Jealousy incarnate.

October 24, 2016 10:00 PM

Jeff Beck describing (and playing!) some of his favorite guitars. (SLYT)
posted by dfm500 (17 comments total)

That was pretty entertaining even though I'm not a guitarist (but if someone has a link to a bass player doing something similar, MEMAIL ME!!) I have a friend who massively geeks out like this about guitars, except his examples aren't nearly so historic. I'll be sending this to him directly and I can't wait to hear his enthusiastic reaction.
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:02 PM on October 24, 2016

Delightful.
posted by Lyme Drop at 11:32 PM on October 24, 2016

Cool that he brought out the plastic Maccaferri. I was hoping to hear the story about that Danelectro in the rack.
posted by 2N2222 at 11:45 PM on October 24, 2016

He has a freakishly long thumb.
posted by Mocata at 1:12 AM on October 25, 2016

Don't touch it. No - don't even look at it.
posted by thelonius at 4:13 AM on October 25, 2016 [13 favorites]

He seems genuinely emotional about that Esquire he traded to Seymour Duncan.
posted by wabbittwax at 5:57 AM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

He is so Tufnel.
posted by peterkins at 8:08 AM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

peterkins, he was the model, I think
posted by thelonius at 8:32 AM on October 25, 2016 [2 favorites]

It helps that he and Christopher Guest have a similar jowel-line.
posted by wabbittwax at 10:02 AM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

Yeah this is my Tele. It's all original. Except the pickups were changed... by Seymour Duncan.
posted by rlk at 10:26 AM on October 25, 2016 [2 favorites]

Man, Seymour Duncan ripped him off. This was 1974, back when Seymour was a guitar tech at the Fender Soundhouse in London, before he moved back the states and started his pickup company.

He just routed out a Tele a bit (they don't even state whether it was a nice pre-CBS one but I assume so), slapped some spare Gibson PAFs in there and then exchanged it for a legendary rockstar-played 1954 Esquire worth probably a million bucks now (mainly because of the Beck connection). According to Wikipedia that guitar is currently on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
posted by w0mbat at 11:02 AM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

also wanted to hear about the danelectro, because reasons.
posted by lescour at 1:32 PM on October 25, 2016

Man, Seymour Duncan ripped him off.

Eh, well, Beck said he fell in love with the new guitar and used it on Blow By Blow, so...parity?

P.S. - Duncan's account of the trade is slightly different, in that Beck wasn't in the room watching "a piece of history" carried out the door. Who knows which one is closer to the truth.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:55 PM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

yeah, blow by blow evens everything out.
posted by j_curiouser at 4:09 PM on October 25, 2016 [2 favorites]

"Wot's this iddly-diddly stuff?"

I love how he hasn't changed his hairstyle in like 40 years.
posted by gottabefunky at 4:49 PM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

Duncan mentions on that page that no one thought of old guitars as being worth huge amounts of money at the time, too. I think it was the early 80's when the vintage market started to be a big money thing.
posted by thelonius at 4:50 PM on October 25, 2016

Well, the price is certainly not...

*dons scarf*

*whips out Stratocaster*

Going down

Going...

Down

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posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:48 PM on October 25, 2016 [1 favorite]