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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2013 13:09:31 GMT -5
Which of the groups do you like better? With Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane or with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart?
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Post by steve on Oct 14, 2013 17:08:54 GMT -5
For me is is the Faces with Rod and Ronnie Wood. Simply because I discovered them first when I was 11 years old and I worked backwards to the Small Faces afterwards. It is a close run thing however. Rod ruined himself by going a bit silly after the end of the Faces and that has sullied his reputation somewhat but the Faces were a cool bunch of blokes. The stand out member for me though is Ronnie Lane. He was, in my opinion, a great songwriter. When Ronnie Lane left the Faces, they were finished effectively. But I'd urge anywone to listen to "A Nods as good as a wink.... to a blind horse" and enjoy a treat. The Small Faces were brilliant too and Steve marriotts voice was terrific. I saw him play live in London pubs in the 1970's and got to meet him once- he was a legend.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2014 12:10:38 GMT -5
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Post by jmuscara on Jan 10, 2014 7:50:53 GMT -5
Who knows with Rod? He's teased them and us many times. IIRC, they even did some rehearsals with hims few years ago, all for him to pull out at the last second. Some suspect that he likes dangling that Faces carrot in front of the public to give his own career a kick. Who knows.
IMNSHO, what's done is done. If it happens, great, that might be fun, but if I were Mac or Kenney, I wouldn't put much if any faith into it. Life goes on. Also, the old records are great and we can listen to those.
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Post by dadfad on Jan 10, 2014 9:11:07 GMT -5
Back in 1969 a band I was in opened for the Faces at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. The guys in the band were pretty nice guys , not all "we're big starz" etc. They sat around and drank with us and... (after all it was the sixties!). Probably the nicest guy was Ronnie Lane, their bassist. He even rode with us in our van to a party some groupie had invited us to in the area and a Jack-in-the-Box to get some greasey tacos on the way back.
But Rod... Very different. Totally aloof. Even demanded his own dressing room separate from the rest of the Faces band. Strutted around stage with a pink feathered boa on, tossing it over his shoulder as he inspected mic-placement, etc. (B/t/w... His mic-stand was special made out of extremely thin aluminum and very very light so he could hold it, spin it, etc (you've probably seen it on stage or in pics or videos).
Actually kind of an asshole. (Kind of..?)
One of our roadies bet me five buck if I'd go up to him and say "Are you Johnny Angelos? I have a message for him." Which I did. (Man, if looks could kill... LOLOLOLOL!) As he said "Noooo, I am NOT." and tossed his boa over his shoulder and walked away. hahaha.)
And while I know in this day and age, some of this might not be totally... PC... Obviously there were lots of groupies around, and lots of goodies like hashish, Afghani-oil, etc! Of course the Faces got first choice and we (no-name opening band that we were) got the leftovers! (But still...!!!!) But Lord Rodney chose several under-age young boys to "come up to his dressing-room" with him. (And ordered a case of Boones Farm Apple Wine to be sent up.)
I'm not a big Rod Stewart fan.
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Post by Admin on Jan 10, 2014 20:12:47 GMT -5
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Post by steve on Jan 11, 2014 17:14:45 GMT -5
I don't think Rod is capable of singing the Faces songs in the original keys anymore. I think Rod was, in those days, a great vocalist but he got too far up himself after the break up of the band and I totally lost interest.
Ronnie lane was always my favourite- he played bass beautifully and I when I was learning bass, he was my inspiration ( well Mr McCartney was too).
I loved the Faces- I had every album and they were the first band, apart from The Beatles, that I was into.
I didn't think the Small Faces ever made it to the USA but I must obviously be wrong. I think that Rod and Ron Wood were both USA tour veterans (from the Jeff Beck Group tours)and I thought that Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Mac went to the USA for the first time with the Faces. I think I'm right in saying that The Faces "made it" in the USA before they cracked the UK. I could be wrong on all this- I was only 11 at the time it was happening and learned most of what I know subsequently.
As I said before I managed to meet Steve Marriott at a pub in the East End of London in the late Seventies after he fell off a stage and landed on me and a friend. We helped him back onto the stage and he invited us for a quick drink (which we never got).
The Fces were my initial favourite and I later got into the Small Faces ( i.e. totally the wrong way around!).
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Post by jmuscara on Jan 12, 2014 9:19:11 GMT -5
I get why some people dislike post-Faces Rod, but there are a few of his tracks from that immediate era that I dig. And don't forget, a lot of the Rod solo stuff when he was in the band used the Faces as his backing band, and he performed those life with the Faces. In fact, Mac sneakily put some of those live versions on the Faces box set, "Five Guys Walk Into a Bar."
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