It was 1974. Word was going around that the most famous rock and ... Peter Frampton auditioned, Shuggie Otis auditioned, Robert Johnson auditioned. But in Jeff Beck’s memory, the second his name was ...

The song was written by Bernie Holland, who was the guitarist in the band Hummingbird, formed in 1974 by Middleton and other members of the second iteration of the Jeff Beck Group. The song is as ...

In early 1974, when Jeff was in CBS Studios working on Beck, Bogert & Appice’s ill-fated second studio album, Seymour Duncan approached the guitarist with a custom Telecaster/Les Paul hybrid ...

Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty; Marc Piasecki/WireImage Jeff Beck couldn't get no satisfaction ... after guitarist Mick Taylor left the band in 1974. "I told them I don’t do auditions.

In any case, Beck added in his interview that he’s not a “joiner, really.” So, Pink Floyd mustering the courage to ask him to join might not have mattered. In the latter part of 1974 ...

Nevertheless, it is that same creditable simplicity that formed one of two reasons why Jeff Beck didn’t join the band when they were recruiting a new guitarist after Mick Taylor walked away from the ...

Jeff also makes a cameo in the song’s music video. Beck once auditioned for The Rolling Stones after Mick Taylor quit the band in 1974. Explaining why The Stones decided not to hire Beck ...

Six-string legend Jeff Beck discusses his setup on Five Faces of the Guitar. This clip goes to 11. From the BBC Archive. Originally broadcast 1 September 1974. 1974: Jeff Beck discusses his guitar ...

Drum Heroes: Celebrating the hard-working and fast-living Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Whitesnake and ELP drum ... ‘The Man In Black’, (Number 18 in May 1974), and ‘Na Na Na’ (Number 10 in August 1974).

but Jeff didn't like it, and we never even bothered to mix it." Ultimately "That made up the majority of the (London) Rainbow sessions" Appice revealed. But Beck was now back on home turf that week of ...

The bane of the original Jeff Beck Group’s existence ... Playing BBA Live 1973 & 1974 at high volume or not, Beck Bogert and Appice still come across as the most glorious trainwreck in the history of ...