Jeff Beck est mort.

As a guitarist, I've had many influences. Jeff Beck was always my personal favorite guitarist. What he did with the instrument transcended every other player. With all due respect to the other amazing innovators of the instrument, I've never heard anyone who did the things Beck did. Others have been copied and even improved on, but I believe Beck's mastery of every aspect of the instrument combined with a mind and soul that seemed to understand the very core of what it meant to make music (far more than notes, rhythms, etc.) are unmatched to this day - and may never be seen or heard in that way again.

He leaves us far too soon.