All language subtitles for JEFF BECK - Documentary MKV Part 1 (2019) - Rom-en (1)

I got there as a tourist
taken by a friend in 1966.

He took me there and I got everything
walking on that empty stage.

Then I said to myself:
"Is this the most famous place in Hollywood?"

I will never get to sing here. ”

And 50 years later I had
my own concert there.

He's an unusual guitarist,
a troubadour hoinar,

who doesn't like to be
repeats, which he assumed

big risks all the time ... he did
throughout his career.

He's a guitarist who builds
high speed cars.

I had a lot of
urges me to go see Jeff

to listen to him sing and
even working with him.

He's always been a guitarist
interesting, you know? It's a great one.

He had so much to offer ... a
he managed to make his own way.

Music brings people together and
if someone succeeds, turn on the wick

you feel like everything is banging and ready.

He made you feel,
you know important and ready to offer something good

Jeff on recordings
used the ying-yang effect,

which he brought to a level
totally different when he plays live.

Part of Jeff's mystique is due
the fact that he likes to be mysterious.

All his albums
they make you float in a mysterious world.

Part of this is due to the fact

that many of his albums have no voices on them.

I told him he was kind of Pablo
Picasso of the electric guitar and

he told me:

"I think there is more
a Jackson Pollock. ”

And all I said was, "Touchez!"

He's such an instinctive artist and he is
so interesting to be by his side

because it simply doesn't
you know what he will do next.

This is not something painted after some
notes, this is really the muse in person,

and the muse tells him what he will have to sing.

And he let it happen
let's move on to "Next song!"

He always seems to think of something,
that he is an innovator.

That he always reaches for something new.

Jeff is an incredible artist and
I have always had an affinity

for male artists
which I can find fantastic

fantastic women to him
accompany on his way.

Jeff is the guy who led
guitar instrument in

the most distant
universes of guitars.

And no one even approaches him.

Everyone respects Jeff.
He is an extraordinary musician,

and developed a technique that
it's so complex it's just

a real delight to see him,
to hear him and feel him singing.

He seems to be conversing with you when
he sings, too bad he doesn't sing vocally

Sounds like no other guitarist,
pulling notes. Know?

It was - and still is - the most
original guitarist of all time.

THE BEGINNING YEARS ENGLAND

My mother plays the piano, so
being by her side all the time,

the music was always around me.

Either he played the piano or he put me in the living room

where the radio was always on,
so I could hear everything new.

He had very strict ideas and hopes
as to who I will become.

I would have loved to play the piano,
but the post was already taken.

So I had a good enough reason

to never sit down again
in front of a piano!

I just said to myself, "There's no room left
for another pianist. ”

I didn't feel this was going to be my destiny,
while related to the guitar,

I didn't have to worry.

And this even if at the beginning
I wasn't very attracted to it,

it made me want to be alone with her

and to reverse my feelings in it.
It responded so easily to the touch.

The radio was on and my mother was leaving
in the kitchen and let me listen

Leş's singing style
Paul was fascinating because

on every program I gave to each one
this time I came across How High The Moon

So I ran to the kitchen

and I said, "Mom, who is this?"

He told me, “I read this guy.
He only knows how to do tricks on the ropes.

He's a fake artist. ” And I said ...
"But it's interesting!"

Electric guitar and running
the one on the ropes ... it was interesting

She said: “Well, it was revealed
the fact that he can't sing so fast

and that everything is accelerated in printing "

And I said, “Well, I like his sound.

It doesn't matter if it's accelerated. "

We also listen to those on the records
which my sister listens to.

Hound Dog. Rock Around The Clock. To stay
it seemed to me that something was broken from heaven!

And I started analyzing the sound
guitarists down to the smallest detail.

Eddie Cochran had an echo
which made the sound

to give the feeling of room
Cliff Gallup had the same echo.

They sounded so good and loud.

