Thursday, October 02, 2008

Good-time music for a good time

"FIVE GUYS WALK INTO A BAR" is my favorite CD BOX SET.
The four discs compile studio and live recordings by THE FACES, perhaps the most underrated rock band of all time.
Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones from the Small Faces joined Rod Stewart and Ron Wood from the Jeff Beck Group to form the band.
Every song sounds like the band is having a good time -- probably because the members were having a ball.
"We had a party everywhere we went," Jones once said. "We'd have a party in the hotel bar, while we were waiting for the limo. We had a party in the limo on the way to the gig. We got backstage and had a party in the dressing room before we went on. We had a party onstage, came off and had another party -- in the dressing room, in the car and back at the hotel."
I am driving students for a field trip to the MINES OF SPAIN natural area today. I'll be playing The Faces on the car stereo, because a good time deserves some good-time music.

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