Jeff Beck

of nowhere with a sound and style like no other. When Jeff Beck joined the Yardbirds in 1966, he took over from Eric Clapton, soon to be celebrated as no less than God for his fiery guitar playing with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Another guitarist might have gone weak in the knees magazine in 2009. “So I just delved into my brain box to find sounds that didn’t sound like a guitar. I used to listen to Alvino Rey, the legendary pedal-steel player, who would create vocal wah sounds with the guitar. Also Les Paul using slap echo and multitrack really caught my ear. It was the hippest stuff I’d heard at the time.”