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  • that fuckin sound in the begining is orgasmic from that les paul! really i just bought a les paul special double cutaway and Any Gibson Les Paul has that sort of tonation in it which is so desirable and you can only get that sound froma les paul! love it!

  • @JDWnSRV so the hick is gettin racist... so THAT'S what u do when u lose an argument... okeydokey, mr americano

  • There are only 3 equal places on Olimpus Summit.

    One for Jimi Hendrix, one for Jimmi Page,

    and one for Mick Taylor.

    Others guitar players sit on second row, awaiting...

  • @JDWnSRV No matter where Im from, I sure write better english than u. And i guess you should listen to your kid because u become the dork arguing for no reason. im sure there are healthier options for retirement than trolling ppl w BS.

    And what do you understand of blues anyway? Dont tell u know where the Delta is, cuz SRV brought blues to the media (i.e. fast soloing) , but u get hints from many old bluesmen on how they dont consider it genuine blues. Do your homework and leave me alone.

  • @nusdorfer SRV's main influence was the blues, rock came 2nd, and then everything else, but he was not a blues player in the traditional sense. He had his own style, a fusion of many things such as blues/rock/funk/jazz etc. Just as Mick Taylor had his own style with blues and rock mixed in. You can call both of them blues-rock players, but SRV has got his blues side more prominent in his playing/writing and its the opposite for Mick, imo.

  • @JDWnSRV I understand u love SRV - i get it. I like his stuff a lot and even listen way more to SRV.

    But SRV aint about the blues. He's about rock-blues. u should've asked him while he was alive. Or his brother. He's got chops and cool licks. Not the same feel and good taste as Mick. U should open your ears, my music friend. Because Im the guy who listens to everything.

  • SRV isnt 10% what Mick is. Thats TASTE.

  • Yeah, the Ron Wood comparisons are annoying. This clip is so much fun. It's like he's at a guitar store just dickin around. That 2nd part w/slide must've been what he did for Keith to say, he's the one!

    PS. How can you not love Ronnie. He's so much fun!

    PPS. Ronnie and Mick T are good friends and knew each other b4 69.

  • It's TRUE.. After Brian, NOBODY tops Mick Taylor! 

  • MT is not only technically skilled, but his is Gifted. Many can play the notes, but he makes incredible music. Thank you, MT, for reminding us to serve the music first. P.S. We miss you!

  • love the tone! he kept that sound that he belted out in the basement at Nellcote.

  • I get everyone loving Mick Taylor. Me, too, but what has he done since he left the Stones 37 years ago? I've seen him in concert three times and all three shows were unmemorable. You would expect at least one performance that lives up to his solos. His first solo album was okay. I saw Wood solo (1993) and it was a great show. I would love to hear more Ronnie on the records today, but he is egoless. When he joined the band he was stellar. And he had a brilliant career before he joined the Stones.

  • @straysailor Ronnie's had more success as a solo artist/member of other bands than any of the others- Faces, Small Faces, Rod Stewart, solo, etc...so that's why they joke that he's the 'new guy'. he doesn't need any more praise than he's already got. Mick was brave enough to leave the Stones ( Keef: No one leaves unless they're in a pine box), that alone gets him credit from me.

  • Woodie a better fit ? No one played better with KR than Taylor. KR realised he wanted his job back as the  main Guitar player for the Stones and MT was no studio/ house band musician. Woodie fit in as a submissive wimp who was willing to be told what to play. KR knew he couldn't tell Taylor how to play guitar nor would Taylor put up with it. KR and MT were the greatest guitar team in R &R.

  • @bushface1327 peter green & danny kirwan or duane allman & dickey betts

  • you definitely feel the les paulyness

  • If you want to be with the stones, you can't just be a good player (as Mick Taylor obviously was) you have to play well WITH Keith. This entails buying into the two-guitar Chicago Blues philosophy, which is kind of an all-for-one and one-for-all mindset. Mick Taylor was always essentially a guitar virtuoso and soloist masquerading as a rolling stone. He's great, but Ronnie was and is a better fit because he is both talented and ego-less to some degree.

