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MICK TAYLOR & DEAD AMANDA: Turns To Gold
Bonus Track on the Japanese CD-Version of "Live At 14 Below"
Recorded: 1993 in Los Angeles
Mick Taylor: Guitar
Hasty Ambush: Vocals and Guitar
Dizzy Reed: Keyboards
Bobby Owsinski: Bass and Producer
Dick Ritchie: Drums
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Taylor's a Stone. Every step he takes, there walks a Rolling Stone.
Nah. He's too much his own person and musician for that kind of labelling.
Brian, Mick and Keith are/were The Rolling Stones. Nearly everything about them is entangled in the band they defined and the band that defined them. They don't amount to much outside of that.
That's not the case with Mick Taylor. His playing is what defines him.
That's correct. Still I'm glad he played with them for a couple of years. It was a very special time to me, the main reason I listen to te Stones.
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Taylor's a Stone. Every step he takes, there walks a Rolling Stone.
Nah. He's too much his own person and musician for that kind of labelling.
Brian, Mick and Keith are/were The Rolling Stones. Nearly everything about them is entangled in the band they defined and the band that defined them. They don't amount to much outside of that.
That's not the case with Mick Taylor. His playing is what defines him.
That's correct. Still I'm glad he played with them for a couple of years. It was a very special time to me, the main reason I listen to te Stones.
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It's almost as if they were, in Taylor's own words... "effectively a new band."
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Taylor's a Stone. Every step he takes, there walks a Rolling Stone.
Nah. He's too much his own person and musician for that kind of labelling.
Brian, Mick and Keith are/were The Rolling Stones. Nearly everything about them is entangled in the band they defined and the band that defined them. They don't amount to much outside of that.
That's not the case with Mick Taylor. His playing is what defines him.
That's correct. Still I'm glad he played with them for a couple of years. It was a very special time to me, the main reason I listen to te Stones.
I guess it was a special time for anyone involved. Quite a chapter in the story of The Stones and rock music. I'm with His Majesty that Mick Taylor was more an entity of his own than a Rolling Stone. But marrying that entity with the Stones amounted a special result in their music, which, I think was crucial and highly important for their career at the time. My favourite quote to describe Taylor's significance derives from Charlie - according to him, Taylor 'brought them professionalism'. He was there in helping to evolve the game to another level when that was needed. One could say that that could have been offered by any competent British ace guitarist at the time, but that doesn't really matter: the point is that they needed someone like him at the time, and hard to believe they could have found any better choice. They (and him) - and us - were lucky.
What I admire in the story of the Stones is that it is full of exciting chapters, and I enjoy the chapters being so diffferent from each other. The transformation of that wild, energetic band of Stonesmania years to the 'seriousness' of late 60's/early 70's when rock music was started be seen as an art form, The Stones as a live act excelling both, is a wonder of its own.
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That's absolutely right of course, all the members are special and interacted magnificent. I made a Stones -compilation for myself with all (the best) Taylor solo's pasted. That's my main-connection with the Stones. I'd prefer a Taylor Solo concert above a Stones concert, cause Taylor is mainly noodling when playing with his own band. I'm a simple mind, a Taylor fan first. I'm sorry, cannot help it.
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If you listen to Midnight rambler from BRUSSELS AFFAIR which IMHO is simply the greatest live track in rock ever recorded you will hear an almost incredible interplay between Keith and Mick T. (and the others, of course). This is the challenge he needs to bring out the best
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If you listen to Midnight rambler from BRUSSELS AFFAIR which IMHO is simply the greatest live track in rock ever recorded you will hear an almost incredible interplay between Keith and Mick T. (and the others, of course). This is the challenge he needs to bring out the best
100% right and this is part of the "Stones curse" MT was a victim of. The Stones are so talented that they give an extra "something" to sidemen or additional band members. Then said sidemen or additional band members might start to think they're quite good on their own on par with the Stones... but they're not.
Ever listened to 70's solo albums by Bobby Keys or Nicky Hopkins? They're nice oddities but compared to contemporary Stones records they're nothing.
