Re: beck the elder (was "here is...")

["SP Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

RE: beck the elder (was "here is...")[see end]

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From: goddard.duncan@mtvne.com
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 14:47 PM
Subject: RE: beck the elder (was "here is...")


>>the only one in my opinion that keeps reinventing himself is Jeff Beck 
>(is 
>>he still smashing his guitars by the way?)<<
are you thinking of the brief appearance he makes in "blow up" with jimmy 
page? :-)
I saw beck about 18 months ago at the royal festival hall. bizarrely, his 
guests for the evening I was there (different guest bands each night of 
three I think) were white stripes.
one of beck's two drummers was terry bozzio, so we were treated to the 
unusual sight of jeff beck & jack stripe swapping solos on a yardbirds 
number while meg stripe tried to keep up with bozzio & the guy on the 
other 
kit. she's not very good, I'm afraid. can't do that "train kept a rollin'" 
shuffle. kept pulling up.
I really don't care for the stripes; though they have one or two appealing 
songs, the minimalist schtick & their "discovery" of the toerag recording 
studio leave me cold. maybe I'm just cynical. I had a lot of jsbx albums 
when the stripes first appeared, so the revisited stripped-down raw blues 
thing was sort of old in my house.
jeff beck, on the other hand- must be 60 now, & still moves/plays/looks 
like 
half that (& he looks a lot like nigel tufnell).
amazing. used the same strat all night (a yellow one, probably something 
like the fender job with his name on it), though he was switching around 
amongst several amps. IIRC, there was a marshall suitcase, a bassman & an 
ac30.... but I could easily be mistaken as although I know my amps, I was 
aways off & the stage was necessarily cluttered.
the rest of his set was all manner of career highlights & new material. 
anyone remember "the tube"? he & jan hammer recorded the original theme 
tune 
for it.... what I'd always thought was a synced-oscillator-lead-moog sound 
turns out to be beck's guitar. the things he can do with it's tone & 
harmonics with no (apparent) effects.... incredible.

I still feel bad for him when I listen to the "truth" & "beckola" albums- 
they are a mixed bag, but in there somewhere are the seeds of something 
great.... which by all accounts, mr page decided to appropriate for his 
own 
next adventure after the yardbirds finally expired. jeff beck is said to 
have shed a tear or two when his erstwhile colleague played him demos of 
LZ1 
&, feeling slightly betrayed, had to go away for a few years & reinvent 
himself. imagine if page had stolen rod stewart to sing for him aswell, 
instead of plant.....
duncan.

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Yeah, but Rod couldn't have done the now-infamous Plant 
"mnuah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah..."