  • @Series7Guy the only difference is that all of us,i proudly repeat:ALL OF US will buy taylor's philosophy as long as it includes such albums like sticky fingers, get yer ya yas,goats & exile instead of shitty outdated stuff like black and blue, the overrated and flawed some girls and their last album which is SHIT, i think there is proof that Taylor fitted your little philosophy in songs like rocks off & brown sugar,no long ass cocky solos & plenty of comunication between him & keith,period

  • sweet

  • Was Shuggie Otis going to open for the Stones play with the Stones or what?

  • goddam, what a slide guitar!

  • Yeah! Amen...keep on!

  • Great player, but why did he get so fat?

  • @Gonzoidz good living, talent, and lots of cash. I bet your skinny as hell...lol

  • @nsra1933

    He's no excuse for that gut! I'm not sure how good he is/was, good sideman. I've got more in the locker :)

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  • Can anybody tell me if the slide bit is in normal or open G (or A) tuning please?

  • Looks like Mick is playing in regular tuning here.

    G is popular, depends on the player. I prefer using open E tuning for slide. Warren Haynes, Joe Walsh, to name a couple use open E alot. I love open E. Mick Taylor is a fantastic player obviously. He whips out that slide while in regular tuning and is all over that fret board he sounds like he's in open tuning. Hope this helped?

    Take care, keep jammin'!

  • fogslifted was a pedo known as Bob, he closed his account once I called him out for being a pedophile

  • I wish the audio was split for both sides..

  • I guess this is from a videotape or DVD? Does anybody know the title & publisher? I'd like to see the whole thing!

  • Its a guitar instruction video with Arlen Roth hosting. Very good and informative video. I learned quite a bit from it. You can rent this video at Netflix.

  • @Tsugaheterophylla Hot Licks Video, DVD available now thru Music Sales. Arlen Roth Director and Producer.

  • i would say my guitar playing is the same style as micks except hes a thousand times better than me lol

  • Mick Taylor was a brilliant blues guitarist technically with wonderful fluency, feel and tone .. I agree 100% with mecormany .. The Stones between '69 and '73 with Taylor, Hopkins, Price and Keys were the greatest live rock band I ever saw .. After Taylor left, the spontaneity and improvisational brilliance was lost .. Ron Wood was a decent guitarist with the Faces but really just a poor man's Keith Richards and no substitute for Mick Taylor .. now Rory Gallagher might have been another story!!

  • with all due respect to Keith Richards would have Rory wanted to play along on Keith's licks ?

    Don't get me wrong it would have been interesting & Rory & Donal took it as a compliment

  • I WANT THIS DVD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • you can rent it at NetFlix----its a guitar instruction video. I learned quite a bit from it. This is his version of "catfish blues"

  • @riff88m It's on Hot Licks!

  • True, but Ronnie's subtle interplay with Keith created such late masterpieces as Beast of Burden and Shattered, as well as the pedal steel of Faraway Eyes and the nice stuff on Voodoo Lounge. Leave endless guitar acrobatics to Cream and Zep - with the Stones it's about attitude and feel.

  • of course `cos the Stones are n` Rn`B band really

  • It's also about being able to play. Wood can't and Richards got sick of having Taylor play rings around him. That band with MT, Hopkins, Price and Keys was the best live band rock has ever seen (& their LPs weren't too bad either), but they let Taylor walk. You don't get rid of a world class virtuoso, bring in another rhythm guitar player who is.2nd rate at best, and improve your band. For 30 yrs they've been living off the past and the hype.Fuck the ancient art of weaving, they needed MT

  • That's just not true. Wood's playing on the Faces' work - as on the Every Picture Tells A Story album- shows him to be a very creative lead. Taylor's solos were nice, but endless guitar solo masturbation was not what the Stones were about. Did he give Sympathy,

    Brown Sugar, Gimme Shelter or any of the major classics any more distinction?

