. It's easier with a floyd rose, you just flick the arm.

Mack93 · Post by **Mack93** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:45 pm

I love that video. It's from the Rock n Roll Party DVD. I only wish he played them a little bit more.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:11 pm

I watched the guitar collection video last month. I like how the video comments are almost nothing but references to the equivalent Nigel Tufnel scene in Spinal Tap, as Tufnel was based on Beck in the first place.

Beck even points out he's still got the ol' tagger on that Maccaferri at 13:08 or so.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:00 am

yeah, i thought that was quite amusing.

dont look at it.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:04 am

I like the comment about how awful sounding those Gretsch acoustics are. I've played them and felt the same-and yes, even in the video, though played beautifully, the sound produced is worse than the cheapest acoustics I've played.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:41 am

Fran wrote:
George wrote: How does he get those warbly sounds with the trem? Anyone know?
The trem needs to set floating. It's easier with a floyd rose, you just flick the arm.

+1

That's why his Strats have the locking tuners and roller trees/nut.

Jaded · Post by **Jaded** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:30 am

That Duo-Jet... my god... that Duo-Jet. Quite possibly the best sounding guitars ever (don't tell my Jaguars...)

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:59 am

HNB wrote:It is fun to see a guitarist who has fans and people who admire his style talk about guitars and guitarists he admires and were the reasons for getting some of his guitars. Fun to see someone with fans talk about who he is a fan of.

I had a colleague who hated The Shadows, loved Satriani, and was gutted to find out that Hank Marvin was one of Satriani's heroes.

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:56 pm

robroe wrote:this guy is way better at guitar than me

dkoor · Post by **dkoor** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:17 pm

I really enjoy the way this dude plays, sounds and even holds a guitar.

If anyone ever was a guitar hero, this guy is it. All in one man.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:34 pm

dkoor wrote:I really enjoy the way this dude plays, sounds and even holds a guitar.

If anyone ever was a guitar hero, this guy is it. All in one man.

Well said.
By all accounts, whilst his contemporaries were doing tons of Coke and jacking up Heroin, he was fiddling around with vintage cars. He has continually progressed as a guitar player, he is humble and acknowledges his heros over his own ego. The man is a fucking role model.