The Piano Man and his band additionally shut live performance with “Going Down” jam to honor “the good virtuoso guitarist”
Billy Joel paid tribute to Jeff Beck Friday evening at his month-to-month gig at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, performing two songs popularized by the late guitar god.
“He was a musician that I all the time liked. He was one of the best. Jeff Beck simply handed away… I couldn’t let the evening go by with out doing one thing by Jeff,” Joel instructed the viewers. “This can be a recording he did with Rod Stewart, referred to as ‘Individuals Get Prepared.’”
Joel and his band then launched right into a rendition of the Curtis Mayfield-penned traditional, which Beck and Stewart recorded for the guitarist’s 1985 LP Flash, and one in all Beck’s best songs; Joel’s saxophonist Mark Rivera dealt with lead vocals for the efficiency.
Later within the gig, following Joel’s standard live performance nearer “You Might Be Proper,” the Piano Man and his band continued taking part in round onstage, an impromptu jam classes that finally was “Going Down,” a Don Nix-penned observe that the Jeff Beck Group coated on their 1972 self-titled third album. “We must always have rehearsed this immediately,” Joel quipped of the efficiency.
Beck died Tuesday, Jan. 10, following a brief bout with bacterial meningitis. Upon information of his dying, Joel tweeted, “I simply heard the unhappy information that the good virtuoso guitarist, Jeff Beck, has died. He was one in all my heroes. I used to be lucky to fulfill him lately and I’m very grateful now that I used to be in a position to inform him how a lot I admired his musical talent. That is the tip of an period.”