jeff beck interview: no regrets from reluctant guitar god - digital display

During my interview with Jeff Baker, a phone rang. “F---off!
He growled funny.
But he took a closer look at the digital display.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Eric. I 'd better have this.
Eric Clapton, Baker's guitar god, called to discuss the planned performance.
"Eric, in Area D.
No, don't worry, I will do all the improvisation . "
"You just play fill and solo.
I do everything else.
Anyway, we'll give it a try if it doesn't work.
"This is a fascinating glimpse of the private world of guitar heroes.
At least because the 65-year-old baker is very healthy, muscular and alert, he seems to be casting orders with his more famous peers, giving some indication of why he is often called a guitarist.
With Clapton and Jimmy Page, Baker is one of the legendary three giants who rose from the 60-year-old British blues boom and has been the lead guitarist of Yarra birds, all of this will open up the potential of six children.
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But while his contemporaries are household names by continuing to dig and explore the changes in blues, Baker is more elusive and fickle, along a piece of jazz fusion and electronic music in a heavy soul, hard rock.
He had only one hit single in his life, which he called a "first-line event," but this year he released his 17 solo albums, he won the fifth Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
Jeff Baker was live on my beat club and Beck joked, "Yes, well, there are a lot of categorieseffacingly.
"It's best to use a comb, the best paper clip.
If you are with me all the time, you will surely win something.
Baker is an easy person to get along with, but it's not hard to understand why he can be such an elusive star.
What really attracts him is the music itself, he will discuss the music with a strong passion, and his discomfort with everything that comes with the music is expressed as humor.
In 1967, the moment he became a pop star with Hi Ho Silver Lining, he said, "I hate every minute of it.
He claims he's actually strong.
His manager, Mickey Most, entered the studio with a weapon in hand and told him he needed a blow: "Then you can do what you want.
Baker wants a young nameless singer named Rod Stewart to sing.
"Mickey is not interested in rod at all.
He said, "What do you want the guy in the band to do? ’?
So Baker sang the song himself, even though he claimed that his voice was limiting "shaming" him.
He spent only two hours in the studio.
"The receptionist was singing when I came out.
I knew I was in trouble.
But if you have to have one, I don't think it's that bad.
Guitar solo is great.
If it makes people happy at the Essex wedding, that's it.
"He also ran out in the Rolling Stones and they wanted him to replace Mick Taylor in 1975.
"They lied to me to play on several tracks in Rotterdam.
When I got there, I found 400 guitars with different labels on them.
I mean, are these all Keith's guitars?
No, these people are here to audition, they said. I said, 'What?
I'm not here to audition!
They said, no, you have a show and they will tell others not to come.
"I was sucked in, so that's the crossroads. what way do I take?
But a rehearsal is enough.
When I was playing the Rolling Stones it was so quaint that it never worked after I got into the real violent riffs and the Wild Billy Cobham rhythm.
So I stuffed a note underneath. road manager)
At the door of Ian Stewart's hotel, I said, 'This is a mistake, 'and I left.
"Not many musicians can describe the Rolling Stones as quaint, but when the stones and pedestrians Ronnie Wood record the black and blue color of the spotted (
Was a bassist at Jeff Baker Group)
Baker created an extraordinary million. selling, jazz-
A fusion instrument made by George Martin classic percussion and Steve Wangda on the keyboard.
"I have no regrets," Baker insisted . ".
"Let's face it. I'm the center-
On stage, there was my name on the ticket, I went out to play and didn't sing.
Who wants to exchange it with being part of someone else's band?
The guitarist who really upset him was Jimmy Hendricks.
"What I noticed when I saw him was not just his amazing Blues, but his physical attack on the guitar.
His actions are consistent, a package of explosions.
I, Eric and Jimmy, we were cursed because we were from Surrey.
We all look like we walked out of Burton's shop window.
There Jimmy was wearing his military uniform, his hair was about 14 feet in the air, and he was playing with his teeth.
We would love to do so.
"When he arrived, he hit me like an earthquake.
I must think seriously about what I will do next.
In fact, the wound was deep and I had to lick it myself.
I 've been looking for other things on my guitar and looking for new places to do.
I think this is mine.
I don't do it if I don't feel special.
"This is one of Baker's most curious things.
His creativity is fragile.
He seems to have a way back.
Before he showed up with something new, his fans were used to canceling concerts and long-time hiatuses.
Asked what he appreciated most about the contemporary guitarist, he was very cautious.
"I'm a little timid in listening," he admits . ".
"I don't want to be a pole --
Fired by any great new player.
Jack White startled me with white stripes like the Zeppelin.
But I don't like it. the-
Heavy metal can't stand it.
Too many amplifiers, too big, just flat-Ear attack.
I believe there must be many deaf people outside.
The quick guitar made me feel unattached but not physically comfortable.
When you think of all the subtleties built into the guitar and amplifier, you will find that they completely cover the whole area with a series of effects.
The guitar doesn't need that.
When discussing the modern recording, Baker suddenly became an old man with a grumpy temper.
"The computer is like a Zimmer frame.
You just have to play one note to make a full album with it.
Convenient but not true.
It's just graphics.
Where is the music?
However, it is strange that he did not think he had made a great record.
"Not yet close," he was pleased to announce . ".
"But records are a hassle because they are a lie.
The king is alive.
This is the experience of a person doing their thing on stage and thousands of people responding.
You need a good amp and a player, that's it.
Then you are closer to revealing what you want to say.