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A bargain at twice the price!
by Droopy » Sun May 23, 2004 12:58 pm
Amazon has it listed at $53.99....
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BOX SET - WHEN IN UK ?! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRG !!
by paulb » Mon May 24, 2004 7:33 am
I TOO READ THE DELICIOUSLY FAB MOJO REVIEW - BUT WHEN CAN I BUY IT HERE IN UK ?!
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by Lynney » Mon May 24, 2004 8:28 am
The release date for the UK is June 28th.
Box Set news and reviews:
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by Lynney » Tue May 25, 2004 4:58 am
Hi everyone,
I've removed a couple of posts with links to websites selling unauthorized promo copies of the Faces Box Set. Please understand that this is nothing personal.
Please refer to the Faces Forum rules:
http://www.the-faces.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131
Faces Box Set news and reviews are posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/5guys.htm
The official Box Set will be worth the wait.
Contact me privately if you have any questions or concerns.
I've removed a couple of posts with links to websites selling unauthorized promo copies of the Faces Box Set. Please understand that this is nothing personal.
Please refer to the Faces Forum rules:
http://www.the-faces.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131
Faces Box Set news and reviews are posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/5guys.htm
The official Box Set will be worth the wait.
Contact me privately if you have any questions or concerns.
"Never Say Never mixes mischief and heartbreak, dancing on the bar and crying in your beer, in perfect proportion."
-Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning
-Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning
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by Lynney » Tue May 25, 2004 5:00 am
Hi everyone,
I've removed a couple of posts with links to websites selling unauthorized copies of the Faces Box Set. These CD-Rs are illegal review copies.
Please understand that this is nothing personal. I've also sent private messages regarding this concern, but felt I should remind everyone of the forum rules posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131
Faces Box Set news and reviews are posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/5guys.htm
The official Box Set will be worth the wait.
Contact me privately if you have any questions or concerns.
I've removed a couple of posts with links to websites selling unauthorized copies of the Faces Box Set. These CD-Rs are illegal review copies.
Please understand that this is nothing personal. I've also sent private messages regarding this concern, but felt I should remind everyone of the forum rules posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131
Faces Box Set news and reviews are posted here:
http://www.the-faces.com/5guys.htm
The official Box Set will be worth the wait.
Contact me privately if you have any questions or concerns.
Last edited by Lynney on Tue May 25, 2004 9:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
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The Mojo review
by WS Walcott » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:50 am
The Faces
Five Guys Walk Into A Bar...
The definitive 4-CD box set featuring 32 previously unissued tracks.
"If any one of us could have sung, we'd never have got Rod Stewart in," The Faces organist/pianist Ian McLagan told me recently. "After Steve Marriott left The Small Faces we never wanted to employ a lead singer again."
Perhaps it was a simple case of a self-fulfilling prophecy that Stewart went on to exceed all of McLagan's worst fears in The Faces. The group's first two platters, 1970's First Step and Long Player from '71, floundered. Rod's simultaneous carreer, however, did a roaring trade, his breakthrough third LP, Every Picture Tells A Story, and its single, Maggie May (both featuring The Faces on backing), reaching the top spots of their respective charts. Not only was it rumoured that Stewart was stealing the cream of the combo's material for himself, he was also throwing rock star tantrums and basking in the glory attributed to him for his good looks and foxy strut - hence the band's eventual Motownesque billing as Rod Stewart And The Faces - leaving chief songwriter Ronnie Lane in the shadows.
It's fortuitous, though, that Lane, Ron Wood, McLagan and Kenny Jones decided they couldn't sing, for it's hard to envisage the four-piece, despite their obvious talent, achieving such musical notoriety without that soulful, throaty ras of Stewart's draped over their trademark boozy, uproarious collision of blues and rock.
Their four studio albums (recorded over as many years) are way overdue an overhaul. Aside from 1999's best of, Good Boys... When They're Asleep, there's been no deluxe edition remastering of their back catalogue and no rarities compilation either. It's been left to the bootleggers to fill the gap in the fans' record collection. Until now, that is. Not surprisingly it's tracks from The Faces' third and arguably landmark LP, A Nod's As Good As A Wink, and their fourth, Ooh La La, that make up the bulk of the released cuts here. Eight tracks from the latter include the raucous knockabout Borstal Boys and the reflective, Wood-sung title cut, while seven are from the former, including the group's signature Stay With Me and the contrastingly wistful social commentary of the Ronnie Lane ballad, Debris. While the group tended to revel in laddish tomfoolery, Debris is a poignant reminder that they didn't in a vacuum. Even the seemingly carefree Faces were troubled by a Britain tormented by blackouts and strikes.
The three cuts culled from First Step (the affectionate rave-up, Three Button Hand Me Down, Around The Plynth and Flying) show a band finding their feet, while five from the underrated Long Player set out their manifesto, hence titles like Had Me A Real Good Time and Bad'n'Ruin. While the inclusion of their two non album singles - '73's Pool Hall Richard and '74 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything, plus assorted B-sides and the self explanatory Dishevelment Blues, a 1973 flexi-disc given away with the NME, this is a first-rate round-up.
