The Jeff Beck Dream

[hawkman]

The Jeff Beck Dream - 10/21/2023


I am on stage to play guitar, and my brother is there to roadie for me. I need a chair to sit on on stage, and he can't find one and we have a disagreement about the fact. I am the warm up act before Jeff Beck plays, and Jeff heard about me needing a chair so he gives me one of his very nice chairs to use, so me and my brother quit bickering about it.

But now I notice I do not have a guitar cable, so now we start fussing about that and Jeff Beck is side stage just hanging and shaking his head at how unprofessional me and my brother are, and it is already 30 minutes into my one hour time slot to play! Someone said maybe there is a guitar cable backstage so I go backstage, and there is a bar and people at tables. Up on the wall is an odd looking cable rack, and the cables are covered by the rack except the plugs at each end, and the cables are straight full length behind the rack. I see a guitar plug at one end of the rack but not at the other end of the rack so no complete cable for my guitar. I am walking around the bar playing my guitar without an amplifier but my playing is so perfect and I think, "Oh well, too bad about that."

I never made it on stage. I just playing unplugged in the bar, but I was the only one who could hear it. I wasn't nervous, just no chair to start with and then no cable. I wondered why I didn't borrow one of Jeff's?

 

[Niblo]

The Jeff Beck Dream - 10/21/2023
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I am on stage to play guitar, and my brother is there to roadie for me. I need a chair to sit on on stage, and he can't find one and we have a disagreement about the fact. I am the warm up act before Jeff Beck plays, and Jeff heard about me needing a chair so he gives me one of his very nice chairs to use, so me and my brother quit bickering about it.

But now I notice I do not have a guitar cable, so now we start fussing about that and Jeff Beck is side stage just hanging and shaking his head at how unprofessional me and my brother are, and it is already 30 minutes into my one hour time slot to play! Someone said maybe there is a guitar cable backstage so I go backstage, and there is a bar and people at tables. Up on the wall is an odd looking cable rack, and the cables are covered by the rack except the plugs at each end, and the cables are straight full length behind the rack. I see a guitar plug at one end of the rack but not at the other end of the rack so no complete cable for my guitar. I am walking around the bar playing my guitar without an amplifier but my playing is so perfect and I think, "Oh well, too bad about that."

I never made it on stage. I just playing unplugged in the bar, but I was the only one who could hear it. I wasn't nervous, just no chair to start with and then no cable. I wondered why I didn't borrow one of Jeff's?

Dream about playing flamenco...you won't need cables for that!

 

[mailmandan]

 

[Angelina]

The Jeff Beck Dream - 10/21/2023
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I am on stage to play guitar, and my brother is there to roadie for me. I need a chair to sit on on stage, and he can't find one and we have a disagreement about the fact. I am the warm up act before Jeff Beck plays, and Jeff heard about me needing a chair so he gives me one of his very nice chairs to use, so me and my brother quit bickering about it.

But now I notice I do not have a guitar cable, so now we start fussing about that and Jeff Beck is side stage just hanging and shaking his head at how unprofessional me and my brother are, and it is already 30 minutes into my one hour time slot to play! Someone said maybe there is a guitar cable backstage so I go backstage, and there is a bar and people at tables. Up on the wall is an odd looking cable rack, and the cables are covered by the rack except the plugs at each end, and the cables are straight full length behind the rack. I see a guitar plug at one end of the rack but not at the other end of the rack so no complete cable for my guitar. I am walking around the bar playing my guitar without an amplifier but my playing is so perfect and I think, "Oh well, too bad about that."

I never made it on stage. I just playing unplugged in the bar, but I was the only one who could hear it. I wasn't nervous, just no chair to start with and then no cable. I wondered why I didn't borrow one of Jeff's?

I wouldn't call myself a dream interpreter, but I get revelations from the Holy Spirit, so I'm discerning that although you have the gifts, it's too early for you to take the stage. There needs to be more preparation done first...

