That's me playing bass! Playing with Mick Taylor in Carla Olson's band was among the big highlights of my career. There were many times playing with Mick that I actually momentarily forgot to play. His astounding notes would suck me in like a wonderful black hole and I'd have to force myself back on track. But the band here is rising to the occasion, really, particularly Ric Hemmert's drumming. Ric and I locked in to each other's playing from the moment I went to my first rehearsal with the band.
@@Kleermaker1000 I feel almost petty mentioning my role in this recording. I only played with Mick & Carla together for 2 years, and an additional year or so with Carla's band without Mick. I was actually considering posting a comment like "how about some love for the bass player here?" but then realized how out of touch that would have sounded. By the time Mick started playing with us, I had become a published author and screenwriter, with two detective novels published by then, written in Raymond Chandler style but with the detective being a blues bass player in Austin named Martin Fender. Mick read both of those novels, said he really enjoyed them, and also that he was a huge fan of Chandler and Hammett. This made me very pleased, since my top musical hero was Howlin' Wolf, and he agreed on that as well. But then one would know that already by hearing the way he played blues guitar.
@@GravediggerBlues13 I just wanted to tell you how much I love bass guitar. Tunes where you can really hear the bass come through. For example, London calling, helter skelter, and ten thousand light years from home etc. So my friend be very proud of your bass playing it is essential in any band. Again, blessings to you and your loved ones.
@@brotherWesley Thanks. I have had some great times playing music, and playing with Mick--as well as everyone else in this ensemble--is one of the highlights for sure.
@@GravediggerBlues13I am also a recovering musician myself. It's hard to explain to people who've never had the pleasure of just flowing along a groove, loosely together, the feeling of not having to worry about a stray note or 2, cause it's only rock and roll, after all. But only rock and roll flowing through you can give you that feeling, the hair on the back of your neck tingling when you feel the one-ness, the neural connection of playing excellent music exceptionally well. Totally together.
I agree he is in his own realm and in response to all the great guitars listed there, I love them all: Beck a technical wizard; Page One of the Greats of course but not as blues oriented I don’t believe; & Clapton definitely of blues I can but I don’t think he can hang with Mick Taylor in his unique realm. Mick Taylor takes a backseat to no one in his ability to evoke the kind of blues expression in style and tempo...
I just can't conceive of how Mick's playing can range from the immaculately structured epic featured on Sticky Fingers (EVERY note gets the utmost attention), to an equally exhilarating version such as we see here or on Rubies and Diamonds, where he unleashes mastery after mastery unrestrained. The furious speed, fluidity, and vibrato he attains on these later performances never compromise or exhaust his melodic effect in the slightest. How does he not run out of ideas!? It is simply beyond astonishing! I extend the challenge to anyone who disregards Taylor's abilities, categorizing them as "simple pentatonic runs" - to play anything remotely like he can. Difficulty and brilliance aren't neighbors and do not equate. The man can solo all bloody day on this and I wouldn't get sick of it.
And that is saying something. He threw down the gaunlet, walking away from the self-proclaimed world's greatest rock and roll band after he helped them remain intact after the loss of their leader. He had legitimized them. And he asked for a commitment they were afraid to rise to.
At the time Mick Taylor left the Stones, there couldn't have been a bigger Stones fan on earth than I. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had no idea how good a guitarist Mick was/is until very recently when I started looking him up online. Like Clapton and Hendrix, you don't really get a taste of the extent of his soloing ability on his studio work. But live? Sheesh! I used to think Keith was why I loved the Stones. But that great sound that made me a fan was when Mick was in the lineup.
Mick Taylor had some serious soul going into his playing; his timing and sense of melody give the emotion to those old Stones tunes that everyone still loves... well, most of them.
@@ProudAmerican111 i think Mayall and The Stones were vessels for that soul. i wish he'd done a Mayall album that really really showcased his skills better than the ones he was on. like Clapton on the "Beeno" album.
Yeah sometimes i think Mick Taylor should have been the one nicknamed slowhand because compared to most guitarists he really doesn't play that fast but he is SO commanding.I never heard anyone say he was a bad guitarist.We all love this guy.
@JappDubbel Japp, I doubt if they'll do any shows next year, but I guess they'll do something in 2012 when the band has its 50th anniversary. I hope Bill and Mick T. will also be present. Would be great.
