musiqueFaces

a rough stumble through a convoluted musical odyssey

by Bryan O'Grady

 

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faces 1969

November - Thin / The Rod Stewart Album / An Old Raincoat Will Never Let You Down - released

recorded prior to final Jeff Beck Group tour

1969 - recordings for 1^st Album First Step - ‘in or around London’ (Nico)

Stewart / Faces

Album

Song

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

time

faces live

comments

Thin

Street Fighting Man

x

5:25

x

Man of Sorrow

x

Blind Prayer

x

Handbags/Gladrags

x

An Old Raincoat

x

3:03

x

Wouldn't Change A

x

Cindy's Lament

x

Dirty Old Town

x

According to Mac - "He got Woody and me to play to play on the record, and I’m on most of the tracks." (All the Rage pg. 155)

 

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faces 1970

U.K. - B.B.C. T.V. - Top Of The Pops - February

(Flying)

U.K. - B.B.C. radio - Top Gear - March 9 - John Peel

.K. - B.B.C. radio - Dave Lee Travis Show - March 10

Flying, Three Button Hand Me Down

(maybe Wicked Messenger)

U.K. B.B.C. T.V - Disco 2 March 14

U.K. B.B.C. T.V - Whistle Test - (Flying)

March 21 - FIRST STEP - released

U.S.A. - 1^st Tour - March 25th - May 30 - 28 shows

typical set - (Detroit April 3) - Wicked Messenger, Shake, Shudder, Shiver, Devotion, Evil, Flying, Pineapple and the Monkey, You’re My Girl, Three Button Hand Me Down, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley, Around the Plynth, It’s All Over Now, I Feel So Good - also played - Maybe I’m Amazed and Blues Deluxe

U.K. - June - 6 dates - including

John Peel’s Sunday Concert June 25 - Paris Theatre

U.S. - August 7-10 - 4 shows at Atlantic City

Scandinavia - mid August - 3 shows

U.K. B.B.C. Radio - Sounds of the 70’s - Mike Harding - August 27

(It’s All Over Now, Three Button Hand Me Down, Around the Plynth)

September - Gasoline Alley - released

Stewart / Faces

Album

Song

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

time

faces live

comments

Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Alley

x

x

4:20

x

It's All Over Now

x

x

4:42

x

Only A Hobo

x

x

My Way of Giving

x

x

x

x

x

4:10

x

true faces

Country Comforts

x

x

4:42

x

Cut Across Shorty

x

x

6:28

x

Lady Day

x

x

Jo's Lament

x

x

You're My Girl

x

x

x

x

4:30

x

According to Mac - " With Woody, Martin Quintenton, and Mickey Waller, and me on occasional tracks here and there, the band Rod assembled for the record would change very little over the next five albums, though Pete Sears handled more of the keyboards on the later recordings. Woody almost always played bass on the basic tracks and then overdubbed lead or slide guitars . . . (" All the Rage" pg. 155)

U.K. - B.B.C. radio - Top Gear - September 15 - John Peel

Had Me A Real Good Time, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley, Country Comfort

U.S. T.V. - September - London Rock - unknown footage

U.S.A. - 2^nd Tour - October 1 - November 15 - 25 shows

Wicked Messenger, Shake,Shudder,Shiver, Devotion, Evil, Flying, Nobody Knows,

Pineapple & the Monkey, Around the Plynth, It’s All Over Now

You’re My Girl, Too Much Women/Street Fighting Man, Maybe I’m Amazed, Country Comfort,

Flying, Cut Across Shorty, Around the Plynth/Country Honk/An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let

You Down/Gasoline Alley, It’s All Over Now, I Feel So Good

Fillmore West, San Francisco - Oct. 28 - two shows

early show- Devotion, You’re My Girl, Wicked Messenger, Country Comforts, Flying, I Want To

Be Loved, Cut Across Shorty, Maybe I’m Amazed

late show - Maybe I’m Amazed, Around the Plynth, Honky Tonk Woman, Gasoline Alley

Medley, Love In Vain, Three Button Hand Me Down, It’s All Over Now, Feel So Good,

Blues Deluxe

U.K. - B.B.C. radio - J. Peel’s Sunday Concert - November 17

You’re My Girl, Wicked Messenger, Devotion, It’s All Over Now, I Feel So Good

U.K. - B.B.C. T.V. - Top Of The Pops - Had Me A Real Good Time

U.K. - December 7 - London - The Marquee (filmed for German WDR-TV)

Devotion, You’re My Girl, Flying, Too Much Women/Street Fighting Man/Too Much

Women, Maybe I’m Amazed, Gasoline Alley, Around the Plynth

Germany - December 11 - 16 - 5 shows

Switzerland - December - 6 shows

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faces 1971

France - T.V. - Pop 2 - January ?