    The Stones are about subtle interplay, Keith with Watts and Jagger's voice - melding the band into one whole . Taylor's playing just seemed tacked on.

  • Tacked on? Sway? Time Waits for No One? Love in Vain? Shine A Light? any live official or boot version of SFM, Midnight Rambler - anything they did, including the 3 songs you mention.. We'll never agree on this one. The stones are about as subtle as a sledge hammer, They played together as a unit with Taylor, they just sounded a helluva lot better. I agree Wood was great for the Faces, and he's probably ok on the current crap, but when they do the classic Taylor stuff he doesn't have it.

  • Taylor wasn't even ON the original recordings of Sympathy or Gimme Shelter, to say nothing of Paint It Black,

    Under My Thumb, Satisfaction. How did he make them radio classics again?

    Sway and Time Waits For No One were great for their melodies, not for Taylor's manic riffing at the end. And by subtle, you misunderstand. It's not that they have to sound like a folk group; it's the interplay of the band that creates one tradmark whole. You want masturbatory guitar/drum solos, there's always Zep

  • I'm aware of what tracks Taylor was or wasn't originally on - I'm talking about live versions. I don't see where either of us mentioned Satisfaction UMT or PIB but none of those songs rank with with the stuff on SF, Exile, Ya Ya's etc.But when a man calls two of the greatest rock solo's and leads manic riffing no sense arguing. U R Clueless. Actually, being a guitar player, I hate wanking guitar solos and detest drum solos, and that's one reason I love Mick Taylor and this version of the Stones.

  • You take away the main body of Sway and leave the Taylor solo at the end, it's just complicated guitar masturbation. Same with Time Waits. Taylor played great lead, but does that communicate the heart of a song the way the main riff, lyrics and vocals do? Of course not. Sometimes less is more, as Charlie Parker once said - the sitar scale on Paint It Black, the marimba on Under My Thumb, the tight riff to Beast of Burden.The heart of a song is in its simplicity, not endless Taylor theatrics.

  • @mecormany The core of the Stones success was their ability to write great rock/pop songs. They were doing that before Mick Taylor joined the band. There's nothing flashy about a song like Ruby Tuesday or Play With Fire, for example. But I agree they were at their best with Taylor.  As for the Ron Wood era, Some Girls is a great Stones album. But their songwriting and overall band cohesion today is not what it was. Plus let's face it, they're probably too old for another classic album.

  • I sure like what you said here alot, except if I may tell you one thing .I PROMISE (with William Shatner) that THERE IS NO NEED for those two songs to be mentioned in the same sentence as the word masterpiece. The Stoneshave quite a few tunes that sure could be considered Masterpieces. But those two wouldn't even get in the starting gate.

  • What, Beast of Burden and Shattered ARE both masterpieces - the culmination of their 'less is more' sensual R & B grace on Beast, and pulsing new wave excitement on Shattered. Both sound great and fresh even thirty plus years on. Masterpieces!

  • Here's the bottom line, ya'll; (from a guitar player and Stones/Keef lover)....Mick T. and Keith were BOTH at their best when Mick was with the Stones; because they pushed and inspired EACH OTHER!!! Keith made MT reach Deeper than the standard 12 barre blues stuff. Keith has even admitted that their best records were done then. They were great together. MT inspired Keith and Keith pushed Mick to try harder. Great combo!

  • the stones fucked up

  • Um, ronnie may be a stone, but he can't carry MT's guitar strap. MT was basically forced out by the egos (perhaps justifiable) of the glimmer twins. But nothing was better than the Stones MT era - think about it : Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, Beggars Banquet, Only Rock and Roll, Goats Head Soup and Exile on Main Street vs. bridges to babylon and steel wheels. Only a fool would suggest the band got better when MT left.

  • @johngmart not Beggars,that was still Brian, even a little Bleed was Brian.Back then MT was playing with The Blues Breakers.

  • @johngmart he didnt play on Beggars Banquet

  • @johngmart Mick tecnicamente es mejor que ronnie, pero Ron es mucho mejor como músico solista !

