Jeff Beck spent 1976 proving a guitarist didn’t need a singer to matter. Touring behind Wired, he’d folded himself into the Jan Hammer Group’s jazz-fusion firepower — no frontman, no hits to recite, just pure instrumental combustion. When he brought that sound to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, opening for the Beach Boys of all bills, the mismatch was the point: California pop harmonies followed by a guitarist reinventing what rock guitar could sound like.
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