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I got there as a tourist
taken by a friend in 1966.
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He took me there and I got everything
walking on that empty stage.
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Then I said to myself:
"Is this the most famous place in Hollywood?"
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I will never get to sing here. ”
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And 50 years later I had
my own concert there.
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He's an unusual guitarist,
a troubadour hoinar,
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who doesn't like to be
repeats, which he assumed
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big risks all the time ... he did
throughout his career.
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He's a guitarist who builds
high speed cars.
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I had a lot of
urges me to go see Jeff
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to listen to him sing and
even working with him.
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He's always been a guitarist
interesting, you know? It's a great one.
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He had so much to offer ... a
he managed to make his own way.
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Music brings people together and
if someone succeeds, turn on the wick
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you feel like everything is banging and ready.
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He made you feel,
you know important and ready to offer something good
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Jeff on recordings
used the ying-yang effect,
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which he brought to a level
totally different when he plays live.
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Part of Jeff's mystique is due
the fact that he likes to be mysterious.
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All his albums
they make you float in a mysterious world.
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Part of this is due to the fact
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that many of his albums have no voices on them.
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I told him he was kind of Pablo
Picasso of the electric guitar and
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he told me:
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"I think there is more
a Jackson Pollock. ”
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And all I said was, "Touchez!"
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He's such an instinctive artist and he is
so interesting to be by his side
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because it simply doesn't
you know what he will do next.
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This is not something painted after some
notes, this is really the muse in person,
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and the muse tells him what he will have to sing.
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And he let it happen
let's move on to "Next song!"
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He always seems to think of something,
that he is an innovator.
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That he always reaches for something new.
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Jeff is an incredible artist and
I have always had an affinity
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for male artists
which I can find fantastic
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fantastic women to him
accompany on his way.
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Jeff is the guy who led
guitar instrument in
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the most distant
universes of guitars.
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And no one even approaches him.
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Everyone respects Jeff.
He is an extraordinary musician,
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and developed a technique that
it's so complex it's just
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a real delight to see him,
to hear him and feel him singing.
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He seems to be conversing with you when
he sings, too bad he doesn't sing vocally
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Sounds like no other guitarist,
pulling notes. Know?
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It was - and still is - the most
original guitarist of all time.
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THE BEGINNING YEARS ENGLAND
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My mother plays the piano, so
being by her side all the time,
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the music was always around me.
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Either he played the piano or he put me in the living room
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where the radio was always on,
so I could hear everything new.
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He had very strict ideas and hopes
as to who I will become.
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I would have loved to play the piano,
but the post was already taken.
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So I had a good enough reason
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to never sit down again
in front of a piano!
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I just said to myself, "There's no room left
for another pianist. ”
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I didn't feel this was going to be my destiny,
while related to the guitar,
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I didn't have to worry.
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And this even if at the beginning
I wasn't very attracted to it,
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it made me want to be alone with her
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and to reverse my feelings in it.
It responded so easily to the touch.
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The radio was on and my mother was leaving
in the kitchen and let me listen
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How faint the tune
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How high the moon
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When love îs far away, too
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Leş's singing style
Paul was fascinating because
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on every program I gave to each one
this time I came across How High The Moon
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So I ran to the kitchen
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and I said, "Mom, who is this?"
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He told me, “I read this guy.
He only knows how to do tricks on the ropes.
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He's a fake artist. ” And I said ...
"But it's interesting!"
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Electric guitar and running
the one on the ropes ... it was interesting
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She said: “Well, it was revealed
the fact that he can't sing so fast
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and that everything is accelerated in printing "
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And I said, “Well, I like his sound.
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It doesn't matter if it's accelerated. "
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We also listen to those on the records
which my sister listens to.
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Hound Dog. Rock Around The Clock. To stay
it seemed to me that something was broken from heaven!
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And I started analyzing the sound
guitarists down to the smallest detail.
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Eddie Cochran had an echo
which made the sound
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to give the feeling of room
Cliff Gallup had the same echo.
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They sounded so good and loud.
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Once I met Jeff
and we talked about who influenced him,
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he told me he liked it very much
the guy who sang with Gene Vincent,
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Cliff Gallup.
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My sister went to Sutton Granada to
see The Girl can’t help it
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and then he said to me, “I have to
to go see him too.
