See Billy Joel Pay Tribute to Jeff Beck at MSG Concert – Rolling Stone

Billy Joel paid tribute to Jeff Beck Friday night time 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 cherished. He was the perfect. Jeff Beck simply handed away… I couldn’t let the night time go by with out doing one thing by Jeff,” Joel instructed the viewers. “This can be a recording he did with Rod Stewart, known as ‘Folks Get Prepared.’”

Joel and his band then launched right into a rendition of the Curtis Mayfield-penned basic, which Beck and Stewart recorded for the guitarist’s 1985 LP Flash, and one among Beck’s biggest songs; Joel’s saxophonist Mark Rivera dealt with lead vocals for the efficiency.

Later within the gig, following Joel’s regular live performance nearer “You Might Be Proper,” the Piano Man and his band continued taking part in round onstage, an impromptu jam periods that finally was “Going Down,” a Don Nix-penned observe that the Jeff Beck Group lined on their 1972 self-titled third album. “We should 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 loss of life, Joel tweeted, “I simply heard the unhappy information that the good virtuoso guitarist, Jeff Beck, has died. He was one among my heroes. I used to be lucky to fulfill him not too long ago and I’m very grateful now that I used to be in a position to inform him how a lot I admired his musical ability. That is the top of an period.”