1 00:00:31,510 --> 00:00:35,429 I got there as a tourist taken by a friend in 1966. 2 00:00:35,430 --> 00:00:38,389 He took me there and I got everything walking on that empty stage. 3 00:00:38,390 --> 00:00:40,663 Then I said to myself: "Is this the most famous place in Hollywood?" 4 00:00:40,664 --> 00:00:42,350 I will never get to sing here. ” 5 00:00:43,110 --> 00:00:46,109 And 50 years later I had my own concert there. 6 00:00:46,110 --> 00:00:47,869 He's an unusual guitarist, a troubadour hoinar, 7 00:00:47,870 --> 00:00:51,869 who doesn't like to be repeats, which he assumed 8 00:00:51,870 --> 00:00:55,989 big risks all the time ... he did throughout his career. 9 00:00:55,990 --> 00:00:58,190 He's a guitarist who builds high speed cars. 10 00:01:01,870 --> 00:01:04,989 I had a lot of urges me to go see Jeff 11 00:01:04,990 --> 00:01:07,869 to listen to him sing and even working with him. 12 00:01:07,870 --> 00:01:14,070 He's always been a guitarist interesting, you know? It's a great one. 13 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:19,709 He had so much to offer ... a he managed to make his own way. 14 00:01:19,710 --> 00:01:22,989 Music brings people together and if someone succeeds, turn on the wick 15 00:01:22,990 --> 00:01:24,297 you feel like everything is banging and ready. 16 00:01:24,298 --> 00:01:27,110 He made you feel, you know important and ready to offer something good 17 00:01:31,750 --> 00:01:36,229 Jeff on recordings used the ying-yang effect, 18 00:01:36,230 --> 00:01:41,389 which he brought to a level totally different when he plays live. 19 00:01:41,390 --> 00:01:45,030 Part of Jeff's mystique is due the fact that he likes to be mysterious. 20 00:01:47,350 --> 00:01:49,138 All his albums they make you float in a mysterious world. 21 00:01:49,139 --> 00:01:50,429 Part of this is due to the fact 22 00:01:50,430 --> 00:01:52,429 that many of his albums have no voices on them. 23 00:01:52,430 --> 00:01:56,909 I told him he was kind of Pablo Picasso of the electric guitar and 24 00:01:56,910 --> 00:01:59,509 he told me: 25 00:01:59,510 --> 00:02:01,949 "I think there is more a Jackson Pollock. ” 26 00:02:01,950 --> 00:02:06,075 And all I said was, "Touchez!" 27 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:12,189 He's such an instinctive artist and he is so interesting to be by his side 28 00:02:12,190 --> 00:02:14,349 because it simply doesn't you know what he will do next. 29 00:02:14,350 --> 00:02:17,349 This is not something painted after some notes, this is really the muse in person, 30 00:02:17,350 --> 00:02:20,189 and the muse tells him what he will have to sing. 31 00:02:20,190 --> 00:02:23,030 And he let it happen let's move on to "Next song!" 32 00:02:24,810 --> 00:02:26,805 He always seems to think of something, that he is an innovator. 33 00:02:26,806 --> 00:02:28,269 That he always reaches for something new. 34 00:02:28,270 --> 00:02:31,149 Jeff is an incredible artist and I have always had an affinity 35 00:02:31,150 --> 00:02:33,709 for male artists which I can find fantastic 36 00:02:33,710 --> 00:02:36,189 fantastic women to him accompany on his way. 37 00:02:36,190 --> 00:02:39,909 Jeff is the guy who led guitar instrument in 38 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:42,709 the most distant universes of guitars. 39 00:02:42,710 --> 00:02:45,149 And no one even approaches him. 40 00:02:45,150 --> 00:02:48,349 Everyone respects Jeff. He is an extraordinary musician, 41 00:02:48,350 --> 00:02:52,909 and developed a technique that it's so complex it's just 42 00:02:52,910 --> 00:02:56,429 a real delight to see him, to hear him and feel him singing. 43 00:02:56,430 --> 00:02:59,150 He seems to be conversing with you when he sings, too bad he doesn't sing vocally 44 00:03:04,230 --> 00:03:07,549 Sounds like no other guitarist, pulling notes. Know? 45 00:03:07,550 --> 00:03:15,550 It was - and still is - the most original guitarist of all time. 46 00:03:19,590 --> 00:03:20,590 THE BEGINNING YEARS ENGLAND 47 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:25,189 My mother plays the piano, so being by her side all the time, 48 00:03:25,190 --> 00:03:26,589 the music was always around me. 49 00:03:26,590 --> 00:03:29,469 Either he played the piano or he put me in the living room 50 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:32,589 where the radio was always on, so I could hear everything new. 51 00:03:32,590 --> 00:03:37,349 He had very strict ideas and hopes as to who I will become. 52 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:41,030 I would have loved to play the piano, but the post was already taken. 53 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:47,418 So I had a good enough reason 54 00:03:47,419 --> 00:03:52,150 to never sit down again in front of a piano! 55 00:03:53,470 --> 00:03:56,549 I just said to myself, "There's no room left for another pianist. ” 56 00:03:56,550 --> 00:03:59,469 I didn't feel this was going to be my destiny, while related to the guitar, 57 00:03:59,470 --> 00:04:01,030 I didn't have to worry. 58 00:04:03,590 --> 00:04:04,989 And this even if at the beginning I wasn't very attracted to it, 59 00:04:04,990 --> 00:04:06,152 it made me want to be alone with her 60 00:04:06,153 --> 00:04:14,070 and to reverse my feelings in it. It responded so easily to the touch. 61 00:04:14,630 --> 00:04:17,370 The radio was on and my mother was leaving in the kitchen and let me listen 62 00:04:17,630 --> 00:04:21,269 How faint the tune 63 00:04:21,270 --> 00:04:24,789 How high the moon 64 00:04:24,790 --> 00:04:29,030 When love îs far away, too 65 00:04:31,110 --> 00:04:33,509 Leş's singing style Paul was fascinating because 66 00:04:33,510 --> 00:04:37,749 on every program I gave to each one this time I came across How High The Moon 67 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:40,229 So I ran to the kitchen 68 00:04:40,230 --> 00:04:41,829 and I said, "Mom, who is this?" 69 00:04:41,830 --> 00:04:45,869 He told me, “I read this guy. He only knows how to do tricks on the ropes. 70 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:49,070 He's a fake artist. ” And I said ... "But it's interesting!" 71 00:04:49,370 --> 00:04:54,070 Electric guitar and running the one on the ropes ... it was interesting 72 00:04:55,150 --> 00:04:58,349 She said: “Well, it was revealed the fact that he can't sing so fast 73 00:04:58,350 --> 00:05:01,725 and that everything is accelerated in printing " 74 00:05:03,790 --> 00:05:06,149 And I said, “Well, I like his sound. 