Saw Ronnie Wood playing with Rod and the Faces in 1973 at the Locarno in Sunderland England. He's a very versatile musician. Rod was playing a white grand piano and everyone had tartan scarves. The music was great. Amazing they are still going strong.

Oh he's made the top ten on my best guitarists list.

His guitar tone, his perfectly timed choppy chord playing, his melodic solo on ‘Jealous Guy’ from Faces Live is my all time favourite guitar track, every note... just perfect, cheers Ron!

I bought "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse" when it came out, The album is in my top 5 favorite albums, not only for the amazing songs on it, but Ronnie's playing and TONE just keep me coming back for more. So glad to see someone give Ronnie his kudos.

His solo on Debris is just beautiful

Well done!!!!!!

His contribution to the Rod Stewart albums "Never a dull moment" and "Every Picture tells a Story" are really very impressive. Also worth mentioning are the contributions from all the other musicians plus Stewart's amazingly detailed arrangements. Two of my very favourite albums.

Your channel is refreshing because you show that if you "master" the fundamentals " you can actually be a great 🎸 ist!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Cindy Incidentally is my favourite Ron Wood song. I'd love to see a lesson for that one!

Mark, every comment and observation that express here is just perfect...and so succinct. Although not a Stones song, I was always impressed with Ronnie's playing on "Stay With Me."

yay! Ronnie's got soul!!

Mark, I completely agree with you about Ronnie Wood. I saw him on a British morning show a few years ago, doing a blues song with an acoustic (one of Keith's apparently!), and harmonica, and he was absolutely brilliant. I think he would definitely make my Top 15 of guitar players.

Ronnie has always had the ability to add and enhance what is already there, he reads the room where many don't or can't. He's a real asset to any musicians he performs with, a true band member and worth his weight in gold. An excellent musicians guitarist in my book.

Love some Ronnie Wood. Love his tone on " I'm afraid I'm losing you"

Good call on Ronnie, he also played bass on Jeff Beck's first album.

Ronnie's brief solo on Shattered is a classic for following the chords. Textbook!

I never realized that was him! What a classic solo! Thank for clueing me in on his stones work too, I also had no idea

We also have to plug Ron Woods for his painting and wonderful fun radio/KZfaq interviews. Wonderfully charming. Ronnie is beloved by his fellow players. He is everyone’s best buddy. He and Paul McCartney are good friends as well.

Not to mention his being the bass player for the Jeff Beck group, on Beck's first album "Truth."

Agree on Every Picture. Amazing album. Thanks for your lesson and insight.

I was just listening to Every Picture! Amazing work

Such a nice chap, great communicator and full of useful insights into guitar playing.

GREAT INFO! as always 👍

The side-by-side neck views also help demonstrate why a capo is a great thing to have at a song circle or guitar pull. playing in a different register from everyone else gives a richer sound to the overall group

Ronnie (n Keith as well!) has (have!) always been a great inspiration in my playin style. ;)

I still enjoy Ronnie Wood being a mod with the Birds in the film "The Deadly Bees"

Great lesson Mark!!! Great music and a classic solo. Doesn't get better than that. Keep up the great work 🎸

Always liked Woody's aloof playing. He reminds me of the plate spinner on the old Ed Sullivan show. Just when you think he's going to lose it, he picks it up and keeps on going. To hear some of his best & great guitar playing, listen to him on slide guitar on the Faces, "That's all you need." One of my all time favorites. He should have stayed with the "Faces." I loved their sound and the writing of Stewart/Wood vs Jagger/Richards.

Good stuff Mark 👍🏻 Slides, playing over chord tones and through them, using triads and their inversions Its a road map that’ll take you up and down the neck, vertically and horizontally Its so simple its almost complicated

My favorite solo of all time. Also the tune is amazing. I loved Rod with the Faces also was incredible and do not get the credit they diserve. Ronnie Lane's writing was incredible. Their working class lyrics were essentially high class all the way. Great job descibing that iconic solo. Love you Brother!!!!!

Ronnie makes a good fit for being a Rolling Stone. He was great with the Faces.

Love that LP Deluxe. ❤ I hacked mine up with PAFs in the 70s. 🙄

The Keith riff🙏🎸👍the most unmistakable riff in the world😃.

