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The last five minutes of the Glastonbury Can't You Hear Me Knocking are so good it brings a tear to my eye

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-R

Watched this like five times since I posted, and it just hit me. Chuck Leavell is great on this.

Bobby and Mick Taylor are the show during the jam. And Charlie is of course fantastic, the foundation of the whole thing. But Chuck is playing the perfect complementary role.

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It was great for him to have been brought in from the wilderness. But it was also clear that he didn’t have much left in the tank.

This is the first time I've ever found myself disagreeing with something you've written.

The last five minutes of the Glastonbury Can't You Hear Me Knocking are so good it brings a tear to my eye

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-R

He had his moments in 2013-14, to be sure. What I said comes from a place of reverence. I recently saw a clip of playing “Red House” in the late-‘80s. I was struck by how good he still was — and how differently and expansively he was able to improvise. He’s a long way from where he was then.

I don't think anybody is where they were in the 80's. That said, only getting a couple songs a night at that age isn't the best indicator of how much he had in the tank IMO. I'm not advocating he should have been on the stage for every song, but it would have been clear in that case vs a guest spot without really warming up. I say this as a musician.

One of Taylor's best imo:

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One of Taylor's best imo:

This is marvellous, never seen it before it was posted on here

[www.madhousemagazine.com]

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One of Taylor's best imo:

This is marvellous, never seen it before it was posted on here

Seemingly the guitar was built for him by a French luthier whose name I forgot.

Still waiting indeed. Some fine lounge music.







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New to me: Keith, Ronnie, and Bob Dylan talking candidly about Mick Taylor during Live Aid rehearsals.

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Thank You.

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New to me: Keith, Ronnie, and Bob Dylan talking candidly about Mick Taylor during Live Aid rehearsals.

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Thanks!!

Inconsistency and a tendency to overplay — combined with what seemed to Keith to be shyness that bordered on inscrutability. Poor MT.

Being in a band is not unlike a regular office environment; people naturally gravitate toward a personality like Ronnie’s.

Talent and aptitude are far from the whole picture.

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Inconsistency and a tendency to overplay — combined with what seemed to Keith to be shyness that bordered on inscrutability. Poor MT.

Being in a band is not unlike a regular office environment; people naturally gravitate toward a personality like Ronnie’s.

Talent and aptitude are far from the whole picture.

He never overplayed but Jagger sometimes oversings

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Inconsistency and a tendency to overplay — combined with what seemed to Keith to be shyness that bordered on inscrutability. Poor MT.

Being in a band is not unlike a regular office environment; people naturally gravitate toward a personality like Ronnie’s.

Talent and aptitude are far from the whole picture.

He never overplayed but Jagger sometimes oversings

Now you put down Mick Jagger. Never happy

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One of Taylor's best imo:

This is marvellous, never seen it before it was posted on here

Seemingly the guitar was built for him by a French luthier whose name I forgot.

FABULOUS. I'm completely embarrassed. I didn't know he sings!

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One of Taylor's best imo:

This is marvellous, never seen it before it was posted on here

Seemingly the guitar was built for him by a French luthier whose name I forgot.

I think it is a Vigier (french guitar brand, [www.vigierguitars.com])

Resotele

[www.vigierguitars.com]

Fantastic guitars from a technical viewpoint...but perhaps a bit lacking in character for the Luddites amongst us.

[In other words they're too bloody good by half ! ]

If they tour one last time I would really like to see MT back and fully rehearsed and musically incorporated in the band. It would be four living Sones on one stage. It really is late in life not to put the quality of their live music first. How many times Sadly old rockers are passing and it seems time waits for no one.

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If they tour one last time I would really like to see MT back and fully rehearsed and musically incorporated in the band. It would be four living Sones on one stage. It really is late in life not to put the quality of their live music first. How many times Sadly old rockers are passing and it seems time waits for no one.

I think you're voicing a sentiment that many of us would share ...but it ain't gonna happen.

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Fantastic guitars from a technical viewpoint...but perhaps a bit lacking in character for the Luddites amongst us.

[In other words they're too bloody good by half ! ]

As Ian Dury said. "There ain't half been some clever bastards".

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Fantastic guitars from a technical viewpoint...but perhaps a bit lacking in character for the Luddites amongst us.

I hear Taylor got a great sound out of it, and I see the neck and tremelo bar inspired him well.

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If they tour one last time I would really like to see MT back and fully rehearsed and musically incorporated in the band. It would be four living Sones on one stage. It really is late in life not to put the quality of their live music first. How many times Sadly old rockers are passing and it seems time waits for no one.

Never say never, and would hope for that to happen also.
But realistically, if he never performs with them live again, maybe he will be invited to guest on a song (or two or three) on what could very well be there last new album.
Surely his playing would be a welcome addition that most fans would appreciate - he would add a variety of qualities that Ronnie's playing sorely lacks to be quite frank.
But we don;t even know for sure if there will ever be a new Stones album...just a lot of hot air from the band over the years..."working on it", "sounds great", "blah, blah, blah".

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

This is kind of rough and raw, but I really like it:

No Expectations



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Wow. Thanks for posting.

Thanks. Feels like eavesdropping... I don't think they are mean though.

This is fascinating

Keith scaufs at Mick Taylor taking 5 years to put out an album, how ironic.



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Keith scaufs at Mick Taylor taking 5 years to out out an album, how ironic.

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Not really. We're talking, after all, when they were already twenty years into a then-prolific career, 39 years ago.