Robert Johnson tune. Those british bands were all over the blues in the early sixties and they really elevated them later on. Agreed Mick Taylor on that slide was magical.

From the 1969 album, "Let it Bleed", this is a reworked version of Robert Johnson blues classic. The Stones added extra chords and gave it more of a country feel in this song of loss love. Brian Jones was unavailable due to a drug problem, so Ry Cooder played the mondolin. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Scott. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

@papercup2517

Жыл бұрын

Interesting you should mention Brian and his problems, since they played this song at their famous free concert in Hyde Park, London, in 1969, this same year as the song/album was released.... But at that point Brian was no longer on this Earth, having only just checked out... Mick Taylor was brought in for the occasion and Mick Jagger read a poem, and they released white butterflies to honour his passing.... But, I expect you know all this; I'm just reminiscing...

the Stones did a great job covering this….live and their studio version

This is one of my favorite live performances of all time. I think the Mick Taylor solo is among the greatest solos I have ever heard in all of rock n roll. Lead guitar doesn't have to be blazing fast to be great. Mick Taylor has one of the greatest feels for melody of any guitarist in rock music. I'm glad some folks were exposed to this for the first time. The entire Ladies and Gentlemen- the Rolling Stones concert video that this came from, catches the Stones at the peak of their powers. Rock n roll doesn't get better than this.

Mick Taylor, el mejor guitarrista que tuvieron los Rolling Stones.

Taylor. Sublime. Unsurpassed.

There’s actually a fair amount of horns in Stones songs. Their masterpiece album Exile on Main St. features horns up and down the track list. “Brown Sugar” and “Miss You” are number one hits with sax solos, and “Honky Tonk Women” has some horns tucked in the back of the mix. The greatest sax player in a rock and roll context, Bobby Keys, was great friends with Keith and contributed to studio recordings and toured with them from the late 60s until his death in 2014.

@ls1959

Жыл бұрын

Sticky Fingers- Can't You Hear Me Knocking, a classic that has a great sax solo and great Mick Taylor solo.

@rkuzmic

11 ай бұрын

Fun fact, that album was recorded completely without the horns except Bobby. They shipped it to LA and told them to throw them in. And it was perfect.

@tcspur1

7 ай бұрын

Bobby Keys absolutely was the best, and as well as being great friends with Keith Richards, they were born on the same day.

@rhymeswithteeth

26 күн бұрын

Yes, lots of horns all through the Stones catalog. Great sax on "Waiting On a Friend".

Mick Taylor the greatest guitarist 🎸 the Stones ever had. Hows it possible that they let him get away???

One of the finest performances ever. Thanks for the recognition.

I really like the way they play this song. My favorite version is of the Get Yer Ya Ya's Out live album. Mick Taylor left over all the Heroin use and he wanted to do his own stuff. He has done some great stuff since, but has not been in the spotlight.

@thefalloutshelter7799

Жыл бұрын

agree….that’s a great live version on that album

@doriwiljt

Жыл бұрын

Such a great live album.

Thanks to Scott for this. It was amazing to listen to and Harri has wonderful insights and comments. Great reaction video 🌺✌️

Mick Taylor said when people ask me why I left the stones l know that they don't know me or they would be asking why did you join the Stones.

I'm not usually a Stones fan.... but this just made my playlist. Really really good. Thanks Harri.

@fuchsiaswing8545

Жыл бұрын

But this is the Stones at their core and most authentic. So you might want to ask yourself: why am I not a bigger Stones fan?

@dewdrop7648

Жыл бұрын

@@fuchsiaswing8545 honestly... I can't stand to watch Mick Jagger. I know it's a me thing. I have issues with David Bowie too... 👀🤷‍♀️

The sweet period with Mick Taylor. No disrespect to other stones eras but this was the best. Taylor says he had other stuff he wanted to do but I believe he was developing a bad drug habit & needed to get out & clean up.

That was awesome. I haven’t heard that song before. ❤

Love this song ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Scott - This a great cover of the Robert Johnson classic, and they did it justice on this one. Very nice submission. Harri, your review was thorough and spot-on.

This RS adaptation of the Robert Johnson Blues classic is very good. Other Rock bands have covered this and other songs from the 1920s legend himself, who never lived long enough to know fame, let alone how influential his songs would become. The last song SRV ever played was the Johnson classic "Sweet Home Chicago," before boarding the helicopter that ended his life. Johnson's songs are an acquired taste, but once you have the flavor down, his voice and style is like a clarion call from the firmament of our musical past, bright and shiny, yet sad and true.

Mick Taylor era produced the best Stones material. Though i dont think he played guitar on this track from Let it Bleed. Wish he never left, and I love Ronnie in the Faces.

Classic. The birds come out sometimes to sing along with Mick's slide whenever I play the album cut of this in the yard. Robert Johnson penned the inspiration for this one, iirc.

