An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

[Alvin Lee Fan]

Haven't been posting much lately, been nursing a case of inflamed wrist tendons. Had to lay off playing for a while. Just so you guysdon't forget me...

Here's an old clip I recorded of my favorite Jeff Beck song. This was recorded with my '54 Oxblood Les Paul (the unofficial Beck LP) using a Tech 21 TM 10 straight to the computer. At the time, it had the stock '57 Classics installed. I also played finger-style, no picks allowed

Hope you like it.

'Cause We've Ended As Lovers

The guitar:

[tone4days]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

sounds great ALF ... i like your tone and the vibe of your playing ... thanks for sharing it

do you have the backing track available? i'd greatly appreciate it if you could provide it

let me know
thanks
t4d

[Alvin Lee Fan]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Thanks

I do have the backing, but I'm short on webspace to post it. I could mail it to you if your ISP can handle it. It's a bit over 4MB.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Sweet clip, I love Beck and this tune

[kard2565]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Now that is sweet, I am amazed at the tone you get from the Tech 21.

I may just have to buy one for recording. How do they at high gain?

[Alvin Lee Fan]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Thanks guys

I was able to post the backing at DSP. You can d'ld it here,

http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/Me..._000018584.mp3

Have fun!

[Stratsky]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Real nice! You have that man's tone and style down.

[tone4days]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

hi ALF --- there is some kind of error with that link for the backing track ... i cant play it with Quicktime or windows media player

anyone else geting it to work?

thoughts?
cheers
t4d

[hacker]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

that sounds great!

[Al.C]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Alf good to hear that one again. I have to tell you a funny story about it though. It was your first piece I heard when you first posted it a year ago. You had the vibe down so good that I was sure you were just some kid who had one of those "jam with" tracks that had some studio guy playing the thing and posted it as their own. I had forgotten about it until a few months back when one of the forum regulars "got caught" taking credit for other's recordings. I had sent Scott a pm discussing the issue and mentioned that I wondered who else may have posted stuff that wasn't their own. I remembered this great version and since you seemed to disappear for a long time right after that I suggested to Scott that perhaps you had taken credit for someone elses playing. Obviously I have heard several of your recent posts so I have to apologize for questioning your abilities.(That actually is a big compliment )

[Alvin Lee Fan]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Thanks for the kind words you guys

Al, that's too funny! I can assure you it's me playing, you can hear my clams pretty well on that weird fast part in the middle. I just made up a bunch of notes because there's no way I could cop the lick that Beck played.

t4d, that's why I hate Digital Sound Planet. I couldn't even upload stuff a couple days ago, this one finally took. You could try d'lding it again, maybe they're felling better today. Or, I can just mail it to you, shoot me your email again.

[take2]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Another impressive clip ALF - I love that song and was hoping that would be it when I read the thread title - nice job.

[ArtieToo]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Wow . . . its not just that you got the song down, but the tone is killer.

Great job ALF.

(Oh yeah . . . and sweeeeet LP too.)

[Alvin Lee Fan]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Thank you, thank you (where's the little bowing smiley?)

I think this was one of the first things I recordedwith that LP. It still had teh '57 Classics in it, which weren't all that bad of pickups truthfully. I have a set of Timbuckers in there now (you see them in the pic). If I hadn't lucked into that set, the '57s would still be in there

[Al.C]

Re: An old fave of mine from Jeff Beck

Thanks for the kind words you guys

Al, that's too funny! I can assure you it's me playing, you can hear my clams pretty well on that weird fast part in the middle. I just made up a bunch of notes because there's no way I could cop the lick that Beck played.

I have the worlds worst ears so I always just go with the feel. I try to play hooks and important melodic stuff fairly accurate but for longer stuff it's always my own (also I can't remember long solos even if I have the tab- old age I figure). Maybe if tab had been around when I was a teenager things would have been different. I remember hearing an interview with BB KIng and he said the reason he came to be known for a distinctive sound is because he couldn't copy other players very well so he figured he would play it his own way.