Still On The Run - The Jeff Beck Story

Finally a very good documentation of Jeff's career on video! Plenty of good stories and interviews from Jeff himself! Great footage of him at home and working in his auto shop! Plus, some very good interviews with Jimmy Page, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, and Ron Wood!! So many great stories and you could really feel the love these guys all have for Jeff. Even some great fan comments and interviews with David Gilmour, Joe Perry, and Slash. Also some excellent clips of Jeff in action throughout his career. I've listened to Jeff's music since I was a kid in the 60s, so this was a real thrill to bring all those great memories flooding back. My only complaint would be that it was a little bit too short! But I was grateful for the wealth of information that is there. Also includes 5 full length live concert tunes filmed at Montreaux in 2007. It might have been nice to have a few more live tracks from more recent shows, or more full length concert clips from the old days, but I was satisfied with what is there. A great documentary.

What HASN'T Jeff Beck done for us rockers, who lust for and can't get enough of his talented brain and fingers? I absolutely loved this video, and can't stop watching it. I am grateful to have Jeff Beck in my life, as well as the creators and producers of this masterpiece chronicling Jeff's life and work. It obviously was a sincere labor of love. Take a bow on a magnificent, well-done job! This video is as stellar as Jeff's music is.

Its Jeff Beck - Got to have it, there is never enough material on this guy. The greatest guitarist of the rock era and that is no understatement. A guy who stays out of the mainstream. No grandstanding and basically a person who keeps his life pretty private. if you want to know even a little bit about this outstanding musician here is a pretty good documentary covering some of his life.Of course it could go deeper, it could show more, but I am happy with every crumb on this disk.Stop reading, start watching!

The beginning is fantastic, with Jeff and Jimmy Page, his mate, talking about making their own guitars as youngsters, listening to early rock, and trying to duplicate the guitar solos from the records. From those early days, Beck was fascinated with the sound of the electric guitar, and was and remains a pioneer of the instrument's sonic capacities. With the Yardbirds he was able to create the sound of the sitar, making a sitar unnecessary. He refused to compromise his artistic integrity, quitting the Yardbirds two gigs into an American tour with a teenybop revue. He broke up the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart shortly before Woodstock because he thought performing would stamp and freeze his sound in 1969 forever.The documentary skips one of my favorite albums, "Rough and Ready," but focuses extensively on the great jazz/rock fusion albums "Blow By Blow" and "Wired," including interviews with producer George Martin and keyboardist Jan Hammer. The film makes clear how John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra opened Beck's mind to the possibilities of instrumental music (no vocals) which he has mainly pursued ever since.There are interviews with many of his collaborators and fellow guitarists including Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Slash, Joe Perry, and several of the women he has recruited for his band on guitar, bass, and vocals in recent years. His love of hot rods is included, with footage of him working on and driving the cars he has built. Technique is featured as well, including his turn to finger picking sans pick and his exquisite production of overtones.There is a clip of Jimmy Page inducting him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Beck, Page, and the band playing "Immigrant Song" and then segueing into "Beck's Bolero."This is a great overview for any Jeff Beck fan, and a good introduction for any new fan. It doesn't cover everything, and any long-time fan is likely to have something in mind they wish were included that was left out. Personally, I think it would have been cool to include the fact that Beck turned down an offer to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones, which he has recounted in interviews! He created "Blow by Blow" and "Wired" instead.Check it out.

Jeff Beck is amazing. I find myself revisiting his music frequently and always hearing something I missed before. As a guitarist, he shows us just how far we have to go and more importantly that there seem to be no limits because Jeff just keeps doing things with his guitar that blow us away anew. This documentary of his guitar and car life answered lots of questions I was too lazy to look up. It is but a partial catalog of his music but it does lay down the framework for further inquiry. The respect he demands from fellow guitarists and other musicians is really cool. Jeff Beck is on my top 5 guitarist list and he is lauded by the others on that list as the best of the group.As a guitarist I am forever amazed at the sounds he gets out of his guitar and they are used to tell pieces of the musical story he is presenting. He literally makes his guitar laugh, cry, chortle, purr, bark, whinny, neigh, burp, fart, scream, whisper.... The sound I have become most familiar with is the taunting voice saying "you will never even approach being this good".Also, this documentary reveals just how important Beck has been to promoting women musicians in his bands and projects. I honestly can't recall another musician of his status that has made prominent more female musicians in his bands. That is just one of the reasons to watch this film and only one reason to sit down for a few hours and dig into Jeff Beck musically.

It's a shame I didn't realise this was basically a DVD version of the BBC 4 documentary I'd already seen which was quite interesting to watch ONCE as I lived round the corner from him back in our youth & remember him driving past in his blue Stingray; so basically, if you want to know a bit more about this guy & missed the BBC 4 showing, buy this or, even better, buy the Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party - Honouring Les Paul DVD which I reckon to be his best ever. My review of this on the well known auction site where I bought it reads:-"Disappointingly NOT all Rock 'n Roll but still damn good and a great band too.Way better than "Jeff Beck - Performing This Week-Live At Ronnie Scott's DVD which was all jazz (I guess I should have realised by the title) although I was expecting at least some Blues, R & B and Rock but sadly that was a full-on jazz session, and also "Jeff Beck Live at the Hollywood Bowl" DVD which was more about individual ego-trips by so called "legends" most of whom should have retired way back!"TIP:- watch the "bonus feature" first then sit back & enjoy the concert!

Excellent DVD. I am a massive but more recent fan (first saw him at Albert Hall where Dave Gilmour and Jeff did ‘Jerusalem’ ) and now feel educated about his early life. The guest appearances are outstanding and you feel the massive respect from his peers. Footage of the Hot Rods is great too.

Fabulous. If you are a Jeff Beck fan it's a must have, If you don't know who he is you will after seeing this.

Best Jeff Beck documentary film period! Just incredibly put together. Covers his whole career and his early life. At first, we popped it in just to take a quick look, but we could not turn it off. have watched it several times and it has been great every time! MUST OWN for fans!! Keep Rockin Jeff!

I greatly enjoyed this documentary. It is well made, interesting and informative. Beck is a musical genius.