Report: JEFF BECK Talks Hall Of Fame, New Album
April 6, 2009, 15 years ago
Billboard.com has issued the following report from Gary Graff:
New Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee JEFF BECK is hoping to take his current touring band into the studio this fall to start work on his first album of fresh material since 2003's Grammy Award-winning "Jeff." But he's not sure what to do with it yet.
"We can do more or less anything from ambient trance to thuggery and just about any kind of jazz fusion to almost kitsch," Beck told Billboard.com before his induction on Saturday in Cleveland. "It's great, but how do you forge the very first kind of casting? "I get this release phobia when I get halfway through a project. I go, 'That's no good. I don't think that's gonna work.' Then I listen to it about a year later and think, 'Eh, it would have worked. It's just late not 'cause it's old-fashioned,' so it never gets done."Beck says he and the troupe - keyboardist Jason Rebello, bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and drummer Vinie Colaiuta - did some recording last April in California, and while that material "is in a hard drive at the moment" he's of a mind to start over again. "There may be some fruit in there," Beck says of the material, "but I'd rather just start again with the four of us, the way we work together, and start hacking together some things."
Read the full report at Billboard.com.
