very cool!
I know this is sacriledge… but I’m a poor graduate student…
Why not just pick up a greatest hits album?
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
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…
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…
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.
What he said ^.
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”!!! 
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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
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.
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!
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.
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.
See? Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about: Taste.
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…