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He found that with “Blow by Blow,” a record where he turned the exploratory fusion of John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra into something digestible to a broad audience — something smooth, melodic and funky.

Jeff Beck has owned and played any number of cool guitars over the course of his 50-plus-year career. During the late ’70s and early ’80s, Jackson/Charvel was one of several companies in Southern California that specialized in making Strat-style custom guitars with flashy finishes, high-output pickups, state-of-the-art double-locking tremolos, and slender necks that were built for speed. His family statement announcing his death, posted to Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, read: "On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing.Fender veteran Abby Ybarra, who worked for the company since 1956, even wound the pickup for each replica guitar by hand. It wasn’t just the introduction of a heavier backbeat and canny appropriation of modern electronic production that made the difference: By the end of the 1980s, Beck played guitar in a different style, eschewing effects and abandoning a guitar pick for an intricate fingerstyle that also incorporated him twiddling with volume and tone knobs. He took me and Ronnie Wood to the USA in the late 60s in his band the Jeff Beck Group and we haven't looked back since. Both 1971’s Rough and Ready and 1972’s Jeff Beck Group have their moments – I’ve Been Used and Jody on the former, Ice Cream Cakes and Going Down on the latter – but the NME critic who noted that the band’s musical skill frequently “far exceeds that of the material” had a point. He sought serious players with a penchant for improvisation, a quest that could point him toward such heavy, almost leaden collaborators as bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, players who pushed him in the direction toward anonymous hard rock.

It wasn’t just that Clapton was talented; it was that – uniquely for British rock at the time – he was the Yardbirds’ star attraction. Once he left the Yardbirds, he teamed with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood in the Jeff Beck Group, minting the crunching, cinematic blues-rock that Page would perfect on the first Led Zeppelin album. My dad went along and explained that we couldn’t afford it – so they waived the rest of the payments and I got the guitar. A chance meeting with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page led Beck to join the Yardbirds in 1965 - replacing the band's former guitarist Eric Clapton. Beck's career continued as he spent the 2010s touring extensively, including with former Beach Boys member Brian Wilson.Clapton, who later performed alongside Beck on a number of occasions including co-headlining shows at The O2 in London in 2010, also paid tribute to his fellow guitar great. Beck’s most recent project was last year’s 18, a collaborative album with Johnny Depp that featured original songs penned by Depp and covers of Marvin Gaye, the Velvet Underground and other classic artists. Beck has played with countless industry heavyweights including Nile Rodgers with whom he collaborated on the album Flash, and Sir Mick Jagger - playing on the 1987 album Primitive Cool and later working with the likes of Roger Waters and Jon Bon Jovi. Beck was only in the Yardbirds for 20 months, leaving the group in 1966 due to inter-band tensions that had arisen during a US tour. A photo taken at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios in 1957 shows Vincent strumming a Gretsch 6022 Rancher flattop acoustic, his legs spread in a classic rock ’n’ roll pose with the Blue Caps huddled in a triangular formation behind him.

John Walker carved the contours on the front of the body’s lower bass bout and rear of the body’s waist in an attempt to replicate a Stratocaster’s comfortable feel. Jeff’s personal custom Strats also feature Wilkinson roller nuts, whereas current Fender Jeff Beck Signature models are equipped with LSR roller nuts.Beck-Ola was very much in the “heavy” style of Truth – Spanish Boots is particularly fantastic – but subsequent releases dabbled in funk, jazz and soul. During the periods he didn’t have those collaborators on hand, he retreated to his home garage, tinkering on old automobiles and hot rods. Take his final album “18” and its accompanying tour, a collaboration with Johnny Depp launched during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. With its traditional saddle and pin bridge, it sounds better than original ’50s Gretsch Ranchers, which have an unorthodox triangular “harp” bridge.

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