Year: 1969 (LP 1977)
Label: Charly Records, Bellaphon Records (Germany), CR 3009
Style: Classic Rock, Rock
Country: London, England, United Kingdom
Time: 38:23, 26:25
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 225, 163 Mb
Steve Marriott (next Humble Pie, 30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Ronnie Lane (ex Faces, 1 April 1946 – 4 June 1997) - vocals, guitar, bass guitar
Kenney Jones (ex Faces, next The Who) - drums
Ian McLagan (next Rolling Stones, 12 May 1945 – 3 December 2014) - keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Jimmy Winston (next musical "Hair", television programme "Doctor Who", "serial Day of the Daleks", 20 April 1945) - vocals, keyboards
Whether
you liked them better Mod or with Rod, both incarnations of The Small
Faces/The Faces have gotten their Rock Hall due as British Invasion
visionaries.
The Small Faces had but one Top 20 hit in the USA — the
1967 single "Itchycoo Park," which reached No. 16 in 1968. And the
group’s highest-charting U.S. album was the 1968 classic "Ogdens’ Nut
Gone Flake," which peaked at No. 159 in 1968. But following the
announcement of the group’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame, the Rock Hall’s website stressed that these "visionary mods … were
creative peers and commercial equals of The Beatles, The Who and The
Rolling Stones" and cited the group as an influence "on artists like The
Black Crowes, The Jam’s Paul Weller, The Replacements and Oasis."
The
Small Faces’ story was only one chapter for the band. Rechristened as
The Faces in the 1970s, the lineup at times featured solo star Rod
Stewart, future Rolling Stone Ron Wood and former Wings man Jimmy
McCulloch. There were a few more hits in that decade as well, although
both versions of the band always enjoyed more success in their native
England.
The original group came together in 1965, when Steve
Marriott met Ronnie Lane at the J60 Music Bar in London, where Marriott
was working. Marriott got his start in show business in the stage
musical "Oliver!" and subsequently pursued an acting career before going
into music, releasing a solo single and becoming a member of London
band The Moments.
Marriott had seen Lane when The Moments shared the
bill with Lane’s band, The Outcasts. The two struck up a conversation,
then went back to Marriott’s house to listen to records. Lane, a
bassist, invited Marriott, who played guitar, to jam with his current
band, The Pioneers, who had a residency at a local pub. Marriott ended
up getting so drunk, he smashed the pub’s piano, and The Pioneers lost
their residency. But, Lane found a new musical partner. Lane then
brought Pioneers’ drummer Kenney Jones on board, and Marriott brought in
a friend from his acting days, Jimmy Winston (real name Jimmy Langwith)
on keyboards. The Small Faces were born.
Langwith wasn’t the
strongest keyboardist, but he had something else of value to the budding
group: His parents owned a pub where the band could rehearse, and his
brother owned a van to drive them to gigs. A female friend of Marriott’s
helped him buy an amplifier and suggested the name The Small Faces,
which Marriott liked for its play on words. Everyone in the group was
short, and "face" was mod slang. "The term ‘Face’ was a top mod, a face
about town, a respected chap!" Marriott explained. ...
(www.goldminemag.com/articles/the-small-faces-story-was-just-one-chapter-for-the-band)
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