Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, Manati, Puerto Rico, 4-3-1972, Part 1: Cactus, Faces & More

Here is the first part of the third, and last, day of the 1972 Mar Y Sol Pop Festival. Unfortunately, for this last day of the festival, I wasn't able to find as much music as I found for the first two days. So I just have portions of sets. This has music from Cactus, the Faces, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Potliquor.

The four Cactus songs all come from official sources. The first three are from a live album called "'Ot 'n' Sweaty," released in 1972. The fourth song, "Bedroom Marurka," is from the official live album of the festival, "Mar y Sol: The First International Puerto Rico Pop Festival."

Cactus broke up a couple of months after this festival. Two band members, bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, joined with Jeff Beck to form the band Beck, Bogert and Appice, releasing an album later in 1972. Here's the Wikipedia entry about Cactus:

Cactus (American band) - Wikipedia 

The Faces, starring Rod Stewart, were one of the main headliners of the festival. However, they didn't perform last on the last day, as one might expect of a headliner. Apparently, the organizers realized that the audience size steadily declined towards the ends of festivals like this, so it was better to have the headliners on earlier. (Interesting fact: when Jimi Hendrix performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, most of the audience had left already. Only about 30,000 to 100,000 of the peak 600,000 people remained.) Unfortunately, we only have three songs from the Faces. All three of those are unreleased.

There's just one song here from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the jazz fusion band led by guitarist John McLaughlin, "Noonward Race." But it's an impressive 13-minute-long instrumental. It comes from the official live album of the festival. Here the Wikipedia entry about this band:

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Wikipedia

Finally, that leaves the final song, from a band called Potliquor. This band played Southern rock with a Louisiana influence, since they were from Louisiana. They were together from 1969 to 1973 (plus a reunion in the late 1970s), and put out three albums in those years. Unfortunately, they were signed to a small record label and didn't get much promotion or distribution help. They were building some momentum, but that ended when the band broke up after only a few years. Their one song here is unreleased.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Potliquor - Wikipedia

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 Swim (Cactus)
02 Bad Mother Boogie (Cactus)
03 Our Lil Rock 'n' Roll Thing (Cactus)
04 talk (Cactus)
05 Bedroom Mazurka (Cactus)
06 It's All Over Now (Faces)
07 Maggie May (Faces)
08 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
09 Noonward Race [Instrumental] (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
10 The Train (Potliquor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DHMVDrgp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/izVfQzS9XcCFAi3/file

The cover image of Rod Stewart is from this exact concert. The original picture was in black and white, but I converted it to color with the Kolorize program.

The Faces with Keith Richards - The Midnight Special, Kilburn State Gaumont Theatre, London, Britain, 12-23-1974

Here's one of the top vote getters from my recent poll about the "Midnight Special" TV show. The Faces were number two in that poll. The Faces only appeared in one episode of the show, which was broadcast on April 25, 1975. But it was a special show in three respects. For one, the entire show was dedicated to just them, which was very unusual for that show. Two, it took place at a different location, even a different country, months earlier. And three, they were joined by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who played lead guitar on three songs.

The involvement of Richards in this concert is pretty interesting if one considers how it fit in to the break up of the band. By the time of this concert at the end of 1974, the Faces were well on their way to breaking up. The main problem was lead singer Rod Stewart. He'd become a superstar as a solo act, so it was easier for him to pursue that, where he could call all the shots, instead of remaining in the Faces. The last album the Faces put out was in 1973. They would only manage to tour and release a couple of singles after that. As a sign of Stewart's growing popularity, by the time of this concert, they were getting billed as "Rod Stewart and the Faces."

Meanwhile, Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones in 1974, meaning that more successful band needed a new lead guitarist. By early 1975, the top choice was Ronnie Wood of the Faces. He actually started touring with the Stones beginning in June 1975, although he wasn't an official member of that band yet. It seems Wood tried to juggle being a member of both the Faces and the Stones for a while, because when the Stones tour ended in early August, he joined a Faces tour starting in late August. But problems between members of the Faces grew and grew, until they announced their break-up at the end of 1975. Wood officially joined the Stones in early 1976.

Given that context, the appearance of Richards here wasn't just random. One could see this as part of a process of Wood moving from the Faces to the Stones. Perhaps it was part of Richards trying to woo Woods into the Stones, and/or see how well he and Woods clicked while performing in concert.