This man's playing is something I've never fully been able to comprehend. That inimitable phrasing comprised of silky smooth, yet blistering single note articulation is what catapulted me from the nonchalance of "simply enjoying music" to fervently needing a guitar in my hands at all times circumstances would permit. Living vibrato indeed. I speak for many when I say your tributes are greatly appreciated, Kleer. To my ears, Taylor's in a class all to himself. Fantastic work preserving the essence of a uniquely resplendent bluesman!
@harp1925 At the time Taylor joined they were certainly great studio-wise but not as a live band. They became the greatest (r&r) band of the world live when Taylor came. They weren't that any longer since he left.
I have never in my life heard a better guitar solo. I have been playing guitar for 45 years and as far as I'm concerned, the best stuff the Stones ever dd was the Mick Taylor stuff. I'd pay big bucks to see him today. Clapton has nothin on this guy. He's an animal.
As someone else said here, some of his solos almost bring a tear to the eye they are so good. In that time frame you take great rock songs and add in the Taylor soulfull, sometimes blistering riffs and wow - that is something that I have rarely heard. Probably never heard done that well. A master at work.
I like your comments. I don't even know how much I credit that music to Mick Taylor. But that period,...whatever was going on with them at that time, the music is so intuitive and easy..gorgeous. Mick Taylor, in my opinion, brought them back into the blues realm, which gave them a universal sort of platform to work from. I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Sticky Fingers is the soul of the 1970's...and subsequently my childhood.
The most UNDER-RATED song ever!! Always was my fav off "Sticky Fingers". It was the 1st album I ever bought....in '71 when I was 11 along with The Doors "L.A. Woman". This was BY FAR my fav Stones period. Just look at the albums that they recorded with Mick Taylor! "Let it Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", "Exile on Main St.", "Goat's Head Soup" The solo in this is EPIC and in my opinion the BEST of all in Stones history. I love ya Brian and Ronnie......REALLY....but you both couldn't touch Mick!!
Stones fans. Let’s just rejoice at that wonderful time when we had possibly one of the finest guitarists in OUR band. Mick Taylor we will always love your contribution. ❤️❤️
thanks thanks thanks God for giving us Mick Taylor , no comparison anybody he is the maker of anthologics solos . dont forget winter or can you hear me knocking or love in vain alive . i ll never forget them . long life to you mick .
Such an incredible guitarist. He joined the Stones when they were at their creative peak, and his amazing ear for simplicity in his leads gave the band such a great boost in their sound.
The Rolling Stones were at their best when Mick Taylor was with the band. His playing took them to a whole new level that they never seemed to achieve before he came or after he left.
not even close. ron wood was a cool guy (is) but he just CANNOT play live very well and it's a damn shame. he's okay weaving with Keith in the studio; I dig that about him. but Taylor not only brought them to higher highs in the studio but especially live.
Mick Taylor is the only guitarist who gives me goosebumps when He does his solos no one else does that to me not even the so call king Eric Clapton which I was never a big fan of only in his Cream years.
Wow here we go again. The very best. Yes he blows that guitar up. I wish he was allowed to do thi with the stones the first time I saw them in 1972. Walls are falling in my heart and very soul. This is a spiritual experience to me. Thanks mick Taylor.
@JappDubbel Well, we still disagree and that won't change. For what it's worth: very recently Richards literally said in an interview (video): "I miss Mick Taylor a lot". It's common knowledge that both Jagger and Richards had big problems with Taylor's quit for a long time. Just like many Stones music fans. Logical.
The greatest mistake the Stones ever made was not doing WHATEVER IT TOOK, to keep Mick Taylor in the band. For starters, they could have PAID him. He was given no credits on SEVERAL albums---in other words, no residuals. In addition, his mates should have helped him with drug addiction and got him the help he needed to stay with the band. They did not... With all due respect to Keith Richards---on Mick Taylor's WORSE DAY, Keef couldn't hold a candle to him. Make no mistake, Keith Richards is a very good guitarist. Mick Taylor is a GREAT guitarist. A guitar genius. Right up there with Hendrix, Clapton, and Santana. No doubt about it. The five albums he produced with the Stones from '69-'74 are all classics. The band was never the same after 1974.
