A very innovative guitarist, Jeff Beck was just 20 when he replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds. He had been recommended by Jimmy Page, Yardbirds bassist at the time and future Led Zeppelin guitarist. Beck left the Yardbirds in 1966 due to illness.
He's a founding member of the Jeff Beck Group, formed in England in 1967. It included Rod Stewart on vocals and future Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood on bass.
Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty told Songfacts about how Beck compared to Jimmy Page. "Jeff was very good to work with in that he was a very spontaneous, very wild player; very creative, and he would never play anything twice," he said. "But you never really quite knew what was going to happen with him. So he could go into a mood at a gig and lose his temper. So although he was spontaneous, you never really knew. But Jimmy Page in those days was much more grounded. And much more business-like. I know people laugh when I say that. And he was good to work with, because you more or less knew how a gig was going to be. But maybe he wasn't quite as creative and spontaneous as Jeff."
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