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71Tele
Taylor shines when he has a great song to play with. As a mere soloist he is far less interesting.
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kleermaker
Taylor is an all rounder, as you can hear on my YT channel. He rocks, he bluesses, he's playing ballad leads and solos. He can play jazzy, he can play acoustic. Because he's in the first place a musician, in the second an instumentalist. Inventing solos like on Sway and TWFNO is a form of composing. Well, listen for fun to these two alternate Sway and TWFNO guitar parts by Taylor. He kinda lives in those two songs.
(second song/part)
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kleermaker
Music of the quality of the best Stones songs has to be performed at the highest musical and emotional level to move me.
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71Tele
Taylor shines when he has a great song to play with. As a mere soloist he is far less interesting.
With this part I totally agree. I would add: Taylor can make a great song sound superior when playing in a great band or a with a good partner indeed. Somehow he has to be inspired to get out the best.
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NICOS
Concerning Ron Wood, I am of the opinion that musically he was far more important than Taylor ever was,
Music has nothing to do about important, it's all about what you feel
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kleermaker
Well, HM, I just posted my top ten (instead of 7) of favourite official Stones albums. That answers your question a great deal I guess. As Taylor in an interview simply said: Music is a combination of rhythm and melody. There must be a certain balance and I think that balance was at its best during the Taylor era ON STAGE. Very raw at times as well. For instance SFM, Brown S, MR, All down the line, etc. I guess my YT-channel answers your question too.
In my top 7 I have Buttons and Aftermath which I consider as strongly-influenced-by-Brian albums. If the question was: What official Stones albums do you listen to mostly, my answer would have been: Soup, Buttons and Ya Ya's. But I have a special affinity with Aftermath and Satanic. Satanic is a beautiful, musical and emotional album. I don't understand why the Glimmers have dissociated themselves so much from that special album, which imo stands apart from Sergeant Peppers.