The way Keef says “Taylor...” seems to encompass many thoughts he has on his old bandmate, flaws and all. It's almost a somber reflection on someone he doesn't understand but knows represented the apex of his band.
Yeah, that "Taylor..." followed by silence was heavy. Such a universal reaction to that kind of situation where someone you might not get on with, or understand, still has an uncanny, inexplicable way of making everything you do better in any field. I still think about a guy who auditioned & rehearsed to replace the original drummer for my band in 1994. He was awkward, weird, didn't connect with any of us personally, but when the music started he was PERFECT. We were really psyched but he decided not to join the band because he'd rather sell insurance with his dad. What a wasted opportunity for everyone. That guy was an enigma. I imagine just like Mick Taylor.
@@conphuze Wow! You summed up that perfectly. Isn’t it strange how one word really seems to tell a whole story? I have to think that Keith realizes that there really is some magic to those albums with Taylor that just haven’t been attainable before or after.
For someone who's mumbled his lyrics live for the past 40 years Dylan shouldn't talk about someone having an off night. All I know is Infidels and Real Live have some great guitar work as did The Stones in the Mick Taylor era.
Those albums would have been great with any number of guitarists. It was the Mick and Keith show and the idea that Taylor made the albums great is fanciful.
@@xwhite2020 You're nuts man. If anyone could just fill in, Black and Blue would be as great an album as Exile or Sticky Fingers, but you know it's not. The last great Stones album musically was Goats Head Soup and the missing element on all albums after (exception of It's Only Rock and Roll) is Mick Taylor. His contributions during the golden era of their music are what transcends those songs to the heights those songs still have today. It's not even really subjective at this point. You either understand musical theory and complexity or you don't. You clearly don't.
In the mid eighties in Boston I saw Mick Taylor perform in a small club. I sat fifteen feet from him. I wasn’t expecting much but he blew the room away! He even joked about his bad decision to leave the Stones. When the performance ended I walked away thinking.. So that’s what it takes to be in a top band. The guy was amazing.
@@charlieknoch5502 He made a big sound come from that guitar. I never saw Clapton in concert (only on TV) but sure, I’d stick Mick up against him any day.
@@blipco5 yeah, but I've always thought Eric was a bit Lazy and didn't push himself -- others pushed him. Look at the footage of him at The Last Waltz, he's walking through it, and his guitar strap comes off, and Robbie covers for him -- and then Eric comes back with some of the juiced stuff I've ever heard...... He is great work with other musicians -- Bonnie and Delany, "My guitar gently weeps....I don't care for his songs or even his guitar playing -- no offense intended -- , unless someone else pushes him to excellence. Then he blows the place apart. When he was drunk and on auto -pilot in the late 70s, he was dreadful. IMO. I even left a show early because it just sounded like the same old thing. he was just punching the clock... ....... But I know he got sober, and I'm happy for him, and he's one of the greats -- just not one of my favorite greats --- but God Bless Him for opening people's eyes to addiction in the music biz -- boy he learned the hard way. but at least he's alive. Wait ..... Weren't we talking about Mick Taylor? Oh yes, he was the best for his time, and yes, Ronnie is the best for his time -- there -- everybody's happy? Did't think so. lol. JMHO. No harm intended. Thanks!
This is a real gem. Rock history. And as for Mick Taylor, they might be right, he never flew as high on his own as he flew with the Stones. Still an absolute genius.
It’s so rare to hear these guys talk in normal conversation, like regular people (especially Dylan) - it’s absolutely fascinating. Kind of like the Get Back documentary, once the band got used to the cameras being around. Would love to hear more of this kind of stuff.
These people portrait certain image you know, keith and ronnie seems like great guys in interviews i like them ,my issue is with bob he always seems weird on it i don't now is no the type of you meet whitout someone introducing you to him,i just don't like him
You can hear in Keith’s voice how much of love he had for Taylor’s talent. Yes, I’m sure there were jealousy and obviously there must be issues about writing credits, but the music they created it was peak Stones, and he knows that. Also he does not allow Dylan , in a gentle way, to go on about his inconsistency.
Keith saying Mick must have experienced some problems, coming in right after Brian, whoever talks about that? nobody, the guy who originated the stones dies, life goes on, gotta get another good guitarist, Mick Taylor. all the stones had "problems" after losing their friend, so young and riding the initial wave to the peak of their early fame in 1964, i saw them at Long Beach Auditorium, or whatever it was called back then, on November 1, 1964, their second US tour that year, my rich friend's dad got us first row center tickets, Brian eventually sitting down on the stage playing the dulcimer, somebody like that dies and nobody talks about their feelings because how do you do that? it's not normal to talk about those kinds of feelings. i read a quote by bob dylan in a Rolling Stone article around 1999 i think, he said Brian Jones and Michael Bloomfield were the best guitar players he ever knew, and he described what Brian could do, learned all the early roots stuff from the early 20c South, the finger style playing that was intricate and wild with a lot of feel, and everyone played different, individually, and brian learned to play guitar from listening to records by those guys. Mick Taylor, i don't know how he came up but he was more than worthy to be in the stones.
@@765claire I agree. Keith chides Taylor for taking 5 years to do a solo record but poor Mick was likely trying to get over his Stones heroin addiction. Let's ask Jimmy Miller about that. Oh, he's dead?
What Keith said at the end was some real shit. I kinda related to that thing he said about Mick where he had ideas, but it takes a lot of energy and time for him to get an album together of original material, with his strength being an accompanist.
Keith loves to be in a band, loves the comraderie and loves to hang out with musicians. Mick Taylor was a bit introverted, but the unspoken chemistry between him and Keith produced their best music and spectacular live performances the Stones have never been able to repeat. I love Mick Taylor to death. He's my favorite guitar player. You usually do your best work with a co-worker as oppossed to a buddy like Ron Wood.
Mick Taylor was the reason why I picked up the guitar as a kid and he was my favorite guitarist The Stones ever had. If this clip was accurate at that time Mick Taylor for a short while was Bob Dylan's guitarist and he was fantastic with him. Mick Taylor is playing live in 1978 with Little Feat "A Political Blues" you can see it on TH-cam.
Mick Taylor was only 20 yrs old when he joined up w/ the Stones, He was shy, naive & considerably younger than the other fella's, Make no mistake about it, Those 6 yrs, He undeniably was the best Musician the Stones ever had,
Certainly the best guiarist... but the Stones had othersp in their orbit. Bobby Keys, Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Gram Parsons. All of which had great impact in recording or inspiring them to create their music. But yes, Mick was the best Stones guitarist, that doesn't mean the same thing to me as the best Rolling Stone. That argument may never be unequivocally answered.
The most multi talented musician was Brian Jones & he was an excellent guitar player, Mick Taylor followed on guitar. Bill Wyman has his own group, The Rhythm Kings now & even Ronnie Wood had spread his wings before joining the Stones. These guys weren't stuck playing Stones stuff and infinitum.
He's underrated as a guitar player IMO. He's behind Keith on the best guitarist of all time list simply because Keith wrote all this riffs, licks, and melodies. But hes always too far back. He's underrated.
Yes. Refreshing! I'd say there were a few desparaging remarks, but they were fair in the context of three professional performers discussing another pro (privately! heheh..). They said that MT wasn't reliable for turning up, and also had good nights and bad nights. They speculated a bit on his personality... stage fright, needed a group to push him. Again, entirely valid and respectful in context. Especially in the context of saying that when he was good, he was very good.
I saw Mick Taylor with his three piece band at The Beaverwood Club, Chislehurst must be getting on 10 years ago now. He was phenomenal, great touch and feel. And a lovely guy that didn't mind chatting to you after the show. Great memories. The Stones sounded great when he was in the band.
you are a moron, he just repeated what Taylor told him, Taylor told him he didn't want to go on stage so you talk shit about Ron? I apologize if you are 5 years old or if english is not your first language.