There's one bonus track. In the middle of the episode, there was seven-minute long interview of the band's lead singer Rod Stewart by the show host Wolfman Jack. Clearly, it was recorded at a different time and place than the concert, so it didn't fit. But I figure some people might be interested, so I stuck it in as a bonus track. 

Normally, the sound quality on all these Midnight Special shows has been excellent. But for this one, I noticed the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I boosted them up for all the songs. I also did the usual trick of getting rid of commercial breaks by editing out little bits (especially host Wolfman Jack announcing the breaks) and using more applause to get of the cuts between songs. 

Mere minutes after posting this, a commenter corrected me on the date and location, and also told me there was an extra song not broadcast on Midnight Special, namely, "I'd Rather Go Blind." So I found a different version of this concert that included that song, and added it in. I also added in some banter between songs by Stewart that was edited out by the TV show. Otherwise, the two versions are basically the same. It seems this concert later got released as a movie called "Rod Stewart and the Faces - The Final Concert." It has since come out on DVD, but not in an audio format. 

You can watch this concert/ episode on YouTube. Although Richards doesn't sing (except some very brief backing vocals), his lead guitar work with Woods is excellent. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long, not including the bonus track. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 It's All Over Now (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
06 Bring It on Home to Me - You Send Me (Faces)
07 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Faces with Keith Richards)
08 talk (Faces with Keith Richards)
09 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces with Keith Richards)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
13 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces with Keith Richards)
16 You Wear It Well (Faces)
17 Maggie May (Faces)
18 We'll Meet Again (Faces)

interview (Faces) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hzhFMx66

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/ulSGDNNzhUI9E4t/file

The cover image is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. From right to left: Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Rod Stewart. For once, I didn't have to move them closer together in Photoshop, since they were all trying to get near the microphone.

Popgala '73, Sporthal de Vliegermolen, Voorburg, Netherlands, 3-10-1973, Part 4: The Faces

The next album from the Popgala '73 festival is the Faces. (And yeah, I know that technically they're just called "Faces" like the Eagles from this festival are technically just "Eagles.")

The Faces still had their original membership, including Ronnie Lane, who would leave later in 1973. Their album "Ooh La La" was released the same month as this concert, but only "Cindy Incidentally" is from that album.

Or at least that's all we know of. I think it's highly likely there was a lot more to the Faces' set that isn't included here. Other acts at the festival like the Eagles and the Who had sets that were close to an hour long, so I would assume the Faces did too, and they were one of the biggest acts of the festival.

As it is, I had to piece this together from different sources, and I had to make some educated guesses about the song order. It seems "Cindy Incidentally" was the last song, but beyond that much of the rest could be wrong. If anyone has more accurate information, please let me know.

Just like many of the other albums from this festival, I thought the lead vocals were low relative to the instruments, so I adjusted them using UVR5.

This concert is 33 minutes long.

082 Stay with Me (Faces)
083 Angel (Faces)
084 talk (Faces)
085 You Wear It Well (Faces)
086 Maggie May (Faces)
087 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)
088 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
089 True Blue (Faces)
090 talk (Faces)
091 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17205463/VA-POPGLA197307TFces.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CJxm9iec

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Nrxi5NQxJlCvzWB/file 

The cover photo of Faces lead singer Rod Stewart comes from this exact concert. 

UPDATE: On October 5, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

The Faces - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 10-28-1970

I thought I had posted all the Faces music here that I wanted to post. But then I got to thinking about what the sound editing programs Spleeter and X-Minus could do. I remembered a Faces concert from 1970 that sounded great except for the fact that the vocals were too low. That's something that can be fixed now, so here it is.

This is an audience bootleg, but one of those rare ones that sound really good. It had two big problems, but I believe I fixed them both. The first one is the low vocals that I already mentioned. I've boosted those for every song. The second one is that, because it's an audience bootleg, there was a lot of audience noise during the songs. For slow blues songs in particular like "Devotion" and "Blues Deluxe," there were many "Woo-hoo!" type shouts all through the songs. But don't worry, because I was able to split the vocals onto a separate channel using X-Minus, then I erased dozens of such shouts as I came across them. 

