Concert review: Jeff Beck at Cadillac Palace
The challenge before Jeff Beck on Friday at the sold-out Cadillac Palace was to make 50-year-old music sound like the future.
The guitarist has proven up to the task in countless settings. In a career that stretches back to the ‘60s, when he came up alongside the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page as a Swinging London visionary, he has reconfigured, rewired and sometimes transcended countless melodies with his fingers. The guitarist has taken on everything from blues to classical music and made it sound utterly his own, bending entire genres to his will.
In the first of two weekend concerts, Beck became a jukebox for his youth: the rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly, R&B and surf tunes that shaped his boyhood in England and inspired him to pick up a guitar. Most of all, there was a whole lot of Les Paul, the pioneering guitarist who first pried open the door for the young Beck to the instrument’s possibilities.
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