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The Yardbirds gave us three famous guitar players: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page - which one is the best? This discussion has gone on for years since the Sixties...which one do you think is the best guitar player?
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My favourite would be Jimmy Page. | |
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Eric Clapton:
With a few detours into Pop, he's pretty much stayed a "Blues man" throughout his career. Jimmy Page: Nothing of serious note beyond *Led Zeppelin (*based on the heavy British Blues-Rock trio concept of The Jeff Beck Group). Very good producer. Jeff Beck: The most versatile and adventurous guitarist of the three. I prefer Jeff Beck as a guitarist. Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Jeff Beck. PRINCE: Always and Forever
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All great
Jimmy Page is by far the best Now I'm older than movies, Now I'm wiser than dreams, And I know who's there
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Jeff Beck hands down.
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I have been lucky enough to see all three. Jimmy Page is my favorite, but I would have to say Jeff Beck is the best. Here is a few of the stubs. I am missing one Clapton from around 1999, and I am missing my Page/Plant stubs.
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Jeff Beck, and both Clapton and Page have acknowledged it in many interviews.
Jeff Beck can play like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, but they can't play like him. Jeff is fast, innovative, funky, soulful, exploratory and iconoclastic. No one sounds like him. Rick Derringer once said, "There isn't an American Jeff Beck", in reference to guitar players from Britain. Jimmy Page once stated, "When he is on, there ins't anyone better". Eric Clapton said, " Becky is fast and the best of all of us". Clapton is a White blues player. Page is a dark brooding player that creates landscapes - a better producer and craftsman of motiffs than a guitar player. Beck is expansion in motion. The solo he took on "Superstition" with Stevie Wonder at the 25th Anniversary Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame about summed it all up. Music Royalty in Motion | |
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I'm not a musician, so I'm in no way fit to judge who's the best at zappa-style jazz-fusion wankery or anything like that, but I love listening to Beck's solos far more than the other two. There's a clip of Clapton & Beck from one of the 'Secret Policemen's Balls' shows from the early 80s that really highlights how much more dynamic & exciting Beck can be.
That said, the only Beck albums I really like are Truth and Blow by Blow. I'm not an expert on his career, but I don't really think he's been a successful recording artist, certainly not in the way Page was with Zeppelin. | |
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"The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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IMO, Definitely Jeff, even though he's probably too modest to say so..... ... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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