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Jeff Beck: Constitution Hall, Washington DC

Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 15 October 1980

LIKE A BULL in the arena, the critic occasionally surrenders his ears to a higher cause. At Constitution Hall last night, guitar legend Jeff Beck riffed and roared, cut fiery swaths through the innocent air and more than once thrust a killing blow into the mind's ear. It was worth it, but barely.

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