Apologies if this has already been discussed a million times - I'm new here (hello!).

The Marriott '75 audition, where he was supposedly Keith's No. 1 choice, but couldn't help himself upstaging Mick. Did this actually happen? Is it apocryphal? Or maybe it was a jam session between friends and not an audition at all?

Marriott's biography All Too Beautiful isn't terribly informative on this. Of those who have commented on it, Ronnie Wood seems to have been the only other person in the room. Peter Frampton has said that Marriott was on no shortlist that he knew of (but that he himself was).

What is known, and what is conjecture? Thanks.

By all accounts Marriott never auditioned, nor was he ever considered.

Mathijs

I don't think so ....I think it was really always going to be Woodie....The only others who seemed to get a shot at it
played on Back n Blue....Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mendel...

Funny everyone was going to be playing for the Stones back then..

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I don't think so ....I think it was really always going to be Woodie....The only others who seemed to get a shot at it
played on Back n Blue....Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mendel...

Funny everyone was going to be playing for the Stones back then..

They also tried to get Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, Rory Callagher, Shuggie Otis

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I don't think so ....I think it was really always going to be Woodie....The only others who seemed to get a shot at it
played on Back n Blue....Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mendel...

Funny everyone was going to be playing for the Stones back then..

They also tried to get Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, Rory Callagher, Shuggie Otis

Robert Johnson too. Not that Robert Johnson.

Yes...True but i think other then Woodie the only one who really had a shot was Wayne...But he was from the States and
played a lot like Taylor...

Ronnie Wood says in his book (p. 115 of hardback edition): "Keith admitted to me that his first choice to replace Mick Taylor had been Steve Marriott, but the Stones agreed that what they really needed was a lead and rhythm guitar player, and eventually settled on three names - Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and me."

Hmmm.

Here's what Pam Marriott, Steve's second wife, has to say in the Marriott biography All Too Beautiful:

"Steve told me, 'I was good and stood at the back for a while, but then Keith would hit this lick and I just couldn't keep my mouth shut.' Keith wanted him in, but there was no way that once Steve opened his mouth Mick would have him in the band. He knew Steve would never stay in the background. They were the one band in the world that Steve would have loved to have been in. He just wanted to work with Keith."

That does sound as though some sort of jam session occurred, even if it wasn't an offical 'audition'.

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mtaylor

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I don't think so ....I think it was really always going to be Woodie....The only others who seemed to get a shot at it
played on Back n Blue....Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mendel...

Funny everyone was going to be playing for the Stones back then..

They also tried to get Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, Rory Callagher, Shuggie Otis

Robert Johnson too. Not that Robert Johnson.

Jeff Beck yes, but the rest: probably not at all.

Mathijs



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-04-07 23:05 by Mathijs.

Agreed, I think it was always gonna be ROn's gig...I do remember reading an interview with Rory Gallagher who said he did turn up for the auditions but Mick and Keith both had flu and wouldn't see/listen to him, so he went home!