Faces Era Rod Stewart Songs Played
on this, his supposed last tour for performing rock n roll

July 8, 2025 in Raleigh NC
1 Maggie May*
2 Stay With Me
3 I'd Rather Go Blind

July 11, 2025 in Gilford NH
1 Maggie May*
2 Stay With Me
3 I'd Rather Go Blind
4 Mandolin Wind
5 Every Picture Tells a Story

July 12, 2025 in Philadelphia PA
1 Maggie May*
2 Stay With Me
3 I'd Rather Go Blind
4 Mandolin Wind
5 Reason to Believe
6 Ooh-La-La

* always has a snippet of Gasoline Alley, which like Maggie May (and Stay With Me) he co-wrote with Ronnie Wood

Having gone to the Raleigh show let me just say, b*stard!

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I'm down in Virginia
with your Cousin Lou

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Dumb question - that's the Lulu from Man with the Golden Gun game (and others)? Just wanted to make sure l there's not some new Lulu I'm unaware of.

If so she looks amazing for 86!

BTW, you've added a decade to her age. She was born in 1948

But, yeah, it is the same Lulu

Good catch, I meant 76, but still...

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* always has a snippet of Gasoline Alley, which like Maggie May (and Stay With Me) he co-wrote with Ronnie Wood

Wasn't Maggie Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton?

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* always has a snippet of Gasoline Alley, which like Maggie May (and Stay With Me) he co-wrote with Ronnie Wood

Wasn't Maggie Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton?

You're right. I thought Ronnie was in the mix on it too but it looks like not.

Rod Stewart says he's always wanted to be Mick Jagger but then there was a big twist

Sir Rod Stewart has revealed he has spent years dreaming of being Mick Jagger, saying he would have loved to have fronted The Rolling Stones

By Aaron Tinney
18 July 2025


Glastonbury 2025 (Harry Durrant/Getty Images)

Sir Rod Stewart is jealous he never got to be Mick Jagger. The 80-year-old crooner says his biggest unfulfilled dream was fronting The Rolling Stones. To rub salt in the wound, Sir Mick and Co’s group ended up luring Rod’s pal Ronnie Wood away from their Faces band.

Glastonbury headliner Rod said about how you can’t always get what you want: “I would like to have fronted The Stones because they were a London band and we all loved them. “I mean with the Faces we listened to (Stones album) Get Your Ya Yas Out and it was a big influence with us when we used to go on stage. So definitely the Stones.”

Rod added his other big ambition was to have sung with the likes of jazz big band leaders Duke Ellington or Count Basie.

He built his own band the Faces, featuring Ronnie, now 78, in the early 1970s, but by 1975 amid band dramas he joined the Stones.

Rod and Ron are still great pals and the Stones rocker joined him on stage for his Pyramid Stage ‘Legends’ slot performance at this year’s Glastonbury. But he said about how they rarely sit and reminisce about their heydays: “We don’t talk about the old times very much.”

He also opened up about the deaths among the Faces and how he would love to be still in the band.

Rod said: “I mean there’s only three of us left now. We’ve obviously lost Lach (keyboardist Ian McLagan) and (bassist) Ronnie Lane, but they were wonderful days. That was a band I would’ve stayed in the rest of my life.

“People think I left, but I didn’t. Ronnie joined the Stones. So the whole thing floundered. So once we lost Ronnie Lane, we lost the soul of the band.”

But Rod revealed he is committed to producing new solo work. He said: “My dear record company wants me to make a country album. There’s so much in the pipeline, but I’ve had to drop a few things. I’m just so busy, which thank the Lord I am.”

Rod has been hit with issues with his voice which means he has to regularly take voice rest. He wears a laminated sign around his neck on days he’s giving his knackered vocal cords time out.

Dad-of-eight former ladies’ man Rod, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2001, was forced to cancel shows in the US in January after being diagnosed with strep throat and testing positive for Covid over the space of a matter of days.

[www.dailystar.co.uk]

The below review of Rod Stewart's One Last Time concert July 26 in Mansfield, Massachusetts captures well my own reaction to his July 8 concert in North Carolina. The hope had been that since he'd said it will be his last go-round with rocknroll, that it would contain some halfway serious rocknroll. But no, it was the same lightweight, Vegas-style Rod doing his usual post-Faces ain't-I-sexy larking about. In NC even when he performed as the encore Stay With Me, one of the greatest rockers of the era, he romped around stage wearing a straw cowboy hat, I guess his idea being, the South is "country," so, Stay With Me as hoedown?

I've pretty much concluded he doesn't dare attempt to perform his Faces era material in its original style because he knows he can't do it anymore. And that's also why he endlessly dodges Ronnie and Kenney.

Here's most of the review. At least in Mass. they did get Ooh-La-La and Mandolin Wind.
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Rod Stewart Hams It Up Shamelessly In Mansfield [Massachusetts]

by Janet Trew
Published July 28, 2025
[thesagonline.com]

The entire Rod Stewart experience at the Xfinity Center on Saturday could be summed up in one word: garish.

