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LuxuryStones
Love MT's melodic approach and tone here. Almost like the good old days.
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dcba
ad-libing on the guitar, playing too long and too many notes until the listener's attention wanes (mine just did).
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dcba
This clip really displays the genius of... Mick and Keef!
Why? Because during the 5 years MT was with the Stones they never let him do what he did on the Fallon : ad-libing on the guitar, playing too long and too many notes until the listener's attention wanes (mine just did).
Mick and Keef probbably understood right from the start (mid-69?) that while Taylor was a gifted player he was his onw worst enemy as he didn't know when to stop playing.
In the rock idiom, power often comes with concision : play a 10 sec. solo and you'll hit the listener on the head play for 50 seconds, you'll get the opposite.
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LuxuryStones
Love MT's melodic approach and tone here. Almost like the good old days.
Almost?!
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LuxuryStones
Love MT's melodic approach and tone here. Almost like the good old days.
Almost?!
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dcba
This clip really displays the genius of... Mick and Keef!
Why? Because during the 5 years MT was with the Stones they never let him do what he did on the Fallon : ad-libing on the guitar, playing too long and too many notes until the listener's attention wanes (mine just did).
Mick and Keef probbably understood right from the start (mid-69?) that while Taylor was a gifted player he was his onw worst enemy as he didn't know when to stop playing.
In the rock idiom, power often comes with concision : play a 10 sec. solo and you'll hit the listener on the head play for 50 seconds, you'll get the opposite.
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LuxuryStones
I didn't attent the recent Stones gigs DP, so I cannot compare, but to me Taylor sounds more confident and loose on the clip I posted plus I think his Fender (is it a twin ?) fits his playing better, it sounds more smooth than his current gear with the Stones to me.. Anyway, this is the Taylor that reminds me a lot of the glory days, I love it.
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DandelionPowderman
Whether it's a Twin or an SVT he sounds great with the switch in the middle position. Gives him more fluidity
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Buffalo 7478
The Roots sound a shitload better then the Stones have over the past few tours playing CYHMK (aside from the vocal, though at least the singer sings and sounds into it.). I the tempo and urgency.
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DandelionPowderman
Whether it's a Twin or an SVT he sounds great with the switch in the middle position. Gives him more fluidity
IMO, Taylor had and still has one of the best Les Paul tones ever. It's heavy and has lots of mid-range beef, yet always clear and precise; there's no drowning the sound of the guitar itself in stupid amounts of overdrive, as most other Les Paul players do. I always thought his tone on Brussels '73 was incredible - like Clapton's woman tone, yet (to me) somehow cooler. When he switches to the neck pickup here, he gets back in that ballpark.
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Stoneage
The clip where he played CYHMK with The Roots on Jimmy Fallon was great.
Sadly that clip has been taken away due to copyrights. Here is an audio of
the clip anyway:
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Stoneage
Yes. And it's really The Roots that makes the difference. Not so much Mick Taylor. The Stones don't do justice to anything these days. They have become old, predictable and boring...
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DandelionPowderman
He is "allowed to" during a few minutes on MR as well...
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buffalo7478
The Roots sound a shitload better then the Stones have over the past few tours playing CYHMK (aside from the vocal, though at least the singer sings and sounds into it.). I the tempo and urgency.
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buffalo7478
The Roots sound a shitload better then the Stones have over the past few tours playing CYHMK (aside from the vocal, though at least the singer sings and sounds into it.). I the tempo and urgency.
The Roots do sound better in some ways (they're tight and funky), but the percussion is too prominent and the solo sounds a bit too predictable. As much as I love it, I've heard it so many times now. But what I liked about the 2012-2013 Stones performances of that song is that Mick Taylor did some nice improvisations outside the usual CYHMK solo lines and Mick Jagger kinda kicked him and the others in the arse to keep the song shorter and tighter or whatever, and the whole band is on fire, pushed by Mick T, while still kinda struggling with the song. It makes for a great live performance (and youtube watch). Same with Midnight Rambler, by the way.
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kleermaker
I guess this Knocking by Taylor and The Roots didn't get much rehearsal time. It seems rather spontaneous. Anyway, the Stones sound rather lost when they played Knocking in 2013. Especially when Taylor is soloing both other guitarists seem hardly to know what to do. It's quite visible on the Glastonbury dvd.