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MT is an EX-MEMBER how long will it take for some to get that! You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you? You dont spend your holidays with your ex-wife who once left you out of the blue, you dont invite your cheating ex for christmas dinner. I m sick of hearing all the time what fools the Stones are not to get rid of Ronnie and take back MT again.
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1) The analogy with the ex-wife is not necessarily that good for this issue, to put it mildly.
2) Those who plead Mick Taylor's cause, cannot be said to advocate a point of view that the band should get rid of Ronnie.
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As for #2, very true. Nobody is saying kick Ronnie out of the band (well maybe some have).
I'd be fully content with Ronnie staying in the band, but relegated to playing bass and replacing Darryl.
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
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As for #2, very true. Nobody is saying kick Ronnie out of the band (well maybe some have).
I'd be fully content with Ronnie staying in the band, but relegated to playing bass and replacing Darryl.
Here´s another silly analogy:
"Listen darling, my ex-wife is a better cook than you´ll ever be. So she´s gonna live with us in the future and do the cooking, you can do the laundry."
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
And you got out alive?
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
And you got out alive?
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If the Stones are indeed releasing a blues cd, it would be nice if Mick Taylor has been involved on at least one of the tunes.
If they are including Eric Clapton, why not Mick Taylor?!!!
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If the Stones are indeed releasing a blues cd, it would be nice if Mick Taylor has been involved on at least one of the tunes.
If they are including Eric Clapton, why not Mick Taylor?!!!
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If the Stones are indeed releasing a blues cd, it would be nice if Mick Taylor has been involved on at least one of the tunes.
If they are including Eric Clapton, why not Mick Taylor?!!!
I am a fan of Mick Taylor's playing. I loved him with the Stones as well as Dylan. The obvious answer to your question is because Eric Clapton doesn't play bars. It may sound rude, but Clapton is a star and outside of diehard Stones fans, Taylor is a has-been. It is hurtful to say, it reflects nothing of the talent he possesses, but he's not in the same pantheon they are. It doesn't matter that he helped secure their position, the business is cutthroat and Taylor would always be treated as a guy they were throwing a bone to for nostalgia's sake. Had his career recovered and he became an in-demand session guitarist respected as an authentic bluesman, it would be a different story. They respect him for his chops to a degree in that they will share a stage with him, but not enough to treat him like he's the equal of Clapton or Jeff Beck.
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I'll raise my glass to the salt of the earth as well. There were brief moments with Taylor - especially "Silver Train" - that were like little miracles. While Keith and Ronnie were in great form on "All Down the Line" for the STRIPPED shows, imagine what it would have been like with Taylor from 2012-2014. Ditto "Tumbling Dice," "Happy," "Wild Horses," and on and on.
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I'll raise my glass to the salt of the earth as well. There were brief moments with Taylor - especially "Silver Train" - that were like little miracles. While Keith and Ronnie were in great form on "All Down the Line" for the STRIPPED shows, imagine what it would have been like with Taylor from 2012-2014. Ditto "Tumbling Dice," "Happy," "Wild Horses," and on and on.
As long as Ronnie is able to play the way he did on Sticky Fingers Live, there is absolutely no need for MT, in fact never was... if he´s ideed the greatest guitar hero of all time why the hell he did never had a career, why he isnt a sought-after session player, why he isnt a tour-player for other superstars, why doesnt he lead a supergroup of his own? He´s only great in the minds of Taylorites, I guess. It seems nobody else cares for him.
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If a magazine would ask for the twenty greatest guitar players of all time, I doubt that his name gets mentioned. In fact there are dozens and dozens of more skilled guitar-players around. Let´s not overestimate MT´s value. No artists ever ask him to contribute to their recordings, except some obscure dutch or swedish blues-bands, that says enough about what other musicians think of MT. Not even the blues-revival some years ago could lift him up from the bottom. Only die-hard-fans are aware of his existence. Most of today´s music journalists dont even know his name, I guess.
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I'll raise my glass to the salt of the earth as well. There were brief moments with Taylor - especially "Silver Train" - that were like little miracles. While Keith and Ronnie were in great form on "All Down the Line" for the STRIPPED shows, imagine what it would have been like with Taylor from 2012-2014. Ditto "Tumbling Dice," "Happy," "Wild Horses," and on and on.
As long as Ronnie is able to play the way he did on Sticky Fingers Live, there is absolutely no need for MT, in fact never was... if he´s ideed the greatest guitar hero of all time why the hell he did never had a career, why he isnt a sought-after session player, why he isnt a tour-player for other superstars, why doesnt he lead a supergroup of his own? He´s only great in the minds of Taylorites, I guess. It seems nobody else cares for him.
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
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You dont make love to your ex-wife with your present wife in the same room, do you?
I did it. More than once, in fact. Seriously! ><
...his life ?! I want his WIFE !!!
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If a magazine would ask for the twenty greatest guitar players of all time, I doubt that his name gets mentioned. In fact there are dozens and dozens of more skilled guitar-players around. Let´s not overestimate MT´s value. No artists ever ask him to contribute to their recordings, except some obscure dutch or swedish blues-bands, that says enough about what other musicians think of MT. Not even the blues-revival some years ago could lift him up from the bottom. Only die-hard-fans are aware of his existence. Most of today´s music journalists dont even know his name, I guess.
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