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chop
Interesting article
Methinks Perkins probably failed the spotlight test. He looks more Michael Dukakis than Rolling Stone
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BamaStone
He doesn't live far from me here in Birmingham, AL. I met some of his family members at a wedding a couple of years back, at that time I was saying I wanted to come out and meet him, I need to get back in touch with them, but not sure what frame of mind he's in at this time to talk "Stones". I think I heard he's health wasn't that great, been a in a recent car accident...
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Naturalust
LOL He probably should have gotten the traditional English shag haircut prior to the tryout and no doubt a couple more months with Keith and Anita would have had him looking like a Stone just fine.
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Title5Take1
Fascinating to read. I've always loved the Hand of Fate and Worried About You solos, although for years I was so impressed by Woody's solo on Worried, and then I learned Mick Taylor played on TATTOO YOU, so I was impressed with Taylor's solo on Worried. Finally I learned it was Wayne Perkins!
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Doxa
I guess there have been times when Jagger has wished the band to contain a Taylor kind of melodic guitar player (like his solo tour band had), but I wouldn't stress that too far. Since 1989 he has taken care of that kind of factor by having Chuck Leavell, backing up singers, etc. to help with his vocals.
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DandelionPowderman
Although Keith has said that Ronnie could play like him, he has never showed that he actually can. I doubt it.
Stay With Me is not JJF or GS.
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Doxa
I have always had an impression that Perkins was Keith's favourite, and the actual choice of Ronnie was more like Mick's decision/suggestion. Keith, it has been claimed, needed to be assured since he was afraid that Ronnie and him were too similar guitar players.
to me it looks like that Keith himself was still at the time more in a Taylor or rhythm/lead guitar split mood and thought the new guitarist in the base of that idea. This is to say he had a new "Taylor" in his mind, and Perkins was a perfect choice for that.
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DandelionPowderman
Although Keith has said that Ronnie could play like him, he has never showed that he actually can. I doubt it.
Stay With Me is not JJF or GS.
That's too specific. He's not talking licks, he's talking sound and attitude.
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DandelionPowderman
Although Keith has said that Ronnie could play like him, he has never showed that he actually can. I doubt it.
Stay With Me is not JJF or GS.
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Doxa
I guess there have been times when Jagger has wished the band to contain a Taylor kind of melodic guitar player (like his solo tour band had), but I wouldn't stress that too far. Since 1989 he has taken care of that kind of factor by having Chuck Leavell, backing up singers, etc. to help with his vocals.
- Doxa
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dcba
If your "body mass index" exceeds 15 you can't be a Stones.
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Doxa
I guess there have been times when Jagger has wished the band to contain a Taylor kind of melodic guitar player (like his solo tour band had), but I wouldn't stress that too far. Since 1989 he has taken care of that kind of factor by having Chuck Leavell, backing up singers, etc. to help with his vocals.
- Doxa
I do think you're comparing apples to oranges here, at least it's difficult to imagine that Jagger was thinking that way.. Chuck Leavell, the backing up singers etc had a different mission in the Stones' musical spectrum than a guitarist like Taylor. Ron Wood was perfectly able to fulfill Taylor's melodic role (albeit in a much less impressive way than Taylor) but still good enough. Bringing up Chuck and the backing up singers etc from 1989 and onwards can be considered as a change of their contemporary sound, Jagger always looking foreward, like you stated rightfully. And Jagger as a lead singer was doing ok anyway at that time.
It wasn't until 1973 that Taylor really started playing melodic lines that where supporting Jagger or crossing his vocal lines, but that definitely wasn't planned but merely considered as overplaying because he was "bored to tears" according to Taylor himself. Prior to that -1969 -1972 Taylor was still heavily contributing as a rhythm player, the Stones where a rocking 2 guitar band, and there where the horns plus in 1973, Billy Preston.
By saying that Jagger took care of the absence of a Taylorish player like you posted I think you overestimate the musical role of every individual player brought up here.
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Doxa
I have always had an impression that Perkins was Keith's favourite, and the actual choice of Ronnie was more like Mick's decision/suggestion. Keith, it has been claimed, needed to be assured since he was afraid that Ronnie and him were too similar guitar players.
to me it looks like that Keith himself was still at the time more in a Taylor or rhythm/lead guitar split mood and thought the new guitarist in the base of that idea. This is to say he had a new "Taylor" in his mind, and Perkins was a perfect choice for that.
- Doxa
My guess is they knew they had a goldmine in all these 69-74 songs MT had put his touch on. And they barely started to dig it live.
So in order to keep on capitalizing on these great songs that went very well live they needed Taylor... or a Taylor clone.
My guess is the 1975 tour was to be the coninuation of the 73 tour : GHS songs, melodic arrangements, long lyrical solos etc etc. Perkins could have brought that to the band.
Maybe they were planning to do TWFNO every night?
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Naturalust
LOL He probably should have gotten the traditional English shag haircut prior to the tryout and no doubt a couple more months with Keith and Anita would have had him looking like a Stone just fine.
If your "body mass index" exceeds 15 you can't be a Stones.