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Title: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 13, 2008, 12:54:07 AM
Somewhere in the late nineties Ian 'Mac' McLagan wrote in his more tha great book All The Rage that he wouldn't mind a Faces reunion. Last year Woody wrote the same in his nice biography. Now I read somewhere Rod the Mod is saying that they're 'willing' to come together again. That could be nice. But who could replace Plonk?
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: gweimer on November 13, 2008, 04:37:56 AM
Somewhere in the late nineties Ian 'Mac' McLagan wrote in his more tha great book All The Rage that he wouldn't mind a Faces reunion. Last year Woody wrote the same in his nice biography. Now I read somewhere Rod the Mod is saying that they're 'willing' to come together again. That could be nice. But who could replace Plonk?

Tetsu Yamauchi?
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 13, 2008, 04:42:36 AM
Given Herr Wood's uneven performance on the last Stones tour, shouldn't he switch to bass a la Jeff Beck Group and the Faces get Mick Taylor instead?
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: dexter on November 13, 2008, 04:49:22 AM
well  all the guys in the band acknowledge that the  Faces wasn't the Faces without Ronnie L. ,  his bass playiin , ...vocals ,( ...when he got to sing , ) songwriting and  stage presence were a huge factor in the groups sound and direction .
...his shoes are probably unfillable, ...maybe they could find Tetsu again , or maybe even Bill Wyman , he'd be fantastic with theses guys ,and was a close mate of Ronnies ..... .... or  maybe even Andy Fraser , ex FREE  bass player , .... he would sound great with these guys , and the members of the Faces all really dug Free....... just a thought .....

.... they will probably end up gettin that bloody Pino Paladino ....AGAIN !!! .... JEEZ ,  :bored:..... ???....... :rolleyes:....  P- L -E- A -S- E !     ...can he try to keep his nose outa somethin, ...FOR ONCE !     :-\

i kinda hope it happens , .....  they were an INCEDIBLE band , my fave ,   ...along with Free from the 70's...   they didn't get the credit they deserved ....and  dear ol' Ronnie  L, ....  if ever there was a guy who had bad luck , it was him :o
 ...his stuff  after  The Faces was fabulous too , a wonderful musician , one of my faves of all, and a bloody decent bass player too !    ..

if you havn't checked him out , .. DO IT !!

dexter
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Basvarken on November 13, 2008, 05:13:45 AM
I really like The Faces. And I'm a big admirer of Andy Fraser.

And I really like what Pino Paladino does with John Mayer Trio. Can't see what's so wrong about Pino. I think he's fantastic.




Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 13, 2008, 06:00:19 AM
Of course no one can replace Plonk, but I hope they take a bass player with character. So not someone like Daryll Jones, but like someone above's suggesting someone like Bill Wyman.


@ Uwe:
A couple of years ago I saw the Stones live and I saw some live performances on DVD. I was impressed by the energy of Keith and Woody together. Their 'ancient form of weaving' their guitars, but also one taking the solo after a nod of the other. Really energetic, loose and easy lookin.
Some weeks ago I bought Shine A Light and I was a bit shocked by Keith. He didn't play that well, only some chords and even those chords didn't sounded as good as normally. He's really getting old now... Woody does almost all solos and he's really stealing the show. Almost like a young guy to an old Keith.

I also liked the performance of Jack White. It isn;t that good, but the way he just enjoys being in awe of being onstage with the Stones is nice to see.

But to come back to The Faces. Woody has to play guitar. His slide guitar makes The Faces sound like The Faces. Without Plonk I guess they don't do any of the Folk stuff, but just the good old rock 'n roll. I'll buy a ticket though...


Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: gearHed289 on November 13, 2008, 12:20:06 PM
.... they will probably end up gettin that bloody Pino Paladino ....AGAIN !!! .... JEEZ ,  :bored:..... ???....... :rolleyes:....  P- L -E- A -S- E !     ...can he try to keep his nose outa somethin, ...FOR ONCE !     :-\
dexter

LOL! I was thinking the same thing before I even got to this paragraph. I just caught some the the VH1 Rock Honors thing for the Who last night before bed. Pino is GREAT, but it's hard to watch ANYBODY try to fill the Ox's shoes. It's a shame that they even cal the band the Who without Moon AND Entwistle. Again, Pino is great, he could easily play circles around Fraser or Wyman, but he's such a "hired gun" kind of guy. I would rather see more of a stylist with a band like Faces.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: nofi on November 13, 2008, 12:30:05 PM
i don't get the whole pino thing. sure he is good but so are lots of other guys out there. he must be a master of self promotion. i find him boring and lackluster. they NEED blackie lawless. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: bobyoung on November 13, 2008, 10:53:52 PM
Given Herr Wood's uneven performance on the last Stones tour, shouldn't he switch to bass a la Jeff Beck Group and the Faces get Mick Taylor instead?

Ron Wood was a great bass player, he should have stuck to it, take a listen to Beckola again of you haven't heard it lately. Ron Wood on bass, Mick Taylor on guitar, now that would be a good band.

Andy Frasier was also great, very different style from The faces though. I agree about Paladino, getting kind of sickening, he's in everything. The Who haven't been the same since Moon the Loon died though.

I saw Entwistle at a little club in Worcester MA with his own band a year or two before he died, was he great! Loud as hell too, Did Boris The Spider just like the record. I was about ten ft in front of him with my brother standing next to me, he flipped a pick out of his hand and it landed in my brothers folded hands, was he surprised, haha!
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: bobyoung on November 13, 2008, 11:03:47 PM
Given Herr Wood's uneven performance on the last Stones tour, shouldn't he switch to bass a la Jeff Beck Group and the Faces get Mick Taylor instead?

Oh missed that part: If wood can't play guitar what makes you think he'll do any better on a bass? Oh yeah they only have four strings  :bored: I forgot about that golden oldie. ;D
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: OldManC on November 13, 2008, 11:56:02 PM
If Rod can handle the vocals I won't mind who they get on bass so long as he plays his parts correctly. Tetsu would be cool for historical sake. Anyone know where he is these days?

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 14, 2008, 01:45:34 AM
Oh missed that part: If wood can't play guitar what makes you think he'll do any better on a bass? Oh yeah they only have four strings  :bored: I forgot about that golden oldie. ;D

If Wood plays sloppy bass, he actually sounds good, think of Maggie Mae where he is time- and notewise all over, yet his playing is art. (Or was that Ronnie Lane drunk?)

I was joking. Wood is no Mick Taylor, but he's a fine slide player and of course he gels well with Herr Richards who by all accounts wasn't in the best of forms on the last tour. But Herr Wood had alcohol issues too (not to mention Eastern European juvenile waitresses) and his performance is said to have been so shaky that there was someone (I forgot who) lurking behind the backline to take over if push comes to shove.

I notice you yanks' unadulterated enthusiasm for the Wood/Stewart era Faces. They never meant much in Europe, Stewart's work with the Jeff Beck Group and his solo years forever outshining together with Wood's Stones role what they did with The Faces. I have a boxed set (Four guys come into a bar ...) and let's put it this way: quality control wasn't always their forte. On their 1970/71 US tour they had a young hungry opening act with them that had just released an album called "In Rock". The Faces must have gotten slaughtered on a nightly basis by their opening act because as one DP member put it: "Partying with Rod and Ron was fun and they are great guys, but most nights - with the notable exception of Rod - they were too out of it to play properly and their performance suffered. The tour with them broke us in America." 

Other related DP trivia: Rod Stewart, when still with the Jeff Beck Group, was on DP's list as a prospective vocalist, but then they saw him live and decided he wasn't good enough, though they changed their judgement later. Oh yes, and Ron Wood and Jon Lord had a stint together in an instrumental group called Santa Barbara Machine Head, that's how DP probably got the job as opening act.

Uwe
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Basvarken on November 14, 2008, 03:09:30 AM
I think the fact that The Faces were really "loose" is an important part of the charm of Faces.
If The Faces would have been a super tight and "in the pocket" band they would'nt have been as much fun.


Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 14, 2008, 04:54:27 AM
+ 1, Basvarken.

Of course there are two, erm, faces to The Faces. On one hand the stadium rock like Stay With Me, which is great while driving. But I like the Foly Lane songs like Debris much too!



BTW: I can't get enough of this one. A Macca song. I believe there are two versions on that box set. Another one's on one of their albums. The fun they have, they have, the great Plonk basslines, his vocals and the vocals of Plonk en Rod together, the Zemaitis. Everything!

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhoLkTyNkM


Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 14, 2008, 06:52:15 AM
Quite loose, yes.  :mrgreen:

I had a better recollection of Kenny Jones "time stability", but that must have been from The Who days when he was mostly drumming to a click (and sounded dead for it)! Ron Wood's choice of notes in his solos is adventurous too  ;). But it does have charm, though looking at this particular song you wonder what exactly Wood and Stewart did together for the band that Steve Marriott couldn't have done just as well or even better alone.

This sounds both grittier, more energetic and tighter:

Humble Pie in 68:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZlf_9ObLg

And having honed their skills in US stadiums and with Dave "Clem" Clempson (didn't know he was such a good slide player and no bum notes like Ronnie W. either) in 74:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKh2TBDu9L4&feature=related

But I guess it is also fair to say that The Faces' pop sensibilities were better developed and that Humble Pie inadvertently paved the way for this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhkJBBTBA4M

Uwe





Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 14, 2008, 07:25:01 AM
Well, my thoughts about The Small Faces, Faces and Humble Pie.

I think The Small Faces is a truly unique band and one of the best bands ever. Based losely on Booker T. & the MGs of course. Steve's one of the best white soulsingers ever and he didnn't overshout himself in this band yet. His guitar playing is spikey and great, I think Kenney is the best pop drummer ever (with Moon being a league on his own), Mac is one of the best keyboard players doing great jobs on Wurlitzer B3 and piano and I just love Plonks bass and singing (BTW: I know someone who want to sell his Harmony, which is really Plonks bass!!! PM me if interested). The songs of TSF were great. Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is legendary and they just have unique songs.
I prefer them over The Beatles, The Kinks and The Who and even Townshend wanted to be in TSF!

Listen to this! maybe not the best song ever, but IMHO the best pop song ever! Listen to the way it builds up, the climax with PP Arnold, going back and again a climax at the end. And the drum signature of Kenney when the song's already over:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKZoFRpZCI

Singing along in my car with Performance - Live at the Filmore or some live Faces songs is one of my guilty pleasures, but I don't like most of the stadium rock somgs of The Faces and Humble Pie. Steve's overshouting himself, songs of 20 minutes with boring solos... I do like the soul songs of Humble Pie and the Ronnie Lane folk songs of The Faces though. I think Steve was just peaking with the Small Faces and it was downhill afterwards. I have some solo stuff with bluesy shouting versions of Small Faces songs... Not that good.

But I only have all those albums because of the really unique band that The Small Faces are. If you buy this CD/DVD with the Marriott tribute concert you see how difficult it is to play those songs well. Nice DVD/CS though.


Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: dexter on November 14, 2008, 07:28:46 AM


Of course there are two, erm, faces to The Faces. On one hand the stadium rock like Stay With Me, which is great while driving. But I like the Foly Lane songs like Debris much too!



BTW: I can't get enough of this one. A Macca song. I believe there are two versions on that box set. Another one's on one of their albums. The fun they have, they have, the great Plonk basslines, his vocals and the vocals of Plonk en Rod together, the Zemaitis. Everything!
Chris that is correct , there are two versions on the box set , this version you posted is the better one, imo .... but they are both great ,  you may like to know there is another live performance of  the Faces doin this on u- tube  , search for Faces live at the marquee 1971, youll find it,... fine performance too .

just out of curiosity , why do you refer to Ronnie Lane  as ' Foly Lane '  in post above above  ?, .... never heard this before? ???

