I can just take this to different tastes then. Sure Jeff Beck is a great player but to be honest I can’t say I’d want to listen to more than 1 or 2 songs at a time. That to me is boring. It’s not quite shredding like Joe Satriani, but yet it isn’t heavy either. It’s like listening to Hendrix which I can respect but it’s not my cup of tea. Taking this into consideration I can honestly say I wouldn’t consider you a Black Sabbath fan then or now.
And for the umpteenth time, I never said I was a Black Sabbath fan, ever. I said, we went to their concert. I had a couple of their albums. I thought they had a neat gimmick-—but that was all. But I think in any poll of the top 10 most influential guitarists, Beck’s name would come up in the top 2-3 in almost every poll, and I’d wager Iommi wouldn’t crack a single one. And, for the record, Clapton was once asked who was better, him or Hendrix, and he said, “he plays a lick, then I play a lick, but Jeff Beck beats us both.”