ghost, i'm never offended by (and always welcome) reasoned dissent--it keeps me from getting too full of myself...
fully agree with you on danny kirwan, who dropped off the map precipitously (booze/lsd, i think)-- for me the albums he played on were far and away mac's best and his songs were the best thing on them, green's "o well" and "closing my eyes" (incredible tune) excepted. i did own a couple of his solo records, which were terrible and were eventually used to kill zombies.
as for ron wood, i can see why "own album" didn't connect--he's a non-singer, tho unlike other non-singers (david lee roth, joe jackson, etc.) he doesn't deign to sing, which makes him a good non-singer. also, there's a deliberately tossed-off quality to the record--he's going for a barroom groove, not trying to make a major statement, which is the same reason i like the faces' records more than most of rod stewart's or the post-who's next who. yet however uncompelling you find the performances, i still think the songs are there--take another listen to "feel the fire" and "sure the one," only this time crank it up and have a couple whiskeys first; also listen to son volt's cover of "mystifies me."
fully agree with you on danny kirwan, who dropped off the map precipitously (booze/lsd, i think)-- for me the albums he played on were far and away mac's best and his songs were the best thing on them, green's "o well" and "closing my eyes" (incredible tune) excepted. i did own a couple of his solo records, which were terrible and were eventually used to kill zombies.
as for ron wood, i can see why "own album" didn't connect--he's a non-singer, tho unlike other non-singers (david lee roth, joe jackson, etc.) he doesn't deign to sing, which makes him a good non-singer. also, there's a deliberately tossed-off quality to the record--he's going for a barroom groove, not trying to make a major statement, which is the same reason i like the faces' records more than most of rod stewart's or the post-who's next who. yet however uncompelling you find the performances, i still think the songs are there--take another listen to "feel the fire" and "sure the one," only this time crank it up and have a couple whiskeys first; also listen to son volt's cover of "mystifies me."