BEST ROLLING STONES 2nd GUITARIST

[GAS PANIC]

Everyone knows who keith richards is but i was wondering what peoples favorite guitarist was of Brian Jones, Mick Taylor, Ronnie Wood.

I would have taylor at the top of my list followed by jones

 

[blackshadow]

Jones by a whisker.

 

[hawks_time]

Jones because of his overall music talent. If he'd lived on and started a new band and held it together they would have been huge, no doubt.

 

[Bomber32]

Brian Jones narrowly.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Mick Taylor, purely because the albums and the live gigs they were producing in that era were mindblowing.

 

[IanG]

Mick Taylor, purely because the albums and the live gigs they were producing in that era were mindblowing.

Mick Taylor for pretty much the same reason plus the fact that he is an incredible guitarist anyway, streets ahead of Ron Wood at least.

 

[Sloth]

Ronnie Wood is the only one I know of!

 

[johnnyhoward]

Taylor was with the band during their peak - coincidence? I think not.

 

[hawk for 37]

Taylor easily.

BTW just read Ronnie Wood's book. What a load of shit. Couldn't possibly vote for him after reading that. Talk about blowing wind up his own arse.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Taylor easily.

BTW just read Ronnie Wood's book. What a load of shit. Couldn't possibly vote for him after reading that. Talk about blowing wind up his own arse.

For the last 30 years he's been playing rhythm to one of the best guitarists ever, he's hardly had a hard gig. His impact has been minimal.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Mick Taylor - 'cos the only decent albums the Stones made were the black and white ones.

The only ones you play from start to finish.

Were a singles band before and after.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Mick Taylor - 'cos the only decent albums the Stones made were the black and white ones.

The only ones you play from start to finish.

Were a singles band before and after.

You don't rate Aftermath or Beggars Banquet?

 

[Stig O'Hara]

You don't rate Aftermath or Beggars Banquet?

Banquet is dynamite, obviously, their best bar the other b&w's
but Gram Parsons was a huge influence.

Aftermath was just chasing the Beatles.
Great singles mind you, but they were an AM radio band then.

And that was Oldhams influence.

 

[materamagic]

Had Jones lived who knows how the Stone's music would have sounded like entering the 70's.

He was by far the most unique and individual musician of the band with that mysterious quality, for mine the bands most talented musician, like so many others gone before his time.

However speaking in terms of guitar and Stones you cannot go past Mick Taylor, second to Keith.

A weave with Ronnie is never the same as those golden years playing alongside Keith

 

[Stig O'Hara]

A weave with Ronnie is never the same as those golden years playing alongside Keith

Absolutely.

 

[materamagic]

Live With Me, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, etc...

Some of the greatest two guitar rock ever recorded.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Since it's illegal to post torrent links, I'd highly recommend any fan of Mick Taylor search the usual sites for a torrent named "Rolling Stones 70's Bootleg collection". 2.4GB of LIVE Rolling Stones bootlegs from the 70s. I personally recommend the gigs from Perth, London and Brussels, Mindblowing stuff.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Reckon the best thing he did was "Moonlight Mile"

nice, melodic stuff, over a camp Jagger Falsetto,
some country slide, then a wash of strings,
bit underrated that song.

Keef was a non-attendee for those sessions.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

rpt.

 

[materamagic]

From memory the last recording Jones did with the Stone's was that beautiful guitarwork on the song No Expectations. Correct?

 

[Stig O'Hara]

From memory the last recording Jones did with the Stone's was that beautiful guitarwork on the song No Expectations. Correct?

It was all a bit messy then for Brian,
he is on "Let it Bleed" but is only percussion i believe.

Which is a shame, because it was his band to start with.

 

[GAS PANIC]

For those intrested in Jones a movie called Stoned was released a couple of years ago about mainly his mysterious death and the creation and demise of his life as a Stones member, not a bad film.

He was the original leader and trend setter way before Jagger or Richards but unfortunatly although at truly great multi instumentalist he didn't have the ability to write music and hence was pushed back as the Jagger/Richards partnership grew stronger.