The end result is that this sounds even more like a soundboard. It also suggests what can be done with cleaning up many other bootleg recordings. I hope other people will see the potential of these new programs and start using them for purposes like this.

When the Faces released their first album in early 1970, "First Step," it was credited to the "Small Faces" in the US and Canada, but just the "Faces" everywhere else. Apparently the thinking was the band wasn't well enough in North America yet to use their own name. This concert took place about half a year after that album was released, but they were still billed as "Small Faces" for it. You can hear Rod Stewart refer to themselves as that in some between song banter. Despite that, I'm billing them here just as the "Faces," since they became widely known with that name.

One really nice thing about this concert is that it's unusually long. All the other ones I've posted by the band range from about 40 minutes to an hour and 20 minutes, but this one is nearly two hours long. (An hour and 51 minutes, to be precise.) I suspect that's because there was no opening act, so they played longer to give the audience enough bang for their buck. Stewart even complained about the lack of an opening act in his talking between songs.

If you can think of any other recordings that have systematic problems, such as vocals too loud, or too low, or bass too loud, etc, please let me know. It's possible such things can be fixed.

01 talk (Faces)
02 Devotion (Faces)
03 I Don't Want to Discuss It (Faces)
04 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Country Comfort (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Flying (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Too Much Woman [For a Henpecked Man] (Faces)
11 Cut Across Shorty (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 Around the Plynth (Faces)
16 Country Honk (Faces)
17 Gasoline Alley (Faces)
18 Around the Plynth (Faces)
19 talk (Faces)
20 Love in Vain (Faces)
21 talk (Faces)
22 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
23 talk (Faces)
24 It's All Over Now (Faces)
25 talk (Faces)
26 I Feel So Good (Faces)
27 Blues Deluxe [Gambler's Blues] (Faces)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9pM4Eyru

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hvUf8WBCGIwawJx/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/aTtkU

As usual when it comes to the Faces, I had to scrounge around to find a decent color photo to use for the cover. I found one from a TV appearance in 1973. I would have much preferred something from around 1970, but at least Ronnie Lane was still a member of the band. From left to right, that's Ronnie Wood, Rod Steward, and Ronnie Lane. 

This photo was marred by colorful drawings of large insects behind the band members. (I used another photo from this same appearance on the "BBC Sessions, Volume 7" album, so you can see what I mean there.) It was really distracting in this particular photo, so I used Photoshop to darken the background to the point that the weird insects can barely been seen. I would have liked to include the other two band members (Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones), but they weren't included in the photo.

The Faces - Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, 3-7-1975

I recently posted seven albums of the Faces performing for the BBC, from 1969 to 1973. The Faces stayed together for two more years after that, though without key member Ronnie Lane. However, it doesn't appear that they recorded anything for the BBC during that time. I think the BBC albums show the Faces live at their best, due to the excellent sound quality. To finish things off, I picked the one 1975 concert bootleg that is a soundboard and matches the sound quality of the BBC stuff. Here it is.

Three of the performances here come from the official box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." But if you ask me, it doesn't really make any difference in terms of sound quality. It all sounds great. I only had to make some minor tweaks here and there, such as boosting the volume during the banter between songs.

The Faces released one live album while they were still together, and it was recorded in 1973 with the same line-up here (meaning no Ronnie Lane). It had the unwieldy title "Rod Stewart / Faces Live: Coast to Coast - Overtures and Beginners." It's not a very good album by Faces standards, mostly due to the surprisingly poor sound quality. This one is way better.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 Bring It on Home to Me - You Send Me (Faces)
06 talk (Faces)
07 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Faces)
08 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Too Bad - Every Picture Tells a Story (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 Stay with Me (Faces)
13 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
14 Motherless Children - Memo from Turner - Gasoline Alley [Instrumental] (Faces)
15 talk (Faces)
16 You Wear It Well (Faces)
17 Maggie May (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292909/TFacs_1975_SwngAuditriumSnBernardinoCA__3-7-1975_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo was taken in concert in 1974. It only shows three band members (left to right): Ronnie Wood, the new bassist Tetsu Yaumachi, and Rod Stewart. I would have liked a photo with all the band members, but this was the best looking concert photo with this line-up that I could find.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 4-1-1973

Over the past couple of months, I've posted a bunch of albums containing the performances the Faces did for the BBC. This is the seventh, and unfortunately, the last. But at least it ends on a high note, with a complete live concert in pretty good sound quality.

