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71Tele
He looked dramatically worse in the videos for the IORR album.
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He looked dramatically worse in the videos for the IORR album.
Pardon? I really don't think so. He looked best ever from 73 - 75/76.
On most of the Iorr videos he looked very good as well.Some people tend to look better during the first years of H use.Especially those who had been a bit overweight before.
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I don't know if I buy the story that Mick J told MT to just take some time off! I heard MJ was really shocked and pissed when he heard MT was done because they were recording and setting up the '75 tour. Thus began the auditions for his replacement. I don't think MT gave any notice, just basically said I'm outta here!
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It's amazing, isn't it, that we don't know what really happened, after all these
years?
Future historians will still be trying to piece this all together, but they won't
have the benefit of these guys being alive to tell us.
Then again, these guys could tell us, but they haven't---or rather, they've told
us an array of stories over the years. Often contradictory. Or marked by
hindsight, or perhaps the lack of foresight.
Mick Taylor's version of why and how he left--and what he thinks is up with the
Stones and where they're heading--is super interesting in the video of Mick
Taylor and Jack Bruce that's posted on the previous page of this thread.
-swiss
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mandrax1972
leave it to mick/keith to hire a former bass player to fill mick taylor's spot. unbelievable.
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leave it to mick/keith to hire a former bass player to fill mick taylor's spot. unbelievable.
Darryl's spot?
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leave it to mick/keith to hire a former bass player to fill mick taylor's spot. unbelievable.
Darryl's spot?
Referring to former bass player Ron Wood being chosen to fill Taylor's spot (I think).
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CousinC
BTW.-
Marshall Chess said in his bio that some time after Mick T.s departure they all realized that it would be harder than first imgagined to replace him as they were already under some time pressure. So Chess was send to London to track down Taylor and persuade him to come back.But Taylor had already gone into hiding and he just couldn't find him. Finally they gave up about it but not without some bad feelings.
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leave it to mick/keith to hire a former bass player to fill mick taylor's spot. unbelievable.
Darryl's spot?
Referring to former bass player Ron Wood being chosen to fill Taylor's spot (I think).
Yeah, got it now
"Former bass player", what a remarkably inaccurate description of the former guitar player of The Birds AND The Jeff Beck Group... Didn´t you know, Mandrax?
He suggested to take on the role as bassist himself, cuz Jeff couldn´t find one who was willing to take the job, though.
Sweet...
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People thinking there's some mysteriousnous in Taylor's leaving are all trying to find more in to it than there really is. Taylor was fed up with the Stones, waiting around for Keith, waiting around for the Stones to explode, arguing with Jagger and Richards about royalties and credits, and then finding his health detoriating due to substance abuse. So, he left. Simple as that. Jagger and Richards surely didn't expect that, rightfully so: why would anyone want to leave a multi-million dollar band when you could have done plenty of solo stuff outside the Stones. Then they took it as an opportunity to reinvent themselves, just as they did when Brian Jones was sacked. There wasn't too much of a time constraint as many people believe: agreed was to do a tour in the summer of '75 on the back of IORR, and not to record a new album and then tour. So they basically had six months to find a replacement for taylor, and with an abundance of fantastic players to choose from finding a replacement shouldn't be too difficult. They choose Londen Ronnie over Alabama Perkins, and the rest is history.
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mandrax1972
leave it to mick/keith to hire a former bass player to fill mick taylor's spot. unbelievable.
Darryl's spot?
Referring to former bass player Ron Wood being chosen to fill Taylor's spot (I think).
Yeah, got it now
"Former bass player", what a remarkably inaccurate description of the former guitar player of The Birds AND The Jeff Beck Group... Didn´t you know, Mandrax?
He suggested to take on the role as bassist himself, cuz Jeff couldn´t find one who was willing to take the job, though.
Sweet...
Not exactly right there Dandy - Jeff Beck didn't like Ronnie's Guitar playing,
but Rod wanted him in the band so Jeff said: let him play Bass..
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