75 00:05:06,150 --> 00:05:08,030 It doesn't matter if it's accelerated. " 76 00:05:10,390 --> 00:05:12,829 We also listen to those on the records which my sister listens to. 77 00:05:12,830 --> 00:05:16,789 Hound Dog. Rock Around The Clock. To stay it seemed to me that something was broken from heaven! 78 00:05:16,790 --> 00:05:20,229 And I started analyzing the sound guitarists down to the smallest detail. 79 00:05:20,230 --> 00:05:23,126 Eddie Cochran had an echo which made the sound 80 00:05:23,127 --> 00:05:27,070 to give the feeling of room Cliff Gallup had the same echo. 81 00:05:31,470 --> 00:05:32,680 They sounded so good and loud. 82 00:05:32,681 --> 00:05:35,349 Once I met Jeff and we talked about who influenced him, 83 00:05:35,350 --> 00:05:38,669 he told me he liked it very much the guy who sang with Gene Vincent, 84 00:05:38,670 --> 00:05:41,295 Cliff Gallup. 85 00:05:47,550 --> 00:05:50,429 My sister went to Sutton Granada to see The Girl can’t help it 86 00:05:50,430 --> 00:05:52,149 and then he said to me, “I have to to go see him too. 87 00:05:52,150 --> 00:05:54,869 It's the most amazing movie Technicolor with all things 88 00:05:54,870 --> 00:05:56,509 what do you like, after all what we both like. ” 89 00:05:56,510 --> 00:06:00,789 I went to see some friends color on Gene Vincent and Blue Hats 90 00:06:00,790 --> 00:06:06,790 It changed my life. He was the best rock and roll movie ever made 91 00:06:09,510 --> 00:06:13,189 Everything I liked seemed to come from America - cars, music 92 00:06:13,190 --> 00:06:16,869 But I didn't see any possibility to ever get there. 93 00:06:16,870 --> 00:06:19,229 I mean, I didn't have any money. 94 00:06:19,230 --> 00:06:21,189 My sister came home from school one day 95 00:06:21,190 --> 00:06:23,909 and he threw me a piece of paper with a phone number on it. 96 00:06:23,910 --> 00:06:26,629 Here's a nerd's number from the school he also has 97 00:06:26,630 --> 00:06:29,229 a weird-looking guitar like yours. ” 98 00:06:29,230 --> 00:06:34,269 And he agreed to go with me by bus to Epsom, where 99 00:06:34,270 --> 00:06:37,509 we both knocked on the door and it appeared a kid with an innocent face 100 00:06:37,510 --> 00:06:40,709 who answered the door and he invited us in. 101 00:06:40,710 --> 00:06:42,189 Well, that's how he got to my house. 102 00:06:42,190 --> 00:06:45,229 Of course, at that time I lived with my parents. 103 00:06:45,230 --> 00:06:48,109 And Jeff came in and had a homemade electric guitar, 104 00:06:48,110 --> 00:06:50,989 just like I had a homemade guitar. 105 00:06:50,990 --> 00:06:53,589 And we became friends immediately. 106 00:06:53,590 --> 00:06:58,549 We're almost two brothers, you know. 107 00:06:58,550 --> 00:07:00,749 It was just a wonderful thing I found 108 00:07:00,750 --> 00:07:02,949 and there's someone else who had the same interest. 109 00:07:02,950 --> 00:07:05,429 Then it started to come quite often and we spent our time 110 00:07:05,430 --> 00:07:07,149 and we listen to the records which I put to him. 111 00:07:07,150 --> 00:07:10,909 He also had equipment. He had a tape recorder and other "goodies" 112 00:07:10,910 --> 00:07:14,589 that is, an excellent collection of records, a collection of mouth watering. 113 00:07:14,590 --> 00:07:18,469 I had a diverse mix of records with different styles back then. 114 00:07:18,470 --> 00:07:20,749 It was a great discovery, 115 00:07:20,750 --> 00:07:23,909 to find another person who was as interested as I was 116 00:07:23,910 --> 00:07:27,309 to haunt record stores who imported records, say, 117 00:07:27,310 --> 00:07:31,669 Vee-jay - that was a move from Chicago of the fifties, 118 00:07:31,670 --> 00:07:34,869 a blues movement - towards unlike other stores. 119 00:07:34,870 --> 00:07:38,429 And that meant I was doing it some real pilgrimages. 120 00:07:38,430 --> 00:07:40,629 And from all those guitarists from that period, 121 00:07:40,630 --> 00:07:42,509 I learned a lot from those records. 122 00:07:42,510 --> 00:07:45,709 So we used to sit there and let's keep listening to the solo parts. 123 00:07:45,710 --> 00:07:48,189 We weren't interested in the song, not even who plays the guitar! 124 00:07:48,190 --> 00:07:50,669 "What the hell did he do here?" Do you understand, that's what we kept asking ourselves? 125 00:07:50,670 --> 00:07:54,189 "It simply came to our notice then as a ricochet effect? 126 00:07:54,190 --> 00:07:56,070 Why does it sound so exciting? ” 127 00:07:58,710 --> 00:08:01,909 He wanted to understand how they could to sound so impressive, 128 00:08:01,910 --> 00:08:05,309 so amazing because you get excited, then try 129 00:08:05,310 --> 00:08:07,469 to do the same on the guitar. 130 00:08:07,470 --> 00:08:08,949 I had a partner in what I was doing, 131 00:08:08,950 --> 00:08:11,909 I had someone who could to come up with some ideas too. 132 00:08:11,910 --> 00:08:14,949 When you found something that rang pretty impressive, 133 00:08:14,950 --> 00:08:17,589 I wanted to know what else he thought about it. 134 00:08:17,590 --> 00:08:21,709 We were really eager to we find out exactly the same things, 135 00:08:21,710 --> 00:08:25,629 from the records with Gene Vincent and Ricky Nelson. 136 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:28,909 They had very guitar solos made by James Burton, 137 00:08:28,910 --> 00:08:32,149 and one of the things that we asked each other was: 138 00:08:32,150 --> 00:08:34,509 "What would be your version of My Babe?" 139 00:08:34,510 --> 00:08:38,109 "OK. But what's your version?" 140 00:08:38,110 --> 00:08:41,989 It seemed to be a kind of common ground test for many guitarists 141 00:08:41,990 --> 00:08:46,109 from that period to see how well could do some solo ... 142 00:08:46,110 --> 00:08:50,985 Ricky Nelson - My Babe 143 00:08:57,470 --> 00:09:01,730 I liked going there. That's where I found it something that was close to my heart 144 00:09:04,110 --> 00:09:07,549 and something in my ears which hit me for good. 145 00:09:07,550 --> 00:09:11,589 That's what everyone who came out thought from art school in the ‘50s 146 00:09:11,590 --> 00:09:15,070 when rock and roll had begun to get here from America. 147 00:09:19,710 --> 00:09:24,389 I liked. I liked very much the fact that it was a place where you could 148 00:09:24,390 --> 00:09:28,109 go and learn to draw and learn the basics of art. 149 00:09:28,110 --> 00:09:30,749 I had it at art school part of two wonderful years. 150 00:09:30,750 --> 00:09:34,065 But the music grabbed me, because in the middle of each week 151 00:09:34,066 --> 00:09:37,070 we had a concert in the city where I lived 152 00:09:40,990 --> 00:09:44,229 and then came two concerts per week and so on. 153 00:09:44,230 --> 00:09:47,709 But unfortunately I had to give up school before graduation. 