This concert took place one month after the band released their last album, "Ooh La La." So it's not surprising the set list was significantly different from the last time the band played a concert for the BBC fourteen months earlier. Four of the songs came from "Ooh La La," plus two more from Rod Stewart's 1972 album "Never a Dull Moment." Plus they did songs they never put out on record, such as "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon and "The Stealer" by Free.

In terms of sound quality, this is good, but not great. Though I'll point out these BBC recordings are pretty much as good as it gets in terms of live Faces recordings. Three of the performances were included on the band's box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." ("The Stealer," "Angel," and "Miss Judy's Farm"). So I used those versions. But in my opinion those don't really sound different from all the rest.

Like most of the band's previous appearances for the BBC, this was hosted by famous BBC DJ John Peel. That's not too surprising considering that he once said, "The Faces were my all-time favorite live band." However, his appearance here is very minimal, with just a comment or two that can be heard.

There are three extra songs at the end that don't come from the main concert. This is because the band first recorded a concert for the BBC on February 8, 1973, but then decided they didn't like their performance. They asked the BBC not to broadcast it, and instead made plans to do it again. That repeat is this main show, on April 1, 1973, at the same location. Personally, I don't see why they didn't like the show, since their performance sounded fine to me. The full unbroadcast show is out there on bootlegs in equally good sound quality. I've chosen not to include it here since the set list is very similar to this show, and the band preferred this one. But I did include three of the songs from that earlier show that were different. One of those, "I Don't Want to Discuss It," plus the banter right before it, was used as a bonus track for the "Ooh La La" album, so I've used that version here.

The main concert is 56 minutes long, no doubt because the BBC show was an hour long. But with the three extra songs at the end, this album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Silicone Grown (Faces)
02 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)
03 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
04 If I'm on the Late Side (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 My Fault (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 The Stealer (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Borstal Boys (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 Stay with Me (Faces)
13 talk (Faces)
14 True Blue (Faces)
15 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)
16 talk (Faces)
17 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Jealous Guy (Faces)
20 talk (Faces)
21 Too Bad (Faces)
22 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces)
23 talk (Faces)
24 I Don't Want to Discuss It (Faces)
25 talk (Faces)
26 It's All Over Now (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292867/TFacs_1973_BBSessionsVolum7InConcrtBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__4-1-1973_atse.zip.html

The album cover features a photo of the band playing on the British TV show "Top of the Pops" in February 1973. Sorry the drummer Kenney Jones didn't get included.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 2-17-1972

Here's the next in the series of albums of the Faces playing for the BBC. There's just one more to go after this. Personally, I think this is one of the best in the series, both in terms of sound quality and performance. Plus, by this time, the band had more songs to choose from, and they still had Ronnie Lane. 

There's not much to say with this one that I didn't say earlier in the series. All the songs come from one concert performance recorded by the BBC in front of an audience. There were no tricky problems requiring any fixes anywhere. Oh, BBC DJ John Peel is back acting as emcee, but he didn't speak much this time compared to earlier in this series.

This concert is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk (Faces)
02 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Give Me the Moonlight (Faces)
09 Too Bad (Faces)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Last Orders Please (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 Devotion (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 That's All You Need - Country Honk - Gasoline Alley - That's All You Need (Faces)
16 talk (Faces)
17 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Stay with Me (Faces)
20 talk (Faces)
21 Had Me a Real Good Time - Underneath the Arches - Every Picture Tells a Story (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292743/TFacs_1972_BBSessionsVolum6InConcrtBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__2-17-1972_atse.zip.html

As with most of the albums in this series, I had trouble finding good photos of the band from the right year. So for this album, I used a concert poster of the band from that year instead.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1971-1973

Here's the next in my series of albums featuring the Faces performing for the BBC. The last three in the series were live concerts recorded for the BBC. This one is different than those, but similar to the first one, in that it features a bunch of songs where the Faces played in the BBC studios without any audience. But I've also thrown on a some other things, taken from the band playing on TV shows and live rarities.