  • @tataso ronnie tubo una carrera solista prolija y muy bién armada.

    eso lo diferencia de Taylor.

    igual son 2 ídolos, cambiaron el sonido de los stones más que Jagger y Richards

  • @johngmart Hard to argue that logic..

  • @johngmart Get your facts straight, buddy. Mick Taylor did not play on Beggar's Banquet.

  • ronnie jelled with them better personality & Party wise, he's like Keith right hand man(or was), but Mick T was gave the Stones so much balls. That heavier Les Paul sound, & great soloing. The heavy guitar sound on Can't you hear me knockin' is all Taylor(though most would assume its Keith)...re: Clapton, there are plenty of better blues players, Clapton just has the notoriety cuz he has radio songs(which he had song writers pen for the most part). Taylor is a behind the scenes guy.

  • BSlash24; Had to give you a 'thumbs up'! I recall seeing Clapton in 1966. Everyone was raving about him in London. He had a raw sound but ONLY because of the LesP/Marshall set up. He lost that sound around 1970 and became a 'pop star" in the mid 70s. ('Wonderful Tonight'? gimme a break!) His guitar licks became so predictable. Erics tone today is weak and lives on his reputation as being "God".(overrated pomp) Mick Taylor is a FIERCE Blues player and has always been so.

  • If you like Mick´s slide playing check out Earl Hooker!!

  • yes I agree he is. Quite inventive on the guitar, and certainly has got his own style. Its the tone and personality behind the playing that I really like.

  • Mick Taylor is amazing

  • are you kiddin me hes doing nothing special if u no about gutiar you no claptons rythem blues is beyond alot of ppl as he can do a pretty amazing robert johnson this man good technique but the licks you hear everyone do nothing special at all dumb fucks dont no what your talking about better then clapton

  • Well said ... *snicker*...

  • Clapton's not even in my top 5 but Taylor is number 1. The man's a genius

  • joolz2323; Taylor is NO poser. When he solos he goes for the throat but in a subtle, modest way. Mick & Keef always felt threatened by guys who looked better than them and can pull the girls. Taylor was too good looking and was getting too much attention. Jagger HAS to be in charge. He has the ego the size of Texas. The Stones are basically a pop band but Taylor is a pure Blues player. Clapton has always been as boring and predictable as Wal-Mart.

  • I would guess that Jack Bruce can probably tell the difference between a 'poser' and the real deal. Ya think? Cheers!

  • Love the sounds taylor squeezes out of his instrument. What a player.

  • Sorry, but better than Clapton

  • Does he use open chords for slide? It's seems not.

  • This is some highlights of the Hot Licks (Arlen Roth) instructional video Mick Taylor made in the mid 1980s.

  • jbonham,very well said!!

  • Why are you guys wasting so much time trying to convince eachother of who's best? Who gives a fuck? Its your own opinion that counts. Do you have to have your opinion accepted or what?

  • GREAT COMMENT- probably the best comment on you tube so far-dont know why these morons have to have these pathetic arguments about whos best when it doesnt matter at all

  • @jbonham978 your not kidding bro, i love it when you get 2 morons who think their opinion is the only one that counts, they just dont get it that its music, and everyone has different likes and tastes, no one person is better than anyone else, it kills me when they go on and on about who's right, like anyone really cares anyway. just dig the music and stop fuckin argueing!!!! ROCK ON!!!

  • I saw Mick play a few times recently, in my opinion, he brought something really special to the Stones, I just love the stuff they played whilst he was in the band. A great guitarist.

  • it is true the stones were at their best live when taylor was a stone just listen to dododod heartbreaker(brussels 73) stunning work.

  • and the second solo from sympathy for the devil from the ya ya tour - brilliant

  • have a nice boot if any one wants it

    Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor - Montevideo Blues Vol. 1

    give me a shout.

  • Is he playing through a "Twin" here?

    Any info? Thanks.

