Ronnie Wood's Early Days in Music (1964-69) 

I first saw and heard Ronnie Wood playing bass with the Jeff Beck Group on October 20, 1968 at the Alexandria Roller Rink, Alexandria, Virginia. They opened up for Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company~!!! The 'Truth' album had been released August 1st, and it was sensational with all my guitar playing high school garage band buddies. Once again, YP, you're bringing back the great, but not forgotten, musical memories of my youth. Thanks, YP~!

What a fantastic musician Ronnie is! My favorite thing about him though, is that he is always smiling and looks like he’s having the time of his life. 🙂

Ron Wood’s autobiography is one of the best rock bios I have ever read, and I’ve read a lot of them

Ronnie's bass playing on "Truth" still blows me away !!!!❤

Great history lesson Ronnie was a busy young man the first two beck lp's are still my favorites Thanks YP CHEERS!

Tremendous historical work - I was a Stones freak as a youngster in the 70s, and I’ll never forget Ronnie’s solo on Can’t Always Get What You Want on Love You Live - I can see why the Stones brought him in - he is a band member, and meshes so well you don’t always notice him - hard to believe it’s been almost 50 years with the band

Hardly anyone talks about Ronnie Wood’s guitar work. He’s super powerful. His playing is sublime.

The Birds, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, The Spencer Davis Group, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, The Graham Bond Organisation, Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Them, The Steampacket, The Brian Auger Trinity, I saw them all up and close at Pete Stringfellow’s Mojo Club in that period.

Amazing deep dive, thorough and making it clear that pretty well all of Ronnie's back catalogue deserves a lot more attention.

When I discover the Birds some years ago, this band completly blown my mind and the image Id got from Ronnie changed totally... What a guitar sound, part of my love for Telecaster

Ronnie is a wonderful guitarist. Never gets plaudits and I can never understand why? His later work with Rod Stewart is sublime

This was like a university level class in pop music history, I can;t imagine this slice of history being presented any more professionally. Yespterday's Papers has set a new level of excellence that has surpassed its last new level of excellence. Well done sir! As always I eagerly await more education.

Ronnie is in my top 5 favourite guitarists. The Faces is such a great band.

Getting to know more about my next-door Neighbour Ronnie Woods who lives across the field from me, It is a recorded fact that Ronnie Wood's life in music is almost equal to the full history of rock music

Phenomenal! The Birds and the Creation were fantastic bands filled with inventive guitar sounds. And I think Ronnie's hair was longer than most guys in 1965 😂!

This was a great documentary on Ronnie Wood's early history. Very well done. Thank you!! Ronnie really should get more recognition for his innovative guitar work before the Faces and the Stones. The guy is a legend!

This was great! Wood’s early career produced some of the eras greatest music.

Aaahh... the 60's was the best time for rock music! THANKS for the memories. We need more of this look back archive.

Great Picture of Ronnie with the late, and very great, Steve Marriott.

I met Ron Wood after seeing him first row ( well I was standing( for 1 shows him and Bo Diddley. He used my Ron Wood/ Chuck Berry button 10th anniversary for the Ritz as a pick for " Amazing Grace". Then I got 2 autographs was let in his trailer where I also met his wife!!!! I told him " I'm going to get your book and love it!" This was 1987. Can't wait for the Faces recordings Rod Stewart announced last August at Bethel Woods that the remaining Faces will be doing. Thats funny Jon Lord was in Santa Barbara Machine Head- Deep Purple had an LP " Machine Head". BTW Jeff Beck did record " Hi Ho Silver Lining" in 1967. " Tallyman" wasnt was the only song recorded in 1967. Also the Jeff Beck Group are on 3 songs for THE GTOs " Permanant Damage LP Frank Zappa produced. Thanks!!!!! As usual- Great Show!!!*****

Ronnie blew my mind with Jeff Beck, I loved him with the Faces, but since joining the Stones, I don't listen to him much. Thanks YP, allways so informative

It should be inspiring to any musician to see how long someone well-known bubbled just below the surface for so long before becoming famous.

