Searched here but couldn't find any previous discussion, anyone know about "I feel like playing" mentioned on Ronnie's site here : http://www.ronniewood.com/HoldingPage/Default.aspx

he was recording it a few months ago - it was tentatively titled 'More Good News' back then.  I think it may be out before the end of the year.

His website is being redesigned - probably not only to coincide with the new album but because the old one (which was run by his son) was extremely 'Jo-friendly'.

He didnt dry out until early 2002, when he went to a clinic to get clean for the Stones' Licks tour.

He came onstage carrying a glass of red wine and was smoking and drinking throughout the gig (this was around the time where he'd featured on the front of the Sunday People saying he had been told he would be dead in a year from emphysema if he didnt give up smoking), so I sorta feared the worst when I first saw him!

The show (this was at Vicar Street in Dublin in December 2001 - one of 3 shows he did to promote his new album, the other 2 being in London) was good fun and he played Ok, but Slash really took the gig onto another level. He came on after about 6 songs and played the rest of the show (it lasted about 2 hours). The rest of the band seemed a bit unrehearsed, though.

Still, it was great to see Ronnie play in a club which held about 800 people.

Thanks for refreshing my memory, so it was "only" the booze.

Did that show ever leak out ? Need to look it up, Slash certainly had some nice licks, too bad he's not much of a songwriter and hasn't been up to much of interest for years now, since the early 90s really...

I'm going to listen to NFB again!

continued : it sold how much,  1000 ?! Poor distribution I'm guessing. Did "Slide on This" do a  lot better ? Bill German mentions in his book that Ronnie had problems getting a record deal for it.

Mel Belli wrote on Oct 14^th, 2009 at 3:40pm:



Really? Jesus wept. I know it was released on a very small label, and maybe the distribution potential was a bit limited, but thats hard to fathom. You'd think that even having Bob Dylan on one track would make it even slightly collectible.

I think it came out the same week as 'Goddess in the Doorway' and that album's sales were crappy as well.

Its hard to comprehend that a band that can get four or five million people worldwide to fork out large amounts of money on concert tickets and which can still put out million selling studio albums cant muster more than a thousand hardcore fans who will buy a solo album by one of the band members. Ronnie even promoted it on the Jonathan Ross Show too - that should have helped a bit.

Makes you wonder who, 8 years later in an area of plummeting record sales due to illegal downloading, who his new album is going to attract. Especially as Ronnie is about as popular at the minute as a fart in a space suit - his own family can't even be relied upon to buy it.

Wow, 1.5 stars on the normally lenient AMG -> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gvfwxqu0ldje !

I dont hate him at all (its not really in my nature to 'hate' anyone. Especially someone I dont know). He's a Stone for Chrissakes. When he releases his record, I'll be buying it and if he plays near me again I'll be going. He's never done anything to make me 'hate' him. Not even close.

I just think he's behaving like an asshole and has become an embarrassment to his family. I dont see why whatever 'values' he or anyone has should be admired just because he's a member of a band I happen to like.

My main sentiment towards him is that I hope he sorts his life out before its too late, because I think he's heading 90 mph down a one way street in the wrong direction and he'll probably be dead within the next couple of years.

I think that indicates more compassion for him than that shown by some people (not you) who profess to be fans and who are encouraging him down the path of self destruction just because its a 'rock n roll' thing to do.

With regard to lack of knowledge or availability of a record, there's no excuse in this day and age for a member of the Rolling Stones - a band who carry enormous media clout and have a publicity machine every other act can only dream of - to be in a position where they release a product whose existence escapes everyone's attention.