Not long after those recording sessions, Taylor went on a six-week expedition to Brazil, to travel down the Amazon River in a boat and explore Latin music. When Taylor resumed work with the band, he found it difficult to get along with Richards. Not much was achieved during the first ten days at Musicland, but most of the actual recordings were made there in January 1974, and in April at Stargroves, Jagger's estate in Hampshire. In November 1973, Taylor underwent surgery for acute sinusitis and missed some of the sessions when the band began working on the LP It's Only Rock 'n Roll at Musicland Studios in Munich. Between recording sessions, the band members were living in various countries as UK income tax exiles, and during this period Taylor appeared on Herbie Mann's London Underground (1974) and also on Mann's album Reggae (1974). Īfter the 1973 European tour, Richards' drug problems had worsened and begun to compromise the band's ability to function. An estimated quarter of a million people attended for a show that turned into a tribute to Brian Jones, who had died two days before the concert.
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Taylor's onstage debut as a Rolling Stone, at the age of 20, was the free concert in Hyde Park, London on 5 July 1969. He overdubbed guitar on " Country Honk" and " Live With Me" for the album Let It Bleed, and on the single " Honky Tonk Women" released in the UK on 4 July 1969. An impressed Jagger and Keith Richards invited Taylor back the following day to continue rehearsing and recording with the band. Taylor believed he was being called in to be a session musician at his first studio session with the Rolling Stones. Taylor performing with the Rolling Stones in the 1970sĪfter Brian Jones and the group parted ways in June 1969, John Mayall and Ian Stewart recommended Taylor to Mick Jagger. Later on in his career, he further developed his skills as a slide guitarist. He is the guitarist on the Bluesbreaker albums Diary of a Band, Bare Wires, and Blues from Laurel Canyon. From 1966 to 1969, Taylor developed a guitar style that is blues-based with Latin and jazz influences. Taylor toured and recorded the album Crusade with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. "Let's go and see this 17-year-old kid try and replace Eric". For those in the music scene the night was an event. Taylor made his debut with the Bluesbreakers at the Manor House, an old blues club in north London. Mayall placed a 'Guitarist Wanted' advert in the weekly Melody Maker music paper, and much to his relief immediately got a response from Taylor, whom he readily invited to join. Still, this encounter proved to be pivotal in Taylor's career when Mayall needed someone to fill Peter Green's vacancy the following year, when Green quit to form Fleetwood Mac. I just really wanted to get up on stage and play the guitar."Īfter playing the second set, and garnering Mayall's respect in the process, Taylor left the stage, joined his friends and exited the venue before Mayall had the chance to speak with him. Taylor amended, "I wasn't thinking that this was a great opportunity. Taylor mentioned that he was familiar with the band's repertoire, and after a moment of deliberation, Mayall agreed. Taylor himself has said after seeing that Clapton hadn't appeared, but that his guitar had already been set up on the stage, he approached John Mayall during the interval to ask if he could play with them. Danny Bacon, a drummer friend of the Juniors, A group of local musicians, which included myself, Robert 'Jab' Als, Herbie Sparks, and others, along with three local guitarists-Alan Shacklock, Mick Casey (formerly of the Trekkas) and Mick Taylor-were in attendance. It was after John Mayall had finished his first set without a guitarist that it became clear that for some reason Eric Clapton was not going to show up. On the night in question, I had gone to The Hop with some guys from our band, former schoolmates and Ex-Juniors Mick Taylor and Alan Shacklock. In 1965, at age 16, Taylor went to see a John Mayall's Bluesbreakers performance at "The Hop" Woodhall Community Centre, Welwyn Garden City. In 1966, The Gods opened for Cream at the Starlite Ballroom in Wembley. Part of the band was recruited for a new group called The Gods, which included Ken Hensley (later of Uriah Heep fame). They also appeared on television and put out a single. As a teenager, he formed bands with schoolmates and started performing concerts under names such as The Juniors and the Strangers. He began playing guitar at age nine, learning to play from his mother's younger brother. Taylor was born to a working-class family in Welwyn Garden City, but was raised in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, where his father worked as a fitter for the De Havilland aircraft company.
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