Articles tagged: jeff-beck

American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy performs live playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar on the American Folk Blues Festival tour in London in October 1965

“In the flesh, he was earth-shattering. His style on every level was fantastic… playing with his teeth, his feet, and behind his head": When Buddy Guy rewrote the blues rulebook with a Strat and blew the collective minds of Clapton, Beck and Page

By Neil Crossley published

The inspirational playing of the last living American blues legend: "I was bringing it up to Eric and Jimmy – ‘Have you heard this stuff!?'"

Jeff Beck and Stevie Wonder attends 2011 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Barbra Streisand at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 11, 2011 in Los Angeles, California

"He wrote it for me, but the record company had the power to prevent any other record coming out and they said, ‘This is a number one smash: Beck doesn’t get this’”: The story of the Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck connection

By Neville Marten published

Denied the song Stevie Wonder wrote for him, he instead gifted the guitarist a composition that would inspire one of his greatest performances

Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes

“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?

By Jonathan Horsley published

Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities

Robert Adam Stevenson

“They just risk everything – every song starts from a point of absolutely no safety net”: Queens of the Stone Age engineer and producer Robert Adam Stevenson on working with Josh Homme, Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp and recording a very '80s Taylor Hawkins

By Andy Jones published

Interview: Since his own band broke up, Stevenson has taken the producer/engineer route, diving straight into the LA music scene and recording its biggest stars

Jeff Beck, John Frusciante and Eddie Van Halen

Steal the signature guitar tricks of the greats including Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen and John Frusciante

By Leigh Fuge published

Incorporate their signature techniques into your own style

Cozy Powell

Jeff Beck: "Cozy Powell and I played for about a minute and you could see all the other drummers packing up their kits - he was my John Bonham"

By David West published

Drum Heroes: Celebrating the hard-working and fast-living Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Whitesnake and ELP drum hero who even had a drum-feature solo hit

Tal Wilkenfeld performs at Robbie Robertson: A Celebration of His Life And Music at The Village Studios on November 15, 2023

"That was my first falling off a cliff moment" – Tal Wilkenfeld on the challenges and trust of playing bass with Prince and Jeff Beck

By Rob Laing published

"He's not there for himself, he's there for the music," she says of Beck

The Jeff Beck Group rocking out at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles,in 1968

“Sometimes Jimi Hendrix’s girlfriend would go and buy us breakfast because we had no money”: Rod Stewart says early days of the Jeff Beck Group were no picnic

By Jonathan Horsley published

Sir Rod recalls he and Ronnie Wood having to resort to stealing eggs because money was too tight to mention

Jeff Beck, live onstage in 2015 at Cedar Park, Texas

Jeff Beck Tribute EP released, featuring previously unheard recordings of the late guitar hero that were played at his funeral

By Jonathan Horsley published

The EP features poet Imelda May delivering a spoken word poem over Midnight Walker Lament and two live cuts, and it arrives ahead of two all-star concerts hosted in Beck's memory at the Royal Albert Hall

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck onstage in 2010

Eric Clapton releases cover of Moon River featuring the late Jeff Beck on stellar form in one of his final recordings

By Jonathan Horsley published

Moon River is released ahead of a pair of Jeff Beck tribute shows and is yet another reminder that no one could wrangle a Fender Stratocaster quite like Beck