 

[Hidden In Him]

I wouldn't call myself a dream interpreter, but I get revelations from the Holy Spirit, so I'm discerning that although you have the gifts, it's too early for you to take the stage. There needs to be more preparation done first...

That's along the same lines as I was getting.

 

[Hidden In Him]

The Jeff Beck Dream - 10/21/2023
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I am on stage to play guitar, and my brother is there to roadie for me. I need a chair to sit on on stage, and he can't find one and we have a disagreement about the fact. I am the warm up act before Jeff Beck plays, and Jeff heard about me needing a chair so he gives me one of his very nice chairs to use, so me and my brother quit bickering about it.

But now I notice I do not have a guitar cable, so now we start fussing about that and Jeff Beck is side stage just hanging and shaking his head at how unprofessional me and my brother are, and it is already 30 minutes into my one hour time slot to play! Someone said maybe there is a guitar cable backstage so I go backstage, and there is a bar and people at tables. Up on the wall is an odd looking cable rack, and the cables are covered by the rack except the plugs at each end, and the cables are straight full length behind the rack. I see a guitar plug at one end of the rack but not at the other end of the rack so no complete cable for my guitar. I am walking around the bar playing my guitar without an amplifier but my playing is so perfect and I think, "Oh well, too bad about that."

I never made it on stage. I just playing unplugged in the bar, but I was the only one who could hear it. I wasn't nervous, just no chair to start with and then no cable. I wondered why I didn't borrow one of Jeff's?

Dreams that involve power often refer to the need for God's supernatural empowerment in order to minister and teach, and applied generally, the meaning is that no one will hear us if the Lord Himself does not "amplify" what we say by speaking through us, including supernaturally. We must not simply "sit in His seat." We need to "play" with the same power, volume and intensity, and I personally believe operating in gifts like prophecy (dreams, visions, direct utterance, etc) only happen by giving ourselves to increasing fasting and prayer, because it most certainly will not happen by itself. We must become vessels properly prepared, as Angelina was saying.

I read a piece on Jeff Beck once, and it said how the first time he heard an electric guitar (back when it first started to be used) there were older generation people around who were criticizing it, but he replied, "That's for me." And he became an innovator at making the sound of an electric increasingly better. Along with being a good musician, many of his sound innovations ultimately had to do with increasing the volume of the guitar. According to Wiki, he was the first to popularize the effect of distortion, and this became the basis of nearly all rock music for the next five decades.

Beck has been consistently ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone and other magazines' lists of the greatest guitarists. He was often called a "guitarist's guitarist"... According to musicologist and historian Bob Gulla, Beck is credited for popularising the use of audio feedback and distortion on guitar. During his short time with the Yardbirds, Beck's experimentation with feedback, distortion, and "fuzz" tone "pushed the band into directions that would open the door for psychedelic rock" while "jolting British rock forward", according to Gulla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Beck

Audio feedback and distortion took an electric guitar, which was already louder than acoustics, and amplified it exponentially. Feedback used a loop to in effect "make it scream," and distortion increased the gain to "make it growl." Both made electric guitars that much louder.

By contrast, the Lord is our Innovator. He can make our voice "louder" in the earth than we can imagine, and desires to use us as "instruments" through which He can, whether through increasingly powerful and accurate prophecy, dreams, and visions or whatever the case. But if we do not increasingly plug into His power in order to, we may find out that what we speak never really matters if no one hears it.

So again, applying it generally across the board, we might be able to "play" (i.e. speak and teach) very well, and be accurate in the things we speak, but what's the point if no one will hear it? Jesus sent the power of God to confirm the word with signs and wonders following, and it's what caused the news to "spread abroad" quickly. If we truly desire to be heard, we will need His supernatural empowerment, and this will only come through ever-increasing petitions and prayer for His help, which is why you are saying at the end, "I wonder why I didn't borrow one of Jeff's cables."

Blessings,
- H

Jeff Beck, using a voice box back in 1973: