F aces -sometimes known as The Faces - were an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces, when Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie . The remaining Small Faces - Ronnie Lane (bass guitar), Ian McLagan (keyboards) and Kenney Jones (drums & percussion) - were joined by Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (lead vocals), both from The Jeff Beck Group ... and the new...
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental hand/groin coordination consultant Fah Lo Suee and I will be off to lovely Indianapolis, Indiana and the palatial home of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Theoretically), where we will be beating the little SOB within an inch of his life. No particular reason, actually, just on general principles. In any event, further posting by moi will have to be...
Following the success of last years UK Tour, Richie Kotzen has just announced three UK dates for June 2010 as part of his World Tour of the new ‘Peace Sign’ Album. Last October saw the first live dates that Richie had played in the UK since 2004 resulting in a ‘Sold Out’ London performance. Richie is a guitar virtuoso who has recorded on Mike Varney’s Shrapnel Label,...
S mall Faces were an English rock and roll band from East London, heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott , Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones (later of The Who ), and Jimmy Winston, although by 1966 Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboardist. The band is remembered as one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of...
Seattle quartet the Fixers , perhaps America's preeminent Humble Pie tribute band, play a benefit show for the victims of the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake tonight at Showbox Sodo . There they will impeccably impersonate the raunchy, boozy, British R&B group that were fronted by the immortal Steve Marriott . The Fixers consist of Andrew McKeag (vocals/guitar), Ron Heathman (guitar/vocals), Kurt Bloch...
This is a limited edition print of an original Pop Art painting by A Northern Soul. Small Faces were an English rock group from East London, heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston and are best remembered as [...]
T he English blues-rock band Humble Pie was founded by guitarist and 1960s British Mod icon Steve Marriott as he left the Small Faces in 1969. He had wanted to add young Peter Frampton to the band and make changes to their sound, moves opposed by the others- so he went off to form a new band with Frampton, bassist Greg Ridley, and 17-yr-old drummer Jerry Shirley. The residual Small Faces therefore...
The introduction to Paulo Hewitt and John Hellier’s wonderful book on the late, great Steve Marriott reads: ‘Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful’ – “I can’t live to anyone else’s rules.” ‘Steve Marriott was one of the music world’s most extraordinary individuals. A supremely gifted songwriter, singer and…schemer. A vocalist from...
Their late-1967 single "Itchycoo Park" (single released Nov. 11, 1967) is Small Faces' best-remembered songs and was also the first of the band's only two charting singles in the United States, reaching No. 16 (Jan. 27, 1968 for 3 weeks). "Itchycoo Park" was the first British record to use flanging, the technique of playing two identical master tapes simultaneously but altering...
Of all the classic British bands from the 1960's perhaps the band who have been dealt the most unfair deck has been the Small Faces. Rather unjustly viewed as a mere forerunner for Humble Pie and The Faces by many, or just a vehicle of convenience for two of the finest singers to have been produced in these isles in Rod Stewart and Steve Marriott, their own more than ample achievements seem to lie...
Well, here's another one that got away. From 1980, please enjoy my old pals The Mix and their sprightly cover of Van Morrison 's "Glad Tidings." These guys should have been big; they were managed by Leber & Krebs, who also handled some band called Aerosmith (their album -- American Glue -- came out on L&K's custom label), and they were a genuinely exciting live act. Frontman Stu Daye...
I was listening to Brian Matthews' Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 this morning in the bathroom (on a 26 year-old radio) when he played a Humble Pie album-track version of Buddy Holly's 'Heartbeat'. Yes, it has been made over-familiar by the television series but this was distinctively Humble Pie and later I looked it up on Spotify - and it isn't here. No doubt it's for complex contractual reasons,...
It’s more than 18 years since Steve Marriott died after fire swept through his 16th century Essex home and yet, with the help of Facebook, the greatest of mod icons has become a hero to a fanbase more international than he ever had when he was alive.
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