Performing This Week... Live At Ronnie Scott's[DVD]

There are several things that make this live recording, one of the best. 1) Since it was a week long engagement, it just sounded really good such as mix-wise, well balanced, and a very talented backing band, not to mention, the seven song set with the Big Town Playboys. 2) Camera work was almost perfect on everyone, but could have used more camera on Jason Robello, however Jeff is the main attraction. 3) Song selection covers a lot of Jeff's music and of course, the standards that Jeff is know for. 4) Inclusion of guest artists were really good, such as Joss Stone, Imogen Heap, Eric Clapton and the already mentioned Big Town Playboys, All of the band members really shined and you could see Jeff was really having a great time. 5) Also, when I watch a video, I was impressed that the closeups of Jeff's hands on the guitar is a real treat, especially for fellow guitarists to view. This video proves that Jeff was truly a guitarist like no other and you knew it was important, when you seen Jimmy Page (who was grinning with delight while watching the show), Robert Plant, Brian May, Jon Bon Jovi in the audience. Jeff, of course, was very pleased with the show and the admiration from everyone. Definitely by the blu-ray of this show, more so than the DVD for the extras...

What a treat this show is!! He was an amazing talent.Even Jimmy Page is in the audience watching!! You won’t be disappointed with this purchase

What a great little show with Page in the audience and Clapton smokin with the great Jeffrey. The whole world lost a one of a kind artist when Mr. Beck left us.

I liked everything. It was really fun watching Beck and Clapton

One night back in May 2009 I was out late partying. When I got home I was still in the mood for couple more beers, so I popped on the HD music channel on my cable system (Palladia I think it's called?), and I came across Jeff Beck jamming with this wicked-awesome drummer and some young looking girl (that I thought was probably his daughter) just shredding a bass guitar to pieces.The next morning I woke up to quite a hangover. I had stayed up, watched the whole show, and probably washed down the 6 beers that I had at the party with 6 more watching the Beck performance. So my memory of the show was vague, but also that it was great, although I thought that maybe I enjoyed it more than I otherwise would have because of the alcohol. So I picked it up at Amazon the day or so after...and promptly forgot about watching it again...until recently. I watched this Blu Ray disk last weekend and then again this past weekend. Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott's is one of the best rock performances that I've ever seen.This 2007 show should be held up not only as an example of the way a rock group should perform live, but also as an example for DVD music producers on how to deliver an excellent product. The concert is all musical performance. No indulgence by some videographer that thinks a viewer wants to see effects like cut to black and white, psyschedelic swirling pictures, quick frame to frame edits or other video effects. Long shots of the individual performers dominate the screen throughout and capture not only the great talents of the players, but also the intimacies between the bandmates that are often missed in other DVD musical shows.For this performance at Ronnie Scott's, Beck was accompanied by Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, Jason Rebello on keyboards, and Tal Wilkenfeld on bass guitar. Beck is completely on throughout the show as are his mates. Colaiuta lays down some impossible beats and chops. Wilkenfield blows away many of the bass guitarists that I have on my list of the best. And Rebello is in top form on the keys.The picture and sound are terrific. If you've got a surround system, you're in for a pounding Rock experience. The sound has an amazing 5.1 mix. Most importantly, like I mentioned earlier, the video doesn't jump around every 4 seconds, so you really get to see the performance in a way that feels like you're in a front row seat right there at Ronnie Scott's.I could write the set list for you here, but not only is it right here on the Amazon product page for you already, would you really know any of the songs by their titles? I mean a devoted Beck fan probably would, but I've never even heard any of these compositions until I saw them on the DVD. I will say that there are 5 songs with guest performers: one with Joss Stone; two with Imogen Heap; and two with Eric Clapton. Now you might think, "Clapton! Holy Moly...what a show stopper!" But that would be completely incorrect. I'd even endanger a No-Vote to this review by going as far to say that the guest performances are skipable compared to what Beck's band does on its own for 16 of the total 21 songs on this DVD. But please don't skip the guest performances; they are definitely worth a viewing...at least the first time you watch the show.In the Extras on the Blu Ray version you also get a Rockabilly set with Beck and the Big Town Playboys. I was able to watch one or two songs in this performance before I quickly shut it off so as not to ruin the amazing impression that I was left with from the main performance. Rockabilly is not my thing.Any Rock fan will enjoy this disk immensely. Any Jazz fan will enjoy this disk immensely. Any music fan is making an immense mistake by passing on this disk. Add Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott's to your collection.

Jeff was one of the best rock/fusion guitarists on the planet! This live performance has great sound, great camera angles and top notch musicians. A must have in your video collection!

