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I got there as a tourist taken by a friend in 1966.

He took me there and I got everything walking on that empty stage.

Then I said to myself: "Is this the most famous place in Hollywood?"

I will never get to sing here. ”

And 50 years later I had my own concert there.

He's an unusual guitarist, a troubadour hoinar,

who doesn't like to be repeats, which he assumed

big risks all the time ... he did throughout his career.

He's a guitarist who builds high speed cars.

I had a lot of urges me to go see Jeff

to listen to him sing and even working with him.

He's always been a guitarist interesting, you know? It's a great one.

He had so much to offer ... a he managed to make his own way.

Music brings people together and if someone succeeds, turn on the wick

you feel like everything is banging and ready.

He made you feel, you know important and ready to offer something good

Jeff on recordings used the ying-yang effect,

which he brought to a level totally different when he plays live.

Part of Jeff's mystique is due the fact that he likes to be mysterious.

All his albums they make you float in a mysterious world.

Part of this is due to the fact

that many of his albums have no voices on them.

I told him he was kind of Pablo Picasso of the electric guitar and

he told me:

"I think there is more a Jackson Pollock. ”

And all I said was, "Touchez!"

He's such an instinctive artist and he is so interesting to be by his side

because it simply doesn't you know what he will do next.

This is not something painted after some notes, this is really the muse in person,

and the muse tells him what he will have to sing.

And he let it happen let's move on to "Next song!"

He always seems to think of something, that he is an innovator.

That he always reaches for something new.

Jeff is an incredible artist and I have always had an affinity

for male artists which I can find fantastic

fantastic women to him accompany on his way.

Jeff is the guy who led guitar instrument in

the most distant universes of guitars.

And no one even approaches him.

Everyone respects Jeff. He is an extraordinary musician,

and developed a technique that it's so complex it's just

a real delight to see him, to hear him and feel him singing.

He seems to be conversing with you when he sings, too bad he doesn't sing vocally

Sounds like no other guitarist, pulling notes. Know?

It was - and still is - the most original guitarist of all time.

THE BEGINNING YEARS ENGLAND

My mother plays the piano, so being by her side all the time,

the music was always around me.

Either he played the piano or he put me in the living room

where the radio was always on, so I could hear everything new.

He had very strict ideas and hopes as to who I will become.

I would have loved to play the piano, but the post was already taken.

So I had a good enough reason

to never sit down again in front of a piano!

I just said to myself, "There's no room left for another pianist. ”

I didn't feel this was going to be my destiny, while related to the guitar,

I didn't have to worry.

And this even if at the beginning I wasn't very attracted to it,

it made me want to be alone with her

and to reverse my feelings in it. It responded so easily to the touch.

The radio was on and my mother was leaving in the kitchen and let me listen

How faint the tune

How high the moon

When love îs far away, too

Leş's singing style Paul was fascinating because

on every program I gave to each one this time I came across How High The Moon

So I ran to the kitchen

and I said, "Mom, who is this?"

He told me, “I read this guy. He only knows how to do tricks on the ropes.

He's a fake artist. ” And I said ... "But it's interesting!"

Electric guitar and running the one on the ropes ... it was interesting

She said: “Well, it was revealed the fact that he can't sing so fast

and that everything is accelerated in printing "

And I said, “Well, I like his sound.

It doesn't matter if it's accelerated. "

We also listen to those on the records which my sister listens to.

Hound Dog. Rock Around The Clock. To stay it seemed to me that something was broken from heaven!

And I started analyzing the sound guitarists down to the smallest detail.

Eddie Cochran had an echo which made the sound

to give the feeling of room Cliff Gallup had the same echo.

They sounded so good and loud.

Once I met Jeff and we talked about who influenced him,

he told me he liked it very much the guy who sang with Gene Vincent,

Cliff Gallup.

My sister went to Sutton Granada to see The Girl can’t help it

and then he said to me, “I have to to go see him too.

It's the most amazing movie Technicolor with all things

what do you like, after all what we both like. ”

I went to see some friends color on Gene Vincent and Blue Hats

It changed my life. He was the best rock and roll movie ever made

Everything I liked seemed to come from America - cars, music

But I didn't see any possibility to ever get there.

I mean, I didn't have any money.

My sister came home from school one day

and he threw me a piece of paper with a phone number on it.

