Download or read book Clapton Beck Page written by Mike Molenda and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Player Presents). Culled from the archives of Guitar Player magazine, one of the most credible and longstanding music publications, Guitar Player Presents Clapton, Beck, Page traces the mammoth and influential careers of the three most important guitarists in rock and roll Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page with insightful interviews from the '60s and '70s to the present. Learn how these guitar heroes developed their styles and sounds as they were doing it . It's all here details on legendary collaborations, stories from the studio and the road, breakdowns on gear, early influences, musical philosophies, secrets and tricks. Thrill to their own assessments of their technique, tone, and creativity over the years. Share in the musical triumphs, disappointments, goals, and dreams of three men who forever shaped the sound of rock guitar. Also included are style lessons and licks from Guitar Player 's staff of music writers and transcribers that will help you crack the code of how these giants crafted their magic.
Download or read book The Yardbirds written by Alan Clayson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lasting just five years, the original Yardbirds had a tremendous impact on 1960s music and culture in America and England. Featuring 100 evocative photos in color and b&w, this biography explores those years and also the post-Yardbirds careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, plus today's Yardbirds incarnation led by original drummer Jim McCarty.
Download or read book Guitar Licks of the Brit Rock Heroes written by Jesse Gress and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). In this premier title in the Guitar Lick Factory player series, teacher/guitarist extraordinaire Jesse Gress takes you deep inside the styles of these three guitar heroes. Presenting more than 100 of the players' characteristic licks, Gress shows you the secrets of their styles and explains how you can develop your own playing by understanding the essence of each guitarist's approach. This book presents each example with its own mini-lesson, and Gress performs the licks on the accompanying CD.
Download or read book Guitar Licks of the Brit Rock Heroes written by Jesse Gress and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). In this premier title in the Guitar Lick Factory player series, teacher/guitarist extraordinaire Jesse Gress takes you deep inside the styles of these three guitar heroes. Presenting more than 100 of the players' characteristic licks, Gress shows you the secrets of their styles and explains how you can develop your own playing by understanding the essence of each guitarist's approach. This book presents each example with its own mini-lesson, and Gress performs the licks on the accompanying CD.
Download or read book Hot Wired Guitar The Life of Jeff Beck written by Martin Power and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, revised edition of Hot Wired Guitar brings Beck's story bang up to date, from his adventures at The White House in December 2012 with Mick Jagger and US President Barack Obama, to touring the world with Beach Boy Brian Wilson and the 2014 release of Jeff's latest solo disc.The definitive account of Jeff Beck's journey from his childhood in 1940s South London to the world-wide success of 2010's album Emotion and Commotion and beyond. Author Martin Power has talked to former Yardbirds members Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty as well as manager Simon Napier-Bell and fellow musicians including Max Middleton, Stanley Clarke, Simon Phillips, Jimmy Hall, Mo Foster, Doug Wimbish and many others. Supported by full album reviews, rare photographs and an up-to-date discography, Hot Wired Guitar is the most complete and comprehensive account of the life and times of Jeff Beck, the man who took the electric guitar and showed the world just what could be done with just six strings and 'one hell of an attitude'.
Download or read book Jimmy Page written by Jimmy Page and published by Genesis Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographic autobiography and visual history of Led Zeppelin's guitar player.
Download or read book Light and Shade written by Brad Tolinski and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published. More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band's notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books; yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir nor cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer. In Light & Shade, Jimmy Page, the band’s most reticent and inscrutable member, opens up to journalist Brad Tolinski, for the first time exploring his remarkable life and musical journey in great depth and intimate detail. Based on extensive interviews conducted with the guitarist/producer over the past 20 years, Light & Shade encompasses Page’s entire career, beginning with his early years as England’s top session guitarist when he worked with artists ranging from Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Burt Bacharach to the Kinks, The Who, and Eric Clapton. Page speaks frankly about his decadent yet immensely creative years in Led Zeppelin, his synergistic relationships with band members Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, and his notable post-Zeppelin pursuits. While examining every major track recorded by Zeppelin, including “Stairway to Heaven,” “Whole Lotta Love,” and “Kashmir,” Page reflects on the band’s sensational tours, the filming of the concert movie The Song Remains the Same, his fascination with the occult, meeting Elvis Presley, and the making of the rock masterpiece Led Zeppelin IV, about which he offers a complete behind-the-scenes account. Additionally, the book is peppered with “sidebar” chapters that include conversations between Page and other guitar greats, including his childhood friend Jeff Beck and hipster icon Jack White. Through Page’s own words, Light and Shade presents an unprecedented first-person view of one of the most important musicians of our era.
