Jeff Beck with ZZ Top - LaGrange

[bluesbassman]

Beck does some wicked lead work on this. Check out the bend he does around 3:43, sounds like a scoop bend on a harp! :wow: Amazing.

ZZ TOP/Jeff Beck - LaGrange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idv8tk9Bf5Q

[CrownPrinceBandar]

1. It amazes me how he can make his bends sound like he's using a slide...

Incredible guitar players right there. Dusty is no slouch on the bass either.

[bluesbassman]

2. Beck just keeps on pulling more tricks out of the bag.

Never heard him do that bend at 3:43 before. Hell, I've never heard anybody do it!

I've always dug Frank Beard's drumming too. He's not flashy, but he's as solid as they get. Fills are just right, and backs off when he should. Great drummer.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. It's interesting to compare Beck and Eddie Van Halen...

...I worked in a warehouse in 1978. We had several radios tuned to either KOME or KSJO...your basic "album-oriented rock" stations.

In 1978, disco was in its final death throes, and during the disco years, there wasn't a lot of "great" rock & roll...performers either sold out (KISS, Rod Stewart, etc.) and gamely tossed their hat into the disco arena, while the real rockers stayed on the sidelines, performing their hits for the faithful, waiting for the fad to pass.

So one day this version of "You Really Got Me" started ROARING out of these crappy little transistor radios in the warehouse and I thought "It's the Kinks song, and it SOUNDS like the Kinks song, but that sure as hell isn't The Kinks..."

We'd just stop what we're doing and stand there in a sea of mass dropped jaws and think "It's BACK. Rock & roll is BACK."

Most DJs played the "Eruption" intro. We'd never heard a guitar that sounded like that.

So what happened? Eddie moved to pop songs, climbed into the bottle, battled cancer, and went on an oldies tour with Roth.

Beck, meanwhile, never stopped being Beck. He just never found a welcoming place in the realm of Top 40.

But to this day, he is STILL the guy who plays the guitar that made sounds no one's ever heard before.

That's another sad side to the SRV saga, too, because Stevie tapped into the whole Hendrix thing and I think we all KNEW he was going to take it further, but...

...and that one track, the cover of "Going Down" that he performs live with Beck on the SRV box set, is only a brief glimpse into what they could have done on a bigger scale, if Stevie were still with us.

But Beck IS, and more of the people who know WHO and WHAT he is...like YOU...need to keep spreading the word to those who DON'T.

:toast:

[Kat45]

5. You're absolutely right about Jeff Beck.

He is the real deal. He plays whatever kind of music he wants to whenever he wants to, and he does it all amazingly well. He makes sounds that cause your jaw to drop. I've seen him in concert five times and I'll be seeing him again this weekend doing his Les Paul Tribute show. When I saw him last summer, he played a lot from his Emotion & Commotion album and his guitar was absolutely mesmerizing. I also saw him when he toured with SRV--a great show, of course.

[txwhitedove]

4. That's a real Texan, "Hellll Yeah....!" Great. ZZ was one of the best live concerts

I've seen. Jeff Beck was my very first concert, too young to fully appreciate him, and we were very distracted by the unknown singer with an unusual voice who kept squatting on the floor or hiding behind the drummer to sing......
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