Jeff Beck

See also: Beck

Jeff Beck (born the June 24th, 1944 with Wallington London) is a Guitariste British Rock which played in many influential groups of the Années 1960. Its personal style and its opening on the rythm' blues and the Jazz do of him one of the most brilliant guitarists of its generation.

Biography

Yardbirds

In 1965, Beck joined the Yardbirds after the departure of Eric Clapton for the John Mayall' S Bluesbreakers. It is at the time of its passage at Yardbirds that those record their greater successes. In 1966, Jeff divides the statute of guitarist " leader" with Jimmy Page (future guitarist of Led Zeppelin). He is then one of the first guitarist to try out the Distorsion (more particularly on the album Roger The Engineer ), the Feedback and the Fuzz box. It is this redefinition of the sound and the role of the electric guitars which inspired Jimi Hendrix. For various reasons but partly for health reasons, Jeff leaves the group after 18 months of service.

Jeff Beck Group

The following year, it forms the Jeff Beck Group , with Rod Stewart with the Chant, Ron Wood with the low , Mick Waller with the Batterie (music), and Nicky Hopkins with the Piano. The group produces then two albums, Truth in 1968 and Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola in 1969. Because of frictions in the group, Stewart and Wood leave in 1969, a few weeks before the Festival of Woodstock to which the group was to take part. Ron Wood will join the Rolling Stones as guitarist in 1975 following the departure of Mick Taylor.

The work of Beck with Yardbirds and the album of 1968 Truth of Jeff Beck Group are the first influences of the heavy metal, whose emergence dates from the Années 1970.

Career solo

After the failure of the second Jeff Beck Group in 1972, Beck founds a trio with Carmine Appice with the battery and Tim Bogert with low. Success not being with go, the group dissolves quickly In 1975, Beck carries out an instrumental album of Jazz fusion entitled Blow by Blow . This one receives criticisms eulogistic and reaches the fourth rank of the US charts. It is followed of an album in collaboration with the clavierist Jan Hammer in 1976 Wired with as much of success

In the Years 1980 and 1990, Beck records in a sporadic way: There and Back with Jan Hammer, Simon Philips, Tony Hymas and Mo Foster then Flash (1985), Guitar Shop (1989), Frankie' S House (original Music from the soudtrack) with Jed Leiber with the keyboard in 1992, Crazy Legacy (1993), Who Else (1999), and You Had It Coming (2001).

Jeff Beck gains its third Grammy Award this time, that of the better performance instrumental rock'n'roll for the piece Dirty Mind extracts from You Had It Coming .

The album of 2003, Jeff mark anchoring in the style electro-guitar used at the time of the two preceding albums The piece Plan B of this album owes him its fourth Grammy Award, another time for better performance instrumental rock'n'roll .

Discography

  • The GTO' S , 1967
  • Truth , 1968
  • Beck-Ola , 1969
  • Rough and Ready , 1971
  • Jeff Beck Group , 1972
  • Beck Bogert Appice , 1973
  • Live In Japan, Japan only , 1974
  • Blow by Blow , 1975
  • Wired , 1976
  • Jeff Beck With the Jan Hammer Group Live , 1977
  • There and Back , 1980
  • Flash , 1985
  • Jeff Beck' S Guitar Shop , 1989
  • Beckology, Anthology , 1991
  • Frankie' S House , 1992
  • Crazy Legacy , 1993
  • Who Else! , 1999
  • You Had It Coming , 2001
  • Jeff , 2003
  • Official Bootleg the USA '06 , 2007

Participations in albums

External bonds

  • Official site

Bonds for of Vidéos sympas in concert

Reference book

  • Jeff Beck - Crazy Fingers of Annette Carson

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