154 00:09:47,710 --> 00:09:53,709 Music was our hobby and so on we have become professionals. 155 00:09:53,710 --> 00:09:57,989 When the Yardbirds appeared, Eric was the person who had to be taken into account. 156 00:09:57,990 --> 00:10:01,189 They had Eric, so why me Did they want me? I didn't understand that. 157 00:10:01,190 --> 00:10:04,589 Everyone wanted to make me we hit some commercial hits, 158 00:10:04,590 --> 00:10:07,429 and we weren't doing anything music of this nature. 159 00:10:07,430 --> 00:10:11,070 His name was brought as a replacement. When I asked why 160 00:10:17,630 --> 00:10:19,020 they said I wasn't so vital to the "organization." 161 00:10:19,021 --> 00:10:21,229 So I went to see if he was that good as they said. Back then he played with Tridents 162 00:10:21,230 --> 00:10:25,789 And he used all those effects and I said to myself, “Lord! 163 00:10:25,790 --> 00:10:27,589 It's really worth giving up on me. I am finished". 164 00:10:27,590 --> 00:10:29,909 In fact, I really thought so to quit music then, 165 00:10:29,910 --> 00:10:34,189 because I said to myself, “I'm in inappropriate profession. ” Understand? 166 00:10:34,190 --> 00:10:42,190 But seeing Jeff, I thought, “Hey Well, he's the right guy for them. " 167 00:10:54,630 --> 00:10:56,789 168 00:10:56,790 --> 00:11:01,109 I really liked the Yardbirds. Mi-a plăcut Heart Full Of Soul... 169 00:11:01,110 --> 00:11:03,689 .. and Jeff's singing style it sounds like a sitar. 170 00:11:03,690 --> 00:11:06,269 He was made by a guitarist with a very distinctive style. 171 00:11:06,270 --> 00:11:08,669 He did not follow the path of anyone else, 172 00:11:08,670 --> 00:11:11,149 it was clear there, completely on its own. 173 00:11:11,150 --> 00:11:13,949 They had a sitar singer in the studio, 174 00:11:13,950 --> 00:11:18,709 who thought music in a way time signature of 13 and a quarter! 175 00:11:18,710 --> 00:11:23,269 And they kept telling him, "No, it's 4/4." 176 00:11:23,270 --> 00:11:25,189 And I said, "I mean, that's about it." 177 00:11:25,190 --> 00:11:29,549 So I sang his octave, octave G and then I sang to him ... 178 00:11:29,550 --> 00:11:37,550 And then I said, "Why the hell am I? brought here? I can sing that! " 179 00:11:51,870 --> 00:11:54,749 I think he was a pioneer of hard rock from day one. 180 00:11:54,750 --> 00:11:59,389 He was doing things that weren't they existed only in his mind. 181 00:11:59,390 --> 00:12:03,429 When I heard Yardbirds, when I heard Jeff singing, 182 00:12:03,430 --> 00:12:07,509 sounds just different, right since then, for my young ears. 183 00:12:07,510 --> 00:12:10,789 His guitar had a kind of sound 184 00:12:10,790 --> 00:12:14,869 which was different from the usual pop stuff. They had something special, 185 00:12:14,870 --> 00:12:19,389 the notes he sings, they seemed very lyrical to me. 186 00:12:19,390 --> 00:12:21,949 And in a month, we're flying to America! 187 00:12:21,950 --> 00:12:23,749 Not only had I arrived in America, 188 00:12:23,750 --> 00:12:27,549 but I also recorded in the famous Sun studio for Chess Records. 189 00:12:27,550 --> 00:12:31,109 Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things 190 00:12:31,110 --> 00:12:36,235 191 00:12:36,350 --> 00:12:39,669 192 00:12:39,670 --> 00:12:45,170 193 00:12:45,470 --> 00:12:49,909 Shapes Of Things, an amazing piece. I remember the song very well. 194 00:12:49,910 --> 00:12:51,949 "It simply came to our notice then to get so far 195 00:12:51,950 --> 00:12:53,789 to get the sound we wanted? ” 196 00:12:53,790 --> 00:12:56,189 In England, the studios of recordings failed to do so. 197 00:12:56,190 --> 00:12:58,669 Sound engineers from England was all Puritans, 198 00:12:58,670 --> 00:13:02,549 they didn't like anything that squeak or squeak. 199 00:13:02,550 --> 00:13:06,109 I kept telling them, "Let it be heard squeaking! We don't care! " 200 00:13:06,110 --> 00:13:08,670 Immediately, when I heard the playback to the song we told ourselves this is ... 201 00:13:11,430 --> 00:13:16,429 Jeff was coming to me and me he kept singing the first fragments 202 00:13:16,430 --> 00:13:20,869 from the play Shapes Of Things. 203 00:13:20,870 --> 00:13:23,509 And when he got to the side solo, I thought, 204 00:13:23,510 --> 00:13:26,229 "This is the most extraordinary solo." 205 00:13:26,230 --> 00:13:29,909 Ravi Shankar played a role important in the Beatles and others, 206 00:13:29,910 --> 00:13:32,709 and I used to stay at home to Page to listen to ragas 207 00:13:32,710 --> 00:13:37,509 and Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar and just marveling at me. 208 00:13:37,510 --> 00:13:41,269 How could this be adopted on the guitar, this pull of 209 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:49,270 strings to such an extent that to be able to play a song just like that? 210 00:14:02,510 --> 00:14:07,269 The work Jeff put in Yardbirds was extremely important 211 00:14:07,270 --> 00:14:09,429 for guitarist-based groups, 212 00:14:09,430 --> 00:14:13,629 because he had an incredible ear and that he had set an amazing standard, 213 00:14:13,630 --> 00:14:18,229 and also for the technique to it was also extraordinary. 214 00:14:18,230 --> 00:14:20,989 And I have to say, then when I heard this song, 215 00:14:20,990 --> 00:14:25,709 I really understood what Jeff was capable of. 216 00:14:25,710 --> 00:14:27,612 Yardbirds had a manager even crazy Giorgio Gomelsky 217 00:14:27,613 --> 00:14:30,149 and I remember how scared he was when he heard me sing the song. 218 00:14:30,150 --> 00:14:33,749 The steam was coming out of his ears when I sang that song to him. 219 00:14:33,750 --> 00:14:36,229 "It simply came to our notice then you are in this formation. 220 00:14:36,230 --> 00:14:42,549 You opened some surreal paths, some avant-garde horses, 221 00:14:42,550 --> 00:14:45,149 for the guitar in this band. ” 222 00:14:45,150 --> 00:14:47,109 Giorgio was great, but I think a 223 00:14:47,110 --> 00:14:49,989 something outrageous happened with the money. 224 00:14:49,990 --> 00:14:52,989 I do not know. All I know is I don't never took anything out of it. 225 00:14:52,990 --> 00:14:55,629 I think I threatened them leave if the band doesn't get rid of him. 226 00:14:55,630 --> 00:14:58,286 That's when Simon Napier-Bell appeared and agreed to take over the management 227 00:14:58,287 --> 00:15:00,151 and in five minutes Jimmy Page was in the band 228 00:15:01,790 --> 00:15:04,789 and in that formula I came to film sets for Blow-Up. 229 00:15:04,790 --> 00:15:07,189 And no one knew exactly what it would be like as in most movies, 230 00:15:07,190 --> 00:15:08,509 he wasn't telling you what the movie would really be like. 231 00:15:08,510 --> 00:15:11,309 But I was told that Antonioni he was a great director 232 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:14,349 and a little surreal for me too I thought it was a cool thing. 