Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeff Beck didn't come in till nearly showtime, and was in no mood to talk...
They're much like the blacks these tough young Londoners, with their rhythmic, expressive language, and of course they play music like only the best of the 'soul brothers' can--Jimi Hendrix, say, who jammed effortlessly and beautifully with the Jeff Beck Group in New York...
...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...