Re: Mick Taylor's legacy
Date: February 2, 2005 11:09
A million times on Wood Vs Taylor____ They were both the right man for the right job at the right time.
But we have to stay grounded in reality, and with the release of Live Licks, Chuck Leveall, rising ticket prices, and on and on that we bitch about incessantly, its amazing that there is anyone left that really believes THAT MICK JAGGER OR KEITH RICHARDS REALLY GIVES A FLYING FIG FOR WHAT 4-5 POSTERS ON IORR REALLY WANT or want think. How many of us are in any position to "pester" the glimmer twins? Bill was none to happy about MT at the one and only KC re-union ( really read what he had to say about it, he felt it was the worst show of he tour), so he is never going to force the issue if he climbs on stage.
Also, look at what you write...if you really think that MT thinks of Jagger as a bastard and that he was screwed over, why oh why would he want to share a stage with the man. For us? Isn't that a form of whoring yourself, that you would perfrom for the masses WITH PEOpLE YOU THINK ILL OF AND YOU FEEL CHEATED YOU? If that is the way MT feels, than why would any of his fans want him to compromise himself.
Same said for Jagger...if he is to have any shred of respect as an artist, he should not get on stage with someone that he wishes would "fall of the face of the Earth." Personally, I think the people fighting this Wood Vs Taylor thing that HAS TO END IN STALEMATE, are now beginning to foist there own feelings onto the shoulders of others. It is quite a bit of transference to state we know what the harsh feelings between all of these guys ( MT, MJ, KR)are when t none of us have really met them. They apparently did spend the day together, if the rumour mill is right, the day of the Astoria. MT did show up at the theater show and sit in the audience, so it does not seem believable to me that he felt hateful, shunned , put off, or angry. IT has been 30 plus years and the protaginists in this never ending story probably do not have near the emotion vested in the sitaution any more as some of the fans do.
Maybe, just maybe, they do not hate each other but just do not feel like playing together any more. Stories say Lennon and McCartny made peace in the seventies very quietly, and resumed a form of friendship and respect and there break up was much uglier. Still, they never ever had any desire to really play together any more. Whether it is MT or MJ or KR, by us trying to force, or pester, or anything ( not that it is really possible) some sort of reunion, then we just loose repsct for all the players and their sensitivities in order for us to get what we want fomr them when we want it.