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A bit of Mick Taylor.

jb_abides

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One day I woke up to find
Right in the bed next to mine
Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah
It's just that demon life that got me in its sway

So many great solos from Mick. And tone.

Not to mention bass on Tumbling Dice. Wyman MIA. Mick's bass propels that song.
 

tweedphan

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One of my favourite blues album/s are Diary of a Band - John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers recorded live with Mick Taylor. Such soulful and melodic playing.
 

goldtop0

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Remember listening to him when I was a kid and not being able to pick if he was playing slide or otherwise, a mesmerising fluid and soulful guitarist if ever there was one.
 

EXPLRGAB

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SOME JAZZ HARMONY LAID DOWN.....MT TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE...SHADES OF ROBIN FORD.....GREAT TECHNIQUE AND TONE....NOW THAT NEEDS TO BE CHARTED OUT...EXCELLENT.
 

zoommutt

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I haven't heard that song in years. I should dig that album out again.
 

corpse

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Some Girls & Black and Blue are incredible records- but to your point musically not as much
 

Bumhucker

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NEVER SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE ROLLING STONES....I SAW HIM PLAY WITH THE RS AT MSG....I CAN STILL REMEMBER HIS FABULOUS SLIDE SOLO
ON LOVE IN VAIN.
He ran for his life, if you think about it. When with Mayall, he didnt touch reefer. During the Stones he had a heroin habit.
 

corpse

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I have to agree w Bum. The quote I heard, just prior to the Hyde Park concert where MT made his debut, was ""No thanks, but I wouldn't mind a little weed"... or something like that.
Run like hell.
 

bern1

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I bought the MT record when it first came out, still have it and listen once in a while. It’s a great guitar player’s record.
I can still remember the first time I heard Taylor on Crusade in the late ‘60’s. Awesome vibrato and soulful playing from a very young man. As a slightly younger man myself at the time, I thought well, this is something I can get in to!

The Rolling Stones with Mick Taylor was a glorious band in a great period. But The Rolling Stones didn’t need Mick Taylor. I think Ronnie is actually a better fit.

What Taylor really needed was to hook up with a vocalist and songwriting to match his guitar playing, which never happened. His vocals are mostly truly cringeworthy and certainly were not sellable. Surely somebody must have told him but maybe he just didn’t care. There is probably a reason we have never heard James P. Page sing.
 

EXPLRGAB

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OPINIONS VARY. EXCEPT FOR ........"THE GIRL WITH THE FARAWAY EYES"....I WAS NEVER INTRIGUED BY THE STONES DURING THE RON WOOD YEARS...WITH TAYLOR, THE BAND TOOK NO PRISONERS....AND RIGHTFULLY SO, IN THE STUDIO AND OF COURSE IN CONCERT, LIVE, WHERE A MUSICIAN OF MT's TECHNIQUE AND ABILITY ARE THE STUFF OF LEGEND...IT IS FORTUNATE, I GOT TO SEE THE STONES WITH MICK TAYLOR.. ALSO FORTUNATE, THAT ALTHOUGH BEING SURROUNDED BY A WEALTH OF DRUG OPPORTUNITIES GROWING UP IN NYC, THOSE OPPORTUNITIES NEVER BECAME THE MAJOR DETERRENT IT DID FOR MICK TAYLOR WHICH HE RELATED DURING THE KEITH"S ORBIT INTERVIEWS. RON WOOD IS A ROCK STAR AND A VERY GOOD PROFESSIONAL GUITAR PLAYER. NO DOUBT. HIS SENSE OF STYLE MUSICALLY AND OTHERWISE IS A GOOD FIT FOR THE ROLLING STONES....BUT HE IS NO MICK TAYLOR. MICK JAGGER CONSIDERED TAYLOR A VIRTUOSO BLUES GUITARIST. HE WAS ASTONISHED WHEN KEITH TOLD HIM TAYLOR WAS LEAVING...HE SAID TO KEITH..... "YOU ARE KIDDING"...I GUESS I STILL MISS MICK TAYLOR.
 

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Right, Rolling Stones probably wouldn't have survived the late 70s disco era and 80s with Mick Taylor. In that respect Ronnie Wood is the better fit. Sad but I think true that Mick left the band to battle his demons. Glad that band with Bobby Keys and all were able to record and tour for that small window. It was magical.
 

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I love that song in the YouTube clip in this thread, I didn't think anyone else was even aware of it. The opening jazzy chord stuff is pretty easy, but the solo... well I've been working on that one for decades. There is a Mick Taylor live album that contains a version of Red House that is just as spectacular. If you watch the Stones Live at the Marquee Club videos you will see how Mick Taylor's playing really pulled everything together for the Stones. Even when he is playing single notes, more of a bass line than a lead, it hits you. If ever there were a truly gifted guitarist, it is Mick Taylor.
 
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