Maybe I’m Amazed, Flying, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley, Love In Vain, It’s All Over Now

Flying, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley, Love In Vain

U.K. - January 16 - 31 - 9 shows (two canceled)

U.S.A. - 3^rd Tour - February 5th - March 28 - 19 shows

typical set - (Los Angeles Forum) - March 10 - You’re My Girl, Too Much Women/Street Fighting Man/Too Much Women, Maybe I’m Amazed, It’s All Over now, I’m Losing You, Love In Vain, Around the Plynth/Stay With Me/An Old Raincoat Will Never Let You Down/Gasoline Alley,/Around the Plynth, I Feel So Good, Country Comfort

You’re My Girl, Flying, Three Button Hand Me Down, Wicked Messenger, Devotion

Faces single

Maybe I’m Amazed

x

x

x

x

x

x

studio version

studio version

Oh Lord I’m Browned Off

x

x

x

x

x

x

B' side- Maybe I'm Amazed

March - LONG PLAYER - released

Faces single

Had Me A Real Good Time

x

x

x

x

x

x

Rear Wheel Skid

x

x

x

x

B' side- Had Me A Real Good Time

U.K.- B.B.C.T.V. - March - Top of the Pops - (Maybe I’m Amazed)

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Disco 2 - (Tell Everyone, Sweet Lady Mary, Bad ‘n Ruin)

BBC Radio - Sounds of the 70’s - April 20

Oh, Lord I’m Browned Off - (also played Had Me A Real Good Time, Love In Vain

and Maybe I’m Amazed)

U.K. B.B.C.T.V. - April 29 - Top Of the Pops - (Richmond and Bad ‘n Ruin)

BBC Radio - John Peel’s Sunday Concert - May 13

Richmond, Bad ‘ Ruin, Three Button Hand Me Down, Maybe I’m Amazed, I Want To Be Loved,

Miss Judy’s Farm, Love In Vain, Stay With Me, I’m Losing You

(Nico says different songs - Your My Girl, Cut Across Shorty, Love In Vain, Bad ‘n Ruin,

It’s All Over Now, Had Me A Real Good Time, I’m Losing You)

U.K. May 1 - 30 - 15 shows

U.K. - B.B.C. radio - May 13 - John Peel’s Sunday Concert - London, Paris Cinema

(You’re My Girl, Cut Across Shorty, Love In Vain, Bad ‘n Ruin, It’s All Over Now, Had Me A

Real Good Time, I’m Losing You)

U.S.A. - 4^th Tour - July 9 - August 1 - 18 shows

typical set - (Dayton, Ohio) July 17 - Three Button Hand Me Down, Maybe I’m Amazed, Country Comfort, Love In Vain, Had Me A Real Good Time/Every Picture Tells A Story, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley/Around the Plynth

July 9 - Every Picture Tells A Story - released

Stewart / Faces

Album

Song

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

time

faces live

comments

Every Picture

Every Picture Tells A

x

x

x

Tells A Story

Seems Like A Long

x

That's Alright Mama

x

Tomorrow's A Long

x

Maggie May

x

x

x

5:46

x

Mandolin Wind

x

I'm Losing You

x

x

x

x

x

5:21

x

true faces

Reason To Believe

x

August 6 - Maggie May / Reason To Believe - released flipped w/ Maggie May as the ‘B’ side

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - September 30 - December 27 - Top of the Pops - "Faces record 3 or 4 times but appear 7 times promoting Maggie May and larking about, playing each other’s instruments, adding John Peel etc. " (Nico)

U.K. - September and/or October - A Nod’s is recorded - Olympic Sound Studios - London

BBC Radio - Top Gear - John Peel - September 28

Stay With Me, Miss Judy’s Farm, Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley, Maggie May