Once I met Jeff
and we talked about who influenced him,

he told me he liked it very much
the guy who sang with Gene Vincent,

Cliff Gallup.

My sister went to Sutton Granada to
see The Girl can’t help it

and then he said to me, “I have to
to go see him too.

It's the most amazing movie
Technicolor with all things

what do you like, after all
what we both like. ”

I went to see some friends
color on Gene Vincent and Blue Hats

It changed my life. He was the best
rock and roll movie ever made

Everything I liked seemed to come
from America - cars, music

But I didn't see any possibility
to ever get there.

I mean, I didn't have any money.

My sister came home from school one day

and he threw me a piece of paper
with a phone number on it.

Here's a nerd's number
from the school he also has

a weird-looking guitar like yours. ”

And he agreed to go with me
by bus to Epsom, where

we both knocked on the door and it appeared
a kid with an innocent face

who answered the door and
he invited us in.

Well, that's how he got to my house.

Of course, at that time
I lived with my parents.

And Jeff came in and had a
homemade electric guitar,

just like I had a
homemade guitar.

And we became friends immediately.

We're almost two brothers, you know.

It was just a wonderful thing I found

and there's someone else who had the same interest.

Then it started to come quite
often and we spent our time

and we listen to the records
which I put to him.

He also had equipment. He had a
tape recorder and other "goodies"

that is, an excellent collection of records,
a collection of mouth watering.

I had a diverse mix of records
with different styles back then.

It was a great discovery,

to find another person
who was as interested as I was

to haunt record stores
who imported records, say,

Vee-jay - that was a move from
Chicago of the fifties,

a blues movement - towards
unlike other stores.

And that meant I was doing it
some real pilgrimages.

And from all those guitarists
from that period,

I learned a lot from those records.

So we used to sit there and
let's keep listening to the solo parts.

We weren't interested in the song,
not even who plays the guitar!

"What the hell did he do here?"
Do you understand, that's what we kept asking ourselves?

"It simply came to our notice then
as a ricochet effect?

Why does it sound so exciting? ”

He wanted to understand how they could
to sound so impressive,

so amazing because you
get excited, then try

to do the same on the guitar.

I had a partner in what I was doing,

I had someone who could
to come up with some ideas too.

When you found something that rang
pretty impressive,

I wanted to know what else
he thought about it.

We were really eager to
we find out exactly the same things,

from the records with Gene
Vincent and Ricky Nelson.

They had very guitar solos
made by James Burton,

and one of the things that
we asked each other was:

"What would be your version of My Babe?"

"OK. But what's your version?"

It seemed to be a kind of common ground
test for many guitarists

from that period to see how
well could do some solo ...

Ricky Nelson - My Babe

I liked going there. That's where I found it
something that was close to my heart

and something in my ears
which hit me for good.

That's what everyone who came out thought
from art school in the ‘50s

when rock and roll had begun
to get here from America.

I liked. I liked very much
the fact that it was a place where you could

go and learn to draw and
learn the basics of art.

I had it at art school
part of two wonderful years.

But the music grabbed me,
because in the middle of each week

we had a concert
in the city where I lived

and then came two concerts
per week and so on.

But unfortunately I had to give up
school before graduation.

Music was our hobby and so on
we have become professionals.

When the Yardbirds appeared, Eric was
the person who had to be taken into account.

They had Eric, so why me
Did they want me? I didn't understand that.

Everyone wanted to make me
we hit some commercial hits,

and we weren't doing anything
music of this nature.

His name was brought as a
replacement. When I asked why

they said I wasn't
so vital to the "organization."

So I went to see if he was that good
as they said. Back then he played with Tridents

And he used all those effects
and I said to myself, “Lord!

It's really worth giving up on me.
I am finished".

In fact, I really thought so
to quit music then,

because I said to myself, “I'm in
inappropriate profession. ” Understand?

But seeing Jeff, I thought, “Hey
Well, he's the right guy for them. "

I really liked the Yardbirds.
Mi-a plăcut Heart Full Of Soul...

