Any love for this one? I think it is sadly unknown by most.
When it came out, it was not raw enough for people who wanted Stones raunch. It's a studio album for sure. This one has some fusion influence and some balladry, some instrumentals. We get a nice Lowell George cameo too.
Mick is not a great singer. It's the curse of the guitarist who goes solo. But he's good enough for this kind of material.
It's a gray rainy day, and that is the album I am listening to.
Any love for this one? I think it is sadly unknown by most.
When it came out, it was not raw enough for people who wanted Stones raunch. It's a studio album for sure. This one has some fusion influence and some balladry, some instrumentals. We get a nice Lowell George cameo too.
Mick is not a great singer. It's the curse of the guitarist who goes solo. But he's good enough for this kind of material.
It's a gray rainy day, and that is the album I am listening to.
Any love for this one? I think it is sadly unknown by most.
When it came out, it was not raw enough for people who wanted Stones raunch. It's a studio album for sure. This one has some fusion influence and some balladry, some instrumentals. We get a nice Lowell George cameo too.
Mick is not a great singer. It's the curse of the guitarist who goes solo. But he's good enough for this kind of material.
It's a gray rainy day, and that is the album I am listening to.
Somewhere around here I have a later release from Mick. "Stranger in this town"..
Mick is among those guitar-gods who really didn't do much after their heyday.
Jimmy Page over the last 25 year is another.
Ed King 1975-1986 & then again post-1995 would count (he had health issues but stayed retired even after he recovered)
Sort of, hotlantatim. Mick Taylor was incredibly busy for a lot of years, much more than Page, but because he was never the Name that Jimmy Page was, a lot of Taylor's stuff went under the radar.
He did a ton of session work and a load of live gigs.
Right after the Stones, Mick Taylor joined Jack Bruce's band. They toured some and were all set to record, but Taylor flaked out. This is too bad, because their live stuff is very interesting. Very proggy.
Taylor went into isolation to work on his own album, which came out in 1979. He did sit in with Little Feat and did a few session gigs in that time - he played some on 2 albums by the British prog band Gong. He never did tour for his solo album, a big mistake. In 1977, he did play with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger on a solo album by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas that didn't get released for 20 years. It has some good stuff on it!! He also played on the soundtrack for Bowie's movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
In 1981, he played in the Alvin Lee Band. They opened for Black Sabbath on some dates. They had some really hot double-lead-guitar firepower. Again, while they tried some studio work, it fell apart before they could record. He sat in with the Stones for most of a concert in Kansas City.
In 1982-1984, Taylor spent a lot of time playing with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. The live shows had some stellar moments; there is one great live album worth tracking down, as well as a good DVD that also has Albert King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Etta James, and Sippie Wallace.
Bob Dylan took note of the Bluesbreakers, and he recruited Taylor to play on his "Infidels" album and to tour with him; Taylor is on Dylan's "Real Live" album. There are some really good bootlegs from that tour also. In Europe, Santana was the opening act, and Carlos would sometimes jam with Dylan and Taylor.
Mick did finally get a band together to start touring for the second half of the 1980s. The line-up kept changing. At some points, he did have a bunch of the guys from Jeff Beck's "Wired" line-up. He had Max Middleton, Wilbur Bascomb, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie; at other times he had Blondie Chaplin and Shane Fontayne. His live album "Stranger in this Town" came out around 1989 or 1990, which has some moments for sure.
Throughout the 80s and early 90s he did a lot of session work, including for Joan Jett, Keith Richards, David Bowie, Dramarama, the Waterboys' Anthony Thistlewaite, as well as a ton of lesser known bands. He did an instructional video for Arlen Roth's guitar series in maybe 1986. He sat in with the Grateful Dead in 1989 and with Dickey Betts in 1988.
Since then, his solo band worked steadily for the 90s and the 2000s. He had a short live album that came out mid-90s, called "Coasting Home" but sometimes re-labeled with different titles. He's on 3 or 4 albums by a Texas roots-rock singer named Carla Olson that are good. He continued to do some sessions and periodically work with Mayall. He did release his second full studio solo album around 2000 or 2001.
He did one of the "Experience Hendrix" all-star tours. I guess his live appearances re-united with the Stones and his guitar work on "Plundered My Soul," the single from the Deluxe re-vamping of "Exile on Main Street," are some of the last big things that he did, other than appearing with Clapton on the John Mayall 70th birthday concert DVD.
But overall, yeah, he is not really a bandleader or businessman or frontman, nor is he a great songwriter or singer. He's had his ups and downs with addictions and health. It is a shame that he never linked up with a strong partner who could have guided him more.
I wish Mick Taylor had remained with the Rolling Stones. But they were not that interested in Taylor's songs and by the time Taylor heard from the Stones again informing him they were ready to start a new album, Taylor was irritated. He hadn't heard from anyone in so long he thought the Stones may have broken up. So he informed Mick Jagger he had quit. And Jagger got angry. But man if I were Taylor and had not heard a thing from the leaders or management in that long I too would give up and such a long period of inactivity isn't fun.
Mick Taylor can play on stage with anyone. He is that good.
[Edited on 5/1/2020 by blackey]
I wish Mick Taylor had remained with the Rolling Stones. But they were not that interested in Taylor's songs and by the time Taylor heard from the Stones again informing him they were ready to start a new album, Taylor was irritated. He hadn't heard from anyone in so long he thought the Stones may have broken up. So he informed Mick Jagger he had quit. And Jagger got angry. But man if I were Taylor and had not heard a thing from the leaders or management in that long I too would give up and such a long period of inactivity isn't fun.
Mick Taylor can play on stage with anyone. He is that good.
[Edited on 5/1/2020 by blackey]
Agree with all this and the Stones music would have benefited greatly. My favorite albums are those he was on.
I really like the stuff he did with Carla Olson.
Mick Taylor is a wonderful player. I'm not familiar with his work with the Stones from an informed standpoint. I thought his time with Carla Olsen was outstanding. He plays well and demonstrates his abilities like so few others. Sings as well. He's a legacy!