nice to know there is someone else here who digs the band too,  and since you mentioned  'Stay With Me ', here is  a great live television  performance ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIWba_pAMW0&feature=related

uwe .... Ronnie Wood played all the guitars , AND bass on  'Maggie Mae'     ....superbly so ,..... imo  :)

dexter
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: dexter on November 14, 2008, 07:37:48 AM
oh you guys are on to  Steve Marriot now, .... well here  he is in one of his most rockin performances , ever , ... with Humble Pie
just awesome... 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw

dexter

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 14, 2008, 09:45:14 AM
I think I meant something like folky Lane songs. And typing to quick it became foly.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: gweimer on November 14, 2008, 09:52:44 AM
Quote
BTW: I can't get enough of this one. A Macca song.

I don't recall hearing the Faces version, but my band in the late '70s did a version of this that is eerily close.  Right down to the melodic plonking bass runs.  I'll have to post it for you somewhere.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on November 14, 2008, 10:06:19 AM
oh you guys are on to  Steve Marriot now, .... well here  he is in one of his most rockin performances , ever , ... with Humble Pie
just awesome... 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw

dexter



Faces were cool as hell when they were young but I wouldn't want to see 'em now without Ronnie Lane.

That's the Best of Marriott in my opinion too, Dex.
I posted that same vid over yonder here a few days ago.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 14, 2008, 10:37:38 AM
I don't recall hearing the Faces version, but my band in the late '70s did a version of this that is eerily close.  Right down to the melodic plonking bass runs.  I'll have to post it for you somewhere.

Maybe I'm Amazed sounds totally like a song the Faces could have written. Hearing it back to back to Stay With Me it could be written in the same period. But if you listen to the real McCartney song, you'll hear the Faces are eerlily close to the original too. Some of those basslines are more Macca than Plonk. With the sharing vocals, Macs keys and Woody I find the Faces version much better though. On the box there's a studio version and a liver version and on one of the studio albums there's another live version. I play them all three very often.

Mac writes in his great book All The Rage that they were driving through the States hearing this song on the radio. They didn't knew who it was but Mac said: 'If McCartney could start writing those kind of songs he would be great!' Later it turned out it was Macca...





Okay, I told this never before. Nobody knows this! One of my bg secrets. Hold on tight.





I don't play guitar. Just three chords, but not fluently. But sometimes I grab the set neck mahogany bodied Epiphone '57 Les Paul Jr. of my girlfriend. I'll give it an open tuning (DAGDAD or something), so I can play chords with one stretched finger. I plug the Junior into my 200W  Orange all tube bass rig and I play the chords of I Don't Need No Doctor really loud! Love it:D With the P90 it immediately sounds like Stevie Marriott and for a moment I'm him! (but without that very bad moustache he had during Humble Pie;) )

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Basvarken on November 14, 2008, 10:38:34 AM
I don't recall hearing the Faces version, but my band in the late '70s did a version of this that is eerily close.  Right down to the melodic plonking bass runs.  I'll have to post it for you somewhere.

With the band Stonefly we do Maybe I'm Amazed too.
This was recorded before I joined the band, but it is still on the setlist.

http://www.stoneflymusic.com/media/maybe_im_amazed.mp3

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: gweimer on November 14, 2008, 10:44:49 AM
You can find our version on my BandMix page -  www.bandmix.com/garyweimer
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 14, 2008, 10:55:57 AM
If one of you guys accidentally run into Ronnie Wood or Rod the Mod.. Tell 'm I'm available. And cheap. And I drink lotsa beer.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: OldManC on November 14, 2008, 03:02:52 PM
Quite loose, yes.  :mrgreen:

I had a better recollection of Kenny Jones "time stability", but that must have been from The Who days when he was mostly drumming to a click (and sounded dead for it)! Ron Wood's choice of notes in his solos is adventurous too  ;). ...

The Who tied Jones' hands from the beginning and they really suffered for it. Years ago on MTV I saw an early 'reunion' show they did that Kenney played and he tore it up completely. Played just like Moon and the band sounded fantastic. He was fully capable of playing in that style. For some reason, they wouldn't allow him to when he was first in the band.

