Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Faces – Angel Oil Well

domenica 4 novembre 2018

Faces – Angel Oil Well – RSC 067 CD

Faces – Angel
Oil Well – RSC 067 CD

1 Silicone Grown 3:05
2 Cindy Incidentally 2:39
3 Memphis 4:31
4 If I'm On The Late Side 2:43
5 My Fault 3:50
6 The Stealer 3:28
7 Borstal Boys 3:25
8 Angel 4:24
9 Stay With Me 5:21
10 True Blue 4:02
11 Twistin' The Night Away 4:55
12 Miss Judy's Farm 4:26
13 Jealous Guy 4:38
14 Too Bad 5:00

Note
All songs by Stewart/Wood unless noted
~~Live in London, UK - April 5, 1973 - Vol.2~~
Recorded live in London at Paris Theatre on 1 April, 1973, Broadcast on the 21st April.

Lineup:
Rod Stewart - vocals
Kenny Jones - drums and percussion
Ron Wood - guitar, vocals, bass on "If I'm On The Late Side"
Ian McLagan - piano, organ, vocals
Ronnie Lane - bass, vocals, guitar on "If I'm On The Late Side"

This bootleg is a clone of Better Get Ourselves Back Home... - Oh Boy – OH BOY 1-906 and of The Stealer GR72. This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality.
Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
Please note that Memphis, Time Blue and Twistin' The Night Away from this concert have been released on another Oil Well release: Cindy Incidentally (RSC 066); "Angel" bootlegs seems to be the second part of Cindy Incidentally album.
Very good audio (BBC source) and performance.On the front cover Rod Stewart during a live concert. Please note that this CD is one of the most rare from this italian bootleg label!
Read below for more informations!

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© Official released material:
Tracks 5,6,8,12 have been released officially on: Five Guys Walk into a Bar..(2004)
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Who are The Faces
In the early 70s there was always great debate about who really was "The Greatest Live Rock 'n' Roll Band In The World". Most claimed the title for the Rolling Stones, many said Led Zeppelin and some said The Who. Also equal contenders were the Faces. The Faces brand of lurching raunch'n'roll rivaled the Stones on a good night and with alcohol fueled cheeky good time cheeriness probably inspired greater levels of audience participation than Mick and Keef, Page and Plant or Daltry and Townshend ever managed to achieve. The best evidence for their live greatness can be heard on their still officially unreleased BBC sessions.

The name of the group was The Faces. Not Rod Stewart and the Faces. The Faces. It was a band. Rod Stewart was the lead singer. Ronnie Wood played the guitar and had a sound that rivaled, and arguably surpassed, Keith Richard's for rusty bucket raunchiness. Ronnie Lane played a funky, melodic, chunky bass and also sang and wrote a few songs. Ian McLagan provided a snaky classic Hammond organ sound and Kenny Jones played some of the most propulsive drums in British rock.

The band had grown out of the Small Faces. Singer / guitarist Steve Marriott had decided that the Small Faces weren't serious enough for him and he wanted to put some hair on his chest, play boogie rock and hit it big in the USA. So off he went off to form Humble Pie with his mate Peter Frampton. With the lead singer / guitarist having left them in the lurch, the three remaining Small Faces teamed up with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, both of whom had just left the Jeff Beck Group and were looking for a band. Stewart was the last to join as the wary and unconvinced Ronnie Lane, already let down by one lead singer, had an inkling that Stewart, who already had a promising solo career on the go, probably wouldn't stick around for long once fame struck. Which is pretty much what happened.

The BBC sessions
The band never really recorded a classic album and after Rod Stewart's solo success they seemed to be cast further and further into his shadow. There are some great singles but the band are best remembered live. Unfortunately the official live album "Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners", recorded at the end of their career after Ronnie Lane had left, completely fails to do them justice. The evidence for their true live greatness is to be found on many of the strangely still unreleased BBC sessions from the period. The band recorded quite a large number of live sessions from 1969 to 1973 - probably as a result of their being BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel's favourite band - and they are dynamite.
http://strangerthanknown.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-faces-bbc-sessions-5-guys-walk-into.html