I'm still not warming to Becks guitar playing. Very technically gifted but it al leaves me a little cold to be honest.
He is amazing, in the sense that he's always progressed whereas most of his contemporaries established their styles then pretty much just stuck with them. But I don't like what he does since he stopped using a pick and started doing all the microtonal stuff, playing melodies with the whammy bar etc. It tires my ears out very quickly.
Go back to the early stuff like "Truth" and "Beck-Ola" - much more straightforward and song-based.
Beck seems to think Page sort of nicked the concept of the Jeff Beck Group and jumped the queue on him with "The New Yardbirds". There may be some truth in it, but Zeppelin did it much, much better - Beck's group could never have had the same impact, but they are good. And it's nice to hear Rod Stewart singing something other than all that "American Songbook" pap he does nowadays.
