Yes, what a lovely man. You've reminded me, several years ago I found a beautiful mug with an elephant and rhino that he did for a charity. I treasure it, not to mention the many times I've seen him play.
Such a chord master mind. His rhythm guitar playing is like southern cooking; Sticks to your ribs and never leaves your memory of just how good it really is!
Ronnie Wood, the man who made me want to play guitar. Probably the most under rated guitarist from that generation of players. Every time I talk to other guitar players, their influences are always, Beck, Page, Clapton Hendrix, etc...Me, I will always see Ronnie as THE guitar player . Spent many a days as a 10yr old holding my toy store guitar, trying to emulate his style.
For sure, he has alot of taste and also honest raunch where it counts..always playing parts for the song. Much prefer him over your mentioned 'guitarist guitarists' & their licks for the sake of it. His timing, taste & tone 👍
Ronnie is like Ringo - one of those guys who is loved by everyone and who is the social glue that keeps everyone together without a bad word for anyone. Heart of gold has Ronnie - I took his photo when he was out with his wife in Covent Garden one day in London around Christmas a few years ago and he gave me the thumbs up. A class act.
with the arrival of the electric guitar as affordable and available. we had enough groups in our HS in LA to put on our own "Battle of the Bands", 1966. it's not surprising; the interviewer is my age but doesn't seem to understand the times then: it was a regime change in music. even average players sounded pretty good; exceptional ones like these guys picked up and ran with it AT THE SAME TIME.
Saw Ronnie with Rod Stewart in the seventies. He was good, but I didn't care for the direction Rod was going musically. Anyway, they were upstaged by the opening band, Frampton, who was on the tour that the "Frampton Comes Alive" album was drawn from.
I toured the States with Ronnie Wood with my band for 6 weeks back in the 90´s . Watched him every night, he´s a great guitar player and a lovely fella with some great stories to tell !
@@marcinbaj3000 US had a lot of great talents but were a very close minded country in the first half of the 60s. the lucky ones who could go to northern Europe made a fortune
How could you not benefit by having Ronnie in your band? His good natured levity alone is uplifting. Being a solid guitarist and bassist certainly adds to his value. One of rock's really good people!
@Ronnie Wood Ron, if this is really you, then I'd just like to thank you for all of the wonderful music that you've been a part of. I really appreciate it. Peace and Love!
A top 20 all time guitarist. Can play pretty much everything that isn't about shredding. Knows about 20,000 guitar chords and turns the simplest progressions into riffs that captivate listeners for over 55 years. Absolutely love this guy!
Well guys who possess only a moderate amount of talent (like Ronnie), aren't in a position to be judgemental. They are grateful to be where they are, and hope that the good luck continues. They are not in a position to shake the rafters. So, yes, humble, but also realistically practicle. In contrast to this, Keith Richards, who is at the core of the Stones success, is very opinionated about other people in the business. Check out his opinions of Led Zepplin. Same for Pete Townsend. He's the core of The Who. Check out his opinion of Led Zepplin, too.
@@KenTeel He's kind of a Jack of all Trades instrumentally, a decent player absolutely, but certainly no virtuoso. His guitar skills are similar to Keith's, but Keith's the author of some of Rock's all time catchiest Riffs/Hooks. I don't know if it's Woody not feeling he's positioned well enough to say certain things, I'm not saying for sure it isn't, it could be. He's played with everybody, I've heard most of the biggest names comment on Woody at one time or another. The way he's spoken of I get the impression he tends to be less cynical, and more affable than a lot of people just by the nature of his personality.
I agree that he gets by on being a very likeable chap..he is solid as a guitarist and I think people want to work with people who get along with people..well I would
@@KenTeel Ron Wood is a multi-instrument, talented player. Someone with an opinion as strong as you must be a virtuoso on guitar, and I’ll bet you are so much fun at parties. Can you show us, & me in particular, that you can even hold a candle to Ron Wood’s ability? Please post to your channel, & I’ll critique it for you. If not, keep blasting asinine opinions from your keyboard; everyone loves to be around happy people. BTW, I see that you failed your spelling course. Cheers!!!
