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This 1969 Fender Telecaster Bass was reportedly acquired by Jeff Beck as a replacement for one of those previously played by Ronnie Wood during his time in the Jeff Beck Group, which had been stolen - along with Beck's favourite 1959 Sunburst Les Paul - following a riotous gig in upstate New York in July 1969.
Just before his joint tour of Japan with Stanley Clarke in 1978, Japanese photographer Toshi Yajima visited Beck at his Sussex home for Player magazine, with the photos reproduced shortly thereafter in Steve Rosen’s Japanese-language publication The Beck Book. Yajima's photographs show Beck with a group of guitars and amplifiers, which Beck's former road manager Al Dutton remembers to represent ‘all the guitars Jeff owned’ at that time, with the exception of one white Strat, which was kept in the US and would be brought over by Stanley Clarke for rehearsals ahead of their joint tour. Included on the far left is this Telecaster Bass. Jeff Beck kept the bass at his home studio, and will have used it to write and record bass parts over an extended period. Reportedly, in after hours sessions with George Martin at AIR Studios, Jeff recorded some of his own bass parts for Blow By Blow, and it is tantalising to suggest that he would have used this Tele Bass to do so. Much later, when discussing his latest album Jeff with Barry Cleveland in September 2003, Beck remarked - Eric Martin wrote this [‘Pay Me No Mind’] for me. It’s a hooky thing, and I tried to get a Meters-type, New Orleans groove. The guitar is a straight-ahead Telecaster sound, and I’m also playing bass.
As well as frequently recording his own bass parts, Jeff played bass on stage occasionally. When recounting in BECK01 the Jeff Beck Group's memorable residency at The Scene in New York, in June 1968, Beck recalled: The first night at The Scene, Jimi didn’t show up, but he came for the rest of the five nights. Around about the halfway mark, he’d come in from whatever recording he’d been doing. The buzz was incredible: the place was packed anyway, but when he came in they were standing on each other’s shoulders. Sometimes he didn’t have his guitar, so he would turn one of my spare guitars upside down and played that way, and I actually played bass at one point. I’ve got a photograph of that. Thank god someone took a picture, because there’s hardly any record of those goings-on.
Being comfortable to play bass on stage was also particularly useful when his band at the given moment did not include a bass player. When visiting Japan on the 1989 Guitar Shop Tour with keyboard player Tony Hymas and drummer Terry Bozzio, amongst the gigs they played was an all-star show with Chuck Berry on 12 August. Reports of this concert reveal that Beck played bass live on 'Going Down' and 'Led Boots'.
Just before his joint tour of Japan with Stanley Clarke in 1978, Japanese photographer Toshi Yajima visited Beck at his Sussex home for Player magazine, with the photos reproduced shortly thereafter in Steve Rosen’s Japanese-language publication The Beck Book. Yajima's photographs show Beck with a group of guitars and amplifiers, which Beck's former road manager Al Dutton remembers to represent ‘all the guitars Jeff owned’ at that time, with the exception of one white Strat, which was kept in the US and would be brought over by Stanley Clarke for rehearsals ahead of their joint tour. Included on the far left is this Telecaster Bass. Jeff Beck kept the bass at his home studio, and will have used it to write and record bass parts over an extended period. Reportedly, in after hours sessions with George Martin at AIR Studios, Jeff recorded some of his own bass parts for Blow By Blow, and it is tantalising to suggest that he would have used this Tele Bass to do so. Much later, when discussing his latest album Jeff with Barry Cleveland in September 2003, Beck remarked - Eric Martin wrote this [‘Pay Me No Mind’] for me. It’s a hooky thing, and I tried to get a Meters-type, New Orleans groove. The guitar is a straight-ahead Telecaster sound, and I’m also playing bass.
As well as frequently recording his own bass parts, Jeff played bass on stage occasionally. When recounting in BECK01 the Jeff Beck Group's memorable residency at The Scene in New York, in June 1968, Beck recalled: The first night at The Scene, Jimi didn’t show up, but he came for the rest of the five nights. Around about the halfway mark, he’d come in from whatever recording he’d been doing. The buzz was incredible: the place was packed anyway, but when he came in they were standing on each other’s shoulders. Sometimes he didn’t have his guitar, so he would turn one of my spare guitars upside down and played that way, and I actually played bass at one point. I’ve got a photograph of that. Thank god someone took a picture, because there’s hardly any record of those goings-on.
Being comfortable to play bass on stage was also particularly useful when his band at the given moment did not include a bass player. When visiting Japan on the 1989 Guitar Shop Tour with keyboard player Tony Hymas and drummer Terry Bozzio, amongst the gigs they played was an all-star show with Chuck Berry on 12 August. Reports of this concert reveal that Beck played bass live on 'Going Down' and 'Led Boots'.