17 October 1973 I saw the Stones live at Vorst National in Brussels (Brussels Affair) Billy Preston on keyboards, Steve Madaio on trumpet, Trevor Lawrence on saxophone and of course Mick Taylor on lead and slide…..the Stones at their finest! Mick took the Stones to another level…..that was really the best lineup ever and KR has stated in his Google Play interview that this was one of their best concerts ever 🥂
Brussels Affair. One of my first bootlegs on compact disc. Highly regarded as a superb soundboard and top live performances bar none - and mostly attributed to MT
Keith nailed it about being a sideman who shines versus fronting a group. I think Taylor had people talking in his ear about doing his own thing, go for it, blah, blah. When he got his record deal, reality came crashing in....his music was all fusion material and they made him add more Stones-type songs, which was expected to sell. If I recall correctly, he didn't want to do those songs and wanted a path more like Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow. The album tanked and he was dropped. He really is a great sideman, take his work with Carla Olsen, but Keith and Ronnie said it that the guy didn't have the drive or focus, i.e., what it takes, to be a leader of a group. I'm in total agreement that his tenure with the Stones was their prime era.
I don't believe Taylor intended to "do his own thing," as he left to join his good-friend Jack Bruce in a more creative, progressive band that musically stirred him more than the Stones. Once the Jack Bruce project folded as quickly as it started, he was left reeling a bit, working with Pierre Moerlen's Gong (an off-shoot of the original progressive band, Gong) until recording his solo debut. It's fascinating that Taylor found some creative solace in working on more jazz-fusion projects than doing straight-ahead blues-infused rock.
Plus err..... Mick Taylor then realised that he had to sing the songs, and only then did the reality of him not having a strong singing voice, come crashing in. Imagine what "Broken Hands", or even "Leather Jacket", on his solo album would have been like had a certain Michael Philip Jagger been singing it. Just hear Taylor sing even a heritage number, like "You Got To Move" at a live show and it's bloody dire. But, yes, without him, would that golden era of such wonderful albums one after the other have ever happened, or "Brussels Affair" ?
All of their amazing singles snd albums through Banquet snd arguably Bleed included jones, not taylor. And THAT is their best material. Which is the best RnR music ever recorded.
The reason he left the Stones was because he had his woman in his ear telling him that he should be doing his own thing. He had his own personal Yoko Ono.... Or at least what Yoko Ono is believed to be like. He couldn't handle it, because his mind was divided.
I don’t like Ronny saying that sometimes he doesn’t know when to stop playing: hey, on Winter does Taylor overplay? On Time Waits for No One? Bitch, Knockin’ -SWAY?!?!? Live is another thing. But real heads know- Brussels Affair, SURE - Taylor plays every chance he gets and I love that because I’ve already heard more sparse Stones live shows I love. Taylor added that UNNHHHH, that rocking back and forth kinda, fists clenched, makes me wanna get a Stones tattoo and shout to the world “greatest Rock n Roll band EVR”. Then there’s other Stones shows where it breathes, more space. Hey I wanted all I could get of Mick Taylor in them years, every note he played was tasteful and colorful. He didn’t Jack off up there. And I love Woody- great live shows with Woody too!! El Mocambo, love the Black and Blue tour, the Some girls tour, Tattoo You, Emotional Rescue, come on man. Just an observation. As you can see, I’m emotionally tied to Taylor ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ come at me. You heads feel me.
@@ianstu1940 Stones with Taylor were way better than Stones without Taylor. Mick Jagger himself has hinted at their apex with Taylor and never being able to reach that again. Why do you think they don't play songs like Time Waits for No One live?? Because they cannot. Even Dead Flowers -- no one plays those riffs/fills, solo like Mick T. Also during that time, Taylor was the main guy in the studio putting together tracks while Keef was out getting doped up, Taylor and the other session players like Hopkins were putting in the work to keep the band going. Similar to what Bob Welch did for F Mac as the bridge between when Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer etc were having their issues and before Stevie/Lindsay came on. Mick Taylor's dedication to the music is what breathed new life when the Stones needed it.
For me, the Stones' golden years were with Mick Taylor. He is a virtuoso lead guitar player and that went well with Keith's virtuoso rhythm guitar playing. Ron Wood is too much like Keith Richards.
@@389383 you must like shitty guitar playing, Talyor has played with Alvin lee ,Allan Holdsworth ,Eric Clapton ,Albert King ,GEORGE Lowell , Buddy Guy ,Mark Knopfler, Gerry Garcia ,Carlos Santana ,Keith and Ronnie couldnt play a decent solo if their lives depended on it ,check youtube ,minor leagues my ----
What a cool fly on the wall moment! I have a picture of this night with Keith, Woody, Dylan & Jack Nicholson that Keith signed for me on the Main Offender tour. Much thanx for sharing this.
Class to the max...just a great respect to the English players no bad backstabbing just the little quirks but no bashing behind the back....maybe all could learn and be this way?
He sees the world as it is, without illusions or ill feelings. That what makes his music great, the ability not to fool himself even when he is on the top.
having *both* knopfler and Taylor on Infidels was a great idea. Very different styles and so complimentary. I think they are on the same track a few times and it's so cool.
Money For Nothing is a great song. It and Dire Straits owned '85 (Taylor not getting any credits while covering for smacked out Keith also hastened his exit).
Yeah, but he might not quite feel entitled to any opinions in that particular company, just out of good manners, and quite rightly so. Dylan has a reputation as a man who conducts himself well, and it's for good reason. Perhaps I'm telling you what you're telling me.
Well, since I haven't met the man, that's the most I've heard Dylan say and the most normal I've heard him act ever. I only know him from interviews after 1980 or so, which is nothing like the Dylan of 1962. Always the jaded, wary, cautious interviewee. It was cool to hear how he acts with friends in private.
What Keith says at the end is SOOOO true though, and nothing wrong with that. We have this imagine of him as being some out of control junkie, but he's much more cultured and psychologically insightful than that. Perhaps one thing that should change is how the money is allocated and where the prestige goes. A great arrangement can turn an OK song into something memorable and great, but it's the songwriter who ultimately gets the credit. An extreme example of this is Vini Reilly getting a measly .5% of the royalties on Viva Hate, even though his guitar playing is what lifts the record from good to great. Viva Hate in my opinion is the only Morrissey record that's fully equivalent to a Smiths record. He had some good songs afterwards, but never reached those heights again. And paid the guy a miserly .5% for that, like he was some session musician who happened to be in the building.
For me he had a great rapport musically with Jagger, some of the subtle stuff he played while Mick was singing really brought out the beauty of the sings
Neither of these two could sit on the fingertips of Mick Taylor, that's why they are talking; what else Ron Wood could do but use his mouth given the superiority of Mick Taylor's guitar.
This was very cool to hear..... My personal philosophy as a musician aligns. I love creating music where there is a fellowship in creating it. Mick Taylor did this VERY WELL and is a brilliant guitarist. While I really dig a lot of material from the Jones/Woody eras, the era of Taylor/Richards is BY FAR my favorite . Both guys are great by themselves but together they were seriously a powerhouse. Taylor's career high point will ALWAYS be from the Rolling Stones....
actually Taylor thought the stones werent even a good garage band when they first asked him to join and its pretty obvious how much better than them he really was upon watching one of the live versions of 'Dead flowers' . Furthermore , when asked about 'love and theft' , Dylan said he did it " because I can and the only reason people like Mick Jagger dont do it is because they cant".
Anybody notice at 0:28 and 0:31 what appears to be the sound of someone snorting a bit of the old you know what? Considering Ronnie Woods and Keith Richard are both talking at the time, and it's not til the 0:44 mark that we hear Dylan join the conversation with "Yeah, he's usually alright" followed by a seconds pause and then laughter from the other two, I'd say it was Dylan 👃🗞💭
It was really RW's idea to bring Mick Taylor back to tour live with The Stones in 2013 and I'm happy that Ron did that. I think it was in 1984 that Bob Dylan toured live with Mick Taylor as his lead guitarist. Some of Mick Taylors' solos with Bob Dylan were incredible.