Ronnie and the original members of the Birds come from my home town West Drayton and Yiewsley, in Middlesex. Ronnie was a Yiewsleyite who was born and lived around the corner from my Grandmother. As a kid I went to lots of Birds gigs. My Dad who was a self employed driving instructor taught Kim Gardner…bass player and then Ronnie to drive. Ron still owes him for two lessons, saying at the time he didn’t have the money and would pay Dad later. We’re still waiting.

It wouldn't be until 1974 that Ronnie finally released a solo album.The cleverly titled & underrated I've Got My Own Album To Do.

I first heard about the Birds from an interview with Lemmy from Motorhead who said he used to go see them. They were a pretty heavy group for the time. Good sound . Ron's bass playing with Jeff Beck Group is outstanding. I like playing that stuff

To think about all those shows that were taped over....ugh. My boy and I are getting together with Ron on May 15 2024 in Seattle..(along with about 70.000 other fans) great video!!👍

Only knew of Ronnie Wood from his time in the New faces and the Stones, didn't know he wrote and played great songs in the early days of his career, thanks for another great post yp.

Thanks for my bachelor of arts in Ronnie Wood… Just when I thought I knew a good deal about him, your video was a real education in the musical history of his life.

This was so awesome. I'm a longtime fan of Ronnie Wood. Truth and Beck-Ola are brilliant albums. The Faces made incredible music. Ronnie Wood was the ideal choice for the Rolling Stones, who I did see live. One of the outstanding British musicians. Cheers! ✌️

I love Ronnie most with the Faces, the catalog up til then is fascinating though, my heart belongs with Faces.

There's so much information packed into these videos, that I have to view them like three times to get them into my head. 😉

What a great summary! There's some fantastic footage in there. If only more footage had survived. I love both the Birds, the Creation and that version of the Jeff Beck Group. I always wondered how Ron was in Creation and the Jeff Beck Group at the same time in '68.

Oh what a nice history of Mr.Wood i like it.Thanks.🎸

Ronnie was in the right place at the right time SO Many times. Love his music

I saw the Birds last performance. Rod Stewart was present and stated that Ronnie Wood was joining him with the Faces. Great guitarist, a Birds legend. The group deserved more fame than they received.

I've had a great compilation LP since the late 90's. Always a quality listen. The Action, Artwoods, The Creation.

Ron Wood. A great addition in any group he was in. Great history and a great guitarist. Thanks for this YP!

I still can't believe how underrated Ron Wood is. I've seen the Stones twice, and Ron Wood was playing lead at both shows.

Top Shelf as always. Love the Birds! And Creation! And Ronnie Wood. But, who doesn't!!!

That was very entertaining and informative. Lots of wonderful music here! Thank you.

Very, very cool! Well researched, as always. Thank you!

Awesome great work on Ronnie Wood: deeply appreciated... I learned A LOT with this vid, THANKS!

Solid! Thanks, Ronnie! Thanks, Yesterday's Papers!

Ronnie Wood can sure ROCK that rooster haircut !! 🥰 Loved the music he made with the Faces!! Many times people thought it was Bill Wyman playing the bass with the Stones, nope it twas Ronnie ‘80 “Emotional Rescue” is one example. Love the vid @ the 2010 Crossroads Festival of he, Jonny Lang & Buddy Guy playing “Miss You”. Ronnie’s also a GREAT Artist! 👨‍🎨 🖼️ Thank you for this! ❤ It’s nice learning about his earliest moments in music.

Fabulous performance music. Thanks for posting them. Good time for you

Great tunes, great links, so much stuff I’d never heard of!…keep it real 🤟💕

Very nice video, great footage, guitars and girls!

Brilliant as always YP. Such a shame so many performances were recorded over, but tape was expensive back then. I was told all the Ready Steady Go episodes were recorded over by The Magic Roundabout, not sure how true that is. Just three full episodes remain sadly.

