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keefriffhard4life

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Palace Revolution 2000
A couple of nights ago I was listening to Rod live recordings. That box set from when he was still great. Then last night I was watching Uriah Heep and Deep Purple live sets ( don't hold it against me). And again it struck me that we, as Stones fans take Jagger's ad-libs, his wit, his talking for granted. But no one of the other lead singers even comes close at his command, and just plain content of ad libbing, rapping.
I hear these other guys, they sound lost, "Oh yeah" "I want everybody to clap your hands" -whoope do.

go watch 60+ year old dee snider ad lib

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Swayed1967
I love the Faces and of course the Stones but I’m not sure it’s the Rod vs Mick angle that’s worth debating. Keith is the key player, IMO.

In a perfect world, rather than Ronnie joining the Stones, Keith would’ve joined the Faces. In that incarnation, The Faces would’ve been able to stake their claim as the greatest Rock ‘n Roll Band in the world and not even Mick could deny them. Three or four group songs, three Keith songs and a couple from Ronnie Lane and Rod = killer album that would’ve eclipsed anything the Stones did. Rod is arguably a better singer anyways…

It only gets better though because when Rod inevitably goes full-time solo Mick is persuaded to join The Faces essentially making the The Stones and The Faces the same band under different names. It really should’ve gone down that way…