Beck - I ran across him at a concert I had payed to see and asked for an autograph on one of his CD's. He just grabbed his guitars from his bus and walked off to the sound check. Guy is royal prick.
Well, based on my own personal experiences working for him, I would say that that is an inacurate assessment of what Beck is like. I've worked 4 or 5 of his shows, and he's never been a prick. In fact, a couple of times he's gotten cases of beer for the local crew. For an artist to say that the local crew gets beer on his dollar is extremely rare. He's quite shy, and that might come off as him being a prick, but he's never pulled any bullshit like some other prima donna rockstars that I've worked for in the past. You want to talk about a
real prick? Talk about Marilyn Manson, Billy Corgan, John Mellonhead, Prince, Madonna, Cher, Noel and Liam Gallagher, Victoria Beckham, Tokio Hotel, Jared Leto, Kenny G, Slash, the list is endless, but, in my personal experience, it doesn't include Beck. :2 cents:
Also, Beck doesn't grab his guitars off the bus. They arrive at a venue in big, heavy road cases, otherwise known as Cadillacs in the industry, and are unpacked and tuned by the guitar tech. He might have a guitar that he practices with on the bus, but that would not be the guitar that he would use for sound check, as the ones actually used are set up on a guitar boat in guitar world, which is usually offstage left.
![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)