Here's where 'loose' beats tight in my book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-L_AuuaxI
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on November 25, 2008, 09:54:13 AM
The NME site states that the bass player of Rod Stewarts liveband will replace Ronnie.... I did some googling, but I don't know who that is.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: rockinrayduke on November 26, 2008, 09:44:29 AM
I like the Wood/Rod era of the Faces but I'm a bigger fan of the original lineup of Small Faces. And a big +1 to the Ronnie Wood on bass idea. His bass work on the first 2 JBG albums still makes me grin my ass off.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 26, 2008, 11:07:26 AM
The NME site states that the bass player of Rod Stewarts liveband will replace Ronnie.... I did some googling, but I don't know who that is.

Should be this young man then playing a product of the renowned Fender company, California. Or the umpteenth boutique version of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fEmmakhzA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlegAUs5hL0&feature=related
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Dave W on November 26, 2008, 02:32:49 PM
I see Rod doesn't have to worry about his voice, he just gets the audience to sing his hits.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 27, 2008, 03:10:45 AM
I see Rod doesn't have to worry about his voice, he just gets the audience to sing his hits.

I never regarded Herr Stewart as a serious rock artist, he has a pleasant voice and sings some great easy listening stuff and some abyssmal things too (all-time low was Love Touch - makes me wince to this day, it was worse than the movie it came from and that is saying something -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L411s4zJm0I


and that thing with Sting and Adams for the Musketeer movie was schrecklich too). But he never lost credibility or integrity to me because he never really bothered to have it in the first place. Right from the advent of joining the Faces he carefully worked (and succeeded) at his solo career as a MOR and easy listening singer. There was nothing wrong with that, he was upfront about it. No his voice isn't what it used to be, but whose sixty year old singer's is?*** He still does a crowd pleasing job if he doesn't overstretch himself.

And hey, AOR, MOR and easy listening are not 4-letter words. Like Hellboy and his aquatic sidekick I'm a sucker for this here. In fact, Rod should do a version of it though Barry is pretty much impeccable on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MvhhD6eKaY&feature=related

*** Leonard Cohen's voice or non-voice, the guy is in his midseventies now, has actually gotten better. I saw him in concert earlier this month (sold out Frankfurt's largest hall) and his voice and performance was spine-tingling.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Freuds_Cat on November 27, 2008, 08:49:21 PM
you wonder what exactly Wood and Stewart did together for the band that Steve Marriott couldn't have done just as well or even better alone.
Says it all from my perspective.



Re the Who, I gotta say I loved Zac Starkeys drumming compared to Kenny Jones.  In fact I was so impressed by it that I would prefer to see Zac Drumming for Zeppelin than young Jason. Jason just lacks something and I'm not quite sure what. Whatever it is Zac has it IMHO.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: dexter on December 21, 2008, 04:24:12 AM
well it looks like a Faces reunion is gonna happen sometime next year , Ron Wood has confirmed the band have been rehearsing,

http://www.bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=1695

great news ! ... i probably wont get to see them live , but i hope a dvd and new album come out of the reunion...  8)  8)

 i wish you all have a happy and safe  Christmas ,
...... all the best for 2009 too


dexter     ;)

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Andrew on December 21, 2008, 07:33:05 AM
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, Flea is playing bass for (at least part of) the faces reunion.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: gweimer on December 21, 2008, 10:42:17 AM
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, Flea is playing bass for (at least part of) the faces reunion.

Ewwwwww...
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Dave W on December 21, 2008, 11:37:38 AM
Ewwwwww...

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be wearing his strategically placed sock.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: EvilLordJuju on December 21, 2008, 12:26:04 PM
well it looks like a Faces reunion is gonna happen sometime next year, Ron Wood has confirmed the band have been rehearsing,

If you want more info, there is a two part Rod Stewart interview out now (part 1 is on bbc iplayer (was on radio 2) at the moment - I think only UK listeners will be able to get this...) which will be on again on boxing day (both parts)
He was saying that the rehearsals were going well, despite the fact it is the only time they have played together when nobody was drunk.