  • always thought mick was the best guitar player the stones had.. though many would say richards is the best

  • first of all, I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about...secondly, Ron Wood was in the BRITISH Birds, spelled normally; their success was ruined by the American Byrds, go study it..there are some videos of them on Youtube

  • You are right TDZKILL, thanks

  • And your mother thinks she sucks better cock than Jenna Jamison because she had more time to practice, what's your point?

  • ahhh..Tyalor is awesome. Saw him at the Great American Music Hall in S.F. I wish the boys would let him back in the club for a couple of shows. Have three guitars, shit why not.

  • Taylor is a great musician, but ultimately he was kept in the role of a session player by Mick and Keith, which grated at him until he decided to quit.

  • In my opinion Brian Jones is best with the Stones, Mick Taylor is best with the Bluesbreakers and Ron Wood is best with the Birds

  • In my opinion, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about son. Mick Taylor's best work was with the Stones and has said thgis many times. Brian Jones was a very versatile musician but nowhere near the caliber of Mick Taylor. And Ronnie Wood never played with the Byrds, he played with the Faces though.

  • Wood played with a British band called the BIRDS, no Y. They included his brother Art and Jon Lord, later of Deep Purple. Entirely different group than the American group of the nearly same name.

  • You are correct, thanks for the info

  • Je joues mieux que lui.

    Patlebon

  • Ron Wood better than Mick Taylor!!!

    NO NO NO way

  • brian was an all-round musician. a vehicle for sound. he could pick up an instrument and instinctively find his way around it in no time. but he was not a master at any one instrument. he was a musician more than a player. does that make sense?

  • he`s amazing. one of the best guitarrists of the last century

  • stones just were not the same without him. I wished he stayed with them.

  • Far to talented for the Stones......

    Saw him with John Mayall many moons ago...

    Great Slide Player

  • Exile on Main Street, best album in my opinion, when he started with them, but I like Ronnie Wood better live. Does a good job with Sticky Fingers tunes.

  • agree with you on points, dillweed.

  • Mick. Please come back to the Stones. Woody can re-unite with Rod and the world will be right again.

  • Mick is bad as HELL... GREAT PLAYER.. Nobody sounds like him - just awesome... Thanks for posting this...

  • Mick Taylor overall is a better guitar player..

  • Mick Taylor was incredible w/ the stones. Their best era..69-74 maybe.. he kept it simple but he has his own style too...

  • ronnie wood is great i love the faces. Mick Taylor's great i especially love 'Vacation' from Blues from Laurel Canyon

  • Mick how about getting off your lazy arse and come back down and play in Australia..

  • Mick Taylor is simply the best. The stones never reached the peak after he left.

  • Tony McPhee Rules Ya Bass !!

  • tony mcphee does rule i love the groundhogs

  • it's safe to say that if mick t. had remained and ronnie had never joined, the stones would have split in the 80s and would probably be enjoying enormous popularity through various reforms since 2000. ronnie wood kept the band together during the 80s. we have him to thank for that.

  • How can you say that? You got a cristal ball in front of your face?

  • as a mater of fact... no. but it's well known ronnie wood kept the stones together. mick t was strung out on drugs in the 80s and never gave the kind of support to the band that was necessary. ronnie wood worked hard at keeping the stones together.

  • #1 Mick left the Stones in about 1973 so his drug use in the 80's is less than relevant.

    #2 WHO do you think introduced this young guy to hard drugs ?

    #3 R. Wood has been in the Stones longer than they were together before he joined and still fakes many of the songs.

    Mick Taylor is a great player who contributed lots to a group that used him up and burned him out.

  • taylor actually left at the end of '74, right before the sessions for black and blue. he was relatively clean during his time with the stones. it wasn't until his solo career started to tank that he started hitting the drugs hard. wood may "fake" songs, whatever that means, but he still fits better as a stone.

  • He didnt get the proper credits for co writing songs. And Keith had his ego battle with him.