Tracks one, two, and five through ten were recorded at BBC studios. Tracks two and ten out of those are officially unreleased, but they come from the same sessions as the released ones. The other tracks come from either the band's box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." or from album bonus tracks. As you'd expect, the sound quality from these BBC recordings are generally excellent, even the unreleased ones.

While the Faces still existed as a band, Rod Stewart never played live in concert without them. But there's kind of an exception here with tracks two and three, "Gasoline Alley" and "Lady Day." That's because these songs are simply Stewart singing songs by himself while standing in the middle of some random city street. These performances are unreleased, but they were recorded for a German TV, and you can find the video of them on YouTube. Sometimes in the background, you can hear the sounds of cars driving by or kids playing. Even though both songs were clearly recorded at the same time by the same people, "Gasoline Alley" sounds better. With "Lady Day," Stewart's voice was too quiet in many parts. But I painstakingly boosted those parts using a sound editor, which is why that song has "[Edit]" in the title.

Of the remaining four songs (the last four), three of them come from a Dutch TV, and the other, "Jealous Guy" is a cover of a John Lennon song that was rarely done live, and was included on the band's box set. Two of the songs from the Dutch TV show, "Memphis, Tennessee" and "True Blue," were played live in concert. I made some edits to get rid of most of the crowd noise, which is why those songs have "[Edit]" in the title also. (Ditto for the second track, "Richmond.") The last song, "One Last Sweet Cheerio," seems to have been done backstage after the concert, which is why it wasn't marked as live despite coming from the same source as two songs that were.

The bonus track "Too Bad" is a bonus track due to poor sound quality. I tried to improve it by using Spleeter to raise the lead vocals through the muck. That's why that one has "[Edit]" in the title as well. But that could only help so much, so it's still a mere bonus track.

This album is 49 minutes long, not counting the bonus track. As far as I can tell, the band didn't play in the BBC studios again. So the last two albums in this series will be more live concerts that were recorded by the BBC.

01 Bad 'N' Ruin (Faces)
02 Richmond [Edit] (Faces)
03 Gasoline Alley [Acappella Version] (Rod Stewart)
04 Lady Day [Acappella Version] [Edit] (Rod Stewart)
05 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
06 Stay with Me (Faces)
07 Maggie May (Faces)
08 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)
09 My Fault (Faces)
10 Borstal Boys (Faces)
11 Memphis, Tennessee [Edit] (Faces)
12 True Blue [Edit] (Faces)
13 Jealous Guy (Faces)
14 One Last Sweet Cheerio [Acappella Version] (Faces)

Too Bad [Edit] (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116247/TFacs_1971-1973_BBSessionsVolume5_atse.zip.html

When it comes to album cover art, once again I was left with slim pickings. I'm continually surprised at how few good photos of the band that can be found on the Internet. Anyway, I picked a good photo this time, I think, but unfortunately it's one that only shows three members of the band, instead of all five. But at least they are the three most famous, from right to left: Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, and Ronnie Lane. It comes from a concert in the Netherlands in March 1973, not long before Lane left the band.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Sounds for Saturday, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 10-26-1971

I recently posted Volume 3 in this series of albums of the Faces performing for the BBC. In my comments for that, I said the sound quality was good, but not great, and unless you're a really big Faces fan, you might want to wait for this one, recorded later the same year.

Well, that's all true. However, upon closer inspection, I realized the set list of this performance compared to the one in Volume 3 is fairly different, even though the band hadn't released any new music in the meantime. In fact, only two songs were played for both: "Love in Vain" and "(I Know) I'm Losing You." So I don't recommend this as a substitute for Volume 3.

It is true, though, that the sound quality is somewhat better on this one. Four of the seven songs were included in the band's box set, "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." So that helped a lot. The other three songs and all of the banter between songs remain unreleased.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 I Want to Be Loved (Faces)
06 talk (Faces)
07 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
08 talk (Faces)
09 Love in Vain (Faces)
10 Stay with Me (Faces)
11 talk (Faces)
12 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292718/TFacs_1971_BBSessionsVolum4SoundsfrSaturdyBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__10-26-1971_atse.zip.html

I've continued to have a hard time coming up with good color photos of the Faces. In this case, I was able to find a photo that is actually from 1971, taken from the Weeley Festival. I'm not keen on the photo because three band members are looking to the side, but it was the best one I could find. If you know of a better one from 1971, please let me know.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: John Peel's Sunday Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 5-13-1971

Weirdly, for the past few days, I wasn't able to upload anything to Zippyshare. I was beginning to get seriously concerned, but today it resumed working for me again. So I have a few backlogged posts ready to go. Here's the first.