Ronnie Wood isn’t a proverbial “guitar hero”, but man he’s a hell of musician and he’s has hand a hand in probably close to 20 of the definitive songs of the classic rock era between all the artists and bands he’s been in.
I rank Ronnie’s accomplishments by the number and variety of great musicians who’ve had him along to support them. He’s never been a pure virtuoso or memorably inventive soloist, but man, he brings his “A” game to many different genres and styles. Plus, he must be a wonderful chap to be around ... upbeat, flexible.
All those great players rate Ronnie very highly as a guitarist. Something that his detractors should realise! I love his bluesy, funky, rocking style &some beautiful pedal steel playing .
Ron Wood - one of the true greats! Watch him play guitar with the Faces. Some of the finest bass work in the JEff Beck group- Truth is an amazing collection of songs
@@garydreyer7478 there is a version of stay with me live that really highlights this tone. Rod says something "keep it dirty" and I think he is calling out the guitar intro - really great band the faces were
Ronnie’s a really nice guy.I’ve always loved his guitar playing and his love of art.I had the pleasure of meeting him one night in Paris.Even though I was definitely the least important in his suite in the George V hotel, he talked to me for hours about music and even showed me his latest paintings from The Ivy.It was so nice to find that the artist I have admired for so long was also a beautifully curious kind guy and unbelievably humble.Keep her lit Ronnie🎸
Always love how Bob Harris frequently injects the name of the other person into his sentences...makes it much more intimate. And Ronnie is a living legend, despite his humility.
Paul Ayres. Yup. From East Ham. Central Line into Tottenham Court Road walk round to Wardour Street. Head for the Marquee. Still got the tee shirt after all these years. Brilliant time.
And they all grew from the man who shook the uk !!! Eddie Cochran . Big jim Sullivan was Eddies backing guitarist . Eddie showed Jim loads . Then when Eddie got killed on that 1960 tout . Jim went into teaching Clapton . Page and all the rest . There will never be another Eddie Cochran but his influence lives through these guys
Ronnie wood played great guitar with Rod stewart and the small faces.The melody lines he played for mandolin wind and gasoline alley, to name a few, were absolutely integral to the music.
@@yassassin6425 Well that's true. They'd changed their name to The Faces after Steve Marriott left. But he certainly was a member of the Faces with Rod Stewart.
yes, there was a lot of ambition as Ronnie says..to get out of poverty, or the social class one was born into (discrimination has always been with us) .... a lot of class struggle in a society which closely observed it...picking up the pieces after a world war that had a devastating effect on the working class who fought it...the opportunities kids have today are taken for granted by them...with this generation it was the factory, the coal mine, shipbuilding in locations where the sun never shone, the construction site, or Australia or Canada...- not very pleasant prospects in the least. What can a poor boy do, but play in a rock' n' roll band, or on a soccer team ..and that was about it...
Ronnie is one of the most humble, honest, decent, loveable musicians/artists out there & has been for decades. Really pleased he is happily married to Sally & has twins to love & adore. A wonder human being. Thanks mate for keeping the Stones together.
Ronnie doesn't seem to put himself anywhere near the great guitar players of the period. Truth is he may not be a "guitar hero", (whatever that is) but there is a reason all the heroes wanted to play with Ronnie Wood. He is a special kind of player who knows how to play 2nd fiddle as good as anyone. He's provided the background canvas for the others to paint their masterpieces on. Without Ronnie to play off of, a lot of those memorable riffs would have never been. They'd have been something completely different. Ronnie has had quite an influence on the British guitar scene for 40 years. Under the radar and media hype.
Skonny Hewson I don’t think he’s overrated at all. Most people know he’s crap. Bill Wyman once said of him, all he does is run around the stage making horrible noises. I couldn’t agree more.
