Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE at the Boston Tea A local group called Quill has just finished its good-to-dreary slot with a bang-up African number. The Jeff Beck Group now quickly marches in, Mick Waller at the drums, Jeff Beck prophetically brandishing his guitar. The singer Rod Stewart in burnt sienna flush velours pants that fit tight, an ornate silver cross hanging from his neck, has slender features and a bouffant hair-do and an impish grin. Ron Wood, on bass guitar, stakes out his area and the music flares like a newly struck match. Stewart sings "Rock me baby/Keep-on-rocking-me-baby/ Rock...
This deliberate use of the guitar as the major element of the music helps to explain the tremendous excitement that the Jeff Beck Group generates at every public performance--from the Fill-more East to the Boston Tea Party and now probably in Detroit, audiences are left at the end of the show shredded and near-hysterical. Another reason for this audience appeal is the Group's steaming physical presence on stage, its sense of togetherness as a unit, and its musical cohesion creating an unadulterated rolling, weaving ball of sound...
...Stewart lifts the mike, stand and all, the tripod legs slant in the air and his body is bent double over it, singing he glances happily over the stage. Jeff Beck in a black ruffled shirt knees slightly bent, perfectly balanced though, finishes his rifls with a triumphant index finger high over his head. He 'plays' a long beep and then a long deep wavering note. Stewart sings slow blues style, "My baby, she knows how to spread her wings." Subterrenean thoughts of rolling thighs float around. Jeff Beck and Ron Wood exchange looks and laugh. Mick Waller keeps slashing...
Mick Waller was one of London's top sessions musicians before he joined the Jeff Beck Group, and played in particular with the Stones (he owned up to being the bongo drums in 'Jumping Jack Flash). He predicts, "the Stones will stand the test of time better than the Beatles. They're much simpler, you know, and they say a lot more than the Beatles with their highly contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen...
Like Carter Lord, Jeff Grate was blessed with abundant natural ability. Superbly coordinated and very strong, Grate burst on the Harvard sports scene as a jumping-jack sophomore basketball player. Only 6-1, he could leap with the Ivy centers, had a quick, accurate jump shot and looked like a sure-fire all-time Harvard great. In the spring of that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through...