Re: "Maggie May" and our new mandolin
Originally Posted by
Fretbear
The non-credit that Ray got on that hugely successful album was pretty sad considering how much he contributed to it's charm.
"The mandolin was played by the mandolin player from "Lindesfarne" whose name escapes me....."
In this recent thread I reached the conclusion that Ray may have actually gained from this - though it doubtlessly chaffed him at the time and for much longer - as this is (by my reckoning) one of the best-known gaffes in liner-note history - there surely is such a thing ...
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The following are from an old thread, and hopefully the posters have seen the errors of their ways, so apologies to them ... but for those wandering in to this resurrected thread, I would like to point out one or two things ..
Originally Posted by
Santiago
They did a real poor job of faking the playing. Ron Wood misses his first solo almost entirely, and he stops faking the second break mid-solo to gesture for the mandolin playeer to turn around and face the camera, then you can see that they mando guy isn't even moving his right hand through most of the solo. Not the boys' best performance by far. Even lost the soccer ball. If they tried this today, they'd have a Milli Vanilli incident for sure. I guess it's still a great song and THE quintessential rock mando solo.
It's pretty obvious they were faking it. No real attempt to play the song was made. They were poking fun at the then-common practice of lip-synching to a recording. I mean, really - where are the mikes? Where are the amps and guitar cords? And who are these guys? Those are his Faces buddies, who didn't play on the recording (except Ron Wood), and Rod did them a favor getting them on the telly as his star was rising and theirs had faded.
Originally Posted by
PseudoCelt
The mandolin "player" in the video is the late John Peel, legendary British radio DJ and friend of Rod Stewart & The Faces. I heard somewhere that the cameramen were told not to film him (possibly because he wasn't a member of the right union?), which is why Rod Stewart spends quite a bit of time standing behind/next to him.
Eh? His face is quite visible quite often. This looks more like an in-joke, or repayment of a favor to me. I've seen some of these old British music shows, and it's not unusual for the hosts to get on screen during performances.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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