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Musician Jeff Beck accepts his honor for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 53rd period Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. Feb 13, 2011. REUTERS/LucyReuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jeff Beck is partying aforementioned it's 1959.

The nation bass icon, firm from his threesome Grammy wins (one more than Eminem and Justin Bieber combined), is touch the concert circuit after this period to promote a newborn CD and DVD tribute to sway 'n' listing pioneer Les Paul.

"Rock 'N' Roll Party" is a live transcription of a show that Beck headlined last assemblage at the Iridium, a New royalty talking club where Apostle played every weekday for 14 years before his modification in 2009, aged 94.

With Irish rockabilly vocaliser Imelda May direction most of the vocals, Beck led a band that dusted off old '50 hits popularized by Apostle and his partner Mary Ford, including "How High the Moon" and "Vaya Con Dios." They also performed another popular songs from the era aforementioned Eddie Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock" and the Shadows' instrumental "Apache."

The building tour begins March 24 in Washington, D.C. Beck spoke to Reuters about early sway penalization and Les Paul.

Q: There's apparently a retro good to the album. Do you subscribe to George Harrison's somewhat self-deprecating belief that sway 'n' listing started feat descending in about 1962?

A: "There's some actuality in that. Apart from Jimi Hendrix and some Motown and some Stax, and the nation imbibe scene, I've got a difficulty with that. I've got a bounteous problem."

Q: Why is that?

A: "Without existence likewise rude, it meet isn't my category of music. I could center no evidence that these grouping making these records had some real soul or some discernment of what we'd every been shown in cost of hardcore sway 'n' listing aforementioned Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Little Richard. That was the nuclear discharge in the mid-'50s. And then we got Herman's Hermits ... and the Monkees."

Q: Do you think The Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin they failed to flex some of that early energy?

A: "I see why grouping aforementioned it, but not at the banishment of every the penalization that went before. Coming up to date, I'm pretty certain that grouping will enjoy what we're gonna do because the nostalgia thing is there, pre-Beatles. It shows pretty intimately what things were aforementioned in '57-'58. It's a enthusiastic defence to do that and hit fun doing it ... Nothing stays the same, but I don't see why that penalization should be dead. It's aforementioned jazz, perception to Sinatra's clog from the '50s is meet the best. The Capitol recordings, you cannot intend a better recording. To see that penalization assembling dust really upsets me."

Q: What was the extent of your friendship with Les Paul?

A: "The prototypal instance I met him (in 1975), he came to a gig where (jazz guitarist) Evangelist McLaughlin was on stage, and it was a horrible, horrible good and I had to go on and do an encore with John, and it was the worst cacophony of sound. And then when I got off in the wings, he said. 'Well I gotta go but you guys circularize on doing some the hell it is you're doing.' Bless him."

Q: And from then on were you buddies? Did you secure out?

A: "Yeah, I surmisal you could feature that -- meet a delight to hit him around. He came to the Roseland (Ballroom in New York). We were pretty flooded on, that was doing some of the techno stuff, and he'd meet never heard anything aforementioned it. Poor guy! We were shredding. And he ate every the matter in the panjandrum lounge! He could hit been a standup. He could hit been a Jackie Mason. He was meet completely queer as hell -- aware and move right up to the ripened old geezerhood of 94. Sadly missed."

Q: Do you think you'll ease be doing it at 94?

A: "Me? No!"

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Patricia Reaney)

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