Jeff Beck, The White Stripes and friends: Royal Festival Hall, London
Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 2002
THE SHORT version: Jeff Beck is still the champ. The long version: American humorist Fran Lebowitz once wrote words to the effect that vegetables do not constitute a meal: they are part of a thing, but not the thing itself.
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