From the stair-step risers that formed the entire back line to the glossy floor, the stage was brightly illuminated and white, resembling an antiseptic disco wonderland that was reused from Solid Gold: garish. The six support vocalists resembled a phalanx of Sabrina Carpenters due to their short skirts with leopard prints and their long blonde hair that was accentuated with volume (save for one lone brunette).

The set list was garish, treating the slick, trend-hopping 80s music as being indistinguishable from the free-spirited, acoustic-based rock and roll that made him a household name in the first half of the 1970s.

Things weren’t always like this. In the past, Stewart was able to bring some truth to even a song as loud and direct as the Faces’ “Stay With Me,” evoking conflicting feelings and basic desire from a rather simple morning-after request. However, the singer’s days as an overly sensitive gutter-poet throat-shredder are long gone, as he was replaced by a performer whose main motivation and message was showbiz, with all the glamour and hollowness that goes along with it.

It was evident in the innumerable small flourishes that Stewart felt compelled to incorporate into his performance. There should be pain in the song “The First Cut Is The Deepest,” but not in Stewart’s performance. Even while he sang, he indicated that he was not at all thinking on the song that was coming out of his mouth by making funny little arm wiggles, dancing a little twist, softshoeing, and making a hand gesture that said, “Are you drinking?”

Stewart’s main issue throughout the evening (and over the previous few decades) was that he arrived and just blasted off the notes without any subtlety, always winking to the crowd to convey that he didn’t mean any of it. His voice remained surprisingly intact, both in tone and range, for an 80-year-old singer who never seemed to take special care of his instrument. He could have followed Tony Bennett’s example of embracing the flaws that come with aging in order to reach new levels of vulnerability.

Rather than trying to sell any sort of tale or emotion in his stuff, he hammed it up shamelessly. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?’s ingratiating disco sleaze, in which his backups tossed soccer balls into the crowd, is one thing; Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright), which was supposedly delicate, is quite another, where Stewart drew the line. Don’t use a silly look and a full-body shimmy to deny your man’s desire.

The result was that Stewart sometimes sounded like the lead singer of the biggest wedding band in the world, from the smoothed-out Motown of It Takes Two to the supper-club sweet nothings of Have I Told You Lately. With a nod to Christine McVie’s soulful rendition of I’d Rather Go Blind in the Sam Cooke style and Ozzy Osbourne’s Forever Young, the newly-minted octogenarian paid homage to friends and coworkers he had recently lost. That one was presented as a tribute to Tina Turner.

...However, Stewart the artist managed to separate himself from Stewart the performer for a single song. He sang Mandolin Wind without ceremony, bobbing his head when he wasn’t closing his eyes and listening, and he kept one hand in the pocket of his silver lam jacket. Being present with his stuff was all he did, and it was blatantly beautiful. In that instant, instead of seeing and hearing the Rod Stewart who was a legend, one could see and hear the Rod Stewart who became a legend.

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I'm down in Virginia
with your Cousin Lou



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Respectfully, I don't really know why anyone would expect Rod to act any different than he has over the last 30 years. He's a Vegas showman till he dies, the true rock and roller died decades ago and he enjoys teasing it without ever following through.

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Respectfully, I don't really know why anyone would expect Rod to act any different than he has over the last 30 years. He's a Vegas showman till he dies, the true rock and roller died decades ago and he enjoys teasing it without ever following through.

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Respectfully, I don't really know why anyone would expect Rod to act any different than he has over the last 30 years. He's a Vegas showman till he dies, the true rock and roller died decades ago and he enjoys teasing it without ever following through.

I knew it was a risk. He'd talked up the last-go for rocknroll angle. I took a chance, and lost. It happens occasionally.

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Also, as I posted July 1, "course I'm also hoping that Ronnie and Kenney will have been invited and play too, but I'm expecting there to be almost no chance of that, Rod being who he is."

So no, I didn't expect a better Rod Stewart, I merely hoped for something better. Considering that Rod, Ronnie, and Kenney actually have been working on music, and have physically gotten together this year and talked about it to the press. Add in the factors that the Stones plans for a 2025 tour fell through, Ronnie is looking healthier than he has in years and obviously is eager to play, and, again, this particular tour is supposed to be Rod's hail and farewell to rocknroll. All in all the proper thing to do would be for Rod to invite Ronnie or Kenney or both to take part. But, again, I was fully aware that this is Rod, so that probably wouldn't happen.

It was a risk I chose to take on the outside chance of seeing Ronnie this year playing some Faces songs. My gamble, I knew the odds were low. It didn't pay off, I accept it.

I'm letting others here know what this tour has been so far.



