This new series
focus on the Faces last tour; a
fter Ronnie Lane left them in mid-1973 also Ronnie Wood slowly started
to drift away from his beloved band by releasing two solo albums, appearing as
a guest musician on a
Rolling Stones
album (uncredited on It's Only Rock'n Roll),
doing sessions for their next one (Black And Blue) and most notably joining the
Stones in
spring 1975 for their big US tour which went until August 8, 1975. Just a
few days later Ronnie was already rehearsing with the Faces again for what
became their last US tour and their last regular tour ever. This last tour also
had a first:
Jesse Ed Davis
(ex-Taj Mahal and renowned session
guitarist) joined the band as a second guitar player, officially because Rod
wanted to recreate his Atlantic Crossing sound…
The line-up
consisted of:
Ron Wood on guitar and backing vocals, Rod Stewart on vocals,
Ian McLagan on keyboards and backing vocals, Tetsu Yamauchi on bass, Kenney
Jones on drums, Jesse Ed Davis on guitar. There were also some additional
musicians: a 12-piece string section specially hired in each city of the tour
(for the two songs Angel and Bring It On Home To Me-You Send Me) under
conduction of Jimmy Horowitz.
Here both channels have been rebalanced (+10 to +20% to the right channel).
On Take A Look At The Guy a 10 second repetition at 4’27 and a gap at 4’50 have
been deleted.
On Bring It On Home To Me/You Send Me the channel disbalance has been
compensated in the 37 first seconds and a gap deleted at 2’00. The sound output
is good and clear enough.
