Jeff Beck Quotes

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Jimi Hendrix is the Greatest, Jeff Beck is the Best, but I prefer to listen to Jimmy Page

Jeff Beck was the guitarists guitarist. Class, precision, groove, and technique with an awareness and connection to a song like few have. Jeff Beck arranged and brewed his own combination from the many flavors of the guitar to create a sound and style that was his and his alone.

We thought we could augment the band with an extra guitarist to take the pressure off Syd. Jeff Beck’s name was mentioned, which would have been an interesting (and spectacular) experiment. I don’t think any of us would have had the courage to make the phone call at the time. Roger eventually managed it twenty-five years later.

Elvis had been a truck driver, but John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ray Davies, and Keith Richards were all art college students who tended to think of themselves as artists.

I went to that show, although I remember very little about it. History relates, though, that also in the audience that night was Ian McLagan, later the keyboard player with the Faces, and that the support act was a band called Jeff Beck and the Tridents. But that’s how tight it all seemed to be in those days: at any time, almost everyone who would later matter would be standing around in the same place. One unfortunate gas explosion under the wrong club on the wrong night, and three-quarters of the history of British rock music would have been taken out in one go.

Jimi Hendrix is the Greatest, Jeff Beck is the Best, Eric Clapton has no equal, but I prefer to listen to Jimmy Page

Presently the Marquee installs a proper bar, which cuts the capacity nearly in half, but not the excitement. These are the days when someone will join a band in the afternoon and be playing with them that night. Jeff Beck joins The Yardbirds one afternoon, Jimmy Page another. I’m in the crowd for both their debuts. I’m a Yardbirds fan, and when they become The New Yardbirds, I’m also a fan of their drummer, John Bonham. Alongside Roger from The Action, he’s my drumming hero.