All hail the world's greatest blues/slide player that Keith Richard referred to as a "hired hand and nothing more". The Stones should give Mick T the money they owe him for writing most of this song and others.Mick Taylor didn't look or act like a Rolling Stone according to the band, They forget that Mick T probably sold an extra 100 million albums for the Stones because of his stellar guitar work.
Realize that this is being played over a rhythm part consisting of just two chords, back and forth, repeatedly. But MT turns that into something phenomenal with his lead playing. If I'm hearing it right, he combines a minor pentatonic scale with a (major) Mixolydian pentatonic, and the result contains the very best of both. Outstanding player, over half a century...
I saw Taylor back in May, in Shirley, Mass.; he did the outro to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" as an encore, and it was blistering! He can still play just as well as Clapton. I've seen both in the last year, and I'd pay to see Taylor again.
The foresight of keith playing open tuning and Micks ability to tune in to that tuning with regular tuning made for a great pair of guitarists that made history as a great duo...
Mick Taylor and Eddie VanHalen are not the same guitarists. Mick Taylor is not a show off. Eddie is. I love them both. They have very different playing styles. Mick was the guitarist of the Stones. No one was better than him..
Are you kidding me? I've been playing guitar for 40+ years abd this might be the best solo I've ever heard. The Mick stuff is the best the Stones ever did !!!!
In my humble opinion, all the best stones music is with mick taylor. He really makes Sticky Fingers a special album. I could get crucified for saying this, but he was a step forward from Brian Jones who was spending a lot of time with electric sitars and the like. Ron Wood of course great. Just hear the Faces.
@kleermaker1000 I wholeheartedly agree. Taylor's playing often gives me goosebumps, thats what I call making contact with the audience. Don't get me wrong, I love Ronnie, but his playing has never been able to do that for me.
MT was so gifted! Beyond good, beyond very good. I have heard good guitarists play his solos on YT and - no offence to any of 'em - they don't get it quite right. His timing and feel were unique.
@harp1925 Man, then you've missed the real thing. In those days they were a very tight band in every aspect. For me the Stones is a band with 5 guys (and 2 horns and a piano at most), not a whole bunch of people. As for Taylor and long solos, that's a myth. And when he was playing long solos they were wonderful. Listen for instance to the You Can't Always Get What You Want live 1973 version on my channel with the longest Taylor solo on stage. It's marvellous. But I think we'll never agree.
@JappDubbel I don't care if I'm a Stones 'fan' or not. But the Taylor-era is my favourite period and I love the Brian Jones-era as well (as I've already said).
@JappDubbel I disagree again. Without Taylor SF and GHS wouldn't exist at all the way they do. Not only because of his excellent guitar contributions but also because he did a great deal of the songwriting as well. That's common Stones knowledge: songs like Sway, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Winter, 100 Years Ago. All essential Stones songs without or with only very little Richards interference (except the first part of CYHMK). Keith was the riff master, Taylor the melody master.
@JappDubbel Okay Japp, we obviously have a different taste. I saw the Stones with Taylor in Oct. 1973 in Rotterdam and I saw them with Wood in May 1976 in The Hague, being 18 and 21 years old. In 1973 they were IMPRESSIVE and MAJESTIC, in 1976 they played at a much lower level, not impressive at all. The last time I saw them live was in June 1982, Feyenoord stadium Rotterdam. That was a waste of money. When I saw the L&G movie in Sept. 2010 in Rotterdam I was back in 1973 again. Fantastic!
Loved the Stones with Mick Taylor. He helped write Moonlight Mile, Time Waits for No One, Sway and a number of other songs with Jagger. Obviously he was disappointed when the didn't get credit for this work. {Thanks to Keith.} I think the height of the band was with him from 1969 to 1973 though the music between 1964-1969 was terrific. If you read various Jagger interviews over the years he'll drop little "hints" here and there regarding tension between Taylor and Keith. Doesn't matter now.
@fanofprotopic He's only unheard of to those who wish to make that statement. He's played with Jack Bruce, Bob Dylan, Albert Lee, Clapton, Mayall, his own bands, Noel Redding, SD Petit and lots more. He's created more great music the last 35 years than the band he left. No accident the last 18 months they've released nothing but new versions of material he was on including a legal version of the Brussels '73 concert. 'Pretty much unheard of' only shows he is a musician and not a rock star.
