truth IS my favorite rod. and jeff beck's playing on it is sick. one of the heaviest albums ever.
― m coleman, Monday, 14 April 2008 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
and they are back:
http://angryape.com/news/2008/11/13/rod-stewart-confirms-the-faces-reunion-is-on
Rod Stewart Confirms The Faces Reunion Is On
Published Thursday, 13th November, 2008 Rod Stewart has confirmed his former band The Faces are back together for a reunion.It was claimed at the start of the week that the remaining members of the group - Ronnie Wood, Ian MCLagan, Kenney Jones and Rod - were to reform for a 2009 tour. It's thought Stewart's bassist will stand in for late bass player Ronnie Lane."Yes, absolutely," Rod replied when asked if the reunion rumours were true. "We have our first rehearsal on Monday. It will be next summer and I am looking forward to it. It'll be great.""Ronnie Wood is up for it. I think he feels great. He is full of energy and very excited. We try not to mix our family problems with work. I'll see him Monday."
Rod Stewart has confirmed his former band The Faces are back together for a reunion.
It was claimed at the start of the week that the remaining members of the group - Ronnie Wood, Ian MCLagan, Kenney Jones and Rod - were to reform for a 2009 tour. It's thought Stewart's bassist will stand in for late bass player Ronnie Lane.
"Yes, absolutely," Rod replied when asked if the reunion rumours were true. "We have our first rehearsal on Monday. It will be next summer and I am looking forward to it. It'll be great."
"Ronnie Wood is up for it. I think he feels great. He is full of energy and very excited. We try not to mix our family problems with work. I'll see him Monday."
― Bee OK, Friday, 14 November 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
will they have a coffee bar onstage?
― henry s, Friday, 14 November 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Viagra lounge
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 November 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be more interested in a Small Faces reunion, except the idea would be impossible with both frontmen dead.
Faces without Ronnie Lane aren't quite Faces either.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 November 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i agree, what is the point of this reunion?
will they headline Coachella Festival next year?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
ronnie lane was sort of the heart of the faces to me. i don't like this idea that much.
― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
""ronnie lane was sort of the heart of the faces to me"". Almost word for word what "Rod the Mod" is quoted as saying when Ron left the Faces, and pretty much true I reckon. I`m an original fan of all the line ups since the Small Faces had a residency at the Cavern in the Town in 65, and a real nerd completist. I was lucky enough to see Faces and Humble Pie on the same bill in 72 and Marriott showed Rodders how it was done in no uncertain terms!!The beaky one lost it for me after Atlantic Crossing and if he`s bringing that "Great American Songbook" malarky to the table I`ll pass thanks....
― Lincolnshire, Saturday, 15 November 2008 06:16 (fifteen years ago) link
^this is good stuff, 1972 WOW! yeah it seems like Rod has been past this stage for a very long time.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 November 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/news/news.php?uid=752
please tell me this is a wind up, this reunion is potentially bad enough without this berk joining
― vain_bowers, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
would rather see Keef doing it...he's no stranger to the bass...
― henry s, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
or even Wyman...be a good payback for Woody getting nicked way back when...
― henry s, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
like man....c'mon...flea?!
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this sounds terrible. save yr dough for the MOTT THE HOOPLE REUNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw ian hunter solo about 5-7 years ago and it was SUPER fun and awesome, so i imagine mott will be well worth it
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hell, Overend would make a good fill-in for Lane...
― henry s, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome. x-post
i will say that i caught Ian McLagan and his band at a club show last summer and it was pretty fun and rockin
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, what?? is Mott really reuniting?
― Stylez G. White (Stormy Davis), Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/22/despite-rumors-no-faces-reunion-tour-or-album-in-2009/
― vain_bowers, Friday, 23 January 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
both takes of "Maybe I'm Amazed" on the Five Guys box set are, well, amazing. And the live tracks on this set crush. And "Jealous Guy"! Rod may have taken his best originals to his solo albums, but this band was so good that even as a covers band they're worth lots of time.
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Sunday, 28 February 2010 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
like e.g. their cover of Free's "The Stealer", with great piano playing (of course)...just sounds like a blast to be there
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Sunday, 28 February 2010 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
here we go again:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/25/faces-reform-mick-hucknall
Simply Red vocalist Hucknall is rock'n'roll enough to step into original front man Rod Stewart's shoes, insists Ronnie Wood
Mark Brown, arts correspondentguardian.co.uk, Tuesday 25 May 2010
They were as celebrated for rock'n'roll excess as for their influential music, and counted among their members two of the most notorious bad boys of their era. But while fans of the Faces will welcome news that the band is to reform, they may be left scratching their heads at its new lead singer, former Simply Red frontman and silky-voiced ladies' man Mick Hucknall.
Speaking to the Guardian, Ronnie Wood, who went on to join the Rolling Stones, insisted that Hucknall was rock'n'roll enough to step into Rod Stewart's tartan stack heels. "His band aren't but he is. Mick's a big Faces fan and it comes out when he sings, it's a kind of relief for him because he can let loose. Mick's range is like Rod's vocal range was in the seventies."