When's the circa '68 Jeff Beck Group reunion?
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on December 22, 2008, 10:49:31 AM
I'm not a Flea fan but he can do great melodic stuff, which Plonk also did.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Chris P. on January 25, 2009, 07:25:30 AM
This just in from Ian McLagan's website, macspages.com as of January 23, 2009:

"The rehearsals were a lot of fun, everybody was in fine form, but nothing's happened since November. Don't believe anything you read about an album in the works, or a tour being planned until you read it here, because this page is bullshit free. I kid you not. I'll be happy to announce good news, or any news, if and when there is some."

http://www.macspages.com/faces.htm
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: uwe on November 24, 2009, 11:46:08 AM
This, in my humble view, is self-defeating. I was never a great Faces fan nor a Rod Stewart one, but him not joining on a reunion tour?

Faces Geared Up To Tour in 2010, With Or Without Rod Stewart
Russell Hall | 11.17.2009
The Faces are “seriously talking about touring” in the spring, with or without original frontman Rod Stewart.

As reported by Billboard.com, keyboardist Ian McLagan intimated that the band has grown weary of waiting for Stewart to commit to a reunion.

“If we don't do it very soon,” McLagan told Billboard, “one of us is gonna check out. I'm 64, for chrissakes! We've been waiting and waiting for Rod to say yes; now he's finally said no. He's busy doing other shit. So we're gonna do it."

The format of the shows would likely be modeled on a performance staged recently by the band at London’s Royal Albert Hall. That show, staged as part of a charity event, saw surviving members Ron Wood, Kenney Jones, and McLagan teamed with former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and a variety of guest vocalists.

"I think it's more exciting, actually, with different singers, different bass players, maybe some other guests, another guitarist or whatever," McLagan said. "[Saxophonist] Bobby Keys would probably sit in. It's more adventurous. It won't be the same old shit."

Since Wyman does not like to fly, McLagan’s first choice for bass player would be original Sex Pistols member Glenn Matlock.

“[Glenn] started playing bass because of [late Faces bassist] Ronnie Lane,” explained McLagan. “He knows all his licks and really appreciates him as a bass player."

McLagan went on to say that Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall is on the short-list of guest vocalists, but that he and his Faces ‘mates will likely approach other singers as well. He also hinted that the door remains open for Stewart, who’s currently making plans to tour behind his new Soulbook album.

“… it would be much better to have [Stewart] with us,” McLagan said. “[I’m] open either way. I just want to play."


That is kinda like Aerosmith without Steven Tyler, but anything seems to be possible these days:

"It’s Official: Aerosmith Is Looking For A New Singer
Russell Hall | 11.10.2009
Joe Perry has confirmed that Aerosmith is indeed looking for a vocalist to replace Steven Tyler. On his Twitter page, Perry writes that he and his bandmates are “positively looking for a new singer to work with.”

As reported by Reuters, Perry said last month that Tyler has refused to write songs with him for the past decade. Tyler recently told Classic Rock magazine that he wants to focus on solo projects. The 61-year-old singer has reportedly stopped communicating with the band, and has hired his own manager.

Troubles within Aerosmith were ratcheted up at the band’s recent concert at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 1. A triumphant show by all accounts, the event was nonetheless marked by confirmation that turmoil was brewing. Guitarist Brad Whitford was the first to raise the possibility of a new vocalist, telling Classic Rock that if “the chemistry was right, why not?”

Eight years have passed since Aerosmith released a studio album of new material. It seems, however, that Perry believes the departure of Tyler may mark a new chapter for the band.

In an interview yesterday (Nov. 9) with Boston radio station WZLX, the guitarist said, “As long as we’re still kicking, it’s not over. We’ll probably get bored and come back.”




