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"A successful guitar player"?? Understatement to cause dizziness. The group lost its soul for good when this guy took a one way walk. But how important is artistic achievement anyway when you can tour the oldies for the ensuing forty five years to packed arenas where disposable incomes cure the pain of hearts aching with nostalgia?
Mick's guitar playing gave the Stones an element they never had before, nor since. His album with Mark Knopler on Dylan's Infidels made it a fantastic piece of work.
“When it’s 5 am in the morning,you have been up all night doing heroin and jamming with Keith Richards,living as a tax exile in France,you know it’s time to change your life”-Mick Taylor.
I saw the Stones twice with Mick Taylor, '69 and '72. To this day, I recall being awed during the '72 show as Mick Taylor played an extended solo on "You Can't Always Get What You Want." To this day, I love the way he plays. Such a melodic, sensitive style, but he can also rip it when the song calls for it.
No wonder why the greatest musical achievements by the Rolling Stones were gained when Mick Taylor was in the band.. Such a smart, tasty and accomplished guitar player..
The stones have never had a guitar virtuoso like mick taylor. He single handedly raised the level of musicianship to a higher degree for the stones. They've never been the same since he left.
@@jacoblandman7345 Beggars Banquet & Let It Bleed are two of their very greatest Albums both made without Mick Taylor! And both better than GH Soup & Only Rock & Roll albums with him!
@@matthatter2849 Came here looking for this comment. Probably my favourite stones recording. In fact, the whole of "Get Yer Ya Yas Out of Here" is a masterpiece.
@@michaelchristopher3845 He does the first solo, then Taylor takes over. Each solo is mixed right and then left channel indicating where each stood on the stage. Taylor is the second solo in the left channel.
Saw Mick Taylor and Koko Montoya with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers after this interview. What a great show. The show was at Fitzgeralds' in Houston, Texas
Awesome guitar talent. I did get get to see him live in a small venue. Am grateful for the experience. He is right, you never know. I am 71 and still pick up a dozen or so gigs per year, in a bar band.
Love it , I think i will still be a successful guitar player if nothing else, shit i almost fell off the chair laughing. Mick you're one of the best in rock history & have held that since the 60's & you will always hold that title long after you're gone. An amazingly gifted man.
My favorite lead guitarist of ALL TIME!! Thankyou Mick Taylor for your inspiration and that day & evening W/ Terry Reid Coconut Teaser Hollywood hanging out !! Words can't describe that day ...... 💫💫💫
Mick made it best Stones era period. Ronnie Wood , whom i love, was at his best with Rod Stewart. Micks 1st solo lp was great, my favorite and in my playlist still today...the song Leather jacket. Great song!....And Ronnie's Ive got my own album to do is my favorite of all his solo work.
The Rolling Stones reached a creative peak when Mick Taylor was in the band. Some of their very best albums are undoubtedly with him. Once he left, the creativity & quality of their music steadily declined. That speaks volumes. Just wish he'd stayed with the band a lot longer, despite not getting the credit he deserved for his huge contribution to a number of songs. A brilliant guitarist!
@@metallion0738 There are of course some great songs on a number of VG Rolling Stones LPs made after Taylor's departure. But note: Mick Taylor (though uncredited) plays on at least 2 tracks on Tattoo You. "Tops" & "Waiting on a Friend". Both songs from the Goats Head Soup sessions. Taylor later demanded & received added royalties. Ronnie Wood offers a sympathetic, note-perfect synchronicity to Keith's guitar playing that works very well. That's especially apparent in their live performances. I can't imagine many other guitar players reaching that higher level of musical understanding. But the band's overall creativity has never quite reached the peaks of the Taylor era. That Taylor brought something very different to the band's development is apparent from his contributions. I like Ronnie. But in fairness, I think much of his playing style is a bit too similar to Keith's. There again, Mick Taylor was one of the very best guitarists of any generation.
@@kanashiimurakamisan The band was also much younger with MT. Would think that's part of it. Would be interesting to know how he influenced the songs on the albums.
@@Abebe345 Indeed. I've often wondered how their music might have evolved if Mick Taylor hadn't left? Going by interviews, his influence wasn't slight. MT described one example. Around 1973, he & Mick Jagger experimented with a (then) new song, "Time Waits for No One". Taylor's lead guitar is quite outstanding. Just two of them in a room. Only later, Keith added his guitar. Song-writing credits went, as usual, to Jagger/Richards. MT cited other similar examples. All great bands continue evolving. The Rolling Stones no less. But Mick Taylor's influence seems very evident, as was Brian Jones's previously.
