Small Faces

[fucthest8]

I read the thread title as small faeces Really. I worry about my brain

 

[klang]

i know this no pie thread, but ronnie solo got a sneak-in, so let's just get it over and done with.
what a fucker he was!

 

[Sirena]

I was around at the time of the Small Faces (aged 14-16 - which is just perfect) and I have to report that, in our school at least, they were regarded as ineffably cool both to boys (who liked their loose laddishness) and to girls (who lusted after their bodies). They were quintessentially mod (in a way that the over-hyped Who never were) and they even sparked a 'mod' way of walking which was adopted by the scooter boys.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I've always preferred their first album on Immediate over the others however on Spotify there is a special edition of Ogdens which includes excerpts from interviews with the band talking about the album inbetween the songs. Go listen to it if you haven't done so already

 

[yardbird]

Steve:

Five Long Years

In the days that he used to play Dingwalls for me - always packed out!

 

[Meltingpot]

I was around at the time of the Small Faces (aged 14-16 - which is just perfect) and I have to report that, in our school at least, they were regarded as ineffably cool both to boys (who liked their loose laddishness) and to girls (who lusted after their bodies). They were quintessentially mod (in a way that the over-hyped Who never were) and they even sparked a 'mod' way of walking which was adopted by the scooter boys.

Thanks for that. I was eight when "All Or Nothing" was No. 1 and it made a big impression on me. Since you mention the Who though, I'm just wondering what the Small Faces would have been like with Moonie drumming for them?

I once knew someone who roadied with Humble Pie and got to know Steve Marriott; he said he was a really nice bloke and very generous with his money.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Pointless trivial fact #3453: Steve Marriot's last released song was on an anti-poll tax benefit compilation

 

[yardbird]

I once knew someone who roadied with Humble Pie and got to know Steve Marriott; he said he was a really nice bloke and very generous with his money.

He was an ace bloke - proud to call him a friend.
RIP

 

[isvicthere?]

I never had you down as a hippy, danny.

Hippy? Mod, surely!

 

[danski]

Not really into them (on account of not having heard much) but I fucking love this song.....

 

[two sheds]

Hippy? Mod, surely!

No he started off a mod, ended up a hippy

 

[danny la rouge]

You can fuck right off, too.

 

[blossie33]

Quote 'I once knew someone who roadied with Humble Pie and got to know Steve Marriott; he said he was a really nice bloke and very generous with his money'



I liked the Small Faces but know nothing of them personally, however, a biography I read about Steve Marriott indicates he was not always a nice guy - he was a bit of a split personality and could be quite unkind at times.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Little cockney's can't be hippies. It's genetically impossible.

 

[Meltingpot]

Another good one, I think this one's from Ogden's;

 

[danny la rouge]

Another good one, I think this one's from Ogden's;

That's Ronnie singing. For anyone who didn't know.

 

[klang]

this is ace, last recording until playmates. bit of pie rock shining through:

 

[two sheds]

Little cockney's can't be hippies. It's genetically impossible.

You know people are in trouble when they resort to the racist arguments. I suppose that means they can't dance, either.

Mad John

 

[Nanker Phelge]

You know people are in trouble when they resort to the racist arguments. I suppose that means they can't dance, either.

Mad John

What the fuck you going on about?

 

[isvicthere?]

No he started off a mod, ended up a hippy

Yes, he "ended up" a hippy in Humble Pie - i.e. after he left Small Faces.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Not sure Humble Pie were ever really Hippies. I thinkl Steve M struggled with musical direction after The Small Faces. He was always trying to retain some kind of Soul/Blues roots, yet seemed to desperately want to get beyond it and try country, rock, Gospel etc.

I think he always had these music styles in his music, not sure he realised it though, and instead got caught up trying do something other than just be himself.

Got lost along the way.

 

[Onket]

Great thread, cheers.

The Small Faces are one of those bands where I have liked everything I've ever heard them do, but never owned any of it.

My Dad had some of their stuff though, I think.

 

[two sheds]

What the fuck you going on about?

Sorry, when you put:

Little cockney's can't be hippies. It's genetically impossible.

I thought you were joking

Yes, he "ended up" a hippy in Humble Pie - i.e. after he left Small Faces.

I was actually talking about Danny. Mustn’t be too hard on him, though. He got home the other night after a bad day and got outed from the back of the dirty hippy cupboard with VP listening to Small Faces saying ‘nooooo not hippy music they were mods no they were rock going on psychedelic not hippy music noooooo’.

So can I clarify with the hippy haters – when Marriott and Lane wrote things like ‘John would sing with the birds in the morning, laugh with the wind in the cold hand of night … Yes his bed was the cold and the damp but the sun was his friend, he was free. So here was a wise one who loved all the haters. He loved them so much that their hate turned to fear. ‘

This was them being mods was it? Used to join in the annual Brighton rockers funfight on their mopeds singing that as they swung bike chains round their heads Clockwork Orange style did they?

Small Faces were mods at first then they grew up and became hippies - get over it.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Yes, the Small Faces were a Mod band but Itchycoo Park was hippy though.

 

[danny la rouge]

So can I clarify with the hippy haters – when Marriott and Lane wrote things like ‘John would sing with the birds in the morning, laugh with the wind in the cold hand of night … Yes his bed was the cold and the damp but the sun was his friend, he was free. So here was a wise one who loved all the haters. He loved them so much that their hate turned to fear. ‘

This was them being mods was it?

It's them being stoned, is what it is.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

It's them being stoned, is what it is.

Very stoned....and perhaps a little acid tinged.

 

[klang]

nice!!!

 

[Shreddy]

Coolest thread ever. Hello Stevie!!!

 

[Kaka Tim]

The Small Faces were fucking ace.

Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriot both died without their worth being truly recognised.

They got majorly ripped off by their managment (Don Arden?) as well, never seeing their share of the royalties.

 

[Meltingpot]

Agreed Kaka. Yes, it was Don Arden (Ian McLagan goes into it in his autobiography, which I've read). Arden comes out of that very badly; he apparently told the band's parents, who were at a meeting with him to find out why he wasn't paying them more money, that they'd in fact spent it on drugs instead.