Jeff Beck doesn't claim to know why young rock guitarists by and large have stopped playing solos. "You think they can't do it, or is it just out of fashion?" he said, answering a question with a question.
Either way, the disappearance of the solo from most contemporary rock music has turned this six-string flamethrower into a flame-keeper. Beck isn't consciously campaigning for the guitar solo's revival. He's just carrying the torch by example. A British Invasion original, he continues to play guitar-centred music - instrumental rock, jazz-rock fusion and, more recently, tracks underlined by computer-generated rhythms.