Guitar Tricks Insider February/March Digital Edition | Page 8
RIFFING
WE PLAYED SOME
TUNES FOR GUITARISTS
OF VARIOUS STRIPES
AND HERE’S WHAT
THEY HAD TO SAY…
AEROSMITH
on “New Ways/Train Train” from Rough
and Ready, by the Jeff Beck Group
Tommy Hamilton When we all lived in one
apartment – before we ever recorded – there
were a couple of albums that got played until
there was nothing left of them. Rough and Ready
was one of them. It has a lot of great things on
it to listen to and learn from. It’s a guitar album,
but you’ll notice that rhythmically it’s strong and
expressive. The bass and drums are kicking. It’s
not a simple two-four backbeat that stays the
same at different speeds throughout different
songs. The bass and drums are doing energetic
things. Beck is doing classic guitar flash on top.
Brad Whitford Like Tom said, it was playing
in the apartment all day mixed in with Machine
Head and Fleetwood Mac.
Joe Perry This song shows the way Beck was
going because the next album started to get
jazzier. The album before this, Beck-Ola, was out
and out rock. This had a lot to listen to guitarwise. When we were playing bars and still into
R&B, this was so good to listen to. It’s still a
standard for a classic record. It stands up over
time. You can put it on and there’s nothing that’s
happening right now to replace it.
“WHEN WE WERE
PLAYING BARS
AND STILL INTO
R&B, THIS WAS
SO GOOD TO
LISTEN TO.”
- JOE PERRY
New Ways/Train Train - The Jeff Beck Group
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