Awesome post!
Mick was involved in this 1977 Disco hit as well in the song and fathered Marsha Hunt's baby as well.


hmmm Disco Mick!

Very cool, never new that. Gimme Shelter has always been one of my favorites.

Great story.

I think that clip is from the movie Twenty Feet From Stardom.

If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. It’s a documentary about background singers, and how they are often the folks who make a given piece of music what it is.

Has there ever been a time when there was a greater assemblage of musical talent, and even musical genius, than the '60s and 70s in the US and Britain? The passage of time just makes that more clear, doesn't it? The Stones, the Beatles, the Cream, The Who, Hendrix, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd-- the list goes on and on and on.

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Originally posted by FishOn:
The Mick Taylor years were the Stones at their darkest and best. Nobody could touch 'em '69-'72.

Yep, the Stones started to be great with Beggars Banquet, but once Taylor joined, they became a whole other band. The three albums after, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St. are their absolute best albums. This period is not only their most prolific, but the line up was certainly the best rock band in the world, bar none.

Gotta watch the Rocumentary, Gimme Shelter. Altamont Stadium, The Hells Angels were running Security.

Amazing voice, she also sang backup on Sweet Home Alabama.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by FishOn:
The Mick Taylor years were the Stones at their darkest and best. Nobody could touch 'em '69-'72.

Yep, the Stones started to be great with Beggars Banquet, but once Taylor joined, they became a whole other band. The three albums after, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St. are their absolute best albums. This period is not only their most prolific, but the line up was certainly the best rock band in the world, bar none.

I was in junior high when the Stones came to town in '72. After watching and hearing Mick Taylor and Keith Richards play, I had to get a guitar (and tune to open G or in this case, open E).

Whether live or in the study, they had such great tone together. To think that Taylor was what, 16 or 17 when he joined the Stones? Wow.

The outtakes of the rehearsals for Gimme Shelter on YouTube are pretty cool ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txUqwXWZBiQ

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by FishOn:
The Mick Taylor years were the Stones at their darkest and best. Nobody could touch 'em '69-'72.

Yep, the Stones started to be great with Beggars Banquet, but once Taylor joined, they became a whole other band. The three albums after, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St. are their absolute best albums. This period is not only their most prolific, but the line up was certainly the best rock band in the world, bar none.

Yep. You should hear the music on the original UK pressings

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Originally posted by R K9 J:
The outtakes of the rehearsals for Gimme Shelter on YouTube are pretty cool ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txUqwXWZBiQ

Interesting and thanks for sharing. Mick Taylor's very recognizable guitar playing is not on the officially released "Gimme Shelter". The Stones would have been in transition then.

Thanks

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Originally posted by justjoe:
Has there ever been a time when there was a greater assemblage of musical talent, and even musical genius, than the '60s and 70s in the US and Britain? The passage of time just makes that more clear, doesn't it? The Stones, the Beatles, the Cream, The Who, Hendrix, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd-- the list goes on and on and on.

Don't forget to mention Sabbath! They were the gateway band for many metal-heads.

The late 70's and early 80's had a lot of big bands too. Stadium-filling groups. But the 60's and 70's were truly special.

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of bands now to compare to what came out of prior decades. Small bands and small venues. U2 is a rare exception to most of their contemporaries.

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Oh, FishOn, you may already know this, but Mick Taylor had not joined the band yet for that recording. But per previous discussions, Mick Taylor displayed his talents well on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking".

I actually view this song as illustrating just how good Keith Richards is, although Mick plays lead on the outro. Mick Taylor has long been one of my 5 favorite guitar players. As others have said, when he was a Rolling Stone, they were indeed, "The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band."

Probably my favorite guitar work by Taylor is on "Sway," also from Sticky Fingers, and "Winter" from Goat's Head Soup. His mastery on "Sway" is even more evident on the version he recorded with Carla Olson.

Here's a video someone put together of "Winter" with lots of pretty snow pictures. There are some suggestive photos of the model from about 3:30 - 3:50 that probably make it NSFW. Nothing too explicit, but that's the world we live in.



BTW, songs like Sway and Winter are among the reasons that Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones. Taylor reportedly co-wrote 5 songs with Jagger, including the two above. Keith was not present when Mick and Mick worked up "Sway," and ALL the guitar work on "Winter" is Mick Taylor. He was not given writing credit for any of the 5--all say Jagger/Richards. On top of that, there was supposed to have been some friction between Taylor and Richards (heck, maybe it was all because of the song writing credit). I saw the Stones in the early 70s, from the 12th row at Denver Coliseum. Spent the entire concert standing on the folding chair on the floor of the coliseum. To say it was memorable would be an understatement. I saw them a couple of years later in Fort Collins at my one and only stadium concert. Never went to another.