But, of course, the unissued cuts are the most edifying. Covers of Big Bill Broonzy's I Feel So Good, Willie Dixon's Eveil and their self -penned Shake, Shuder, Shiver from their first rehearsals in the summer of 1969 reveal the group's fledging sound - an exhilarating Small Facesesque blend of soul and rock courtesy of McLagan's Booker T.-styled organ playing and Lane's proto-funk bass, with a progressive blues hangover from Stewart and Wood's former employers, The Jeff Beck Group.
Other notable renditions include Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed from the BBC programme Sounds For Saturday (far outstripping their single version), a poignant reading of John Lennon's Jealous Guy, plus a live version of Free's The Stealer, revealing the group to be a much heavier prospect live than their records suggest. Takes on Hendrix's Angel and The Temptations' (I Know) I'm Losing You far outshine Rod's solo versions for passion, while a cover of The Beach Boys' Gettin' Hungry, from the group's final recording session, reveal a band still with much to offer - despite the disappointing 1973 post-Lane outing, Coast to Coast, might suggest. It's just a shame McLagan's worries came true. When Rod's carreer exploded, so lead singer number two left him and his playmates in the debris.
Lois Wilson
Five Guys Walk Into A Bar...
The definitive 4-CD box set featuring 32 previously unissued tracks.
"If any one of us could have sung, we'd never have got Rod Stewart in," The Faces organist/pianist Ian McLagan told me recently. "After Steve Marriott left The Small Faces we never wanted to employ a lead singer again."
Perhaps it was a simple case of a self-fulfilling prophecy that Stewart went on to exceed all of McLagan's worst fears in The Faces. The group's first two platters, 1970's First Step and Long Player from '71, floundered. Rod's simultaneous carreer, however, did a roaring trade, his breakthrough third LP, Every Picture Tells A Story, and its single, Maggie May (both featuring The Faces on backing), reaching the top spots of their respective charts. Not only was it rumoured that Stewart was stealing the cream of the combo's material for himself, he was also throwing rock star tantrums and basking in the glory attributed to him for his good looks and foxy strut - hence the band's eventual Motownesque billing as Rod Stewart And The Faces - leaving chief songwriter Ronnie Lane in the shadows.
It's fortuitous, though, that Lane, Ron Wood, McLagan and Kenny Jones decided they couldn't sing, for it's hard to envisage the four-piece, despite their obvious talent, achieving such musical notoriety without that soulful, throaty ras of Stewart's draped over their trademark boozy, uproarious collision of blues and rock.
Their four studio albums (recorded over as many years) are way overdue an overhaul. Aside from 1999's best of, Good Boys... When They're Asleep, there's been no deluxe edition remastering of their back catalogue and no rarities compilation either. It's been left to the bootleggers to fill the gap in the fans' record collection. Until now, that is. Not surprisingly it's tracks from The Faces' third and arguably landmark LP, A Nod's As Good As A Wink, and their fourth, Ooh La La, that make up the bulk of the released cuts here. Eight tracks from the latter include the raucous knockabout Borstal Boys and the reflective, Wood-sung title cut, while seven are from the former, including the group's signature Stay With Me and the contrastingly wistful social commentary of the Ronnie Lane ballad, Debris. While the group tended to revel in laddish tomfoolery, Debris is a poignant reminder that they didn't in a vacuum. Even the seemingly carefree Faces were troubled by a Britain tormented by blackouts and strikes.
The three cuts culled from First Step (the affectionate rave-up, Three Button Hand Me Down, Around The Plynth and Flying) show a band finding their feet, while five from the underrated Long Player set out their manifesto, hence titles like Had Me A Real Good Time and Bad'n'Ruin. While the inclusion of their two non album singles - '73's Pool Hall Richard and '74 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything, plus assorted B-sides and the self explanatory Dishevelment Blues, a 1973 flexi-disc given away with the NME, this is a first-rate round-up.
But, of course, the unissued cuts are the most edifying. Covers of Big Bill Broonzy's I Feel So Good, Willie Dixon's Eveil and their self -penned Shake, Shuder, Shiver from their first rehearsals in the summer of 1969 reveal the group's fledging sound - an exhilarating Small Facesesque blend of soul and rock courtesy of McLagan's Booker T.-styled organ playing and Lane's proto-funk bass, with a progressive blues hangover from Stewart and Wood's former employers, The Jeff Beck Group.
Other notable renditions include Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed from the BBC programme Sounds For Saturday (far outstripping their single version), a poignant reading of John Lennon's Jealous Guy, plus a live version of Free's The Stealer, revealing the group to be a much heavier prospect live than their records suggest. Takes on Hendrix's Angel and The Temptations' (I Know) I'm Losing You far outshine Rod's solo versions for passion, while a cover of The Beach Boys' Gettin' Hungry, from the group's final recording session, reveal a band still with much to offer - despite the disappointing 1973 post-Lane outing, Coast to Coast, might suggest. It's just a shame McLagan's worries came true. When Rod's carreer exploded, so lead singer number two left him and his playmates in the debris.