.. and Jeff's singing style
it sounds like a sitar.

He was made by a guitarist
with a very distinctive style.

He did not follow the path of anyone else,

it was clear there, completely on its own.

They had a sitar singer in the studio,

who thought music in a way
time signature of 13 and a quarter!

And they kept telling him, "No, it's 4/4."

And I said, "I mean, that's about it."

So I sang his octave,
octave G and then I sang to him ...

And then I said, "Why the hell am I?
brought here? I can sing that! "

I think he was a pioneer of
hard rock from day one.

He was doing things that weren't
they existed only in his mind.

When I heard Yardbirds,
when I heard Jeff singing,

sounds just different, right since then,
for my young ears.

His guitar had a kind of sound

which was different from the usual pop stuff.
They had something special,

the notes he sings,
they seemed very lyrical to me.

And in a month, we're flying to America!

Not only had I arrived in America,

but I also recorded in the famous
Sun studio for Chess Records.

Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things

Shapes Of Things, an amazing piece.
I remember the song very well.

"It simply came to our notice then
to get so far

to get the sound we wanted? ”

In England, the studios of
recordings failed to do so.

Sound engineers from
England was all Puritans,

they didn't like anything that
squeak or squeak.

I kept telling them, "Let it be heard
squeaking! We don't care! "

Immediately, when I heard the playback
to the song we told ourselves this is ...

Jeff was coming to me and me
he kept singing the first fragments

from the play Shapes Of Things.

And when he got to the side
solo, I thought,

"This is the most extraordinary solo."

Ravi Shankar played a role
important in the Beatles and others,

and I used to stay at home
to Page to listen to ragas

and Vilayat Khan and Ravi
Shankar and just marveling at me.

How could this be adopted
on the guitar, this pull of

strings to such an extent that
to be able to play a song just like that?

The work Jeff put in
Yardbirds was extremely important

for guitarist-based groups,

because he had an incredible ear
and that he had set an amazing standard,

and also for the technique to
it was also extraordinary.

And I have to say, then
when I heard this song,

I really understood
what Jeff was capable of.

Yardbirds had a manager
even crazy Giorgio Gomelsky

and I remember how scared he was
when he heard me sing the song.

The steam was coming out of his ears
when I sang that song to him.

"It simply came to our notice then
you are in this formation.

You opened some surreal paths,
some avant-garde horses,

for the guitar in this band. ”

Giorgio was great, but I think a

something outrageous happened with the money.

I do not know. All I know is I don't
never took anything out of it.

I think I threatened them
leave if the band doesn't get rid of him.

That's when Simon Napier-Bell appeared
and agreed to take over the management

and in five minutes Jimmy Page was in the band

and in that formula I came to
film sets for Blow-Up.

And no one knew exactly what it would be like
as in most movies,

he wasn't telling you what the movie would really be like.

But I was told that Antonioni
he was a great director

and a little surreal for me too
I thought it was a cool thing.

And the 3,000 check was even more amazing.

I don't think anyone in the band

he had never seen so much
a lot of money in one go.

Everyone has invested something in
fruit and vegetable stores.

Magazine. Business.

I invested in a
Corvette’63 with broken windshield,

which for a person like me was
the only rational thing to do!

ROAR ENGINES

I had a girlfriend in LA and I did
went to her, the place was cool,

the weather was amazing.

And I let it all go
on a Yardbirds tour.

I had never played in America before.

It was a shock, it was with
true something unimaginable

over everything I thought it would be.

The Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars
it was a gathering of artists

who were all coming on stage like
to sing two or three songs.

They toured by bus.

You know, you had to be real
amateur sucks on these.

I mean, you were on the road and you were giving
60 concerts in 60 days.

It was something very, very strange,
because the show was a collection

of teenybop stars, very singers
young for a very young audience.

.. in a bus that could be awful,

in which we were crammed between some
people we didn't really like.