YES!! I was so glad to read this! I have been playing guitar for 34 years. I never hear anyone asking me to teach them Clapton riffs.... His early work was important, but it was Rory Gallagher that got him back to the blues. Clapton himself hates the reference to God, and he winced when he had to follow SRV on stage. EC is a good guitarist, but not even close to Gallagher, SRV, Hendrix, Page, and of course, this giant - Mick Taylor.
@yeahwhatever71 Yes! Mick has a melody to his playing that sets him apart from many guitarists who can shred faster or make more electronic sounds ( no offense to Eddy) . Mick plays music!
@harp1925 What about Ya Ya's, Sticky Fingers, Exile and Goats Head Soup? What about songs like Sway, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Ventilator Blues, Winter, 100 Years Ago, Time Waits For No One? Not to forget the best tours ever: 1972 and 1973, the 1969 and 1970 tours being among the best four? Taylor only a nice ornament? When commenting Exile some British journalists said (kwowing the live bootlegs too) that the Stones fell off a huge cliff after Taylor left. Spot on.
I always told to Stones fans: listen to Mach2 with Taylor: that,s when everybody in the Stones learend to play. This guy is better than Clapton,Page,and Slash: it,s another level of guitarplaying. They can't do this,Taylor still has it. It's the arrogancy of Jagger and Richards to let him go and come up with a duck like Wood.He's drunk al the tiem, he and Keith are taliking about the way of 'weaving'two guitars in one sound: terrible.Just let the best one play: MT: for the fans: listen to The Stonesz: Brussels Affair................................
That's me playing bass! Playing with Mick Taylor in Carla Olson's band was among the big highlights of my career. There were many times playing with Mick that I actually momentarily forgot to play. His astounding notes would suck me in like a wonderful black hole and I'd have to force myself back on track. But the band here is rising to the occasion, really, particularly Ric Hemmert's drumming. Ric and I locked in to each other's playing from the moment I went to my first rehearsal with the band.
@@Kleermaker1000 I feel almost petty mentioning my role in this recording. I only played with Mick & Carla together for 2 years, and an additional year or so with Carla's band without Mick. I was actually considering posting a comment like "how about some love for the bass player here?" but then realized how out of touch that would have sounded. By the time Mick started playing with us, I had become a published author and screenwriter, with two detective novels published by then, written in Raymond Chandler style but with the detective being a blues bass player in Austin named Martin Fender. Mick read both of those novels, said he really enjoyed them, and also that he was a huge fan of Chandler and Hammett. This made me very pleased, since my top musical hero was Howlin' Wolf, and he agreed on that as well. But then one would know that already by hearing the way he played blues guitar.
@@GravediggerBlues13 I just wanted to tell you how much I love bass guitar. Tunes where you can really hear the bass come through. For example, London calling, helter skelter, and ten thousand light years from home etc. So my friend be very proud of your bass playing it is essential in any band. Again, blessings to you and your loved ones.
I envy you being so close to this genius. You're a lucky man.
@@brotherWesley Thanks. I have had some great times playing music, and playing with Mick--as well as everyone else in this ensemble--is one of the highlights for sure.
@@GravediggerBlues13I am also a recovering musician myself. It's hard to explain to people who've never had the pleasure of just flowing along a groove, loosely together, the feeling of not having to worry about a stray note or 2, cause it's only rock and roll, after all. But only rock and roll flowing through you can give you that feeling, the hair on the back of your neck tingling when you feel the one-ness, the neural connection of playing excellent music exceptionally well. Totally together.
Better than all the sixties British rock and Blues guitar gods, Mick Taylor is up there on his own. Simply sublime guitar playing!!!
Lets not get too carried away....PAGE BECK CLAPTON ....ID SAY HES GOT A LOT OF COMPANY
Top 2
I agree he is in his own realm and in response to all the great guitars listed there, I love them all: Beck a technical wizard; Page One of the Greats of course but not as blues oriented I don’t believe; & Clapton definitely of blues I can but I don’t think he can hang with Mick Taylor in his unique realm. Mick Taylor takes a backseat to no one in his ability to evoke the kind of blues expression in style and tempo...