233 00:15:14,350 --> 00:15:17,389 And the 3,000 check was even more amazing. 234 00:15:17,390 --> 00:15:19,149 I don't think anyone in the band 235 00:15:19,150 --> 00:15:21,509 he had never seen so much a lot of money in one go. 236 00:15:21,510 --> 00:15:26,549 Everyone has invested something in fruit and vegetable stores. 237 00:15:26,550 --> 00:15:28,389 Magazine. Business. 238 00:15:28,390 --> 00:15:31,549 I invested in a Corvette’63 with broken windshield, 239 00:15:31,550 --> 00:15:34,469 which for a person like me was the only rational thing to do! 240 00:15:34,470 --> 00:15:36,970 ROAR ENGINES 241 00:15:37,350 --> 00:15:41,549 I had a girlfriend in LA and I did went to her, the place was cool, 242 00:15:41,550 --> 00:15:43,829 the weather was amazing. 243 00:15:43,830 --> 00:15:48,309 And I let it all go on a Yardbirds tour. 244 00:15:48,310 --> 00:15:50,549 I had never played in America before. 245 00:15:50,550 --> 00:15:52,869 It was a shock, it was with true something unimaginable 246 00:15:52,870 --> 00:15:55,389 over everything I thought it would be. 247 00:15:55,390 --> 00:16:00,309 The Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars it was a gathering of artists 248 00:16:00,310 --> 00:16:03,149 who were all coming on stage like to sing two or three songs. 249 00:16:03,150 --> 00:16:04,709 They toured by bus. 250 00:16:04,710 --> 00:16:06,629 You know, you had to be real amateur sucks on these. 251 00:16:06,630 --> 00:16:11,989 I mean, you were on the road and you were giving 60 concerts in 60 days. 252 00:16:11,990 --> 00:16:16,149 It was something very, very strange, because the show was a collection 253 00:16:16,150 --> 00:16:21,389 of teenybop stars, very singers young for a very young audience. 254 00:16:21,390 --> 00:16:23,269 .. in a bus that could be awful, 255 00:16:23,270 --> 00:16:26,189 in which we were crammed between some people we didn't really like. 256 00:16:26,190 --> 00:16:28,749 We didn't get along at all the rest of the cast in the show. 257 00:16:28,750 --> 00:16:32,269 And it was just a toilet clogged and not working, 258 00:16:32,270 --> 00:16:35,989 and there were people who had to sleeps in luggage nets. 259 00:16:35,990 --> 00:16:38,869 But Jeff didn't get much out of it because he left very quickly, 260 00:16:38,870 --> 00:16:40,589 after only a few shows. 261 00:16:40,590 --> 00:16:44,749 After a couple of gigs, I thought, "I commit suicide if I still have to sing 262 00:16:44,750 --> 00:16:49,909 the 15 minutes on stage, singing two hits plus one more. ” 263 00:16:49,910 --> 00:16:52,189 That was all. The whole show was just a quick change. 264 00:16:52,190 --> 00:16:56,269 Jerry Lewis' son was in that tour, Gary Lewis and Playboys, 265 00:16:56,270 --> 00:16:59,829 and I thought, "This is America the real middle one. 266 00:16:59,830 --> 00:17:03,149 We were telling people we were doing it part of that. And it wasn't like that. " 267 00:17:03,150 --> 00:17:08,909 Yardbirds were on their way to destruction 268 00:17:08,910 --> 00:17:10,749 a real career, you understand? 269 00:17:10,750 --> 00:17:14,429 And they threw themselves into this ridicule box with various mixtures. 270 00:17:14,430 --> 00:17:19,669 I called Jim to my room and I said, “Jim, I felt the horrors. 271 00:17:19,670 --> 00:17:22,229 Here's my guitar. You will take over tomorrow's band leadership. 272 00:17:22,230 --> 00:17:24,869 I'm not even going to play my guitar back". And that was the end. 273 00:17:24,870 --> 00:17:27,949 No girlfriend, no Yardbirds, nothing. 274 00:17:27,950 --> 00:17:30,949 I only had my Corvetta parked next to my mother's house 275 00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:32,949 so I was free to dream again. 276 00:17:32,950 --> 00:17:38,389 Jeff Beck Group - Shapes Of Things 277 00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:43,515 278 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:50,875 279 00:17:52,350 --> 00:17:57,850 280 00:17:59,830 --> 00:18:04,709 Jeff and I met in Sheffield Mojo while I was doing the circuit 281 00:18:04,710 --> 00:18:09,269 of concerts beating the highway, when I was singing with my first band, The Birds. 282 00:18:09,270 --> 00:18:10,629 We got along really, really well, 283 00:18:10,630 --> 00:18:13,149 and he told me about concerts with the Yardbirds 284 00:18:13,150 --> 00:18:17,789 and then he said to me, well, “If we will no longer be members of the troops 285 00:18:17,790 --> 00:18:20,309 in which we are now perhaps in a good morning we will work together ". 286 00:18:20,310 --> 00:18:24,469 One of the good things about the period Yardbirds I remember is like 287 00:18:24,470 --> 00:18:29,469 once returning from a tour of somewhere in the north, around 2 at night, 288 00:18:29,470 --> 00:18:32,390 I stopped in front of the Cromwellian Club and I said to the Yardbirds: 289 00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:36,829 "There is nothing to stop me to go in there alone. " 290 00:18:36,830 --> 00:18:40,309 The guy at the door said, "Jeff! I'm glad to see you coming back. " 291 00:18:40,310 --> 00:18:42,869 That night, there, no nothing interesting happens in the club. 292 00:18:42,870 --> 00:18:46,389 Motown records and I were playing I said to myself, “How sad everything is. 293 00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:47,869 "I am alone with a beer in front of him. ” 294 00:18:47,870 --> 00:18:53,229 There was one more guy in one corner and that was Rod Stewart! 295 00:18:53,230 --> 00:18:57,309 I talked to Jeff a little and he told me said he was forming a band, 296 00:18:57,310 --> 00:18:59,309 for he had just left the Yardbirds. 297 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:02,949 I was unemployed too and I think I also mentioned that Woody was free: 298 00:19:02,950 --> 00:19:04,749 "He lost his job too." 299 00:19:04,750 --> 00:19:08,229 So we were three jobless musicians work so I formed a band. 300 00:19:08,230 --> 00:19:12,469 His collaboration with Rod Stewart is already legendary, 301 00:19:12,470 --> 00:19:17,789 that is, one of the best things that Rod ever did, 302 00:19:17,790 --> 00:19:18,989 was collaborating with Jeff on the album Truth. 303 00:19:18,990 --> 00:19:21,469 It was his muffled voice that was so 304 00:19:21,470 --> 00:19:27,589 rarely seen in a white vocalist. And I liked that about him. 305 00:19:27,590 --> 00:19:30,149 306 00:19:30,150 --> 00:19:35,650 307 00:19:37,110 --> 00:19:39,709 308 00:19:39,710 --> 00:19:43,109 my poor heart crazy... 