14-01-2023, 20:14
"When Beck replaced Clapton in the Yardbirds, he was, in a sense, a great liberator for them. He had a snarky sense of humour and an eclectic sensibility which are two things that Clapton’s never been accused of having. Clapton was a very much the uptight sniffy blues purist, Beck was into anarchy, carnage, weird noises and the incorporation of a wide variety of influences."
"He has ferocious technique but so do a lot of other people who are cataclysmically dull. The extent to which he communicates his personality and emotional nuance - I don’t think any other guitarist has as wide an emotional range. He can go from puckish playful humour to absolute vicious rage, to absolutely swooning lyricisim in one line, one lick, let alone from piece to piece."
Charles Shaar Murray (from a Jeff Beck documentary I watched on YouTube)
"He has ferocious technique but so do a lot of other people who are cataclysmically dull. The extent to which he communicates his personality and emotional nuance - I don’t think any other guitarist has as wide an emotional range. He can go from puckish playful humour to absolute vicious rage, to absolutely swooning lyricisim in one line, one lick, let alone from piece to piece."
Charles Shaar Murray (from a Jeff Beck documentary I watched on YouTube)
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