@@peterbartolomeo5542 How on earth can you miss Peter Green off that list , way better than the 3 you mentioned
I just can't conceive of how Mick's playing can range from the immaculately structured epic featured on Sticky Fingers (EVERY note gets the utmost attention), to an equally exhilarating version such as we see here or on Rubies and Diamonds, where he unleashes mastery after mastery unrestrained. The furious speed, fluidity, and vibrato he attains on these later performances never compromise or exhaust his melodic effect in the slightest. How does he not run out of ideas!? It is simply beyond astonishing! I extend the challenge to anyone who disregards Taylor's abilities, categorizing them as "simple pentatonic runs" - to play anything remotely like he can. Difficulty and brilliance aren't neighbors and do not equate. The man can solo all bloody day on this and I wouldn't get sick of it.
Me neither.
Well put. I bow deeply for this genius.
The Stones put their BEST music out with Mick Taylor in the band !
I think it is one of the best solos Mick Taylor has ever done..
agreed 😮
And that is saying something. He threw down the gaunlet, walking away from the self-proclaimed world's greatest rock and roll band after he helped them remain intact after the loss of their leader. He had legitimized them. And he asked for a commitment they were afraid to rise to.
At the time Mick Taylor left the Stones, there couldn't have been a bigger Stones fan on earth than I. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had no idea how good a guitarist Mick was/is until very recently when I started looking him up online. Like Clapton and Hendrix, you don't really get a taste of the extent of his soloing ability on his studio work. But live? Sheesh! I used to think Keith was why I loved the Stones. But that great sound that made me a fan was when Mick was in the lineup.
Thank God we have recordings of these performances. He may never get his due but people who play will always applaud his genius.
My internet friend, I don't play (any more) but nonetheless genius is where one finds it. I found it here with MT.
...and the band played on...
Mick Taylor had some serious soul going into his playing; his timing and sense of melody give the emotion to those old Stones tunes that everyone still loves... well, most of them.
His soul likely came from his time in Mayall and the bluesbreakers
@@ProudAmerican111 i think Mayall and The Stones were vessels for that soul. i wish he'd done a Mayall album that really really showcased his skills better than the ones he was on. like Clapton on the "Beeno" album.
Yeah sometimes i think Mick Taylor should have been the one nicknamed slowhand because compared to most guitarists he really doesn't play that fast but he is SO commanding.I never heard anyone say he was a bad guitarist.We all love this guy.
Speed wasn't the reason behind the nickname slowhand...
Wow
@JappDubbel
Japp, I doubt if they'll do any shows next year, but I guess they'll do something in 2012 when the band has its 50th anniversary. I hope Bill and Mick T. will also be present. Would be great.
Been a Stones fan for over 40 years and only now realising what a genius he really was ! Superb !
Mick Taylor years the only ones that count
This man's playing is something I've never fully been able to comprehend. That inimitable phrasing comprised of silky smooth, yet blistering single note articulation is what catapulted me from the nonchalance of "simply enjoying music" to fervently needing a guitar in my hands at all times circumstances would permit. Living vibrato indeed. I speak for many when I say your tributes are greatly appreciated, Kleer. To my ears, Taylor's in a class all to himself. Fantastic work preserving the essence of a uniquely resplendent bluesman!
@harp1925
At the time Taylor joined they were certainly great studio-wise but not as a live band. They became the greatest (r&r) band of the world live when Taylor came. They weren't that any longer since he left.
Sublime.
I have never in my life heard a better guitar solo. I have been playing guitar for 45 years and as far as I'm concerned, the best stuff the Stones ever dd was the Mick Taylor stuff. I'd pay big bucks to see him today. Clapton has nothin on this guy. He's an animal.
This is my favorite sway solo!
great upload
A true genius. Musicians know and understand how great he was with the Stones. Keith Richards loved playing with him
people think he was glad to have Ron over Mick, but Ron said in interviews that Keith was devestated
As someone else said here, some of his solos almost bring a tear to the eye they are so good. In that time frame you take great rock songs and add in the Taylor soulfull, sometimes blistering riffs and wow - that is something that I have rarely heard. Probably never heard done that well. A master at work.
