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Squiggle
For me, the Small Faces are up there with the Stones and a handful of others. Their songs were superb and their sound was superb. So there’s that. But (and watch how I weave this thread into the fabric of IORR) there’s also their long association with the Stones.
1) Kenney Jones was Brian’s drummer for A Degree of Murder
2) Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane appeared on Their Satanic Majesties Request
3) Steve and Brian had tentative plans to work together before Brian died
4) Steve was one of the potential replacements for Mick Taylor
4b) and had been in Humble Pie with Bill Wyman’s friend and protégé Peter Frampton
4b2) who was another potential Taylor replacement
5) Ian McLagan recorded and toured with the Stones
6) Ronnie, Ian and Kenney were in the Faces with Ronnie Wood
7) Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood made Mahoney’s Last Stand together
8) Ian Mclagan was in the New Barbarians with Ronnie Wood and Keith
9) Keith gave Steve and Ronnie money to finish their The Legendary Majik Mijits album
10) Andrew Loog Oldham signed them to Immediate
11) Probably something else

12) Made one of of the best intro of a song Tin Soldier

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Squiggle
For me, the Small Faces are up there with the Stones and a handful of others. Their songs were superb and their sound was superb. So there’s that. But (and watch how I weave this thread into the fabric of IORR) there’s also their long association with the Stones.
1) Kenney Jones was Brian’s drummer for A Degree of Murder
2) Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane appeared on Their Satanic Majesties Request
3) Steve and Brian had tentative plans to work together before Brian died
4) Steve was one of the potential replacements for Mick Taylor
4b) and had been in Humble Pie with Bill Wyman’s friend and protégé Peter Frampton
4b2) who was another potential Taylor replacement
5) Ian McLagan recorded and toured with the Stones
6) Ronnie, Ian and Kenney were in the Faces with Ronnie Wood
7) Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood made Mahoney’s Last Stand together
8) Ian Mclagan was in the New Barbarians with Ronnie Wood and Keith
9) Keith gave Steve and Ronnie money to finish their The Legendary Majik Mijits album
10) Andrew Loog Oldham signed them to Immediate
11) Probably something else

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Big Al
Love 'em!

Why posters here yap on about the Faces - the Ronnie connection, perhaps? Or was it because they were bigger in the States - and The Small Faces get overlooked leaves me slightly miffed. They were the 1960's to anyone Brit who followed music at the time. Marriott was a sublime vocalist - far more so than Rod. All those singles, man: Watcha Gonna Do About It, Sha La La La Lee, My Minds Eye, I Can't Make It, All Or Nothing and the ultimate cockney knees-up, Lazy Sunday.

Jagger was a mockney - these guys - Maclagan aside - were all from the East End.

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24FPS

I'm still trying to think of an American group that was big here but not in the U.K.

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walkingthedog
The Rascals, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tommy James & The Shondells. Come to think of it, The Doors weren't really huge in the UK either. And thinking even
more, I cannot recall that any American group was really big in the UK.

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24FPS
Squiggle: Are you English? Being a Yank I never heard or saw much of The Small Faces (excepting the subversive Itchycoo Park). I got a good look at them last year with the 'SMALL FACES, All or Nothing' DVD. I came away from it a Steve Marriot fan and will try and dig up more on him. But the rest of the band's appeal leaves me shaking my head. They seem a little UK-centric. Some of the videos are with this older man and it all seems daft, but I don't get it. And I know a teenage guitarist who is a Ronnie Lane nut. Were they popular outside of the U.K.? Because I don't think they made much of an impact here.

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walkingthedog
The Rascals, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Tommy James & The Shondells. Come to think of it, The Doors weren't really huge in the UK either. And thinking even
more, I cannot recall that any American group was really big in the UK.

Well, The Beach Boys had 13 top-20 singles on the British Charts throughout the 1960's - so they were pretty popular. Mr. Tambourine Man was a No.1 for the Byrds on the British charts, too. I think some of the early 60's surf instrumentals may have been hits here, too: Pipeline, Walk Don't Run, Wipeout, etc.

Generally peaking, the reason that the U.S. acts had a lesser impact in the UK was because the British acts were so dominant circa 1964-66 - even in the States.

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Silver Dagger
Other associations are:

The Small Faces' Lazy Sunday features a couple of seconds of the riff from Satisfaction towards the end.

Mick gets a namecheck in their last single The Universal.

Later on in Humble Pie Steve Marriott covered Rollin' Stone on Rockin' The Filmore. Humble Pie also covered Dobie Gray's Drift Away and That's How Strong My Love Is. And they wrote a song called Live With Me...a completely different song though.

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24FPS
Would it be fair to say that The Small Faces were the English rock band's 'rock band', much like comedians have a fave comedian who might not have wide appeal?