We didn't get along at all
the rest of the cast in the show.

And it was just a toilet
clogged and not working,

and there were people who had to
sleeps in luggage nets.

But Jeff didn't get much out of it
because he left very quickly,

after only a few shows.

After a couple of gigs, I thought,
"I commit suicide if I still have to sing

the 15 minutes on stage, singing
two hits plus one more. ”

That was all. The whole show was
just a quick change.

Jerry Lewis' son was in that
tour, Gary Lewis and Playboys,

and I thought, "This is America
the real middle one.

We were telling people we were doing it
part of that. And it wasn't like that. "

Yardbirds were on their way to destruction

a real career, you understand?

And they threw themselves into this ridicule
box with various mixtures.

I called Jim to my room and
I said, “Jim, I felt the horrors.

Here's my guitar. You will take over
tomorrow's band leadership.

I'm not even going to play my guitar
back". And that was the end.

No girlfriend, no Yardbirds, nothing.

I only had my Corvetta parked
next to my mother's house

so I was free to dream again.

Jeff Beck Group - Shapes Of Things

Jeff and I met in Sheffield
Mojo while I was doing the circuit

of concerts beating the highway, when
I was singing with my first band, The Birds.

We got along really, really well,

and he told me about
concerts with the Yardbirds

and then he said to me, well, “If
we will no longer be members of the troops

in which we are now perhaps in a
good morning we will work together ".

One of the good things about the period
Yardbirds I remember is like

once returning from a tour of
somewhere in the north, around 2 at night,

I stopped in front of the Cromwellian Club
and I said to the Yardbirds:

"There is nothing to stop me
to go in there alone. "

The guy at the door said, "Jeff!
I'm glad to see you coming back. "

That night, there, no
nothing interesting happens in the club.

Motown records and I were playing
I said to myself, “How sad everything is.

"I am alone
with a beer in front of him. ”

There was one more guy in one
corner and that was Rod Stewart!

I talked to Jeff a little and he told me
said he was forming a band,

for he had just left the Yardbirds.

I was unemployed too and I think
I also mentioned that Woody was free:

"He lost his job too."

So we were three jobless musicians
work so I formed a band.

His collaboration with Rod
Stewart is already legendary,

that is, one of the best things
that Rod ever did,

was collaborating with Jeff on the album Truth.

It was his muffled voice that was so

rarely seen in a white vocalist.
And I liked that about him.

The band was with Micky Waller, with me on bass

and Jeff on guitar,

I had left holes and spaces to put it in

Rod's voice in the sonority
His cruel one ...

Jeff really appreciated it
Rod's voice, you know,

and he took great care of all things
who could get into those spaces

He believed in me, he really believed.

He wanted a singer
suitable for that band.

He had such a voice ...

.. vital within the band

that you didn't need it anymore
of a rhythm guitar.

His virtuoso performances
Jeff is related to the blues voice

of Rod from that album. Was
clearly an album of great influence.

The album Truth had the songs Rock on it
My Plimsoul and I Ain’t Superstition

He's really my favorite Jeff Beck
stylistically!

It's more of a kind of rock and
roll that hits you in the face.

Jeff didn't just want to sing

what Muddy Waters and
Howlin 'Wolf had sung.

He wanted to give the pieces a color
more Chicago and more electric

and remove it from that structure of
basis on which they were composed, you know,

and electrifying them, to do
as many arrangements as possible.

Even if the songs were
clear blues in 12 bars,

I arranged the pieces to
sounds as interesting as possible.

- Okay, let's go.
- I don't want us to sing them in unison,

I want us to sing them in harmony.

We make them the way you want.

I'll try to sing
as you play the guitar.

If you think it's ringing
too high, stop me, okay?

Stay with your voice as far back as possible.

Mickie Most, he didn't want to hear about Rod at all.

He told me, “You are the artist.
Your name is on the cover of the record. "

I replied, "No, no.
I'm not interested in that.

