# Guitarist Jeff Beck's new DVD - drool! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115 "2009-04-14T22:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/21 "2009-04-15T22:55:57Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > wallet…jumping…out…of…pants…pocket. > Must…buy…DVD > Wordman…has…spoken > btw I saw the dTb last Friday night at a medium venue club (max 700 people) > > It was an open floor (no seats) in front of the stage so I parked my feet about 8 feet back and center. The sound, Trucks, the band, the whole night was just mesmerizing. 😉 very cool! ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/22 "2009-04-16T04:12:54Z")
I know this is sacriledge… but I’m a poor graduate student… Why not just pick up a greatest hits album? ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/23 "2009-04-16T04:45:45Z")
Actually, I’ve got 10 bucks to my Apple account, both this Live CD (live at Ronnie’s) and Truth Remastered are on there. but both are 9.99. Which should I get? 😃 If I had to get only one… What’s the most fun and mindblowingly cool one to get? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/24 "2009-04-16T06:41:25Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > Actually, I’ve got 10 bucks to my Apple account, both this Live CD (live at Ronnie’s) and Truth Remastered are on there. but both are 9.99. Which should I get? 😃 If I had to get only one… What’s the most fun and mindblowingly cool one to get? Roosh, click the link. Do it! Lot’s of Jeff Beck on you tube. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwvBizKAwc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwvBizKAwc) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/25 "2009-04-16T12:01:10Z")
Stuck on BBerry on my way to the airport. There are Beck collections - one is Beckology - but I can’t recall the songs on it. I am the wrong guy to ask to choose; Truth is a life-changing CD for me as a guitar player (no I can’t play even remotely like Beck) so I am biased… ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/26 "2009-04-16T14:32:34Z")
Heh, I really liked watching the youtube clip actually- it was the Bass playing that blew me away actually. It was quite in your face… ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/27 "2009-04-16T16:02:09Z")
Jeff Beck and me is the textbook example of a bad life experience unfairly ruining (for me) an artists work because of bad associations. When I split up with my ex wife I was all heartbroken. One Saturday night I ventured out to one of my favorite bars and the band was doing a very good rendition of “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” from **Blow By Blow** ( I had the album). I sit down at a table and there on the dance floor my ex is slow dancing with her new boyfriend! That combo would seem corny in a freaking movie! Ever since (20+ yrs!) any JB tune that I recognize as him provokes a mild flashback to that awful feeling. I even bought \*\*Guitar Shop \*\*after that and listened to it about twice. I certainly appreciate his talent, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/28 "2009-04-16T16:38:58Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > You cost me a lot of money, ya know? Every time you recommend something I’ve got to check it out because we like a lot of the same artists and you’re always spot on in your assessment. Off to Amazon… What he said ^. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/29 "2009-04-24T07:22:06Z")
Just got back from the last show of the tour at The Fox Theater in Oakland. I think I can die a happy man now…I got to hear one of the world’s greatest guitarists play the theme from– No, not Peter Gunn (although they did finish the night with that)–but…wait for it… _“The Beverly Hillbillies”_!!! 🆒 :😃 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/30 "2009-04-24T08:00:41Z")
I saw Jeff Beck live in the summer of 1966 while he was playing with the Yardbirds…in the pavilion of an _amusement_ park!\* He was very intense, was really into feedback, and showed no discernable emotion other than anger/disgust with his amplifiers (rumor has it he destroyed one the next day and had to make an emergency run to a local music to get a replacement for that night’s show). Also chewed gum like a motherfuck through the entire set. I stood four feet from him the whole time. What brilliance! What fun! The other guys were good but he was in a league of his own. (The Yardbirds pissed everybody off though because they didn’t bring their ‘harpseychord’ (spelled for pronunciation) and therefore allegedly couldn’t perform _For Your Love_.) :mad: \***Great little amusement park for for concerts though. Johnny Rivers, Jan & Dean, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Four Tops, The Kingsmen (Louie, Louie), The Who, the Sir Douglas Quintet and many others all played there in the summers of 1966-1968** ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/31 "2009-04-24T08:12:54Z")
One of the big changes you’d notice in his demeanor today: he’s enjoying himself immensely onstage. He has put together one hell of a band, and it’s obvious they love playing together/playing off of each other. They spend the whole night shooting surprised glances at each other and and grinning like maniacs. Meanwhile, the guitar players–and everyone else-- in the crowd can only shake their heads in amazement and roar in approval. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/32 "2009-04-24T08:26:42Z")
Yeah, thanks to this thread I’ve been Youtubing Beck & Wilkenfeld and noticed right away how much more happy and animated he is and how much he and his bandmates enjoy interacting with each other. Quite a change indeed from the old days. I’ve also been checking out _Performing This Week: Live at Ronnie Scott’s_ on iTunes. Good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/33 "2009-04-24T09:20:34Z")
I don’t know how sacrilegious this might be, but as much as I love Jeff Beck’s _playing_, I think it’s a bit wasted on the music he plays. In my opinion, the best stuff he did was on Roger Waters’ Amused to Death. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRr95Yz0MOs) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefgOPS3rS8) I’ve yet to hear anything from his solo career that reaches the poignancy of the first track. It’s probably a matter of personal taste, though. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/34 "2009-04-24T12:08:15Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _“The Beverly Hillbillies”_!!! 🆒 :😃 See? Now _that’s_ what I’m talkin’ about: _Taste_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115/35 "2009-04-24T14:31:08Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > I don’t know how sacrilegious this might be, but as much as I love Jeff Beck’s _playing_, I think it’s a bit wasted on the music he plays. That’s a common criticism, and I think it is justified. Jeff’s certainly aware of the digs that rock critics have taken at him. On the eve of his induction to the Rock Hall of Fame, he blogged about it… > [@](#): > > Welcome to my life. And you are most certainly welcome to it! Half of it has been spent avoiding poison darts from journalists, especially in the early days. Some of the articles were so bad that you’d think you were reading about a serial killer. However I drew on my one piece of wisdom which was to take no notice of anybody, and it seems to have worked. It would appear that patience is not just a virtue but a pre-requisite, otherwise it would not have taken so long to be understood… Anyway on Saturday I will be famous so you can fuck off. J.B. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarist-jeff-becks-new-dvd-drool/493115.md?page=1)