A RED LEATHER GUITAR GIG BAG, PERSONALLY OWNED AND USED BY JEFF BECK

Jeff Beck received this leather gig bag as a gift for his 50th birthday from keyboard player Jed Leiber (son of hit songwriter Jerry Leiber), with whom Jeff collaborated on the instrumental soundtrack for the 1992 British-Australian TV miniseries Frankie’s House. The duo won the 1993 BAFTA Award for Original Television Music for their efforts. Jed threw a big 50th birthday bash for Jeff at the Hollywood Athletic Club in 1994. ‘That was really a great night,’ Jed told Dick Wyzanski of The Jeff Beck Bulletin. ‘I wanted to celebrate the success of our first collaboration together, and I wanted to do something special for Jeff on his birthday… The party was a lot of fun.’ The gig bag was evidently well used and well travelled – Jeff used it to carry his favourite Strat of the moment when travelling to one-off gigs and events. Interviewing Jeff for Mojo in 2009, Peter Makowski noted ‘Beck’s guitar is always at hand. Even as we leave for a photo shoot, his PA packs it away in a red soft-top case and takes it to a local park.’