A week or so ago, I posted an album of the Faces playing a concert for the BBC, which was emceed by famous BBC DJ John Peel. This is exactly like that, because the Faces returned a year later and did another concert also hosted by Peel. Naturally, their set list changed during that time. Also, this show was longer, about an hour (technically, 55 minutes) compared to the half hour of the previous show.

However, be warned that the sound quality is variable. You'd think the sound would be the same all the way through since it comes from a single performance, but for whatever reason, some parts sound better than others. I tried to use the best sources possible. In this case, two, and only two of the songs played at the show are officially released: "Cut Across Shorty" and "Love in Vain." Both of those come from the Faces box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." Naturally, those two songs sound very good. The rest comes from a bootleg. But in my opinion, some of those songs sound better than others.

In conclusion, the sound quality is good, but not great. If you're a stickler for only great sound quality, I plan to soon follow this with another concert the Faces did later that year, with largely the same set list, that sounds better all the way through. But if you're a big Faces fan, you'll probably want both this one and that one.

01 talk (Faces)
02 You're My Girl [I Don't Want to Discuss It] (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 Cut Across Shorty (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Love in Vain (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Bad 'N' Ruin (Faces)
09 It's All Over Now (Faces)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Had Me a Real Good Time (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15259216/TFacs_1971_BBSessionsVolume3JhnPeelsSundayConcrtParisTheatre___5-13-1971_atse.zip.html

As with the cover to the previous Faces album in this series, I had a very hard time finding a good color photo of the band from the right year. I did find a nice color photo of them which I used here, but I don't know what year it's from exactly. However, it does include Ronnie Lane in it, and since he left the band in mid-1973, it has to be from before that point.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: John Peel's Sunday Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 9-19-1970

I haven't posted in a few days because I somehow got sucked into watching the TV show "The Expanse." It was so good that I ended up binge watching it for all of my free time. But I'm done with the show, so I'm back to posting. :)

Some days ago, I posted an album of the Faces performing for the BBC. I have a bunch of albums like that. This one, like that one, is from 1970, and features some of the same songs. But while that was is mostly performances done at the BBC studio without an audience, the bulk of this one is a live recording hosted by famous BBC DJ John Peel. Normally, I cut out the BBC DJs when possible, but in this case Peel was an integral part of the show, introducing the songs instead of having someone in the band do it, so I've kept all his banter in.

The John Peel show is relatively short, at only 34 minutes. To flesh things out I bit, I've added a few songs from a live recording from 1970. This was recorded at a club in London for a TV show. (I forget which one, but I vaguely remember it may have been for something in the Netherlands.) As a result, the sound quality is excellent, though a notch below the quality of the John Peel portion.

One problem with these extra tracks is that one song, "Flying," got cut off near the end. So I patched in the last 30 seconds or so from a different BBC recording. Hopefully, you won't notice the edit.

If you include the extra songs, this album is 47 minutes long.

01 talk (Faces)
02 You're My Girl [I Don't Want to Discuss It] (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Devotion (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 It's All Over Now (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 I Feel So Good (Faces)
11 talk (Faces)
05 Flying (Faces)
13 I Want to Be Loved - Street Fighting Man - I Want to Be Loved (Faces)
14 Gasoline Alley - Around the Plynth (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292728/TFacs_1970c_BBSessionsVolum2JhnPeelsSundyConcrt__9-19-1970_atse.zip.html

It's surprisingly hard to find good color photos of the Faces from 1970. If you know of some, please let me know. This photo I used for the cover art is a good one, but I'm not sure what year it's from. However, it has Ronnie Lane in it, and he left the band during 1973, so it has to be from before his departure.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970

In recent months, I post a handful of stray tracks albums for the Faces. I've finished those, and that now frees me up to post BBC material from the band. It turns out the Faces performed a lot for the BBC. Even though the band only existed for six years, I have seven BBC albums I want to post here, starting with this one.

