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Printablepaligap said: regarding Jeff Beck:
why is it, Do you think, that Jeff, one of the greatest of all time, isn't always mentioned alongside the usual suspects, your Claptons and Van Halens...d'you think it's because he kinda avoids the spotlight? Is it that he couldn't keep a band together? Sporadic recording? all of the above? One of the things I like best about his playing is he same thing I admire with Hendrix...Imagination, emotional playing, and (as tA says,) "Big Ears"...( "Diamond Dust" is playing in the background right now)...he can roll with Stanley Clarke and Stevie Wonder, as well as Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger....check that feel he has on his version of Stevie's "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" (from Blow By Blow), or on "Lookin For Another Pure Love" from Talking Book... Back in the fusion days, Playing with Clarke, Narada Michael Walden , and Jan Hammer, Beck would always say he wasn't on the same level as those guys as far as technique, But he had the imagination, talent and "the ears" to hang with all of them, regardless of style...When Jan Hammer and drummer Simon Phillips cut loose and take off on a track like "Space Boogie" (from "There and Back"), he was right there, almost like "I'll see that, and I'll raise you This!".... It's Kool that he Rocks hard as they come, yet he's got the introspective, melodic thing happening , too... In his biography, Jeff mentions that when they were touring with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Narada Michael Walden would check the band out from the wings and afterwards, Walden would tease him, saying, "You're a softie!"... Jeff would go, "Piss off, I'm Tough!!", but Narada would persist, "You're a softie , and I'm gonna write some melodic stuff for you". Walden wrote Love Is Green, Sophie, and Play with Me for Beck's Wired album... I think the number of opportunities missed... Woodstock the orginal formation of Beck, Bogert & Appice Paul Rodgers as the vocalist to follow Rod Stewart ...pretty much set the tone for the rest of his career. However, he's probably come out OK in the long run. He's known by folks who should know. Much like Allan Holdsworth is known for his greatness as a guitarist but not celebrity famous. Devotes all the time he wants to his other passion - working on cars. Puts out albums and tours when he feels like it. Not a bad deal. He's got that thing instinctively, along with Hendrix, that most of the heavy rockers never understood - sensitivity and dynamics. Could you imagine suggesting to certain Rock players, "Do you think you could take that from a fortissimo to a pianissimo?" Nice Narada backstory. 
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theAudience said: He's got that thing instinctively, along with Hendrix, that most of the heavy rockers never understood - sensitivity and dynamics. Could you imagine suggesting to certain Rock players, "Do you think you could take that from a fortissimo to a pianissimo?"  , Yeah, really!
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Jeff with Stanley Clarke: 
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