died 3 years ago now (december 3th), was horrible news back then,
one day after Bobby keys died.

always my favorite from ian - little troublemaker
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I will go with this soulfull song of Ian

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Bye
Fernando

3 years, damn.

One of the side musicians I always liked in the Stones´ sound.
I made a radioshow about his output in January 2015. What a career.

"I Will Follow":
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Weird how two of the New Barbarians died within a day of each other. When I think of those two guys, I'm amazed at how my experience of their music became so increasingly intimate over the years. The first time I saw Mac, he was onstage with the Stones in a football stadium in 1978. The last time I saw him, at a tiny club in 2009, I was literally standing next to him, looking over his shoulder, close enough that I could have reached out and touched the keys on his keyboard. Similar experience with Bobby Keys, from a New Barbarians show in '79, where I was in the last row of the uppermost level at the furthest end of Madison Square Garden, to standing right in front of him, just four feet away, in 2012 at the same club where I had seen Mac three years earlier.



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Last time i saw him, was in 2010 with the Faces . Bospop, Weert Holland. Thanks for your Music Ian, miss you.
Jeroen

Truly is probably my favorite

Such a great soul and Keyboardist who I miss very much .

Thanks thomashanck for helping to keep the memory of Mac alive. I saw this guy play countless times in many different places with the Faces, Stones, Barbarians, Billy Bragg and The Blokes, and of course the Bump Band. He loved to play and once he went solo with the Bump Band Mac became a warm and entertaining front man to go along with his incredible skills at the keyboards.

What a guy!

Another good one ... La De La

Ian McLagan was the best. A rock legend and a regular guy at the same time.

I'm still not over his death, and I can't begin to say how much I miss the guy.


I once asked him about the line in "La De La" that goes, "...I read every Lee & Kirby comic book...", and yeah, he was a comic book fan. I wrote a letter to the Jack Kirby Collector magazine informing readers about that tune, and then sent Mac a copy when it was published. He was delighted.

A couple years later Mac was on the cover of DISCoveries magazine, and I was surprised that there was no mention of this song that was fairly new at the time:
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Since that publication was all about records, it seems a no-brainer that they would have highlighted it.

After I first heard that song, I sent Mac an email telling him how as a record collector, that song personally terrified me. I told him it needed a Warning Label, and that he wrote back that he got a laugh out of that.


Having heard him play a Faces tune solo vs. the clip of Stewart-Wood-Jones performing a couple years back confirmed that Mac was the essential piece of the Faces, and when he died he took the sound and spirit of that band with him.


God bless Mac.