I love his guitar work with Dylan. He traverses the whole spectrum from the ethereal joy of Jokerman to the downright sinister heard on Watchtower. Pure rock n roll on Highway 61 to dirty swamp slide on Tombstone Blues.
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Quoteroryfaninva Thats it in a nutshell. Recalling from Mac's book that Mick Taylor spent the tour "doctor shopping" to get pain pills (which Mac admitted sharing in) and that one particular evening was so zonked out that they couldnt wake him up for the gig. Dylans management fired him but after a few hours of pondering what the band would sound like with only Dylans distinctiv
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QuoteTravelinMan Quotewavelength there was a great mick taylor site a few years ago. micktaylor.net. there was a lot of great info and interviews on that site. does anyone know what happened to it? has any one archibed it by any chance? thx Is it possible to use the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive or something? You can. Check it out!
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Quotewavelength there was a great mick taylor site a few years ago. micktaylor.net. there was a lot of great info and interviews on that site. does anyone know what happened to it? has any one archibed it by any chance? thx Is it possible to use the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive or something?
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTravelinMan QuoteDandelionPowderman Wrong. He kept doing solo albums and shows, in addition to his day job. Why are we discussing Ronnie in the Taylor-thread, btw I have a close friend that was on the road with the Stones in the 90's. I will not go into details, but he was not "doing his day job" very well. My point was to draw the comparis
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QuoteStonedRambler QuoteTravelinMan Let's just say it's a hell of a lot easier to be an addict in the Stones than outside of the Stones. Well, the hard was being NOT a junkie in the Stones True!
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Wrong. He kept doing solo albums and shows, in addition to his day job. Why are we discussing Ronnie in the Taylor-thread, btw I have a close friend that was on the road with the Stones in the 90's. I will not go into details, but he was not "doing his day job" very well. My point was to draw the comparison between Taylor's aggressive outpu
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QuoteMathijs QuoteTravelinMan In fact, Keith Richards and Ron Wood are much more lazy, they just have the Stones machine to put them where they need to be and when. No, they ARE the Stones machine. It's them spending months and months in the studio to write and record. And look at Wood -the moment the Stones aren't touring he immediately organizes some shows with friends, does radi
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QuoteMathijs Quotesaltoftheearth Quotebobo Strange how such a «fantastic» guitar player more or less never really achived anything after leaving Stones. Well…he did that Dylan tour in 84 and sounded awful….and some other less known stuff for the average rock music fan. It is not strange at all! He needs adequate counterparts because he is notcapable of writing great material, and if the musicia
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QuoteDandelionPowderman That may be true. However, Jagger already had Leather Jacket, and they chose not to proceed with it. Correct, as they chose not to with Separately, which was co-written with Keith Richards. That isn't to say these songs wouldn't have been used on a future album like Tattoo You if Taylor hadn't quit. The fact is, Taylor didn't really sta
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Quotesaltoftheearth Quotebobo Strange how such a «fantastic» guitar player more or less never really achived anything after leaving Stones. Well…he did that Dylan tour in 84 and sounded awful….and some other less known stuff for the average rock music fan. It is not strange at all! He needs adequate counterparts because he is notcapable of writing great material, and if the musicians in his ban
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Something happens with Clapton's amp, and Mick steps in! First and only time he took a solo on this song the whole tour. (Second break not where he jumps in on the first break. Strangely Santana didn't solo on this)
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QuoteTaylor1 I have been disappointed in Taylor’s solo career.His emphasis on playing mostly Chicago blues the last 30 years is just not that stimulating.Instead of 20 minute version of It Hurts Me Too , I wish he had donesomething more experimental, like working with a Brian Eno. Or doing something with a Paul McCartney. I think his melodic guitar would have fit McCartney’s music while giving it
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Taylor’s debut album is great and it actually received favorable reviews when it was released. He didn’t tour and promote it for some reason though and I believe that created a contemptuous view of the music industry. Without that early momentum his solo career didn’t take off. Stone’s Throw is really good as well. I don’t understand why he doesn’t release a bunch of the stuff he has “in the c
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Quotebobo Strange how such a «fantastic» guitar player more or less never really achived anything after leaving Stones. Well…he did that Dylan tour in 84 and sounded awful….and some other less known stuff for the average rock music fan. The Dylan tour sounds fantastic. He played in front of crowds that dwarfed the crowds he played with during his Stones period. And guess what? They LOVED it!