Pretty sure this predates Dylan using both Taylor and Knopfler on "Foot of Pride" which has got some amazing guitar bits from those two. I think they were on the entire album. Probably Bob was taking notes here lol.
Thanks to this I've now discovered Foot of Pride. Looking further I see Money For Nothing came out in 1985 while Foot was 83. Not being an aficionado I may be missing something.
I think Keith felt a bit threatened by Mick in the band and it played a part in his leaving. Taylor and Jagger wrote some stuff together and Taylor was such a good player, while Kieth was heavy into addiction. Kieth maybe felt he'd get pushed out as head guitar and writer. Where Ronnie there isn't that. Kieth is my favorite guitar player all time though and those albums they did together with Taylor are the greatest.
I’ve seen this mentioned by Mick Taylor fans constantly but there is just no proof of that. Look at magazine polls from the time and Keith is by far the most popular/ influential guitarist and it’s not even close. In terms of writing if they gave credit to every song Taylor supposedly wrote it would still be less than 10. Keith was by far the stronger writer especially during the exile sessions, having a hand in more than half of the songs.
@@ianstu1940 Keith is my favorite all time guitar player. I think he’s the best songwriter with guitar, plus all the grit and the riffs. Let it bleed album he was basically the only guitar player. it’s one of my favorite. However, my feelings that he was threatened by Taylor and Jaggers relationship comes from reading Keith’s autobiography. Not saying my feeling is correct. It was just my take from things Keith wrote. I don’t think those insecurities were valid though. Kieth is incredible.
@@ianstu1940 People who were there at the time have mentioned it including MJ, Charlie, Andy Johns, Marshall Chess, Rose Millar, and Anita Pallenberg. You think they are all wrong? Just because Keith was more popular doesn't mean he didn't feel jealous or threatened by MJ working on songs with something else instead of him.
Keith was the greatest riff writer in the world for years; that's not to be compared to Taylor. Nothing wrong with being a tremendous soloist in someone else's band.@@ianstu1940
That is Cool ! Nice to see they don't bad mouth Mick Taylor behind his back , but Ronnie always has that story of how Mick was shy and Ronnie went on for him in his teen band the Gods ... thats a bit of a diss by Ronnie . Bob Dylan has so much class
Yes and it's not true. Mick has said "Yeah, I'd smoked too many joints and I passed out and Ronnie stood in for me with the Gods." Idk if Ronnie was trying to cover up Mick's drug use or something but he always says that stage fright story which isn't true.
Keith was right mick Taylor is the kind of artist/guitar player who always wanted to be a solo artist but never delivered ir developed his desires it’s not the same accompaniment to be the front man it’s the same that happened to George Harrison at least George was a great composer/ guitarist and a singer delivered amazing albums.
I think Taylor was interested in making more of a fusion album in the vein of Jeff Beck, but his record label put pressure on him to make something semi-Stonesy and commercial. On his solo debut, there's a great track called “Spanish / A Minor” that gives an inkling into his more progressive/jazzy tendencies.
I think a lot of it comes from the old adage 'not everyone can hack it, being in the Stones'. Look at Brian, he was a great talent, and enhanced so much of the early stuff with his talent, and beautiful playing of so many different instruments. Unfortunately, he had trouble dealing with the enormous fame that came to them, and of course, couldn't handle his addictions. Mick Taylor was younger than the rest of the band, and was never the best fit as a member of the Stones, whereas Ronnie was an ideal fit, even though he may not be as good a guitarist as Mick. I think you just need to appreciate the varied line-ups that this band have had over 60 years.
wow -- what a wild conversation.....they sucked imo at Live Aid tho -- actually, they looked and acted drunk -- but if this is the Live Aid day, they sound pretty together.....Thanks for posting.
f'ner f'ner f'ner goes Keefy. Far out man - sez Dylan. Shit - sez Ron Wood. It's top level banter!!! F'ner f'ner f'ner. Say man - can yer pass me that joint? F'ner f'ner f'ner.
My guess it was recorded when they got together in NYC for Live Aide Rehearsals. There is a 3(?) song bootleg of that, the Basement Tape or something like that. They drove to Philly day of show in a van.
They were talking about a song called broken hands, which I heard years ago on some weird Rolling stones bootleg my friend had. I loved the song so much because Keith was the one singing it and I love all of the stones songs he sings. The bootleg was very cool and I never forgot that song. I can't even remember the name of the bootleg & I've even tried to find this song on you tube and couldn't. Does anybody know it or what bootleg it was on?
@@johngraves8142 I just listened and it's the same song for sure but it ain't Keith Richards singing it. I may have thought it was Keith at the time as I was really young. Great song & thanks for the info.👍
@@JamesWilliams-js4fo Mick Taylor wrote the song which is probably why he sings it but, on hearing it again, I think you can easily be excused for believing it was Keith. What impresses me the most though is how much the song resembles 'Hand Of Fate'.
@@johngraves8142 Yeah it does. I'm thinking I can hear him playing a F# chord with the b & e strings ringing out which is really a cool. Mick Taylor is a great guitar player him and Keith.
@@JamesWilliams-js4fo The Stones' greatest albums were all made when he was in the band. I get the impression that Keith was genuinely sorry that he left.
He left his mark. Diamonds - Ya Ya, Sticky, Exile. Retire. Play with who you want. He may have had regrets on occasion, but we all make decisions based on what the soul needs at any given time.
The Mick Taylor years were the best years the rolling stones ever had,besides I read when Ronnie an Keith played with Dylan at live aid,everybody had a little too much to drink at the time
The Mick Taylor years are by far the Stones’ best! They made one great album after another. Something they were never able to repeat after his departure. Dylan complimented and criticized Taylor in the same breath. Maybe he should listen to how horrendous his own vocals are. “I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now.”……”Mick Taylor would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed". - Mick Jagger
" Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed". - Mick Jagger. Jagger actually means: it was the best version of the band that existed. And he's spot on.
What's fascinating to me is the relationship between Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. I'm a fan of the three of them and I think someone should make an album or a movie with them. I would love to...
Even without the sound issues, I can't imagine three accoustic guitars really doing well. Maybe this would have done better: a) Dylan only singing and harmonica b) Ron Wood on accoustic guitar c) Keith Richards on electic guitar, doing some fills.
Could be wrong but it sounds like Dylan didn't wanna get pulled into the conversation and then "i'm gonna split...'. The vibe I got was that Dylan was feeling uncomfortable. Of course I don't know any of them but I know the vibe very well. Maybe a '2 and 1' kinda thing ?
