Mick Taylor's guitar enriched the sound of the band and was also sympathetic to the jagger/richard compositions and other musicians in the band.

Love and Vain - a great jagger/richards arrangement and taylor's guitar work ENVOKES the sound of a TRAIN WHISTLE and takes you to the train station where jagger sings about the life of the blues.

Angie - Ian Stewart refused to play on the song because he hated minor keys. Well Taylor on any 73 perfromance takes the AMINOR BLISS to glistening heights and maybe hit on the right note and intent of Keith's song about life on the road and being away from your kids with Taylor playing those beautiful notes and melody.

Gimme Shelter- The end of the world and dark cloud hovering as keith opens with those splash of desending and asending notes and taylor rips right through with those blues scales and you forget about all the gloom and doom.

YCAGWYW- Taylor's lyrical major and minor scales and great octave riff over the chorus and his brilliant lead in to Key's sax solo - Taylor is so sympathetic here its like his guitar solo ends and sounds like a sax solo as keys takes over with his solo.

SFM - taylor's torching piercing guitar lines soar above all the fighting in the streets as jagger paints his social statement of the 60's.

All Down The Line - taylor's blistering stinging guitar makes you forget about jagger lining up all the women.

Dancing With Mr D- The second coming of SFTD and this song done live transends the studio cut to higher grounds with taylor taking over and playing those blues scales so dirty and melodic you forget about all the posion and grave yards.

Tumbling Dice - Brussells - That ending solo and the way he takes over keith's riff is amazing he plays back keith's riff into the melody.


In the studio he collaborates with jagger on winter and his guitar is melodic wonderment as jagger sings wrap my coat around you and his use of sustain is perfect.

In the studio on Time Waits his swan song and he comes up with those haunting lyrical guitar lines.

In the studio on Sway his controlled vibrato on slide is perfect and his Climatic Looping solo on Moonlight Mile when have the stones sounded like that.

Jagger/Richards wrote the songs but Taylor brought the songs alive during 69/72/73.

OpenG Wrote:
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> Angie - Ian Stewart refused to play on the song
> because he hated minor keys. Well Taylor on any 73
> perfromance takes the AMINOR BLISS to glistening
> heights and maybe hit on the right note and intent
> of Keith's song about life on the road and being
> away from your kids with Taylor playing those
> beautiful notes and melody.

Are you sure you're not confusing "Angie" with "Wild Horses"?



> >
> YCAGWYW- Taylor's lyrical major and minor scales
> and great octave riff over the chorus and his
> brilliant lead in to Key's sax solo - Taylor is so
> sympathetic here its like his guitar solo ends and
> sounds like a sax solo as keys takes over with his
> solo.


I know I'm being picky here but I really think it was Steve Madaio that played that solo in YCAGWYW and not Bobby Keys. It could have been Trevor Lawrence but I'm 99% sure it wasn't Keys. I think everybody just always assumes it was Bobby Keys.

OpenG Wrote:
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> Mick Taylor's guitar enriched the sound of the
> band and was also sympathetic to the
> jagger/richard compositions and other musicians in
> the band.


So, Brian Jones was chopped liver? I 100% disagree with the growing perception out there that MT made the Stones a better band, that he was an upgrade over Brian. MT might have been a guitar ace, but Brian did so much for the band in providing various exotic sounds and textures. He wasn't such a bad guitarist either.

The title of the first post sounds like it was going to be about the Stones' lyrics and how their writing transformed over the years - a topic which would have been interesting to read about. Then I clicked this, only to find yet another "I say vibrato you say vibrato" thread. Excuse me, but this is becoming boring, guys.

wank... wank... wank.

Hey that's a lotta forgettin' to do

>>forget about all the gloom and doom.
But the gloom of the Gimmie is what rivets ya...

>>forget about jagger lining up all the women.
Whoa yeah!!! kinda dig those Jagg naughty thoughts......

>>forget about all the poision and grave yards.
Too late man ya should told that to Robert Johnson....



ROCKMAN

Thought this kind of post was verboten these days - forever banned by the thought police.

I agree Openg, especially the magic of Taylor's solos on SFM and GS!