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...GROUP IS PULSING now, late in the last set. Jeff Beck draws out a burr till it nearly grates and follows it with a melodious burst. Doing 'Beck's Boogey' he comes swiftly down the frets pausing only to pluck a little at each stop, then he goes into the theme which sounds a little like 'Yankee Doodle' stops midway through with finger raised, and resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best...
Later that night at a party given by two Cliffies, Jeff Beck was more approachable. He seemed like an intelligent sober young man and, I feel, enough of a personality to carry off greatness with grace should he achieve it. He should. He said he thought American audiences were more emotional than British ones and found this gratifying, "In England, you feel like you're on trial every time you appear and they will never accept you without reservations...
Asked which other groups he respected he said he respected everybody. "If I could I would have the radio on all day." He was bitter about gimmickry (the Jeff Beck Group's first album just out on Epic, is called 'Truth' because the Group feels that it is an honest album with no tricks.) He ridiculed the Beatles' experiments with sitar music "You know how long it takes to learn that instrument? 7 years. and there's the master who's 50 and still learning...
...very humble about the music he is making and constantly refers, as all the members of the Group do, to the great blues singes like B.B. King, and to their power to move those who listened to them. While acknowledging the effectiveness of their own personal appearances Beck did not feel that they might not come through as well on recording...
...fear however that no record can capture their sensual hammering music. At the end of their performance, Rod Stewart said "We're sorry to leave, but we'll come back to play here in September." Forget it fellas. Next time the Jeff Beck Group comes to this country they'll be playing in Los Angeles in a stadium that seats...