Sad, Sad, Sad, Hold on to Your Hat, Continental Drift, Break the Spell - Ronnie

That's 1/3 of the entire Steel Wheels album, seems like Bill already wasn't motivated anymore to stay with them then^^

I think Mick played drums on back of my hand.

ronnie-woody wrote on Jul 25^th, 2024 at 12:44am:


It's this kinda thing that shows he that ultimately, Mick and Keith are, and really always were the heart and soul of the band.

They worked as a four piece essentially from late 68- June 1969 when Brian was basically slowly firing himself from the band (by no longer caring / showing up reliably), and that was fine and you had M&K churn out Let it Bleed out of it.

Then Mick Taylor quit, and Ronnie filled in the guitar gap. Then Bill quit, and so on.

I mean for as much as people lionize Mick Taylor for instance, Hand of Fate is basically a Stones song with Mick Taylor except the guitarist isn't him - but it may as well be. You can replicate Mick Taylor, you can get a really skilled blues driven guitarist, especially in 1975, there were a lot of those guys out there.

But you can't replicate Mick's singing, songwriting, lyrics or personality or dance moves lol. You can't replicate Keith's innate sense of riffs and his own really underrated sense of melody and songwriting. That you can't replicate.

All these guys - Bill, Brian, Mick Taylor, Charlie, and Stu - were important. Each brought with them a unique something to the band - Brian's darkness, attitude, sense of melody, sense of experimentation, showmanship and fashion sense; Bill's dry humor and good bass lines and humble personality; Taylor's fluid guitar lines and humble demeanor; Charlie being Charlie, Stu being Stu.

But ultimately the Stones rolled on without them...

But you can't replace Mick's singing, or his immense talents as a frontman, or Keith's very distinctive riff and guitar style, because then it'd be a different band. Remove either, and it's no longer the Stones.