Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beckis an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth24 June 1944
CityLondon, England
plot ifs success-or-failure
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
music hysteria shapes
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.
music parent radio
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.
music play way
I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
two numbers singing
I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.
tunes albums ifs
If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.
player guitar django
... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.
pressure feels no-pressure
I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.
locks radio littles
I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.
machines sound exciting
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.
home feet water
I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a fish totally out of water during the mid-'60s thing.
careers two people
I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.
ducks want london
London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.
couple heart play
I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.