Just as an addendum to my other comments in my reply to @kurtmaxclassicrockvideosra2806 , with regards to the background, Dylan always wanted to have a band for Live Aid, having vetoed then-semi-manager Bill Graham’s plan that he perform with Peter, Paul & Mary at almost the last minute, but then bumped into Ron Wood, telling him he wasn’t sure what he was going to do [at Live Aid]. Ron called Keith over to his place, fallaciously telling him “Bob’s here and he wants us to play Live Aid with him” - and when Keith came over, the first words Bob said to him were, “Hey, are you going to this thing [Live Aid]?” At which point, Keith and Ron ‘had words’, and Bob decided he needed the bathroom until they had finished. The circulating rehearsals are only the surface, according to Ronnie, who recorded them - they rehearsed at his house - “and we played everything in the Stones and in Bob’s repertoire.’ I can’t wait to hear ‘Ballad In Plain D’ and ‘In Another Land’... Ron also said that Keith implored Bob to record an acoustic album, telling him “what we need is more ‘Blood On The Tracks’”. Instead, we got ‘Knocked Out Loaded’, ‘Empire Burlesque’ having already been recorded. Interestingly, Bob had just recorded his first acoustic album track since 1965 - the majestic ‘Dark Eyes’ - a few months previously. With regards to the performance, as per my previous post, all the stage monitors had been turned off, to set their levels for the end of concert ensemble, and as noted elsewhere, Bob broke a string on his guitar so Ron gave him his. But without a monitor, and with over 50 people behind the curtain setting up for the finale, Ron had no way of tuning the new guitar to Dylan’s. You can forget Keith, who was ‘elsewhere’ the whole time. Remember that Mick Jagger had famously refused to tour the ‘Dirty Work’ album because of “the state the band members were in at the time.” Dylan himself was road-rusty, having only played 27 shows - the Mick Taylor-accompanied ‘Tour 84’ - in almost 4 years. With regards to Bob’s comment about Mick Taylor “great… but some nights….” - this is probably a reference to the length of Mick’s solos. Certainly, on the 27 concert tapes, Mick is superb every night. But some nights the solos are extended, something Dylan has never had time for onstage (notoriously keeping Mick Ronson “in the bus” on the 1976 tour, due to the reception the Hull maestro’s guitar playing received on the 1975 leg). Considering Bill Graham gave Dylan a dressing-down after the early Verona concerts, insisting he “rehearse the goddamn songs”, Bob had a short memory. This is probably what Ronnie is referring to as well, from recalling the ‘Together At Last’ 15th December 1981 concert, where the less-than-diplomatic Keith told Ronnie to “tell that [Mick Taylor] to shut the f up” re his lengthy solos. Where Bob really let himself down at Live Aid was asking for some of the money raised for starving children to go to American farmers. It did begat Farm Aid, but even as a long-time Bob fan, I remember watching the show with my then-band and that comment bringing our house to silence, not the poor performance. As someone wrote later, ‘Bob Dylan was the only person who played Live Aid and their record sales went DOWN…’
Mick Taylor grew up in the same street as me in Hatfield. He is one of our town's favourite sons. We also claim Paul Kossoff from Free. It can't be in the water or I could play the guitar. I love seeing the love in these comments for him, we also claim, Donovan (mellow yellow) and the Zombies (she's not there).
@@robbiemontgomery581 I have just learned something I never knew. I will have to Wikipedia him now to brush up on the Man. It's news to me, so we merely adopted him in Hatfield. Cheers for the heads up 👍
@@robbiemontgomery581 yep just checked him out, indeed a son of Glasgow. I will be careful in the future so I don't incorrectly make any claims to his true beginnings.
@@robbiemontgomery581 I guess I played the typical sassanac, yep we steal all the good stuff from you guys, tax you, tell you what to do and lie like bastards making false promises when you finally get a referendum. I have been North of the Border twice, once to Inverness and once to Glasgow. Without a doubt the most beautiful part of the UK. Not only does London politics screw you but the religious C of E keeps you all divided up there, rendering the chance of a french style revolution almost impossible. I wish Scotland to be independent as my pal is dating a Glasgow lassie, he is up and down all the time from Hatfield and I could get him to grab me duty free tobacco. I am actually a bitsa with 50% of my roots Polish, so I'm not the Gammon sort 😊
Honestly those are accurate words that people who arent musicians or in bands may not realize but they apply to everything really. Just because you are a good guitarist doesnt mean you can handle the road, doesnt mean your personality allows you to flourish in a group dynamic where you must compromise etc…
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The way Keef says “Taylor...” seems to encompass many thoughts he has on his old bandmate, flaws and all. It's almost a somber reflection on someone he doesn't understand but knows represented the apex of his band.
What an awkward moment. Guarantee Dylan's thinking about Mick's solo on "Sweetheart Like You" at some point before he says "I'm gonna split."
I felt that
Yeah, that "Taylor..." followed by silence was heavy. Such a universal reaction to that kind of situation where someone you might not get on with, or understand, still has an uncanny, inexplicable way of making everything you do better in any field. I still think about a guy who auditioned & rehearsed to replace the original drummer for my band in 1994. He was awkward, weird, didn't connect with any of us personally, but when the music started he was PERFECT. We were really psyched but he decided not to join the band because he'd rather sell insurance with his dad. What a wasted opportunity for everyone. That guy was an enigma. I imagine just like Mick Taylor.
What Keef said about Mick Taylor is also true about ..Keef
@@conphuze Wow! You summed up that perfectly. Isn’t it strange how one word really seems to tell a whole story? I have to think that Keith realizes that there really is some magic to those albums with Taylor that just haven’t been attainable before or after.
For someone who's mumbled his lyrics live for the past 40 years Dylan shouldn't talk about someone having an off night. All I know is Infidels and Real Live have some great guitar work as did The Stones in the Mick Taylor era.
The Stones were not the same either before or after the Mick Taylor era. For one guy to make that much difference is testament to how good Taylor was.
I couldn't agree more. Those stonesalbums with him are insane, incredibly good music.
Those albums would have been great with any number of guitarists. It was the Mick and Keith show and the idea that Taylor made the albums great is fanciful.
@@xwhite2020 you should read some of the autobiographies and biographies before you say that.
@@tattoofthesun It always amazes me how these comments so often assume they know more about a person than they possibly could.
@@xwhite2020 You're nuts man. If anyone could just fill in, Black and Blue would be as great an album as Exile or Sticky Fingers, but you know it's not. The last great Stones album musically was Goats Head Soup and the missing element on all albums after (exception of It's Only Rock and Roll) is Mick Taylor. His contributions during the golden era of their music are what transcends those songs to the heights those songs still have today. It's not even really subjective at this point. You either understand musical theory and complexity or you don't. You clearly don't.
Bob Dylan said Mick Taylor wrote some "great songs". What a compliment!
In the mid eighties in Boston I saw Mick Taylor perform in a small club. I sat fifteen feet from him. I wasn’t expecting much but he blew the room away! He even joked about his bad decision to leave the Stones. When the performance ended I walked away thinking.. So that’s what it takes to be in a top band. The guy was amazing.
The stones were never as great as when Taylor was with rhem
Mick Taylor every bit as good as Eric Clapton he really could play an amazing blues rock lead guitar
@@charlieknoch5502 He made a big sound come from that guitar. I never saw Clapton in concert (only on TV) but sure, I’d stick Mick up against him any day.
That is a FACT!
@@blipco5 yeah, but I've always thought Eric was a bit Lazy and didn't push himself -- others pushed him. Look at the footage of him at The Last Waltz, he's walking through it, and his guitar strap comes off, and Robbie covers for him -- and then Eric comes back with some of the juiced stuff I've ever heard......
He is great work with other musicians -- Bonnie and Delany, "My guitar gently weeps....I don't care for his songs or even his guitar playing -- no offense intended -- , unless someone else pushes him to excellence.
Then he blows the place apart.
When he was drunk and on auto -pilot in the late 70s, he was dreadful. IMO.
I even left a show early because it just sounded like the same old thing. he was just punching the clock... .......
But I know he got sober, and I'm happy for him, and he's one of the greats -- just not one of my favorite greats --- but God Bless Him for opening people's eyes to addiction in the music biz -- boy he learned the hard way. but at least he's alive.
Wait .....
Weren't we talking about Mick Taylor? Oh yes, he was the best for his time, and yes, Ronnie is the best for his time -- there -- everybody's happy? Did't think so. lol. JMHO. No harm intended. Thanks!
This is a real gem. Rock history. And as for Mick Taylor, they might be right, he never flew as high on his own as he flew with the Stones. Still an absolute genius.
Although you could say the same about Mick and Keith's solo records.
@@PotrzebieConolly Talk is Cheap sounded better to me than Steel Wheels. Possibly because Mick Taylor plays on it 😀
Drugs will do that
@@SuburbanGurban
Only on one track!!