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It's the most amazing movie
Technicolor with all things
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what do you like, after all
what we both like. ”
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I went to see some friends
color on Gene Vincent and Blue Hats
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It changed my life. He was the best
rock and roll movie ever made
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Everything I liked seemed to come
from America - cars, music
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But I didn't see any possibility
to ever get there.
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I mean, I didn't have any money.
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My sister came home from school one day
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and he threw me a piece of paper
with a phone number on it.
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Here's a nerd's number
from the school he also has
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a weird-looking guitar like yours. ”
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And he agreed to go with me
by bus to Epsom, where
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we both knocked on the door and it appeared
a kid with an innocent face
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who answered the door and
he invited us in.
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Well, that's how he got to my house.
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Of course, at that time
I lived with my parents.
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And Jeff came in and had a
homemade electric guitar,
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just like I had a
homemade guitar.
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And we became friends immediately.
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We're almost two brothers, you know.
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It was just a wonderful thing I found
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and there's someone else who had the same interest.
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Then it started to come quite
often and we spent our time
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and we listen to the records
which I put to him.
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He also had equipment. He had a
tape recorder and other "goodies"
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that is, an excellent collection of records,
a collection of mouth watering.
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I had a diverse mix of records
with different styles back then.
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It was a great discovery,
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to find another person
who was as interested as I was
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to haunt record stores
who imported records, say,
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Vee-jay - that was a move from
Chicago of the fifties,
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a blues movement - towards
unlike other stores.
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And that meant I was doing it
some real pilgrimages.
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And from all those guitarists
from that period,
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I learned a lot from those records.
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So we used to sit there and
let's keep listening to the solo parts.
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We weren't interested in the song,
not even who plays the guitar!
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"What the hell did he do here?"
Do you understand, that's what we kept asking ourselves?
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"It simply came to our notice then
as a ricochet effect?
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Why does it sound so exciting? ”
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He wanted to understand how they could
to sound so impressive,
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so amazing because you
get excited, then try
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to do the same on the guitar.
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I had a partner in what I was doing,
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I had someone who could
to come up with some ideas too.
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When you found something that rang
pretty impressive,
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I wanted to know what else
he thought about it.
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We were really eager to
we find out exactly the same things,
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from the records with Gene
Vincent and Ricky Nelson.
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They had very guitar solos
made by James Burton,
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and one of the things that
we asked each other was:
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"What would be your version of My Babe?"
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"OK. But what's your version?"
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It seemed to be a kind of common ground
test for many guitarists
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from that period to see how
well could do some solo ...
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Ricky Nelson - My Babe
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I liked going there. That's where I found it
something that was close to my heart
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and something in my ears
which hit me for good.
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That's what everyone who came out thought
from art school in the ‘50s
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when rock and roll had begun
to get here from America.
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I liked. I liked very much
the fact that it was a place where you could
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go and learn to draw and
learn the basics of art.
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I had it at art school
part of two wonderful years.
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But the music grabbed me,
because in the middle of each week
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we had a concert
in the city where I lived
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and then came two concerts
per week and so on.
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But unfortunately I had to give up
school before graduation.
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Music was our hobby and so on
we have become professionals.
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When the Yardbirds appeared, Eric was
the person who had to be taken into account.
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They had Eric, so why me
Did they want me? I didn't understand that.
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Everyone wanted to make me
we hit some commercial hits,
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and we weren't doing anything
music of this nature.
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His name was brought as a
replacement. When I asked why
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they said I wasn't
so vital to the "organization."
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So I went to see if he was that good
as they said. Back then he played with Tridents
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And he used all those effects
and I said to myself, “Lord!
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It's really worth giving up on me.
I am finished".
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In fact, I really thought so
to quit music then,
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because I said to myself, “I'm in
inappropriate profession. ” Understand?
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But seeing Jeff, I thought, “Hey
Well, he's the right guy for them. "
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I really liked the Yardbirds.
Mi-a plăcut Heart Full Of Soul...
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.. and Jeff's singing style
it sounds like a sitar.
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He was made by a guitarist
with a very distinctive style.
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He did not follow the path of anyone else,
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it was clear there, completely on its own.
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They had a sitar singer in the studio,
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who thought music in a way
time signature of 13 and a quarter!
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And they kept telling him, "No, it's 4/4."
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And I said, "I mean, that's about it."
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So I sang his octave,
octave G and then I sang to him ...
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And then I said, "Why the hell am I?
brought here? I can sing that! "
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I think he was a pioneer of
hard rock from day one.
