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Article: 10 things you gotta do to play like Jeff Beck.(LESSONS)
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- Guitar Player
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- December 1, 2007
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WHEN ROCK POETRESS PATTI SMITH INTRODUCED JEFF BECK AS "THE JEWEL in our crown" at London's 2005 Meltdown Festival, she wasn't just whistling "Hail Britannia." An international treasure whose wizardly way with the guitar has defined the state of the ax for over four decades, Geoffrey Arnold Beck was not only present and accounted for at the launch of the great Brit-rock guitar revolution of the mid '60s, he kicked its ass.
Beck's timing couldn't have been better. Already a fearless musical renegade and always one step ahead of the pack, Beck answered Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend's clarion call to arms with a feedback-laden ...