'Could have Stood You Up' when Keith gave him the chance to play with legend Jonny Johnson!! 😄
It’s so rare to hear these guys talk in normal conversation, like regular people (especially Dylan) - it’s absolutely fascinating. Kind of like the Get Back documentary, once the band got used to the cameras being around. Would love to hear more of this kind of stuff.
These people portrait certain image you know, keith and ronnie seems like great guys in interviews i like them ,my issue is with bob he always seems weird on it i don't now is no the type of you meet whitout someone introducing you to him,i just don't like him
You can hear in Keith’s voice how much of love he had for Taylor’s talent. Yes, I’m sure there were jealousy and obviously there must be issues about writing credits, but the music they created it was peak Stones, and he knows that.
Also he does not allow Dylan , in a gentle way, to go on about his inconsistency.
Keith saying Mick must have experienced some problems, coming in right after Brian, whoever talks about that? nobody, the guy who originated the stones dies, life goes on, gotta get another good guitarist, Mick Taylor. all the stones had "problems" after losing their friend, so young and riding the initial wave to the peak of their early fame in 1964, i saw them at Long Beach Auditorium, or whatever it was called back then, on November 1, 1964, their second US tour that year, my rich friend's dad got us first row center tickets, Brian eventually sitting down on the stage playing the dulcimer, somebody like that dies and nobody talks about their feelings because how do you do that? it's not normal to talk about those kinds of feelings. i read a quote by bob dylan in a Rolling Stone article around 1999 i think, he said Brian Jones and Michael Bloomfield were the best guitar players he ever knew, and he described what Brian could do, learned all the early roots stuff from the early 20c South, the finger style playing that was intricate and wild with a lot of feel, and everyone played different, individually, and brian learned to play guitar from listening to records by those guys. Mick Taylor, i don't know how he came up but he was more than worthy to be in the stones.
I think Keith also feels guilty as he was part of the reason why MT left
@@765claire I agree. Keith chides Taylor for taking 5 years to do a solo record but poor Mick was likely trying to get over his Stones heroin addiction. Let's ask Jimmy Miller about that. Oh, he's dead?
What Keith said at the end was some real shit. I kinda related to that thing he said about Mick where he had ideas, but it takes a lot of energy and time for him to get an album together of original material, with his strength being an accompanist.
Being a drug addict didn't help either
Keith loves to be in a band, loves the comraderie and loves to hang out with musicians. Mick Taylor was a bit introverted, but the unspoken chemistry between him and Keith produced their best music and spectacular live performances the Stones have never been able to repeat. I love Mick Taylor to death. He's my favorite guitar player. You usually do your best work with a co-worker as oppossed to a buddy like Ron Wood.
Good point.
Really good take
spot on John, Stone best music came out of the Mick Taylor years..
Mick Taylor was the reason why I picked up the guitar as a kid and he was my favorite guitarist
The Stones ever had. If this clip was accurate at that time Mick Taylor for a short while was
Bob Dylan's guitarist and he was fantastic with him. Mick Taylor is playing live in 1978 with Little
Feat "A Political Blues" you can see it on TH-cam.
Ditto, he's my favourite. So much class.
Mick Taylor was only 20 yrs old when he joined up w/ the Stones, He was shy, naive & considerably younger than the other fella's, Make no mistake about it, Those 6 yrs, He undeniably was the best Musician the Stones ever had,
Certainly the best guiarist... but the Stones had othersp in their orbit. Bobby Keys, Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Gram Parsons. All of which had great impact in recording or inspiring them to create their music.
But yes, Mick was the best Stones guitarist, that doesn't mean the same thing to me as the best Rolling Stone. That argument may never be unequivocally answered.
The most multi talented musician was Brian Jones & he was an excellent guitar player, Mick Taylor followed on guitar. Bill Wyman has his own group, The Rhythm Kings now & even Ronnie Wood had spread his wings before joining the Stones. These guys weren't stuck playing Stones stuff and infinitum.
He's underrated as a guitar player IMO.
He's behind Keith on the best guitarist of all time list simply because Keith wrote all this riffs, licks, and melodies. But hes always too far back. He's underrated.
No disparaging remarks about mick. Just a respect and an acknowledgement about his different ways. Lovely recording.
Yes. Refreshing!
I'd say there were a few desparaging remarks, but they were fair in the context of three professional performers discussing another pro (privately! heheh..). They said that MT wasn't reliable for turning up, and also had good nights and bad nights. They speculated a bit on his personality... stage fright, needed a group to push him. Again, entirely valid and respectful in context.
Especially in the context of saying that when he was good, he was very good.
“I'm gonna split” - Bob Dylan
I saw Mick Taylor with his three piece band at The Beaverwood Club, Chislehurst must be getting on 10 years ago now. He was phenomenal, great touch and feel. And a lovely guy that didn't mind chatting to you after the show. Great memories. The Stones sounded great when he was in the band.
I love how Ron Woods says Taylor did not like to play live. Are you f’ing kidding me?? Ronny on his worst day he absolutely blew you away.
you are a moron, he just repeated what Taylor told him, Taylor told him he didn't want to go on stage so you talk shit about Ron? I apologize if you are 5 years old or if english is not your first language.
17 October 1973 I saw the Stones live at Vorst National in Brussels (Brussels Affair) Billy Preston on keyboards, Steve Madaio on trumpet, Trevor Lawrence on saxophone and of course Mick Taylor on lead and slide…..the Stones at their finest! Mick took the Stones to another level…..that was really the best lineup ever and KR has stated in his Google Play interview that this was one of their best concerts ever 🥂
Brussels Affair. One of my first bootlegs on compact disc. Highly regarded as a superb soundboard and top live performances bar none - and mostly attributed to MT
Keith nailed it about being a sideman who shines versus fronting a group. I think Taylor had people talking in his ear about doing his own thing, go for it, blah, blah. When he got his record deal, reality came crashing in....his music was all fusion material and they made him add more Stones-type songs, which was expected to sell. If I recall correctly, he didn't want to do those songs and wanted a path more like Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow. The album tanked and he was dropped. He really is a great sideman, take his work with Carla Olsen, but Keith and Ronnie said it that the guy didn't have the drive or focus, i.e., what it takes, to be a leader of a group. I'm in total agreement that his tenure with the Stones was their prime era.
I don't believe Taylor intended to "do his own thing," as he left to join his good-friend Jack Bruce in a more creative, progressive band that musically stirred him more than the Stones. Once the Jack Bruce project folded as quickly as it started, he was left reeling a bit, working with Pierre Moerlen's Gong (an off-shoot of the original progressive band, Gong) until recording his solo debut. It's fascinating that Taylor found some creative solace in working on more jazz-fusion projects than doing straight-ahead blues-infused rock.
Plus err..... Mick Taylor then realised that he had to sing the songs, and only then did the reality of him not having a strong singing voice, come crashing in. Imagine what "Broken Hands", or even "Leather Jacket", on his solo album would have been like had a certain Michael Philip Jagger been singing it. Just hear Taylor sing even a heritage number, like "You Got To Move" at a live show and it's bloody dire. But, yes, without him, would that golden era of such wonderful albums one after the other have ever happened, or "Brussels Affair" ?
All of their amazing singles snd albums through Banquet snd arguably Bleed included jones, not taylor. And THAT is their best material. Which is the best RnR music ever recorded.
The reason he left the Stones was because he had his woman in his ear telling him that he should be doing his own thing. He had his own personal Yoko Ono.... Or at least what Yoko Ono is believed to be like.
He couldn't handle it, because his mind was divided.
@@andrewthegraciouslordrober327 Bloody dire? Totally disagree. He might be a guitarist that sings, but he's far from terrible.