309 00:19:43,110 --> 00:19:46,749 The band was with Micky Waller, with me on bass 310 00:19:46,750 --> 00:19:48,189 and Jeff on guitar, 311 00:19:48,190 --> 00:19:52,109 I had left holes and spaces to put it in 312 00:19:52,110 --> 00:19:55,349 Rod's voice in the sonority His cruel one ... 313 00:19:55,350 --> 00:19:57,909 Jeff really appreciated it Rod's voice, you know, 314 00:19:57,910 --> 00:20:02,749 and he took great care of all things who could get into those spaces 315 00:20:02,750 --> 00:20:07,309 Every time I see you 316 00:20:07,310 --> 00:20:10,189 317 00:20:10,190 --> 00:20:14,629 318 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:17,469 319 00:20:17,470 --> 00:20:19,309 He believed in me, he really believed. 320 00:20:19,310 --> 00:20:21,469 He wanted a singer suitable for that band. 321 00:20:21,470 --> 00:20:24,389 He had such a voice ... 322 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:26,749 .. vital within the band 323 00:20:26,750 --> 00:20:28,989 that you didn't need it anymore of a rhythm guitar. 324 00:20:28,990 --> 00:20:36,389 His virtuoso performances Jeff is related to the blues voice 325 00:20:36,390 --> 00:20:41,229 of Rod from that album. Was clearly an album of great influence. 326 00:20:41,230 --> 00:20:45,269 The album Truth had the songs Rock on it My Plimsoul and I Ain’t Superstition 327 00:20:45,270 --> 00:20:50,309 He's really my favorite Jeff Beck stylistically! 328 00:20:50,310 --> 00:20:52,869 It's more of a kind of rock and roll that hits you in the face. 329 00:20:52,870 --> 00:20:54,589 Jeff didn't just want to sing 330 00:20:54,590 --> 00:20:57,789 what Muddy Waters and Howlin 'Wolf had sung. 331 00:20:57,790 --> 00:21:03,189 He wanted to give the pieces a color more Chicago and more electric 332 00:21:03,190 --> 00:21:09,109 and remove it from that structure of basis on which they were composed, you know, 333 00:21:09,110 --> 00:21:12,349 and electrifying them, to do as many arrangements as possible. 334 00:21:12,350 --> 00:21:14,509 Even if the songs were clear blues in 12 bars, 335 00:21:14,510 --> 00:21:17,469 I arranged the pieces to sounds as interesting as possible. 336 00:21:17,470 --> 00:21:20,349 - Okay, let's go. - I don't want us to sing them in unison, 337 00:21:20,350 --> 00:21:22,030 I want us to sing them in harmony. 338 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:24,511 We make them the way you want. 339 00:21:24,512 --> 00:21:26,549 I'll try to sing as you play the guitar. 340 00:21:26,550 --> 00:21:28,749 If you think it's ringing too high, stop me, okay? 341 00:21:28,750 --> 00:21:31,589 Stay with your voice as far back as possible. 342 00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:34,509 Mickie Most, he didn't want to hear about Rod at all. 343 00:21:34,510 --> 00:21:37,189 He told me, “You are the artist. Your name is on the cover of the record. " 344 00:21:37,190 --> 00:21:39,749 I replied, "No, no. I'm not interested in that. 345 00:21:39,750 --> 00:21:44,070 I'm interested in being part of one great rock or blues band. ” 346 00:21:44,150 --> 00:21:47,070 But Micky was interested in doing it money as fast as you could 347 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:54,070 and he wanted us to be a pop band, you know, to our great despair, 348 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:56,070 because we didn't want to not at all to be like that 349 00:21:56,230 --> 00:22:01,589 He saw no point in me being in that band. He wanted Jeff to sing 350 00:22:01,590 --> 00:22:05,989 351 00:22:05,990 --> 00:22:09,269 352 00:22:09,270 --> 00:22:13,549 353 00:22:13,550 --> 00:22:15,909 354 00:22:15,910 --> 00:22:17,989 Why was she a star? pop so reluctant? 355 00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:22,469 I guess it was because he didn't she never wanted to be a pop star. 356 00:22:22,470 --> 00:22:24,789 I don't know how that song came about. 357 00:22:24,790 --> 00:22:28,629 I think because, if you will, of a pressure from Mickie Most, 358 00:22:28,630 --> 00:22:31,509 to try to hit a hit. But I think very, very quickly 359 00:22:31,510 --> 00:22:34,549 he realized that was not it which Jeff wanted to do. 360 00:22:34,550 --> 00:22:36,989 Another was his choice. 361 00:22:36,990 --> 00:22:40,109 But this piece offered a lot other people a huge pleasure! 362 00:22:40,110 --> 00:22:42,469 Much more pleasure than he never felt. 363 00:22:42,470 --> 00:22:46,309 It was as if you were being asked to wear a pink dress 364 00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:49,071 and stand on the upper deck of a bus on Oxford Street! 365 00:22:51,390 --> 00:22:56,389 He framed me with this embarrassing pop song that 366 00:22:56,390 --> 00:23:01,229 it doesn't represent me. But, yes over the years I started to like it 367 00:23:01,230 --> 00:23:02,989 because he made them people to feel happy. 368 00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:07,349 Jeff, I think, asked Mickie if I could sing that song, 369 00:23:07,350 --> 00:23:09,429 but Mickie told him no. 370 00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:13,070 So you can hear me screaming too me in the background, in the choir. 371 00:23:17,990 --> 00:23:21,829 372 00:23:21,830 --> 00:23:25,389 373 00:23:25,390 --> 00:23:28,309 374 00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:30,910 375 00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:33,549 And when you just thought she had finally gotten somewhere, 376 00:23:33,550 --> 00:23:35,709 You realized you were about about six months away! 377 00:23:35,710 --> 00:23:38,629 I stormed Mickie Most's office, 378 00:23:38,630 --> 00:23:40,669 and we kind of argued over his refusal. 379 00:23:40,670 --> 00:23:44,189 Peter Grant was there too and he was smiling at me. I wanted to ... 380 00:23:44,190 --> 00:23:46,789 as if his smile he said, “Slap him, 381 00:23:46,790 --> 00:23:49,869 he should know what it is his place ", that is Mickie. 382 00:23:49,870 --> 00:23:52,549 Shortly thereafter, you have to talked to Mickie and said: 383 00:23:52,550 --> 00:23:55,229 "Look, Jeff was in the Yardbirds and has already opened 384 00:23:55,230 --> 00:23:58,509 a door to America for himself and for the band he plays with. 385 00:23:58,510 --> 00:24:00,469 And now there's a strong underground scene. ” 386 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:03,629 Steppenwolf had appeared on the radio FM had grown terribly. 