The legendary guitarist Jeff Beck is on tour this summer in a series of intimate theatre venues. Get your tickets now to ensure the best seats to see this master guitarist at his best, in venues like Kansas City's Starlight Theater, New York City's Wellmont Theater, and the Historic Brady Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These will be incredible concerts featuring a pioneer of modern rock guitar and are not to be missed. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, these are the top names in rock guitar. Don't miss seeing a live Jeff Beck concert. He is one of the greatest. And one of the only top guitarists still touring.
Jeff Beck came on the scene as a member of the Yardbirds, the seminal Sixties band that also featured his friends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page (later of Led Zeppelin). Though he only played on their first album he left an indelible mark, pioneering a distortion-laden sound that would come to be the basis for Heavy Metal. After leaving the Yardbirds he formed his own band, The Jeff Beck Group. This band introduced a new young singer to the world: Rod Stewart. Also in the band, on bass guitar, was future Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood. This line-up would record two albums, 1968's "Truth" and 1969's "Beck-Ola." Both were critical and commercial successes, charting Top 20 in the U.S., and going Gold. Guests on "Truth" included Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, as well as The Who's drummer Keith Moon. Highlights include a version of Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" (six months before the Led Zeppelin debut album version) and a reworked version of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" and a lovely acoustic version of "Greensleeves," the classic English folk melody.
Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood departed after "Beck-Ola" to form Faces. The Jeff Beck Group made two more well received albums with a new line-up. In 1975 Jeff Beck struck out on his own, releasing the solo "Blow By Blow". The album was a huge critical as well as commercial success, reaching number 4 on the Billboard charts and going Platinum. An all-instrumental album, "Blow By Blow" showcased Jeff Beck's mind-bending Stratocaster talents as never heard before. Beck pioneered, with Blow By Blow," a new combination of rock and jazz that would come to be known as fusion. In 1976 he recorded a second album in his fushion style, "Wired," another classic. In 1977 he teamed up with Mahavishnu Orchestra's keboardist Jan Hammer for a tour and the blistering live album, "Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live."
After all his accomplishments one would think Jeff Beck would be happy to rest on his laurels, but that's not his style. The Eighties saw him win the first two of three Grammy Awards, for 1985's "Flash" and 1989's "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop." In the Nineties he released a playful rockabilly album of Gene Vincent covers, "Crazy Legs." He toured with and played on albums by the likes of Morrissey, Kelley Clarkson and his old pal Eric Clapton. In 2003 Jeff Beck won his third Grammy Award, for the album "Jeff," and in 2010 he released his highest U.K. charting album ever, "Emotion & Commotion." Clearly, Jeff Beck's talent remains undimmed. In fact, like an old bluesman, Jeff Beck is playing as well as ever. Jeff Beck still mangles the strings bare-fingered (he never uses a pick) and blows minds coast-to-coast, worldwide. Get your tickets now to see this axe master at the height of his powers.