I woke up this morning to the news that we have lost another genuinely great musician from the trail blazing generation of the 1960s. Beck was a musical genius, so good that he is seldom, if ever, imitated, unlike thousands of other guitar greats (you can make your own list).
He developed an innovative and unique way of playing the electric guitar and you can count the guitarists about which you can write that on one hand. His music was not always to my taste, but it was always thrilling to hear him play. You found yourself wondering what he would do next, what new boundary he would push. He never played it safe (as someone like Clapton always did), he never played it sloppy (as someone like Page often did) he never blew the doors off like Hendrix, he just played it like Jeff Beck.
His passing is a great loss to British and world music.
He developed an innovative and unique way of playing the electric guitar and you can count the guitarists about which you can write that on one hand. His music was not always to my taste, but it was always thrilling to hear him play. You found yourself wondering what he would do next, what new boundary he would push. He never played it safe (as someone like Clapton always did), he never played it sloppy (as someone like Page often did) he never blew the doors off like Hendrix, he just played it like Jeff Beck.
His passing is a great loss to British and world music.
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