The new Jeff Beck CD, w/steel phrasings

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 5 Apr 2010 10:17 am

You can hear it here in total for a week - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... c=fb&cc=fp
Just getting into it and the opening sounds are quite steel-ish.
Say's the next CD will be a very hard/heavy effort.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 6 Apr 2010 3:30 am

Thanks for posting this. Out of all the 60s British white kids who started out wanting to play like the blues greats, Beck has been the only one that continues to impress me with his musical growth and his musical expression on the guitar. He is really amazing.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 6 Apr 2010 5:20 am

Is Claus Ogermann the arranger? Anyway great arrangements and guitar.
I liked his playing on Dylan's Tonight I'll be staying here with you on an album from the seventies.
Thanks for posting!

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 6 Apr 2010 2:51 pm

Good int. w/Jeff about it and a bit of playing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUjB0Kan7g

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 8 Apr 2010 3:45 am

Just finished listening. Can't believe the way Jeff can still blow my mind. He is light years beyond anyone where it counts--in touch, tone and vocal quality. Pure expression.

Here's an excerpt from a review in Financial Times:

During the making of his new album, Emotion & Commotion, Jeff Beck suffered an accident with potentially fatal consequences for a rock guitar god: he chopped off the top of his finger while slicing a carrot.

“It was a really non-glam event,” he says. Squeamish readers, look away. “I only noticed it when I put it under a tap, there was this chunk hanging down. I thought, at least it’s joined on, so I folded it back and then I just temporarily lost it. I crumpled to the floor and thought that’s it, I won’t be able to play again.” A surgeon sewed it back on, but he had to finish the album using just three fingers on his fretting hand. “There’re a couple of dodgy solos in there,” he laughs.

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Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 8 Apr 2010 4:50 am

Doesn't he repair and restore vintage cars?

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 8 Apr 2010 5:43 am

Joachim Kettner wrote:Doesn't he repair and restore vintage cars?

Yep, and builds hotrods. His status in those circles is almost as high as his status among guitarists..

He also runs a cat shelter on his estate. I wonder if his diverse interests is one of the reasons he has managed to stay so fresh and avoid the typical "rock guitarist" pitfalls..

In the 80s, while working on the "Guitar Shop" album, he crushed his right thumb while working on one of his cars.

Greg Vincent · Post by **Greg Vincent** » 8 Apr 2010 9:15 am

Jeff Beck = guitar like a voice

What a talent!

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 8 Apr 2010 10:16 am

Mike Neer wrote:During the making of his new album, Emotion & Commotion, Jeff Beck suffered an accident with potentially fatal consequences for a rock guitar god: he chopped off the top of his finger while slicing a carrot. “It was a really non-glam event,” he says. Squeamish readers, look away. “I only noticed it when I put it under a tap, there was this chunk hanging down. I thought, at least it’s joined on, so I folded it back and then I just temporarily lost it. I crumpled to the floor and thought that’s it, I won’t be able to play again.” A surgeon sewed it back on, but he had to finish the album using just three fingers on his fretting hand. “There’re a couple of dodgy solos in there,” he laughs.

He said once that he has to virtually relearn guitar whenever he resumes that career. Funny how he's usually so ready to admit his personal human traits and thots, like "crumpled to the floor", which extremely few guitar heros would ever dream of saying. His ability to periodically divorce himself from the music industry has most probably kept his perspectives in proper check. The episode with his finger is one I'd not heard, incredible! I suffered a similar fate and salvage to my right index 15 years ago and can almost relate to his tale. He had much more on the line, while I just used another finger to pick my nose.