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Originally Posted by ruff
The best stuff the Stones ever did was when Mick Taylor was in the band. You never hear about him anymore and it doesn't seem like the Stones play any of the music from those days live anymore. I never was clear on why he left the band. I caught that 1972 tour in Detroit though, ripped on mescaline. Those were the days.
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I also bought the CD of this remastered "Exile" so I could have it in my car. It has a bonus CD with a half dozen "new" songs from the 1972 Exile sessions and also a bunch of VERY cool alternate takes (Loving Cup with no piano is incredible) Anyway, I was reading some reports on this whole project...and I read that Jagger and Richards and Watts did a lot of work on this with hands on re-mastering. And that they cleaned up a couple of things, and one of the songs that's "new" never had vocals or lyrics and Jagger wrote and sang then now over the 40 year old music tracks.
And one of the interesting things I read is that Mick Taylor came in and worked on some of the guitar parts that were missing on some of those alternate tracks. So Mick Taylor kinda "rejoined" the Stones in a way this year.
But yeah, the Stones still play all that stuff live...at least they did on their awesome tour in 2006. They played "All Down The Line" and "Tumbling Dice" from Exile and of course they did "It's Only Rock n Roll But I Like It" and some others from the Mick Taylor era.
He is an incredible guitarist. And his slide guitar work on "All Down The Line" is like taking a lesson in how to play slide. And of course he played some of the most beautiful slide guitar EVER with the Stones on the live versions of "Love In Vain" (the old Robert Johnson song they redid)
I never have read what the full story on him leaving the band was either. All that Keith Richards ever said was...there was a bit of conflict on a personal level that he attributed to Taylor being American and the rest of the Stones being British. Who knows?
Maybe they didn't like each other's drug dealer? lol