This
concert was the first one in Australia for the Faces and the first on Sydney on
their 1974 tour and is almost complete missing just the band’s encore Pool Hall
Richard that was not taped. This is a new 2021 transfer and mixing by
audiowhore. The Band consisted of Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar
& backing vocals, Ian McLagan on keyboards & backing vocals, Kenny
Jones on drums and Tetsu Yamauchi on bass.
There should have been another show the day before
in Brisbane which was cancelled because of floods. The other show that was
taped of the Australian part of the tour was the 9th February one at the
Hordern Pavilion again in Sydney.
From the uploader
liner notes: “The Faces weren’t that well known in Australia. They achieved a
low charting hit with Stay With Me in 1971 and the album that came from A Nod Is
As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse obtained a higher chart placing. Like
most other overseas music markets, it was Rod who was the more well-known, he
was extremely popular here. I think it’s fair to say that a good percentage of
Australian Faces audiences were there because of Rod.
Once again
I was exposed early to the Faces thanks to my older cousin in London who’d sent
me their early LP’s plus some cassettes he’d taped of the band live on various
BBC Radio shows.
I’d also
acquired locally some Faces bootleg LP’s like TMOQ’s Plynth & Had Me A Real
Good Time. By the time they’d arrived in Australia in January 1974 they were a
different band, losing the original bass guitarist Ronnie Lane who was replaced
by a Japanese fellow by the name of Tetsu Yamauchi. The set lists I’d heard on
the live tapes & bootleg LP’s had also changed; older songs were dropped in
favour of a mixture of songs from the Faces last album Ooh La La, topped off with
a heavy sprinkling of tracks from Rod’s solo LP’s & the odd unrecorded
cover songs. The Faces first show in Australia was to be held in Brisbane but
that city was suffering severe floods.
The inner
city as well as the venue they were to play at the Milton Tennis Courts were
underwater so Sydney became the Faces debut show. But before going into details
about the show I must tell you the story leading up to attending the concert.
The Faces
amps were all white, it looked like they had white plastic cladding around
them.
By the time
the Faces were due on we three youngsters were crammed in like veritable
sardines.
Although
those around us were a tad taller we still had a good view of the stage.
It became
an even tighter squeeze when the Faces introduction music The Stripper blasted
out of the speakers.
People
started pushing forward, unlike the Stones 1973 gig at the same venue, where
the sit down, stand up chants happened, it didn’t get to that point this night
but you can hear a guy yell out “Sit down you bitch” during the intro. I was
bumped during It’s All Over Now, I’m surprised that there weren’t more bumps in
the recording seeing the conditions this was recorded under.
The sound
that February night was rather clear but throughout the gig the amps gave off a
loud buzz which disappeared at times only to return again. It can be heard in
quieter parts of the recording.
Rod's mic
cuts out during the opening lines of You Wear It Well.
My memories
of the Faces 1st Sydney show were that this outdoor audience was far more male
orientated whereas their 2nd concert which was indoors was heavily populated
with females.
So, a good
deal of the clapping & singalong at this show are by males, but it doesn’t
compete with the music as the audience participation does on the 9th February
recording.
However,
there were a group of schoolgirls not far from us & their collective
shrieking can be heard at times on the recording.
Ron Wood
sing lead vocal on My Fault from the Faces Ooh La La album. When that song
winds up, Mr Stewart gushes “Your applause will be much prosecuted”. He then
lets out a small laugh probably realizing he’d meant to say appreciate instead
of prosecuted. If you listen closely to Maggie May you’ll hear Rod sing that
Maggie not only done broke his heart but his leg, arm & neck as well!
At this gig
Rod kicked several footballs into the audience, most received good kicks that
sent them way over us travelling further out into the audience but one I
remember fell a bit short.
I think one
of the times Rod kicked the footballs into the crowd was near the end of True
Blue as when the song ended he said that that he nearly fell over. I think he
nearly lost his balance when kicking one. Rod did his microphone stand thing,
tossing it into the air & catching it, singing into it while it was upside
down. Rod mentions that a lone shoe is on the stage, to this day I wonder whose
shoe it was, why it was thrown up on stage & who went home with one shoe!
Anyway,
this is a pretty good recording with Ron Wood's guitar coming through loud
& clear.
Sadly, the
encore song Pool Hall Richard wasn’t taped, even though there was enough tape
left on the 90-minute cassette to record the song; all I can think of is that
the mic lead had accidentally been pulled out or I had hit the stop or pause
button. Unfortunately, before we made a safety copy the original cassette
suffered a small case of tape chew which occurred in Memphis & in Borstals
Boys. Thankfully they only last a few seconds.
This
recording has done the rounds over the years, even making it to a Japanese
Silver disc on the Weeping Goat Label entitled Live At Randwick Racecourse
(minus the Stripper Intro).
I remember
trading this with a guy who came across as somewhat dodgy. There were rumours
he sold other folk’s recordings so the cassette copy I gave him I had dubbed
& re-dubbed to buggery.
He did sell
it hence Weeping Goats 'release is below par. Once again this is the best
version you’ll find of this show so you can dispose of your previous copies.”
