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His book - Beck01
Jeff Beck published a book about his music, but also about his love for car? It's called "Beck01"
Little Jeff
Jeff Beck was obsessed with guitars and everything that had to do with them from an early age. He once said:
"When you're a kid of 14 and you see a piece of equipment that you dream about touching, never mind owning... well, I went into a trance [and] got the wrong bus home, it just blew my brains apart. It hasn't been any different since, really."
20 Sec Jeff Beck in "Going Home"
The 9:50-minute single Going Home by Mark Knopfler was released on March 15, 2024. In many ways, it is a piece of music for the history books. Over 50 of the best guitarists were involved to raise money for charity with the track.
For us, though, it's special because it's probably Jeff's last recordings that open the track. 20 seconds in which Jeff Beck proves what he can do, even before the other great guitar heroes join in. Mark Knopfler describes these seconds as "spellbinding" and Gay Fletscher calls it fateful and ...
"What he did with it, it just brings you to tears.”
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Smashing guitars
Jeff Beck on smashing guitars in the 1960s...
"Yeah, I just whopped it. Because I was a right little fucker then. I used to get a really bad temper. I just rammed it straight into the speaker and it stayed there."
Quotes
Joe Perry :
“Jeff Beck is the best guitar player on the planet, He is head, hands and feet above all the rest of us, with the kind of talent that appears only once every generation or two.”
“I was sitting with Jimmy Page, like two kids elbowing each other every time Jeff would play something!”
Steve Lukather (Toto):
“I don’t think I ever saw him tune a guitar. He would pick up a guitar that was like rotted and out of tune.
I’d go, ‘Jesus, Jeff, these strings are like 20 years old. Is this a B string where the high E should be?’ and he’d go, ‘Whatever,’
and play it, and it would be perfect.”
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