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| From | "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Faces box set news |
| Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:54:23 -0800 |
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Hey, Bill Holmes...and everyone else....
Faces to release boxed set in May
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Faces, a band
known as much for its excess as for its music,
will return for one more round with the four-disc
box set "Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a Bar..."
Due May 25 from Rhino, the collection includes
material from the band's four studio albums,
recorded between 1969 and 1973, as well as
plenty of rarities.
Among the treats are covers of John Lennon's
"Jealous Guy," Free's "The Stealer," Luther
Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't
Want To Be Right" and Paul McCartney's
"Maybe I'm Amazed," sourced from album
recording sessions and BBC television and
radio appearances.
"I don't remember too many gigs," singer Rod
Stewart remembers in the set's liner notes. "Still,
we were never so drunk we couldn't play. It was
an air of merriment."
When Small Faces singer Steve Marriott
exited the band in 1969, organist/piano
player Ian McLagan, drummer Kenney Jones
and bassist Ronnie Lane decided to continue.
They recruited Stewart and guitarist Ron
Wood from the Jeff Beck Group and changed
their name to the Faces.
The collection also boasts alternate takes of
many tracks and outtakes, as well as captured
tomfoolery in the studio and hotel room
recordings the band made while on the road.
Liner notes written by Rolling Stone senior
editor David Fricke include interviews with all
of the band's surviving members. McLagan
also contributes anecdotes from the band's
heyday, as well as memories of Lane,
who lost his fight with multiple sclerosis in
1997.
"He was a rascal and charmer," McLagan writes.
"And he always seemed to get away with it. And
though he never rated himself highly, he was simply
the most melodic and subtly inventive bass player
I've ever heard... A lot of people don't know who
he is anymore, but he shines throughout here."
Lane exited the band following the recording of
1973's "Ooh La La," opting for a solo career that
remained active through the 1970s. The rest of the
band threw in the towel after a tour the following
year. Stewart continued in earnest with the solo f
career that began to take off in 1971, while Wood
would go on to join the Rolling Stones. Jones served
as the drummer in the early '80s incarnation of the
Who, following the death of Keith Moon.
McLagan played with everyone from the Stones
and Buddy Guy to Bonnie Raitt and Billy Bragg.
Last year, he appeared on Ryan Adams' "Love Is
Hell" EPs (Lost Highway) and Robert Earl Keen's
"Farm Fresh Onions" (Audium) and released the
solo album "Rise and Shine" (Gaff Music).
Reuters/Billboard
03/09/04 18:27 ET
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