The mutual effect between the two cannot be overstated as Beck later channeled Hendrix - Little Wing - in a way that became his signature, for me.
Rolling Stone, April 1st 2024:
"The long awaited second release from Jeff'n'Jimi,
All Played Out, hit the internet today with all the force of a power-assisted paintball gun and much of the same effect sonically speaking.
While creative differences have been blamed for the unusually long 8 year interval between this sophomore offering and their freshman blockbuster
Distorted Memory, both of the veteran rockers say it was simply a matter of perfectionist attitudes ruling the mixing lab.
There was also apparently a close-to-blows moment when Jimi secretly swapped his Strat's experimental digital pickups with Jeff's old school PAF's.
"Drove me nuts. I thought me axe had had it until I noticed the pickup swap. So I got an old Squier Strat and dressed it to look like Jimi's and got to the studio early one day to set him up. When he came in it looked like I'd borrowed his Strat for some dubbing but I pretended to be frustrated with it and suddenly raised it over my head and gave it the ol' blow by blow. The neck gave some trouble but it had the desired effect on Jimi: He screamed, ran out, and came back with a fire extinguisher and doused me down.
Oh the stories I could tell you about those sessions, some wild wild times, like setting up the pizza delivery guy, he fell for the same gag 6 times in a row!"
