let’s go upstairs and read my tarot cards
Red lips, hair and fingernails?
We’ve had a request for some Faces, and there really isn’t much out there on them, comparatively, but we do have the bootleg known as “Killer Highlights,” recorded mostly for a BBC-aired show. Some of this appears on the completist’s wet dream, “Five Guys Walk Into a Bar” box set. The batch includes Faces faves like “Had Me a Real Good Time,” “Borstal Boys” and for the first time live, “Bad n Ruin.” But more interesting are the covers — McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” balanced by Lennon’s “Jealous Guy,” The Stones’ “Love in Vain,” The Temptations’ “I’m Losing You,” and Free’s “The Stealer.”
Wilson and Alroy have a great Faces refresher, which outlines their short-lived, six-year catalogue.
RECORDING DETAILS: BBC Paris 1,2,3,5,6,7+14 1972, rest 1973
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief zip is: Faces Killer Highlights.zip
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Dude, “If I’m on the Late Side” is a rad song.
great post! thanks…. !
Definitely some nice old Faces stuff. Had the chance to see them live in 1975 and it was like a big party. Only a few months earlier I saw Ronnie playing with the Stones and back then he definitely seemed more a part of the Faces.
Just one other comment, how about some credit to Robert Johnson for “Love in Vain?”