Download or read book Jimmy Page written by Chris Salewicz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviews The original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world and one of the most revered rock guitarists of all time, in private he is reclusive and mysterious, retiring and given to esoteric interests. Over the decades he has exchanged few words to the press given the level of his fame, and an abiding interest in the demonic and supernatural has only made the myth more potent. But in the midst of this maelstrom, who was Jimmy Page? Rock journalist Chris Salewicz has conducted numerous interviews with Page over the years and has created the first portrait of the guitarist that can be called definitive, penetrating the shadows that surround him to reveal the fascinating man who dwells within the rock legend.
Download or read book Truth written by Dave Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Jeff Beck's enormous output - and his status as one of the all-time guitar legends - fans and critics alike hark back repeatedly to the short-lived Jeff Beck group of the 1960s. Featuring Rod Stewart on vocals and Ronnie Wood on bass, the Group, though only a brief note in the chronology of Beck's career, have had a lasting impact on the landscape of modern music. Truth, their first album, has been hailed as the first ever heavy metal LP. Award-winning author Dave Thompson has put together the first ever analysis of this seminal work.
Download or read book This Day in Music written by Neil Cossar and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.
Download or read book Guitar Player Presents Clapton Beck Page written by Michael Molenda and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slowhand written by Philip Norman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation. For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the unrivalled master of an indispensable tool, the solid-body electric guitar. His career has spanned the history of rock, and often shaped it via the seminal bands with whom he's played: the Yardbirds, John Mavall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes. Winner of 17 Grammys, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's only three-time inductee, he is an enduring influence on every other star soloist who ever wielded a pick. Now, with Clapton's consent and access to family members and close friends, rock music's foremost biographer returns to the heroic age of British rock and follows Clapton through his distinctive and scandalous childhood, early life of reckless rock 'n' roll excess, and twisting & turning struggle with addiction in the 60s and 70s. Readers will learn about his relationship with Pattie Boyd--wife of Clapton's own best friend George Harrison--the tragic death of his son, which inspired one of his most famous songs, "Tears in Heaven," and even the backstories of his most famed, and named, guitars. Packed with new information and critical insights, Slowhand finally reveals the complex character behind a living legend.
Download or read book Yardbirds written by John A. Platt and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the 1960s English rock group, the Yardbirds, and discusses the development of the band's musical style
Download or read book Nobody Told Me My Life with the Yardbirds Renaissance and Other Stories written by Jim McCarty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody Told Me is the long awaited autobiography by Jim McCarty, a founding and current member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Yardbirds, a founder member of Renaissance, Together and Box of Frogs, and an internationally respected songwriter. Open, honest, modest and affecting, Jim looks back on his long and remarkable career with both a keen eye for detail and his trademark sense of humour. From the birth of the British R&B boom to the latest incarnation of his much beloved band, Jim tells of his life on and off stage, alongside some of the most legendary musicians in rock history - including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page (who also contributed the book's introduction). From the Yardbirds, the story unfolds across Together, Renaissance and Illusion, collaborations with the Pretty Things and the British Invasion All Stars, Box of Frogs, Stairway and more.
Download or read book Clapton written by Eric Clapton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God” on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic “Layla.” During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George’s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit “I Shot the Sheriff.” He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included “Wonderful Tonight,” the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful “Tears in Heaven.” Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
Download or read book Heart Full of Soul written by David French and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history. Keith's moody vocals and harmonica helped to define the Yardbirds' sound on a string of innovative hit records in the 1960s that influenced garage rock, psychedelia, blues rock, hard rock and heavy metal. Numerous books have been written about the Yardbirds' famous guitarists--Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page--yet Keith has remained a mysterious and elusive figure since his death by electrocution at age 33. A deeply private person, prone to depression and poor health, Keith was ill-suited to the life of a rock star. In the years following the Yardbirds' breakup, as the band's guitarists became household names playing blues-based rock, Keith insisted on pursuing new musical paths, always searching for something new and trying to extend the Yardbirds' spirit of curiosity and innovation. By the time of his death in 1976, Keith was nearly forgotten and struggling physically, emotionally and financially. More than forty years after his tragic death, this important artist's story has finally been written and his contributions celebrated as more than just a footnote to the careers of his better-known bandmates.
Download or read book Guitar written by Richard Chapman and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated literary guide to all aspects of the guitar includes a history, celebrated players, iconic guitars, guitar techniques, a relevant chord dictionary and relevant local information.
