The weird thing about Jeff Beck for me was that it didn't look like he should be making that sound. Take almost any of his videos and turn the sound off. His right hand looks like someone at Guitar Center who is picking up a guitar for the first time. He's got that mostly open palm where the thumb just lightly touches a few string. There is no way in hell he should make the sounds he does. And yet, here we are.
It's such a huge dividing line between rock music and what came before it that when the music stars of the 30s, 40s, and 50s got old and died in larger numbers, it didn't really impact me because I didn't know them or their music. Now that the young stars of the 60s are are starting to pass, it feels more personal. U.S. life expectancy for men is 77. Beck was 78. Sadly, there are a lot of other Rock-Gods queued up: Gilmour (76), Knopfler (73) , Gibbons (73), Young (77), Clapton (77), Santana (75), Richards (79), Page (79), May (75), Betts (79)