MUSIC NEWS - The Faces reformed last night (October 26) in the UK for a special charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall, without Rod Stewart participating, but Kenney Jones told the BBC that a full reunion is very likely. On vocals, Rod was replaced at the concert by guest performers that including Mick Hucknall (Simply Red), Mel C and Kiki Dee with the line-up of Ian McLagan, Rolling St
Legendary UK band the Faces are set for a reunion gig in London next month – without frontman Rod Stewart.The BBC reports that Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagen and Kenny Jones will get together to play at the Royal Albert Hall on October 25. The show will be in aid of the Performing Right Society’s Music [...]
It's starting to look like classic rock reunion rumors are kryptonite for actual reunions. For weeks, blogs and music magazines carved out rumors of a possible Led Zeppelin reunion: Will the band go on without Robert Plant? Is Scott Weiland going... There's more on this story at the following link...
Back in November Faces co-frontmen Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart announced the band's reunion promising a whole album's worth of new material, the band's first since 1973's Ooh La La. More details on that album have leaked today, most notably that Red Hot Chilil Peppers bassist Flea would sit in on the forthcoming Faces reunion tour. Wood and Stewart reportedly spent Christmas and New Years toget...
The U.K. paper The Sun says that the reformed Faces have already recorded their first album in thirty years. Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and an unnamed bass player supposedly were inspired after a trip together to Costa Rica, Bermuda and Miami. Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror tempers that a bit by saying that Stewart and Wood are done writing the songs for the album, which...
--- - |- Keef joins the boys at the final show. The second half of that Faces Fillmore West show. Disc 2 01 Maybe I'm Amazed 02 Around The Plynth 03 Honky Tonk Women 04 Gasoline Alley Medley 05 Love In Vain 06 Three Button Hand Me Down 07 It's All Over Now 08 Feel So Good 09 Blues Deluxe Zippa Tags: bootleg, faces, fillmore, live show, rod stewart, ronnie wood ~~- Faces
--- - |- Keef joins the boys at the final show. The second half of that Faces Fillmore West show. Disc 2 01 Maybe I'm Amazed 02 Around The Plynth 03 Honky Tonk Women 04 Gasoline Alley Medley 05 Love In Vain 06 Three Button Hand Me Down 07 It's All Over Now 08 Feel So Good 09 Blues Deluxe Zippa Tags: bootleg, faces, fillmore, live show, rod stewart, ronnie wood ~~- Faces
Back in November Faces co-frontmen Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart announced the band's reunion promising a whole album's worth of new material, the band's first since 1973's Ooh La La. More details on that album have leaked today, most notably that Red Hot Chilil Peppers bassist Flea would sit in on the forthcoming Faces reunion tour. Wood and Stewart reportedly spent Christmas and New Years toget...
The MOG is unually quiet of late...not to denigrate those who've posted, but MOGgers only produces what? two pages for today? TWO PAGES?.....Gee, but I'd give the world to see that old gang of mine......
All Music Album Review:It wasn't all over but the shouting, but the Faces sure weren't thriving when they released their last album, Ooh La La, in 1973. The problem, of course, was Rod Stewart, who had turned into a superstar, causing innumerable tensions within the band. He had yet to decamp to America, had yet to turn to pop instead of rock & roll, but he was on the cusp of that sea change. N...
When Steve Marriott left the Small Faces in 1969, the three remaining members brought in guitarist Ron Wood and lead singer Rod Stewart to complete the lineup and changed their name to the Faces, which was only appropriate since the group now only slightly resembled the mod-pop group of the past. Instead, the Faces were a rough, sloppy rock & roll band, able to pound out a rocker like "Had Me a...