Rod Stewart: Classic Or Dud

Atlantic Problem would be a good title for overview of later arc, but Atlantic Crossing is the one I meant, the Rubicon move, spirit of '76---as wiki sez:
The album contained two of Stewart's most popular songs, "Sailing" and "I Don't Want to Talk About It”, and classic rock favorites "Three Time Loser" and "Stone Cold Sober".

With Atlantic Crossing, Stewart ended his association with Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and the stable of musicians who had been his core collaborators on his classic run of albums for Mercury Records, fusing soul and folk. Instead, he used a group of session musicians, including The Memphis Horns and three-quarters of Booker T. and the MG's. The album was produced by Tom Dowd, the famous engineer and producer on records by so many of Stewart's heroes during Dowd's time on staff at Atlantic Records. The only song performed from this album on The Faces' final US tour in autumn 1975 was "Three Time Loser", and the rest of the group heavily disliked Stewart's change in musical direction on this album. Following the success of the album, and his move to the U.S., Stewart announced his exit from the Faces by the end of the year.

ROD STEWART has a model train set based on an industrial US city which took him & two friends 26yrs to build.

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— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) October 5, 2022

I am reading his autobio…almost every page has a howlingly funny line… he really seems like a funny, pleasant guy, and this job of ghostwriting this book had to have been the easiest lift of the ghostwriter's career, being that his authentic voice exudes forth… he describes his model trains and his football fandom in ways that very much interest a non-adherent like me… the only thing where he does not come off well is his womanizing, like when he wants to mend his relationship with Kelly Emberg or whoever after banging some other model, then meets Rachel Hunter or whoever, completely abandons his intentions, shrugs his shoulders and rolls his eyes in the telling, "oh well, what are you gonna do? I"m the lad of all lads!" Yeah well, it's just gross as fuck when you can't curtail this behavior when you have like 10 children and you're pushing 60.

That train set is awesome. I'm going to put this here for some that might not have come across it before. It's pretty funny and definitely classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baCeALX2vlM

Autobiography is an excellent read so far - up to the Tom Dowd chapter but Stewart's wonderfully charming and self-effacing. I love how he describes his first attempt at songwriting with Ronnie Wood.

I hear "Forever Young" in the wild ar least twice a week.

Speaking of '80s favorites, I never saw the video for "People Get Ready" until I was doing a deep dive of Jeff Beck over the weekend. Starts off with Stewart hand writing a letter to Beck on a standard post office mailbox in the middle of nowhere saying "Jeff, why not come to L.A. and take up the guitar professionally? Rod" I love how much fun they're having at the end, like they clearly think this is corny (rightfully so) but go with it and do all the hand gestures and everything.

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

Can you get an abridged version that stops in 1972?

rude

Lol