I was searching on the web for a vid of a Q+A sort of lesson I had seen before of John McLaughlin at PRS (more on JM in a future post), and found this wonderful sequence of Jeff Beck walking through a handful of his classic guitars. Not often (ever?) that I would apply the term "thrilling" to something I run across on Youtube, but what a joy to see that amazing command and authority, on these unamplified out-of-tune relics.... something so egoless and unaffected about JB here that impresses me more than any amount of flash and bombast. Of course there's a linear track from Jeff's Esquire that found its way to Seymour Duncan, through the limited edition "Telegib" collaboration between Duncan and Jean Larrivee, to my beautiful Larrivee Bakersfield in the pic above.
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