Here's a nerd's number from the school he also has

a weird-looking guitar like yours. ”

And he agreed to go with me by bus to Epsom, where

we both knocked on the door and it appeared a kid with an innocent face

who answered the door and he invited us in.

Well, that's how he got to my house.

Of course, at that time I lived with my parents.

And Jeff came in and had a homemade electric guitar,

just like I had a homemade guitar.

And we became friends immediately.

We're almost two brothers, you know.

It was just a wonderful thing I found

and there's someone else who had the same interest.

Then it started to come quite often and we spent our time

and we listen to the records which I put to him.

He also had equipment. He had a tape recorder and other "goodies"

that is, an excellent collection of records, a collection of mouth watering.

I had a diverse mix of records with different styles back then.

It was a great discovery,

to find another person who was as interested as I was

to haunt record stores who imported records, say,

Vee-jay - that was a move from Chicago of the fifties,

a blues movement - towards unlike other stores.

And that meant I was doing it some real pilgrimages.

And from all those guitarists from that period,

I learned a lot from those records.

So we used to sit there and let's keep listening to the solo parts.

We weren't interested in the song, not even who plays the guitar!

"What the hell did he do here?" Do you understand, that's what we kept asking ourselves?

"It simply came to our notice then as a ricochet effect?

Why does it sound so exciting? ”

He wanted to understand how they could to sound so impressive,

so amazing because you get excited, then try

to do the same on the guitar.

I had a partner in what I was doing,

I had someone who could to come up with some ideas too.

When you found something that rang pretty impressive,

I wanted to know what else he thought about it.

We were really eager to we find out exactly the same things,

from the records with Gene Vincent and Ricky Nelson.

They had very guitar solos made by James Burton,

and one of the things that we asked each other was:

"What would be your version of My Babe?"

"OK. But what's your version?"

It seemed to be a kind of common ground test for many guitarists

from that period to see how well could do some solo ...

Ricky Nelson - My Babe

I liked going there. That's where I found it something that was close to my heart

and something in my ears which hit me for good.

That's what everyone who came out thought from art school in the ‘50s

when rock and roll had begun to get here from America.

I liked. I liked very much the fact that it was a place where you could

go and learn to draw and learn the basics of art.

I had it at art school part of two wonderful years.

But the music grabbed me, because in the middle of each week

we had a concert in the city where I lived

and then came two concerts per week and so on.

But unfortunately I had to give up school before graduation.

Music was our hobby and so on we have become professionals.

When the Yardbirds appeared, Eric was the person who had to be taken into account.

They had Eric, so why me Did they want me? I didn't understand that.

Everyone wanted to make me we hit some commercial hits,

and we weren't doing anything music of this nature.

His name was brought as a replacement. When I asked why

they said I wasn't so vital to the "organization."

So I went to see if he was that good as they said. Back then he played with Tridents

And he used all those effects and I said to myself, “Lord!

It's really worth giving up on me. I am finished".

In fact, I really thought so to quit music then,

because I said to myself, “I'm in inappropriate profession. ” Understand?

But seeing Jeff, I thought, “Hey Well, he's the right guy for them. "

I really liked the Yardbirds. Mi-a plăcut Heart Full Of Soul...

.. and Jeff's singing style it sounds like a sitar.

He was made by a guitarist with a very distinctive style.

He did not follow the path of anyone else,

it was clear there, completely on its own.

They had a sitar singer in the studio,

who thought music in a way time signature of 13 and a quarter!

And they kept telling him, "No, it's 4/4."

And I said, "I mean, that's about it."

So I sang his octave, octave G and then I sang to him ...

And then I said, "Why the hell am I? brought here? I can sing that! "

I think he was a pioneer of hard rock from day one.

He was doing things that weren't they existed only in his mind.

When I heard Yardbirds, when I heard Jeff singing,

sounds just different, right since then, for my young ears.

His guitar had a kind of sound

which was different from the usual pop stuff. They had something special,

the notes he sings, they seemed very lyrical to me.

And in a month, we're flying to America!

Not only had I arrived in America,

but I also recorded in the famous Sun studio for Chess Records.

Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things

Shapes Of Things, an amazing piece. I remember the song very well.

"It simply came to our notice then to get so far

to get the sound we wanted? ”

In England, the studios of recordings failed to do so.

Sound engineers from England was all Puritans,

they didn't like anything that squeak or squeak.

I kept telling them, "Let it be heard squeaking! We don't care! "

Immediately, when I heard the playback to the song we told ourselves this is ...