Just got into the Stones on “Some Girls?!?” WHAT??? I love Ron Woods, but My friend Mick Taylor was the height of the Stones playing. “Sticky Fingers” & “Exile on Main Street” are their masterpieces. I also love “Beggars Banquet” & “Let it Bleed” after that. “Some Girls” & “Tattoo You” were Ronnie’s best. Ron Woods on the Faces album “A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse” is Ronnie rocking at his best. BTW, just having fun with my favorite silver grey guitar slinger.

In some ways I grieve the day Ronnie joined the stones as he is so buried in their sound it's like he left he's identity at the door! I mourn the loss of the type of guitar work he did with the Faces and Rod Stewarts solo albums, he really shone, not only the epic 'Stay with Me' but also 'That's all you Need' (what a tone) the great funky playing on 'I'm Losing you' the beautiful 'Debris' and the brilliant Faces swansong 'You can make me Dance, sing or Anything' Stunning vibe. Again you have to question the mighty Stones and there treatment of band members regarding song writing credits as all the way back to the Jeff Group, Ronnie was constantly writing with Rod and then Ronnie Lane in the faces days and then he just stops when he joins the Stones??? Hmmm another case of the MIck Taylors blues. It's not that he didn't know what he was getting into before he joined the band either as he and Jagger put 'It's only Rock'n'Roll ' together in he's home studio at 'The Wick' in Richmond and when Keef was presented with the track he couldn't deny it's strength but proceeded to wipe all of Ronnies parts off ( or so he thought but according to Ronnie he forgot about Ronnie's acoustic 12 string which is still on there much to Ronnie's delight) and then took the Co write credit !! Thanks for pointing out Ronnies contribution its good to know he is still in there no matter how low in the mix he is.

Very interesting. Saw Rod and the Faces back around 72-73, good times.

Ron Wood might not be technically the best (I don't care), but he's LONG been my favorite. The intro to Jodie and Oh No Not My Baby, are just perfection. The amount of sharp funky twang (Jodie) or/smooth melancholy (Oh No Not My Baby) with just the right amount of 'dirt' holy f...n' s...!!! Gets under my skin every time.

Solid breakdown and solid graphics breaking down the patterns. Keep it up!

Every Picture Tells a Story is one of the best LP's ever produced. The Faces are as good as any of them as far as I'm concerned. I saw Aerosmith and Jeff Beck open for The Faces in Lakeland Fl. 1975. What a line up.

Awesome discussion Mark, it’s not technical skill that creates a great solo. Yes the basics of slides bends and pull offs are necessary. But it’s the way it’s expressed by the player and presented in the song. I never realized how memorable this solo is, of course i heard it when I was around 12, the radio played the hell out of it. And the mandolin stood out for me for rythym , but the solo is also etched in memory , it’s very lyrical playing . Also loved some girls. Rock disco Arguably the stones best album.

@Mark Zabel -- I would love to see a deeper dive into Ronnie's earlier stuff from Faces. A deeper breakdown of "Had Me a Real Good Time" would be really cool if you like,... or even "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything" as well - cool Ronnie guitarwork here

I spent most of my life thinkin' Jeff Beck played the Maggie May solo. I stand corrected. Its a hell of a compliment for Ron tho😅

Good stuff, MZ!

Great video!!!!!!!!

When i think the Stones 2nd thing comes to mine is MICK TAYLOR ❤ my favorite stones tunes were done in MT YRS

Nice work on this lesson Mark. Ronnie is a very accomplished & creative player! Thank You!! Cheers Mark👋🖤🦋🖤

You really good man good job

I agree man...His riffs especially the Faces...the into to "Stay with me"...one of the greatest riffs of all time...Ronnie Wood. With the Stones...his licks are subtle...but hit the spot every time.

depends whose list but hes number 1 for me

Sorry Mark. Ron has been criminally underused as a guitarist in the Stones. His best work is all with Rod.

MARK, do a YT lesson about "pocket modes" because Neal Schon uses pocket modes just stays one octave range 7 notes range which is a pocket but keeps changing the scales tonal center changing the scales function. I'm not sure what other rock guitarist uses Pocket modes but try to find more examples to make a YT lesson about it

Whos going to take the place of these great bands when they die,Rolling Stones,AC/DC,Lynyrd Skynyrd,I guess no one can ever replace these bands,I hope rocknroll doesn't die.

