In Praise Of... Mick Taylor

Always enjoy trying to parse the lyrics to TD. I seem to hear “fever in the pork house, now” when it goes to the fourth and fifth

Thank you, that's a great explanation.

Big Taylor fan, but in hindsight he was a really weird choice for the Stones. I mean those guys could barely play…

I don't know if I would say he ever overplayed on the studio albums, though. Maybe on "Time Waits For No-One".

KR: "Mick Taylor is a great guitarist, but he found out the hard way that that's all he is"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuzC_3ai1ek

I mean wasn't Mick Taylor stuffed by the Stones for songwriting royalties or am I misremembering something?

Yeah. He legit wrote the music for "Moonlight Mile" and "Sway," for example.

upthread there's a claimed update to the gold-records story, where taylor apparently told NME that actually the daily mail version of the story was scurrilously exaggerated gossip and that he was still on good terms with the band

Taylor's retracting the original story: http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/47326

― dad a, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 02:55 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

unfortunately linkrot and the NME's usual digital incompetence means the story isn't there any more so who knows where things stand (daily mail never a good source tho)

Yeah. He legit wrote the music for "Moonlight Mile" and "Sway," for example.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 15, 2022 5:00 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

two of the best Stones songs imo

also "time waits for no one"

That one absolute leapt out at me on a recent replay of the IORNR LP

two of the best Stones songs imo

― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie

top tem for me

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