@@kanashiimurakamisan I think we disagree here a bit. Mick and Keith have stayed dedicated to the sound they developed in the sixties imo even when Brian was in the band. They had a definite approach which they have never strayed from which probably lead to creative tensions with Brian. MT doesn't strike me as not wanting to dominate and sometimes his playing wasn't getting the feel of the music and he was playing over Jaggers vocals and out of sync with the other instruments. However, often he found the feel and was adding some beautiful playing while syncing with the band. He was never going to be lead and Keith just rhythm because a lot of the potency comes from Keith and it needed to be worked. This is where I wish MT had decided to become a Stone, understand what they were trying to do, and add his prodigious talents to the craft, but it looks like it was too much compromise in MT's eyes and he may have thought he would do better in another group. Mick Taylor could learn a lot from Keith as well about feel, less is more, and a different style. I think if both dedicAted themselves to this kind of partnership the result could have developed into something sublime. But in the end, to me, MT stayed his own man and that direction didn't develop imo. Sorry long winded.
Most underrated guitar player ever a real genius when it came to melodic soloing check out some of his work on Bob Dylan Real Live and Carla Olson and Mick Taylor Too Hot for Snakes the versions of Sway and Winter Out and that's not even mentioned what he did for the Stones he unilateraly with Bobby Keys totally transformed their sound and none got the least of credit, out of this world unmatched !!! And he can't fill a medium size club with his band.
Keith Richards started Moonlight Mile. Mick Jagger and Mick Taylor basically finished writing it they should have given him a credit for it along with a few others just for his solos alone. He's got to be 70 years old by now. successful is putting it mildly some of his solos are right up there with Eric Clapton and Hendrix
The Mick Taylor years were the best years of the Rolling Stones. When Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stone they were many things going on, yes he needed a break from the drugs but to leave the band was a mistake. I do believe at 24(?) he made that decision as a 24 yr. old and not as an adult. He was unhappy because he didn't get credit for a few songs. He should of stayed. I saw an interview with Keith Richards in 2015. Keith said he wish Mick would of stayed on after their '50th ' tour making the Stones a 3 guitar band. What ever happened to that?
I cant see Jageer into that scene.My perception was always that Taylor being so fucking good was stealing Jaggers limelight.Jagger tried to ditch the stones in the 80s.He wanted to be as big as michael jackson.But Jaggers idea of going solo was playing Stones songs without the Stones.We all know how well his solo career went.
Yeah and wyman said no thanks. Mick said yes and played 3 songs :( I wish I could find the interview where Keith said he wanted Mick taylor to stay on as their 3rd guitar player.
Ajax7925 maybe the most profitable but I was a Stones fan from Tell Me in 1964 and when Brian left I no longer liked them as much. I don’t care for Angie and wild horses and stuff like that. Beggars Banquet was my last favorite album by them. They just didn’t seem like the Stones anymore after Brian. I liked a song here and there but it was different.
Since Ron Wood was with the Stones when I saw them, I felt I owed it to myself to see Taylor and his band. I knew it would be great. I am taking the time to post this - Mick Taylor was the best jazz player I ever saw, including Pastorius and McLaughlin. (Personal bias, but also accurate)
Saw an interesting Stones doco the other day where Keith was paying great tribute to Mick Taylor’s guitar playing skill. He basically said “I let Mick play most of the lead as he is so good, while I sat back and grooved on my riffs”. Keith gave the impression he really enjoyed having Mick in the band... it definitely took them to a different level musically.
@@tattyshoesshigure5731 Both can be true at the same time... Keef definitely missed Taylor's playing and knew he was pushing the band to new heights of craftmanship... but also Keef is an ornery fucker and butted heads with Taylor all the time and Ronnie is a lot easier to get along with. The musician version of "Relationship status: It's complicated" 😂
The Stones surely benefited from his guitar playing, but most important was that Jagger and Richards were peaking as a songwriting duo, for a couple of years. The band's playing, the recording techniques and equipment also became much more pro around the time Taylor joined.
what a joke....the lying fame seeking evil glimmer twins stole Brians material that they pretended they didnt like after he was murdered and than made it their own...dont believe a word that comes out of their lying mouths...than they did the same to Taylor treated him crappy
@@aryalogo6624 Yeah it is. Brian could not write a song to save his life. He had nothing to steal. He put a lot into the music with all the things he could play but that was it. Without the songs from Jagger Richard's they would have remained a blues cover band and never lasted.
