If You Can’t Rock Me - Rolling Stones: Mick Taylor 

Taylor Taylor Taylor !!!!!

If there is one band that influenced my guitar playing it would be The Stones for definite. I first got into guitar when I was in my early/mid teens, I idolised Keith and his playing he was just the ideal Rock’n’Roll star and I wanted to play like him. And that I surly did! I spent hours perfecting his sound and style and I learned pretty much all of his guitar playing (by ear) from 64 - 81, my favourite tracks by included; Midnight Rambler, Little Queenie, Brown Sugar and pretty much all the Open G songs they were so fun to play! As I began to experiment with the guitar I found myself going back to all those old Stones records (especially the blues covers) and playing Brian’s slide parts, my favourite of which includes, I Can’t Be Satisfied, No Expectations and Little Red Rooster. Brian showed me a whole different side and sound of the guitar. However it was Mick T who was my biggest influence. His tight melodic playing is something that I always wanted to replicate in my own playing. I soon learned that I am no Mick T but I tried relentlessly to learn his work and after a very long line of blood sweat and tears I learned both his solos for the song Sway (one of my favourite Stones tracks), I felt like I completed the guitar in a sense. From then came, Sympathy For The Devil, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, Shine A Light, Dead Flowers etc. Still to this day I am in utter awe of his beautiful guitar playing, it still blows my mind and I have anything to thank for his brilliance and his technique which taught me so much and developed me as a guitarist. Long live Mick T! The greatest guitarist the Stones ever had.

Hi Justin - Stones should hire you, just stand in the wings playing like Mick! Top stuff.

Wow I never even realized Taylor played all those rhythm guitar parts! Great stuff!

Nicely done indeed. I think this video shows not only was Taylor innovative in his playing, but he added a texture to all the songs he played on. Thanks!

For me, the best Stones theme in the 70's. Charlie in Disco style, Richards on bass and rhythm guitar and Taylor in one of his best works, reminding me a lot of Carlos Santana's style. And you caught it all perfectly.

Excellent

Probably your best video/demonstration yet of Mick Taylor's genius. Kudos!

HAHAHA dude you're like Mick Taylor's Soul in Heaven this is perfect oh man

All your stones playing is great especially Mick Taylor

Great Work Great👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Sensational again mate. Another brilliant outing. Thanks Justin. 😎🎸👍🏻

Very cool, huge Taylor fan.

Justin you are a natural. Thank you so much for posting this! It's twice nice to see and hear such a flawless breakdown of Taylor's guitar parts.

Awesome job! I am blown away! MT is one of the greats and you just proved my point! Thank you!

Your rolling stones covers are incredible.

Very tasteful..you definitely have this era of the Stones mastered

Incredible what Mick Taylor actually played. You brought out Mick Taylor's guitar playing in every nuance. And you play as effortlessly and fluently like he did. I wish I could do that... May I ask how you get your sounds (you nail them as well)?

Awesome lesson Justin!

Truly amazing job, Justin!

Great video and tone!

sensacional, obrigado por postar mais.

Awesome! Quick question: did he tune way down for that part in the bridge?

Absolutely brilliant thank you

Incredible playing/tone

This is awesome! Thanks for recording it this way. What key is that lead guitar? Hard time figuring that out. The song seems to be in the key of G, but most lead guitar sounds like the key of D. Can you please tell me?

Perfeito!!!!!

Cara, excelentes seus covers do Mick Taylor. Parabéns. Qual o modelo da sua Gibson? Standard, Traditional, Custom? E, se eu puder sugerir uma outra música do Mick Taylor pra você tocar, recomendo essa versão de Winter que o MT fez com a Carla Olson. Há duas versões que ele fez com ela, mas essa aqui é a melhor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a5mPVEp1eS0.html Tem também essa versão de Dead Flowers que é muito interessante: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4oPInSfh6H4.html E, de novo, parabéns.

Thanks.

love how you break it down for novices like me.

Very tasty

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