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He was doing things that weren't
they existed only in his mind.
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When I heard Yardbirds,
when I heard Jeff singing,
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sounds just different, right since then,
for my young ears.
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His guitar had a kind of sound
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which was different from the usual pop stuff.
They had something special,
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the notes he sings,
they seemed very lyrical to me.
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And in a month, we're flying to America!
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Not only had I arrived in America,
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but I also recorded in the famous
Sun studio for Chess Records.
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Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things
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Shapes Of Things, an amazing piece.
I remember the song very well.
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"It simply came to our notice then
to get so far
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to get the sound we wanted? ”
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In England, the studios of
recordings failed to do so.
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Sound engineers from
England was all Puritans,
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they didn't like anything that
squeak or squeak.
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I kept telling them, "Let it be heard
squeaking! We don't care! "
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Immediately, when I heard the playback
to the song we told ourselves this is ...
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Jeff was coming to me and me
he kept singing the first fragments
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from the play Shapes Of Things.
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And when he got to the side
solo, I thought,
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"This is the most extraordinary solo."
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Ravi Shankar played a role
important in the Beatles and others,
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and I used to stay at home
to Page to listen to ragas
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and Vilayat Khan and Ravi
Shankar and just marveling at me.
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How could this be adopted
on the guitar, this pull of
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strings to such an extent that
to be able to play a song just like that?
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The work Jeff put in
Yardbirds was extremely important
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for guitarist-based groups,
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because he had an incredible ear
and that he had set an amazing standard,
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and also for the technique to
it was also extraordinary.
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And I have to say, then
when I heard this song,
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I really understood
what Jeff was capable of.
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Yardbirds had a manager
even crazy Giorgio Gomelsky
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and I remember how scared he was
when he heard me sing the song.
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The steam was coming out of his ears
when I sang that song to him.
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"It simply came to our notice then
you are in this formation.
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You opened some surreal paths,
some avant-garde horses,
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for the guitar in this band. ”
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Giorgio was great, but I think a
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something outrageous happened with the money.
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I do not know. All I know is I don't
never took anything out of it.
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I think I threatened them
leave if the band doesn't get rid of him.
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That's when Simon Napier-Bell appeared
and agreed to take over the management
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and in five minutes Jimmy Page was in the band
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and in that formula I came to
film sets for Blow-Up.
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And no one knew exactly what it would be like
as in most movies,
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he wasn't telling you what the movie would really be like.
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But I was told that Antonioni
he was a great director
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and a little surreal for me too
I thought it was a cool thing.
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And the 3,000 check was even more amazing.
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I don't think anyone in the band
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he had never seen so much
a lot of money in one go.
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Everyone has invested something in
fruit and vegetable stores.
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Magazine. Business.
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I invested in a
Corvette’63 with broken windshield,
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which for a person like me was
the only rational thing to do!
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ROAR ENGINES
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I had a girlfriend in LA and I did
went to her, the place was cool,
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the weather was amazing.
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And I let it all go
on a Yardbirds tour.
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I had never played in America before.
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It was a shock, it was with
true something unimaginable
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over everything I thought it would be.
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The Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars
it was a gathering of artists
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who were all coming on stage like
to sing two or three songs.
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They toured by bus.
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You know, you had to be real
amateur sucks on these.
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I mean, you were on the road and you were giving
60 concerts in 60 days.
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It was something very, very strange,
because the show was a collection
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of teenybop stars, very singers
young for a very young audience.
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.. in a bus that could be awful,
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in which we were crammed between some
people we didn't really like.
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We didn't get along at all
the rest of the cast in the show.
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And it was just a toilet
clogged and not working,
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and there were people who had to
sleeps in luggage nets.
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But Jeff didn't get much out of it
because he left very quickly,
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after only a few shows.
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After a couple of gigs, I thought,
"I commit suicide if I still have to sing
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the 15 minutes on stage, singing
two hits plus one more. ”
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That was all. The whole show was
just a quick change.
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Jerry Lewis' son was in that
tour, Gary Lewis and Playboys,
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and I thought, "This is America
the real middle one.
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We were telling people we were doing it
part of that. And it wasn't like that. "
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Yardbirds were on their way to destruction
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a real career, you understand?
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And they threw themselves into this ridicule
box with various mixtures.
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I called Jim to my room and
I said, “Jim, I felt the horrors.
