kgdjpubs wrote:annie89509 wrote:Like Tammy, I don't know much about Jeff Beck, either, other than he's a guitar player & has a band called ... Jeff Beck Group?
And Rod was in a group called Faces before going solo. So, if they were once bandmates, when and what was the name of the group?
Rod Stewart was lead singer for the Jeff Beck Group to begin with in the late 60s. After 2 albums (Truth and Beck-ola), the group dissolved and Rod and Ronnie Wood went on to combine talents with some of The Small Faces to form The Faces.
There was a Beck/Stewart reunion in the early/mid 80s that resulted in a cover of People Get Ready, which was quite good and I remember it getting some airplay. Then, Jeff Beck went on tour with Rod Stewart, but it dissolved after only a couple of shows. That was it....until this week.
I wanted to add that Ian "Mac" McLagen was the vocal and keyboardist for Small Faces and The Faces. Ian has toured and recorded with: The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt, David Lindley, Paul Westerberg, Billy Bragg and Patty Griffin, to name some but hardly all of the notables that McLagan has worked with over his four-plus decade career. I was fortunate enough to be in Austin Texas in either 2006 or 2007 when Ian and his Bump Band opened for the Rolling Stones and afterwards came into the Continental Club and played two full sets for a small group of lucky people. I was already in the Continental Club and found myself standing with my friends at the stage (a small intimate stage) right in front of Ian. We clinked our beer mugs together several times that night in between songs, and it was just one of those lucky moments for me. My first trip to Austin and I end up clinking beer mugs with Ian McLagen in the Continental Club within an hour of his opening for the Rolling Stones. That doesn't happen in my life every day.
