QuoteMadMax HOW CAN SOME OF YA THINK THE '71 VERSION OF LET IT ROCK IS BETTER THAN THE '78 ONE?????? THE '78 ONE IS 100000 TIMES BETTER, ESPECIALLY CHARLIE AND WYMAN IS BRINGING SO MUCH MORE TO THE LATER ONE. IT AIN'T SLOPPY, IT'S SLEEAAAZZY, ROLLIN', FU***IN STONES!!!! PLEASE LISTEN AND COMPARE AGAIN. MadMax, convincing the doubters with his fearsome use
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Quote71TeleI like them too. I just don't think they are "great", using the standards of greatness set by the Stones themselves. I know certain people just want to keep this about great Ron Wood solos. However, this is a band with a history we are talking about and solos don't exist in a vacuum. Every time a solo from a song Taylor played previously is posted, it cannot help bu
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Quote71Tele I think every time DP posts a Ron Wood solo from a song like Angie or YCAGWYW (or any other song where Taylor did it before him) he actually weakens his case, because the comparison is never favorable to Taylor. Some of these solos are good, I don't think any are "great". Maybe my standard of "great" is different. This is surely the point - the arguments in
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It seems Wilko has undergone last-gasp surgery in Cambridge to remove his tumour after it was found to be slightly less malignant than most pancreatic cancers. By the sounds of it, there's a long way to go, but definitely more than a glimmer of hope.
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Dandie, you've posted that Worried About You solo countless times in this thread and I really don't see what's so good about it. It's a competent but basically forgettable solo. I have already forgotten how it goes. But, if you like it, that's the main thing... I guess I'm just amazed by the ability of posters on this board - not you, Dandie - to continue talking
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QuoteDandelionPowdermanYou agree with kleerie? He said there were NO great Ronnie-solos with or WITHOUT the Stones. I don't think one has be a musician to enjoy, judge or explain music. Not at all. But I do think it's pretty arrogant dissing the fans who enjoy the solos we're posting in this thread, saying that everybody needs to understand that this is average to poor. Sta
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QuoteDreamerTotally false and Jagger bashing bs. a) I was there and b) you can see in the video very clearly that MJ is supporting MT very much during Taylor's part in the spotlight and trying to make the audience support him as well. Clapping his hands, smiling and cheering especially when MT is really getting into it. MJ is as into his playing as Taylor himself is! And KR "digg
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About the middle finger bending thing, I also think 'stuttering' is a good description. Jimmy Page uses a quite similar technique, and it definitely adds a distinctive vocal quality to his blues playing - for instance, the lead into his solo at 6.38 here and the first couple of bars thereafter:
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QuotesmokeyduskyThe Strat he used with Mayall is: I never noticed his pinky on the vol pot before. BTW, thanks for your earlier Strat thread. I'd never noticed that either! Thank you - I'm going to try that when I get home tonight. I love his playing on that tour and the tone he got with that guitar.
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QuoteDandelionPowdermanDo you think top blokes and fine musicians like Palace Revolution, Mathijs and liddas are fools when they say that Ronnie's playing moves them? This thread has become utterly pointless and has gone on way too long, but for what it's worth: no-one is saying that anyone is wrong or that anyone in this thread is a fool. If you like a certain style of guitar playing
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Quotelapaz62 I remember Taylor saying that the guitar he liked the most was that Strat he used with Mayall in 82, said it was lost or stolen in the early 90s somewhere in Miami. Was that definitely the white '68? The one with the maple neck and the big headstock? I remember him saying something like that in an interview a few years ago, but I assumed he was referring to the two or three-to
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Let's not forget the SG and ES on Ya Yas... He often takes one, sometimes both of those to his solo gigs as well. He normally has an SG in open tuning in case he wants to do Stop Breaking Down or something like that, and I remember seeing an ebony ES-355 in his guitar rack when he played in London back in 2012 (I assume it was a reissue: I'd be amazed if he sti
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Quote71TeleOne wonders why he has such an allegiance to that particular guitar model. It would be nice to see him branch out a little. Les Pauls definitely have a more useable tone for him, both for his solo work and his guest spots with the Stones. I think he probably prefers the way Strats feel to the way they sound - he's had a number of them but the majority have had various aftermarke
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Quotejpasc95to me, Ronnie's solos are better than Mick Taylor's ones when it comes to bottleneck's solos, especially on Happy. I get that it's a matter of individual taste, but seriously? Ronnie was a good slide player in his early days, no doubt (although I wouldn't consider him in the same league as Taylor technically or emotionally) but more recently, you get this s
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Quote71Tele Mathijs has been peddling this rather bizarre hypothesis for years now: Taylor can't play rhythm, Taylor "hardly played" on Exile, any guitarist could have done what Taylor did in the Stones, etc. It's not just that he prefers Wood, it's that he has some sort of anti-Taylor agenda, trying to minimize accomplishments that are obvious to anyone with the LPs and
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Apparently, it didn't But he did a solo gig, and while playing No Expectations he made a comment about soon being back with the Stones, no? He introduced Can't You Hear Me Knocking by saying he hoped to play it with the Stones soon, and changed the lyrics in No Expectations ('Take me to the airport, fly me to New York'). It was a great show, despi
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+1 on Rainbow Concert. His playing on that album is superb - the slide solos on Layla and Key To The Highway especially. I remember getting that album and being amazed to learn that it was Ronnie playing those parts, being accustomed as I was to the tuneless crap he usually plays with the Stones (I hadn't heard his Faces stuff at the time).
