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why were they NEVER cited as a (uk) punk precursor? if they were i don't recall it (dr c, do you?)

all the guys in the sex pistols except john rotten were really into them, right?

anyway i like em, not as much as the small faces but @ least as much as humble pie.

― duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

well i wouldn't recall that citation then, cz the other pistols — jones and cook — never opened their mouths!!

jones was such a rod stewart fan that he burgled stewart's house several times, which is where half the pistols equipment came from (other half: bowie/roxy music)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why, Mark? I think Rod wanted it that way. He actually thought he was making better, classier records with Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and people like that. Perhaps if he had toured with them instead of the anonymous LA studio musicians he usually picked things would have been different. I also think that for such a rowdy, rockin' group, they didn't really have that many rowdy, rockin' songs. There was a bit too much melancholy and that might disappoint your average classic rocker. I don't know--do they still play "Stay With Me" on classic rock radio? I should ask my nephews.

But I don't think the Faces really vanished over here. In the American 80s Indie World they seem pretty revered, and on the G 'n' R Sunset Strip scene they were up there with the Stones and the Dolls. And I'm sure the Black Crowes must have namedropped them from time to time.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perhaps if he had toured with them instead of the anonymous LA studio musicians

them=faces

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

(o okay, t'isn't exactly "manly", but, from what i've heard by them (& them), 'disco' or no disco, rhm'n'bluez or beat pop, I've always preferred them Small, and Small only. fk the F!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

In Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming" they get plenty of recognition as Brit punk predecessors, although to be fair, as someone above says, it's largely indirect, as I think the only people they actually influenced were Steve Jones & Paul Cook.

― bham, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was all downhill for Ron Wood after the (English) Birds.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine years pass...

this live 1970 comp is so killer: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1183

― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link

Loving this. Kenney Jones on "Plynth" always slays.

― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

yeah the rhythm section is rad.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link

three years pass...

love this late period b-side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQYPyJc0aQ

― brimstead, Thursday, 8 October 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link

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