I'm interested in being part of one
great rock or blues band. ”

But Micky was interested in doing it
money as fast as you could

and he wanted us to be a pop band,
you know, to our great despair,

because we didn't want to
not at all to be like that

He saw no point in me being
in that band. He wanted Jeff to sing

Why was she a star?
pop so reluctant?

I guess it was because he didn't
she never wanted to be a pop star.

I don't know how that song came about.

I think because, if you will, of a
pressure from Mickie Most,

to try to hit a hit. But
I think very, very quickly

he realized that was not it
which Jeff wanted to do.

Another was his choice.

But this piece offered a lot
other people a huge pleasure!

Much more pleasure than
he never felt.

It was as if you were being asked
to wear a pink dress

and stand on the upper deck
of a bus on Oxford Street!

He framed me with this
embarrassing pop song that

it doesn't represent me. But, yes
over the years I started to like it

because he made them
people to feel happy.

Jeff, I think, asked Mickie
if I could sing that song,

but Mickie told him no.

So you can hear me screaming too
me in the background, in the choir.

And when you just thought
she had finally gotten somewhere,

You realized you were about
about six months away!

I stormed Mickie Most's office,

and we kind of argued over his refusal.

Peter Grant was there too and he was smiling at me.
I wanted to ...

as if his smile
he said, “Slap him,

he should know what it is
his place ", that is Mickie.

Shortly thereafter, you have to
talked to Mickie and said:

"Look, Jeff was in the Yardbirds
and has already opened

a door to America for himself
and for the band he plays with.

And now there's a
strong underground scene. ”

Steppenwolf had appeared on the radio
FM had grown terribly.

There were places to sing, it was
the press and there were also radio stations,

and, you know, you could build a band
to come and tour with.

So I remember it was amazing
when Woody and I got over it

Brooklyn Bridge on the couch in
behind a limousine with Peter Grant,

as a manager. I mean, like I was in heaven.
"Here we are!"

I did a five-month tour. A
it was hard, but also a lot of fun.

When I got to America, I sang
opening at Fillmore East.

I mean, I jumped straight into the abyss!

Then it was the famous night in which
Rod didn't go on stage. Was hidden.

That was the night
I hid behind the amplifiers

the story is absolutely true -

because I realized: “I am
in America, in New York,

and I try to sound like a vocalist
black and in the hall will be

a lot of blacks who will throw
with all sorts of things to me. ”

"Funny! But it sounds fake!" But here I am
on stage in front of a crowd,

and it was the beginning of a
wonderful, wonderful careers.

I drove the room crazy. I made them
Greatful Dead to leave the stage.

Robert Shelton of the New York Times
he gave us a great chronicle.

Peter Grant called me at seven
in the morning and said to me:

"Did you read the chronicle?" I told him:
"I don't even want to hear about it."

He said, "No, no, it's really amazing."

He read it to me, about the song Pinter,
about my interaction with Rod ...

And I read it and then I got it
said, "Okay, and what do we do now?"

I reproduced it and sent it on,

to the press from all places of
on the way to the West Coast,

so when I got to
Fillmore West, I was already broken

American music scene,
which was fantastic!

We all decided to give it a try
let's compose some songs,

so Ronnie and I stayed for hours
in a row in his mother's apartment

with a piece of white paper in front

until I took out a bottle of
I'm coming and I'm done.

Only then could I compose
a song called Plynth.

Plynth is a song I'm very proud of,

because it was one of the compositions
to which I also wrote the words.

"Moisture from the ocean fills the sky

"Falls back down to the ground
as time goes by."

I was proud of the bass part
drums and guitar and a low voice

And the piano part played by Nick.
It was a magical combination.

And for me it was an honor to
to be in that band, to be honest,

with Micky Waller, Nicky
Hopkins and Ronnie Wood.

It was really a great band.

When you think about how much
time was that and what an impact

he must have had then, for
everything was so unique and original.