Jeff was coming to me and me he kept singing the first fragments

from the play Shapes Of Things.

And when he got to the side solo, I thought,

"This is the most extraordinary solo."

Ravi Shankar played a role important in the Beatles and others,

and I used to stay at home to Page to listen to ragas

and Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar and just marveling at me.

How could this be adopted on the guitar, this pull of

strings to such an extent that to be able to play a song just like that?

The work Jeff put in Yardbirds was extremely important

for guitarist-based groups,

because he had an incredible ear and that he had set an amazing standard,

and also for the technique to it was also extraordinary.

And I have to say, then when I heard this song,

I really understood what Jeff was capable of.

Yardbirds had a manager even crazy Giorgio Gomelsky

and I remember how scared he was when he heard me sing the song.

The steam was coming out of his ears when I sang that song to him.

"It simply came to our notice then you are in this formation.

You opened some surreal paths, some avant-garde horses,

for the guitar in this band. ”

Giorgio was great, but I think a

something outrageous happened with the money.

I do not know. All I know is I don't never took anything out of it.

I think I threatened them leave if the band doesn't get rid of him.

That's when Simon Napier-Bell appeared and agreed to take over the management

and in five minutes Jimmy Page was in the band

and in that formula I came to film sets for Blow-Up.

And no one knew exactly what it would be like as in most movies,

he wasn't telling you what the movie would really be like.

But I was told that Antonioni he was a great director

and a little surreal for me too I thought it was a cool thing.

And the 3,000 check was even more amazing.

I don't think anyone in the band

he had never seen so much a lot of money in one go.

Everyone has invested something in fruit and vegetable stores.

Magazine. Business.

I invested in a Corvette’63 with broken windshield,

which for a person like me was the only rational thing to do!

ROAR ENGINES

I had a girlfriend in LA and I did went to her, the place was cool,

the weather was amazing.

And I let it all go on a Yardbirds tour.

I had never played in America before.

It was a shock, it was with true something unimaginable

over everything I thought it would be.

The Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars it was a gathering of artists

who were all coming on stage like to sing two or three songs.

They toured by bus.

You know, you had to be real amateur sucks on these.

I mean, you were on the road and you were giving 60 concerts in 60 days.

It was something very, very strange, because the show was a collection

of teenybop stars, very singers young for a very young audience.

.. in a bus that could be awful,

in which we were crammed between some people we didn't really like.

We didn't get along at all the rest of the cast in the show.

And it was just a toilet clogged and not working,

and there were people who had to sleeps in luggage nets.

But Jeff didn't get much out of it because he left very quickly,

after only a few shows.

After a couple of gigs, I thought, "I commit suicide if I still have to sing

the 15 minutes on stage, singing two hits plus one more. ”

That was all. The whole show was just a quick change.

Jerry Lewis' son was in that tour, Gary Lewis and Playboys,

and I thought, "This is America the real middle one.

We were telling people we were doing it part of that. And it wasn't like that. "

Yardbirds were on their way to destruction

a real career, you understand?

And they threw themselves into this ridicule box with various mixtures.

I called Jim to my room and I said, “Jim, I felt the horrors.

Here's my guitar. You will take over tomorrow's band leadership.

I'm not even going to play my guitar back". And that was the end.

No girlfriend, no Yardbirds, nothing.

I only had my Corvetta parked next to my mother's house

so I was free to dream again.

Jeff Beck Group - Shapes Of Things

Jeff and I met in Sheffield Mojo while I was doing the circuit

of concerts beating the highway, when I was singing with my first band, The Birds.

We got along really, really well,

and he told me about concerts with the Yardbirds

and then he said to me, well, “If we will no longer be members of the troops

in which we are now perhaps in a good morning we will work together ".

One of the good things about the period Yardbirds I remember is like

once returning from a tour of somewhere in the north, around 2 at night,

I stopped in front of the Cromwellian Club and I said to the Yardbirds:

"There is nothing to stop me to go in there alone. "

The guy at the door said, "Jeff! I'm glad to see you coming back. "

That night, there, no nothing interesting happens in the club.

Motown records and I were playing I said to myself, “How sad everything is.

"I am alone with a beer in front of him. ”

There was one more guy in one corner and that was Rod Stewart!

I talked to Jeff a little and he told me said he was forming a band,

for he had just left the Yardbirds.

I was unemployed too and I think I also mentioned that Woody was free:

"He lost his job too."