Finally I have my own copy of this DVD and I was pleasantly surprised that this historic performance at the intimate Ronnie Scotts easily beats their amazing concert in Auckland. (I saw Jeff Beck, Vinnie Colaiuta, Tal Wilkenfeld and Dave Sancious rip through one of the most amazing one and half hours of spell-binding music when they played in Auckland at the end of their Australasian tour (3 February 2009). They pretty much covered all the songs on the Ronnie Scott set list although omitting `Space Boogie' and including I think a Tony Williams "Lifetime" track, that Tal seemed to lead.) Yet the DVD is even better because of three reasons:1. The DVD allows you so close that you can see every action of Beck's playing (which even with binoculars I couldn't quite see at the concert)2. There is greater variety in this concert in comparison with their tour as here there is the addition of soulful singing of guest artists. Joss Stone with 'People get ready', Imogen Heap with 'Blanket' and the driving 'Rollin'and Tumblin'' which provides opportunity for Becko to show his support and bluesy side.3. This DVD records the historic magic of two blues songs sung and played by Eric Clapton and Becko...with Jimmy Page watching in the audience. Wow!If you have only heard Jeff Beck then a live performance or this DVD, is a must. I had never seen Jeff Beck play before so was astounded to watch his unique style of brushing the strings with his thumb, caressing the whammy and combined with volume swells producing those tones that only he can do. As you'll see, he doesn't use a pick at all.This is unique in that as far as I am aware this is the first full DVD concert of the drumming maestro, Vinnie Colaiuta (other than specialized Drumming festival DVDs). This intense rock fusion catalogue of Beck's is brilliant with its varied time signatures from reggae to poly-rhythm frenzy to showcase Vinnie's talents - but always within the context of the song and the music. Next to the diminutive figure of Jeff and Tal, Vinnie is a tall man and his enthusiasm, smiles and outright mastery capture and add to all the Richard Bailey, Simon Phillips and Terry Bozzio fills that we know from albums like `Blow by Blow', `Wired', 'Guitar shop' and the rest of the Beck catalogue. To hear Vinnie live is great - watching is an overwhelming marvel.My only criticism of this DVD is that in the first few songs including 'Stratus', the camera work misses most of Vinnie's great fills. This is most frustrating and often the camera panned onto a watching Jeff or the face of a smiling Tal while missing sublime drumming. Fortunately this concert has a enough opportunity to see Vinnie at other times but generally the small venue meant that there are never great views of the drum kit. Fortunately this does not apply to the clear camera work on Jeff's fretboard.Seeing the young Tal on bass melodically groove with these musos all at least 30 years older than her is like watching all the post-Woodstock generations salute the music that we have come to know as rock fusion. There is a sense of togetherness and fun as they all interact and watch each other. Jason Rebello is literally out of the picture for the first quarter of the concert but later takes a more prominent role and takes a number of great solos.As usual Eagle Vision have exemplary production qualities and the sound, 5.1 and DTS, is magnificent.Jeff, doesn't speak much other than to thank guest artists and the audience at the end. He just plays his heart out. Hammering, tapping, wrenching and bending strings, Jeff shows how far he has explored where his contemporaries of that generation have never ventured. This best value DVD is an historic showcase that salutes the master guitarist in top form still playing as if there are no tomorrows.

Jeff at his best, get a copy and enjoy

El envío:lo seguí perfectamente en todo momento ,la actuación de Jeff Beck :impresionante (esa es la palabra )para de finirla como ejemplo la canción :Cause we’ve ended as lovers.No tengo nada negativo que decir ,ni del vendedor ni del dvd.

Jeff Beck in one of his greatest ever live performances. Go on YouTube or somewhere and see if you like what he did, then if you did buy this. You won't regret spending the modest price for a classic example of one of the mightiest forces in the guitar world showing what he could do. Priceless and we get it for a few pounds.

It is hard to avoid hyperbole with this issue. Quite apart from the world-class musicianship (if these four were athletes they would all win gold medals) it is unusually refreshing to hear the humility in the interview with Beck. While it may be a little odd to address this aspect first please bear in mind that Jeff Beck has been possibly the most understated guitar "god" of his era, but on many counts one of the greatest. Yet he has also been remarkable by his recorded (or interviewed) absence. Not that you would know that from listening to his interview on this disc which is in equal measure, articulate, humorous, humble, candid, illuminating and to the point about himself, his band members and his guests. Don't you get sick of interminable, completely unmemorable interviews with egocentric rock stars? Not this man - hear about the stage fright (nerves!! from Jeff Beck??); the difficulties of transferring guitar sounds which really need to be played very loud to get the right effect in a small auditorium (if you play you'll know what I mean); the genesis of the band; and you will come away enlightened and also up-lifted by the ordinariness of this extraordinarily talented man. And the music! Well you may have heard all the melodies on his CDs but (apart from the man himself) not played like this. His technique is sublime, not least his tapping and, super-octave bottle-neck work and that of his band equally so. Hard to single out a band member with all this talent on offer but Tal Winkelfeld has the class to be a diminutive female re-incarnation of the great Jaco Pastorius - prodigiously accomplished, as highlighted in the Stevie Wonder song, "Cause We've Ended As Lovers".In a world where small talents get lost on their own ego trips (eg some young American guitarists) it is so good to have this sort of under-stated quality. It is remarkable that we can be privileged to participate in events such as these through DVD recordings. Sadly, I was too late to go to one of the Ronnie Scott concerts but this DVD is a consolation. The Beck band is stupendous and his guests broaden the mix, not least the stupendous Imogen Heap.Last note, Eric Clapton, who generously joined in for a couple of blues numbers. This guy gets a bit of lip in these columns, probably because he has been very astute in marketing himself in recent years (and good luck to him) and possibly because he is not as technically good as some of his peers (in particular Jeff Beck). However, and let's not forget this, he was the one to start it all, he played a big part in introducing the blues to Western listeners, he has written the broadest range of great songs after (possibly) Lennon / McCartney, and his timing is the best. OK, he does repeat riffs a lot, but give him some space for God's sake, he deserves it.This DVD is essential for any lover of guitar, jazz, fusion, rock and will give hours on hours of pleasure. I have already played it through 3 times (and that's a first) and it may well stay in the Blu-ray player for some weeks!

If you are a fan of Jeff Beck, or not, you should have this. Well shot and edited, it’s one of (many) of Jeff’s greatest performances - or of any musical performance by anyone. But there was no one like Jeff. Sound is very good, but one for yourself and another as a gift for any music fan in your life.