Jeff Beck, Guitar God with Las Vegas Ties, Dies at 78

Jeff Beck – a guitar virtuoso who influenced multiple generations of stone stars and pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz, and tilt ‘n’ bowl – has died. He was 78.

Beck died Tuesday after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” his representatives said inwards a financial statement released Wednesday. His location at the time was non straightaway known.

Though Beck was not known for his associations with Las Vegas, he had a few. As a solo artist, he performed in 1999 and 2014 at the Joint at the Hard Rock, inward 1999, 2001, and 2006 at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, and inward 2003 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

Beck’s last Las Vegas show was on Nov. 4, 2012, at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms. It was section of a national tour opened by his pal up Johnny Depp, who joined Beck every nighttime to sing songs from a recent musical theater coaction of theirs called 18.

Beck songs also appeared on the soundtracks to the classic Las Vegas movies Casino and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Beck inward the Saddle

Beck first off came to prominence as a fellow member of the Yardbirds, in which he was the meat inwards a sandwich of II guitarists who went on to reach practically greater resplendency than him. Eric Clapton shredded for the Yardbirds before Beck, Jimmy Page after him.

Beck and then formed a solo band, the Jeff Beck Group, which featured a singer who also achieved more renown than him (Rod Stewart). After that, in 1975, Beck switched to a mainly instrumental style, keeping all attention focussed on his guitar chops.

True euphony fans never cared almost Beck’s tape sales anyway. They admired his reliably fanciful fretwork as it veered from concentrated rock to jazz, blues, funk, and yet opera. (He erst backed Luciano Pavarotti.) In Rolling Stone magazine’s lean of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” Beck ranked fifth, behind only Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, Page, and Keith Richards.

“Jeff Beck is the best guitar participant on the planet,” Joe Perry, the Pb guitarist of Aerosmith, told The New House of York Times in 2010. “He is head, hands and feet to a higher place all the eternal rest of us, with the genial of talent that appears only at one time every generation or two.”

Beck won eighter from Decatur Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Radclyffe Hall of Fame twice, in one case with the Yardbirds and erst as a solo artist.

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