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I just had to post this....Enjoy....

I'm blown away as well by Jeff Beck's lack of gray hair at his age.....it looks far too natural to be dyed!

Looks like a die job to me. Tal is a wonderful bass player. She should get a RIC.

She can play whatever bass she wants... she'd be a blast to jam with (I do mean music) .. his hair - who cares - still soundin good after all of these years... Thanks Steve! That reminds me, I gotta get Tal's CD.

I got to get it too. She's pretty awesome.

I watched that last night. BECK IS GOD. his tone is to die for.

So, who is "Tal"? Great player! Someone educate me, please!

" Tal " is the latest bass feenom from the Jaco , Wooton, Clark school of bass playing . The perky thing does kick butt ......Jeff Beck is the master ! Those clips sound so good even from behind a flu haze .

bassduke49 wrote:So, who is "Tal"? Great player! Someone educate me, please!

Paul,

Tal Wilkenfield is a little Aussie bass dynamo. Despite her diminutive stature, she plays a long scale Sadowsky. Here is a link to an article on her from Bass Player: http://www.bassplayer.com/article/tal-w ... g-07/30550

AWESOME!!!
Thanks for posting this!!

Reading that Bass player article was interesting and I wanted to hear her play. Well, holy s**t! That girl can PLAY!!

She's nice and fluid on this piece and certainly is talented. I like the way the bass sits in this song, a very nice showcase of melodic tone and technique.

I remember playing like this on a couple of auditions many years ago, and on one someone describing my "flowery" playing. I told them find a root boy...

This would probably sound great on a Ric bass with 24 frets, as the upper register would really come through on melody.

Beck sounds and looks just killer!

What a tone and a tune....

We used to play "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" on every gig when I was 16, that was 30 years ago. I used to play with a local guitarist who really loved this tune and played it very well (on his pre-CBS Strat... we knew it was a good guitar but back in the 70's we had no idea about vintage craze). Later on he got a chance to record with Peter Green, but heroin addiction ruined everything, now it's like someone erased his brain. Lovely tune but I think I've heard it too many times.

Nice!

I saw Beck with SRV in 1989 in a little college auditorium. The Fire and the Fury tour!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIFFRHBC ... re=related

Here's a new version, with much better sound all round. This is, simply, the s**t

The thing about Jeff Beck I've always appreciated is that he's not a "shredder" in my mind - yeah there are the occasional fast passage, but more often than not his playing is just plain solid in a musical sense.

That bass playing is fantastic. I'll never be that good, but I don't feel it makes me any less worthy. I can be happy with what I am.

Besides, the plug got pulled on my band, so it looks like I'll be playing acoustic and doing lead vocals in a duo for the foreseeable future. Don't need to worry about my bass playing for a while it seems...