The players in the band didn't make a lot of money if the weren't touring, something Bill Wyman commented on also, unlike Mick and Keith who got royalties. He was just a teenager and didn't enjoy the way he would have to hang around for Keith when recording, who was totally out of it at this time

@peytonlucy5947

Жыл бұрын

Mick Taylor was a salaried employee, as was Ron Wood from 1974 through to 1990. The big money started in 1989.

@jebrindle9380

6 ай бұрын

They all got mechanical royalties. Mick Taylor was on £50,000 pa when he joined in 1969. At that time an electrician was earning only £1,250 pa. The boy done good

Great blues song ❤❤❤❤❤❤

He never regrets leaving when he did - writing credits and bored with the life with the Stones, drugs etc - he would love to rejoin now- JAGGER SAYS NO

From the same concert you have to listen to All Down The Line - absolutely incredible performance by the whole band and specially the horn section with Bobby Keys on sax. Stones at their best for sure!

There are a few reasons Mick Taylor left the Stones: 1. He didn't care for the fame and the media circus that went along with being a member of the Rolling Stones. 2. He was not involved in the song writing or creative process. He contributed but ultimately all creative decisions went through Richards and Jagger. 3. Taylor thought the band was going to break up anyway. There was good reason to believe that around 74-75'. Richards was way into heroin at the time. Richards and Jagger were starting to drift apart. The last album with Taylor (It's only Rock & Roll) was not all that great. It sounded like the Stones' were running out of ideas.

@fuchsiaswing8545

Жыл бұрын

Everyone that usually comments on why Taylor left the Stones always leaves out no. 3. Whether it was the frenetic pace and decadence, frustrations over his role in the creative process and credit omissions, or his own personal struggles with substance abuse, Taylor ultimately left because he felt the band was nearing its end. As you noted, It's Only Rock ‘n Roll (even more than its predecessor) signified a downward trajectory in the band’s oeuvre, and Taylor could sense it. He often talked about how laborious it was getting everyone into the studio to work together - Mick was jet-setting, Keef was descending more into drugs, Bill was more interested in his solo project, etc., and it shows in the dullness of ideas, and overlong songs.

@bnzchacon5455

Жыл бұрын

I really like the “It’s only Rock and Roll” album

@Cosmo-Kramer

11 ай бұрын

Why did you leave out the reason that Mick Taylor himself was addicted to heroin and felt the only way he could get clean would be to leave the band?

@fuchsiaswing8545

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramer So he left to escape heroin but joined Jack Bruce-a heroin-addicted, cantankerous flake. Maybe the lifestyle was too much, but I never bought the reason he left was due to heroin, as he remained a junkie for much of the 80s before going into a methadone clinic in 1990.

@RonnieLeeDuck

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramer I thought of that. For one thing I'm not sure how far down the road of addiction Taylor had become. All I've read is that he sort of dabbled in heroin. Using heroin doesn't necessarily make you totally hooked. It appears he was functioning better than Richards when he quit. I also never heard stories of Taylor being desperate for his next fix like you do with Richards. Secondly, I throw it in as part of reason #1. The main reason Richards was using heroin was to shut himself from the fame so he could be an artist. I believe Taylor said that had he stayed in the band he would have gone down the same road as Richards. That tells me Taylor was going in that direction but wasn't there yet.

Love this song

That was beautiful.

These Texas dates were absolutely peak Stones.

This is an old blues song. Clapton did a version of it, But I still like the Stones the best.Mick Taylor gave the band a bluester sound back in the day. The piano in the background is Billie Preston

@fuchsiaswing8545

Жыл бұрын

It's actually Nicky Hopkins from the STP Tour in 1972. Billy took over on the European Tour in 1973 after the Winter Tour.

Mick Taylor played with Bob Dylan in the early 1980s….

Excellent pick, Mr. Walker.

I've listened to quite a few versions of this, from Robert Johnson's original to various Stones live performances, but this one was new to me and I have to say, I think it's the best I've heard, so far... It's quite perfect, in every way, so many thanks to the person who recommended/ requested it. It was very poignant to hear them performing it at the Hyde Park concert just a few days after Brian's passing, when they released white butterflies and Mick read a poem in honour of their fallen former bandmate.

I recommend Time Waits for No One from the It's Only Rock and Roll album. I believe it's Taylor's finest work.

@Cosmo-Kramer

11 ай бұрын

Harri's already reacted to it. Even before your comment. Check his archives.

Amazing.

Love this song of RJ: done beautifully

Happy weekend!

Hadn't heard this, in 40-ish years! ... Thanks, Harri!!

Thanks you for being so kind, Harri. And thank you for what you do.

