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With a photo-call in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, Europe, The Rolling Stones announce that the replacement for their recently sacked guitarist Brian Jones is Mick Taylor, formerly of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.Full article:
Mick Jagger : Brian would have wanted it to go on. We will now do the concert for him. l hope people will understand that it's because all our love for him that we are still doing it. (announcement at the time)
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Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : I just made a phone call to John Mayall. He said, 'I've got this guitar player. You can have him, and he can come down right away.' And he turned up with this guy Mick Taylor almost the next day. It worked and we thought, 'Well, OK,' and suddenly we had this gig at Hyde Park coming up, so we just went with him. There wasn't a big audition process, because he seemed to fit in really well and there was pressure to do the gig. Maybe if we'd not had a gig coming up for six months, we have tried lots of others, but we just had to get on with it. I'm sure that if he hadn't worked out, we'd have changed him, but he seemed to fit in really quickly. ?
Mick Taylor : I did accept the offer right away. I didn't really know if they wanted me to go down to the studio and do some sessions or whether they needed to find another guitar player. It was only during the session that I realized that they were actually looking for another guitar player. They seemed to like me, so it was kind of like, more or less settled there and then.
(Source : interview by Gary James at www.classicbands.com)
?Keith Richard (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : What prompted us was the fact that we were going to do this concert in Hyde Park and so we had an urgent need for a new guitar player. Mick knew about Mick Taylor. He came in and played, and we said, "Well, that's it." We were going back on stage, Mick had come and played with us and we thought he was darned good and full of beans, why not keep him?
Mick Taylor (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : I just couldn't believe how bad they sounded (at rehearsals). Their timing was awful. They sounded like a typical bunch of guys in a garage, playing out of tune and too loudly. I thought: How is it possible that this band can make hit records? The answer, I soon, discovered, was that they had a lot of help from session men and producers. But having said that, they did have an edge to them in spite of their sloppiness.
Mick Jagger : I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor [Ronnie Wood] plays that kind of style.
It was very good for me working with him. Charlie and I were talking about this the other day, because we could sit down - I could sit down - with Mick Taylor, and he would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed.
Jimmy Page (guitarist, Led Zeppelin] : Mick Taylor is an extremely fortunate man, kind of like a fellow who wins the lottery. All of a sudden he's worth a million dollars. No, maybe more. But, he's a nice fellow.
Peter Frampton : He brought absolute guitar taste to the Stones. Not that Keith
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Mick Jagger (vocalist, Rolling Stones) : I just made a phone call to John Mayall. He said, 'I've got this guitar player. You can have him, and he can come down right away.' And he turned up with this guy Mick Taylor almost the next day. It worked and we thought, 'Well, OK,' and suddenly we had this gig at Hyde Park coming up, so we just went with him. There wasn't a big audition process, because he seemed to fit in really well and there was pressure to do the gig. Maybe if we'd not had a gig coming up for six months, we have tried lots of others, but we just had to get on with it. I'm sure that if he hadn't worked out, we'd have changed him, but he seemed to fit in really quickly. ?
Mick Taylor : I did accept the offer right away. I didn't really know if they wanted me to go down to the studio and do some sessions or whether they needed to find another guitar player. It was only during the session that I realized that they were actually looking for another guitar player. They seemed to like me, so it was kind of like, more or less settled there and then.
(Source : interview by Gary James at www.classicbands.com)
?Keith Richard (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : What prompted us was the fact that we were going to do this concert in Hyde Park and so we had an urgent need for a new guitar player. Mick knew about Mick Taylor. He came in and played, and we said, "Well, that's it." We were going back on stage, Mick had come and played with us and we thought he was darned good and full of beans, why not keep him?
Mick Taylor (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : I just couldn't believe how bad they sounded (at rehearsals). Their timing was awful. They sounded like a typical bunch of guys in a garage, playing out of tune and too loudly. I thought: How is it possible that this band can make hit records? The answer, I soon, discovered, was that they had a lot of help from session men and producers. But having said that, they did have an edge to them in spite of their sloppiness.
Mick Jagger : I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor [Ronnie Wood] plays that kind of style.
It was very good for me working with him. Charlie and I were talking about this the other day, because we could sit down - I could sit down - with Mick Taylor, and he would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed.
Jimmy Page (guitarist, Led Zeppelin] : Mick Taylor is an extremely fortunate man, kind of like a fellow who wins the lottery. All of a sudden he's worth a million dollars. No, maybe more. But, he's a nice fellow.
Peter Frampton : He brought absolute guitar taste to the Stones. Not that Keith