Jeff Beck said his Strat was another arm and was seen with his Anoushka Custom Shop Stratocaster, the 1959 Yardburst and 1954 Oxblood Les Pauls and the Seymour Duncan Tele-Gib. His rigs included Marshall stacks, Fender Pro Junior amps, Magnatone Becktone heads and Klon Centaur and J. Rockett Archer pedals.
“My Strat is another arm, it's part of me. It doesn't feel like a guitar at all. It's an implement which is my voice.”
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“My Strat is another arm, it's part of me. It doesn't feel like a guitar at all. It's an implement which is my voice.”
He was most closely tied to the Fender Stratocaster, which he called another arm. Earlier he played an Esquire and the 1959 Yardburst Les Paul in the Yardbirds, and the 1954 Oxblood Les Paul on Blow by Blow. His later main Strat was the Custom Shop guitar he called Anoushka.
Guitar World reports he played Marshall stacks onstage in the 1970s and small Fender Pro Junior amps later on. His collection also included Magnatone Becktone amps and the Fender Princeton II and Twin Reverb II he recorded Guitar Shop with.
His collection included two Klon Centaurs and the custom J. Rockett Archer pedals that replaced them. In the 1970s he was seen with a Colorsound Overdriver, a Cry Baby wah and a Kustom The Bag talk box.
His 1954 Gibson Les Paul, refinished in a dark brown that earned it the Oxblood nickname. He bought it in Memphis in 1972 and it sold at Christie's in 2025 for just over $1.3 million.
Jeff Beck (1944 to 2023) played with the Yardbirds, led the Jeff Beck Group and made Blow by Blow, Wired and Guitar Shop. This legacy guide covers the Strats, Les Pauls, amps and pedals he played, from his own words and press coverage of the 2025 Christie's sale of his collection.
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