Beck To Jeff

Music to me pretty much equals guitar-based music. i know that's quite limiting but there it is nonetheless. So there's an entire galaxy of axemen to look up to. I couldn't finish a favourites list here if i tried.But i can narrow it down to the one great big daddy for me.

Jeff Beck is the package. He's a technician , stylist , player and writer all at once. He's rock star , he's musician. He's virtuoso, he's accessible. He does cerebral ,he does unpretentious. Most of all , he pushes the envelope.

Be it Jazz in the 1970's - two better consecutive albums than 1975-76's Blow By Blow and Wired anyone ? - or Electronica / Ambient in the 2000's , Beck has pushed it like few in the industry have. Where people like Clapton and Page -lesser musicians with whom Beck has often been tagged as an afterthought almost - have always ever sounded exactly the same since 1960-something , this guy has constantly challenged himself and evolved.

And what brought on this post was listening to this number this morning, this happy ferry siren on a river of song : Nitin Sawhney's Nadia from 2000's You Had It Coming. Flow with it !