So we were three jobless musicians work so I formed a band.

His collaboration with Rod Stewart is already legendary,

that is, one of the best things that Rod ever did,

was collaborating with Jeff on the album Truth.

It was his muffled voice that was so

rarely seen in a white vocalist. And I liked that about him.

my poor heart crazy...

The band was with Micky Waller, with me on bass

and Jeff on guitar,

I had left holes and spaces to put it in

Rod's voice in the sonority His cruel one ...

Jeff really appreciated it Rod's voice, you know,

and he took great care of all things who could get into those spaces

Every time I see you

He believed in me, he really believed.

He wanted a singer suitable for that band.

He had such a voice ...

.. vital within the band

that you didn't need it anymore of a rhythm guitar.

His virtuoso performances Jeff is related to the blues voice

of Rod from that album. Was clearly an album of great influence.

The album Truth had the songs Rock on it My Plimsoul and I Ain’t Superstition

He's really my favorite Jeff Beck stylistically!

It's more of a kind of rock and roll that hits you in the face.

Jeff didn't just want to sing

what Muddy Waters and Howlin 'Wolf had sung.

He wanted to give the pieces a color more Chicago and more electric

and remove it from that structure of basis on which they were composed, you know,

and electrifying them, to do as many arrangements as possible.

Even if the songs were clear blues in 12 bars,

I arranged the pieces to sounds as interesting as possible.

- Okay, let's go. - I don't want us to sing them in unison,

I want us to sing them in harmony.

We make them the way you want.

I'll try to sing as you play the guitar.

If you think it's ringing too high, stop me, okay?

Stay with your voice as far back as possible.

Mickie Most, he didn't want to hear about Rod at all.

He told me, “You are the artist. Your name is on the cover of the record. "

I replied, "No, no. I'm not interested in that.

I'm interested in being part of one great rock or blues band. ”

But Micky was interested in doing it money as fast as you could

and he wanted us to be a pop band, you know, to our great despair,

because we didn't want to not at all to be like that

He saw no point in me being in that band. He wanted Jeff to sing

Why was she a star? pop so reluctant?

I guess it was because he didn't she never wanted to be a pop star.

I don't know how that song came about.

I think because, if you will, of a pressure from Mickie Most,

to try to hit a hit. But I think very, very quickly

he realized that was not it which Jeff wanted to do.

Another was his choice.

But this piece offered a lot other people a huge pleasure!

Much more pleasure than he never felt.

It was as if you were being asked to wear a pink dress

and stand on the upper deck of a bus on Oxford Street!

He framed me with this embarrassing pop song that

it doesn't represent me. But, yes over the years I started to like it

because he made them people to feel happy.

Jeff, I think, asked Mickie if I could sing that song,

but Mickie told him no.

So you can hear me screaming too me in the background, in the choir.

And when you just thought she had finally gotten somewhere,

You realized you were about about six months away!

I stormed Mickie Most's office,

and we kind of argued over his refusal.

Peter Grant was there too and he was smiling at me. I wanted to ...

as if his smile he said, “Slap him,

he should know what it is his place ", that is Mickie.

Shortly thereafter, you have to talked to Mickie and said:

"Look, Jeff was in the Yardbirds and has already opened

a door to America for himself and for the band he plays with.

And now there's a strong underground scene. ”

Steppenwolf had appeared on the radio FM had grown terribly.

There were places to sing, it was the press and there were also radio stations,

and, you know, you could build a band to come and tour with.

So I remember it was amazing when Woody and I got over it

Brooklyn Bridge on the couch in behind a limousine with Peter Grant,

as a manager. I mean, like I was in heaven. "Here we are!"

I did a five-month tour. A it was hard, but also a lot of fun.

When I got to America, I sang opening at Fillmore East.

I mean, I jumped straight into the abyss!

Then it was the famous night in which Rod didn't go on stage. Was hidden.

That was the night I hid behind the amplifiers

the story is absolutely true -

because I realized: “I am in America, in New York,

and I try to sound like a vocalist black and in the hall will be

a lot of blacks who will throw with all sorts of things to me. ”

"Funny! But it sounds fake!" But here I am on stage in front of a crowd,

and it was the beginning of a wonderful, wonderful careers.

I drove the room crazy. I made them Greatful Dead to leave the stage.

Robert Shelton of the New York Times he gave us a great chronicle.

