QuoteHis Majesty QuoteSomeGuy Chasing trends is exactly what they did after MT left. Yes, so mixing that with Taylors jazz fusion aspirations = yuk. This is a common misconception. What are you considering jazz fusion on any Stones record? I'm sorry, but the harmony was never complex enough to be considered jazz. lol
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QuoteHMS QuoteTravelinMan Mick Taylor’s solo albums have plenty of blues and rock. He never strayed away from his roots. So much of this anti-Taylor stuff is garbage. If Jeff Beck joined the Stones they would have crashed and burned like a Stone Zeppelin. MT has made more than one solo-album? Jeff Beck & MT should have joined forces. They are two of a kind noodlers. Another similari
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Mick Taylor’s solo albums have plenty of blues and rock. He never strayed away from his roots. So much of this anti-Taylor stuff is garbage. If Jeff Beck joined the Stones they would have crashed and burned like a Stone Zeppelin.
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QuoteHMS QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteHMS Exile has some of their best songs ever but also at least five floaters and Torn And Frayed, although not actually a floater does not belong to Exile´s best songs. It is what it is - average Stones. There´s not much to complain about Torn And Frayed, but although there´s nothing to praise. Compared to the best Exile-songs it is pale and very easy to overlo
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QuoteHis Majesty It hurt to write that HMS inspired nonsense. Torn And Frayed is an excellent song with excellent lyrics and is perfectly Stonesy in all its glory.
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QuoteNICOS QuoteTravelinMan Back to Mick Taylor, since this is his thread after all. I can't believe I haven't heard this before! It's really cool to hear Taylor play on a lot of these popular songs. Great find I did heard some of them but not all...thanks Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. He goes into a really cool ALbert King thing on Born Under A Bad Sign. Also, heari
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Quoteliddas QuoteDoxa Quoteliddas Second, Ronnie might have seen the stones live in 72/73 (I never read that he did) but unless he was a Stones boot collector he had no material to study Taylor live in those years. Being a big Stones fanboy he was/is, I wouldn't be surprised that he might have had those bootlegs. But in the case of no, the Stones themselves had acquired the habit of
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTravelinMan QuoteSomeGuy QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTornAndFried QuotePhillyFAN QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteHMS QuoteTheflyingDutchman There's no use in writing tons of post about a musician you don't think much of. it is my undisputed duty to right a wrong Thank You, HMS, Thank You!. Here is RW attempting to replicate MT's solo on Gimme
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Back to Mick Taylor, since this is his thread after all. I can't believe I haven't heard this before! It's really cool to hear Taylor play on a lot of these popular songs.
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QuoteSomeGuy QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTornAndFried QuotePhillyFAN QuoteTheflyingDutchman QuoteHMS QuoteTheflyingDutchman There's no use in writing tons of post about a musician you don't think much of. it is my undisputed duty to right a wrong Thank You, HMS, Thank You!. Here is RW attempting to replicate MT's solo on Gimme Shelter 1975. Not bad but it
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QuoteHis Majesty Dunno, comparing Taylor and Wood is kinda silly. Danny Kirwin is of a similar ilk to Taylor, but more raw, electric and exciting. Great at the melodic approach too. Fabulous vibrato. Kirwin smokes Taylor. I love me some Danny Kirwan, but I wouldn’t say those two are similar at all. Both have very distinct tones and phrasing. I prefer Kirwan’s more orchestrated
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QuoteHairball As far as Ronnie era studio albums where he was a fully integral part (not Black and Blue or Tattoo You), I would only list Some Girls as being essential and indespensable. Other albums have some bright spots, but none are as solid from start to finish and as a whole. Brian and Mick T. on the other hand...well it's hard to pick any they were involved with that aren't e
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QuoteHMS QuoteOpenG Musically the stones live during 1969 thru 1973 with Taylor in the band was the best lineup how can one argue with that is beyond me Taylor played way too much. He was - maybe still is - an excellent player but in those live years he often played too much stuff on songs that do not need that kind of playing. Some songs do even suffer from his playing hundreds of notes not b
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteTravelinMan The Stones will not continue without Richards or Jagger, maybe Watts. We’ll see who’s right! That doesn't mean they aren't replaceable. They have all been replaced in studio at differing times for example... Mick is replaced when Keith does his solo slot. Keith is the singer of the band at that point. They may say lovely words, but were Ch