@@marcusesq5031 Yep, there is a video of Ronnie Wood trying to play the lead from 'Black & Blue's "THE HAND OF FATE" and Wood can NOT even come close to playin' it ! A Total embarrassment to the STONES, Just Horrible !
ursafan40 -You’re right, but even Jimmy Page opted to play bass and extoll the virtues of Jeff Beck (although I’ve never heard of a Jeff Beck who praised any God above Jeff Beck). If you were there - in time, not necessarily space - you gotta laugh hearing Ron Wood so humbly confirm everything we were sure we knew about our guitar gods. The way he puts it: “You can do this, right?”(Beck) “Well, ...no!” (Wood).
This is why I hate when fans compare Mick Taylor to Ronnie and slam Ronnie....it's apples to oranges...and, the two are good long-time friends...it's completely unfair to Ronnie. Mick Taylor has a specific playing style and is fantastic at it...Ronnie has his own style and it is fantastic. Ronnie has been the core of so many great bands. People who compare, as if it's a competition, have typically not heard him in the Faces, , nor his excellent solo work, nor his time with Jeff Beck playing bass, etc. Ronnie's a humble guy who is always the first to compliment another guitarist and recognize a talent.. it's not a competition.
Imagine being a teen in London (and surrounding locales) in the mid-'60s and being able to go to clubs to see the early days of these bands. I was born about ten years too late.
I was born in 1950 in London, so my teen years were probably better than those of anyone before or since. Now - Jeff Beck - he hasn't learned anything in the past fifty years but, Jeez - hasn't he invented plenty?
2:18 ... "Jeff Beck is still like that to this day ... he's like a kid in a toy shop with his guitar ... can you do this blububub ... and I go , No! ... but I'l give it a damn good try" LOL funny story :D
I miss the days of the mid-sixties when Ronnie was with The Birds. Caught up with him twice in '75 in Sydney and got to play his Tony Zemaitis guitar. Once with The Faces, and once with The Stones...same hotel, same room!
Pony Trekker Mick Jagger did say back then Blackmore was the best guitarist he ever heard. Page/Clapton/Beck are certainly the most marketed guitarists ever.
Berni certainly page beck Clapton are the most marketed guitarists but not necessarily the best. Blackmore? Iommi? And probably one of the most underrated and not often mentioned the great Alvin Lee
I love that Ronnie, who for a point was said to be the most viewed live performer due to how many great bands he was with, doesn't seem like he ever let it go to his head, and is probably the same goofball today as he was 50 years ago.
@@shawnriffhard It might be close. The Dead are credited with about 2,350 concerts (Up until 2015) and Bob has played in his own groups during and after that. Ronnie looks like he did around 1,400 with the Stones, and another 800 combined with Beck and Faces. Though I'm sure one of the 3 constant members of the Stones would have beat him out with their 2,100+ shows. So it would all come down to who could pack'em in more, which both bands were certainly able to do consistently for 50+ years.
For British fans who are familiar with 'Eastenders' soap opera, Ronnie was once brilliantly described as looking like Dot Cotton's reflection in the back of a spoon !! which I thought was brilliant!
Jimmy was actually born in Heston which is West London - he grew up in Surrey. What is most interesting is that Ritchie Blackmore actually grew up in Heston and bands like The Who were from Acton West London - all within 5-10 mins car ride. So while the triumvirate is often given as Clapton, Page and Beck being a stones throw in Surrey ... for me it's Page, Blackmore and Townsend in West London.