I like your comments. I don't even know how much I credit that music to Mick Taylor. But that period,...whatever was going on with them at that time, the music is so intuitive and easy..gorgeous. Mick Taylor, in my opinion, brought them back into the blues realm, which gave them a universal sort of platform to work from. I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Sticky Fingers is the soul of the 1970's...and subsequently my childhood.
mick taylor was the best -his contributions are beautiful ,melodic and tasteful-
Ron wood is ALWAYS great , bbut MICK TAYLOR was tremendous.
The most UNDER-RATED song ever!! Always was my fav off "Sticky Fingers". It was the 1st album I ever bought....in '71 when I was 11 along with The Doors "L.A. Woman". This was BY FAR my fav Stones period. Just look at the albums that they recorded with Mick Taylor! "Let it Bleed", "Sticky Fingers", "Exile on Main St.", "Goat's Head Soup" The solo in this is EPIC and in my opinion the BEST of all in Stones history. I love ya Brian and Ronnie......REALLY....but you both couldn't touch Mick!!
Stones fans. Let’s just rejoice at that wonderful time when we had possibly one of the finest guitarists in OUR band. Mick Taylor we will always love your contribution. ❤️❤️
Truly the best ever
Fantastic !
thanks thanks thanks God for giving us Mick Taylor , no comparison anybody he is the maker of anthologics solos . dont forget winter or can you hear me knocking or love in vain alive . i ll never forget them . long life to you mick .
True genius Mick Taylor. His style was simply one of a kind on his own term. Awesome and i am lost of words to describe Mick's talents in solo
nice. i saw mick taylor last night at the bearsvill theater in woodstock and he completly rocked. this show was april 30th/10
Fabulous! Mick Taylor is the best.....
Dear Lord! From the intensity of his feeling, to his phrasing, Mick's solo's are so very melodic! Few if any can compare!
Such an incredible guitarist. He joined the Stones when they were at their creative peak, and his amazing ear for simplicity in his leads gave the band such a great boost in their sound.
Yes indeed! Happy birthday Mick Taylor and thanks for your incredibly great contributions to the Stones, in the studio as well as on stage.
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One of his best great solos
Forgot how good of a song this was....Never heard MT not sound good. Probably better off for him he left when he did...Life is precious.
The Rolling Stones were at their best when Mick Taylor was with the band. His playing took them to a whole new level that they never seemed to achieve before he came or after he left.
not even close. ron wood was a cool guy (is) but he just CANNOT play live very well and it's a damn shame. he's okay weaving with Keith in the studio; I dig that about him. but Taylor not only brought them to higher highs in the studio but especially live.
Mick Taylor is the only guitarist who gives me goosebumps when He does his solos no one else does that to me not even the so call king Eric Clapton which I was never a big fan of only in his Cream years.
Great solo !
A great live rendition by Taylor. Really shows that he knows his stuff. Great job Mick-thanks!
Wow here we go again. The very best. Yes he blows that guitar up. I wish he was allowed to do thi with the stones the first time I saw them in 1972. Walls are falling in my heart and very soul. This is a spiritual experience to me. Thanks mick Taylor.
Again the amazing incredible wonderful genius of Mick Taylor!!! I love that man!!!
wow 26 years ago! Still kickin ass
wow it's just so beautiful
really he was a master on the guitar
@cgraber you are damn so right, man.
Few guitar players in the history can afford a solo like this!
@JappDubbel
Well, we still disagree and that won't change. For what it's worth: very recently Richards literally said in an interview (video): "I miss Mick Taylor a lot". It's common knowledge that both Jagger and Richards had big problems with Taylor's quit for a long time. Just like many Stones music fans. Logical.
Fantastic song !
Along with Jeff Beck my only favorite electric guitarist from the 60ies who´s musicality didn´t deteriorate in later years, but got even better.
the frets were on fire
The greatest mistake the Stones ever made was not doing WHATEVER IT TOOK,
to keep Mick Taylor in the band.
For starters, they could have PAID him.
He was given no credits on SEVERAL albums---in other words, no residuals.
In addition, his mates should have helped him with drug addiction and got him the help he needed to stay with the band. They did not...
With all due respect to Keith Richards---on Mick Taylor's WORSE DAY,
Keef couldn't hold a candle to him.
