Does anyone Like Rod Stewart ?

I liked him with Beck doing a Dew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kLRTPo4r5U

I liked him with the Faces.

He didn’t play “Da Ya think I’m Sexy”?

What is that urban legend involving Rod Stewart again?

 

There were times I liked him. We were both a lot younger and his singing and energy were much more interesting.

Every Picture Tells a Story is one of my favorite albums, Gasoline Alley ain’t too shabby either.

I like gasoline alley, old record I have pre CD.

Gasoline was good- I had that album for a while

 

Hot Legs?  Great opener

I liked him with the Faces.<<<

Yes, although like Ronnie Lane "better".

 

 

I have always said the gasoline alley will be one of the tunes played at my funeral. Hanging out at my mother and uncle's gas station in my very young years was a special time for me, pinball, hanging with cousins, going to the stock car races, riding home in the driver seat of stock car on the trailer, and lots of grease

>>>Every Picture Tells a Story is one of my favorite albums, Gasoline Alley ain’t too shabby either.

ill second that I’ve been listening to Every Picture a lot lately 

This song brings back days of necking in the back seat of the old Dodge Aspen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWSTh2ogZA

I listened to an entire recent(ish) Rod Stewart CD from my late Mom's collection as part of the A-Z CD thingy.  It wasn't easy.

His voice is pretty much OK again, but the material and the production were caca.  I seem to recall comparing him to Cher and/or greeting cards.

 

On the other hand, we've played Maggie May at the last two Satiddy Night Massacrees of Popular Music (the piano player changed the key last time).  Maybe I'll tune up the mando for the next one.  One tune won't kill me.  It'll hurt.  But it won't kill me.

I like his early 1970’s albums.

Maggie May is a great song.

Faces was a great band.

First show I ever saw at MSG (I was 15) - Faces & Rory Gallagher, 9/11/72. Tremendous show. Rory shredded as he always did and the Faces were at the height of their in-your-face bluesy rock and roll. A lifetime ago.

The Killing of Georgie was / is a great step forward in humanizing gay people and anti - homophobia - something that was not spoken about in 1977 and something we need to still be reminded aobut today in some circles... 

What is that urban legend involving Rod Stewart again?>>>

First heard about this one sometime early/mid 80's...

The legendary music industry myth that a rock star had semen extracted from them in a stomach pump has apparently been solved by Rod Stewart in his new autobiography.

The story, which has been told in relation to a number of music stars, Stewart collapsed at a party and had to have his stomach pumped. As a result doctors extracted either 7 ounces, 1 gallon or 10 gallons of semen – sometimes even dog semen.

In the book though, Stewart says it was all started by a disgruntled publicist – Tony Toon – who Stewart had fired.

“[Toon] fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped.” Stewart continues, “I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor… And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen.”

He did, however, put cocaine up his rectum as a way to protect his nasal passages.

“So we started buying anticold capsules from the chemist's, separating the two halves of the capsules, replacing their contents with a pinch of cocaine, and then taking the capsules anally, where, of course, the human body being a wonderful thing, they would dissolve effortlessly into the system.”

The thing about Rod that I've always admired is that he knows his audience and he knows how to bank $$.  The same women that were swooning over him in the 70's are swaying in their seats to his latest shit album.  Rod reinvented himself in the most lucrative ways possible.  Know your core audience and know what they like as they grow old with you. 

His daughters are hot.

I edited an unreleased Rod concert this month that was very tedious and currently have bad taste in my mouth about Rod

But The Faces -

My father is old, but alive enough to understand of the magic of Denny Lane - together in a few car rides this year.

"Debris" came on the radio & I explained that this song, is what I wanted to be played a my funeral & yours...

Denny wrote the song for his grand father, who was hoarding all these cool things his entire life.

"You were once my heroes, now your my good friend"

Then Oh La La - "I wish that  I knew what I know, when I was younger" Oh La La - comes on the radio My old man was feeling it. Oh La La!

So a few weeks later. I hear "Three Button Hand Me Down", and I'm totally blown away. "Others may come and others may go, but that suit will be around after your gone"

We were both Rocking it to Three Button Hand Me Down!

He was none too shabby in the Jeff Beck Group, but those musicians could have made my shitty singing sound good!

Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells A Story, and the two that followed them, Never A Dull Moment and Smiler, are all good albums, and essentially Faces albums plus guests, as Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones and Ian McLagan play on most of the tracks.  Pete Sears is a guest on Smiler.  I think it's the album right before he moved to S.F. and joined Jefferson Starship.

I've always thought Rod has a great Rock'n'Roll voice, and that it's a pity he doesn't use it for that more often.   He more or less prevented a Faces reunion by slathering on volume upon volume of his Great American Songbook jazz singer schlock and missing the opportunity to play with Mac while he was alive.  Perhaps he's a little like Robert Plant and feels his voice can't handle Rock anymore.

He sure has made some great music.

But The Faces -

My father is old, but alive enough to understand of the magic of Denny Lane - together in a few car rides this year.<<<

Did you mean Ronnie?

The Passing Show is a must see documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mpuMwLnak

What do you think?

Yes, but there is also Denny Laine ... so not 100% sure.

^ I could understand that.

I personally know Denny Laine. There are threads on Viva about him, a few here have net him as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4c3Lz5NAjI

I am going to re-edit this show together tonight & republish it as a longer bit

 

Funny story - an old friend of mine was his tour monitor mixer for a few tours in the early 90's. At a show where Rod had not liked the monitor mix he kicked a soccer ball at the dude, head down, toiling at the dials and faders when the ball hit him square in the forehead - he got whiplash and sued Rod for a coupla hundred K and ended up with a tidy settlement - for those of you who dont know, Rod is a huge soccer fan and kicks ( used to at least ) soccer balls into the audience...

That's probably why!    I have a neighbor named Tony and there's a UPS driver named Anothony, but in my mind each looks like they should go by the other name ... so I'm always struggling when I say hello.

Speaking of Wings, RS, and RL:  I never get tired of watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhoLkTyNkM

... the amazing vocal combo, gritty guitar, and cool keyboard tones seriously rival the original IMO.

I never really liked his voice or his hair style.

Those stomach pumping rumours sealed the deal, as I was quite the conservative back then.

 

Nowadays, I can appreciate the good tunes and fine musicians who have joined him over the years.

Yeah, I'm a little senile. Been waiting for some down time to update my resume with that.

>>seriously rival the original IMO.

I agree, Faces Baby I'm Amazed is as good as Paul's version

 

As long as you remember to turn the stove off, all will be good.

Cool. You now see that there's more to the internet then regurgitated airline stories.

Music is a big one.

Doesn’t Phil cover a rod Stewart song?

 

how could you not like him?

 

https://youtu.be/Hphwfq1wLJs

 

 

First 5 albums.  Coincidentally, those are the albums Pete Sears played on. But of course knew nothing of him then.

Saw Rod in concert last week for the first time. Pretty good for 73; his band was Memphis-y r&b-ish. Did a couple of Faces tunes and said the reunion was still on (when?). A bit of shmaltz, a bit of soul, a bit of rock, even a blues number.

7/10