Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani tells us how his career — and the paths of many others —wouldn't exist without the work of the late Jeff Beck
But Jeff also had that crazy attitude. You knew he was a dangerous rock & roll guitar player. He always made that obvious with every song that he did. I kept that with me in the middle Eighties when I was feeling like I might do something else in my life and I just wanted to start making some fun recordings at home. I was leaning on that idea that Jeff had made a great career out of doing what he wanted to do.
He sought out musicians who were on the cutting edge of what he thought was great new music. And he tried to incorporate that into how he saw the electric guitar, and how it would fit into this new idea of combining rock and blues and jazz. At the time it was fusion. But he never lost himself in it. No matter who he played with, he retained that Jeff Beck attitude.
It was like a reminder: You don’t have to water your stuff down. As a matter of fact, you gotta go the other way. Look at what Jeff did. He just became more Jeff with every record, and that’s why every time he released a record, people would go, “Oh my God, what the fuck is that? What’s he doing now?”came out, I was just finishing playing with a disco band for about a year. The rhythm section, we were all rockers just looking for money. We needed a gig that paid every week.
The way Jeff used harmonics [later on] — to me, the song “Where Were You” is probably one of the most outstanding instrumental pieces on guitar ever recorded. I’ve seen him play it live and it’s really breathtaking. He never did it the same twice, but he hit that beautiful mark every time. It was just such a tour de force of putting together an almost impossible technique, and pulling it off. In the live clip of him doing [it] at Ronnie Scott’s, you really get the feeling, like, OK, here’s a guitar player who’s taking the biggest risk ever. Because this can’t be done in tune, really.
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