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Here's my guitar. You will take over
tomorrow's band leadership.
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I'm not even going to play my guitar
back". And that was the end.
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No girlfriend, no Yardbirds, nothing.
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I only had my Corvetta parked
next to my mother's house
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so I was free to dream again.
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Jeff Beck Group - Shapes Of Things
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Jeff and I met in Sheffield
Mojo while I was doing the circuit
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of concerts beating the highway, when
I was singing with my first band, The Birds.
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We got along really, really well,
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and he told me about
concerts with the Yardbirds
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and then he said to me, well, “If
we will no longer be members of the troops
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in which we are now perhaps in a
good morning we will work together ".
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One of the good things about the period
Yardbirds I remember is like
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once returning from a tour of
somewhere in the north, around 2 at night,
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I stopped in front of the Cromwellian Club
and I said to the Yardbirds:
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"There is nothing to stop me
to go in there alone. "
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The guy at the door said, "Jeff!
I'm glad to see you coming back. "
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That night, there, no
nothing interesting happens in the club.
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Motown records and I were playing
I said to myself, “How sad everything is.
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"I am alone
with a beer in front of him. ”
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There was one more guy in one
corner and that was Rod Stewart!
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I talked to Jeff a little and he told me
said he was forming a band,
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for he had just left the Yardbirds.
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I was unemployed too and I think
I also mentioned that Woody was free:
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"He lost his job too."
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So we were three jobless musicians
work so I formed a band.
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His collaboration with Rod
Stewart is already legendary,
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that is, one of the best things
that Rod ever did,
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was collaborating with Jeff on the album Truth.
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It was his muffled voice that was so
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rarely seen in a white vocalist.
And I liked that about him.
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my poor heart crazy...
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The band was with Micky Waller, with me on bass
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and Jeff on guitar,
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I had left holes and spaces to put it in
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Rod's voice in the sonority
His cruel one ...
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Jeff really appreciated it
Rod's voice, you know,
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and he took great care of all things
who could get into those spaces
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Every time I see you
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He believed in me, he really believed.
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He wanted a singer
suitable for that band.
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He had such a voice ...
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.. vital within the band
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that you didn't need it anymore
of a rhythm guitar.
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His virtuoso performances
Jeff is related to the blues voice
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of Rod from that album. Was
clearly an album of great influence.
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The album Truth had the songs Rock on it
My Plimsoul and I Ain’t Superstition
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He's really my favorite Jeff Beck
stylistically!
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It's more of a kind of rock and
roll that hits you in the face.
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Jeff didn't just want to sing
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what Muddy Waters and
Howlin 'Wolf had sung.
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He wanted to give the pieces a color
more Chicago and more electric
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and remove it from that structure of
basis on which they were composed, you know,
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and electrifying them, to do
as many arrangements as possible.
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Even if the songs were
clear blues in 12 bars,
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I arranged the pieces to
sounds as interesting as possible.
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- Okay, let's go.
- I don't want us to sing them in unison,
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I want us to sing them in harmony.
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We make them the way you want.
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I'll try to sing
as you play the guitar.
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If you think it's ringing
too high, stop me, okay?
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Stay with your voice as far back as possible.
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Mickie Most, he didn't want to hear about Rod at all.
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He told me, “You are the artist.
Your name is on the cover of the record. "
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I replied, "No, no.
I'm not interested in that.
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I'm interested in being part of one
great rock or blues band. ”
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But Micky was interested in doing it
money as fast as you could
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and he wanted us to be a pop band,
you know, to our great despair,
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because we didn't want to
not at all to be like that
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He saw no point in me being
in that band. He wanted Jeff to sing
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Why was she a star?
pop so reluctant?
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I guess it was because he didn't
she never wanted to be a pop star.
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I don't know how that song came about.
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I think because, if you will, of a
pressure from Mickie Most,
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to try to hit a hit. But
I think very, very quickly
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he realized that was not it
which Jeff wanted to do.
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Another was his choice.
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But this piece offered a lot
other people a huge pleasure!
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Much more pleasure than
he never felt.
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It was as if you were being asked
to wear a pink dress
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and stand on the upper deck
of a bus on Oxford Street!
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He framed me with this
embarrassing pop song that
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it doesn't represent me. But, yes
over the years I started to like it
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because he made them
people to feel happy.
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Jeff, I think, asked Mickie
if I could sing that song,
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but Mickie told him no.