Fantastic video with some info that I never knew about Ronnie I’ve been collecting since 1972 and thought by now at aged 66 I’d picked up most information on artists I liked but so much stuff in here I never knew he played on. Thank you for another great video

Yeah. That was some wild guitar for 1965 - the same year that the Beano album came out and redefined the sound of rock guitar. It sounds to me like he was using a Tonebender on the solos. A wonderful, crunchy, aggressive sound.

No one can touch you when it comes to this kind of video. Rock on!

Another sterling video! Thanks for reminding me of so much of the music I came up with.

Incredible to think he's been a Rolling Stone longer than Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman combined.

Great piece, I learned a lot. BRAVO!

This was a very informative video about Ronnie and I have always wondered how he found the Stones and when. I see he is an original artist like all of The Stones and he is a perfect fit for them and I enjoy seeing him along with Keith on the guitars and I still don't know about the bass player but will look him up later on. It's great to see Ronnie with no wrinkles and a bunch of hair worn like a lot of them did in the sixties. Thanks for the great history lesson and I subscribed also to see more of my youth in the sixties~!

Had no idea about most of this. Great and very informative video abiut one of Musics great characters.

amazing video, well done,thanks for all that, that was awesome 🤘

I bought Ron Wood's biography at the dollar tree about 15 years ago. Best $1 ive spent.

Ronnie is an amazing musician and a cool dude.

Well I never knew Ron wood done so much pre faces/stones great upload thanks. Also seeing Tony Newman on drums way before his t.rex stint really enjoyed that.

Another brilliant video! Ronnie Wood is the Man.

Fantastic work! I love it!

what a time , to be London in 63-66 and go to all the clubs and see the best bands arming themselves, getting ready for the Invasion!

Very good videos from the era, well done.

Very educational indeed! I didn't realise Ronnie could also play bass guitar. Amazing not only that he played bass on the song FIRE, by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN, but that you showed Arthur's unforgettable performance (in black and white), shown on an in- colour T.V.!

I think besides his obvious talent Ronnie got on well with everybody as well which might have something to do with his longevity. Did not even know that footage existed so your research is top as usual. Wonder where that striped Telecaster is at? It's beautiful!

The Birds’ version of Leaving Here is amazing. Next in Line is often featured in The Great Pottery Throwdown, especially relevant as I believe that Ron does a bit of pottery.

Great video, beyond the Faces and the Stones I was not familiar with Ronnie woods musical past. I had no idea that so many of the musicians mentioned here crossed each other's path on the way to their own notoriety. What a dynamic music scene England must have been in the 1960s.

Fabulously interesting! Extraordinary footage! I would be very interested in seeing a YP production of the Spencer Davis Group; more specifically, the making of “Gimme Some Lovin.’” Both the UK and the U.S. releases, by co-producer Jimmy Miller. Thank you. 👍

One of the great rock legends

How could you miss out the Jeff Beck Groups first great single Hi Ho Silver Lining,? It got to number 15 on the UK charts. Disowned by Jeff who hated his singing, but still remains a popular singalong at football matches. Saw the band two times and have never got over it. Jeff was just brilliant and the call and response between Jeff and Rod was unforgettable.

Nice one. As usual. Thanks.

Wow. Nice Ron wood history. Now I know about those wee early years.

W o w, new sub here, great presentation and production, and narration.

Excellent, excellet, excellent !

He's a wizard with a guitar!!

Excellent recap. Filled in a few gaps in the tale for me, and it's great to see all those old 60s UK band names - and Lemmy.

The Birds did make some wonderful singles. Say those Magic Words is my favourite. Such a shame that That's All I need is only available as a excerpt from the film. Id kill to hear it whole. Such a fine song.

Love the artwork interesting spirit love to hear the acoustic

So glad I fell into this rabbit hole.....the man is a God 😊

Ronnie is awesome! Great guitar player and also a great artist!

