160 - Celebrating Jeff Beck with Steve Lukather

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For fans of guitar, it’s hard to imagine a world without JEFF BECK. To help us process this unfathomable musical loss, we “land the ‘copter” in front of STEVE LUKATHER’s house, where we go inside and join the Toto/Ringo Starr guitar ace by a warm fire and get his take on his friend Jeff Beck’s life, legacy, and music, as well as his thoughts on the profound influence Beck has had on how most of us play electric guitar. And, yes: Luke has had plenty of exciting adventures with Jeff Beck, which he relives here. Tip: For a deep dive into Steve Lukather’s playing, music, and career, go back and listen to him plug in with us on Ep. 64 of this show: No Guitar Is Safe, “The guitar show where guitar heroes plug in.” Hosted by JUDE GOLD. Presented by GUITAR PLAYER magazine.

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0:00.0	Wait, so you're telling me, I got to live in a world now without Jeff Beck.
0:06.1	I literally don't know how to begin processing this.
0:09.7	Certainly can't do it alone.
0:11.1	Got to talk with somebody about it.
0:12.6	So I've got an idea.
0:13.9	Let's drop the copter on Steve Lukather's front lawn.
0:22.0	Okay, we're going to hear some Jeff Beck today. front lawn. No, guitar is safe.
0:26.8	Okay, we're going to hear some Jeff Beck today for sure, but let's open with a little Steve Lukather tune.
0:50.8	Yeah. Okay, I don't know about you, but I think I can hear some Jeff Beck in there.
0:52.5	I hear Jeff Beck and all of us.
0:54.9	Any great guitar player, you're going to hear some Jeff Beck, and it's always a compliment. I mean, normally if someone says, hey, you
0:58.4	remind me the playing of so-and-so or that thing you did sounds like so-and-so, that's not our favorite
1:03.3	thing to hear as guitar players. But since the 60s on up through the present, whenever anyone
1:09.9	has said to somebody else, you sound like Jeff Beck,
1:12.4	that has always been a compliment. Not that anyone could sound like Jeff Beck. This song, by the way,
1:18.9	is called Song for Jeff, as Luke's her fans know, but technically it's dedicated to Jeff Procaro,
1:25.9	the late great drummer of Toto, and of course one of Luke's
1:29.4	great brothers and friends, and they worked on so many other incredible albums together, huge
1:34.2	artists.
1:35.2	But maybe there's more to that title.
1:37.1	We'll find out when we talk to Luke.
1:39.3	But give me a few minutes to kind of just reflect on Jeff Beck.
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