Has There Really Been No Thread For The Faces - "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" Box Set?

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just got it yesterday....wow...really were as good as the Stones probably...it's so weird, cuz growing up in America you get pretty burned out on the Stone, Beatles, Led Zep, The Who, etc, and then you discover a band like this of the same era that's just fantastic!

Some of the BBC Live stuff on here is amazing...the studio chatter before Maybe I'm Amazed is great! Talk about "bonhomie" these guys had "bonhomie" up the ying yang!

In the liner notes, Glen Matlock from the Pistols talk about going to see them in concert and during Kenny Jones's drum solo, instead of going backstage for a drink, they actually had a bartender with a white tuxedo and a towel over his arm serving cocktails at a bar they had built for their stage show! Brilliant!

They have a really good later Beach Boys cover called Gettin' Hungry I think it's off Smiley Smile.

Anyway....god bless the Faces and god bless you all.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I want this. I've got an old scratchy LP of uh Long Player, that is cherished around these parts like an old comfortable pair of shoes. Haven't heard much else though, to be honest.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah, honestly you should go get it right now, I always thought they were cool...i had Snakes & ladders a cheapie greatest hitz I picked up on used vinyl...but this box set really puts them in a new light....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I got the single CD "Good Boys.... When They're Asleep" Best Of a few years ago, and it's OK but it certainly didn't leave me wishing it could be expanded to four times it's size.

Not a patch on The Small Faces imo.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah, maybe it's not yr thing, but I will say that they were one of those wierd bands whose odds n' sods seem to actually eclipse their proper recorded work...there's a bunch of stuff on the box that was unreleased, b-sides, like BBC session versions of album tracks, rare covers, etc, that are actually better than the album stuff...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I've been wading my way through it for a few months now. Never has the program/select button on a CD player come in so handy. Some of the live/unreleased stuff is worth the search/weeding out process.

live highlights:

"You're My Girl(I Don't Want To Discuss It)"
"Around the Plynth/Gasoline Alley" (eat yr heart out Jeff Beck)
"I Can Feel The Fire"
"Take A Look At The Guy"
"Cut Across Shorty"
"The Stealer" (killer Free cover)

I don't know about "better than the Stones" but on the evidence I'd now rank Ron Wood as Keith Richards' equal rather than his clone.

Overall it'd be better at two discs IMO.

First Steps by Small Faces, their first w/Rodney, still rules.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Worth getting for "Dishevellment Blues".

(not really.)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I picked up Gasoline Alley in a dollar bin recently and I really really love it. Most of those highlights mentioned in the post above are on that album! The lines between late small faces/faces/early rod stewart are so blurred. I could use a good collection of stuff by The Birds, though. (xpost)

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I really like the instrumental Rear Wheel Skid and the couple of R&B covers - "If Loving you is wrong(I don't wanna be right), and I Wish it Would Rain (motown maybe)...

the live version of Maybe I'm Amazed and the unreleased studio vers. of Lennon's Jealous Guy are just fab too.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Also, is "Silicone Grown" the first fake boob song ever?

I didn't know they had breast implants back then, I thought that was more in the 80s when that came into being...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

hey man it all started in the 60s, didn't you get the memo?

No history of North Beach would be complete without the place that made titillating history in the 1960s and launched a young waitress like a sputnik into the topless night skies of San Francisco legend. Carol Doda gave topless dancing a bouncing start by turning her 34s into an ample pair of 44s. In June of 1964, Carol Doda launched her 44 attack by wearing a topless bathing suit designed by the legendary Rudi Genreich, and danced her way into infamy. A part of Carol's act called for her to gyrate while descending to the dance floor atop a piano that was powered by hydraulics. As the piano began its slow erotic descent, Carol moved suggestively, powered by her own inner hydraulics, perched on the piano like a bouncing candelabra for an invisible Liberace. There never was a show like it.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

huh. The More You Know! (TM)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Mr. C., I'm surprised you didn't mention the further details of what happened on that piano at another point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

The studio chatter that precedes the live vers. of Jealous Guy on the first disc is priceless, as is their very tender and affecting vers. of said song.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

"The Universal" is, like, the best song ever. is it on there?

― Mervin Heinz, Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Out of scope for this box -- this is post-Marriott Faces.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

"Richmond" is a great song.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

How are the liner notes to this? (I still haven't gotten it.) Do the liners to this have lots of pictures of the band and such? I'm thinking of buying this for my father-in-law who is a huge Rod Stewart fan and would like him to be able to put it in context with stories like "Maggie May" was recorded under Rod's name by the Faces, etc.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

The packaging, liner notes, etc are all very good.....Also, many great pictures of the lads having fun! Seriously, no band ever looked like they were having more fun than the Faces.

Although it didn't come out this year, this is still the best rock music I purchased in 05. Get it for him...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Cool! I'm getting it. Maybe I'll burn it first before wrapping!

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

it's so weird, cuz growing up in America you get pretty burned out on the Stone, Beatles, Led Zep, The Who, etc, and then you discover a band like this of the same era that's just fantastic!

Huh. I was just talking to a friend of mine about this the other day (inre: the Faces). So good!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7501734.stm

Faces members considering reunion

Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan has confirmed the surviving members of the band, including Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, have been considering a reunion.

"We're hoping to get together later this year to play and then we may have some news, but I want it to happen, badly," he told BBC 6 Music.

McLagan said Stewart was the only member uncertain about reforming.

"Rod hasn't wanted to do it for a long time. He didn't see the need in it but I think he really wants to now."

― Mark G, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

This box set is incredible, Matt OTM on "Jealous Guy" and "If Loving You Is Wrong". I'm not sure what I think about a reunion at this point though (RIP Ronnie Lane).

― Euler, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

Is Tetsu still around?

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Most recent info about Tetsu I can find is him playing on Japanese jazz albums in the late 90s. He should be good to go.

Stewart can still bring it, so I would probably check out a Faces reunion. They had all the good staff from that era of rock with a minimum of the bullshit from that era of rock.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

doubt I would pay to see this but I would watch it if uh it was on TV or something

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Tetsu made an album with Peter Brotzmann!

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

If only Ronnie Wood hadn't just got himself into some new controversial difficulties...

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

One guy walked into a bar...

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

stones...

― Euler, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

Does this mean that Rod Stewart found his penis?

― Jazzbo, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeTIpjv6kE

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:38 (two years ago)

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