This
concert was the first one in Australia for the Faces and the first on Sydney on
their 1974 tour and is almost complete missing just the band’s encore Pool Hall
Richard that was not taped. This is a new 2021 transfer and mixing by
audiowhore. The Band consisted of Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar
& backing vocals, Ian McLagan on keyboards & backing vocals, Kenny
Jones on drums and Tetsu Yamauchi on bass.
There should have been another show the day before
in Brisbane which was cancelled because of floods. The other show that was
taped of the Australian part of the tour was the 9th February one at the
Hordern Pavilion again in Sydney.
From the uploader
liner notes: “The Faces weren’t that well known in Australia. They achieved a
low charting hit with Stay With Me in 1971 and the album that came from A Nod Is
As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse obtained a higher chart placing. Like
most other overseas music markets, it was Rod who was the more well-known, he
was extremely popular here. I think it’s fair to say that a good percentage of
Australian Faces audiences were there because of Rod.
Once again
I was exposed early to the Faces thanks to my older cousin in London who’d sent
me their early LP’s plus some cassettes he’d taped of the band live on various
BBC Radio shows.
I’d also
acquired locally some Faces bootleg LP’s like TMOQ’s Plynth & Had Me A Real
Good Time. By the time they’d arrived in Australia in January 1974 they were a
different band, losing the original bass guitarist Ronnie Lane who was replaced
by a Japanese fellow by the name of Tetsu Yamauchi. The set lists I’d heard on
the live tapes & bootleg LP’s had also changed; older songs were dropped in
favour of a mixture of songs from the Faces last album Ooh La La, topped off with
a heavy sprinkling of tracks from Rod’s solo LP’s & the odd unrecorded
cover songs. The Faces first show in Australia was to be held in Brisbane but
that city was suffering severe floods.
The inner
city as well as the venue they were to play at the Milton Tennis Courts were
underwater so Sydney became the Faces debut show. But before going into details
about the show I must tell you the story leading up to attending the concert.
The Faces
amps were all white, it looked like they had white plastic cladding around
them.
By the time
the Faces were due on we three youngsters were crammed in like veritable
sardines.
Although
those around us were a tad taller we still had a good view of the stage.
It became
an even tighter squeeze when the Faces introduction music The Stripper blasted
out of the speakers.
People
started pushing forward, unlike the Stones 1973 gig at the same venue, where
the sit down, stand up chants happened, it didn’t get to that point this night
but you can hear a guy yell out “Sit down you bitch” during the intro. I was
bumped during It’s All Over Now, I’m surprised that there weren’t more bumps in
the recording seeing the conditions this was recorded under.
The sound
that February night was rather clear but throughout the gig the amps gave off a
loud buzz which disappeared at times only to return again. It can be heard in
quieter parts of the recording.
Rod's mic
cuts out during the opening lines of You Wear It Well.
My memories
of the Faces 1st Sydney show were that this outdoor audience was far more male
orientated whereas their 2nd concert which was indoors was heavily populated
with females.
So, a good
deal of the clapping & singalong at this show are by males, but it doesn’t
compete with the music as the audience participation does on the 9th February
recording.
However,
there were a group of schoolgirls not far from us & their collective
shrieking can be heard at times on the recording.
Ron Wood
sing lead vocal on My Fault from the Faces Ooh La La album. When that song
winds up, Mr Stewart gushes “Your applause will be much prosecuted”. He then
lets out a small laugh probably realizing he’d meant to say appreciate instead
of prosecuted. If you listen closely to Maggie May you’ll hear Rod sing that
Maggie not only done broke his heart but his leg, arm & neck as well!
At this gig
Rod kicked several footballs into the audience, most received good kicks that
sent them way over us travelling further out into the audience but one I
remember fell a bit short.
I think one
of the times Rod kicked the footballs into the crowd was near the end of True
Blue as when the song ended he said that that he nearly fell over. I think he
nearly lost his balance when kicking one. Rod did his microphone stand thing,
tossing it into the air & catching it, singing into it while it was upside
down. Rod mentions that a lone shoe is on the stage, to this day I wonder whose
shoe it was, why it was thrown up on stage & who went home with one shoe!
Anyway,
this is a pretty good recording with Ron Wood's guitar coming through loud
& clear.
Sadly, the
encore song Pool Hall Richard wasn’t taped, even though there was enough tape
left on the 90-minute cassette to record the song; all I can think of is that
the mic lead had accidentally been pulled out or I had hit the stop or pause
button. Unfortunately, before we made a safety copy the original cassette
suffered a small case of tape chew which occurred in Memphis & in Borstals
Boys. Thankfully they only last a few seconds.
This
recording has done the rounds over the years, even making it to a Japanese
Silver disc on the Weeping Goat Label entitled Live At Randwick Racecourse
(minus the Stripper Intro).
I remember
trading this with a guy who came across as somewhat dodgy. There were rumours
he sold other folk’s recordings so the cassette copy I gave him I had dubbed
& re-dubbed to buggery.
He did sell
it hence Weeping Goats 'release is below par. Once again this is the best
version you’ll find of this show so you can dispose of your previous copies.”
