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I can't stop listening to this CD. Amazing. This truly is the blueprint for hard rock guitar. Is Beck using a Strat through Marshall's? You know, he doesn't get the acclaim that Messrs. Page and Clapton receive, which I guess is due to the haphazard direction he let his career go in, but damn, the man can play guitar!

If I'm not mistaken it was a '50's Strat and 50's Les Paul through a Marshall.

58 Les Paul and 2 AC-30's...beck Ola was a 54 Strat and a 50 watt Marshall half stack...

^^^ how the heck did he know that?

Great album. quot;Blues Deluxequot; among others shows Jeff in top form.


Originally Posted by Curly^^^ how the heck did he know that?

Great album. quot;Blues Deluxequot; among others shows Jeff in top form.I have more useless Jeff Beck gear knowledge that anybody I know! Plus...I always LOVE his tone, and I love to be a real geek and rea about other people's euipment!


Originally Posted by the guy who invented fireI have more useless Jeff Beck gear knowledge that anybody I know! Plus...I always LOVE his tone, and I love to be a real geek and rea about other people's euipment!

I thought he has been playing an old Marshall for the past thirty years or so......learn something new everyday.


Originally Posted by the guy who invented fireI have more useless Jeff Beck gear knowledge that anybody I know!

haha,
I saw Jeff live in '65 with Yardbirds.


Originally Posted by bungalowbillI thought he has been playing an old Marshall for the past thirty years or so......learn something new everyday.

well, Beck Ola was 30 years ago


Originally Posted by Curlyhaha,
I saw Jeff live in '65 with Yardbirds. Im jealous! I've only seen him once, it was amazing...it sarted raining right in the middle of the first sone, I was standing outside and I stayed for the whole thing...it was worth every soaking wet minute!

What was he using on quot;You Shook Mequot; to get that really fat sound? It almost sounds like he's playing underwater.


Originally Posted by jonnymangiaWhat was he using on quot;You Shook Mequot; to get that really fat sound? It almost sounds like he's playing underwater.

I believe that was Beck turning his wah on and leaveing it set as a tone filter... Try turning your wah on and leaving it open and adjust the pedal until it sounds just right..... I only have a standard Cry Baby pedal but oneday i want a VOX wah... Here in Canada i bought my Cry Baby for $89.... the VOX's are always over $189... but oneday i'll spend the cash and get the VOX... I love using the wah with my 5150..

Anyways Beck is one of my favourite players... love Truth!!!! But i think my favourite album is Live With Jan Hammer.... man that is one great jam....

I was lucky enough to pick up and hold Becks 1951 Esquire in London England a few years back.. It was one of 3 used in the Yardbirds... Of Course Duncan has the most famous one but this one was kind of cool.... When i was holding it you could see the neck pocket looked like it was cut out with a chisel... lots of signs of hand tools The neck itself felt like a 2x4 rounded over..... Now i know why Beck's first Sig strat had such a huge neck.

WhoFan


Originally Posted by Curlywell, Beck Ola was 30 years ago

So, what are ya tryin to say there, Gary? Yardbirds in '65? Hmmm....that's what....? some 40 years ago....? ...... lol

....Bob

I saw Beck three nights in a row in '67 or early '68 right after that Truth album was released and he was using a late 50's Les Paul that had the finish stripped to a natural finish. I shook hands with him that night and I saw the guitar very close up because he was making his way through the crowd with it cradled in his arms and he had to put it in his left hand to shake hands with me. It had two double cream humbuckers with the covers removed.

I think that's the same guitar that an unscrupulous repairman later stole the pickups out of. Seymour created the Tele-Gib and gave it to Jeff as a gift to replace that guitar.

Beck had two full Marshall stacks onstage and I'm pretty sure they were 100 watt plexi heads and not 50 watt heads. They looked just like the stacks Cream and Hendrix were using at the time.

I went right up to the stage at the Grande Ballroom before and after his sets and inspected his gear closely. He had a Vox Wah Wah and a Marshall Fuzz...I think it was a Marshall Super-Fuzz or similar name and I noticed that he had his guitar plugged into the fuzz and the fuzz was then plugged into his wah.

That's the way I've used a fuzz and wah ever since.

His tone live sounded just like his tone on the Truth album and they did pretty much all of the tunes off of that album - even Greensleeves. They were great!

Beck is my favorite guitarist of all time (He and Jimi Hendrix) and has been since the minute I first heard him with the Yardbirds.

I at times feel that Beck could play a broom with strings on it and get a great tone. It's obvious on songs like quot;Let Me Love Youquot; he is using that Les Paul that Lew was talking about. If I'm not mistaken he was still using a pick back then. I think he started playing without a pick while he was with Beck, Bogert and Appice. But then again I could stand corrected.

Thanks,
CoachC


Originally Posted by coachc55I at times feel that Beck could play a broom with strings on it and get a great tone. It's obvious on songs like quot;Let Me Love Youquot; he is using that Les Paul that Lew was talking about. If I'm not mistaken he was still using a pick back then. I think he started playing without a pick while he was with Beck, Bogert and Appice. But then again I could stand corrected.

Thanks,
CoachC

Beck was using a pick back in the Truth days. Don't know when he made the change to playing mostly with his thumb and fingers but he can even up-pick with that thumb.


Originally Posted by LewguitarBeck was using a pick back in the Truth days. Don't know when he made the change to playing mostly with his thumb and fingers but he can even up-pick with that thumb.

His technique with his thumb is something else. There and Back was the last album he used a pick on, somewhere between it and Flash he stopped using a pick...

On the BB King live by request DVD, Beck does three tunes, and you get real good close-ups the whole time. It is so d@mn cool!


Originally Posted by LewguitarI saw Beck three nights in a row in '67 or early '68 right after that Truth album was released and he was using a late 50's Les Paul that had the finish stripped to a natural finish. I shook hands with him that night and I saw the guitar very close up because he was making his way through the crowd with it cradled in his arms and he had to put it in his left hand to shake hands with me. It had two double cream humbuckers with the covers removed.

Lew gets my vote as MVP of this board!!!
You mentioned a quot;Tele-Gibquot; that Beck used. What was that?

Jonny


Originally Posted by jonnymangiaLew gets my vote as MVP of this board!!!
You mentioned a quot;Tele-Gibquot; that Beck used. What was that?

Jonny

Thanks! It was a 50's Tele that Seymour installed two handwound humbuckers of his own design into and then gave to Jeff Beck. Those two humbuckers became the Jazz neck model and JB bridge model humbuckers that are still best sellers in the Duncan pickup line. Lew


Originally Posted by the guy who invented fireI have more useless Jeff Beck gear knowledge that anybody I know! Plus...I always LOVE his tone, and I love to be a real geek and rea about other people's euipment!There is no such thing as quot;uselessquot; JB info! You rock my man!!!