U.S.A. - 5^th Tour - November 23 - December 26 - 7 shows

typical set - (San Bernardino - December 6) - Three Button Hand Me Down, Miss Judy’s Farm, It’s All Over Now, Maybe I’m Amazed, Memphis, Country Comfort, Too Bad, Stay With Me, That’s All You Need/Gasoline Alley/That’s All You Need, Maggie May, I’m Losing You, I Feel So Good, Country Comfort

December 10 - A NOD’S AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE - released

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faces 1972

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - Stay With Me

U.K. - B.B.C. Radio - In Concert w/ J. Peel - February 17 -

.K. - B.B.C. T.V. - Sounds for Saturday - Music of the Faces - April 1

(Three Button Hand Me Down, Maybe I’m Amazed, Too Much Women/Street Fighting Man,

Miss Judy’s Farm, Love In Vain, Stay With Me, I’m Losing You)

U.K. - tour - April 5 - 10

U.S.A. - short tour - "Rock ‘ Roll Circus" - April 21 - April 30

U.K. - tour - May 6 - June 5 (+ 1 German festival)

May 6 London, Chalk Farm, The Roundhouse - filmed - U.K. move Heart of the Sun

(Roll Over Beethoven/Lawdy Miss Clawdy/I Feel So Good)

U.S.A. - 6^th Tour - mid June - mid July - 7 shows

July 21 - Never A Dull Moment -released

Stewart / Faces

Album

Song

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

time

faces live

comments

Never A Dull

True Blue

x

x

x

x

x

3:31

x

true faces

Moment

Lost Paraguayos

x

x

Mama On My Mind

x

Italian Girls

x

x

Angel

x

x

x

x

4:03

x

You Wear It Well

x

x

x

x

I'd Rather Go Blind

x

x

x

x

Twistin' The Night

x

x

x

x

3:13

x

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - (You Wear It Well)

Wood / Lane

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

Mahoney's Last

Tonight's Number

x

x

x

x

Stand

Chicken Wire

x

x

x

released 1976

Chicken Wired

x

x

x

Car Radio

x

x

x

U.S.A. - 7^th Tour - August 19 - September 11 - 14 shows

typical set - (Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl - August 25) - I’m Losing You, Miss Judy’s Farm, Memphis, Maggie May, Stay With Me, Angel, Too Bad, I’d Rather Go Blind, That’s All You Need/Gasoline Alley/ True Blue/That’s All you Need, Maybe I’m Amazed, Twistin’ The Night Away, Sweet Cheerio, I Feel So Good

U.K. - October-November and maybe January - recording Oh La La - Olympic Sound Studios - London

My Fault, Flags and Banners, Ooh La La, Glad and Sorry, Silicone Grown, Cindy Incidentally, If I’m On The Late Side, Borstal Boys, Just Another Honky, (plus Don’t Forget To Tell Him, You Can Make Me Dance ..., Pool Hall Richard), and (live 23-12-’74) You Can Make Me Dance ...,You Wear It Well/Maggie May, Take A Look At The Guy, and single Jodie, I Wish It Would Rain, and (live 1-4-’73) True Blue, The Stealer (fade)

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - (Angel (with cardboard cutout of Ron Lane))

U.K. - Tour - December 7 - December 23 - 10 shows

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - December 25 - (You Wear It Well)

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faces 1973

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - February 8 - (Cindy Incidentally)

Faces single

Cindy Incidentally

x

x

x

x

x

x

‘72 recording for Ooh La La

Skewiff (Mend the Fuse)

x

x

x

x

March - Dutch T.V. - Holland - Pop Gala - (Memphis, True Blue, Cindy Incidentally)

Dutch radio - March 9 -

Stay With Me, Angel, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, Twistin’ The Night Away

U.K. - April 1 - BBC Radio - In Concert - Paris Theatre

Jealous Guy, Memphis, If I’m On The Late Side, It’s My Fault, Stealer, Borstal Boys, Too Bad

Silicone Grown, Cindy Incidentally, Memphis, If I’m On The Late Side, My Fault, Stealer,

Borstal Boys, Angel, Stay With Me, True Blue, Twistin’ The Night Away, Miss Judy’s Farm,

