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Roctober Magazine Reviews: Chicago, IL, United States These reviews will be featured in forthcoming issues of Roctober Magazine (www.roctober.com). To submit material for review please contact [email protected] or send it to Roctober Magazine 1507 E. 53rd St. #617 Chicago IL 60615. REVIEW POLICIES: We will review EVERYTHING physically submitted, in any format (vinyl, CD, cassette, 8-track, wax cylinder, DVD, VHS, Beta, videogame, book, magazine, zine, cake, bucket of chicken, etc.) For music my kingly (MVD ) Guest Review by Gary Pig Gold tastes make me like vinyl the best and I THROUGH THE PAST, SMARTLY: will probably think you are cooler if you For those who arrived at the party rather late – meaning the first new send your release on vinyl. I do review Stones record you ever bought had a big red tongue splayed across some digital submissions/downloads, its label – the five years and ninety-nine minutes contained within but it is not a guarantee. But if you Chrome Dreams’ Rolling Stones: The Mick Taylor Years DVD will throw it on a cheap CD-R and mail it to serve as a more than welcome addition to all of your recently- me it will definitely be reviewed. For acquired Exile On Main St. collectables. In fact, should you consider periodicals/zines/comix/magazines we yourself a part of the ever-expanding constituency who swear the may not review every issue but we will Stones’ best work was done during that half decade between the run a new, different review in each death of and the arrival of , this is one issue of Roctober. All reviews will documentary which absolutely deserves your undivided attention. …blogspot.com/…/rolling-stones-mick-t… 1/7 3/23/2011 Roctober Reviews: ROLLING STONES, … appear online here and in print in Beginning as the Sixties became the Seventies and The Rolling Roctober. Stones were struggling to grow all the way from “England’s Newest View my complete profile Hit Makers” into “The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band,” we hear the entire journey recounted by an impressive list of Stones biographers, historians and even session musicians, plus see the events themselves unfold via clips from the band’s initial, free Hyde Park concert with Taylor clear through their landmark 1969 and 1972 North American tours. Not to mention a slew of primordial promotional clips spanning “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” to “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” which cover, in fact, a defining era in the Stones’ development as the band survives Altamont, , and the death of its founding member only to find themselves tax-exiled and semi- comatose in the south of France. It is a period during which they also somehow start their own record company, learn how to make their own records (thanks in no small part to their late, extremely great producer Jimmy Miller) and along with The Who and Led Zeppelin forge the soon-to-become fantastically lucrative U.S. arena-rock circuit.

Now, the point repeatedly made during this entire film is how key a role Mick Taylor actually played in each of these remarkable achievements: First, he joins the band at an ideal time, fully prepared to face audiences who by 1969 were expecting to listen to, rather than simply scream at, rock concerts which now lasted much longer than thirty minutes. With this, Taylor introduces to the Stones a new and subtly fluid approach to his instrument – a style which at first challenges fellow guitarist , soon perfectly complements him, and by 1973 practically supplants him both on stage and in the studio. Granted, Mick Taylor may never have displayed the highly adventurous experimentation of his predecessor, but it is hard to imagine the Stones being able to fully come to terms with Seventies-scale rock or even rolling with Brian Jones still in the band …even if he did figure out a way to secure his re-entry visa into the USofA.

Yet most fascinating to me are this film’s interviews with Exile On Main St. support musicians Al Perkins and Bill Plummer, both of whom offer rare and insightful glimpses into the Stones’ recording Followers techniques and intra-band relationships. Sadly, their stories (not to mention all those involving Gram Parsons) were left completely untold in the band’s own recently released film. I wonder why…

Acclaimed S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With author Robert Greenfield then explains how the tale soon starts to wind all the way down for the band, creatively at least, as he references the star-studded guest list chairman Ahmet Ertegun assembled for ’s twenty-ninth birthday party in New York City. Rock and roll – and The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band along with it – now found themselves not only fully …blogspot.com/…/rolling-stones-mick-t… 2/7 3/23/2011 Roctober Reviews: ROLLING STONES, … embraced by high society, but confronted with its accompanying high- Follow stakes corporate dalliances as well. Yes, rock was fast becoming Very w ith Google Friend Connect Big Business, and Mick Jagger in particular became utterly besotted and seduced by these unforeseen turns of event …and at the same Followers (21) More » precise time his partner Keith was succumbing unapologetically to a degree of drug dependency which rendered him next to useless when it came to writing and recording new material. Again, enter Mick Taylor to pick up the slack …not that it seems he has even to this day ever been given proper (label) credit for his thankless work in these crucial areas.

Perhaps that had something to do with the man’s sudden, and

surprising – even to some of his fellow band members it seems! – Already a member? Sign in departure from the Stones in 1974. As Taylor explains most candidly herein, “My role in the Rolling Stones was to play . I think after five-and-a-half years I’d really had enough. I didn’t feel that I could Blog Archive grow anymore. To me, they’d peaked (by) then.” ▼ 2011 (168) ► March (57) Controversial words indeed. But one listen to, say, ▼ February (111) should prove at least most of his point. Shotgun Jimmie "Transistor So, to many ever since, the Stones of the ensuing three-decades-plus Radio" seem more concerned with creating financial rather than musical North Elementary "Southern history; a band which appears to carry onward if only to prove some Rescue Trails" sort of statistical point. Be that as it most very likely is, all I will add here and now is The Mick Taylor Years certainly deserves an Kidneythieves "tryptofanatic" immediate place within your Stones cache …even if you do feel more Trey Lockerbie "Light at home with December’s children than with Mr. D. Therapy" Rory Hinchey “Shape is Nature”/The Collection of T... The Loaded Nuns Late, Late At Night by Rick Springfield Rolling Stones - 1969- 1974 Nathan Payne "Sideburns in Rolling Stones, Ch... the Sun - The Very Best... Best Price $10.94 or Buy New $17.99 Fiery Blue Mongrel Zine #9

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