Saw him a few days ago at The Masonic Hall on California St here in SF. Crowd full of burnouts, Marin County lizard types and fatsos. Beck may have dressed like a spaceman on holiday, (sunglasses, shag, and a black & white sleeveless number with matching clown boots. And oh yeah, he wore a metal arm thing on his forearm. Kinda like what Wonder Woman sported to deflect bullets and laser beams.) but that 60 something motherfucker can still deliver. Best guitar player ever. And like most Brit musicians from that time period, he was shorter than I had imagined. Mick Jagger is a shrimp too. Dio is tiny, but he is also the guy who sang in Rainbow, so fuck you if you call him short. But seriously, most 60s Brit rockers are sickly and pale. From what I've read, the Nazis cut off the food supply in England, so The Small Faces were forced to eat dirt and pine cones. Something like that.
Good show. I give Jeff Beck 4 1/2 sandwiches out of a possible 5.
My Top 5
1. Jeff Beck
2. Frizzy hair late 60s/early 70s Robert Fripp
3. Super High/Peavey Era Greg Ginn
4. Ritchie Blackmore
5. Early/Functionally Drunk Eddie Van Halen
Great clip. What's the story behind this song/recording? It's clearly live, but then you've got Beck overdubbing a part too... Perfectly harmonized slide parts never cease to amaze.
ReplyDeleteIts an outtake from The Beat Club, a German tv music show. Not sure why they superimposed Jeff doing the overdubs. You can find a finished version on YouTube with cheezy psychedelic backdrop.
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