I don’t like Ronny saying that sometimes he doesn’t know when to stop playing: hey, on Winter does Taylor overplay? On Time Waits for No One? Bitch, Knockin’ -SWAY?!?!? Live is another thing. But real heads know- Brussels Affair, SURE - Taylor plays every chance he gets and I love that because I’ve already heard more sparse Stones live shows I love. Taylor added that UNNHHHH, that rocking back and forth kinda, fists clenched, makes me wanna get a Stones tattoo and shout to the world “greatest Rock n Roll band EVR”. Then there’s other Stones shows where it breathes, more space. Hey I wanted all I could get of Mick Taylor in them years, every note he played was tasteful and colorful. He didn’t Jack off up there. And I love Woody- great live shows with Woody too!! El Mocambo, love the Black and Blue tour, the Some girls tour, Tattoo You, Emotional Rescue, come on man. Just an observation. As you can see, I’m emotionally tied to Taylor ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ come at me. You heads feel me.
Must've been some good blow you're doing there.
He's just like Keith , Jealous they are not the players Mick Taylor is.
@@paullevine1813 Mick Taylor went to do nothing after the stones lol, while the stones recorded their best selling album Some Girls.
I also loved Mick Taylor's playing on the John Mayall albums, which I haven't seen anyone mention here.
@@ianstu1940 Stones with Taylor were way better than Stones without Taylor.
Mick Jagger himself has hinted at their apex with Taylor and never being able to reach that again.
Why do you think they don't play songs like Time Waits for No One live?? Because they cannot.
Even Dead Flowers -- no one plays those riffs/fills, solo like Mick T.
Also during that time, Taylor was the main guy in the studio putting together tracks while Keef was out getting doped up, Taylor and the other session players like Hopkins were putting in the work to keep the band going.
Similar to what Bob Welch did for F Mac as the bridge between when Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer etc were having their issues and before Stevie/Lindsay came on.
Mick Taylor's dedication to the music is what breathed new life when the Stones needed it.
Yep...if it was good,it was G😮😮D!!! Stones with Mick Taylor:best stuff they ever recorded ,in my opinion. Classic!
I think the same
Yep.
The most creative was with Jones. They always knew Brian could add a "flavor" to their songs. Taylor was a great player on guitar but that was it.
Well, he Didnt play on Beggars Banquet, and did very little on Let it Bleed.....for me thats the best of the Stones
@@389383 They were a Blues/Pop band then. When Taylor arrived they morphed into a rock and roll band. Especially live.
For me, the Stones' golden years were with Mick Taylor. He is a virtuoso lead guitar player and that went well with Keith's virtuoso rhythm guitar playing. Ron Wood is too much like Keith Richards.
Pretty much everything he played on in the stones is fantastic.
Taylor is in a league of his known.
Yes, the Minor Leagues.
@@389383 you must like shitty guitar playing, Talyor has played with Alvin lee ,Allan Holdsworth ,Eric Clapton ,Albert King ,GEORGE Lowell , Buddy Guy ,Mark Knopfler, Gerry Garcia ,Carlos Santana ,Keith and Ronnie couldnt play a decent solo if their lives depended on it ,check youtube ,minor leagues my ----
They look quite envious and little men here.
What a cool fly on the wall moment! I have a picture of this night with Keith, Woody, Dylan & Jack Nicholson that Keith signed for me on the Main Offender tour. Much thanx for sharing this.
Wow, so great to get to be a "fly on the wall" and here these guys interact.
Class to the max...just a great respect to the English players no bad backstabbing just the little quirks but no bashing behind the back....maybe all could learn and be this way?
Every time I hear Keith talk, I just love him even more.
Tina is gone but Keith keeps on ticking
Love his accent~voice, very smart articulate man.
He sees the world as it is, without illusions or ill feelings. That what makes his music great, the ability not to fool himself even when he is on the top.
@@aftonsky Well said.
Great self-awareness with Keith admitting that he's "like that"--needing other people to make his music (unlike Bob?).
having *both* knopfler and Taylor on Infidels was a great idea. Very different styles and so complimentary. I think they are on the same track a few times and it's so cool.
That needed to be pointed out.
@Ken Truitt you're preaching the TRUTH man.
Hearing Richard's talk about someone else having a lack of energy...
Money For Nothing is a great song. It and Dire Straits owned '85 (Taylor not getting any credits while covering for smacked out Keith also hastened his exit).
I thought the harmony of Mark with Gordon Sumner were great.
Bob Dylan voice is so attractive to the mind.
Hey thanks for posting!!
Wow. Keith!! Dude is sharp. Love this convo.
Mick Taylor added a smooth layer to Keith's rhythmic Raunch, the best stones era after the founder Brian jones
Around that time Bob Dylan recorded with both: Taylor and Knofler, Infidels album with Knofler and Empire Burlesque with Taylor.
The little Dylan says makes you yearn for so much more. Good control over his opinions it is infuriating
Yeah, but he might not quite feel entitled to any opinions in that particular company, just out of good manners, and quite rightly so. Dylan has a reputation as a man who conducts himself well, and it's for good reason.
Perhaps I'm telling you what you're telling me.
Well, since I haven't met the man, that's the most I've heard Dylan say and the most normal I've heard him act ever. I only know him from interviews after 1980 or so, which is nothing like the Dylan of 1962. Always the jaded, wary, cautious interviewee. It was cool to hear how he acts with friends in private.
He knows Wood and Richards know Taylor personally and professionally a lot better than he does.
What Keith says at the end is SOOOO true though, and nothing wrong with that. We have this imagine of him as being some out of control junkie, but he's much more cultured and psychologically insightful than that. Perhaps one thing that should change is how the money is allocated and where the prestige goes. A great arrangement can turn an OK song into something memorable and great, but it's the songwriter who ultimately gets the credit. An extreme example of this is Vini Reilly getting a measly .5% of the royalties on Viva Hate, even though his guitar playing is what lifts the record from good to great. Viva Hate in my opinion is the only Morrissey record that's fully equivalent to a Smiths record. He had some good songs afterwards, but never reached those heights again. And paid the guy a miserly .5% for that, like he was some session musician who happened to be in the building.
wow ! thats a bit of gold-dust right there
Bob is like, “this is getting awks”
I loved the music of The Rolling Stones when Mick Taylor was in the group.I agree with what Keith says.
The Mick Taylor era is my favorite. Especially Sticky
Taylor's solos are still the best solos on Rolling Stones history...
In history period
In the studio, absolutely.
Live? Hit or miss….
@@angus7278 really I haven’t heard Mick Taylor have a bad night with the Stones. I’ve heard dozens of shows from 69-73 and he’s always smooth as silk
Stop Breaking Down on Exile on Mainstream......mind blowing!
For me he had a great rapport musically with Jagger, some of the subtle stuff he played while Mick was singing really brought out the beauty of the sings
Keith always has the most based takes lol
Billy Preston was a hell of a front man and made some great records as leader!
‘He didn’t know when to stop.
Or start’
- sounds like a line from Spinal Tap 😂
Just one example - "Dead Flowers" - Mick Taylor's guitar playing on both the studio & live versions is nothing short of sublime.
Fascinating. Keith always tells it like it is.
Lol, no he doesn't
@@765claire So true, Keef can be passive agressive
fascinating insights especially from ronnie and keeef
Neither of these two could sit on the fingertips of Mick Taylor, that's why they are talking; what else Ron Wood could do but use his mouth given the superiority of Mick Taylor's guitar.
Fascinating!
This was very cool to hear..... My personal philosophy as a musician aligns. I love creating music where there is a fellowship in creating it. Mick Taylor did this VERY WELL and is a brilliant guitarist. While I really dig a lot of material from the Jones/Woody eras, the era of Taylor/Richards is BY FAR my favorite . Both guys are great by themselves but together they were seriously a powerhouse. Taylor's career high point will ALWAYS be from the Rolling Stones....
Mick Taylor's contribution to the stones elevated them to their best
actually Taylor thought the stones werent even a good garage band when they first asked him to join and its pretty obvious how much better than them he really was upon watching one of the live versions of 'Dead flowers' . Furthermore , when asked about 'love and theft' , Dylan said he did it " because I can and the only reason people like Mick Jagger dont do it is because they cant".
