Tal reflects on her 2007 Crossroads performance with @JeffBeck on the @lexfridman podcast

there's a legendary video of you playing with Jeff Beck we're actually watching it in the background now so for people who don't know Jeff is one of the greatest guitarists ever uh so you playing with him at the 2007 uh Crossroads Festival mhm and people should definitely watch that video you were killing it on the on the base look at that face uh were you scared what was that experience like were you nervous you don't look nervous uh confident yeah I wasn't nervous I I think that you can get an adrenaline rush before a stage which is natural but I think as soon as you bring fear to a band stand you're you're like limiting yourself you're kind of like wooling yourself off from everyone else if you're afraid like what is there to be afraid of that you must be afraid of making a mistake and therefore you're coming at it as like a perfectionist and you can't come at music that way or it's not going to be as expansive and vulnerable and true so no I was excited and passionate and having the having the best time and also you know the fact that he gave me this solo the context of this performance is that this was a Guitar Festival it's one of the biggest guitar festivals in the world cuz Eric Clapton's festival and there's like 400 guitar that are all playing like solos all night and we were like towards the end of the night and I I could tell like Jeff like got like a kick out of you know I'm I'm not going to solo on like one of my most well-known songs C V's lovers well Stevie Wonder wrote it but people know Jeff for that song and his solo on it like I'm going to give it to my bass player and like and he did and like that he's like bowing like that that that like he didn't have to do that but you really stepped up there it just it just shows what a generous musician he is and that's evident in his playing across the board is he is a generous loving open musician he's not there for himself he's there for the music and he thought well this would be the perfect musical thing to do

Channel: Tal Wilkenfeld

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Length: 2min 27sec (147 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 10 2024