2 Comments on “Mandolin Wind: Rod Stewart”

1. Hedley Says:

   
   November 15, 2016 at 4:09 pm

   A brilliant track from a brilliant album. Every picture tells a story Donut?

   First saw Rod and the Faces at the Concert for Bangladesh at the Oval in September 1971 . Rod came on in a leopard skin somethIng and started strutting and throwing the microphone stand in the air like a majorette. Wood, Ronnie Lane, Mac and Kenny Jones were a lads group and they damned nearly blew The Who off the stage (but didn’t)

   And so it started a period where I would trundle around London watching The Faces and The Who. I still have a soft spot for Pete and Rog and have no idea how many times I have seen them. The last time I saw Rod he was poncing around a parody of the Jack the Lad he once was. I left early

   But I have never grown tired of those early albums and when Dylan received the Nobel prize for literature I immediately thought of my favorite Rod lyric of all time…

   “She was tall, thin and tarty
   And she drove a Maserati ”

   Oh and he went to school with Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks in north London
   • katry Says:

     
     November 15, 2016 at 5:36 pm

     My Dear Hedley,

     This is my favorite Rod album.

     The old Boston Garden saw many concerts. I did not. Most were rock and roll. I tended toward folk back so the venues were small. I saw a few of those in college.

     I have not kept up with contemporary music. You have introduced me to some as has im6. In the car, I listen to NPR and oldie music. At home, I also listen to the older albums.

     Of course, he went to school with Ray and Dave. That whole area is guilty of inbreeding.

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