Someone else has done all the work for me here, so I might have to expand my post a bit 
Jeff Beck is possibly the most innovative electric guitarist … well … ever. At least out of all the guitarists I’ve heard (which is many) he’s the one who stands out for me as being totally unique, and developing ways of using the instrument that no-one else seems to.
I wasn’t planning to so a big career retrospective or anything; rather I just wanted to make and share a playlist of a bunch of videos on youtube of his wonderful performance at the UDO Music Festival in Japan in 2006, but shizen1958 has already put such a playlist together:
I love Beck’s performance in these videos. The tone is amazing, his attitude is mega-cool, and the band are great. The videos that really grab me are: Over the Rainbow check out the last note 
; Angel(Footsteps) -- zomg at when he does the melody playing slide over the pickups ; and Nadia -- this was the first I ever heard of this song, and everything about it is amazing.
This video is actually what got me back into an ongoing Jeff Beck trip:
The control he has over all aspects of his guitar is just incredible = not that that would mean much if it weren’t all so beautiful:
To finish, a live version of another hauntingly beautiful ballad, where Beck manages to make his guitar almost painfully expressive:
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