Jealous Guy, Too Bad

April 7 - N M E - free flexi disc

Dishevelment Blues

‘72 recording for Ooh La La

April 13 - OOH LA LA released

U.S.A. - 8^th Tour - April 24 - May 12 (maybe longer) - 10 shows

typical set - (St. Paul Civic Centre - April 24) - Miss Judy’s Farm, Memphis, Silicone Grown, The Stealer, Angel, Stay With Me, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, I’d Rather go Blind, True Blue, Borstal Boys, Too Bad, My Fault, Jealous Guy, Your My Girl, Twistin’ The Night Away, I’m Losing You, We’ll Meet Again

Last Show with Master Ronnie Lane - June 4 - London, Edmonton Sundown

Ooh La La With The Faces - video of June 4 - Cindy Incidentally, Angel, True Blue, I’d Rather Go Blind, Jealous Guy, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, Borstal Boys, Twistin’ The Night Away, Memphis, We’ll Meet Again

Europe - Tour - July 16^th - July 29 ^- Tetsu Yamauchi on bass

typical set - (Frankfurt, July 21) - Miss Judy’s Farm, Silicone Grown, I’m Losing You, True Blue, Angel,

Stay With Me, The Stealer, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, Too Bad, Twistin’ The Night Away, Borstal Boys

U.K. - August 25 - Reading Festival - ‘soundboard recording got made with Lane’s mobile’ (Nico)

Miss Judy’s Farm, Silicone Grown, Cindy Incidentally, The Stealer, Angel, True Blue, Stay With Me, Too Bad, I Wish It Would Rain, Jealous Guy, Borstal Boys, Twistin’ The Night Away, Oh No Not My Baby, I’m Losing You

August 31 - Stewart / Faces single - Oh No, Not My Baby / Jodie - released (Woody on bass)

Rod Stewart &

Oh No Not my Baby

x

x

x

x

x

x

Faces

Jodie

x

x

x

x

x

 

U.S.A. - 9^th Tour - Sept. 14 - October 19 - 20 shows

U.K. - British Tour - November 29 - December 24- 16 shows

U.K. B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - (Pool Hall Richard)

U.K. movie - Sound of the City - (incl. Stay With Me, I’m Losing You, Roll Over Beethoven/Lawdy

Miss Clawdy/I Feel So Good)

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faces 1974

January 10 - COAST TO COAST - OVERTURES AND BEGGINNERS - released

live from Anaheim Convention Centre (October 16-17) and L.A. Palladium (October 19)

Australasian Tour - Late January - Early March - 10 shows

typical set - (Sydney, Australia, February 1) - It’s All Over Now, I’m Losing You, Angel, True Blue, Stay With Me, I’d Rather Go Blind, Memphis, My Fault, Too Bad/Every Picture Tells A Story, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, I Wish It Would Rain, Borstal Boys/Memo From Turner/Gasoline Alley/Amazing Grace/Borstal Boys, Twistin’ The Night Away, Pool Hall Richard

March - April - Frankfurt & Brussels - recordings for Rod’s Smiler

spring-summer - Ronnie Wood’s band incl. Mac, Rod

also Woody’ 1^st album incl Rod, Mac, Kenny

U.S.A. August - some festivals

European Tour - September 7^th - Oct. 24 - 23 shows

Paris - September 7 - parts broadcast on French radio

 

September 13 - I’ve Got My Own Album To Do - released

Ronnie Wood / Faces

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

faces live

I've Got My Own

Mystifies Me

x

x

x

Album To Do

Take A Look At Guy

x

x

x

x

Make A Fool of Somebody

x

x

x

I Can Feel The Fire x x x

October 4 - Smiler released

Stewart / Faces

Album

Song

Rod

Woody

Mac

Lane

Kenny

time

faces live

comments

Smiler

Sweet Little Rock 'n'

x

x

3:43

x

Farewell

x

x

Sailor

x

x

Bring It On Home / You

x

x

x

3:57

x

Let Me Be Your Car

x

x

A Natural Man

x

x

Dixie Toot

x

x

Hard Road

x

x

Girl From The North

x

x

Mine For Me

x

x

4:02

x

You Put Something

x

x

outtake on Handbags & Gladrags

Crying,Laughing,Loving

x

x

outtake on Handbags & Gladrags

So Tired

x

x

outtake on Handbags & Gladrags

Every Time We Say

x

x

outtake on Handbags & Gladrags

Missed You

x

x

outtake on Handbags & Gladrags

 

November 15 - single - You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything / As Long As You Tell Him - released