Dead Flowers from the Marquee Club is killer Taylor!!
a bit of genuine chat from real musicians...
Love to hear more.
Ronnie saying shit about MT again 🙄
Anybody notice at 0:28 and 0:31 what appears to be the sound of someone snorting a bit of the old you know what? Considering Ronnie Woods and Keith Richard are both talking at the time, and it's not til the 0:44 mark that we hear Dylan join the conversation with "Yeah, he's usually alright" followed by a seconds pause and then laughter from the other two, I'd say it was Dylan 👃🗞💭
sounds like they are all High as a Kite
Speaking highly of Taylor . Take a bow Mick.
Very few comments speak highly of Taylor...most of it is critical!!!
@@692MOM Definitely not true. And here we are speaking of comments from musicians.
Love MT..!
KR said mick never had two good nights in a row and the other two start to agree and tell stories of him not going on.
Not a group man, they seemed to agree.
It was really RW's idea to bring Mick Taylor back to tour live with The Stones in 2013 and I'm happy that Ron
did that. I think it was in 1984 that Bob Dylan toured live with Mick Taylor as his lead guitarist. Some of Mick Taylors' solos with Bob Dylan were incredible.
Sweetheart Like You - Infidels
Pretty sure this predates Dylan using both Taylor and Knopfler on "Foot of Pride" which has got some amazing guitar bits from those two. I think they were on the entire album. Probably Bob was taking notes here lol.
Thanks to this I've now discovered Foot of Pride. Looking further I see Money For Nothing came out in 1985 while Foot was 83. Not being an aficionado I may be missing something.
@@encoreunefois1X Lou Reed kills Foot of Pride
No. Knofler played on Dylan's 1979 Slow Train a 'Comin album.
There's a video of Knopfler and Taylor playing with BD.
Can't recall the song.
@@robertway5756 License to Kill! th-cam.com/video/HRrlFYg2QkI/w-d-xo.html
It's cool that Mick Taylor played lead guitar on Bob Dylan's 1983 Infidels
I think Keith felt a bit threatened by Mick in the band and it played a part in his leaving. Taylor and Jagger wrote some stuff together and Taylor was such a good player, while Kieth was heavy into addiction. Kieth maybe felt he'd get pushed out as head guitar and writer. Where Ronnie there isn't that. Kieth is my favorite guitar player all time though and those albums they did together with Taylor are the greatest.
I’ve seen this mentioned by Mick Taylor fans constantly but there is just no proof of that. Look at magazine polls from the time and Keith is by far the most popular/ influential guitarist and it’s not even close. In terms of writing if they gave credit to every song Taylor supposedly wrote it would still be less than 10. Keith was by far the stronger writer especially during the exile sessions, having a hand in more than half of the songs.
@@ianstu1940 Keith is my favorite all time guitar player. I think he’s the best songwriter with guitar, plus all the grit and the riffs. Let it bleed album he was basically the only guitar player. it’s one of my favorite. However, my feelings that he was threatened by Taylor and Jaggers relationship comes from reading Keith’s autobiography. Not saying my feeling is correct. It was just my take from things Keith wrote. I don’t think those insecurities were valid though. Kieth is incredible.
Taylor had his own heroin problem while in The Stones. He cites it as his main reason for leaving.
@@ianstu1940 People who were there at the time have mentioned it including MJ, Charlie, Andy Johns, Marshall Chess, Rose Millar, and Anita Pallenberg. You think they are all wrong? Just because Keith was more popular doesn't mean he didn't feel jealous or threatened by MJ working on songs with something else instead of him.
Keith was the greatest riff writer in the world for years; that's not to be compared to Taylor. Nothing wrong with being a tremendous soloist in someone else's band.@@ianstu1940
That is Cool ! Nice to see they don't bad mouth Mick Taylor behind his back , but Ronnie always has that story of how Mick was shy and Ronnie went on for him in his teen band the Gods ... thats a bit of a diss by Ronnie . Bob Dylan has so much class
Yes and it's not true. Mick has said "Yeah, I'd smoked too many joints and I passed out and Ronnie stood in for me with the Gods." Idk if Ronnie was trying to cover up Mick's drug use or something but he always says that stage fright story which isn't true.
Keith was right mick Taylor is the kind of artist/guitar player who always wanted to be a solo artist but never delivered ir developed his desires it’s not the same accompaniment to be the front man it’s the same that happened to George Harrison at least George was a great composer/ guitarist and a singer delivered amazing albums.
I think Taylor was interested in making more of a fusion album in the vein of Jeff Beck, but his record label put pressure on him to make something semi-Stonesy and commercial. On his solo debut, there's a great track called “Spanish / A Minor” that gives an inkling into his more progressive/jazzy tendencies.
Didn't help that he was a drug addict either
Priceless. Thanks!
Imagine, all these guys are still alive.
Taylor was the best "accompanist" the Stones ever had.
Nicky Hopkins.
@@389383 beautiful ivory tickling... And yes perhaps the best true accompanist to the stones. Taylor was not an accompanist, but a true stone.
Not much rehearsal going on. Kinda explains the messy Live Aid set....
Hahaha
So true😅
yeah
The full rehearsal is in the description above.
The greatest rock'n'roll band in 70's
THE INCREDIBLE ...
... "MICK TAYLOR and his Rolling Stones"
I think a lot of it comes from the old adage 'not everyone can hack it, being in the Stones'.
Look at Brian, he was a great talent, and enhanced so much of the early stuff with his talent, and beautiful playing of so many different instruments. Unfortunately, he had trouble dealing with the enormous fame that came to them, and of course, couldn't handle his
addictions. Mick Taylor was younger than the rest of the band, and was never the best
fit as a member of the Stones, whereas Ronnie was an ideal fit, even though he may not
be as good a guitarist as Mick. I think you just need to appreciate the varied line-ups
that this band have had over 60 years.
Brian lived the life the other Stones only wrote about.
The thing with Brian was how he treated people much of the time. Hard to be in a band with a coworker like that.
1:15 - I wonder what Keith was thinking when he said, "Taylor...."
Guilt
@@765claire And regret.
The Stones were great before, during, and after Mick Taylor. Simple as that.
I have listened to many of Dylan's '84 shows when Taylor was in the band and Mick was consistently great. I don't know what Dylan is talking about...
Just Dylan being Dylan. He always seemed a bit afraid of being upstaged by anyone, hence his rotating of bands over the years.
Like A Rolling Stone…
Indeed…
Interesting or just a joke that "Leather Jacket" is about Keif. Some say was about Mick. Some say it was autobiographical..
wow -- what a wild conversation.....they sucked imo at Live Aid tho -- actually, they looked and acted drunk -- but if this is the Live Aid day, they sound pretty together.....Thanks for posting.
f'ner f'ner f'ner goes Keefy. Far out man - sez Dylan. Shit - sez Ron Wood. It's top level banter!!! F'ner f'ner f'ner. Say man - can yer pass me that joint? F'ner f'ner f'ner.
Good one
Wow. That was cool.
Thanks 🙏
What’s the source for this tape? Never heard it before
My guess it was recorded when they got together in NYC for Live Aide Rehearsals. There is a 3(?) song bootleg of that, the Basement Tape or something like that. They drove to Philly day of show in a van.
AAAH This like discovering gold
They were talking about a song called broken hands, which I heard years ago on some weird Rolling stones bootleg my friend had. I loved the song so much because Keith was the one singing it and I love all of the stones songs he sings. The bootleg was very cool and I never forgot that song. I can't even remember the name of the bootleg & I've even tried to find this song on you tube and couldn't. Does anybody know it or what bootleg it was on?
'Broken Hands' can be found on Mick Taylor's first solo album.
