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Had a chance to sit down and talk to Jeff Beck, and his bass player about ten days ago.  Amazing dude.  It has led to an article for one of two magazines, whoever writes the larger check (again, I rule).

Doing an article about the transcendant moment we are at musically right now in blues.

Did interviews with Joe, Beck, Gomes, Warren Haynes, the Bramhall boy, and Derek Trucks, jason ricci.  Will interview the cats from the Norht Mississippi all stars as well.

So my thinking is this...we can sort of look at the new hippie movement of bands like Blind Melon, Blues Traveler and the Spin Doctors as a footprint.  You look at how they birthed cats like Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, the jam band movment, bonaroo.

If we look at these young men pushing a blues form further than it has been pushed before, then you see that it is going to go somewhere no one expected.

I have permission to actually interview my friend Scott, as he has a real direct connection to that old school.  Regardless of talent, none of the other cats spent a decade living with Buddy Guy and all that that went along with it.  When Junior Wells and Buddy Guy are your surrogate parents, you have a unique perspective.  I think that for the most part he is carrying around stories that no one knows, and I want to be able to write them down.

Anyway, you look at the work of these new dudes, and it is amazing to see it sort of come out of SRV and Jimi, but also from YES and Kings X and Pink Floyd.

This moment, this moment right now is reshaping the blues.  Right now.  We move beyond Handy Awards, and blues cruises, and into Bonaroo and real Who-like rock shows.

And for the record, Jeff Beck is the greatest guitar player on the planet.  Everything, every sound on the record, he can make all of them live.

No limits to Beck