An Appreciation of Jeff Beck, by Living Colour’s Vernon Reid: ‘He Went Forward in a Way That Would Frighten Normal People’

Few fellow guitar heroes were more visibly affected by news of Jeff Beck’s Jan. 10 death, at age 78, than Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, whose first social response consisted of profanity and incomprehension. He followed that with a whole tweetstorm’s worth of appreciation for the man who helped shape him. Variety spoke with Reid about what made Beck one of a kind. “The guitar community is blindsided. We’ve had many bad days — I think of Steve Ray Vaughan and Dime Bag Darrell and Chris Cornell; back before there were socials, (Chicago’s) Terry Kath or Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain;… Read Full Article