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Quotedeardoctor A Rolling Stone is, who is pictured on an Stones-album-cover. Thank you, that's all. Interesting. What does the Sticky Fingers cover guy play?
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QuoteMKjan Quote24FPS QuoteMKjan Quotesilkcut1978_ I guess you guys simply don't get it. Not everybody is impressed with Mick T. way of playing and "noodling". When GHS got it's re-release I dug more deeper into the record than ever before and found out that all the stuff that kept me away from this record for decades was delivered by Mick T and/or Billy Preston. Best examp
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QuoteCindyC Couple of questions after reading this... "McCartney was not used to Johns no bullshit approach". - so did Glyn change his ways after the Let It Be album? Glyn was in the studio the whole time as far as I can see from the Get Back documentary. If this is true, maybe Glyn is the one who turned into the egomanic. and what is this? "and said to Mick J
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Quotesilkcut1978_ QuoteTravelinMan QuoteDandelionPowderman Their peak in the studio is generally seen as 1968-1972. I don't necessarily agree with that, but Taylor was only instrumental in making two of those albums. He was still a member during that time, I never said it was their peak because of him. Somebody said “he was never a Rolling Stone.” C’mon now. I thought it's commo
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Their peak in the studio is generally seen as 1968-1972. I don't necessarily agree with that, but Taylor was only instrumental in making two of those albums. He was still a member during that time, I never said it was their peak because of him. Somebody said “he was never a Rolling Stone.” C’mon now.
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Quotesilkcut1978_ I guess you guys simply don't get it. Not everybody is impressed with Mick T. way of playing and "noodling". When GHS got it's re-release I dug more deeper into the record than ever before and found out that all the stuff that kept me away from this record for decades was delivered by Mick T and/or Billy Preston. Best example for me is 100 Years Ago - a lo
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I can't really figure out which album he is talking about regarding Taylor. Goats Head where he did a handful of mixes that weren't used? He didn't mix anything on Exile, Goats, or IORR.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman I don't agree with that. He did some cool things in 1989. By 1994 his playing had detoriated a bit. Then came 9 years with boozing that effected his playing a lot. When the 50 & Counting-tour started I thought he was brilliant. He might have been a tad weaker this tour, but considering what he has been through (something I know a lot about), I think you sh
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Quotesilkcut1978_ QuoteTaylor1 QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTaylor1 Quote24FPS Did anyone listen to Mick Taylor when he reunited with the Stones? What was left of his shredded talent was long gone. I'm not sure what would even be left if he ever did anything with what's left of the Stones.That is such a false statement,IMO. He was great on Can’t You Hear Me Knocking at Glastonbury.Go an
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His bass on Mr D is funky. Criss Cross as well. I don’t particularly think the guitars on Miss You are funky at all.
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteFP QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteFP Do you think it is KR or MT playing slide on this instrumental of RTJ? To me it sounds like Taylor, I can't imagine Keith playing at this tempo on slide? If this is Taylor then I think he does play a few licks on RTJ. If this is Keith then I will agree RTJ is Keith. Probably some joker who did the overdub at home. T
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QuoteFP Two questions. Did Mick Taylor ever enjoy being a Rolling Stone? He said in Stones in Exile doc that he found it "fun" but without much conviction and every other interview I read he doesn't seem to give much away, although he does seem to regret leaving. Second question, if he had not left, would he have been kicked out by Mick or Keith at some point, to be replaced
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QuoteMathijs QuoteTravelinMan It's definitely a Leslie speaker, or a Uni-Vibe. No its not -it's the Varitone of the ES-355 on setting 2 or 3. Mathijs I thought that was just a notch filter. On the iso tracks (posted somewhere here I believe) there is definitely some watery chorusing.
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QuoteFP Btw on our list of Taylor licks, I have to add the harmony to the intro riff on Rock's Off. It has the same Leslie tone as his buried leady parts, also adding a guitar harmony feels more of a Taylor move. I am also leaning towards Travelin Man's idea that the outro lead part is from a different take, or an overdub, than the earlier buried licks as it does not have a Leslie e
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Soul Survivor is without a doubt Taylor. Listen to the heavy vibrato during the outro.
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