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FACES
Early Steps (Rocktober 2025)
Rhino US
Format: CD & LP
Cat: 081227809652
Released: 31 Oct 25
Genre: Rock


01 Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Take 1 Rough Mix, Olympic Studios, Autumn 1969)
02 Devotion (Take 1 Rough Mix, Olympic Studios, Autumn 1969)
03 Train (Take 4 Rough Mix, Olympic Studios, Autumn 1969)
04 Flying (Take 1 Rough Mix, Olympic Studios, Autumn 1969)

01 I Feel So Good (Rehearsal, Rolling Stones Rehearsal Space, Summer 1969)
02 Evil (Rehearsal, Rolling Stones Rehearsal Space, Summer 1969)
03 Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Rehearsal, Rolling Stones Rehearsal Space, Summer 1969)
04 Pineapple and the Monkey (Rehearsal, Rolling Stones Rehearsal Space, Summer 1969)

CD Only:

9 Stone (Rehearsal)
10 Devotion (Rehearsal)

is there a date for the tour?

Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart

Speaking on Desert Island Discs, guitarist says pair, who were in the Faces in 1960s, have ‘good body of songs going’

Harry Taylor
11 Oct 2025


Ronnie and Rod at Glastonbury in June. Photo: Anthony Devlin

Ronnie Wood and Sir Rod Stewart are again working on songs together before a potential Faces reunion, the Rolling Stones guitarist has said.

Wood told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that “absolutely nothing has changed” since the band came together in the late 1960s.

He told host Lauren Laverne that the only thing different from before is that Stewart no longer allows amps on stage.

The Faces were formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after singer Steve Marriott left.

The band’s biggest hit was the song Stay With Me, and Wood joined Stewart to play it during his set at the Glastonbury festival this year.

In Desert Island Discs, broadcast on Sunday, Wood said: “We would love to do that. We’ve got these songs that we’re working on from back in the day, but it’s hard to make our times tally.

“When we do get a chance to get in the studio again, we will finish off these songs. We’ve got a good body of songs going.”

He went on to recall tales of when the Faces would tour, which led to them being “banned” from the Holiday Inn hotel chain.

Instead, the musicians would have to book pretending to be another rock band. “We weren’t allowed in any hotels. We used to have to check in as Fleetwood Mac,” he said.

“It came to a head in Detroit. Ramona her name was, behind the desk, reported us to the police and everything just because we made the hotel room out in the corridor, we just quietly arranged all the furniture out in the corridor.

“And then the manager came up and the elevator door opened, and there was this room there with all the pictures on the walls, settees and slippers.

“And he said, ‘It’s very nice but it better not be here when I come back’, and he got back in the elevator.”

He said the standard of music being produced keeps getting higher, as the Stones prepare to release a new album. The band have released dozens of studio albums. The most recent, Hackney Diamonds, came out in 2023.

He said: “We’re always raising the bar, and miraculously, the bar keeps going up and up. We just finished a new album, which is very exciting and we’re at the mixing stage … so I’d say by the end of the year, early next year.”

He went on to say he gave up drugs and alcohol in 2010 but not without support from other people.

“There’s a period of white knuckling where I needed encouragement and I didn’t know which way to turn and it takes a while to be able to see yourself in the light of getting better, for want of a better phrase, of staying on the path, it’s quite difficult,” he said.

“And encouragement and a hand on the shoulder just before going on stage, like from Mick [Jagger] or something, saying you’ll be OK, and to let it go. And OK, let’s go for it.”

[www.theguardian.com]

Wonderful news, but seeing as we've been hearing much this kind of news since the Elizabethan era (Elizabeth 1 - not II ), I afford myself a little bit of scepticism. Seeing .... will be believing !!

The new Faces album (means, new songs) has been rumoured for a number of years now, it just never seems to actually materialize.

not Early Steps in streaming services...

just to wait for cd.

Can I buy FLAC downloads of "Early Steps" somewhere?

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Get ready, Faces fans! The previously unreleased and unheard early recordings are now available on all digital platforms.

These recordings offer an intimate look at the band’s formative years in 1960s London. Sourced from the band’s own cassette tapes, they capture the raw, unfiltered energy of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, and Ian McLagan. The tracks chart their journey from their first studio session at Olympic Studios to their rehearsals in The Rolling Stones’ warehouse at 47 Bermondsey Street.

Stream or download it today and experience the Faces’ roots on ‘Early Steps’.

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#faces #earlysteps

Sadly, Tetsu Yamauchi has passed away. RIP Tetsu

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Sadly, Tetsu Yamauchi has passed away. RIP Tetsu

Born: 21 oktober 1946, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Died : 4 december 2025

RIP Tetsu

[www.clashmusic.com]

Here's what Tetsu had to say after watching below video on YouTube:
The crowd was amazing and the atmosphere was electric. If I wasn't paying attention, I'd get caught up in the moment.
Oh yeah, back then the amps were white too, and the whole crew was dressed in white.







May he have a comfortable journey.