{"id":5208,"date":"2011-01-10T18:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2011-01-11T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T04:38:43","slug":"rock-and-roll-downer-mick-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-roll-downer-mick-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Downer: Mick Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, an eagerly anticipated vuh-deo showed up in the mail from my good buddies at Netflix: a Blu-Ray DVD of the Stones&#8217; legendary <em>Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones<\/em> concert documentary.<\/p>\n<p>In general, it didn&#8217;t disappoint:\u00a0 the band was hot (gotta give out mad props to Bill Wyman and a surprisingly eager Charlie Watts), the song selection was choice (how could it not be in 1972?), and &#8212; well, it was just pretty dang great from one end to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Except for one little problem: <strong>Mick Taylor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m a <em>huge<\/em> Mick Taylor fan. I even love his 1979 solo album! But, for crying out loud, <em>every<\/em> time the camera was turned on the dude, he brought the party <strong>down<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t believe me? Check out this clip, of Keef, Mick, and the boys blasting their way through &#8220;Happy.&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSyNUAzPofI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I swear, this bit of film gives me goosebumps &#8212; until MT takes his solo. Instant softie! Come ON, Mick Taylor! Aren&#8217;t you feeling the drive, the desperation, the swagger, the booze-n-heroin infused, grab-you-by-the-nutsatchel urgency of this song? Why you gotta go all Steve Howe on us now?! Save that standing in place, showing no emotion shit for some other tune, like &#8220;Midnight Mile&#8221; or something. No fooling, you don&#8217;t have to let the groove take over your body all the time &#8212; but, shit, man, would it hurt to give in to the music and at least tap your feet once in a while?<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, an eagerly anticipated vuh-deo showed up in the mail from my good buddies at Netflix: a Blu-Ray DVD of the Stones&#8217; legendary Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones concert documentary. In general, it didn&#8217;t disappoint:\u00a0 the band was hot (gotta give out mad props to Bill Wyman and a surprisingly eager Charlie <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-and-roll-downer-mick-taylor\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[34,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}