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QuoteTheflyingDutchman Quoteboogaloojef QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteSomeGuy Mick Taylor played bass and electric guitar on them, respectively. I vaguely remember that there was some court ruling that said they had to acknowledge the fact that Taylor wrote the songs (at least partially) at the time. Perhaps they bought him off later on? The way the label info is given doesn't suggest a t
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteTravelinMan HMS, Jagger, Richards, and Watts are irreplaceable. Anybody else is, although it isn’t the same without Bill. They are all replaceable. Every person can be replaced and music can continue to be made. Whether you or the public likes or accepts the replacements is another matter. The Stones will not continue without Richards or Jagger, maybe Watts. We’ll see
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HMS, Jagger, Richards, and Watts are irreplaceable. Anybody else is, although it isn’t the same without Bill. Listening to the ‘75 live stuff, a tour which the Stones mimicked their 1973 tour approach, it’s clear that the band HAD to change because Wood could not fill Taylor’s shoes. I’m not going to bash Wood’s personality and his off stage antics, I’m just looking at the music. He did an ok
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If you don't like Goat's Head Soup or It's Only Rock N Roll, so be it, but to blame Mick Taylor for it is a joke. That would be like me blaming Ron Wood for about 40 years of subpar material that has come out since Tattoo You! The same people that claim Taylor had NO influence in the band are the same that are blaming him for albums they don't like. Hmmmmmmmmm
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1) I definitely don’t think Taylor overplayed on a Dead Flowers. What did they play that once in ‘73 (the tour he is most accused of overplaying on)? He plays arpeggios during the verse and responds beautifully to vocals. This is not a blues or minor key rock number, so generic minor pentatonic and blues lines will not work. He elevated this tune exceptionally well. Certainly doesn’t need another
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I think Mick Taylor's solo albums and live shows are indicative of what the man likes to play: a well mixed concoction of blues, rock, and jazz, or in the haters' words "Santana-esque noodling". Sure, he has written a ballad or two over the years... but the notion that he tried to undermine Richards and morph the Stones into balladeers is nonsense. Jagger was/is the main re
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QuoteHMS Taylor almost dragged the Stones down like a stone... On albums GHS & IORR their rudeness seems to calm down due to his non-Stones-like-soloing on some songs. His style is so different from what is the original Stones-sound, he almost ruined the band soundwise. Occasionally he fits, when there was a certain flavor demanded, but mostly he does not fit. When they finally got rid of Tay
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QuoteStonedRambler QuoteGasLightStreet Welcome to the digital nightmare. Until the 1980s, music was recorded on analog tapes that were stored in vaults and easily played back. In the digital era, that process has changed irrevocably. A new report issued by the Library of Congress calls digital formats “not inherently safe harbors of preservation,” and raised red flags about how music collections
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Quotevertigojoe QuoteSomeGuy Interesting matter for Taylorologists but a bit above my head, I'm afraid. What I would like to say is that I never understood why Goat's Head Soup and especially It's Only Rock n Roll don't seem to get the credit they deserve, being the last two records that Mick Taylor played on (and did some more than just performing, according to some). For me
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Considering his reputation, Ron Wood is the Stone I would LEAST like to meet.
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QuoteNathanLaze anyone got the cd "Cats Eyes" by Robin Millar and MT ? been wondering about how decent is the music itself and how prominent is the guitar and... is this a cd-r or silver cd ?? thanks in advance I think you can stream it for free somewhere. I remember listening to it and finding it pleasant and well put together.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTornAndFried QuoteDandelionPowderman Al Perkins plays the solo on Torn And Frayed. It's a perfect solo Yep, just like Far Away Eyes and other Ronnie pedal steel-solos. Um...two different worlds there, friend.
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In regards to the amp: This was early 90's so probably some sort of stock tube amp you'd find in any of the old Nashville studios. Probably a tube with only one volume control rather than a separate gain knob stage.
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I have to think he’s got recorded material out there. I’m not sure why he couldn’t use some of the tracks recorded and sort of do a “Plundered My Soul” approach by maybe having some of his unreleased solo album’s keyboards/drums re-recorded to not sound so 80’s. I think he was in Nashville a lot in the early 90’s with Carla Olson, so maybe there is some of his own stuff recorded during that pe
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Les Paul with a Fender amp!
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