Posted tagged ‘Ron Wood’

Happy Birthday, You Freaky Fucking Bird-Man (Ol’ Dirty Bastard Edition)

June 1, 2009

62 years drunk and still pulling the birds! Here’s the birthday boy himself taking center stage for a guitar duel with none other than Steve Cropper.  And Booker T.  And the late Howie Epstein.  And the stylistically-challenged G.E. Smith.  (From Bob’s 30th Anniversary Party at Madison Square Garden back in ’92): Get back out on [...]

Middle Age Crazy

January 29, 2009

It seems our boy Ronald has been keeping himself busy these days… not only is he guesting on the new Starsailor album, but apparently he & the Mrs. (Miss?  Ms.?  She’s not yet of legal U.S. drinking age, after all) are bolting Blighty for sunny L.A.  He has all of this free time, of course, because [...]

Route ’66: in places, small faces abound

August 8, 2008

You should never need an excuse to crank “Eight Miles High”, but when the calendar strikes 8/8/8, you don’t pass it up.  And since Gene Clark mentions the Small Faces in the lyrics (L.A.’s finest kept bumping into the speeded-up little mods on their first British tour)… what the hell - let’s play them, too. And given The Birds [...]


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