The three original members – Wood, Kenney Jones on drums and Ian McLagan on keyboard – will be joined by Hucknall and former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock for a gig at this summer's inaugural Vintage at Goodwood festival. They then hope to tour next January.
The Faces are an important and some think undervalued piece in the complicated alcohol-sodden rock jigsaw of the 1960s and 1970s, formed by three evacuees from the Small Faces and Wood and Stewart from The Jeff Beck Group. With hits like Stay With Me, I'd Rather Go Blind and Had Me a Real Good Time they were one of the most successful bands of the early 1970s and particularly successful live where, with their brand of boozy, good-time camaraderie, they bonded with the predominantly male audiences.
The band have been rehearsing with Hucknall, and, said Wood, "it sounded so good we thought we've got to take it on the road. It was sounding fresher, if anything, and more focused."
That might have something to do with the bandmembers not being up to their eyes in drugs and drink. Wood, who these days declares himself "clean and serene", admitted: "It makes a big difference, yes, to actually know what you're playing."
Jones said one secret of the Faces was that they all acted as themselves. "We played it like it was and people either liked it or they didn't. The audience was on stage and we were with the audience, it was like a big party and it will be again."
The band members still hope that Stewart might one day be persuaded to join them. However, "he's touring and promoting and it's impossible to get any sense from his management," said Wood.
Vintage at Goodwood (13-15 August) is the brainchild of designer Wayne Hemingway and is meant to be something new on the summer schedule - a sort of festival for people who feel too old at Glastonbury or who can't face being camped out in a muddy field. That's reflected in the line-up. As well as Faces there will be Buzzcocks, The Noisettes and Heaven 17. It is also meant to be a celebration of "British cool" from the 1940s to 1980s and there will also be a carefully curated schedule of events combining art, design and fashion.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
wish stewart would just fuckin play with them he still basically has the voice
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i know! it's so stupid! he needs to get over himself
― hobbes, Saturday, 29 May 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Picked up a copy of Long Player yesterday - straight to the top of my personal favourite Faces poll - Tell Everyone, Sweet Lady Mary, Richmond, is an unbeatable sequence
― sonofstan, Monday, 27 September 2010 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
April 1, 1972 at the BBC. The entire show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xHBjeiqzkQ
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 August 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
nice!
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
New Faces box set--The original four albums w/newly unearthed bonus stuff and a fifth "Singles" disc.
CD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011MDK4Z4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B011MDK4Z4&linkCode=as2&tag=rhinocom-20&linkId=KVN6TBBHFJQUCSME
Vinyl: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011MDK07G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B011MDK07G&linkCode=as2&tag=rhinocom-20&linkId=UTOKHENSPOWZD63J
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
I love it all! Small Faces above all, but definitely Faces, Rod Stewart solo (1969-1973), Stewart and Wood's work with Jeff Beck, that single Rod did with Python Lee Jackon ('In A Broken Dream')... I enjoy some Humble Pie (although not all), but Rod solo from 1975 onwards is not to my taste.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
box set looks good -- if i'm not mistaken, the unreleased stuff is material that's *not* on the 5 Guys set?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
xpost:
I mean, of course I enjoy a lot of Wood's work with The Rolling Stones too, but the members of Small Faces/Faces were definitely on fire from 1965-1975.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
What does everyone think of Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance stuff?
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, or in some case it looks like alternates of stuff that is. Also some of the material on the singles disc debuted on CD and was exclusive to the 5 Guys box.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
Just got a 1st Press A Nod... LP w/the poster...which is huge and quite something
https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_FACES_A%2BNODS%2BAS%2BGOOD%2BAS%2BA%2BWINK...%2B%2B%2BPOSTER-74072b.jpg
This is the best scan I could find online. It's 3' by 4' and has boobs, butts, pills, thrills and bellyaches.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 February 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
What does everyone think of Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance stuff? The s/t seemed good, though been a long time since I heard it, same for One For The Road; album with Townshend was cool overall, but more PT songs than Lane's, far as I recall.
― dow, Sunday, 17 February 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
I have this Ronnie CD anthology that his estate had been selling online in the mid '00s to launch some sort of back catalog reissue series that didn't quite happen. It's pretty hard to find now, but it's a solid and through collection. His solo stuff (aside from Rough Mix) is really hard to find--looks like everything is OOP these days, and only Anymore For Anymore is on Spotify.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 February 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
...and Real Gone put out a remastered Mahoney's Last Stand on CD & Vinyl last year.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 February 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
Marriot's singing on early b-side What's a Matter Baby is superb
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
Oho, much more Lane on Amazon than I had assumed/ever heard of (even a documentary): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ronnie+lane&i=popular&crid=2D4IVBXEPT419&sprefix=Ronnie+La%2Cpopular%2C168&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_9
― dow, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
I know there was a Sanctuary 2cd set about 10 years ago. Haven't played it much.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Satin Faces!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpAVQDv6hmQ
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 March 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link