Word: jeffe
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This is not to say however that Jeff Beck, for all his domineering guitar activity, would be anything without the consistent and helpful backing that he gets from the rest of his group. Leaving aside Nicky Hopkins for the moment, it is clear that Waller, Stewart, and Ron Wood, who plays bass, are above average as performers in their own right, and superb in combination with Jeff Beck...
...ELECTRIC lead guitar is to rock-blues music what the violin is to classical--the supreme voice of the medium. Jeff Beck understands very well that a man who masters guitar has tapped an enormous source of energy. Having done so, he relishes in his freedom and glory much as a racing driver thrills to the knowledge that he is in control of a powerful machine, one that can destroy him if it goes out of control...
...Jeff Beck Group has a number called "Beck's Boogie" that the group does early in each show. The format is simple: Beck plays the melody of the line "Mary had a little lamb" solo, and then the rest of the players crash in with a few bars of straight percussion. Silence again, and Beck repeats the phrase. Each time, however, he does it a little differently and uses different elements of the guitar. Once he plays it entirely on the frets, once using wah-wah pedal, once slapping the strings with his open palm. The improvisation gets more...
Quite apart from the fact that this number is artfully constructed for its dramatic moments, "Beck's Boogie" serves to establish in its astounding variety the basic premise: I, Jeff Beck, have such resources at my command...
Nevertheless such frenzied and soaring musical improvisation -- in the presence of an insistent and mercurial guitarist like Jeff Beck -- cries out for a disciplining influence. And so Nicky Hopkins, ex-studio musician...