“The first time I went to Jeff Beck’s house, he sat me in front of a ton of amps and gave me a guitar… he wanted to see if I could get my tone no matter what”: Carmen Vandenberg recalls Jeff Beck’s ultimate tone test

Carmen Vandenberg is one of only five guitarists have ever been handpicked by Jeff Beck to play on a solo album. After meeting her at Roger Taylor’s birthday party, Beck attended a show by Vandenberg’s band, Bones UK. He was so impressed that he immediately recruited Vandenberg and her bandmate, Rosie Bones, to feature on his album – but not before asking the guitarist to undergo an intriguing test.

“The first time I went to his house, he sat me in front of a ton of amps, no pedals or anything, and gave me a guitar,” recalls Vandenberg in the latest issue of Total Guitar. “The test was, he would put me through each one of the amps, and he wanted to see if I could get my tone no matter what he put me through or how he set it.

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