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So you can hear me screaming too
me in the background, in the choir.
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And when you just thought
she had finally gotten somewhere,
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You realized you were about
about six months away!
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I stormed Mickie Most's office,
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and we kind of argued over his refusal.
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Peter Grant was there too and he was smiling at me.
I wanted to ...
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as if his smile
he said, “Slap him,
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he should know what it is
his place ", that is Mickie.
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Shortly thereafter, you have to
talked to Mickie and said:
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"Look, Jeff was in the Yardbirds
and has already opened
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a door to America for himself
and for the band he plays with.
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And now there's a
strong underground scene. ”
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Steppenwolf had appeared on the radio
FM had grown terribly.
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There were places to sing, it was
the press and there were also radio stations,
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and, you know, you could build a band
to come and tour with.
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So I remember it was amazing
when Woody and I got over it
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Brooklyn Bridge on the couch in
behind a limousine with Peter Grant,
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as a manager. I mean, like I was in heaven.
"Here we are!"
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I did a five-month tour. A
it was hard, but also a lot of fun.
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When I got to America, I sang
opening at Fillmore East.
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I mean, I jumped straight into the abyss!
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Then it was the famous night in which
Rod didn't go on stage. Was hidden.
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That was the night
I hid behind the amplifiers
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the story is absolutely true -
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because I realized: “I am
in America, in New York,
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and I try to sound like a vocalist
black and in the hall will be
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a lot of blacks who will throw
with all sorts of things to me. ”
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"Funny! But it sounds fake!" But here I am
on stage in front of a crowd,
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and it was the beginning of a
wonderful, wonderful careers.
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I drove the room crazy. I made them
Greatful Dead to leave the stage.
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Robert Shelton of the New York Times
he gave us a great chronicle.
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Peter Grant called me at seven
in the morning and said to me:
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"Did you read the chronicle?" I told him:
"I don't even want to hear about it."
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He said, "No, no, it's really amazing."
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He read it to me, about the song Pinter,
about my interaction with Rod ...
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And I read it and then I got it
said, "Okay, and what do we do now?"
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I reproduced it and sent it on,
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to the press from all places of
on the way to the West Coast,
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so when I got to
Fillmore West, I was already broken
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American music scene,
which was fantastic!
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We all decided to give it a try
let's compose some songs,
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so Ronnie and I stayed for hours
in a row in his mother's apartment
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with a piece of white paper in front
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until I took out a bottle of
I'm coming and I'm done.
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Only then could I compose
a song called Plynth.
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420
00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:04,309
aş I'm thinking now
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00:26:08,510 --> 00:26:12,629
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that creeps on every night
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I'm wasting away
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the ghost of a man that's me...
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Plynth is a song I'm very proud of,
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because it was one of the compositions
to which I also wrote the words.
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"Moisture from the ocean fills the sky
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00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:39,149
"Falls back down to the ground
as time goes by."
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fills the sky
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as time goes by...
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I was proud of the bass part
drums and guitar and a low voice
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And the piano part played by Nick.
It was a magical combination.
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And for me it was an honor to
to be in that band, to be honest,
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with Micky Waller, Nicky
Hopkins and Ronnie Wood.
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It was really a great band.
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When you think about how much
time was that and what an impact
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he must have had then, for
everything was so unique and original.
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00:27:17,470 --> 00:27:19,589
Tryth and Beck-Ola were albums
who really stood out,
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and there were kind of points
reference that rock and roll records.
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There were definitely two
great manifestos for that time.
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The sound of those records is definitely ...
and I use them
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further that benchmarks
and for what I still do today,
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because nothing sounds
like those records.
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And I was lucky to see them
Live two or three times,
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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.
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I mean, some of the stories
about how he goes right in the middle
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a tournament, that was, you know,
a real hard blow.
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Understand? But so was Jeff.
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At that time there was a
rupture between me and Rod.
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I don't know what it came from.
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It gave rise to a little doubt
and I had no guarantee
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that there will be a next tournament.
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I saw that big festival
past in our calendar.
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I was nervous about it. I
said, “We are not ready for him
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We are not ready to defend the same
scene with Sly and The Family Stone.
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00:28:16,150 --> 00:28:19,030
Woodstock was two weeks away
distance when Jeff Group broke up.
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I said to myself, "It's a pity, because a
big festival in a few weeks "
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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.
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