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72stones
I've never seen a few of those '72 Boston photos before at all. Taylor's hat is the giveaway.
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Doxa
Wonderful stuff!
What strikes me in the middle of all that... what... cross-fire hurricane, the circus, the world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll... is poor, sad, confused looking Mick Taylor... I guess it is impossible for us mortals to really understand what it was like to join for 20-year-old "serious" shy blues musician to THIS band in 1969 in the middle of its most hectic and dangerous time, and try to cope with it. He came from actually NOWHERE to the world second biggest rock=pop band (that was soon the biggest) and most likely hadn't the arrogant outlaw rock/pop star ("we piss anywhere, man") attitude of Mick and Keith nor the stoic temperant of Charlie or Bill to keep the head cool in any circumstances and take nothing too seriously... and knowing the fate of Brian wasn't any relief either... somehow the presence of Taylor is a kind of anomaly in these pictures... But he played like an angel...
- Doxa
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kleermaker
[Doxa, what a romantic and moving post of you. I enjoyed it. But Taylor had worked with some John Mayall, not a nobody then, even quite some not so easy personality. And he had played on stage for a couple of years with John before entering the Stones. He wasn't THAT green. And more selfconfident I think than we mostly think. His development within the band has proved that, culminating in the 1973 tour. Anyway, the third man in the Stones always had a hard time (Jones, Taylor and certainly Wood). But he pulled his conclusions at last and became a Travelling Man. And we still miss him. At least: many of us do.