@@johngraves8142 I just listened and it's the same song for sure but it ain't Keith Richards singing it. I may have thought it was Keith at the time as I was really young. Great song & thanks for the info.👍
@@JamesWilliams-js4fo Mick Taylor wrote the song which is probably why he sings it but, on hearing it again, I think you can easily be excused for believing it was Keith. What impresses me the most though is how much the song resembles 'Hand Of Fate'.
@@johngraves8142 Yeah it does. I'm thinking I can hear him playing a F# chord with the b & e strings ringing out which is really a cool. Mick Taylor is a great guitar player him and Keith.
@@JamesWilliams-js4fo The Stones' greatest albums were all made when he was in the band. I get the impression that Keith was genuinely sorry that he left.
Sounds like what they'd say behind Mick's back, when they thought the conversation was private. Bunch of old gossipers.
It's gossip, but not especially mean spirited. More like observing behavior.
and then they went out and played horribly drunk accompanying dylan…that was a very low moment of live aid.
He left his mark. Diamonds - Ya Ya, Sticky, Exile. Retire. Play with who you want. He may have had regrets on occasion, but we all make decisions based on what the soul needs at any given time.
Taylor is in a completely different league to Richard as a guitarist, and Keith knew it very well
saw it in Marseille in a small hall ...The beast part was can't ou hear me knocking ...the solo ....So he just played the solo ..SAd.
Mick taylor with john mayall at 18 already played with so much more soulful and technique thant ron wood ever had in his entire life
Fascinating comment comparing Mick Taylor to Billy Preston! And Keith saying he was like that, too.
ultra cool, thanku
The Mick Taylor years were the best years the rolling stones ever had,besides I read when Ronnie an Keith played with Dylan at live aid,everybody had a little too much to drink at the time
Three strung out junkies talking about Mick Taylor’s guitar skills is hilarious. Plenty of proof everywhere on how great Taylor is.
The Mick Taylor years are by far the Stones’ best! They made one great album after another. Something they were never able to repeat after his departure. Dylan complimented and criticized Taylor in the same breath. Maybe he should listen to how horrendous his own vocals are.
“I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now.”……”Mick Taylor would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed". - Mick Jagger
" Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed". - Mick Jagger. Jagger actually means: it was the best version of the band that existed. And he's spot on.
Maybe a little more rehearsing and less gossip, and the performance would have been decent.
Nah! Bob should have gotten a sober band and staged and rehearsed his on gig.
@@rossosbornfamilyfoundation3536 He did that with Petty a few months later at Farm Aid. Great performance!
This is fascinating s*** ...DUDE!!!
MT chatup from these heavyweights 😳
🌟🌟 Mick Taylor 🌟🌟
What's fascinating to me is the relationship between Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. I'm a fan of the three of them and I think someone should make an album or a movie with them. I would love to...
Why no video?
Even without the sound issues, I can't imagine three accoustic guitars really doing well. Maybe this would have done better:
a) Dylan only singing and harmonica
b) Ron Wood on accoustic guitar
c) Keith Richards on electic guitar, doing some fills.
Could be wrong but it sounds like Dylan didn't wanna get pulled into the conversation and then "i'm gonna split...'. The vibe I got was that Dylan was feeling uncomfortable. Of course I don't know any of them but I know the vibe very well. Maybe a '2 and 1' kinda thing ?
Just as an addendum to my other comments in my reply to @kurtmaxclassicrockvideosra2806 , with regards to the background, Dylan always wanted to have a band for Live Aid, having vetoed then-semi-manager Bill Graham’s plan that he perform with Peter, Paul & Mary at almost the last minute, but then bumped into Ron Wood, telling him he wasn’t sure what he was going to do [at Live Aid]. Ron called Keith over to his place, fallaciously telling him “Bob’s here and he wants us to play Live Aid with him” - and when Keith came over, the first words Bob said to him were, “Hey, are you going to this thing [Live Aid]?” At which point, Keith and Ron ‘had words’, and Bob decided he needed the bathroom until they had finished.
The circulating rehearsals are only the surface, according to Ronnie, who recorded them - they rehearsed at his house - “and we played everything in the Stones and in Bob’s repertoire.’ I can’t wait to hear ‘Ballad In Plain D’ and ‘In Another Land’...
Ron also said that Keith implored Bob to record an acoustic album, telling him “what we need is more ‘Blood On The Tracks’”. Instead, we got ‘Knocked Out Loaded’, ‘Empire Burlesque’ having already been recorded. Interestingly, Bob had just recorded his first acoustic album track since 1965 - the majestic ‘Dark Eyes’ - a few months previously.
With regards to the performance, as per my previous post, all the stage monitors had been turned off, to set their levels for the end of concert ensemble, and as noted elsewhere, Bob broke a string on his guitar so Ron gave him his. But without a monitor, and with over 50 people behind the curtain setting up for the finale, Ron had no way of tuning the new guitar to Dylan’s. You can forget Keith, who was ‘elsewhere’ the whole time. Remember that Mick Jagger had famously refused to tour the ‘Dirty Work’ album because of “the state the band members were in at the time.” Dylan himself was road-rusty, having only played 27 shows - the Mick Taylor-accompanied ‘Tour 84’ - in almost 4 years.
With regards to Bob’s comment about Mick Taylor “great… but some nights….” - this is probably a reference to the length of Mick’s solos. Certainly, on the 27 concert tapes, Mick is superb every night. But some nights the solos are extended, something Dylan has never had time for onstage (notoriously keeping Mick Ronson “in the bus” on the 1976 tour, due to the reception the Hull maestro’s guitar playing received on the 1975 leg). Considering Bill Graham gave Dylan a dressing-down after the early Verona concerts, insisting he “rehearse the goddamn songs”, Bob had a short memory. This is probably what Ronnie is referring to as well, from recalling the ‘Together At Last’ 15th December 1981 concert, where the less-than-diplomatic Keith told Ronnie to “tell that [Mick Taylor] to shut the f up” re his lengthy solos.
Where Bob really let himself down at Live Aid was asking for some of the money raised for starving children to go to American farmers. It did begat Farm Aid, but even as a long-time Bob fan, I remember watching the show with my then-band and that comment bringing our house to silence, not the poor performance. As someone wrote later, ‘Bob Dylan was the only person who played Live Aid and their record sales went DOWN…’
that was very cool
Mick Taylor grew up in the same street as me in Hatfield. He is one of our town's favourite sons.
We also claim Paul Kossoff from Free. It can't be in the water or I could play the guitar.
I love seeing the love in these comments for him, we also claim, Donovan (mellow yellow) and the Zombies (she's not there).
Donovan's from Maryhill in Scotland 😂
@@robbiemontgomery581 I have just learned something I never knew. I will have to Wikipedia him now to brush up on the Man. It's news to me, so we merely adopted him in Hatfield. Cheers for the heads up 👍
@@robbiemontgomery581 yep just checked him out, indeed a son of Glasgow.
I will be careful in the future so I don't incorrectly make any claims to his true beginnings.
@@jonathanmills5747 Don't worry about it we're used to the English trying to take credit for our achievements. It's a form of flattery ;)
@@robbiemontgomery581 I guess I played the typical sassanac, yep we steal all the good stuff from you guys, tax you, tell you what to do and lie like bastards making false promises when you finally get a referendum.
I have been North of the Border twice, once to Inverness and once to Glasgow. Without a doubt the most beautiful part of the UK. Not only does London politics screw you but the religious C of E keeps you all divided up there, rendering the chance of a french style revolution almost impossible.
I wish Scotland to be independent as my pal is dating a Glasgow lassie, he is up and down all the time from Hatfield and I could get him to grab me duty free tobacco.
I am actually a bitsa with 50% of my roots Polish, so I'm not the Gammon sort 😊
Honestly those are accurate words that people who arent musicians or in bands may not realize but they apply to everything really. Just because you are a good guitarist doesnt mean you can handle the road, doesnt mean your personality allows you to flourish in a group dynamic where you must compromise etc…