“He would always put himself down. I'd say, 'How is your latest record, Jeff?' And he'd go, 'Oh, it's a lot of rubbish'”: Ritchie Blackmore says that Jeff Beck was "always reaching for something he couldn't find"

Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck.

It’s coming up for three years since Jeff Beck passed away, and Ritchie Blackmore has been paying tribute to the guitar great in a new podcast interview.

Blackmore was talking to Rock Of Nations With Dave Kinchen and Shane McEachern when conversation turned to his contemporaries, including Beck.