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500 Words Why Ronnie Wood is the Greatest Rolling Stone-

Ronnie Wood never gets his due. People have criticized his playing and have said there isn’t a definitive Ronnie Wood style. Fair enough I guess but there are several other well-known players are extremely solid guitarists even though they aren’t flashy attention grabbing soloists. While it is true that guys like Brad Whitford, Mike Campbell, and Peter Stroud aren’t duck lipped, swivel hipped, rock ‘n’ roll sex machines the same way Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page were but it is also true that Aerosmith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Sheryl Crow sound very different without their contributions.

When Ronnie Wood was asked to join the Rolling Stones Ronnie was all ready an established rock ‘n’ roll badass. After some minor success with his group The Birds Ronnie joined the first incarnation of the Jeff Beck Group as a bassist and his aggressive style really shines during the final measures of “Spanish Boots” from the Beck-Ola album.

After the first version of the Jeff Beck Group imploded Ronnie Wood and JBG singer Rod Stewart went to join the second incarnation of The Small Faces, shortened the name to The Faces and recorded four boozy albums with the band.

Somehow between playing ramshackle live shows with The Faces, and recording several albums with the band Ronnie Wood and the core of the Faces recorded the soundtrack to the movie “Mahoney’s Last Stand”, play as part of Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert in ’73, record his first solo album with Mick Taylor, and play on The Stone’s “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It)”.

In 1974 Stones guitarist Mick Taylor decided to throw in the towel in and cast the band into turmoil. Many guitarists tried out for the band including Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Jeff Beck and Rory Gallagher.

Note: Depending on the sources Roy Buchanan was asked twice to join The Stones, once after the death of Brian Jones and a second time after the departure of Mick Taylor. Apparently The Stones rejected Buchanan the first time around because he was “too hot” and Roy turned them down the second time around because he said he was too messed up on booze and drugs.

Ronnie Wood’s tenure in the band hasn’t been an easy. When Ronnie joined the band it was awash with drugs and personal rivalries.

Some how Ronnie was able to survive rifts in the band, arrests of band members, drug and alcohol addiction and was still able to make meaningful contributions to such albums as Black and Blue, Some Girls and A Bigger Bang.

While Ronnie may not have the bad boy swagger of Keith, the iconic status of Brian Jones or possess the fluid genius of Brian Jones but during his tenure the band got funkier, their country influences became more pronounced and more than anything else he acted like a stabling influence.

Not bad for a scraggly haired graphic artist from Hillingdon.

Roy Buchanan declines The Stones
https://earofnewt.com/2016/01/24/roy-buchanan-on-turning-down-the-stones-and-being-flattered-by-beck/

Ronnie Wood addiction
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/ronnie-wood-taken-to-rehab-by-damien-hirst-2350650.html

Ronnie Wood noise complaint
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2047215/Paul-McCartney-Nancy-Shevell-wedding-Kate-Moss-Ronnie-Wood-leave.html

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500 Words The Guitarists of Glam Rock

By the end of the 1960’s rock ’n’ roll was becoming awash of hairy dudes pretending to be cowboys. Despite some highlights the hippie era was grinding to a halt both musically and stylistically .

Maybe it was the drugs.

Maybe they were running out of ideas.

Who knows?

Seemingly out of no where bands from both sides of The Pond started simplifying their sound and brought back a much needed element of showmanship.

In the UK a former model named “John Temple Boy” would go through a radical transformation. “John Temple Boy” would rename himself and perform as one half of a psychedelic acoustic duo. Although his real name was Mark Feld the world knows him as Marc Bolan.

After a tumultuous run as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bolan bought an electric guitar, shortened the band’s name to T Rex. After Bolan started wearing glitter on his cheeks he became glam’s first super star.

While Bolan’s playing was rudamentary that didn’t seem to matter because his sex appeal and charisma more than made up for it.

Whatever his musical shortcomings were Bolan and his fellow travelers soon drafted the blueprint for what would later morph into both punk and shock rock.

One forgotten glam band is Mud. Co-founded by guitarist Rob Davis Mud’s songs were simple and catchy and a far cry from Bob Dylan’s self imoportance.

Rob Davis would later go onto great success as being a songwriter for the stars like Kylie Minogue.

Another guitarist of note is Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera. Unlike many of the other glam bands Roxy Music was grandiose. Roxy Music was different and drew from Weimar Republic era cabarets, experimental music and centered around singer Bryan Ferry’s lounge lizard persona.

Manzanera’s solo output is so vast it would taken an entire article just touch on half he’s done after Roxy Music.

If Roxy Music were suave Sweet, Slade, and Mott the Hoople were simply ugly.

Seriously, had you seen a photo of Slade’s Dave Hill?

Eeesh..

But despite of an utter lack of pretty boy looks Hill wrote memorable songs like “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” and “Cum On Feel the Noize”.

Both Mick Ralphs and Mick Ronson had memorable stays with Mott Hoople during their glam period. Later Ralphs and Ronson onto greater success with Bad Company and David Bowie respectively.

Even before his own stint with Bowie, Peter Frampton had his own flirtation with glam and leant his guitar work to New York based glam diva Jobriath.

America also had it’s own glam flirtation with people ranging from Suzi Quatro, Iggy and the Stooges, Lou Reed, Zolar X, Jayne County to The New York Dolls.

Glam was campy, stupid, crass, outrageous, and for more check out http://www.doremi.co.uk/glam/index.html