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Quotegeordiestone If Keith and Woody are such poor players these days then how come the popular guitar band The Rolling Stones are still the greatest show on earth? Have you ever heard the term 'circular argument'?
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Whether it's a Twin or an SVT he sounds great with the switch in the middle position. Gives him more fluidity IMO, Taylor had and still has one of the best Les Paul tones ever. It's heavy and has lots of mid-range beef, yet always clear and precise; there's no drowning the sound of the guitar itself in stupid amounts of overdrive, as most other Les Paul p
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Quotedcba This clip really displays the genius of... Mick and Keef! Why? Because during the 5 years MT was with the Stones they never let him do what he did on the Fallon : ad-libing on the guitar, playing too long and too many notes until the listener's attention wanes (mine just did). Mick and Keef probbably understood right from the start (mid-69?) that while Taylor was a gifted pl
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QuoteJumpinJeppeFlash I'm not surprised at all so many are defending this madness here, they are simply not talented enough to hear how bad CB is playing. They think it sounds good because it's CB playing and it's pathetic when everyone with a little music ears can hear how bad it is. This is a message board on which a large number of posters regularly insist that Keith Richards
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This guy does Keith's part in Open C and sounds pretty accurate. Taylor was probably tuned likewise - he didn't start playing slide in standard tuning until the '72 tour, so far as I know.
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Because there's a principle involved, BV. If you're charging people admission, you'd better be worth it. Nothing stops Chuck Berry going to a local jam night once or twice a week if he just wants to play a bit of guitar for himself and anyone else who wants to listen. But actually selling tickets for this stuff? That's tawdry, crappy behaviour.
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QuoteAquamarine Hyde Park, 1969? I totally agree with the principle, anyway--start with a rocker or three and build that momentum. They opened the Hyde Park concert with I'm Yours, She's Mine, and followed it up with Jumpin' Jack Flash. Both rock pretty hard, you'll agree.
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Guys, guys, y'all are being negative in this thread.
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QuoteRolling Hansie ..... how about "don't be negative" ??? How are people meant to react to video clips like those posted in this thread?
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Quotekleermaker Total nonsense. Of course many people know Sway and Mick Taylor. Have a look at YT. When I uploaded the Glastonbury Knocking it had more than 100.000 views in no time and many, many comments until it was blocked worldwide very soon. Have a look at the Sway and Knocking videos from LA. Then you'll see the same. Some people here seem to think 'we' are the only ones
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Quotegimmelittledrink Although it's not a Stones song, Taylor's work on Stop Breaking Down is simply masterful and contrasts perfectly to Jagger's grunge playing. Agree 100%, You can tell he's still sort of figuring out his approach to playing slide - he'd have it nailed completely by the time they toured later in the year - but that rawness suits the song perfectly.
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I'd go with Kleerie's first two, but substitute Winter for the Love In Vain solo from Welcome To New York. There's nothing wrong with that version of Winter, of course - it's great - but Love In Vain defines Taylor's brilliance, and that particular version is the best I've ever heard:
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QuoteRockinJive That's out of hundred of thousands that play live. No one uses these toys to play live. It's like Tiger Woods using a putter that he got from the local Put Put range. Junk garbage pieces of crap toys. Mick Taylor has been seen playing a Squier Strat now and again when playing in pubs and the like (also a Vintage Strat copy, I think, which is a comparable guitar in pric
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