How do you beat that? Johnny Depp and I were both backstage here in Phoenix talking to him, and while he’s talking to us, he’s just noodling on the guitar. And on top of it, he builds ’32 Ford Roadsters. “Since then, I’ve seen him play with Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden. And the guitar looked like it had been dragged behind the bus for years - an old Telecaster with big chips out of it, and everything - and he made that thing sound like a Stradivarius.” ![]() “And at the time, you can imagine, he was showing off as much as he could and he was amazing. “I’d never seen anybody play guitar like that - so cocky,” he continued. And then they got on stage and blew us off the stage, because they were The Yardbirds.'” Every time we finished a song, they’d give us a thumbs up, ’cause we were pretty good we actually did their songs pretty good. “And I could see Jeff and I could see Keith Relf and all the guys. And we got up on stage - a thousand kids there - and we played all The Yardbirds songs. We were The Yardbirds band in Phoenix - still in high school. And they couldn’t have been much older than us they were probably 19 or 20. ![]() “We actually opened for The Yardbirds when we were 16 years old, 17 years old. The musician praised Beck saying he is “still the most creative guitar player out there”. ![]() ![]() In an interview “ The Rock Show With Johnnie Walker” guitarist Jeff Beck his rock god. The Honeydrippers “Good Rockin’ At Midnight” The 11 most important Jeff Beck songs chosen by himself: The Yardbirds “Train Kept A Rollin’”
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