U.K. - British Tour - November 15 - December 23 - 25 shows

London, Kilburn State Gaumont Theatre - December 23^rd

It’s All Over Now, Take A Look At The Guy, Bring It On Home To Me/You Send Me, Sweet

Little Roc ‘n’ Roller*, I’d Rather Go Blind*, Angel, I Can Feel The Fire, You Can Make Me

Dance, Sing Or Anything, 12 Bar Blues Intro/Twistin’ The Night Away*, You Wear It

Well/Maggie May, We’ll Meet Again

(the boot CD cover says - Nassau Coliseum, New York- Oct 12)

U.K. - B.B.C.T.V. - Top of the Pops - (You Can Make Me Dance) (filmed London, Lewisham Odeon

I’m Losing You, Bring It On Home/You Send Me, Sweet Little Rock ‘n Roller, Too Bad/Every Picture Tells A Story, Stay With Me/Ronnie on Slide/Motherless Children/Gasoline Alley,

Maggie May, Twistin’ the Night Away

- faces only played in the U.S. once in 1974 - late August: Detroit, festival (Nico)

- faces played Detroit Feb. 14, 1975 where a soundboard recording got made (Nico)

with all the songs got played (different order) - doesn’t sound like an outdoor festival

- - one source (MP’s Rod Stewart Tradesite) suggests this is part of the San Bernadino March 7, 1975

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faces 1975

U.S.A. - 10^th Tour - February 11 - March 13 - 19 shows

typical set - San Bernadino, March 7 - broadcast on U.S. radio - It’s All Over now, Take A Look At The Guy, I’m Losing You, Bring It On Home To Me/You Send Me, Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller, I’d Rather Go Blind, Too Bad/Every Picture Tells A Story, Angel, Stay With Me/Gasoline Alley/True Blue/Stay With Me, I Can Feel The Fire, You Wear It Well/Maggie May, Twistin’ The Night Away

U.S.A. - Recording - March - L.A. - Record Plant studios - ‘jamming w/ lots of guests’ (Nico)

U.K. TV - Smiler - unreleased Rod documentary w/ lots of Faces footage (Nico)

U.S.A. - 11^th Tour - August 15 - November 1 - 47 shows

The Stripper, Memphis, It’s All Over Now, Three Time Loser, Miss Judy’s Farm, I’d Rather Go

Blind, Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller, I’m Losing You, Big Bayou, Angel, Bring It On Home/You

Send Me, You Wear It Well, Maggie May, Stay With Me, Twistin’ The Night Away

 

last gig - November 1, 1975 - Minneapolis Labor Temple.

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faces 1986

U.K. - reunion I - Wembly Stadium - July 5 - w/ Bill Wyman on bass - (Ronnie Lane was there, singing)

- 5 songs according to Mac

(I Know) I’m Losing You, Twistin’ The Night Away, Stay With Me, We’ll Meet Again

(plus - (according to Twelker & Schmidt) w/ Stewart’s band - Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller and Here We Go/One Last Sweet Cheerio)

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faces 1993

U.K. - reunion II - Town & Country Club - February 14 - w/ Bill Wyman on bass (The Brit Awards - T.V.

warm up) Stay With Me, Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller

- Alexandra Palace, London - ‘Brit Awards’ 16th February:

Stay With Me, Sweet Little Rock ’n’ Roller

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faces 1995

U.K. - reunion III - Dublin - The Point - December - w/ Carmine Rojas on bass -

"a couple of songs at the end of the (Rod Stewart) show" picture includes Kenny (Mac)

December: RON WOOD & ROD STEWART. Dublin,

Ireland, Point Depot, RW and Rod Stewart play a couple of songs together. (Nico)

 

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Sources

Nico Zentcoff - Woodwork on the Web - this guy is amazing and we all are indebted to him !

Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan - All The Rage, Billboard Books, U.S.A., 2000

Uli Twelker & Roland Schmidt - The Small Faces, The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Humble Pie & Other Stories - Sanctuary Publishing Ltd., U.K., 2002 3^rd Ed.

John Pidgeon - Rod Stewart and the changing Faces, Granada Publishing Ltd., Great Britain, 1976

George Tremlett - The Rod Stewart Story, Futura Publications Ltd., Great Britain, 1976

Lloyd Bradley - Rod Stewart, The Illustrated Biography, Aurum Press, London, 1999

Ron Wood & Bill German - The Works, Fontana / Collins, Great Britain, 1988