387 00:24:03,630 --> 00:24:08,149 There were places to sing, it was the press and there were also radio stations, 388 00:24:08,150 --> 00:24:11,949 and, you know, you could build a band to come and tour with. 389 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:15,949 So I remember it was amazing when Woody and I got over it 390 00:24:15,950 --> 00:24:19,749 Brooklyn Bridge on the couch in behind a limousine with Peter Grant, 391 00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:24,109 as a manager. I mean, like I was in heaven. "Here we are!" 392 00:24:24,110 --> 00:24:29,149 I did a five-month tour. A it was hard, but also a lot of fun. 393 00:24:29,150 --> 00:24:32,949 When I got to America, I sang opening at Fillmore East. 394 00:24:32,950 --> 00:24:35,829 I mean, I jumped straight into the abyss! 395 00:24:35,830 --> 00:24:39,309 Then it was the famous night in which Rod didn't go on stage. Was hidden. 396 00:24:39,310 --> 00:24:41,635 That was the night I hid behind the amplifiers 397 00:24:41,636 --> 00:24:42,869 the story is absolutely true - 398 00:24:42,870 --> 00:24:45,469 because I realized: “I am in America, in New York, 399 00:24:45,470 --> 00:24:47,949 and I try to sound like a vocalist black and in the hall will be 400 00:24:47,950 --> 00:24:50,709 a lot of blacks who will throw with all sorts of things to me. ” 401 00:24:50,710 --> 00:24:53,350 "Funny! But it sounds fake!" But here I am on stage in front of a crowd, 402 00:24:56,110 --> 00:25:00,149 and it was the beginning of a wonderful, wonderful careers. 403 00:25:00,150 --> 00:25:03,350 I drove the room crazy. I made them Greatful Dead to leave the stage. 404 00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:08,189 Robert Shelton of the New York Times he gave us a great chronicle. 405 00:25:08,190 --> 00:25:10,469 Peter Grant called me at seven in the morning and said to me: 406 00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:12,629 "Did you read the chronicle?" I told him: "I don't even want to hear about it." 407 00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:14,269 He said, "No, no, it's really amazing." 408 00:25:14,270 --> 00:25:17,310 He read it to me, about the song Pinter, about my interaction with Rod ... 409 00:25:18,670 --> 00:25:21,869 And I read it and then I got it said, "Okay, and what do we do now?" 410 00:25:21,870 --> 00:25:24,709 I reproduced it and sent it on, 411 00:25:24,710 --> 00:25:29,189 to the press from all places of on the way to the West Coast, 412 00:25:29,190 --> 00:25:35,469 so when I got to Fillmore West, I was already broken 413 00:25:35,470 --> 00:25:40,189 American music scene, which was fantastic! 414 00:25:40,190 --> 00:25:42,749 We all decided to give it a try let's compose some songs, 415 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:46,469 so Ronnie and I stayed for hours in a row in his mother's apartment 416 00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:48,709 with a piece of white paper in front 417 00:25:48,710 --> 00:25:51,749 until I took out a bottle of I'm coming and I'm done. 418 00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:55,469 Only then could I compose a song called Plynth. 419 00:25:55,470 --> 00:26:00,109 420 00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:04,309 aş I'm thinking now 421 00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:08,509 422 00:26:08,510 --> 00:26:12,629 423 00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:17,070 that creeps on every night 424 00:26:20,990 --> 00:26:25,229 I'm wasting away 425 00:26:25,230 --> 00:26:30,269 the ghost of a man that's me... 426 00:26:30,270 --> 00:26:31,709 Plynth is a song I'm very proud of, 427 00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:34,229 because it was one of the compositions to which I also wrote the words. 428 00:26:34,230 --> 00:26:36,309 "Moisture from the ocean fills the sky 429 00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:39,149 "Falls back down to the ground as time goes by." 430 00:26:39,150 --> 00:26:43,469 fills the sky 431 00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:49,030 as time goes by... 432 00:26:53,310 --> 00:26:56,230 I was proud of the bass part drums and guitar and a low voice 433 00:26:59,230 --> 00:27:01,469 And the piano part played by Nick. It was a magical combination. 434 00:27:01,470 --> 00:27:04,789 And for me it was an honor to to be in that band, to be honest, 435 00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:08,629 with Micky Waller, Nicky Hopkins and Ronnie Wood. 436 00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:10,109 It was really a great band. 437 00:27:10,110 --> 00:27:13,629 When you think about how much time was that and what an impact 438 00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:17,469 he must have had then, for everything was so unique and original. 439 00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:19,589 Tryth and Beck-Ola were albums who really stood out, 440 00:27:19,590 --> 00:27:21,669 and there were kind of points reference that rock and roll records. 441 00:27:21,670 --> 00:27:24,669 There were definitely two great manifestos for that time. 442 00:27:24,670 --> 00:27:27,829 The sound of those records is definitely ... and I use them 443 00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:32,629 further that benchmarks and for what I still do today, 444 00:27:32,630 --> 00:27:36,349 because nothing sounds like those records. 445 00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:39,549 And I was lucky to see them Live two or three times, 446 00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:41,269 And they were really interesting. 447 00:27:41,270 --> 00:27:43,549 And you never knew for sure whether or not Jeff would show up. 448 00:27:43,550 --> 00:27:46,669 I mean, some of the stories about how he goes right in the middle 449 00:27:46,670 --> 00:27:50,429 a tournament, that was, you know, a real hard blow. 450 00:27:50,430 --> 00:27:53,389 Understand? But so was Jeff. 451 00:27:53,390 --> 00:27:55,189 At that time there was a rupture between me and Rod. 452 00:27:55,190 --> 00:27:56,989 I don't know what it came from. 453 00:27:56,990 --> 00:28:01,389 It gave rise to a little doubt and I had no guarantee 454 00:28:01,390 --> 00:28:03,589 that there will be a next tournament. 455 00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:09,229 I saw that big festival past in our calendar. 456 00:28:09,230 --> 00:28:13,309 I was nervous about it. I said, “We are not ready for him 457 00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:16,149 We are not ready to defend the same scene with Sly and The Family Stone. 