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Topic: Mick Tayor - Stones
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Terry Edwards
Member From: Layton, UT
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posted 21 April 2003 04:25 PM
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Anybody know what Rolling Stones steel player Mick Taylor used. I love the tone on the "Let It Bleed" album.Thanks, Terry
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Steinar Gregertsen
Member From: Arendal, Norway
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posted 21 April 2003 04:47 PM
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I believe it's bottleneck slide all the way, played by both Taylor and Richards. Taylor is a wonderful slide player but I've never heard of him playing steel.More info on the 'Let It Bleed' album here: http://www.keno.org/rolling_stones/let_it_bleed.htm |
mikey
Member From: Hawaii, Big Island
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posted 21 April 2003 07:05 PM
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Didn't Ry Cooder Play Various forms of Steel on Let It Bleed?...Brian Jones was still alive (out cold on the studio floor) and Cooder was called in to fill in..Taylor didn't join till Sticky Fingers...Ry played mostly bottleneck, but there could be some lap steel on Bleed...I think Gram Parsons is on there as well...but I could be wrong,
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Jesse Pearson
Member From: San Diego , CA
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posted 21 April 2003 07:20 PM
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Mikey, your right. The Stones were in Tax Exile in France at that time. I have seen Mick Talor play with his hand over the top of the neck when playing slide on his Les Paul before. |
Steinar Gregertsen
Member From: Arendal, Norway
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posted 21 April 2003 08:06 PM
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mikey,- according to the website I posted Cooders only contribution is mandolin on 'Love In Vain', and Taylor plays on 'Country Honk' (slide) and 'Live With Me' (regular electric).
I have no idea if this is 100% correct though.... |
mikey
Member From: Hawaii, Big Island
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posted 21 April 2003 11:35 PM
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It seems Mick Taylor played Electric Bottleneck on a Les Paul w/a copper/brass slide in open E tuning...he came in as a studio muso and ended up a band member after Brian "left", and yes according to Ry Cooder himself, he only played mandolin on Let it Bleed...it seems Mick wanted him in the band after working w/ him on the "Performance" soundtrack, but Keith would have nothing to do with it!...altho Ry DID play bottleneck at the Sessions on Sister Morphine, but that wasn't released untill Sticky Fingers
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Jason Odd
Member From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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posted 22 April 2003 04:44 AM
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Mick T. only played on about one cut on the Let It Bleed LP. (actually he did the slide on 'Country Honk' and is credited with Keith on guitars for 'Live With Me').
Ry only credited for mandolin as mentioned, Brian Jones gets a paltry percussion credit, so it's pretty much Keith on the Let It Bleed sessions.The following album was cut in the UK and States between late 1969 (Wild Horses at Muscle Shoals, AL) and 1971 when "Sticky Fingers" was issued. And yep, Mikey is right, Ry is on that LP although Mick is on most of it. The infamous 'tax exile' LP cut in 1971-72 was the 1972 album "Exile On Main Street" ..hence the title.
Al Perkins, Mick Taylor and everyone and their dog played on the album, rumours circulate that GP sat in the background on acoustic, not miked, but it's more likely he was slumped there listening. |
nick allen
Member From: France
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posted 22 April 2003 05:51 AM
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And a quick follow up on that... before you all start getting excited  Jason is NOT referring to the Al Perkins who played/plays steel for the Burritos, Emmylou, Stephen Stills, etc, but a DIFFERENT six-string guitar playing Al Perkins, now deceased
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Bill Leff
Member From: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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posted 22 April 2003 06:43 AM
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I'm pretty sure Mick Taylor plays bottleneck in standard tuning. His licks and phrasing do not sound like he plays over a major chord. |
Olli Haavisto
Member From: Jarvenpaa,Finland
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posted 24 April 2003 12:57 AM
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Taylor plays lap steel on John Mayall`s " Bare Wires " album (1968).There`s a couple of pics of him playing one on the cover; looks like a home-made instrument to me.------------------
Olli Haavisto
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Jason Odd
Member From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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posted 24 April 2003 05:00 PM
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'Bare Wires' like most of Mayall's output is on CD and readily available.
I've been a big Mayall fan for many years (the 'So Many Roads' LP with Peter Green is my fave), and Bare Wires is a great album where Mayall explores more progressive aspects of the blues with horns and an ensemble sound.
This (Bare Wires) sort of points his way towards his various jazz-blues fusion projects in the early 1970s.
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Andy Volk
Member From: Boston, MA
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posted 25 April 2003 04:52 PM
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Mick Taylor did an instructional video for Hot Licks called "Rock, Blues & Slide Guitar". Their web page says the tape features: "standard tuning slide & slide in open E tuning". |
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