Tryth and Beck-Ola were albums
who really stood out,

and there were kind of points
reference that rock and roll records.

There were definitely two
great manifestos for that time.

The sound of those records is definitely ...
and I use them

further that benchmarks
and for what I still do today,

because nothing sounds
like those records.

And I was lucky to see them
Live two or three times,

And they were really interesting.

And you never knew for sure
whether or not Jeff would show up.

I mean, some of the stories
about how he goes right in the middle

a tournament, that was, you know,
a real hard blow.

Understand? But so was Jeff.

At that time there was a
rupture between me and Rod.

I don't know what it came from.

It gave rise to a little doubt
and I had no guarantee

that there will be a next tournament.

I saw that big festival
past in our calendar.

I was nervous about it. I
said, “We are not ready for him

We are not ready to defend the same
scene with Sly and The Family Stone.

Woodstock was two weeks away
distance when Jeff Group broke up.

I said to myself, "It's a pity, because a
big festival in a few weeks "

It was Woodstock!

Jeff is gone. In the middle of the night.
The next morning it was gone.

And I got a call:
"Jeff went home."

When I saw the movie, I thought,
"Thank God for your integrity"

Thank God she's a little
pussy whispered to me:

"Don't do it" because I wasn't
get ready for something like that.

That's not how I was imprinted in anyone's mind

that I had anything to do with what was sung
there. I did the right thing!

He could have explained it to us as well
then maybe it would have made sense.

But I agree too
I'm glad I didn't.

And so once again, I was coming back
back home to mom!

He was not at all satisfied with
the success he had

And all of a sudden, he stopped talking
with no one about music and guitar

Prefer to talk about
the movies he liked, you know,

and certainly about his cars.

My grandmother used to take me to the movies
and that's how I came to see

a movie called The Fast Car Band

Grandma got scared and said, "Oh,
this movie is not right at all "

because it had the word "band" in the title
so she said, “Okay, let's go out.

Let's get out of the movie theater and
we'll be back when the next movie starts. "

I clung to the chair.

The beginning sequence shows these
two speeding cars competing

on a wheeled street
sidewalks and I was impressed on the spot.

For a category movie
B, it was pretty absurd.

I look at him from time to time
because it had such a big impact.

Come on, Johny, come faster!

Speed cars have always been
his passion since he was little

And then he started to
build some too.

The way he said it many times
that music and guitar are his job,

and that's his fun, when
he returns home from tournaments.

He always played with his cars
since when do I know him, you understand?

I think the first time I have
been to his house, hoods from

His Corvetta was up
and he was put under the car!

The fact that Jeff builds those
cars and the fact that it does

so good, he does, I think, a man with
two passions, guitar and cars.

Your senses are sharpened,
because you built it.

And even if I have a car
professionally built,

I still often drive a car
an old one, a Ford or maybe a Chevy

which no longer lead that models
these new ones and get over that hill

And that's done with the convertible,
you know ... just

30 mph on a smooth, sloping slope
easy and that's how I got to the top

and the car began to straighten
the only one on the busy road

without me touching the steering wheel.

I steered in the opposite direction and still

I hit the poor man head on
man from that Morris Traveler.

I broke her legs and I broke her face.
Back injuries, leg injuries.

I was taken to Maidstone General Hospital,

where the doctors were amazing,
simply incredible.

He was a cheerful one who used to
he came to shave me and bring me tea

I was recovering quickly and he made up his mind
one day to bring me a music newspaper

ROD BELIEVES THAT WE ARE DOING IT
THEY WILL NOT BE SMALL (small)

And with an accent, Scotland told me:

"Your friend left you
and he joined the Faces. "

I didn't have to hear that
something right then.

I think the biggest problem for Jeff

was to find someone
facing the band

and that really fits
with what he was doing on guitar.

He had, you know, probably
One of the best

vocal soloists of that time in the band to,

and how long did that band last? Just a few years.