Peter Grant called me at seven in the morning and said to me:

"Did you read the chronicle?" I told him: "I don't even want to hear about it."

He said, "No, no, it's really amazing."

He read it to me, about the song Pinter, about my interaction with Rod ...

And I read it and then I got it said, "Okay, and what do we do now?"

I reproduced it and sent it on,

to the press from all places of on the way to the West Coast,

so when I got to Fillmore West, I was already broken

American music scene, which was fantastic!

We all decided to give it a try let's compose some songs,

so Ronnie and I stayed for hours in a row in his mother's apartment

with a piece of white paper in front

until I took out a bottle of I'm coming and I'm done.

Only then could I compose a song called Plynth.

aş I'm thinking now

that creeps on every night

I'm wasting away

the ghost of a man that's me...

Plynth is a song I'm very proud of,

because it was one of the compositions to which I also wrote the words.

"Moisture from the ocean fills the sky

"Falls back down to the ground as time goes by."

fills the sky

as time goes by...

I was proud of the bass part drums and guitar and a low voice

And the piano part played by Nick. It was a magical combination.

And for me it was an honor to to be in that band, to be honest,

with Micky Waller, Nicky Hopkins and Ronnie Wood.

It was really a great band.

When you think about how much time was that and what an impact

he must have had then, for everything was so unique and original.

Tryth and Beck-Ola were albums who really stood out,

and there were kind of points reference that rock and roll records.

There were definitely two great manifestos for that time.

The sound of those records is definitely ... and I use them

further that benchmarks and for what I still do today,

because nothing sounds like those records.

And I was lucky to see them Live two or three times,

And they were really interesting.

And you never knew for sure whether or not Jeff would show up.

I mean, some of the stories about how he goes right in the middle

a tournament, that was, you know, a real hard blow.

Understand? But so was Jeff.

At that time there was a rupture between me and Rod.

I don't know what it came from.

It gave rise to a little doubt and I had no guarantee

that there will be a next tournament.

I saw that big festival past in our calendar.

I was nervous about it. I said, “We are not ready for him

We are not ready to defend the same scene with Sly and The Family Stone.

Woodstock was two weeks away distance when Jeff Group broke up.

I said to myself, "It's a pity, because a big festival in a few weeks "

It was Woodstock!

Jeff is gone. In the middle of the night. The next morning it was gone.

And I got a call: "Jeff went home."

When I saw the movie, I thought, "Thank God for your integrity"

Thank God she's a little pussy whispered to me:

"Don't do it" because I wasn't get ready for something like that.

That's not how I was imprinted in anyone's mind

that I had anything to do with what was sung there. I did the right thing!

He could have explained it to us as well then maybe it would have made sense.

But I agree too I'm glad I didn't.

And so once again, I was coming back back home to mom!

He was not at all satisfied with the success he had

And all of a sudden, he stopped talking with no one about music and guitar

Prefer to talk about the movies he liked, you know,

and certainly about his cars.

My grandmother used to take me to the movies and that's how I came to see

a movie called The Fast Car Band

Grandma got scared and said, "Oh, this movie is not right at all "

because it had the word "band" in the title so she said, “Okay, let's go out.

Let's get out of the movie theater and we'll be back when the next movie starts. "

I clung to the chair.

The beginning sequence shows these two speeding cars competing

on a wheeled street sidewalks and I was impressed on the spot.

For a category movie B, it was pretty absurd.

I look at him from time to time because it had such a big impact.

Come on, Johny, come faster!

Speed ​​cars have always been his passion since he was little

And then he started to build some too.

The way he said it many times that music and guitar are his job,

and that's his fun, when he returns home from tournaments.

He always played with his cars since when do I know him, you understand?

I think the first time I have been to his house, hoods from

His Corvetta was up and he was put under the car!

The fact that Jeff builds those cars and the fact that it does

so good, he does, I think, a man with two passions, guitar and cars.

Your senses are sharpened, because you built it.

And even if I have a car professionally built,

I still often drive a car an old one, a Ford or maybe a Chevy

which no longer lead that models these new ones and get over that hill

And that's done with the convertible, you know ... just

30 mph on a smooth, sloping slope easy and that's how I got to the top

and the car began to straighten the only one on the busy road

without me touching the steering wheel.

I steered in the opposite direction and still

I hit the poor man head on man from that Morris Traveler.

I broke her legs and I broke her face. Back injuries, leg injuries.

