Few fellow guitar heroes were more visibly affected by news of Jeff Beck’s Jan. 10 death, at age 78, than Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, whose first social response consisted of profanity and incompr…
“The guitar community is blindsided. We’ve had many bad days — I think of Steve Ray Vaughan and Dime Bag Darrell and Chris Cornell; back before there were socials, Terry Kath or Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain; even our elders, like BB King — but this is undoubtedly one of the worst. On Twitter, my initial response was just, ‘Fuck, no.’ It blew my mind. It’s blowing my mind just talking about it.
“I was too young for the Yardbirds, but I came in with ‘Blow by Blow’ and ‘Wired,’ or between him playing with Stevie Wonder on ‘Talking Book’ and then going into jazz-rock. He was so ubiquitous in one way, and yet he had such an individuality and was so open and didn’t care what the audience thought. When he heard jazz music, when he heard ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,’ he heard a melody that just moved him and he went with it.
“He also brought this haunting quality; it went into the realms of the ethereal — not just chops. He could get down and dirty or he could be in the upper atmosphere, just floating in the clouds, while still grounded. He didn’t have to be going up and down the scales really fast to be interesting. He didn’t have to tap on the neck — and he loved and could do all that stuff. The lyricism was in details like his vibrato.
“There are a couple of different versions of ‘Where Were You’ — there’s the recorded version, which is astonishing, but there’s a live version from ‘Live at Ronnie Scott’s,’ and he’s playing it in real time and it’s jaw-dropping. He’s able to get a kind of Beltone harmonic and play one note, and then use the whammy bar to play the rest of the melody only by manipulating the tremolo arm.
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