jeff beck honors les paul concert

anyone see this on PBS?

anyway, here are two videos.

the original
Mary Ford and Les Paul - How High the Moon

and jeff beck
Jeff Beck & Imelda May Honor Les Paul | How High the Moon | PBS

jeff's not as crisp, but probably very few ever were or will be as les.

here's another cool one from crossroads

Crossroads Guitar 2010 - Jeff Beck - Nessun Dorma

here's another version of the moon with a bass focus as well.  jeff beck gave up the pick in the late 80's.  probably did it as a matter of manhood.

20- Les Paul - How High The Moon - Live At Sevilla 1991

I thought funding PBS was one of those things Romney wanted to do away with  

I saw Jeff Beck with Rod Stewert etc when he was at the hieght of his bluz les paul guitar playing-nobody could bend notes or had a tone like him-this was when he used his fingers-not a bar.I think the playing that influenced his finger style-and certainly the sound of extracting notes out of the guitar started when he heard Roy Buchannon-who was a huge influence on his style from the early 70s on.He also has an amazing arsenal of things he can also do-like(early 90s I think) the Gene Vincent Album he did -memorializing the Blue cap lead guitarist-Note the blue cap he wore in the guitar party videos. O0

here's roy buchanan covering a couple songs hendrix used to play.

Roy Buchanan 1976 / Hey Joe:Foxy Lady

Pretty cool-thanks for posting that:remember all hes playing through is a Fender Twin Reverb:and the way he mixes types of music-was phenominal. Only person Ive ever seen on that level was Danny Gatton.-I was in the Silver Dollar in Georgetown when Roy Buchannon was still relatively unknown-Jimi Hendrix was also there-and later jammed with him-and wanted to record with him,there is a bad bootleg somewhere on that.The stuff Jeff Beck first started playing was slower-and more like Sweet Dreams,and Lonesome Traveler-county stuff Roy Buchannon did-by the early eighties when he did Further on up the Road at a benefit with Eric Claptoon-he was doing the fast runs like Buchannon.Buchannon did one fusion record with counrty-blues and old type songs too (late 70s) for Atlantic called Loading Zone.This record had Jan Hammer,Naralda Walden,Steve Cropper,etc. and was produced by Becks people-It was one YOU NEED TO LISTEN to:" IN The Heat of The Battle"-predates Becks really produced stuff-and was flat awesome (hate to use the word) And I read where Jeff Beck said it just blew him away O0

stanley clark was on that album

Roy Buchanan - The Heat of the Battle.wmv

http://www.roybuchanan.org/news.html

Thanks again-I had that album-it was made in the early 80s I believe-not the 70s- Stanley Clarke was in and out of DC in those days-Jeff Beck did a Buchannon Tribute on Blow By Blow-and this is the not very subtle tribute to him.The more modern "etherial" deep production,and fatter tone quality,the lead rhythm runs,the obvious takes on Becks Bolero.-There were some other pretty famous people like Steve Cropper on this one-along with some unmentioned ones-the background "wall of noise" guitars sure sound like Jeff Beck-this was probably the most insane thing I had ever heard at that point,and was the most ambitious production of Roy Buchannon. WHATS YOUR TAKE ON THIS ONE KNABE? O0

my take is that it's pretty hard to get excited about music anymore.

my band favorites in the early 70's were brandx, peter and the wolfe , brian eno album before and after science, eddie harris lots of obscure stuff like go with stomi yomasta (spelling),  Mahavishnu Orchestra, return to forever and all the solo stuff, steely dan, king crimson lots more.  music ain't what it used to be .  i even saw carl palmer play with santana.  dusty rhodes (actually robert fripp) played with peter gabriel on 1st or third tour can't remember.  saw frippertronics a couple of times.  for grins, an old neighbor helped make the tape delay for ampex who was financed by bing crosby and ampex invented lots of things back in the day.

Brand X - Nuclear Burn (1976)

Good stuff here. I would agree that much of today's modern stuff lacks originality. most artists seem to follow each other.

there are still good modern guitarists. I'm a big fan of Tom Morrello. The stuff he did with Rage Against the Machine was excellent even if it was in the 90's.

Hard to beat the greats like Jimi.

Its pretty much all been done-there will never be another,Yardbirds, Paul Butterfield,Early Clapton,Clff Gallop,Link Wray,Eric Burdon,Ray Davies ,and so many others-that were as original to what was going on around them,as now-with all the electronic effects etc.I seriously doubt for instance-there will ever be another 1-2 take song like House of the Rising Sun or trying to get to you by Elvis. O0

saw king crimson several times.

King Crimson Matte Kudasai


nice song from yes
Yes - Soon [Live 2002]

a song off one of my all time favorite albums.  love how the song builds.  i think busta jones plays bass
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody

A Big favorite of mine I stumbled across about 1970 was The Music Machine. I still have their Talk Talk vinyl album. It had a tremendous version of Hey Joe.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=nMuyWDhm3vg#/watch?feature=related&v=nMuyWDhm3vg