LEGENDARY GUITARIST JEFF BECK IS DEAD TO ME!!!

Hopefully his repulsive buddy Depp will soon follow

Good grief 2023 is roaring in like a lion! The hits keep coming. I didn't see this one coming at all. Was he ill?

Bacterial meningitis, per the family's Facebook announcement.

[quote]Good grief 2023 is roaring in like a lion!

Gurl, he was 78!

[quote]Good grief 2023 is roaring in like a lion!

I read somewhere that there are so many deaths coming in the next 3 decades that, those who do not die, will be surprised at the upcoming rate of the death downpour in the boomer cohort.

Bacterial meningitis? I wonder which bacteria and how he got it. It's not an especially common cause of death.

Probably caught it from Depp. The man’s a walking Petri dish.

It can be the result of a progressed sinus or ear infection.

I’m so old I had this on vinyl. It’s beautiful.

And I had the much nicer original

r1=Amber Turd

It’s not a competition, R10!

I live across the street from a funeral home in London and in between Christmas and New Year they had a funeral where someone's casket was being brought out to a horse drawn carriage to the tune of Hi Ho Silver Lining.

RIP Jeff

Many of these 60s and 70s music icons will be departing soon. Gotta go sometime.

[quote] someone's casket was being brought out to a horse drawn carriage to the tune of Hi Ho Silver Lining.

He [bold]hated[/bold] that song he said it was like wearing a toilet seat around his neck for most of his life.

He looked healthy and lively a few months ago in an interview with Depp.

R16 Yes, he looks fit and spry and in better shape than Johnny.

Today would be great if that could happen R1!

It's a bit shocking because of all his peer group (aging Classic British rockers, from the 60s/70s), he seemed to be aging so well. He always was fit and looked relatively healthy. But at his age things can creep up on you.

Beck-ola is brilliant, as is all his stuff with Rod Stewart and the Jeff Beck Group.

I’ve heard of this guy forever, but I can’t recall any of his music. Did he have any hits that might be familiar?

Do you have "the googles" R20?

r18=Whitney, Amber's slavishly devoted sister.

He didn't release singles r20 and even his major records weren't that commercial. He was very into instrumental work, many of his albums are instrumental heavy with little to no lead vocals. He collaborated with a lot of people, played on a lot of people's recordings. He was famously one of the founding members of the Yardbirds in the mid-60s, which also spawned Eric Clapton and a young Jimmy Page. All three were famously from Surrey (Page I believe dated Beck's sister as a teen).

He was known for his love of the blues, sense of harmonics and virtuoso guitar work. He was idolized by a lot of guitar players who came up in the 70s/80s/90s, was featured more on the guitar fan magazines than on Rolling Stone, Spin or other mainstream entertainment magazines.

One of my favorite collabs of his was with Donny Osmond, of all people. It's a great tune and video from the mid-80s era.

Wow.

All respect to him. I admit I don't know much about his music but he was loved by other musicians.

This is pretty cool snippet of him playing with Jagger, in the not-too-distant past. From Mick's tribute on Twitter:

Ron Wood's tribute. I had forgotten he was also in the Jeff Beck Group - there was huge overlap between that band and The Faces (which also included Rod Stewart):

[quote]He didn't release singles [R20]

yes he did

So fucking hot

I had no idea he did that song, r27.

He also dated 60s supermodel Celia Hammond in the 70s though - hence the shit clothes.

I remember when he was in The Yardbirds.

R30, yes, but in a very specific spindly, pretty rock-boy way. James Taylor is the exemplar of the type. You either love that type - as millions of teenage girls and gay men do - or not. To me, they look like they need to (a) eat something; (b) get a haircut; and (c) spend at least a few minutes a month at the gym.

It doesn't matter, though, because Beck was so influential that everybody has heard of him, whether you pay attention to rock or not. I (in the "not" category) couldn't tell you a thing about his music, but I know the name and know that he was widely esteemed by his colleagues.

[quote]yes, but in a very specific spindly, pretty rock-boy way.

Only on DL could he be described as a pretty.

Well, he was pretty in the pic R30 posted. I'm not the one who described Beck as "so fucking hot".

To each his own, though. Some of the men I think are hot would cause many DLers to have seizures and need sedation.

Jeff was sort of pretty but hot in the 1960s -1970s. As if he were Mick Jagger's kid brother. With his pockmarked skin and angular features he was never going to age well.

Who's had him?

Oh boy

Is that Helena Bonham Carter next to Beck in R39's photo?

[quote]Is that Helena Bonham Carter next to Beck

I thought OMG Sigourney Weaver has really let herself go.

it looks like Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders just fused into one person

Fun fact: Michael McKean and Christopher Guest based their Spinal Tap characters (St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel) in part on Beck, style-wise and vocally. Beck always denied it however.

So sad to see him go. Whatever the next level after guitar god is that’s what he was.

Sir Rod Stewart@rodstewart

He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond .Jeff, you were the greatest, my man . Thank you for everything RIP

How weird that no one really cares.

99% of people couldn't name a single thing he does, they all just parrot "Omg, what an amazing guitarist."

Smashing his guitar in "Blow-Up".

Beck’s biggest successes was in the ‘seventies (now truly a long time ago) with Blow by Blow (1973) and Wired (1974). Wired was a terrific example of jazz-rock fusion. The best track was a beautiful cover of “Goodbye Porkpie Hat”, Charles Mingus’s elegy for the great sax player Lester Young.

R48 Wow, that's some talent

R49 Yawn

Nose at R39 looks like a heavy drinker's nose (Beck's, not Depp's).

R39, Johnny is a sinister satanist ! I’m dead serious. Wicked creep

You could also say that Beck knew his time was nigh and wanted to go out with some fun and tour.

depp on female hormones? he look like a old lady.

No, R55, he's just fat.

Men with delicate features should never gain weight, the roundness exaggerates their natural androgyny and makes it downright feminine.

he got big ole fat tittys too.....

Amber said he like to have em sucked on.

Is Depp transitioning? please tell me the qanon's are on the case!

[quote] Depp, 59, "was by Jeff's bedside" along with "some other rock stars" before Beck's death.

I find this hard to believe.

jeff was beloved by many, he was a real artist/craftsman and great guy....much respected and missed now.

As if Johnny needed a reason to go on a bender. This will be one for the ages. Too bad he doesn't have the money anymore to shoot his ashes out of a cannon or whatever.

I listened to his recent stuff at the Royal Albert Hall with Johnny Depp. His solos in 'Isolation' are sublime. Still busting it out at 78.

RIP, Jeff. You're a fucking legend.

[quote]RIP, Jeff. You're a fucking legend.

Thank you, gurl.

One of THE GREATEST guitarists of ALL time.

Thanks for all of the amazing music.

RIP, dear Sir.

Looking back at his career it is amazing how he avoided all of the pitfalls that just about all of his peers fell prey to..... He never even made a disco single!

R20, have you watched [italic]Casino[/italic]? When Ace is watching the card counters and figuring out their scheme, the soundtrack plays "Ain't Superstitious." with Rod Stewart singing and Beck on guitar.

Yes, r52! Because the young Beck nose doesn't look like it would become so bulbous!

Beck had a bulbous nose when he was 20 , it wasn't from drinking or aging.

He survived all the idiots in the record industry for over 50 years......that alone.