The vast majority of the band's BBC material remains officially unreleased, and this album is a case in point. Only three of the ten songs here have been released. The first song is from a bonus track, and the fifth and ninth songs are from the band's box set, "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..."

Most of the Faces BBC albums I plan on posting here are entire concerts that were recorded by the BBC. But this is of the more stereotypical kind of BBC material, in which the band played live in a studio without any audience. As a result, there could be a danger of BBC DJs talking over the music. Happily, by 1970 that bad habit seems to have become less common, and there are no cases of that here.

The sound quality is solid throughout, except for the last song, "Away in a Manger." Consider that kind of a bonus track. 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Faces)
02 Love in Vain (Faces)
03 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
04 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
05 Flying (Faces)
06 Evil (Faces)
07 Had Me a Real Good Time (Faces)
08 Country Comfort (Faces)
09 Around the Plynth - Gasoline Alley (Faces)
10 Away in a Manger (Rod Stewart with Ian McLagan)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292635/TFacs_1970b_BBSessionsVolum1_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I used part of a 1970 concert poster for the band. The only changes I made were that I increased the contrast, and added some words in black.

The Faces - I Can Feel the Fire - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1975)

Here's the last of the stray tracks albums for the Faces. 

The band broke up in 1975. Their last studio album was in 1973, and one of their key members, Ronnie Lane, left that year too. They had some studio sessions in 1974 and 1975 with a mind to putting out a new album, but in the end all they released was a single. The first two songs here are from that single. The next two songs were recorded live in concert, then released much later on a Faces box set. The rest of the songs are from the unfinished album studio albums, and also were released much later on that Faces box set.

By the way, the song "I Can Feel the Fire" was put on a Ron Wood solo album in 1974. He joined the Rolling Stones in 1976, and I put a different version of the song on a Rolling Stones stray tracks album too.

Most of the songs are originals. I think the only one that isn't is the medley of "Hi-Heel Sneakers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love."

The two bonus tracks are fine songs. The only reason they're bonus tracks is they're from concert bootlegs, and the sound quality isn't that good.

The album is 37 minutes long, not counting the two bonus tracks.

01 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Faces)
02 As Long as You Tell Him (Faces)
03 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
04 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
05 Hi-Heel Sneakers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (Faces)
06 Gettin' Hungry (Faces)
07 Open to Ideas (Faces)
08 Rock Me (Faces)

Big Bayou (Faces)
Early One Morning [Highgate Shuffle] (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116263/TFacs_1974-1975_I_CnFeeltheFire_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from 1975. Note that Ronnie Lane is gone, and has been replaced by Tetsu Yamauchi (who is the only one in back, wearing a hat).

The Faces - The Stealer - Non-Album Tracks (1973)

After releasing two albums in 1971, the Faces kept a relatively low profile in 1972, releasing no album or single that year. Then they released the "Ooh La La" album in 1973. Despite that, there's enough material from 1973 for a stray tracks album from that year. Here it is.

All the songs here have been officially released. However, you wouldn't have been able to buy many of them in 1973. The first song and the last four are A- and B-sides from that year. (Note that "Oh! No Not My Baby" and "Jodie" were credited to "Rod Stewart and the Faces." I'm including them here and not on a Rod Stewart stray tracks album because indeed all of the Faces played on them.) The song "Dishevelment Blues" was only available on a "flexi-single" that you got when you purchased a certain magazine. The rest - songs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 - were released decades later on the "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." Faces box set.

In my opinion, this is a pretty strong album. The only snag is that many of the songs are cover versions, and the Faces liked to have all or nearly all original songs on their studio albums.

01 Pool Hall Richard (Faces)
02 [If Loving You Is Wrong] I Don't Want to Be Right (Faces)
03 Come See Me Baby [The Cheater] (Faces)
04 Dishevelment Blues (Faces)
05 Insurance [Instrumental] (Faces)
06 Jealous Guy (Faces)
07 The Stealer (Faces)
08 Oh! No Not My Baby (Rod Stewart & the Faces)
09 Jodie (Rod Stewart & the Faces)
10 Skewiff [Mend the Fuse] [Instrumental] (Faces)
11 I Wish It Would Rain (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116262/TFacs_1973_TheStealr_atse.zip.html

I don't know the details of the cover art photo, except it comes from 1973.