458 00:28:16,150 --> 00:28:19,030 Woodstock was two weeks away distance when Jeff Group broke up. 459 00:28:24,590 --> 00:28:28,389 I said to myself, "It's a pity, because a big festival in a few weeks " 460 00:28:28,390 --> 00:28:29,829 It was Woodstock! 461 00:28:29,830 --> 00:28:33,949 Jeff is gone. In the middle of the night. The next morning it was gone. 462 00:28:33,950 --> 00:28:36,229 And I got a call: "Jeff went home." 463 00:28:36,230 --> 00:28:39,549 When I saw the movie, I thought, "Thank God for your integrity" 464 00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:41,586 Thank God she's a little pussy whispered to me: 465 00:28:41,587 --> 00:28:44,030 "Don't do it" because I wasn't get ready for something like that. 466 00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:50,532 That's not how I was imprinted in anyone's mind 467 00:28:50,533 --> 00:28:52,429 that I had anything to do with what was sung there. I did the right thing! 468 00:28:52,430 --> 00:28:55,109 He could have explained it to us as well then maybe it would have made sense. 469 00:28:55,110 --> 00:28:57,909 But I agree too I'm glad I didn't. 470 00:28:57,910 --> 00:29:02,070 And so once again, I was coming back back home to mom! 471 00:29:03,430 --> 00:29:06,110 He was not at all satisfied with the success he had 472 00:29:06,350 --> 00:29:11,549 And all of a sudden, he stopped talking with no one about music and guitar 473 00:29:11,550 --> 00:29:16,709 Prefer to talk about the movies he liked, you know, 474 00:29:16,710 --> 00:29:18,509 and certainly about his cars. 475 00:29:18,510 --> 00:29:23,070 My grandmother used to take me to the movies and that's how I came to see 476 00:29:23,510 --> 00:29:26,870 a movie called The Fast Car Band 477 00:29:27,230 --> 00:29:29,789 Grandma got scared and said, "Oh, this movie is not right at all " 478 00:29:29,790 --> 00:29:33,429 because it had the word "band" in the title so she said, “Okay, let's go out. 479 00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:36,909 Let's get out of the movie theater and we'll be back when the next movie starts. " 480 00:29:36,910 --> 00:29:40,785 I clung to the chair. 481 00:29:41,830 --> 00:29:45,070 The beginning sequence shows these two speeding cars competing 482 00:29:48,630 --> 00:29:53,149 on a wheeled street sidewalks and I was impressed on the spot. 483 00:29:53,150 --> 00:29:56,709 For a category movie B, it was pretty absurd. 484 00:29:56,710 --> 00:30:00,989 I look at him from time to time because it had such a big impact. 485 00:30:00,990 --> 00:30:02,709 Come on, Johny, come faster! 486 00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:05,269 Speed ​​cars have always been his passion since he was little 487 00:30:05,270 --> 00:30:07,589 And then he started to build some too. 488 00:30:07,590 --> 00:30:11,349 The way he said it many times that music and guitar are his job, 489 00:30:11,350 --> 00:30:17,829 and that's his fun, when he returns home from tournaments. 490 00:30:17,830 --> 00:30:22,410 He always played with his cars since when do I know him, you understand? 491 00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:25,669 I think the first time I have been to his house, hoods from 492 00:30:25,670 --> 00:30:29,109 His Corvetta was up and he was put under the car! 493 00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:32,509 The fact that Jeff builds those cars and the fact that it does 494 00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:38,109 so good, he does, I think, a man with two passions, guitar and cars. 495 00:30:38,110 --> 00:30:40,669 Your senses are sharpened, because you built it. 496 00:30:40,670 --> 00:30:43,789 And even if I have a car professionally built, 497 00:30:43,790 --> 00:30:49,030 I still often drive a car an old one, a Ford or maybe a Chevy 498 00:30:53,310 --> 00:30:55,125 which no longer lead that models these new ones and get over that hill 499 00:30:55,126 --> 00:30:56,629 And that's done with the convertible, you know ... just 500 00:30:56,630 --> 00:31:00,949 30 mph on a smooth, sloping slope easy and that's how I got to the top 501 00:31:00,950 --> 00:31:05,109 and the car began to straighten the only one on the busy road 502 00:31:05,110 --> 00:31:07,189 without me touching the steering wheel. 503 00:31:07,190 --> 00:31:09,509 I steered in the opposite direction and still 504 00:31:09,510 --> 00:31:14,309 I hit the poor man head on man from that Morris Traveler. 505 00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:21,229 I broke her legs and I broke her face. Back injuries, leg injuries. 506 00:31:21,230 --> 00:31:22,959 I was taken to Maidstone General Hospital, 507 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,429 where the doctors were amazing, simply incredible. 508 00:31:25,430 --> 00:31:28,349 He was a cheerful one who used to he came to shave me and bring me tea 509 00:31:28,350 --> 00:31:31,270 I was recovering quickly and he made up his mind one day to bring me a music newspaper 510 00:31:34,950 --> 00:31:36,479 ROD BELIEVES THAT WE ARE DOING IT THEY WILL NOT BE SMALL (small) 511 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:37,814 And with an accent, Scotland told me: 512 00:31:37,815 --> 00:31:40,240 "Your friend left you and he joined the Faces. " 513 00:31:40,390 --> 00:31:43,429 I didn't have to hear that something right then. 514 00:31:43,430 --> 00:31:44,909 I think the biggest problem for Jeff 515 00:31:44,910 --> 00:31:46,749 was to find someone facing the band 516 00:31:46,750 --> 00:31:50,189 and that really fits with what he was doing on guitar. 517 00:31:50,190 --> 00:31:53,309 He had, you know, probably One of the best 518 00:31:53,310 --> 00:31:55,469 vocal soloists of that time in the band to, 519 00:31:55,470 --> 00:31:58,429 and how long did that band last? Just a few years. 520 00:31:58,430 --> 00:32:01,909 Rod Stewart was great, but, you know, most of the time it was about ... 521 00:32:01,910 --> 00:32:04,750 and I think one of the reasons for which has become so great 522 00:32:06,670 --> 00:32:11,829 is that she performs music very well correctly or simply had 523 00:32:11,830 --> 00:32:14,189 the right energy or whatever. 524 00:32:14,190 --> 00:32:18,315 I arrived at Epic in the middle of '72, 525 00:32:19,230 --> 00:32:22,589 and that orange album he had come out a few months before. 526 00:32:22,590 --> 00:32:24,949 The name of the album was Jeff Beck Group, 527 00:32:24,950 --> 00:32:27,829 but all always on the album that one as Orange Album 528 00:32:27,830 --> 00:32:35,830 because it was on the cover photographed an orange. 529 00:32:55,470 --> 00:32:58,509 I started looking instrumentalists who can ... 