DVDS: Guitar hero goes clubbing; JEFF BECK Performing This Week... *****.Byline: JESSICA MELLOR The former Yardbirds gunslinger Gunslinger A high-strung portfolio manager who, looking for high returns, invests in very high-risk stock. Notes: Stay away from these guys, or they could end up shooting you in the foot! hasn't played small venues for about 40 years, so this show - taken from a week's residency at Ronnie Scott's jazz club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club which has operated in London since 1959. The club opened on October 30 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. in November 2007 - is a real, and rare, treat. With a class band, Beck tears through a set covering his whole career. Using a minimum of effects and no pick, he relies on his jawdropping technique, constantly bending notes with his Strat's tremolo tremolo (trem´  lō),n an irregular and exaggerated speech pattern that may be the symptom of an emotional disturbance or of various arm and using his tone and volume controls to shape the sound. His style can be both gently lyrical, as on the cover of Nitin Sawhney's Nadia, or pack a metal punch with dive-bombing runs and flying harmonics on the likes of Led Boots and Big Block. Every nuance and drop of sweat is captured in intimate detail in a set which blows away the packed audience. Eric Clapton also gets up to jam, while Joss Stone and Imogen Heap guest on vocals. This is a ringside seat at what Beck described as "The best week I've ever had". STAR RATINGS: ***** Brilliant **** Good *** Average ** Poor * Dreadful |
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