{"id":1510,"date":"2008-06-25T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-07T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T10:48:54","slug":"battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale, Round 4: Rod Stewart vs The Stones, 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uL2Ee12HrCU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAfter <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong> landed the shocking combo of <em>Every Picture Tells a Story<\/em> and two vibrant <strong>Faces<\/strong> albums in 1971, <strong>the Stones<\/strong> retreated to a distant corner in the South of France to gear up for a tougher battle than they&#8217;d expected. Jagger had trusted roadie, ivory tinkler, and confidante <strong>Ian Stewart<\/strong> cut the sac of blood and other fluids that threatened to close his right eye. Keef took Mick Taylor down to the pub, then chewed him out, telling him to stop dicking around with minor seventh chords. Wyman cruised Arles for a kinky mother-daughter team. Charlie made sure Purdie had his passport in order. The Stones dropped the Satan schtick once and for all, but there would be hell to pay in the form of <em>Exile on Main Street<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_01jU8rHr7o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFresh off a most impressive 1971, Rod and the Faces would hit the road, not bothering to record an album in 1972. Rod, however, would release another hit album, <em>Never a Dull Moment<\/em>, which was pretty much a carbon copy of his breakthrough solo smash. There are some good tunes on this album, the best of which was the smash hit, <strong>&#8220;You Wear It Well&#8221;<\/strong>, another one of those Gorton&#8217;s of Gloucester\/thick, cable-knit sweater-type numbers that tend to grate on some of the cooler heads in the Halls of Rock. I&#8217;m not going to argue with you unsentimental types. I think it&#8217;s a beautiful song that&#8217;s performed perfectly &#8211; strong enough, in fact, to take down one of the weaker, mojo-jam session sides on <em>Exile<\/em>, but even your humble Moderator lacks the bluster to try to convince you that Stewart had what it took to get past even that fantastic EP&#8217;s worth of killer tracks that the Stones sent into the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Before Rod concedes this round, let&#8217;s take note of his cover of <strong>Jimi Hendrix&#8217; &#8220;Angel&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZctcespApj8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and <strong>&#8220;True Blue&#8221;<\/strong>, which was chosen by the estate of Cesar Chavez to commemorate his life and works.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVUhaXAuxA8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How &#8217;bout some props for his cover of Sam Cooke&#8217;s &#8220;Twisting the Night Away&#8221;? Did he bring anything new to it? Not even close, but he brought the song to a new generation of rock fans and probably helped sales of Cooke&#8217;s back catalog more than anyone before or since.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already said I&#8217;m not taking points off for bad songs, and I&#8217;m definitely not going to try to convince any of you with so much riding on the Stones in this Battle Royale that there are a lot of needle-lifters on <em>Exile<\/em>. 1972 belongs to the Stones. The Stones <em>own<\/em> Rod Stewart and friends. It&#8217;s only the party-hearty spirit of Rod and his now-squabbling mates that prevented the underdog from doing this:<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPoWrWwwi8M?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 4:<\/strong> Stewart survives a standing 8-count as the Stones win easily<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/06\/24\/battle-royale-round-3-rod-stewart-vs-the-1971\">Previously&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/4\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">4<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Rod Stewart landed the shocking combo of Every Picture Tells a Story and two vibrant Faces albums in 1971, the Stones retreated to a distant corner in the South of France to gear up for a tougher battle than they&#8217;d expected. Jagger had trusted roadie, ivory tinkler, and confidante Ian Stewart cut the sac <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-round-4-rod-stewart-vs-the-1972\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42,149,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}