Funny you should say that! At our school for a little while, was Jeff Beck aged 14 and we were 13 years old in a Special Art class, and the music teacher would go on about the great musicians, like how great was Mozart, and Beethovan had been; and show off on the piano etc. I was dreaming of being an inventor of a new kind of Music on piano, but did not get far:-and Jeff Beck was just trying to make a guitar and dreaming of what this guitar should look and sound like with a jumble of wires and bits of wood from the garden fence!!! He was not to know the heights he would ascend to! He would be the new Mozart of all kinds of Fusion/Rock/Blues/India etc and invented a kind of music that would ascend the others. He was not to know what would happen next, but he kept trying and kept working and learning and knew what he wanted to do when he found it or heard it. He also inspired others and so he gathered together those most suited musicians that could help them all along their way to success. I have to say the result is wonderful. However Britain was never going to get the prize for supporting her musicians. The Musicians them selves had to do it on their own in other countries like Japan and the USA. I heard a dreadful interview on the UK telly where a lady was quite rude and did not know what Jeff had succeeded in doing abroad. We do not hear from you, she said. What do you mean?asked Jeff. Well she should have done her homework first and seen what Jeff was doing all the time. I hope she is catching up on RU-vid!! Cynthia Allen-McLaglen
Thank god (ahem!) they mentioned Peter Green..... often overlooked among his 'peers' - not by of course. Fabulous player whose demons got the better of him. Saw him live a few years ago at a small venue. Best £18 I've spent on a Saturday night in a LONG time, before or since I think hehe.
It wasn't a cold cutthroat competitive like culture with one another (it was competitive though) and not other artist saying you suck or being snobbish about their playing abilities. They learned from each other and built their talents that way.
In my honest opinion I think his art is incredibly tacky. I hate to say it too because I really admire his artistic expressiveness and he seems like an all around great guy!
Indeed, Jeff Beck, when looking at his early guitar playing versus now, has struck me as a guitar player who never stopped wanting to learn new techniques for playing the instrument. Compare him to many others who've pretty much stayed in their niche for the entire span of their headlining careers.
especially Eric Clapton the ultimate "Lay Down Sally" He has not done anything since Derek and the Dominos, of mentioning. There has never been another that has coasted so long on so little effort. Jeff kept getting better Eric kicked back and ho-hummed his way all the way through.
A bit of an exaggeration, but I generally agree. You should check out Rolling Stones' joint interview of Clapton and Beck, where Clapton admits avoiding opportunities to play with Sir Jeff because he was afraid of being shown up.
agreed 100%. the guy was a trailblazer through 1970 or 1971 then just stuck himself into a hideously dull rut......some good songs these past 45 years but nothing that floors you. sad....
Jeff is a vegetarian, for many years, and also he never got heavy into hard drugs and alcohol. he partied some, but kept it under control. Look how he looks now compared to, say, Jimmy Page, or Keith Richards.
Anybody ever wonder why videos of rock performers on RU-vid attract so many non rock 'n roll fans compelled to share why the star in the video isn't really that great after all? One reason is so they can share their music professor resume, I guess in search of a better day job. What else?
Love this guy.... always cheerful and such a solid player - You’re So Rude - underrated playing. Bass playing on the Truth album...inspiring and ahead of his time. My favourite periods for his playing.
So, most of fine english mucisians in the 60s know each other? Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Woods, Keith Moon, etc. Wonder how the felt at that time, grown up together and become legendary all together..
What was in the water? heh. On a serious note, rock n' roll wasn't even 10 years old and barely developed as a genre when these guys came up. Now 60 years later, wtf is left to do that hasn't been done? Whoever figures that out and sounds good will be the next big act in rock music...one can only hope.
I think a lot of you guys are missing the point. It's not how good a musician is on his own that makes a legend, it's the chemistry of the entire band that makes musicians legendary. I have known many brilliant musicians who could not get out of their own way to ever be part of a legendary band. I am well qualified to give this advice as i was one of them. I'm lucky enough now to play in a band with REAL chemistry but my god it's taken 40 fucking years and nobody gives a shit anymore because we're too fucking old.
