One of my favourite bands are re-forming!

[AndyR]

+1 on every bit of that, except(!) I have to admit that I thought "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" was a superb single :roll: :D

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!     :o

Although I must admit it was infinitely better than "Young Turks" and "Baby Jane".......

Must be my pop-sensibilities coming out!
Also my 6th form memories, wot I wos listening to in the charts when I was so hung up over Miss EMD - head girl of a neighbouring skool - never ever forgotten her...

It's right up there with Miss You, Airport, Run For Home, How Deep Is Your Love, My Sharona, Motorhead's Golden Years EP, and other late 70's classics!!

I feel NO shame, sorry chaps...

You have to give the Faces another listen though Philly - Pool Hall Richard, Had Me a Real Good Time, Flying, Sweet Lady Mary, etc... I had a session with them last night - doesn't change my opinion of what Mr Wood seems like now, but it reminded me that he is indeed worthy of my admiration :D

EDIT: and Man With A Child In His Eyes - sigh, she looked like Kate Bush but even slimmer, and with freckles. And she could sing, and play guitar!! In fact we even did duo gigs together (Leaving on a Jet Plane, anyone??! :roll:)

[Philly Q]

OK, I shall try to get hold of a Faces "best of" and try not to think of Ronnie's wizened little monkey face when I'm listening to it.... 

It's right up there with Miss You, Airport, Run For Home, How Deep Is Your Love, My Sharona, Motorhead's Golden Years EP, and other late 70's classics!!

For some reason I have particularly strong memories of the charts circa 1977-78 - things like Boogie Nights by Heatwave, Black Betty by Ram Jam, Davy's On The Road Again by Manfred Mann's Earth Band....  :lol:  I suppose it was right around the time I started buying records myself.

[horsehead]

Not that I would ever link to something illegal...no never...uh-no...not me guvnor...couldn't do it...cos it's not right etc. etc.


Oh & Andy have you got hold of 5 guys walk into a bar, absolutely stunning how good that band were!

& for the record Debris is an amazing song

[38thBeatle]

I would just like to point out that my appalling typing in the last post was due to my being similarly afflicted to Ronnie Wood coupled with a rapidly failing keyboard (now replaced).

[horsehead]

any excuse 38 :lol:

[38thBeatle]

I was amazed that any of it made sense ...and relieved. It was a tough day!

[AndyR]

+1 on Debris - I was studying it last night!

I've not got 5 men... (not even heard of it before!) I bought Good Boys... when it came out because I didn't have anything on CD (and in fact, on vinyl, I've only got an early "best of" double album and the slightly "harder-to-listen-to" live album).

5 men... looks very tasty, but I'd already made an executive decision last night that our household must now acquire all 4 studio albums, and the early Rod albums, on CD before we do anything else  :lol:

[38thBeatle]

Debris is a masterpiece.Those chords ! and of course  Ronnie's poignant delivery. He was a major influence on me and as I once got to meet him I regard him as one of the best that this country has  produced. Get the Faces studio albums and the early Rod albums( with the Faces playing on them in many cases) and you will have a great collection of early 1970's music at its best. But the "Five Guys..." set adds unreleased, alternative and live tracks and whiolst you at it, get the Ronnie Lane solo albums. I used to get vilified at school for being a Faces  and Free fan when it was required that you were either a Led Zeppelin or a Deep Purple fan ( I also liked them both but for different reasons) but I never worried about what other people thought and I think that my tastes  at 11 years old have been vindicated. It was Ronnie Lane's bass playing particularly on Stay With Me that made me take up guitar and bas. I learned from listening and emulating what he did. Mr McCartney helped it bit too mind ( can I say that?). 
 

[AndyR]

Mr McCartney helped it bit too mind ( can I say that?). 
 

You certainly can as far as I'm concerned :D
He got quite a slagging here a while back, but I kept thinking "have any of you listened to the early Beatles albums?? OK mebbe not quite to your taste guys, but listen to, for example, All My Loving - he played that bass part, and sang that lead vocal, with all that swing, AT THE SAME TIME!!"
(OK the vocal is double-tracked, but one of those tracks he would have had to lay down at the same time as the bass... Or you could try and get hold of Live at the Hollywood Bowl - that really shows what those four guys could do...)

But back to Ronnie Lane - I found the Faces sometime in the 80s, and I was more interested in the Ron Wood and Rod Stewart side of things. But over the years (and getting into the Small Faces helped) I've started to appreciate Ronnie Lane's contribution a lot more.

[38thBeatle]

Funny you mention All My Loving. I learned to play the bass and sing it when I was a wee lad. Enabled me to move on from there to handle more vocals as a bassist. It can be an issue because of the rhythmic element. Having done both, playing bass and singing is harder (imho) than playing guitar and singing-the latter being something I am about to go and do cos I have a gig to go to.
Faces and Small Faces where great great bands.

[AndyR]

Funny you mention All My Loving. I learned to play the bass and sing it when I was a wee lad. Enabled me to move on from there to handle more vocals as a bassist. It can be an issue because of the rhythmic element. Having done both, playing bass and singing is harder (imho) than playing guitar and singing-the latter being something I am about to go and do cos I have a gig to go to.
Faces and Small Faces where great great bands.

Yep, bass & vox is far harder than git & vox. I was the latter (lead vocals) in a band with two guitars and once we had to do a gig where the bassist couldn't make it. I'd spent a few years playing bass previously, and I'd written all the songs, so it seemed a no-brainer... WHAT A NIGHTMARE that preceding week was!! (I eventually conquered it by listening to The Police - Sting seems to put bass on auto-pilot while he sings...)

NEway, have a good gig! (We're about to get the take-away and put a DVD on...)