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It has rivals but I'm still not sure if anyone has ever topped this solo

top 3 most influential rock guitarist in history? i think so. or at least top 5

The Yardbirds recording this in 1965 was the beginning of psychedelic rock and the fact that they performed it on live TV at the same time the Beatles were still doing things like HELP! is insane

Very hard to gauge but probably

2:05 😎

this one hurts

Managed to get scene in some classic euro cinema pulling a Townshend and thrashed his gear

Such a revolutionary musician and a real virtuoso. RIP and thanks for decades of incredible art

whoaaa da goat 🐐 rip to one of the great ones

Antonioni. Italian cinema in that era was amazing

van halen s*** 2:43

he was really a master of somehow balancing the wild with the tasteful. sometimes unhinged but still perfectly melodic

Like buddy said a real virtuoso

I'll give this a respectful revisit

I’m not gonna lie I had no idea who he was but rest in peace.

Would Page have taken Zeppelin in that direction without Beck's tutelage? definitely don't think the Spiders From Mars or White Stripes would sound remotely the same without the Beck influence

thats the first one i put on when i saw the news

when it really starts heating up at like 3:07 until the end

masterful expressive playing. the descending part at 4:13 is also nuts

no since the hard rock genre isnt the same without beck and along with hendrix following shortly after hes the main force on its guitar style. some bands like Aerosmith would not even have formed at all. and maybe hard rock bands would have just tried to copy Hendrix purely somehow (or maybe just go for stones-esque guitar teams or just more blues like Clapton?) and the subgenre wouldnt have been able to achieve status as one of the cores of rock as a whole

Ritchie Blackmore is also a very clear son of Beck so his influence runs through that whole lineage too. Van Halen too even though thats another generation removed. and through those 2 (probably iommi too) Beck had a significant impact on the development of metal

and yeah Jack White another clear grandson

he's one of those people who are really baked into the DNA of a genre so its hard to really separate or tell the story without him

Step mum is a huge Jeff Beck Group stan first saw him in 1980

i think one of my aunts was a fan too, she texted my dad about it /

It's hard to trust 70 year old English celebrities. They be chomo's