BECKS BOLERO (1967) by the Jeff Beck Group with backwards guitar ending
So how did Jimmy Page come to write Beck s Bolero Well, with some difficulty and largely without me ... It was decided that it would be a good idea for me to record some of my own stuff like The Nazz are Blue with a view towards making a solo album this was partly to stop me moaning about the The Yardbirds. I went over to Jim s house and he had this 12string Fender and he loved the idea of using a bolerotype rhythm for a rock record. He was playing the bolero rhythm and I played the melody on top of it, but then I said, Jim, you ve got to break away from the bolero beat you can t go on like that for ever . So we stopped it dead in the middle of the song like the Yardbirds would do on For Your Love then we stuck that riff into the middle. I always try to do things wholeheartedly or not at all, so I tried to imagine what my ideal band would be. We had the right producer, Keith Moon on drums, Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones Official on bass. You could feel the excitement in the
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