Conference napalm::guitar

	Mick Taylor is one of my all time favorite players.

	Before he joined the stones he did some incredible
	work with John Mayall, most notably on the 'Bare Wires'
	and 'Blues from Laurel Canyon' LP's.

	He is still doing some touring and recording occasionally.
	A couple years back he played Nightstage in Cambridge.

	In 1989 he released 'Stranger in this Town', a compilation
	of live recordings from various concerts he's done in
	Europe and the States.  It's worth picking up if you can
	find it.  It's got on it the best version of 'Little Red
	Rooster' I've ever heard, and he also does a killer cover
	of 'Red House'.

	/steve

    Another side of Mick Taylor worth exploring was his work with a
    band called Gong. (Alan Holdsworth and Steve Hillage are both
    expatriots of this band which got it's start from the psychadelically-
    influenced Daevid Allen). MT recorded at least two albums with Gong
    entitled "Shamal" and "Pierre Morlean's (sp) Gong Live". If you're
    expecting to hear blues-based scales, you're going to be quite
    surprised as these albums are smoking fusion!
    
    Scotty

    Mick Taylor also released a solo effort around '80 titled (I'm pretty
    sure), "Broken Hands". I heard it back in '80 on one of the "album"
    stations late night. I liked it. 
    
    Jim

    Must be tough for old Mick, he was just a kid (16, I think) when he
    went on the road with Mayall, and then he went into the Stones.  He
    never had the chance to front a band and after leaving the Stones,
    what was there to do?  
    
    I do have to say one of my biggest disappointments was when the band he
    started with Jack Bruce and Carla Bley blew apart after a week or tow
    of rehearsing, now *there* was a band that could have really turned
    some heads.
    
    My favorite solo of his is probably on "Can't you Hear Me Knocking",
    but he did so many good ones, particularly the ballads, he was miles
    beyond Keef on those.
    
    							Brian

    
    
    I have always enjoyed Mick Taylor's work, too, particularly his solo
    on Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) and Time Waits For No One, both
    from the "Goat's Head Soup" album.
    
    Also, the guitar interplay between Mick T. and Keith on the
    eerie introduction to "Gimme Shelter" is, for my money, one of
    the best uses of two guitars I've ever heard.  It's a long ways
    away from the old "I'll strum chords and you play the lead" school
    of twin-guitar rock.  Talk about setting up a mood!
    
    Lastly, has anyone heard Keith and the X-Pensive Winos new album?
    I think it's a live shot from the tour several years ago
    
    I can't get no...
    
    Brian

    Hey Brian R, re "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"
    
    Are you talking about the long solo section at the end?
    That's Carlos Santana.
    
    /rick

    
    Brian, isn't "Time waits..." on Only Rock and Roll (not GHS)?
    
    -pat
    
    I believe that Mick was sick during Only Rock and Roll, and
    left after this album.  Yes?
    
    
    
    	

    
    
    RE "Can't you hear me knocking"
    
    Funny, I heard an interview with Keith Richards last year, and talked
    specifically about that solo at the end......he claimed to have played
    it, and that he did it on the first take, and implied that it was a jam
    that just happened sort of unplanned.  But he definitely took credit
    for that solo.....whether it was his or not.  One of my favorite Stones
    tunes anyway.
    
    Dave          

    
    
    Er, um, yeah, I think you're right.  "Time Waits for No One"
    is from the Rock and Roll album.
    
    This rock history stuff is a bear....I mean, not everybody can
    be an Alan Starr.  :)
    
    I never knew that was Carlos on "Can't You Me Knockin".  Is that a
    fact?
    
    His style turned up in a few places back in that era....for instance,
    the middle of the Allman's "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is *very*
    reminiscent of Santana.
    
    It's kind of interesting how a single guitar player can dominate
    guitar styles for a period of time.  (Maybe a new note??)
    
    Certainly Hendrix, EVH, and Clapton come to mind as guys that
    literally dominated guitar styles for certain periods in history.

    re Carlos and "Can't You Hear..."
    
    My info is from a very old (early 70's) interview with Carlos.
    After that, I always "heard" Carlos when I listened to that solo;
    it sure sounds like his style.  Never checked album credits or anything,
    just assumed it was common knowledge.
    
    So let's see, we've got Mick, Keef, and Carlos vying for honors here.
    Anyone else?  How about Ted Nugent :-)
    
    /rick

    Re: .10
    
    First time I heard of that claim.  Maybe it was really Jimmy Page.  Or
    Dave Davies  8^)
    
    Who cares, great solo.  If it's really Keef, where's he been hiding
    those chops since then?
    
    						Brian

	IMO, Mick Taylor belongs to the gang of Beck, Clapton and Page.
	He plays an incredible vibrato, also has an amazing slide tech-
	nique (VERY vibrating). I heard him in concert with John Mayall
	in '66, I believe, never forgot it. He played an LP through a
	Marshall stack, unbelievable sound, unbelievable solos. Todays
	heros like Slash can draw their lines direct back to MT, IMO.

	The earlier mentioned albums, 'Bare Wires' and 'Blues From
	Laural Canyon' with John Mayall are classics in my collection
	(on BW, absolute clean-playing Tony Reeves also made some deli-
	cate bass playing - joined the keyboard-band 'Greenslade' later).

	He also made a solo album, 'Mick Taylor', in 1979 - a bit dis-
	appointing, he has always been at his best when joining bands.

	I heard him again about two years ago in a local club, together
	with Max Middleton on keys and an unknown, indonesian-lookalike
	fellow, who also did some *amazing* sweaty work on his axe...
	Talk about classic blues riffs...

	Poul

Mick was the  reason I bought an SG for my first real good guitar, one just like
his...

I like the  Mick Taylor solo album, but it didn't do squat in sales and can, or
could be found in the budget bins for next to nothing.

Keef? Is that Keef Hartley? :-)

dbii

    Some of my favorite Mick Taylor licks are the ones you hear just as the
    song is fading out...  For example, the Stones's "Sway" and "Rocks Off".

    I really like his playing on the B-side to "It's Only Rock'n'Roll", the
    song "Through the Lonely Nights" -- shows, as someone else mentioned,
    what he can do on ballads.

    I never understood what people meant when they said Mick Taylor was
    "Coltrane-influenced".  Then recently I figured it out -- and promptly
    lost the connection.  (The 60s were great, man.)  I'll keep y'all posted
    though...  8)              - Jay

    
    	Glad to see Mick getting some recognition. I have love his playing
    	on the Stone's stuff for years. His guitar solo on Love In Vain
    	from Get Yer Ya Ya's is incredible and very tasteful. Really makes
    	the song.
    
    	I think Mick is the player on Can't You Hear me Knocking. Keith
    	can play but not that level of fluidity especially in 1969. Also
    	the rythym work appears to be Keith's style and that does not stop
    	during the solo.
    
    	As an old Stone's fan I also love to hear Brian Jone's work on
    	the early material. I know the slide work was his, Little Red
    	Rooster etc. Also some of the solo's were his, I am not sure
    	but I think he played the break on The Last Time. Too bad this
    	guy was so mixed up I think he might have made a greater
        contribution to rock history.
    
    	Does anyone have opinion as to who played the acoustic guitar
    	on "As Tear's Go By"? I have wondered if Jimmy Page was the
    	player?
    
    	Tony