I was taken to Maidstone General Hospital,

where the doctors were amazing, simply incredible.

He was a cheerful one who used to he came to shave me and bring me tea

I was recovering quickly and he made up his mind one day to bring me a music newspaper

ROD BELIEVES THAT WE ARE DOING IT THEY WILL NOT BE SMALL (small)

And with an accent, Scotland told me:

"Your friend left you and he joined the Faces. "

I didn't have to hear that something right then.

I think the biggest problem for Jeff

was to find someone facing the band

and that really fits with what he was doing on guitar.

He had, you know, probably One of the best

vocal soloists of that time in the band to,

and how long did that band last? Just a few years.

Rod Stewart was great, but, you know, most of the time it was about ...

and I think one of the reasons for which has become so great

is that she performs music very well correctly or simply had

the right energy or whatever.

I arrived at Epic in the middle of '72,

and that orange album he had come out a few months before.

The name of the album was Jeff Beck Group,

but all always on the album that one as Orange Album

because it was on the cover photographed an orange.

I started looking instrumentalists who can ...

for example a drummer who could ... I was always focused on the drummer

He gave life to the band, he is the driving force.

That is, if you find the right drummer, you are ready for life!

Obviously, I lost the habit to contact us regularly, but

when I saw Jeff, it was that always very proud of the new band.

He always enjoys the new drummers he had found.

He told me: “I have him in the band this guy named Cozy Powell.

"Listen to what he can do!"

I liked Cozy. I chose him out of 20 drummers.

Micky Most's secretary organized the audition and told me:

"Jeff, I know you're late, but you don't have to look anymore.

That's your brother! ”

- She looks the same as me - same hair, you know. - Okay, Jeff, I'm Cozy.

I said, "So?" And he he began beating the drums.

And I saw those who were waiting to sing by packing his chisels!

They packed their things. They realized that was it.

And then Max Middleton came up with the idea of ​​singing a simple song,

a blues thing, something like that.

And he said, "Why not Are we trying on three songs? "

And all of a sudden there were three songs.

An era or counter melody,

and the third descended above the piece.

And something like a kind of cacophony came out

I said it was worth a try

Steve Cropper (Producer) told me: "Something really amazing came out"

because I had done those parts individually and then I overlapped them.

And I hadn't listened to them mixed up, I made each one individually,

because if I had heard number one guitar,

I could no longer sing against them.

And when I got in the cab and got them heard all three together, you know,

was, “Let's buy them something to drink for Max for that. ”

I think there's no doubt that the song that Definitly Maybe paved the way

spre Blow By Blow...

.. with a small detour. With Jeff, there is always a detour.

Well, we always liked to we also sing to other people's music

without being mentioned to us the name on the album cover.

I mean, like that thing in which Stevie Wonder shouts, "Jeff!" ...

.. that is, the song Looking For Another Pure Love.

Do it, Jeff.

And it's really great when something like this happens,

but I think I like Jeff and me to play on records where we are alone

some kind of mysterious agents and me I like the idea that someone is so

able to identify me on me through what I sing.

Stevie's record label had he needed to do something special.

And I didn't have it at the time nothing to do The Epic said:

"What if you are we going to the studio with Stevie?

I couldn't wait for something like this to happen.

So the deal was to I play a few songs on Stevie

Stevie 's Talking Book album and he will compose some special pieces

for me of which one to be Superstition.

He said to me, “What do you say we should we sing a song about superstitions

about which you know something, but Americans may not know? "

I said, "Well, we're not going under a ladder because it brings bad luck. ”

And I said, "If you break a mirror,

that brings bad luck for seven years. ”

I started beating the drums during a break. He please eat lunch,

and when he returned he began to clap to my rhythm.

I said, "Steve, I'm not ... I'm not the drummer. "

He says, "Okay, but now you are. Don't stop."

And he put his hand on the keyboard and he began to sing to that rhythm.

And I said to myself, “Christ, I'm beating on drums for Stevie Wonder! ”

It was really cool, even if it was a simple thing we sing.

And Steve said, "OK, we will print this track ".

Because I was starting to mess with all fillings and other stuff.

Then he sat down at the drum set and sang the same track that

I had beaten the drums. But much better.

And he made room for an entrance for a measure of five agreements

and then went straight in and he did the bass line too.

That was.

When that bass line came along, everyone in the studio fell to the bottom.

Then he put the lyrics, some lyrics hard and so the song was ready.