The Stones, performed “Love in Vain” on the Ed Sullivan Show”, their last performance there (on DVD, Mick tells Ed S’ they’re going to a “free concert” in California, Altamont -early Dec’1969) This tv performance must have been the most viewed of a Robert Johnson song, at that time. 🎸

Hermoso !!!!!

greatest song ever, see if you can track down the Robert Johnson recordings

Bobby Keys on sax was sometimes called the "6th Stone", along with several other people who shared that monicker. I'm pretty positive that was him on sax. Ian Stewart probably had the most claim to that name 6th Stone, as he was the Stones piano player when they started out and whom their management fired because he didn't fit the Stones image. He still stayed with them as an occasional musician and band assistant until he died. That MAY have been him on piano. Keys left the Stones while on tour once to address a drug problem, and Jagger didn't seem to really forgive him for that. Keith slowly brought him back in the fold, sometimes supplementing Keyes salary from his own substantial stash. Bobby was the man behind many sax solos for the Stones, the most notable on "Brown Sugar", which sealed the deal on that great song.

Lots of horns in the stones, mick T is a master and Kieth did start the song.

On the Let it Bleed album which along with Exile on Mainstreet are THE top albums by the Stones. All tracks are great.

Listen to the Black & Blue & Exile on Main Street albums Harri, you'll Love 'um! Amelas One

So beautifully slow

this was a good version..

Now we’re talking

He left basically because he was fed up about the band, not being credited for songs that he bring, also it seems that taylor was open to other artist he likes to collaborate with other people and do something different. There is also the drug abuse who was discuss regarding his leaving but i dont believe in that, he remain addicted most of his life, i saw him like in 2004 and he was drunk (30 years after leaving the stones ..) . I guess that he thought his tremendous guitar talent and past with the stones would allowed him to start a solo career or something like that . He tried , his first album from 1979 is good but apart from that he did not do anything by himself. He toured with dylan in 84 and with alvin lee in 81 . Then he became pretty inactive and just did some gig by himself with back band . Sad solo carreer regarding his potential BUT . I believe that some people are incredibly good to give a dimension to songs and play live as a lead guitar player within an entity but do not have the capacity to become the whole show like people as rory gallagher or eric clapton . He is in that category, incredible lead guitar player within a band, but pretty boring and mediocre on his own .

The Stones are a legend, but unfortunately for them there are the Stones with Mick Taylor

Robert johnson.

Striped Rolling Stones

Several reasons... He wasn't credited with a few songs he helped write. Keith wasn't nice to him. He got addicted to heroin and I think he realized he needed out from the craziness or things would get way worse

Taylor left because the whole lifestyle (record demands, touring, drugs, etc) was to harsh for him. I believe Taylor was only 20 when he joined The Stones. He had no regrets about leaving and still doesn't. He's worked with Dylan and a long list of great since leaving The Stones.

In fact, Keith Richards is the responsible for the re-arrangement of this old blues from Robert Johnson. Mick Taylor played a great slide solo though

Sadly, Mick Taylor left the Stones because of a heroin addiction...

I''m not sure if that is Mick Taylor on slide guitar. He always had thick blond hair, unless he dyed it dark and was wearing make-up See kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHuVpM6yl9CWhbw.html

@fuchsiaswing8545

Жыл бұрын

Are you saying you're not sure if that's Taylor playing both solos on “Love in Vain” from the STP Tour in 1972? Of course, it's Taylor. By 1974, he was gauntly thin (as seen in the promo you posted) compared to when he first entered the band in 1969.

@765claire

9 ай бұрын

It's Mick Taylor. Also he had light brown hair, it's dyed blond in that video you linked. In the photos of Mick from 1975 you can see the blond is growing out.

Mick never fit in with the Stones BUT they were a much better band with him…

@765claire

9 ай бұрын

🙄Only Keith said that he didn't fit in.

why do a different live version before you do the original studio recordings of these legendary groups is beyond me ......this one is good but it ALWAYS ruins your virgin listen -you are NOT NOT hearing why the song became legendary for ANY rock progressive classic

@The5thGen

Жыл бұрын

Harri has already covered the original studio version. Do your homework.

@765claire

9 ай бұрын

This version is better, there's no Mick T on the recorded version on Let it Bleed.

Never liked The Rolling Stones, Mick hitting a true note is about as likely as throwing a rock at the ground and missing

@brucemckay1611

Жыл бұрын

Unless he is deliberately singing off key, in that case he is a genius

@RonnieLeeDuck

Жыл бұрын

Arguably Jagger hits more "true" notes than classical musicians. Because Jagger is singing blues. That is an even more traditional musical form than classical music and musicologists have shown that it has tonal systems based off of more natural harmonic resonances than Classical music. Plus blues is the art of rhythm and incantation. So the whole basis of it is to slur and waver the pitches. So even when Jagger is "off" the pitch, he is doing it the right way. To each his own but the truth is Classical music is a very weird and rather artificial form of music. In some ways it is not as sophisticated.

Best live version on " Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"

@fuchsiaswing8545

Жыл бұрын

I love this version more because Taylor’s shackles are let loose.