Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold Beck was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band The Yardbirds, and went on to found and lead the Jeff Beck Group and Beck Bogert & Appice.
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Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band The Yardbirds, and went on to found and lead the Jeff Beck Group and Beck Bogert & Appice.
In 1975 he turned to an instrumental style, concentrating on The innovative sound and his releases span genres and styles, from blues rock hard rock jazz fusion to guitar rock and electronic fusion.
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Baker is in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists of the greatest guitarists of all time. He is often referred to as a guitarist's guitarist. Rolling Stone magazine called him one of rock's most influential lead guitarists. Although he recorded two successful albums (1975 and 1976) as a solo performer, Baker did not establish or sustain the sustained commercial success that many of his contemporaries and bandmates did. He has recorded with many artists
Baker has earned critical acclaim and won six Grammy Awards for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and one for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In 2014 he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for his outstanding contribution to British music. he was led into the rock and Hall of Fame twice: first as a member of the Yardbirds (1992), and second as a solo artist (2009).
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Early life
I was interested in electric guitars long before I knew the difference between an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar. An electric guitar seems to be a very attractive board with knobs and switches. I only need one.
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Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born on 24 June 1944 in 206 Demesne Road Wallington, London, to Arnold and Ethel Beck. Ten-year-old Jeff Baker sings in the church choir. He has an older sister, Anita. He attended Sutton Manor School and Sutton East County Secondary Modern School.
Beck says Les Paul was the first electric guitarist to impress him. Beck said he first heard an electric guitar when he was six years old, and then heard Paul play How High the Moon on the radio.
He asked his mother what it was. After she replied that it was an electric guitar, he said it was all tricks for me. Cliff Gallup was also an early musical influence along with Gene Vincent and the lead guitarist of the Blue Caps, followed by B. B. King and Steve Cropper. Beck thinks lonny mac is a rock Guitarist [who] was unfairly overlooked and had a major impact on him and many others.
As a teenager, he learned to play on borrowed guitars and made several attempts to build his own, starting with a cigar box glued and bolted together for the body and a handless guitar for the neck. The fence posts are simply painted with model aircraft control lines and frets.
After leaving school, he entered Wimbledon College of Art. He was then briefly employed as a painter and decorator, a golf course groundman and a car painter. Baker's sister Anita introduced him to Jimmy Page when he was a teenager.
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Style and influence
Beck at the 2009 MOJO Awards
Described by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the most influential lead guitarists in rock, Baker cites his major influences as Les Paul the Shadows Cliff Gallup Ravi Shankar Roy Buchanan Chet Atkins Django Reinhardt Steve Cropper and Lonnie Mack. Baker says John McLaughlin gave us so much different aspects of the guitar and introduced millions of us to world music by fusing Indian music with jazz and classical music. I would say he is the best guitar player.
According to musicologist and historian Bob Gulla Beck, he is credited with popularizing the use of audio feedback and distortion on the guitar. Prior to Beck's arrival, his guitar playing was largely in line with the clean, bright, raspy sound of the British Invasion bands of the early 1960s, or African-American performers of the 1950s, such as Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. During his brief stint with the Yardbirds, Beck's experiments with feedback distortion and fuzzy tones propelled the band in a direction that opened the doors for psychedelic rock, as well as advancing Brit rock. Two gold medals.
While Beck wasn't the first rock guitarist to experiment with electronic distortion, he still helped redefine the sound and role of the electric guitar in rock music. Beck's work with the Yardbirds and Jeff Beck Group's 1968 album Truth had a profound impact on heavy metal Music that came into full swing in the early 1970s. Gulla considers one of Beck's hallmarks to be his sense of pitch, especially when practicing pounding syllables, creating sounds ranging from dive bombs to subtle pitch-perfect harmonic melodies.
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According to guitarist and author Jack Wilkins Baker, Baker is considered one of the greatest guitarists of his generation, along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, for his technical skill and versatility praised for his performance. Stephen Thomas Erlewine considers him as innovative and classy as Jimmy Page Like Eric Clapton, almost as visionary as Jimi Hendrix, though his lack of mainstream success was largely due to the haphazard way he approached his career and the frequent lack of star singers to come. Helping his music be more accessible.
In his 1991 recorded output, Erlewine commented that Never before has such a talented musician had such an uneven record, and he believes Baker has largely released a very uneven solo record and only a few great albums.
In Christgau's Record Guide (1981), Robert Christgau essentialized Beck as a technician and questioned his ability to improvise over long periods of time Lay off or jazz up with a touch of sophistication, or be trendy for that matter, despite the customary loyalty of focus and consistency of taste he later observed.
In 2015, Baker was ranked No. 5 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. In an accompanying essay, guitarist Mike Campbell praised Baker's great technique and personality in his playing, including a sense of humor expressed through the growl of the wah-wah effect. Campbell also credits Baker for pushing the boundaries of the blues, especially in his two collaborations with Stewart.
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Technique and equipment
Baker discontinued the regular use of guitar picks in the 1980s. He produces a variety of sounds by strumming the guitar strings with his thumb, the volume knob with his ring finger, and the tremolo bar on his signature Fender Stratocaster with his pinky. By plucking and then "fading" In the voice with the volume knob, he creates a unique sound that can resemble a human voice among other effects. He often uses the wah pedal live and in the studio. Eric Clapton once said that Jeff has everything in his hands.
In addition to Stratocasters, Beck occasionally played Fender Telecaster and Gibson Les Paul models. His amps are mainly Fender and Marshall. During his early work with the Yardbirds, Beck also used a 1954 Fender Esquire guitar (now owned by Seymour W. Duncan and stored in Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) via Vox AC30s. He also used various fuzz pedals and echo units with this setup, and used a Pro Co RAT distortion pedal. This pickup is based on a Gibson pickup that Duncan rewinds and uses in a recycled Telecaster known as the Tele-Gib He gave it to Baker as a gift. Rationals' Scott Morgan, who shared a dressing room with the Yardbirds, recalls how Baker amplified his lead guitar with a Vox Super Beatle while using banjo strings as the guitar's unwound G string because they wouldn't Set an unwound G at that point.
Personal life and death
Baker was married to Patricia Brown from 1963 to 1967. In 2005, he married Sandra Cash. He has no children. Baker lived in a Grade II listed building at the time of his death, Riverhall Wadhurst East Sussex. Baker became a vegetarian in 1969 and is a patron of the Folly Wildlife Rescue Trust. he Also interested in classic Ford hot rods, he did most of the car's exterior and engine work himself.
Baker died on January 10, 2023, at the age of 78, from a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near River Hall.
Jeff Beck Albums
- Truth (1968)
- Beck-Ola (1969) – by The Jeff Beck Group
- Rough and Ready (1971) – by The Jeff Beck Group
- Jeff Beck Group (1972) – by The Jeff Beck Group
- Blow by Blow (1975)
- Wired (1976)
- There & Back (1980)
- Flash (1985)
- Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop (1989)
- Who Else! (1999)
- You Had It Coming (2000)
- Jeff (2003)
- Emotion & Commotion (2010)
- Loud Hailer (2016)
References
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