"Aerosmith: Still Trouble in Paradise
Ellen Mallernee | 11.17.2009
Amid talk from both Steven Tyler and Joe Perry that Tyler might be quitting Aerosmith, Tyler took the stage this past Tuesday to sing “Walk This Way” with the Joe Perry Project during its encore at New York’s Fillmore at Irving Plaza.

Tyler told the crowd, “I just want New York to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith. Joe Perry, you are a man of many colors. But I, mother******, am the rainbow!”

Many Aerosmith fans took this as a sign that the band had mended fences and decided to forge on together. But Perry told Rolling Stone that the band’s problems are far from over, despite that its 40th anniversary isn’t too far off.

Of Tyler’s cameo during his band’s recent encore, Perry says, “There was all this commotion during our encore break and somebody said, ‘Steven is here.’ And I was like, ‘What?’”

Tyler then asked Perry if he could join his band for a rendition of “Walk This Way.”

“Being an acquaintance of 40 years, I said, ‘Why not?’” Perry said. “So he came up and sang and that was the last I saw of him.”

In another interview, this one with the Associated Press, Perry revealed, “As it stands, Steven wants to take a couple years off and do some of whatever he wants to do and the rest of the band wants to keep working. The band is a really well-oiled machine and we’re going to work one way or another and I don’t know what form that’s going to take.”



Perry calling Tyler "an acquaintance of 40 years" certainly sets new standards in the careful choice of utmost vitriolic words.   :mrgreen: ;D :)

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Dave W on November 24, 2009, 02:07:56 PM
Sorry, Ian, that's not The Faces. May be fun, entertaining and/or profitable, but it's not The Faces.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Highlander on November 24, 2009, 03:37:06 PM
It's as close as anyone is likely to see, though, Dave... just not our cup of the proverbial...

Is anyone willing to offer any other "oldies reform" that are doing a disservice to the memory of the originals...?

I think it could be a good point to mention that, IMHO, the Allman Brothers Band are still shining a decent light on Duane's memory...
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Dave W on November 24, 2009, 06:42:23 PM
I don't mean to imply that it's any kind of disservice. It's just not the Faces.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on November 24, 2009, 06:46:39 PM
It's as close as anyone is likely to see, though, Dave... just not our cup of the proverbial...

Is anyone willing to offer any other "oldies reform" that are doing a disservice to the memory of the originals...?

I think it could be a good point to mention that, IMHO, the Allman Brothers Band are still shining a decent light on Duane's memory...

YEAH! Allman Bros. are still shining all right!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxHBcqAFro

Some say Derek Trucks is Duane reincarnated. Could be!

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Freuds_Cat on November 24, 2009, 09:00:51 PM
YEAH! Allman Bros. are still shining all right!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxHBcqAFro

Some say Derek Trucks is Duane reincarnated. Could be!



Haynes IMHO is probably the biggest reason for the ABB having been reinstated to their deserved high pedestal. Seeing Govt Mule come out of that union and Derek Trucks rise to the occasion is just one more bonus to the whole situation really.

I'm in an original band which has a guitarist from Florida who grew up and is heavily influenced by all of these guys. He is a great player and I am not looking forward to the fact that he is going back to the US after nearly 3 years here next March.

Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: godofthunder on November 25, 2009, 10:46:23 AM
oh you guys are on to  Steve Marriot now, .... well here  he is in one of his most rockin performances , ever , ... with Humble Pie
just awesome... 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw

dexter


This should be required listening for any kid who gets a guitar for Xmas and wants to see how it's done.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: patman on November 25, 2009, 11:44:40 AM
Heard my youngest son playing this in his bedroom the other night (on his Rickenfaker)--brought back memories of myself playing it some 37 years ago (in the bedroom, on a Vox Panther).  Brought a smile to my face, for sure.

Seems like yesterday...need to put this one on my Christmas list.
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: godofthunder on November 25, 2009, 02:16:57 PM
How to make a Dad proud !
Title: Re: Faces reuniting?
Post by: Highlander on November 25, 2009, 03:43:56 PM
Could always break his legs, Bret... just make sure not to damage his fingers in the process of knocking him over...  ;D