Me too!!!!!!!!

I bought the album "Gimme Some Neck" (Ronnie also did the artwork!) while in college. I love his version of "Seven Days" by Bob Dylan and, of course, "F.U.C. Her". 🤣 (Hey, like I said, I was in college living in a fraternity house!)

Hey Mark! Would you post a video showing how to play the solo in the Doobie Bros. song "Jesus Is Just Alright?"

Hey Mark, Ron Wood didn't play the guitar solo on Maggie May it was Martin Quittenton. Ronnie played the Electric and 12 String Acoustic & Bass on the track.

I have always been a big fan of Ronnie Wood's I've Got My Own Album To Do. If you people haven't heard it check it out. His bass work with Jeff Beck Group is very good

His solo on You Can't Always Get What You Want on the Love You Live album is killer!!!!!!

Ronnie is certainly in my top ten guitarists. Probably top five, actually. Massively underrated!

Ron is a very versatile musician and very much underrated, always compared with Mick Taylor and you really can't compare them, it is two different styles. Ron can play good solos to but Keith and he have another concept than Keith and Mick T. Ron got more space in Faces and his guitarsound there i think was great.

I’ve been hoping someone would make a video about Ron Wood. Keith gets all the love, and he rightfully deserves the love, but there’s no Rolling Stones without Ron. His lead playing in Start Me Up is what got me interested in him as a guitarist. Love his stuff from Faces as well. It’s a shame his stuff would get buried in the mix sometimes

You Wear It Well was a great track too. The Faces were a good working band

Give me artful guitar craft like this over wank, virtuoso single note solos any day of the week. Taste & feel wins every time.

He gets all the credit for Rod Stewart's Every Picture Album and all of the Faces albums, his work with Stones will always be second fiddle to me.

There would be no Stones without Ron Wood. There really shouldn't be without Charlie either. Just my opinion. Indeed his work with The Faces is amazing too.

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I think the Mick Taylor era was when the Stones were at a high point. Woods is a good journeyman guitarist, but Taylor was a master.

Ronnie is a good guy who I have come to appreciate but wish he did a better job over the years being a big Stones fan. He has overcome some challenges that explain his times when he was not cutting it in my view....probably because Mick Taylor was a true virtuoso guitar player coming up with some of the best guitar playing in rock and roll.

Thumbs Uo people It's free And it helps Marks vids. 🙂

I fell under their spell as a pasty white teen from discovering ENGLAND'S NEWEST HITMAKERS (hit makers? ha) All the songs i assumed were Stone's songs, Thus my musical education began... and no internet to help! Plus I & millions like me were thrilled their OUT OF OUR HEAD'S LP proudly, defiantly showed their pimpled faces!

The reason that Ronnie doesn't get more respect for his playing is that before he was a Rolling Stone, he was a Rolling Stones' fan. He knows that it's not the Ronnie Wood show, It's the Rolling Stones' show. That's why he got the job, and Beck / Clapton / Marriott / Gallagher etc did not. I think you would be hard pressed to find a real Stones' fan who did not believe that, with hindsight, he is the right man for the job.

Ron Wood and most other musicians know the secret islearn to listen ?

I hv Some Girls. Great

Besides your great video, I really don’t think that Ronnie plays that part of beast of burden. It sounds totally Keith to me. There’s another guitar there, the third guitar to apear, soloing all along the music, that sounds like Ronnie to me. Cheers 🙏

Ronnie ROCKS he wrote ONLY ROCK & ROLL... Hes important to the Stones

Ronnie was always good, but it was a SHAME Mick Taylor never stuck with them, HE was their BEST guitarist after Brian Jones!

Dead right on all counts Mark.

Because the guy who preceded him was in a league of his own?

Perhaps Ronnie kept things simple so as not to upstage the mandolin player.

Ron Wood is over rated simple..... i mean he is a good player but.....

Can't wait to hear the new Stones album... first in a long time. Ronnie is just amazing both with the boys and Rod Stewart.