I love MT, but the greatest thing to happen to the Stones was Andrew Loog Oldham locking Mick and Keith in the kitchen demanding they come out with a song.
I love his guitar playing and he was with the Stones during their best period. That said, I don't really feel all that bad for him that he apparently is almost broke. He left a great gig on his own decision with nothing else lined up. Basically did nothing of note after he left the band. One of the reasons he left was because he said drug abuse in the band was bad but then he pissed through his Stones money buying drugs with it. He never did anything to clean up. He complains that he gets shafted from getting any royalties for the albums he played on(which I agree he should get) but has never taken any legal action to try and fight for it....though I know the Stones likely can afford much better lawyers...he still never took any action. He made his own bed by leaving the best gig.
Mick Taylor is such guitar player, terrific, listen to the solo in Sympathy for the devil live 69, or Sway or Love in vain, Can't you hear me knocking, All down the line live or the Brussels affair live 73, wow I mean .........................
It's clear in this interview that it's Jagger who were really annoyed when Taylor left but as he said he could overcoming everythings even drugs reason why Stones stays alive. Saw them in Brussell french show 1973 and the two Micks weaving togheter were fantastic.
Very sad, Taylor once said the same drug that was keeping his father alive was killing him. He would visit his dad and then quit the Stones or he would have been dead.
He had the good sense to exit because his wife threatened to leave him unless he gave up heroin and made his family the priority. And he knew the only way to do that was leave the circus.
I LOVE MICK TAYLOR, I CANT STAND RON WOOD, TAYLOR HAD FAR MORE CLASS AND FINESQUE AS A GUITAR PLAYER, IF HE HAD BEEN GIVEN AN OUTLET AND WAS INTERESTED IN EXPLORING THAT OUTLET HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED FAR MORE SUPERIOR THAN RICHARDS AND I ALSO BELIEVED THAT WHEN IT CAME TO RON WOOD, HE WAS CHOSEN AND IT WAS IMPLIED THAT YOU CAN DO YOUR OWN THING ON STAGE AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT OVERSHADOW KEITH RICHARDS IMAGE ON STAGE. MICK TAYLOR COULD HAVE OVERSHADOWED HIM BUT CHOSE NOT TO. ALL IN ALL MICK TAYLOR WAS GENUINELY A CLASS ACT IN A CATEGORY ALL BY HIMSELF, AND THE STONES WERE LUCKY TO HAVE HIM AND NOT THE OPPOSITE.
@@alanhowell3646 It was at the Rainbow Theater in London, which contributed songs for the live album "Waiting for Colombus." They told the audience the concert was being recorded for an album. Pretty exciting.
Mick Jagger never credit him writing some of the material as he promised he would. Therefore he left the Stones after recording the album, Its only Rock n Roll
The Stones were never better than when Mick Taylor was on lead guitar. Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers are two of the finest albums ever produced
Taylor talking about the Stones longevity. When Tattoo You came out, people were mostly surprised the Stones could still deliver at their age. This was after Emotional Rescue, which sold copies but was regarded by many fans as a disco sell-out.
Tattoo You is not a great album either. Their best material was with Briand Jones and Mick Taylor in the group. After Taylor left, they were just never as good.
People hate him. But the only reason why the Stones made it and still exist is Mick Jagger. Without Mr. Jagger they had finished by the beginning to mid 70's. Mick Taylor is 100% right.
Wayne, Come on man stop the rumour spin. Mick Taylor never claimed to get ripped off. He thought he deserved a co-writing credit on two songs, sway and Moonlight mile because he was alone with jagger when they were penned. Keith wasn't there until they recorded it. If anyone deserved a co-credit on Moonlight mile it would've been Nicky Hopkins. That's two songs, good as they are they're not the most recognizeable Stones songs or were ever hits. Taylor didn't leave for those reasons regardless of what he may have said once. He was also becoming a junkie and couldn't deal with the lifesytle anymore. Like he said Jagger was getting pissed of dealing with keith's habits. It looked like the end for the band then anyway but as we all know it wasn't.
Well said Josh S ! . Always a supertalented blues player, but his solo career proved that he is not a song writer of any merit. It was great that made a big contribution to the 50th Anniversary Shows! Any bitterness always seems to come from certain fans, and not from the man himself!!
Peter mills, M. Taylor's last sentence about himself in this clip, he'd hope to be a successful guitar player if nothing else. Like Brian Jones, a talented musician not a song writer. There's nothing wrong with that. Many brilliant classical musicians that don't compose and some less talented players that do and very well.
