{"id":184569,"date":"2023-01-12T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=184569"},"modified":"2023-01-12T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:03:06","slug":"r-i-p-jeff-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=184569","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Jeff Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11Beck1-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11Beck1-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11Beck1-articleLarge-200x161.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11Beck1-articleLarge-400x322.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/11Beck1-articleLarge-100x81.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<big>\u201cI\u2019ve never made the big time, mercifully.&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Beck, 2018<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, showing up in one of the uber-mod scenes in Michelangelo Antonioni&#8217;s uber-mod 1966 film <i>Blow-Up<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jSJGEn4FDys\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAlways dug his collaboration with ZZ Top. Their cover of Merle Travis&#8217; 16 Tons (which was then immortalized by Tennessee Ernie Ford) is in my own personal pantheon of Greatest Covers Ever. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2aqvKY6zLc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n16 Tons really shows what people always talk about when they talk about Jeff Beck: His guitar <em>talks<\/em>. It&#8217;s in conversation with the audience. It makes asides. It even cracks jokes. <\/p>\n<p>RIP to a legend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never made the big time, mercifully.&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Beck, 2018 Here&#8217;s Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, showing up in one of the uber-mod scenes in Michelangelo Antonioni&#8217;s uber-mod 1966 film Blow-Up. Always dug his collaboration with ZZ Top. Their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=184569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184573,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184569\/revisions\/184573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}