530 00:32:58,510 --> 00:33:01,389 for example a drummer who could ... I was always focused on the drummer 531 00:33:01,390 --> 00:33:05,269 He gave life to the band, he is the driving force. 532 00:33:05,270 --> 00:33:08,629 That is, if you find the right drummer, you are ready for life! 533 00:33:08,630 --> 00:33:11,509 Obviously, I lost the habit to contact us regularly, but 534 00:33:11,510 --> 00:33:16,189 when I saw Jeff, it was that always very proud of the new band. 535 00:33:16,190 --> 00:33:18,629 He always enjoys the new drummers he had found. 536 00:33:18,630 --> 00:33:20,589 He told me: “I have him in the band this guy named Cozy Powell. 537 00:33:20,590 --> 00:33:22,309 "Listen to what he can do!" 538 00:33:22,310 --> 00:33:27,070 I liked Cozy. I chose him out of 20 drummers. 539 00:33:31,950 --> 00:33:34,078 Micky Most's secretary organized the audition and told me: 540 00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:36,549 "Jeff, I know you're late, but you don't have to look anymore. 541 00:33:36,550 --> 00:33:38,949 That's your brother! ” 542 00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:43,549 - She looks the same as me - same hair, you know. - Okay, Jeff, I'm Cozy. 543 00:33:43,550 --> 00:33:46,349 I said, "So?" And he he began beating the drums. 544 00:33:46,350 --> 00:33:49,190 And I saw those who were waiting to sing by packing his chisels! 545 00:33:50,590 --> 00:33:53,629 They packed their things. They realized that was it. 546 00:33:53,630 --> 00:33:58,149 And then Max Middleton came up with the idea of ​​singing a simple song, 547 00:33:58,150 --> 00:34:00,349 a blues thing, something like that. 548 00:34:00,350 --> 00:34:03,869 And he said, "Why not Are we trying on three songs? " 549 00:34:03,870 --> 00:34:05,869 And all of a sudden there were three songs. 550 00:34:05,870 --> 00:34:08,309 An era or counter melody, 551 00:34:08,310 --> 00:34:11,030 and the third descended above the piece. 552 00:34:12,310 --> 00:34:15,130 And something like a kind of cacophony came out 553 00:34:15,270 --> 00:34:19,145 I said it was worth a try 554 00:34:35,110 --> 00:34:39,189 Steve Cropper (Producer) told me: "Something really amazing came out" 555 00:34:39,190 --> 00:34:42,509 because I had done those parts individually and then I overlapped them. 556 00:34:42,510 --> 00:34:46,429 And I hadn't listened to them mixed up, I made each one individually, 557 00:34:46,430 --> 00:34:48,989 because if I had heard number one guitar, 558 00:34:48,990 --> 00:34:51,869 I could no longer sing against them. 559 00:34:51,870 --> 00:34:55,469 And when I got in the cab and got them heard all three together, you know, 560 00:34:55,470 --> 00:34:58,109 was, “Let's buy them something to drink for Max for that. ” 561 00:34:58,110 --> 00:35:01,829 I think there's no doubt that the song that Definitly Maybe paved the way 562 00:35:01,830 --> 00:35:04,109 spre Blow By Blow... 563 00:35:04,110 --> 00:35:07,229 .. with a small detour. With Jeff, there is always a detour. 564 00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:10,429 565 00:35:10,430 --> 00:35:13,509 566 00:35:13,510 --> 00:35:16,869 Well, we always liked to we also sing to other people's music 567 00:35:16,870 --> 00:35:18,989 without being mentioned to us the name on the album cover. 568 00:35:18,990 --> 00:35:23,909 I mean, like that thing in which Stevie Wonder shouts, "Jeff!" ... 569 00:35:23,910 --> 00:35:26,590 .. that is, the song Looking For Another Pure Love. 570 00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:32,335 Do it, Jeff. 571 00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:49,309 And it's really great when something like this happens, 572 00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:55,429 but I think I like Jeff and me to play on records where we are alone 573 00:35:55,430 --> 00:36:01,389 some kind of mysterious agents and me I like the idea that someone is so 574 00:36:01,390 --> 00:36:05,269 able to identify me on me through what I sing. 575 00:36:05,270 --> 00:36:09,030 Stevie's record label had he needed to do something special. 576 00:36:11,150 --> 00:36:13,275 And I didn't have it at the time nothing to do The Epic said: 577 00:36:13,276 --> 00:36:14,989 "What if you are we going to the studio with Stevie? 578 00:36:14,990 --> 00:36:17,549 I couldn't wait for something like this to happen. 579 00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:22,469 So the deal was to I play a few songs on Stevie 580 00:36:22,470 --> 00:36:25,589 Stevie 's Talking Book album and he will compose some special pieces 581 00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:27,189 for me of which one to be Superstition. 582 00:36:27,190 --> 00:36:31,509 He said to me, “What do you say we should we sing a song about superstitions 583 00:36:31,510 --> 00:36:35,989 about which you know something, but Americans may not know? " 584 00:36:35,990 --> 00:36:39,589 I said, "Well, we're not going under a ladder because it brings bad luck. ” 585 00:36:39,590 --> 00:36:41,949 And I said, "If you break a mirror, 586 00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:43,789 that brings bad luck for seven years. ” 587 00:36:43,790 --> 00:36:48,709 I started beating the drums during a break. He please eat lunch, 588 00:36:48,710 --> 00:36:52,629 and when he returned he began to clap to my rhythm. 589 00:36:52,630 --> 00:36:56,229 I said, "Steve, I'm not ... I'm not the drummer. " 590 00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:59,949 He says, "Okay, but now you are. Don't stop." 591 00:36:59,950 --> 00:37:05,789 And he put his hand on the keyboard and he began to sing to that rhythm. 592 00:37:05,790 --> 00:37:09,629 And I said to myself, “Christ, I'm beating on drums for Stevie Wonder! ” 593 00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:13,349 It was really cool, even if it was a simple thing we sing. 594 00:37:13,350 --> 00:37:16,349 And Steve said, "OK, we will print this track ". 595 00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:19,349 Because I was starting to mess with all fillings and other stuff. 596 00:37:19,350 --> 00:37:22,149 Then he sat down at the drum set and sang the same track that 597 00:37:22,150 --> 00:37:25,589 I had beaten the drums. But much better. 598 00:37:25,590 --> 00:37:29,469 And he made room for an entrance for a measure of five agreements 599 00:37:29,470 --> 00:37:33,189 and then went straight in and he did the bass line too. 600 00:37:33,190 --> 00:37:34,589 That was. 601 00:37:34,590 --> 00:37:38,989 When that bass line came along, everyone in the studio fell to the bottom. 602 00:37:38,990 --> 00:37:42,030 Then he put the lyrics, some lyrics hard and so the song was ready.