The Faces - I Came Looking for You - Non-Album Tracks (1971-1972)

Here's the next in my series of stray track albums for the Faces. This comes from the years the band arguably hit their peak with the studio albums "Long Player' and "A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse."

As I explained with the last album in this series, Rod Stewart was the lead singer in the band at the same time he was having an increasingly successful solo career. During these years, he did all his concerts with the Faces. Sometimes, songs on his solo albums would be backed by the Faces too. I'm not including any songs from his solo albums though, since I figure anyone who wants this already has those.

So where do the songs here come from? It's a mixture of A- and B-sides singles, bonus tracks, and BBC performances. (One BBC performance, "I Want to Be Loved," is officially unreleased, but the sound quality is fine.) 

 The last three come from the soundtrack to an obscure movie called "Mahoney's Last Stand." This movie wasn't released until 1976, but it, and the songs for it, were finished in 1972, so I consider them done in that year. Technically, these were done by only two members of the band, Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood, but other Faces members Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones played on some songs too, so it was almost like a Faces album minus their usual lead singer Rod Stewart. 

Some of the songs for that soundtrack were later done for the Faces or for Ronnie Lane's solo career, so I generally didn't use any of those. (However, I did use one song used later, "Anymore for Anymore," because this version is significantly different.) Also, many of the songs are instrumentals that aren't that notable, just generic background movie music, so I'm not using any of those either. 

01 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
02 Oh Lord I'm Browned Off [Instrumental] (Faces)
03 I Came Looking for You (Faces)
04 Sham-Mozzal [Instrumental] [Early Version of Had Me a Real Good Time] (Faces)
05 Whole Lotta Woman (Faces)
06 I Want to Be Loved (Faces)
07 Anymore for Anymore (Ronnie Lane & Ronnie Wood)
08 'Mona' the Blues (Ronnie Lane & Ronnie Wood)
09 Tonight's Number [Instrumental] (Ronnie Lane & Ronnie Wood)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15223445/TFacs_1971-1972_ICmeLookingforYou_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from 1971, but I don't know any other details about it.

The Faces - Shake, Shudder, Shiver - Non-Album Tracks (1969-1970)

This is the first album I've posted by the Faces. There will be many more to come. I have four stray tracks albums (this being one of them), and seven BBC albums. If you don't know already, the Faces morphed out of the Small Faces. Key singer and songwriter Ronnie Lane remained, but the main lead singer and songwriter Steve Marriott was replaced by Rod Stewart. From 1970 to 1975, Stewart essentially had two musical careers going on at once, as a solo artist and as a member of the Faces. But during those years, all of his concerts were done solely with the Faces.

Before I continue, I just want to point out that, yes, I know that technically the band is known as "Faces," not "the Faces." But I'm sorry, I can't do that because it doesn't sound right to me. In the same way, the Eagles will always be the Eagles (and not the technically correct "Eagles." If you start a band and you name it the plural of a noun, expect people to put a "the" there.

Anyway, the Faces have lots of stray tracks. I'm using the rule of not including any versions from Rod Stewart or Ronnie Lane solo albums. But if the Faces did a different version of one of those songs in concert or at the BBC or something like that, I would use that.

The first three songs here are studio rehearsals done back in 1969, while the band was working on their first album. Unfortunately, even though these come from the band's official box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." the sound quality isn't great. In particular, the lead vocals are low in the mix. I felt obliged to include them, since they are stray tracks. Happily, the sound improves for the rest of the album.

Most of the remaining songs are B-sides or bonus tracks. One song, "Blues Deluxe (Gambler's Blues)" is unreleased. It's a song Stewart used to sing with the Jeff Beck Group. That one, plus the last two, were recorded in concert.

In my opinion, this album has it's moments, but it's not great. I feel the band was finding itself, and would soon get much better. 

01 I Feel So Good (Faces)
02 Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Faces)
03 Evil (Faces)
04 Behind the Sun (Faces)
05 Rear Wheel Skid [Instrumental] (Faces)
07 Blues Deluxe [Gambler's Blues] (Faces)
08 Love in Vain (Faces)
09 Too Much Woman [For a Henpecked Man] (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116246/TFacs_1969-1970_ShkeShudderShiver_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo was taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in May, 1970.