RIP: Jeff Beck, one of the true rock guitar gods

[thewayne]

Age 78, taken after a short bout of bacterial meningitis.

Beck was nominated for EIGHT Grammy awards and TWICE inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of The Yardbirds and on his own.

A true legend who shall be missed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jeff-beck-dead-at-78-obit-1234659559/

Comments

[kaishin108]

I wondered what he died of, that is shocking!
What a talented performer.

[thewayne]

Nasty stuff, meningitis.  It can do you in quick.

[acelightning73]

There's a vaccine to prevent meninigitis, but Beck was old enough to have not gotten it as a child.

[thewayne]

According to my childhood records, I didn't get it.

[acelightning73]

I didn't get it either, but when my son went away to college, they asked all students to get the meningitis vaccine. It's terribly contagious in college dorms.

[thewayne]

College dorms are a lot like kindergarten: petri dishes for infections.

[acelightning73]

I like Spider Robinson's statement that toddlers are plague rats in onesies.

[thewayne]

Very accurate!