Lois Wilson
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Mojo
by Nikki Sudden » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:48 pm
Lois Wilson was the writer who gave Jim Melly's dire book, —“Last Orders, Please” ~ The Faces …and the Britain we forgot, a rave review in Mojo. She seems to have become the magazine's resident Faces' expert. At least this time round she's managed to be reasonably objective.
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by Lynney » Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:19 pm
A limited number of signed copies will be available for purchase at Macspages.com on June 28th.
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
Watch this space...
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
Watch this space...
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box set
by ruby » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:16 am
Hello all. 
Reviewing the Box Set's song list on Macspages; I noticed that after most songs is a letter in parentheses. (B), (C), etc... Would someone here tell me what these codes represent please? Thanks.
Reviewing the Box Set's song list on Macspages; I noticed that after most songs is a letter in parentheses. (B), (C), etc... Would someone here tell me what these codes represent please? Thanks.
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by mcnarie » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:48 am
the letters denote credits. The "legend" for his abbreviations appear on the box set, not his home page. From the looks of it, they denote production credits, in which case D is defintely Glyn Johns, etc.
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by nash bridges » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:05 am
i know it's been a feat just to get this thing out in the first place, but is there any chance it's gonna come out on wax? i suspect there might be enough interest for a limited pressing. am i wrong?
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Re: Mojo
by scannest » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:22 am
Nikki Sudden wrote:Lois Wilson was the writer who gave Jim Melly's dire book, —“Last Orders, Please” ~ The Faces …and the Britain we forgot, a rave review in Mojo. She seems to have become the magazine's resident Faces' expert. At least this time round she's managed to be reasonably objective.
NS
Thanks for the heads-up regarding "Last Orders, Please" as I was getting ready to order a copy from Amazon.
So, is there a well-written, definitive book on The Faces and/or Rod? Excluding, of course, Mac's wonderful tome and Lester Bangs' chapter on The Faces in the Rod bio he co-wrote with Paul Nelson. Picked that one up for a buck at a Goodwill store in North Carolina a few years back. One of my greatest all-time bargain bin finds.
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Pigeon Feet
by Nikki Sudden » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:27 pm
John Pidgeon - all round nice chap and writer of the best Faces book out there...
The Richard Cromelin one is okay...
The rest are a bunch of bad fish.
You'll have to wait...
N
The Richard Cromelin one is okay...
The rest are a bunch of bad fish.
You'll have to wait...
N
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Drum roll...
by Lynney » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:08 am
It's the moment we've all been waiting for. Order your signed copy of 'Five guys walk into a bar...' TODAY!
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
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2,000 Years
by Nikki Sudden » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:35 am
"Have you something up your sleeve that's not already smelled by others, Nikki? What are you proposing?"
Well, you never know... Mind you, I never know either...
Give me 2,000 years. Then I'll have time to do everything I want to do...
N
Well, you never know... Mind you, I never know either...
Give me 2,000 years. Then I'll have time to do everything I want to do...
N
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by scannest » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:30 am
I want to thank you guys for recommending the Pidgeon book. It's out of print, but it was easy enough to find an inexpensive used copy online.
And Nikki, rather than waiting for something better to come along, I promise to check out whatever else may come along down the line as well.
And Nikki, rather than waiting for something better to come along, I promise to check out whatever else may come along down the line as well.
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by Lynney » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:04 am
Mac & the Bump Band performed LIVE on KGSR Austin this morning. Nice mention of the Box Set...Bring it on!
The Bumps did a beautiful rendition of 'Glad and Sorry' and two tracks from 'Rise & Shine!' If you missed it, they'll be on the airwaves again tomorrow for the 'Friday Fan Fare' at Threadgill's World Headquarters (3 pm CST/9 pm GMT).
Tune in online: http://www.kgsr.com/frames.html
More info:
http://www.ianmclagan.com/gigs
The Bumps did a beautiful rendition of 'Glad and Sorry' and two tracks from 'Rise & Shine!' If you missed it, they'll be on the airwaves again tomorrow for the 'Friday Fan Fare' at Threadgill's World Headquarters (3 pm CST/9 pm GMT).
Tune in online: http://www.kgsr.com/frames.html
More info:
http://www.ianmclagan.com/gigs
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-Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning
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by Guest » Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:04 am
scannest wrote:I want to thank you guys for recommending the Pidgeon book. It's out of print, but it was easy enough to find an inexpensive used copy online.....
A few weeks ago someone asked me what page I was on - if you remember, please let me know (I think he spelled my name "Sandy" and said I was from N. London!!!!). Thanks.
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by Lynney » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:54 am
Thanks Julie. Yes, anyone can order it from macspages.com TODAY! It's available now...
Go to Mac's merch page to place an order by secure credit card payment:
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
You can also send money order (details on the merch page). Email me if you have any questions.
Go to Mac's merch page to place an order by secure credit card payment:
http://www.macspages.com/merch.htm
You can also send money order (details on the merch page). Email me if you have any questions.
"Never Say Never mixes mischief and heartbreak, dancing on the bar and crying in your beer, in perfect proportion."
-Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning
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