You probably have to be a guitar player to really appreciate some of the things Jeff Beck is doing here. His use of the volume knob is particularly fine--most guitarists (like me) don't even try to do such things. If you watch, you can see that he sometimes uses the little finger of his right hand to create swells, so that instead of a plucked note you get a note that seems to start from nowhere then rises in volume, in a way that sounds a little like a bowed instrument. The first song is by Jeff Beck's old friend Stevie Wonder, and at one point JB throws in a downward-moving lick that he also used when he guested on SW's song "Looking for Another Pure Love." If you're not into such things, well, the first song is pretty and the second one rocks in a fusion-y way.
The bass player is the twenty-one year old Australian phenom Tal Wilkenfeld, who has taken the small but devoted world of electric bass players by storm in the past few months. Listen here and you'll see why.
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