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Black Dog - 19.09.2006, 07:34Jimmy + Jeff Beck
Beck to basics
Guitar god rediscovers the joy of it all
By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
September 18, 2006
Jeff Beck has never really phoned in a performance, but lately his devotion
to making music has soared. He's with a top-notch band, playing his best
material and showing palpable joy 40 years into his career.
"I'm glad you stated that. That's the whole point of it, isn't it? Once it
starts to become a drag and you hate yourself and hate music, it's time to
pack it up," Beck says.
"The secret, really, is to get people who motivate you. It's a magical
thing. If you can crack that, you can ride any storm. The guys in the band
and me are probably 18 going on 17. We're still naughty little boys, I
suppose."
Despite his reputation as reclusive and sometimes difficult, Beck, 62, is
funny, open and engaging in a talk from his kitchen table in England in
advance of his Thursday-night show at the Lecture Hall at the Colorado
Convention Center.
It's a tour Beck fans crave. While his career has explored many tangents in
concert over the years, this one is a career retrospective, doing the
best-loved Beck songs from all eras with a band that has the guitarist
re-energized.
"When I've been shoving stuff down their throats that they don't quite dig
or don't understand, it's a relief to know that what they remember me for is
going to be played," he says of the fans. "Plus we selected the songs that
still hold up and can be interpreted in 2006."
After stints in The Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group, the guitarist took a
solo career covering many genres and producing classics such as Blow by Blow
and even an '80s hit single in Ambitious. The set list, including Beck's
Bolero and Cause We've Ended as Lovers, developed from An Evening with JB, a
show at London's Festival where he and guests (including the White Stripes
and Roger Waters) played his career highlights.
"People just lapped it up," he says. "I wanted to take a similar show on the
road and was immediately told it was ludicrously expensive. So we dropped
that." So it's the career highlights without the extra guests.
He's kept himself musically engaged by playing on other people's music, but
"I've stopped doing it now because I feel that I really should concentrate
on my stuff," he says. "When I'm asked to play on someone's records or do
other projects, I just think I should be spending this time working on my
material and not just putting on a little guitar solo on some piece of music
someone else slaved over.
"I love the experience, and there's nothing more enlightening, . . . just
good experience to work with other people, just to see how they record and
what they enjoy. But like I say, it's time to knuckle down and get on my own
things now. But how are you going to say 'no' to Tina Turner?"
His current band, including Jason Rebello on keyboards, has pushed him in a
more traditional rock direction after excursions into other genres.
"They've got it all. Jason can be the most avant-garde jazz pianist one
minute then be Jan Hammer then just be Jason. That is a wonderful tool to
have, the flexibility of the keyboard. All the songs that used to be a
little bit ragged - he polishes them up and makes them funkier," Beck says.
"He's a big old chunk of cement that holds the complicated stuff together."
In a joint interview with Mojo magazine a while back, Beck and fellow
Yardbirds guitarist/Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page talked of doing a
project together, but since then Page has balked.
"I'd like to know how many times I've asked him. It's getting rude now. I
keep suggesting it and he goes 'Yeah' and nothing ever happens. How many
times can you bang on someone's door?" he says.
The idea would be to get together, keep it informal and move forward only if
it works. "Have a go at that just for the hell of it; you don't need any
pressure. But he's a family man now. He has a busy schedule doing stuff. I
can't imagine what it's like to have kids. I haven't got any."
Fans wonder whether the Jeff Beck Group - including original singer Rod
Stewart - could ever re-form for a big-money reunion tour.
"I haven't had a single figure bandied about. I can tell you that it
probably would be more expensive than people would pay," he says with a
laugh. "I'm beginning to feel a little bit miffed that I'm falling short and
that is the group that people hanker after."
He dismisses the notion, however.
"It's just nostalgia - ABBA and Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. (The
Stones) are doing the rounds and making big money. People want what's gone
and this huge retro movement of '50s doo-wop in America and the hot-rod
scene. People don't want what's going on now. They just want to live in the
past."
He has plenty of projects in the works. A new album of rock material is a
first priority, but not a note has been recorded. He's also exploring
classical music, replacing the lead violin in Mahler's Symphony No. 5 with
his trademark Stratocaster sound.
"It's been hard. Mahler 5 is one of the slowest movements. There's no room
for any mistakes whatsoever," he says. "To hold the note is one of the worst
challenges, the strongest challenges - that and to not make any mistakes in
those passages. But that's what I'm here for. If it was easy, people would
be doing it. I'm just crazy enough to try to take it on."
He was approached to do a DVD of his life story, but he has a better idea.
"We can adapt the history of the guitar or something else, maybe do it like
Ken Burns. He did this 10-DVD set of the history of blues and jazz. Maybe a
slightly smaller version of that that covers what I've done, then we do a
DVD of a performance to refer to as a point of reference, show where I got
this run, that run," he says. "I wanna do the drama side of it as a comedy.
People love to laugh. I don't mean Austin Powers gut-busting funny, but true
stories. I recorded some of the most outrageous stories that would be great
for a movie rather than a paperback."
Meanwhile, he continues touring around the world, hitting Europe, Japan and
America. Despite his live following, Beck's work is rarely heard on FM radio
these days.
"How come? How come? Get that sorted out!" he says mockingly. "If you're not
Britney, you're not on radio. We still pull thousands of people. Do we not
count for radio play? I don't know. Who cares anyway? The radio only shrinks
the sound you're making. They can't broadcast the sound we make onstage.
They'll never be able to do that."
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