Ronnie Wood's guitar on Jools tonight?

downbytheriver · November 2019

It was fine for me - that’s Ronnie. I’d rather that than Jeff Beck playing Nessum Dorma

Adey · November 2019

I liked it too. It sounded "live" and not "over-produced"

lovestrat74 · November 2019

Glad I couldn't get tkts for the shepherds bush show after that. Very flat.

Grocer_Jack · November 2019

Wasn’t too bad apart from the choruses. He needed to keep playing through the ‘ Go Johnny Go’. He just stopped there and only did the high double stops - maybe an issue with singing and playing, but it sounded terrible.

The whole thing is kind of a waste of air time though.

Edit - watched it again and made it through to the end, last chorus was better as there was ‘something’ happening under the vocal. The timing throughout was poor.

guitars4you · November 2019

Not seen the clip yet but my thoughts are a custom spec'd Harley Benton

hotpickups · November 2019

Philly_Q said:

I always associate the L5S with the late Kevin Peek of Sky. My brother had their first two albums, we were really into them for a little while.

I wa massively into sky in the early days with Francis monkman. Shit drummer though

Kevin Peek didn’t end up well unfortunately. I used to drool over their guitars used

ICBM · November 2019

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

Bebopper said:

Wow... sounded like he was struggling.
I used to like his 'anarchic' timing - back in the days of the Faces... but that, for me, that version of Johnny B G was a step too far from living on the edge.

I thought it was absolutely brilliant... the very definition of what rock’n’roll guitar is meant to be. Full of excitement and energy - most players a third of his age wouldn’t put that much life into it. I admit to not always thinking he’s that great in the past, but that’s one of the best things I’ve seen on Later.

The guitar is also really high in the mix - you could barely hear most of the other instruments - which makes the raggedness more obvious.

And yes, I do think we’re all watching the same performance

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Nikc · November 2019

I liked it

Brize · November 2019

If you saw that in a pub you wouldn't think it was all that.

Three-ColourSunburst · November 2019

Hard audience. For one the guy is 72 and by all rights shouldn't still be breathing by now, let alone playing live, and plenty of other iconic players also show the effects of time passing by the time they are Wood's age. (For example, from what I have seen Bill Nelson can no longer get anywhere near the solo on 'Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape'.)

For my money he was great in the Faces and was a solid journeyman in the Stones, getting the job done, serving the music and not his own ego and often carrying Richards, and if he often wasn't given much credit for his work with the Stones, that might well have had a lot to with with Richard's ego leading him to delete Wood's recorded guitar parts in favour of his own!

"I had no bargaining power 'cause Mick was helping me on a song called "I Can Feel the Fire" and he said, 'I tell you what – you keep "I Can Feel the Fire" and I'll keep "It's Only Rock '* Roll"'." The deal got even worse when Keith Richards became involved. "Keith wiped all my guitars off! It's David Bowie and me on backing vocals on the original track and [Faces drummer] Kenney Jones on drums. Keith said [Wood mimics a posh accent], 'I've taken the precaution of wiping all your guitars off'! But I listened to it and said, 'ah but you did leave my 12-string on there'... 'Oh dammit!' [he said]"

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/ronnie-wood-sex-drugs-and-the-ultimate-rocknroller-7417976.html

impmann · November 2019

I just watched that.

What a bunch of whining, whingeing old farts you lot are. NOTHING wrong with that performance at all. There's nothing worse than pious musicians criticising another's playing or musicianship, IMHO.

Leave him alone.

BTW - cool guitar. And yes, it makes me think of Kevin Peake too

tone1 · November 2019

I loved it too...Just raggedy cool guitar probably a nano second from disaster

bacchanalian · November 2019

I like that Gibson. If I think of Ron I always imagine him with one of Zematis.

The great thing about art in general is that one person can only see or hear flaws and another can feel something intangible.

Ronnie has got it in bucket loads.

EricTheWeary · November 2019

Danielsguitars said:

Wow I couldn't watch that, bloody awful, I wish they would just stop it

Get some young talent on please, they need the exposure

That band toward the end all looked about 15.

I quite like a Chuck Berry tune, I like Imelda May ( underused and not at her best unfortunately last night but she can be great) so Ronnie’s performance was fine for me. I think it’s fair to say he was there by virtue of being famous and someone else doing the same thing wouldn’t have got through the door. My son who doesn’t really know who he is but likes Imelda was a bit non plussed by it.

That’s essentially the paradox with Later, that it tries to sit newer artists alongside more established figures who sometimes have reached the ageing hack period of their careers and it seems to rarely satisfy both audiences. I wonder how many people regularly sit through whole episodes rather than just finding the bits they are interested in on line.

guitars4you · November 2019

Three-ColourSunburst said:

Hard audience. For one the guy is 72 and by all rights shouldn't still be breathing by now, let alone playing live, and plenty of other iconic players also show the effects of time passing by the time they are Wood's age. (For example, from what I have seen Bill Nelson can no longer get anywhere near the solo on 'Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape'.)

Hand issues is an issue for so many- I believe EC now has problems - Les Paul himself had lost most of his 'dexterity' as time went by - Yet the likes of Segovia and Stephane Grappelli had almost full dexterity in their 90's

Same with Sports stars - some are still slim + fit and others are 'crippled' from excessive use and training and 'the body on the line'

Lebarque · November 2019

downbytheriver said:

It was fine for me - that’s Ronnie. I’d rather that than Jeff Beck playing Nessum Dorma

Amen to that

Lebarque · November 2019

Ps. Imelda is looking hawt these days

impmann · November 2019

Lebarque said:

Ps. Imelda is looking hawt these days

What do you mean "these days"?

soma1975 · November 2019

He didn't drop any clangers. I just said it was clearly right at the edge of his abilities. If you're 72 fair enough nobody expects you to play Paganini, but Chuck Berry in his late 80s could play it a lot better than that.

stuartryanmusic · November 2019

I remember seeing BB King’s final U.K. appearance at The Albert Hall back in about 2011. There was a constant stream of fantastic guest guitarists joining him on stage - Derek Trucks...then Slash..it went on and on and then the crowd went wild when Jeff Beck sauntered out to join him...until everyone realised it was actually Ronnie. Then, inexplicably Mick Hucknall emerged to sing a few. Very much a gig of two halves.

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