The song swoops in like a stork, but carrying the baby Black Crowes in its bundle. Four years before Detroit Rock City and five before Bat Out Of Hell.
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It’s a full three years before I’m In Love With My Car. A reminder: This is a year before Radar Love. What they do instead - right before the killer outro - is bring in the sound of a revving car speeding away. You could pile on handclaps, maracas, backing vocals and it would just get better and better. This is a song so simple that you almost couldn’t overdo overdubs. The bassline makes me smile because there’s one note which is slightly off, giving it that loose, drinky vibe - cool, almost wry. The album opens with the Stewart/Wood rocker True Blue. One of those two was written by Ron’s brother Art Wood, the other with Martin Quittenton, who played guitar on every Stewart album up to and including Smiler - and with whom Stewart wrote Maggie May in 1971. But now, let’s dive into Stewart’s last great swagger album.Īll but two of the original songs on 1972’s Never A Dull Moment were co-written by Wood. I’ll wrap this piece with a playlist which draws from Stewart’s best work - the stuff he did with Wood, including Jeff Beck Group. Wood has his only Faces lead vocal on the incredible closing title track - which was lovingly introduced to a new generation of fans as the closing song in Wes Anderson’s 1998 film Rushmore. He only sings lead on six of the 10 songs. The last Faces album, Ooh La La, while difficult to make, actually benefited from the growing distance between Stewart and his bandmates. It all started really unfurling after Never A Dull Moment. McLagan formed The Bump Band and he, Jones and Lane participated in the short-lived reformation of The Small Faces. Jones replaced Keith Moon as The Who’s drummer. Lane formed Slim Chance and made albums with people including Pete Townshend. Stewart went on to immediately become one of the world’s biggest solo acts. They continued until 1975 with bassist Tetsu Yamauchi replacing him before it ran its course. The blurred lines between The Faces and “ Rod Stewart’s backing band” occasionally and increasingly created bad feelings between the talented musicians.
This includes not only the four Faces albums but his first four solo records - everything up to Never A Dull Moment, which was kind of a last hurrah, though. This band - Stewart, Wood, drummer Kenney Jones, bass/vocals/guitarist Ronnie Lane and keyboardist Ian McLagan - were the core group behind Stewart’s best material. When Steve Marriott quit The Small Faces in 1969, he and Wood were recruited and the band was rechristened Faces. From there he went on to be lead vocalist in the Jeff Beck Group, where he connected with the band’s bass player Ron Wood. It was while busking that Stewart was discovered by Long John Baldry, who made him a vocalist in his Hoochie Coochie Men, later re-named Steampacket. That’s as many as Chromeo! Rod Stewart & The Faces.
He’s sold more than 100 million records, is in the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Faces, has 15 Grammy nominations to his credit (and one win) and even has seven Juno nominations. Sir Rod has had a fairytale career, essentially going from a Tube busker to being appointed Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 (he already had a CBE). The album we’re examining today, Never A Dull Moment, was made right at the end of that era. But what really sucks is the fact that the 50-year mountain of hot garbage which makes up the bulk of Stewart’s 1973-2023 career almost obliterates the five years of strutting masterpieces found in the 1968-1972 era. One way I could illustrate this is by saying You Wear It Well represents the former and Do Ya Think I’m Sexy represents the latter. There are subtle differences between swagger and narcissism, between confidence and ego. It also marks the end of his partnership with Woodsie, who by then was becoming a full-time member of The Rolling Stones - and perhaps the only member of that band whose best material was made outside the Stones. I’m not a fan of Smiler, but certainly everything from 1975’s Atlantic Crossing onwards is crap. after 1974’s Smiler in a bid to dodge the savage tax rates on earners like himself. Something awful happened when Stewart relocated to the United States from the U.K. And just like cigarettes, much of Hot Rod’s success can be directly traced to Ronnie Wood. Trying to be a fan of Rod Stewart is a lot like trying to be a fan of cigarettes - you’re about 40 years too late.
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