Rod Stewart was great, but, you know,
most of the time it was about ...

and I think one of the reasons for
which has become so great

is that she performs music very well
correctly or simply had

the right energy or whatever.

I arrived at Epic in the middle of '72,

and that orange album
he had come out a few months before.

The name of the album was Jeff Beck Group,

but all always on the album
that one as Orange Album

because it was on the cover
photographed an orange.

I started looking
instrumentalists who can ...

for example a drummer who could ...
I was always focused on the drummer

He gave life to the band, he is the driving force.

That is, if you find the right drummer,
you are ready for life!

Obviously, I lost the habit
to contact us regularly, but

when I saw Jeff, it was that
always very proud of the new band.

He always enjoys the new
drummers he had found.

He told me: “I have him in the band
this guy named Cozy Powell.

"Listen to what he can do!"

I liked Cozy. I chose him
out of 20 drummers.

Micky Most's secretary
organized the audition and told me:

"Jeff, I know you're late,
but you don't have to look anymore.

That's your brother! ”

- She looks the same as me - same hair, you know.
- Okay, Jeff, I'm Cozy.

I said, "So?" And he
he began beating the drums.

And I saw those who were waiting
to sing by packing his chisels!

They packed their things.
They realized that was it.

And then Max Middleton came up with
the idea of singing a simple song,

a blues thing, something like that.

And he said, "Why not
Are we trying on three songs? "

And all of a sudden there were three songs.

An era or counter melody,

and the third descended above the piece.

And something like a kind of cacophony came out

I said it was worth a try

Steve Cropper (Producer) told me:
"Something really amazing came out"

because I had done those parts
individually and then I overlapped them.

And I hadn't listened to them mixed up,
I made each one individually,

because if I had heard
number one guitar,

I could no longer sing against them.

And when I got in the cab and got them
heard all three together, you know,

was, “Let's buy them
something to drink for Max for that. ”

I think there's no doubt that the song
that Definitly Maybe paved the way

spre Blow By Blow...

.. with a small detour. With Jeff,
there is always a detour.

Well, we always liked to
we also sing to other people's music

without being mentioned to us
the name on the album cover.

I mean, like that thing in
which Stevie Wonder shouts, "Jeff!" ...

.. that is, the song Looking
For Another Pure Love.

Do it, Jeff.

And it's really great
when something like this happens,

but I think I like Jeff and me
to play on records where we are alone

some kind of mysterious agents and me
I like the idea that someone is so

able to identify me on
me through what I sing.

Stevie's record label had
he needed to do something special.

And I didn't have it at the time
nothing to do The Epic said:

"What if you
are we going to the studio with Stevie?

I couldn't wait for something like this to happen.

So the deal was to
I play a few songs on Stevie

Stevie 's Talking Book album and
he will compose some special pieces

for me of which
one to be Superstition.

He said to me, “What do you say we should
we sing a song about superstitions

about which you know something, but
Americans may not know? "

I said, "Well, we're not going under
a ladder because it brings bad luck. ”

And I said, "If you break a mirror,

that brings bad luck for seven years. ”

I started beating the drums during a break.
He please eat lunch,

and when he returned he began to
clap to my rhythm.

I said, "Steve, I'm not ...
I'm not the drummer. "

He says, "Okay, but now you are. Don't stop."

And he put his hand on the keyboard and
he began to sing to that rhythm.

And I said to myself, “Christ, I'm beating
on drums for Stevie Wonder! ”

It was really cool, even if it was
a simple thing we sing.

And Steve said, "OK, we will
print this track ".

Because I was starting to mess with
all fillings and other stuff.

Then he sat down at the drum set
and sang the same track that

I had beaten the drums. But much better.

And he made room for an entrance
for a measure of five agreements

and then went straight in and
he did the bass line too.

That was.

When that bass line came along,
everyone in the studio fell to the bottom.

Then he put the lyrics, some lyrics
hard and so the song was ready.