Truth and Beck-Ola are still great records.

Wood is a fearless guitarist with no ego musically. I remember seeing Keith Richards being asked on stage by Chuck Berry to change key mid song- which he refused to do. I think Ronnie Wood would have embraced the challenge. These are good self-penned songs only hampered by the fact that we haven’t heard them enough

Great vid, great footage, great info, well done

This is very informative video again. No filler word there. Clever job. No need to add. Thanks!

Shame that Come Home Baby sat on the shelf for so many years. So much talent utilized with no result.

His solos on the Faces live Coast To Coast LP are delightful!

Wow thanks this is a GREAT video! I have always loved Ronnie Wood for so many reasons and this is just a great examination of his early career! Great job on the archival videos, pictures and sound! What a great guitar sound he had so long ago, too. Got a sad chuckle out of the comment..."but, unfortunately, the show was taped over and lost forever..." not once but twice! BTW one time I was in a music store in NYC and there was a poster for his album "Gimme Some Neck" and I asked the guy if he wanted to sell it and he told me he had "been offered a lot more than money for it" meaning sex I guess and it was no deal... 😀

Ron + Rod = Perfection

Ronnie is a pros pro. He was always in it for the music, never for the notoriety. The fact that he played with a volatile young Jeff Beck and diva Rod Stewart is evidence of his rock steady demeanor

I love The Art Woods Too !!! Wish you could do something on them, i have all their music .

Tengo una caja recopilatoria de The Birds, eran realmente extraordinarios! Solo les faltó suerte... Mucho mejores que los Byrds americanos, a mi entender. Otro informe increible de mi canal favorito. Gracias. Saludos desde Argentina ❤🇦🇷🎼🎸🎼💪🎸🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Your channel never disappoints. This was really fascinating. For much of his career, Woodie never got the respect he deserved until the early 2000s. I discovered the Creation in the 90s. They fit the category of "the greatest band you never heard of." Gonna have to check out that movie. Later as a Rolling Stone, he showed his talent is much more versatile than either Brian Jones or Mick Taylor. Thanks for sharing and Happy Easter

Another classic video from what is becoming the last word on sixties British rock. Anyone who wants further insight into the world of Ronnie Wood during this period should check out his book “How Can It Be?”. It’s basically his tour diary from his period of The Birds with contemporary commentary. Plus it comes with an unreleased Birds track on a picture disc.

One of the most brilliant "Yesterday's Papers". I thought I knew Ron Wood career. Just a laugh how I was wrong. 👍

Just caught up with this (been traveling). Thank you for this vid on RW's early days as a professional. The underappreciated Ronnie helped shaped London R & B in the mid-'60s before moving on to his years with Jeff Beck and the post-Marriott Faces, as well as his collaborations with Rod Stewart on the latter's early solo albums. People can argue which era of the Stones was the greatest, BJ vs. MT vs. Ronnie. PerhapsThe Stones have produced fewer original sounds as they have aged than they did in the early days of experimentation with Brian ("Paint It Black," "Ruby Tuesday," "2000 Light Years From Home") or the jaded, irresistible snarl of the best of the Mick Taylor years ("Sticky Fingers," "Exile on Main Street"), but it is undeniable that Ronnie, who stepped into the breach when Mick Taylor abruptly quit and whose Stones tenure has now lasted almost four times as long as those of Brian and MT put together, has been an integral part of holding them together and keeping them viable now for almost a half century. And this after over a decade of stalwart professional work BEFORE joining The Stones. Thank you again for another illuminating and beautiful vid, this time focusing on the immortal Ronnie Wood.

Great episode as always! Ronnie's claim that he played bass on the official version of Arthur Brown's "Fire" is highly dubious as there is no bass guitar on the record - just bass organ pedals.played by Vincent Crane.

Excellent Bio on Ron Wood !

That was great!

I remember when the Stones came out with "Black and Blue", their first with new member, Ronnie Wood. I think it's a great record!