If Taylor was so good how come he disappeared into the Hasbeen Ocean?. I saw him a few years back at the Stanley Blues festival here in England and he was nothing memorable and didn't even have any particularly good tone. Stan Webbs Chickenshack and Sherman Robertson were also there and both of them were amazing, in fact just what you expect from headliners.The real what if is . . . what if The Glimmer Twins had treated Taylor with respect and he had stayed in the band. The Stones would have been the pre-eminent band easily dwarfing even Zep. Taylor's effect on the band was that good. One just has to listen to Exile on Mainstreet. I'm convinced the tension of Richards having to play alongside of a talent like Taylor had to have pushed him creatively. Taylor set the bar pretty darn high. After Taylor ws gone, they got everyone's goodtime mate - essentially a tea boy. Time to coast. A few decent albums, Black and Blue, Some Girls, Tattoo You, but the Stones were toast creatively.
Keith's contribution may have been much more as a songwriter than as a guitarist. I have heard it said more than once that he is the musical soul of the Stones (as a writer). I also think that some of their post-Exile albums weren't bad at all (Goat's Head Soup, Some Girls, Tattoo You) compared to the pretty lame stuff churned out by many bands of that period.If the Stones ever got any real guitarists to stay in the band long enough to have any effect, the world would have realized what a used up junkie Richhards had become by the early 70's and either he would have been tossed out on his arse, or the Stones would have self-destructed.
I don't get all the Stones love around here. They were great up to MAYBE 1972 or so, then they just put it on coast while Richards was filled with things other than musical ideas. Now they are an utter joke. And I am a fan. I can only imagine what they might have done without the junkie.
If the Stones ever got any real guitarists to stay in the band long enough to have any effect, the world would have realized what a used up junkie Richhards had become by the early 70's and either he would have been tossed out on his arse, or the Stones would have self-destructed.
I don't get all the Stones love around here. They were great up to MAYBE 1972 or so, then they just put it on coast while Richards was filled with things other than musical ideas. Now they are an utter joke. And I am a fan. I can only imagine what they might have done without the junkie.
Mick Ronson in the Stones would've been cool, I think.
Roy Buchanan in the Stones would've looked kinda strange, I think.
Just listen to him with the Stones. I'm not saying he was the god of all guitarists, I'm saying when Taylor was with the Stones, both Taylor and the Stones were at their very best. The chemistry clicked. Music is filled with artists who on their own are ordinary but combined with their bandmates make magic.If Taylor was so good how come he disappeared into the Hasbeen Ocean?. I saw him a few years back at the Stanley Blues festival here in England and he was nothing memorable and didn't even have any particularly good tone. Stan Webbs Chickenshack and Sherman Robertson were also there and both of them were amazing, in fact just what you expect from headliners.