Imo MT pushed that perceptional bias a step too far : he probably thought the Stones were beginning to be an obstacle to the expression of his musical talent and that Jack Bruce would be a better vehicule for his talent.
Well... he was wrong, wasn't he?
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MICK TAYLOR & DEAD AMANDA: Turns To Gold
Bonus Track on the Japanese CD-Version of "Live At 14 Below"
Recorded: 1993 in Los Angeles
Mick Taylor: Guitar
Hasty Ambush: Vocals and Guitar
Dizzy Reed: Keyboards
Bobby Owsinski: Bass and Producer
Dick Ritchie: Drums
I guess that 'Hasty Ambush' is a pseudonym for Mick Jagger. There is no singer nor guitarist named Hasty Ambush to be found on the Internet.
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MICK TAYLOR & DEAD AMANDA: Turns To Gold
Bonus Track on the Japanese CD-Version of "Live At 14 Below"
Recorded: 1993 in Los Angeles
Mick Taylor: Guitar
Hasty Ambush: Vocals and Guitar
Dizzy Reed: Keyboards
Bobby Owsinski: Bass and Producer
Dick Ritchie: Drums
I guess that 'Hasty Ambush' is a pseudonym for Mick Jagger. There is no singer nor guitarist named Hasty Ambush to be found on the Internet.
This song is really great, and would have made a super track on a Stones album!
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I think Keith on smack had a lot to do with Jagger and Taylor hanging out more and collaborating on ideas since Keith was not around.
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Hope he is doing okay.
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HMS
Taylor almost dragged the Stones down like a stone... On albums GHS & IORR their rudeness seems to calm down due to his non-Stones-like-soloing on some songs. His style is so different from what is the original Stones-sound, he almost ruined the band soundwise. Occasionally he fits, when there was a certain flavor demanded, but mostly he does not fit. When they finally got rid of Taylor and released Some Girls, they sounded revitalized and Stones-like again (finally).
Taylor - imo - is a very haughty fellow who thought he could trump Keith and become Mick´s main songwriting partner, I think his aim was to create a new sound very different from what was Keith´ musical intention. Yes indeed I am conveinced that Taylor tried to spoil the Mick-Keith-relationship in order to take over the Stones and make them more or less his backing band. Especially on GHS but also on some IORR-tracks you can hear what he intended - to turn the once rude and angry Stones into a ballad-heavy pop-band with his santana-esque soloing and endless noodling sitting on top of it all.
Ronnie isn´t a better player but his style brought the Stones back on the right track.
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Taylor almost dragged the Stones down like a stone... On albums GHS & IORR their rudeness seems to calm down due to his non-Stones-like-soloing on some songs. His style is so different from what is the original Stones-sound, he almost ruined the band soundwise. Occasionally he fits, when there was a certain flavor demanded, but mostly he does not fit. When they finally got rid of Taylor and released Some Girls, they sounded revitalized and Stones-like again (finally).
Taylor - imo - is a very haughty fellow who thought he could trump Keith and become Mick´s main songwriting partner, I think his aim was to create a new sound very different from what was Keith´ musical intention. Yes indeed I am conveinced that Taylor tried to spoil the Mick-Keith-relationship in order to take over the Stones and make them more or less his backing band. Especially on GHS but also on some IORR-tracks you can hear what he intended - to turn the once rude and angry Stones into a ballad-heavy pop-band with his santana-esque soloing and endless noodling sitting on top of it all.
Ronnie isn´t a better player but his style brought the Stones back on the right track.
Funny you think that Taylor almost ruined the Stones when he didn’t write any of those songs from those two albums. All he did was play over the chords presented to him. Or are you saying he did write songs and was screwed out of credits?
Take your bs elsewhere because you obviously don’t understand music and would rather delve into conspiracy theories.
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Yes indeed I am conveinced that Taylor tried to spoil the Mick-Keith-relationship in order to take over the Stones and make them more or less his backing band. Especially on GHS but also on some IORR-tracks you can hear what he intended - to turn the once rude and angry Stones into a ballad-heavy pop-band with his santana-esque soloing and endless noodling sitting on top of it all.