Make no mistake, Keith Richards is a very good guitarist.
Mick Taylor is a GREAT guitarist. A guitar genius.
Right up there with Hendrix, Clapton, and Santana.
No doubt about it.
The five albums he produced with the Stones from '69-'74 are all classics.
The band was never the same after 1974.
Exactly.
Well, Mick joined Jack Bruce for much better music than the Stones we're able to play.
All hail the world's greatest blues/slide player that Keith Richard referred to as a "hired hand and nothing more". The Stones should give Mick T the money they owe him for writing most of this song and others.Mick Taylor didn't look or act like a Rolling Stone according to the band, They forget that Mick T probably sold an extra 100 million albums for the Stones because of his stellar guitar work.
amazing!
Fuckin Guitar God!!!
Realize that this is being played over a rhythm part consisting of just two chords, back and forth, repeatedly. But MT turns that into something phenomenal with his lead playing. If I'm hearing it right, he combines a minor pentatonic scale with a (major) Mixolydian pentatonic, and the result contains the very best of both. Outstanding player, over half a century...
I saw Taylor back in May, in Shirley, Mass.; he did the outro to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" as an encore, and it was blistering! He can still play just as well as Clapton. I've seen both in the last year, and I'd pay to see Taylor again.
The foresight of keith playing open tuning and Micks ability to tune in to that tuning with regular tuning made for a great pair of guitarists that made history as a great duo...
Wow, to have been there watching this. Delicious.
Thanks...they were both great!
Mick Taylor and Eddie VanHalen are not the same guitarists. Mick Taylor is not a show off. Eddie is. I love them both. They have very different playing styles. Mick was the guitarist of the Stones. No one was better than him..
Hi there dear friend! :) Our Mick's beautiful playing is a true joy to listen to. Thanks so much for your many uploads! Xoxox ;)
You know you're always more than welcome. :) X
1:55 if that part doesn't sends shivers to your spine you are dead.
Are you kidding me? I've been playing guitar for 40+ years abd this might be the best solo I've ever heard. The Mick stuff is the best the Stones ever did !!!!
@kleermaker1000 I agree. He was the perfect fit to the Stones, and their best guitarist yet.
Just wow
...just imagine Mick Taylor and Slash on stage together!!!
In my humble opinion, all the best stones music is with mick taylor. He really makes Sticky Fingers a special album. I could get crucified for saying this, but he was a step forward from Brian Jones who was spending a lot of time with electric sitars and the like. Ron Wood of course great. Just hear the Faces.
Agreed
si! si! MT excelente solo, gran acompañamiento de la batería.....
@kleermaker1000 I wholeheartedly agree. Taylor's playing often gives me goosebumps, thats what I call making contact with the audience.
Don't get me wrong, I love Ronnie, but his playing has never been able to do that for me.
I had the luck to see him about 20 years ago in Munich.One of the Greatest. Played the best LPs with the Stones in their hottest time!
Mick Taylor´s alive !!
JappDubbel ive seen Mick and have loved the stones for over 40 yrs. and all i can say is you are completely right. Period.
MT was so gifted! Beyond good, beyond very good. I have heard good guitarists play his solos on YT and - no offence to any of 'em - they don't get it quite right. His timing and feel were unique.
What a great guitarpicker !
he is amazing. When he left the Rolling Stones lost they best thing that ever happened to them.
Besides MT; this whole band plays great. Thanks Kleermaker.
GENIAL!!
@harp1925
Man, then you've missed the real thing. In those days they were a very tight band in every aspect. For me the Stones is a band with 5 guys (and 2 horns and a piano at most), not a whole bunch of people. As for Taylor and long solos, that's a myth. And when he was playing long solos they were wonderful. Listen for instance to the You Can't Always Get What You Want live 1973 version on my channel with the longest Taylor solo on stage. It's marvellous. But I think we'll never agree.
Uncomparable & unbelievable!!!!!!!!
@JappDubbel
I don't care if I'm a Stones 'fan' or not. But the Taylor-era is my favourite period and I love the Brian Jones-era as well (as I've already said).
Same here! They were two very different things and I like both.
