It's Beck's Birthday Today, Happy Birthday Beck!

Yeah, Jeff Beck, not the precious little singer/songwriter.

"I'll tell you what Jeff Beck invented, yet not singlehandedly: the heavy metal guitar solo. His solo on the Yardbirds' 'Mister You're A Better Man Than I' was THE original primal prototype heavy metal guitar move. Ten million fretbusters since have heard and tried to replicate the chilling fire-and-ice power of it and all failed."
- Lester Bangs