Mick Taylor shows off that awesome jazzy-bluesy slide work on “You Shook Me” at the Iridium Jazz Club, NYC ~ May 12, 2012 …
… with that sweet soul section of Hamish Stuart, guitar; Wilbur Bascomb, bass; Max Middleton, keyboards; Jeff Allen, drums; Arno Hecht, sax – the meandering Stone lays down a groove at they club that Les built, or at least made famous.
Mick burns on that Les Paul with the Bigsby vibrato. That, and the fact that Max Middleton is sitting there at the keyboard playing “You Shook Me” makes everything quite appropriate indeed.
When he assays “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” it’s more than a snippet, less than epic-length. A punch in the face with a licorice stick of slide goodness.
I had this to say about MT on my Flickr page:
Jimi & Mick Taylor GW March 1988 P. 33
Three of the four photos on the page (two of Jimi and Keith, two Jimi with Mick Taylor) were indeed stills from the Maysles’ unreleased footage. There is a fourth one by photographer Ethan Russell. I blogged on this on Rock’s Backpages …
www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2011/11/jimi-micktaylor….
My friend Tom Graves in Memphis calls Mick “one of the best slide players to ever walk the planet.”
No lesser light than Keith Richards says that the Mick Taylor era – with a dash of Gram Parsons – was the best the Stones had to offer.
… and speaking’ of those bad boys, it’s funny that this recent article (May 3, 2012) is in the New York Daily News. My picture was in the NY Post, I mean a picture of me … not a picture I took:
My sister Anna and I went to see the Stones at Madison Square Garden sometime in the mid-seventies, or maybe it was the Nov. 1969 MSG concert – I am not sure now. We moved up to the front row — in those days you could do that; note the absence of a guard rail and phalanx of beefy mofos. That’s us on the lower left hand portion of your screen.
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This one is from my friend (and fellow RBP-ian) Tom Graves, who is quoted here on my blog, so let’s return the favor:
Stone Alone: A Rare Interview with Mick Taylor by Tom Graves
originally published in Rock & Roll Disc magazine July, 1989
Mick Taylor initially came into the public spotlight as the very young (17 years old) replacement for the renowned Peter Green in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. …
blimey – mick still has it in spades. this is fantastic. wotta band. i will certainly catch his next l.a.-area date.