It's not that there were any more good guitarists, in London's population, than any other place (of course it was a draw for the surrounding areas.) It was that there was a great incentive to develop, one's playing. That could have happened anywhere. There just happened to be business opportunities there, and when these type of localized business opportunities present themselves in area, development of art happens. The same thing happened in Greenwich Village, Paris (with painters), Silicon Valley (with computers.) It's more of a business phenomenon, than an artistic phenomenon. Artists just answer the call. Discovering a market, whose suppliers reside in a particular geographic area, creates a sort of "gold rush" for the locals, and those willing to travel there.
@Ronnie Wood cheers for that, if the World didnt have Music it would be a World of little value, with Music comes love, respect and memories, good memories.
I always thought Ronnie was the best Stones guitarist, with Mick Taylor a close second, couldn't belive it when Keef was voted 4th best rock guitarist of all time in Rolling Stone, and Ronnie got nowhere.
Ron Wood didn't play bass on Emotional Rescue. Bill Wyman did. No album with Ron Wood stacks up against the Mick Taylor and Brian Jones years. I still think he's great but Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Beggars Banquet, Between the Buttons, Flowers
'Some Girls' is a great album and so is 'Tattoo You', despite the fact that the latter consists of mainly earlier material. The Stones were at their most artistically relevant between 1968 and 1973 - peaking with 'Exile on Main Street'. Mick Taylor certainly was a factor, whilst before this, the musicality and virtuosity of Brian Jones was cynically exploited. Incidentally, 'Flowers' was not a studio album; and yes Ronnie did play bass on 'Emotional Rescue' - he was once the bass player in the Jeff Beck Group remember. You can tell it isn't Bill, too cluttered and fancy - not economical or subtle.
They were all influenced by Buddy Guy.That is what they had in common.I heard an interview with Jeff Beck and he Said "That Him,Eric and Jimmy Page were heavily influenced by Buddy Guy because of his string bending techniques"
Not true, Their paths barely crossed with them both being on only a couple of recordings & not even an entire album. You can hear the difference from Roger The Engineer (1966) & Little Games (1967). listen to "Think About It" sounds like Led Zeppelin
What amazing solos has Blackmore recorded? I've seen a lot of live footage of him and he just plays classical scales and the odd arpeggio at times. Most of the Deep Purple stuff was doubled with Jon Lord on the Hammond organ. E.g Highway Star & Burn solos are as much Lord as Blackmore, even if you think the guitar is a cooler instrument. And also Rainbow were a shit rock band because Blackmore couldn't keep a line up together and then he decided to go commercial- they did make one very good album, Rising. And Blackmore's Night is absolute self indulgent medieval wank to keep his missus happy.
A very humble, almost self-effacing guy, who's always interesting to listen to, but also easily one of the best guitarists out there as well as a highly talented artist. His extensive input & work with The Rolling Stones alone is testament to his musical talents. Something particularly evident during their many live recordings. The mutual understanding & many note-perfect interchanges between Ronnie Wood & Keith Richards on stage seem like they're playing on another level. The high degree of intuition evident between these two gifted musicians never fails to impress me. - I look forward to reading his books in the very near future.
Met Ronnie and sort of got to know him (prior to sobriety) as my fiance was babysitting Ronnie's kids and working at his club in South Beach. He's a great dude. Bobby Keys was my drinking buddy at the club, was one of the nicest people ever. Wish he still had that club
I love listening to our magnificent rock stars of the 60s and 70s how they got started and progression to super bands. One day they will be gone we need to document their stories for history.
Mark Wright: Peter Green was the most genuine blues guitarist England ever produced. He had ( he still gigs, now & then, I believe) his own style, pure, and yet, hellhounds on his trail...
Ptown Scribe yes but although they are great albums,the albums that are considered by most to be the stones greatest are the albums with Taylor ,sticky fingers,exile etc
I was lucky enough to be around in this fantastic era, so pleased to see so many around today.Jeff is In my estimation the world's greatest even better than Jimmy who I also had the fortune to see! If anybody in entertainment deserves recognition with a knighthood, it's him, unfortunately he would probably tell them where to stick it !!!!!!!!