  • yeah, Wood's a much better fit - playing on "Exile" was incredible. oh, wait . . . nevermind. Seriously: Get Yer Ya-Yas Out Sticky Fingers Exile on Main St Goats Head Soup It's Only Rock n Roll +tunes on Let It Bleed and Tattoo You Ron Wood a better "fit"? Maybe if you mean he looks and dresses more like Mick and Keith. If you mean his contributions created better music? Well . . . you can make that decision for yourself, based on an actual assessment of the music.
  • well no, by fit i mean he works well in a band. taylor never worked as a member of the rolling stones. could he play? of course. look at the man! but he didn't work as a rolling stone. it's as simple as that.

  • Way too late to respond to this.

    But I will anyway.

    I thought I made this clear already, but look at the albums I listed. Are you saying that the albums Ron was on were better? If not, then clearly Mick was at least Ron's equal. It's about the end product. If the band as a whole MADE BETTER MUSIC WITH MICK TAYLOR, then Mick Taylor must be a better fit. Again I ask you to look at the list of albums I just put above, and tell me that Ron's "fit" was "better" in any way other than cosmetic.

  • Ron Wood only fits better because Jagger and Richards dont see him as a threat. The Mick Taylor years are the best. Also Jimmy Miller deserves alot of credit in these years.

  • Ive read Bill Wyman's book ROLLING WITH THE STONES on page 390 that Mick Taylor's drug use was a concern to Wyman as early as March 1972. Even to the point that Taylor's "life might be at risk" as the "hard stuff" left him "very depressed".

  • Richards and Jagger would let nothing break up the Stones. They would have kicked Taylor out before that happened. They fired Brian Jones and he founded the band. Taylor is a better guitarist that Wood. Woods personality is more submissive and works better with the dominance of Jagger and Richards.

  • its a little true.. i mean, if mick.T would still be in the stones imagine how different they would sound with him and with no ronnie... ronnies good but mick .T wouldve sended the stones to a whole new musical direction then the one now.. and if you ask me, a better one..

  • I don't think so. The Stones were on the downswing when Taylor was with the band during Goats Head Soup and IORR. By leaving, that allowed them to have a last classic record with Wood with Some Girls.

  • 1ooo times better then ronnie wood

  • Have you ever heard Johnny Saccavino? Mick T is upperratted as much as Erik Klaptaun

  • too bad he couldn't keep his head out of the snow.

  • Unless somebody knows of anything better, the bootlegs from Europe '73 (especially Bedspring Symphony and Brussells Affair)feature some of the finest guitar work that's ever been caught on tape. That was the Stones at their absolute peak. MT freaking WAILED and the band soared.

  • TRUTH! The Stones deserved their rep and their title back then and almost any boot from the '73 tour proves it. MT was so much better than the rest of the band I can see why not getting proper credit for songwriting plus single-handedly taking the band from a very good rock band to the best in the world would tend to tick one off to the point of walking.

  • my favorite is his "marriage madness" playing with john mayall in the album "back to the roots".

  • My favorite guitar solo from him is the one he does at the end of "Sway" on Sticky Fingers.

  • "Sway" indeed has one of the great, dramatic, solos of all time. My fave.

  • Clearly a lot of you haven't heard Kevin Borich.

  • Merci Lady. Magnifique

  • belle leçon n'est ce pas ? ah ce Mick ... Taylor !!!merci à toi pour ton message, ça fait toujours plaisir

    de rencontrer un pseudo connu, là où on ne s'y attends pas.

  • Who the fuck is Mick Jagger

  • He's the lead singer of this little band called the rolling stones, probably a billionaire by now because of it. Too bad M. Taylor couldn't stand the heat cause he sure got out of the kitchen pretty quick!

    And, its a real shame he did.

  • Mick Taylor is a great, great player.

  • Underrated?Mick Taylor is the fucking greatest blues guitarrist i ever hear(and i heard a lot), the only guy that can make me cry with just a vibratto.I never thoubt i'd see clips from his video lesson on you tube, please post more of those!

  • Gorgeous thick delicious vibrato.

  • Most underrated guitaris in rock history, in my opinion.

  • no doubt about that! I agree.

  • hell yeah me too

  • the guy is amazing

  • super - wish it lasted longer - grandissimo Mick

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