Walking away is the ultimate leverage. He could have said, I get credit for what I do, or I’m out of here. He’s got a low key personality not a big ego, and up against Jagger and Richards who were a force, (they already fired and killed Jones in a sense). They figured they were doing him a favor anyway letting him into a monster hit band as a late comer. Ronnie is no slouch, but Ronnie, is no Mick Taylor. Taylor’s playing was so melodic with nice build ups and payoffs that were just brilliant and sweet. And, most importantly, better than Richards playing. But, then again, Richards wrote, “Satisfaction."
He made Kieth look average and should have stayed with the stones. One of the best lead guitarist ever and I would love to see him and Lisa perform together
In 1972/3 the Stones were the coolest band on the planet. 'Hackney Diamonds' has great production, and sounds like they are having fun. A few songs sound like they could have been released during their Imperial phase. Quite unbelievable.
Mick Taylor put the Stones over the top with his unbelievable guitar skills. He was the best for them at the time, for sure. (No offense to Ronnie Wood) . The Stone's just keep Rolling though. 😊🤞👏👍👌👅🍻😋👊😎
The greatest mistake the Stones ever made was not doing WHATEVER IT TOOK, to keep Mick Taylor in the band. For starters, they could have PAID him. He was given no credits on SEVERAL albums---in other words, no residuals. In addition, his mates should have helped him with drug addiction and got him the help he needed to stay with the band. They did not... With all due respect to Keith Richards---on Mick Taylor's WORSE DAY, Keef couldn't hold a candle to him. Make no mistake, Keith Richards is a very good guitarist. Mick Taylor is a GREAT guitarist. A guitar genius. Right up there with Hendrix, Clapton, and Santana. No doubt about it. The five albums he produced with the Stones from '69-'74 are all classics. The band was never the same after 1974.
Mick Taylor is a brilliant guitar player, but he never seemed to be a Stone, he is one of those players who is great for sitting in and playing as a guest for the best, but he doesn't seem to be a solo guy like Jeff Beck or a full time band member.
Just watched the Stones play the "Sticky Fingers" album live at The Fonda Theatre 2015 on a streaming service. It sounds OK but totally lacks the Mick Taylor artistry and finesse. Especially the slide guitar work and solos. It's just not the same without MT.
I have all the Stones singles and albums up until Mick left. Have not bought another one or had any interest in them since. Just have a listen to 'Black and Blue', the first album after Taylor, which I never bought, and tell me i"m wrong.
Mick Taylor, artifice del album Sticky Fingers, de los mejores de Rolling Stones y otros mas, lastima que no continuara en el grupo, pero el sabra porque....saludos
Listening to them live after he left, they were bloody awful, and still are utterly awful now, Ronnie and Keith are painfully bad playing live together, just a marketing band now.. When Taylor was with them or should I say when they were with Taylor they were a creative musical tsunami...
Isn't the term "best guitarist" subjective? Brian, Keith, Mick, and Woody all have their fans. It's not like one rates an eight and another is a six. What is the scale? By what are they measured? Who does the measuring? I like Brian, but the others were gifted as well. The Stones would have continued evolving regardless.
I got to tell you something strange, a friend of mine has hundreds of stones live bootlegs a huge collector. Mid Taylor’s live playing was never half as good as his studio work, I never found anything on a bootleg of his playing live that came close to his studio work, I’m not sure why that is?
Mick was a great contributor to the Stones during that time, and despite what Keith may have been going through it didn't dull his contribution to a significant degree either. I stopped listening to the Stones after they became "the world's greatest disco band" according to Mick Jagger. Pretty much stopped listening to music altogether after that disco shit ruled the airwaves.
bluesboy54321 mick Taylor was a great guitar player who had some bad ass riffs! With that being said, the stones were the stones with or without him, they didn’t need him. In my opinion they could have sufficed without Ronnie wood
M taylor was a true guitar virtuoso. Of course i would have wanted him to stay with the stones but the stones were passed their prime, it was a highly toxic environment and taylor's creativity wasn't being recognized. He did the right thing by leaving the stones. Much respect for this guy.
@@charlessteenburgen: by the time m taylor left, the stones had lost their powers to create albums that reached the heights of let it bleed, sticky fingers or exile. All bands reach their peak, then they start a decline. We all do.
@@midnightrider7648 . But black and blue, some girls, emotional rescue and tattoo you, those albums did well with Ronnie in the band especially with tattoo you, do you agree.
