Taylor's extended solo work with the stones live on GS,YCAGWYW,LIV,Stray Cat,
SFTD,Heartbreaker,100 Years Ago,Dancing With Mr D,100 Years Ago,Im Free,SFM,JJF,Dead Flowers are beautiful and melodic passages of vibrato.But he
gets in some great guitar lines on Rocks Off,Midnight Rambler,BS,Happy and all
the rest.Those songs are not just open chords and the distinction he adds creates
that dual guitar attack and Keith's guitar shines because you can easily listen
to his rhythm and foundation.Through the years Keith seems to take shots at past
stone players but give him credit for allowing Taylor the freedom to play those
extended solos and have the spotlight on Taylor.

Couldn't agree more OpenG!

Ditto!!! - MLC

PS - Where's GIANT WHORE????

I've been here all along.

bring him back get rid of Ronnie Wood who is a very mediocre guitar player

Mick Taylor-- supremely talented, but I don't think Keith gave him freedom to shine as much as he could have.

I think Keith and Mick gave Taylor the freedom live to play extended solos and
enrich the material.Remember Jagger needed that soloist to take the band out of
the 60's and into the 70's where soaring solos were important and competing with
all those live acts at that time.Making pop songs in the studio became back seat
and playing your material live was paramount.

Mick Jagger about Mick Taylor, 1995


He was a fluid and melody guitarist, which we had never had, and did not have since. It was enthralling and superb, it gave me a direction and a means to express me ".

OpenG: you are great!

C

I've been watching a couple of DVD's I recently got in trades...the first is MT with John Mayall in 1983 playing with several of the blues greats like Etta James, Buddy Guy, Albert King and a few others...GREAT STUFF! Then I got an excellent audience filmed show from 1989 in Europe where he is playing with Blondie Chaplin as a guest...again it is jaw dropping perfection!))

Mr D the '83 Passaic is an official release: Jammin with the Blues Greats DVD, Blues Alive on Laser or another title with an abbreviated show on VHS (my favoriate part remains Junior Wells' rapping his harmonica on Taylor's fretboard)

I think the Buffalo show from the same tour is indispensible, even though it is privately shot, not as good quality and on a rotating stage. There are VCDs of varying quality (you want to try to find one where you can see Taylor's fingers, some discs may fuzzier in detail), but IMHO, as great as Jammin is, the Buffalo show is even more incredible.

Thanks for the thread OpenG!

On Jammin with the Blues Greats - As you said guys you can watch Taylor's fluidity and technique real easy on the fretboard.When Junior Wells tried to
get Taylor to take center stage that was a great part but MT is just to nice of
a guy to upstage anyone.

Check out Taylor on one song he did with Joann Jett - I forgot and also he
worked with Phebe Snow and Joe Henry.Alvin Lee there are so many great collaborations he has done since he left the stones instead of making his own
records he choose that path.

His greateness lies in the fact that at age 55 he can still play live and
leave his audiences in AWE.Soon the glimmers will only be able to play the
lounge act with Keith on acoustic(which I find more interesting than the current
stones live act.)

So I guess after all these years his talent on guitar makes him stand out more
than the stones today kind of funny and ironic.You can fool people some of the
time but not all of the time and yes the glimmers have all the fame and money
but Taylor got the magic Vibrato.

<MT is just to nice of a guy to upstage anyone.>

He wasn't in Kansas in 1981, according to Ronnie

Ronnie should of been concerned about practicing and making himself a good
player all these years.

He was then...

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What did Ronnie say about the Kansas Show?

Cheers,
Wuudy

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Great pix, but I couldn't hear anything. Can you please turn the sound up on the site?



Just kidding--thanks for generously sharing the great pix.

I agree with Open G - I find Mick Taylor far more interesting these days to see live than the current Stones.His act has more to do with musical quality and less to do with the spectacle.

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> Check out Taylor on one song he did with Joann
> Jett - I forgot

Hi Alan,

I believe the song you are thinking about, with Joan Jett and the Black Hearts, is called 'I Hate Myself For Loving You'.

also, besides the often-mentioned dylan live, another record from around then he played on was a Gong album!

the first time i got to see him was in the late 70's. he was the rhythm guitarist for the opening band at an arena show!! i think it was black sabbath headlining and MT was the accompanying guitarist for Alvin Lee. i spent the entire cost of a ticket just to watch him do 1 lead basically.

winter Wrote:
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> also, besides the often-mentioned dylan live,
> another record from around then he played on was a
> Gong album!
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> the first time i got to see him was in the late
> 70's. he was the rhythm guitarist for the opening
> band at an arena show!! i think it was black
> sabbath headlining and MT was the accompanying
> guitarist for Alvin Lee. i spent the entire cost
> of a ticket just to watch him do 1 lead
> basically.
>
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That was in 1981. It is somewhat curious that he put out a solo album, did not tour and then turns up a few years later playing with Lee, with not much else in between.