POST: Ron WOOD with FACES 1975 – The Last US Tour Vol 08 – 21st October 1975 – DETROIT
Ron Wood
With
Faces
19th August 1975 – 1st November 1975
The Last US Tour
After Ronnie Lane left Faces in mid-1973 also Ronnie Wood slowly started to drift away from his beloved band by releasing two solo albums, appearing as a guest musician on a Rolling Stones album (uncredited on It's Only Rock'n Roll), doing sessions for their next one (Black And Blue) and most notably joining the Stones in spring 1975 for their big US tour which went until August 8, 1975. Just a few days later Ronnie was already rehearsing with the Faces again for what became their last US tour and their last regular tour ever. This last tour also had a first: Jesse Ed Davis (ex-Taj Mahal and renowned session guitarist) joined the band as a second guitar player. Officially because Rod wanted to recreate his Atlantic Crossing sound…
Thanks to the ones who shared their recordings, in particular to nzb, also for his advice and inspiration.
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Line-up: RW (gtr, bvoc)/Rod Stewart (voc)/Ian McLagan (keyb, bvoc)/Tetsu Yamauchi (bass)/Kenney Jones (dr)/Jesse Ed Davis (gtr).
A 12-piece string section specially hired in each city of the tour (for the two songs ‘Angel’ and ‘Bring It On Home To Me-You Send Me’) under conduction of Jimmy Horowitz.
Volume 08:
21st October 1975
DETROIT
(combination of 2 sources)
21st October 1975: Detroit, Michigan, Cobo Hall
Note with special guests Bobby Womack (voc) on Big Bayou and Bring It On Home To Me-You Send Me and Tower Of Power on horns.
CD1:
01 – intro ‘The Stripper’ (David Rose And His Orchestra) (source #2)
02 – Memphis, Tennessee (#2)
03 – It’s All Over Now (#2 patched with #1)
Track restored with 3 mono patches from source #1 (at 1’45 to 1’51, 2’52 to 2’53 and 3’01 to 3’04)
04 – Three Time Loser (#2)
05 – Miss Judy’s Farm (#2)
06 – I’d Rather Go Blind (#2)
There’s a gap before the next track
07 – Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller [+reprise] (#2)
08 – I’m Losing You (#2)
CD2:
01 – Big Bayou (#2 then #1) feat. Bobby Womack
After 3’07 is coming from #1
02 – Angel (#1 then #2) feat. Bobby Womack
The 15 first seconds are from #1
03 – Bring It On Home To Me-You Send Me (#2)
04 – You Wear It Well (#2)
05 – Maggie May (#2)
06 – Happy Birthday Tetsu [a capella] (#2)
07 – Stay With Me (#2 patched with #1)
Track restored with a mono patch from source #1 (from 0’57 until 1’09)
08 – Twistin’ The Night Away [+ reprise #1] (#2)
09 – band introduction & encore break (#1)
Note a fade in/out between the tracks
10 – Wee Wee Baby-Twistin’ The Night Away [reprise #2] (#1)
11 – outro (#1)
For this show we have two versions:
Source #1 is coming from nzb: the recording is complete, runs too slow (had to be accelerated by +3,1%) and the sound is mono (one channel duplicated).
Source #2 can be found in particular on the Rockin’ Rott-release ‘Happy Birthday, Testu!’.
It had to be decelerated by -4%. The sound is stereo but has flaws in some tracks where one channel is altered and it misses the last two tracks.
For both recordings, the correct speed can be found by synchronizing them with the official version of ‘The Stripper’.
As usual I kept the best version (source #2) and completed it with patches from source #1, where also the last two tracks come from.
All the info was taken from ‘Woodworks 1957-1975’ The Ron Wood [pre-Stones years] Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf:
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