@JappDubbel
I disagree again. Without Taylor SF and GHS wouldn't exist at all the way they do. Not only because of his excellent guitar contributions but also because he did a great deal of the songwriting as well. That's common Stones knowledge: songs like Sway, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Winter, 100 Years Ago. All essential Stones songs without or with only very little Richards interference (except the first part of CYHMK). Keith was the riff master, Taylor the melody master.
@JappDubbel
Okay Japp, we obviously have a different taste. I saw the Stones with Taylor in Oct. 1973 in Rotterdam and I saw them with Wood in May 1976 in The Hague, being 18 and 21 years old. In 1973 they were IMPRESSIVE and MAJESTIC, in 1976 they played at a much lower level, not impressive at all. The last time I saw them live was in June 1982, Feyenoord stadium Rotterdam. That was a waste of money. When I saw the L&G movie in Sept. 2010 in Rotterdam I was back in 1973 again. Fantastic!
magic.
Loved the Stones with Mick Taylor. He helped write Moonlight Mile, Time Waits for No One, Sway and a number of other songs with Jagger. Obviously he was disappointed when the didn't get credit for this work. {Thanks to Keith.} I think the height of the band was with him from 1969 to 1973 though the music between 1964-1969 was terrific. If you read various Jagger interviews over the years he'll drop little "hints" here and there regarding tension between Taylor and Keith. Doesn't matter now.
@fanofprotopic He's only unheard of to those who wish to make that statement. He's played with Jack Bruce, Bob Dylan, Albert Lee, Clapton, Mayall, his own bands, Noel Redding, SD Petit and lots more. He's created more great music the last 35 years than the band he left. No accident the last 18 months they've released nothing but new versions of material he was on including a legal version of the Brussels '73 concert. 'Pretty much unheard of' only shows he is a musician and not a rock star.
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YES!! I was so glad to read this! I have been playing guitar for 34 years. I never hear anyone asking me to teach them Clapton riffs.... His early work was important, but it was Rory Gallagher that got him back to the blues. Clapton himself hates the reference to God, and he winced when he had to follow SRV on stage. EC is a good guitarist, but not even close to Gallagher, SRV, Hendrix, Page, and of course, this giant - Mick Taylor.
Add in Richie Blackmore.
I saw Gallagher, Page and EC plus others from around 75 bands. Alvin Lee plus so many more.
no one else can play like this.. WWhhhooo!!
Mint
Mic Taylor: The BEST.....
@IdolHans Seeing How Mick Taylor is living today...makes me sadly say-YES I AGREE WITH YOU:(
I saw Taylor play in Hong Kong, to 30 odd people only. Very depressing. Someone asked him about his Les Paul. He replied : ' Replica.''
Forget Clapton, Taylor always has and will be GOD!!!!
@yeahwhatever71 Yes! Mick has a melody to his playing that sets him apart from many guitarists who can shred faster or make more electronic sounds ( no offense to Eddy) . Mick plays music!
@harp1925
What about Ya Ya's, Sticky Fingers, Exile and Goats Head Soup? What about songs like Sway, Moonlight Mile, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Ventilator Blues, Winter, 100 Years Ago, Time Waits For No One? Not to forget the best tours ever: 1972 and 1973, the 1969 and 1970 tours being among the best four? Taylor only a nice ornament? When commenting Exile some British journalists said (kwowing the live bootlegs too) that the Stones fell off a huge cliff after Taylor left. Spot on.
March 1990....I was in town. Sorry I missed it.
Enorme !
grazie kleer very nice
Taylor's guitar fills me up when a charge is needed
I always told to Stones fans: listen to Mach2 with Taylor: that,s when everybody in the Stones learend to play. This guy is better than Clapton,Page,and Slash: it,s another level of guitarplaying. They can't do this,Taylor still has it. It's the arrogancy of Jagger and Richards to let him go and come up with a duck like Wood.He's drunk al the tiem, he and Keith are taliking about the way of 'weaving'two guitars in one sound: terrible.Just let the best one play: MT: for the fans: listen to The Stonesz: Brussels Affair................................
+Roel Lassche You said it all .. MT is better than all those guys and a few more, as for the "weaving" ... total BS
fuckin diabolic jagger ?
and not only that (btw brussels and texas 72...omg ) but mick taylor also did some kind of weaving with keith ...and it was amazing
Let's hear it..
Slash is a huge Taylor fan.