With a headstock that looks like it could slice sushi, the pink Jackson Soloist is a dangerous-looking guitar. And an actual knife is part of its story. Beck used the Jackson when he worked with Tina Turner on the album Private Dancer. He had been in awe of Turner since the 1960s, when he briefly toured with the singer and her husband Ike, but at that time he was too shy to speak to her.At the end of the Private Dancer session in 1984, Beck asked Turner to sign the guitar. She first autographed it in felt pen, but it was clear that it would not last. So instead she produced a knife from her bag and carved her name into the pink finish. She then rubbed green nail polish into the jagged letters to make them visible and permanent.The ‘Tina’, as it became known, can be heard on Beck’s duet with Rod Stewart, ‘People Get Ready’, on the 1985 album Flash, produced by Nile Rodgers. It was Beck’s first reunion with the singer he had introduced to the world in the Jeff Beck Group in 1967, along with a young Ronnie Wood. Beck memorably appears in the video, breezily riding an open boxcar and miming the Jackson solo on a Fender Telecaster.
Source: Christie's
Image credit: Michael Putland
I tried to find vid of Jeff playing the Jackson but got side tracked . . . . .
Jeff Beck - Nadia - (Live at Ronnie Scott’s)
perhaps my favourite line up of the Jeff Beck Band:
Jeff Beck - Guitar
Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums
Tal Wilkenfeld - Bass
Jason Rebello - Keyboards
still what ya gonna do . . . ? here’s the track mentioned above
Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart - People Get Ready
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