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23/04/2023

Examples Of The Beatles’ Immeasurable Influence :

“I never forgot the humbleness of George Harrison when I was asked to record guitar tracks for his ‘All Things Must Pass’ album. He was the lead guitar player in the Beatles so I expected to play rhythm. I was shocked that he wanted me to play lead instead, proving how in check his ego was.”

“The thing that impressed me the most about George was he personally called me on the phone himself to ask me to attend the sessions. Usually a musician of his caliber would have their manager or assistant contact you. With George that wasn’t the case. I never forgot that. “

“ Paul McCartney and his song ‘Blackbird’ totally influenced me to write the song ‘Baby I Love Your Way’. It’s hard to explain since the two songs sound nothing alike. But the style Paul played is just something I picked up on. “

Peter Frampton
(The Howard Stern Show 2016, and 2019 Interviews)

Happy 73rd birthday to the legendary Peter Frampton who to this day remains not only one of the most underrated guitar players on the planet, but also one of the nicest rock stars you will ever meet. Even at the height of his career in the late 1970s when he was one of the biggest rock stars in the world music journalists, musicians, and fans always spoke of what a down to earth and great person he was.

He grew up with David Bowie, and had Bill Wyman as a mentor in his early years, (which if you know the history of Wyman drove his mother crazy.) I could listen to him tell stories all day about his life as a musician in bands like The Herd, and Humble Pie, as well as his solo career.

He’s a musician that has been to the top of the mountain as far as success goes, and also has had to bottom out. He’s actually one of the few artists that had to deal with his good looks actually hurting his career. With the music press taking that more seriously than his talents as a guitar player and songwriter.

In the 1980s his friend David Bowie would help to regenerate his reputation and career as a guitar player by having Frampton join him on his worldwide “Glass Spider” tour, where he got some of his greatest reviews for his guitar playing.

He also made news years ago when he was reunited with his favorite guitar (a black Gibson Les Paul he now calls “The Phenix” since it has risen from the ashes, and the one in the picture above,) that he used to record all of his classic albums of the 1970s and thought was destroyed in a plane crash decades earlier . (I’ll post the link in the comments section of him getting it back.)

In 2019 Peter promoted his farewell tour because he felt that his days playing guitar were numbered since he was dealing with health issues that he expected to make it impossible to keep playing. Thankfully now in 2023 he’s planning to go back on the road thanks to treatments he’s received that have done wonders for him and wants to celebrate by playing the instrument he’s mastered the last 60 years. His guitar. And as for his legacy as a performer ? “Frampton Comes Alive” is still the greatest selling live album of all time. Proving the powerhouse he is as a live act.

Such great news to hear that Peter Frampton at 73 years old feels rejuvenated and able to keep playing. No one deserves it more.

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22/10/2022

Behind The Music
The Rolling Stones: Why Mick Taylor Had To Go.
The band’s legendary studio engineer Glyn Johns describes how the guitarist dramatically changed after the Exile On Main Street sessions.

www.mojo4music.com has the story:
VETERAN ROLLING STONES engineer and producer Glyn Johns witnessed a dramatic change in the group’s guitarist Mick Taylor (above, second from left), who replaced Brian Jones in 1969, after the hedonistic Exile On Main Street sessions in the South of France in 1971.

“He turned from from being a quiet, softly spoken, charming young man into a raving egomaniac junkie,” Johns tells MOJO in the latest issue of the magazine (April 2015/ # 257). “I was mixing the record… and said to Mick Jagger, ‘Either he goes or I go.’”

In an eight-page feature detailing the producer’s turbulent working relationship with the Stones, spanning their earliest demos in 1963 to 1975’s Black And Blue sessions, Johns explains how Jagger asked him to work on the tapes of Exile In Main Street in London after sessions at Nellcôte in France “had run riot and people were allowed to do whatever they wanted”.
“I said to Mick Jagger, ‘Either he goes or I go.’”
Glyn Johns

Johns descibes working on a track at Basing Street Studios on which Taylor had overdubbed backing vocals, drums and a bass. When Taylor asked the famously no-nonsense producer why he had removed them, he replied, “The Rolling Stones have a f**king great drummer and a really great bass player. You, sunshine, play the guitar and you’ll hear it rather nicely when I’ve finished this.”
It was then left to Jagger to ask the guitarist to leave the studio so Johns could continue mixing the track to his satisfaction. Taylor would sensationally leave the Stones three years later in December 1974, and, after quitting drugs during a long and successful solo career, rejoined the group onstage for their 2013 ‘50 & Counting’ tour.

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Guitarist Mick Taylor is widely acknowledged as the most technically accomplished musician ever to perform as one of the Rolling Stones.

His tenure in the band saw him play on some of their most important albums, but it was relatively short-lived: Taylor quit the band on Dec. 12, 1974, just before the Stones recorded Black and Blue.

Taylor had already been playing with British blues legend John Mayall when the Rolling Stones fired Brian Jones due to his drug abuse in June of 1969. Mayall suggested the 20-year-old musician to the group, and Taylor made his live debut with the Rolling Stones at a free Hyde Park show in London, performing in front of 250,000 people.

The guitarist went on to record a string of classic Stones LPs, including Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street and It's Only Rock and Roll. His virtuosic playing brought a very different element to the band, which had previously relied on the rhythmic interplay between Jones and Keith Richards.

"I think he had a big contribution," Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone in 1995. "He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor [Ronnie Wood] plays that kind of style. ... It was very good for me working with him. I could sit down with Mick Taylor, and he 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."

But Taylor was never entirely happy with his participation in the Rolling Stones. For one thing, he was younger than the rest of the group, and he was keenly aware of the fact that he was not a founding member. On top of that, he was playing far beneath his skill level in the band.

"I just couldn't believe how bad they sounded," the guitarist later said of his first rehearsals with the Stones. "Their timing was awful. They sounded like a typical bunch of guys in a garage -- playing out of tune and too loudly. I thought, 'How is it possible that this band can make hit records?'"

In typical rock 'n' roll fashion, there were personal and financial issues among Taylor, Jagger and Richards. "I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason [I left the band]," Taylor recalled. "I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce. I never really felt, and I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning."

Jagger told Rolling Stone he thought friction between Taylor and Richards was a prime motivator: "He wanted to have a solo career. I think he found it difficult to get on with Keith."

Taylor admitted in the documentary Crossfire Hurricane that he had become addicted to he**in while living in the eye of the Rolling Stones maelstrom and decided to leave to try to protect his family from the band's caustic lifestyle. On Dec. 12, 1974, the band members were at a party in London when the guitarist broke the news to Mick Jagger and walked out. He was replaced by Wood.

The guitarist went on to a long, fruitful career, but never again enjoyed the kind of fame or money that the Rolling Stones had offered. Press reports later claimed that he was living in near poverty, but Taylor has maintained that he would make the same decision again, regardless.

"It doesn't necessarily follow that because you're in a successful rock 'n' roll band, you're going to stay in a situation like that and be satisfied," he later argued. "For me, it was personally restricting. I'm not saying that it wasn't fun. It was a helluva lot of fun; it was great. But I had to move on and do something else."

In another interview on the Rolling Stones' official website, he was more to the point. “To ask if I regret leaving the Rolling Stones is to ask the wrong question,” he stated. “The hard one to answer is, do I regret joining them?”

Check out the new Mick Taylor disc: CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE: https://www.amazon.com/Sway-Carla-Olson-Taylor-OPAQUE/dp/B08MHZBT5X/ref=sr_1_2?

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