I reckon Marriott, more than _any_ other 60s guitarist, invented the sound of the modern electric guitar. While I love all the great British 60s groups (Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Who/Move/Zombies) and think that all of them had incredible songs, all the guitarists' sound was lightweight in comparison to Marriot's.

⁠@@blackmore4Jimi Hendrix would like to have a word with you sir. He was tearing it up in America in backing bands for huge acts before hitting it big in England. Hell, Stevie (as well as Townshend and Davies) may have even heard some of Jimi’s recordings and been influenced without even knowing who he was at the time.

@@mikeshannon1452 Jimi loved the Small Faces. He called them cool little cats and said that the feedback solo of Steve's in "Whatcha Gonna do About it" was one of his favorite guitar solos. According to Peter Frampton's memoir, he was backstage w/SF's when their mgr came in to say that Jimi had requested the Small Faces open for his upcoming tour of the US. In one of his notorious stupid decisions, Steve reportedly said that they were headliners and were not going to open for anyone. If only they had done so, perhaps Small Faces would have been huge as they should have been.

Awesome! Witnessing cool History in the making

You're so lucky!!!

Really lucky

Luckier than that even!

I believe you, but looking at the crowd, they don't seem all that crazy. They must be fizzing inside I guess?

@@ac9110 My first thought was how frozen the crowd looked too.

Steve Marriott ; a truly soulful artist

I had the pleasure of being the Small Faces 1st road manager, picked up their clapped out van from Jimmy Winston place, took it to a dealer in Leytonstone and swapped it for a brand new Commer 15 cwt van. Swapped the gear over and drove to Birmingham. A month or so later got a phone call to pick up Ian Mclagan, his Hammond organ and Lesley speaker, now the van was stuffed. The boys stage show was great and they hated most of the material Don Arden and Decca made em put out. they were a Blues band on stage and the girls loved it. The pace on the road was killing with TV in the afternoon, one or even two gigs at night, up a dawn and a 5 hr drive to the next TV, photo shoot, gig. 6 or 7 days a week. At least the boys could kip in their Mk 10 Jag. But hey it was great for an 18 year old and I stuck for a year, met some great people and had some wonderful times. London was my favorite with the Scene, Flamingo, Ronnie Scott's and a host of other clubs that just let me in once they knew I was the SF roadie.

@@goodmoaningvietnam1439 Great memories, thank you for sharing.

Let's not forget Paul Rodgers & Chris Youlden, for starters...

And not forgetting Reg King

Good info on the hustle of music industry. Arden signed Small Faces, and gave them "blank check" to spend like they were Beatles. The "fine print" - even extending to Humble Pie, and others - was that their expenses were deducted from a tour's earnings, left them with little, but to do what mgmt. demanded.

Without doubt, as did we all at the time, thankfully, most of us sacked them off after a year or so.

@@nigden1 I took french blues a few times and stopped. I couldn't deal with the come down the following day. Lol.

@@calibreman Amphetamines are bad shit, I've seen many who overdid them, it ain't good.

@@nigden1 I agree with you James.

I, too, have asked that vital question.

sometimes great films are sitting in warehouses....sometimes they were lost or destroyed

@@michaelleigh Yes, and the massive fire at the film studios. Fishy story

Plant idolised Marriott, he followed the band.

Nothing to do with punk. It was to do with cool.

Yilmas VEVO never a pop group

Just cracking speed filled 60's British take on R'n'B but you never know

no.

Sofa King, with respect...I love Marriott, Faces, Spooky Tooth, The Pie as much as anybody. My personal opinion is that hard rock began with The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. I have the good fortune of being fb friends with one of the original Ikettes; legend has it that Marriott himself kissed her toes, upon meeting her. And that's been decades, ago.

@mtopper66 mtopper66, thanks for your reply! I happen to disagree, though. My personal belief is that R & R truly began with Ike and Tina. My fb friend, Miss Fields, has performed with Al Kooper, Alice Cooper, Humble Pie, Nazareth, Neil Diamond, Boz Skaggs, Pink Floyd and countless others. Her late colleague, Clydie King, falls into the same category: Kooper, Skynyrd, Ronstadt, etc. My personal opinion is that they were all among the true founders of rock music. Nice to hear from you. Thanks!

@@davidcook4623 I think you're right, Ike new how to structure it, Tina delivered it.

Thomas Patrick Parker they tried desperately to break from that pop band image. They were indeed heavy.

They were heavy and pop, I think. That's part of what made them great. I always find Humble Pie a little depressing in spite of their talent because (unlike the Faces) they lost the fun.

Stuart P +1

@Thomas Patrick Parker I hate, hate, hate your comment. _"too pop"_ 🤦🏼‍♂ I also fucking hate, hate, hate all those towing the completely conformist and insufferably tedious BLUES party line. LIGHT AND FUCKING SHADE you morons. The fact that the Small Faces could tower above virtually everyone else doing BOTH light and shade so brilliantly is the very reason WHY they were so special. And if you hate 'Itchycoo Park' or 'Lazy Sunday', you're musically brain dead.

jcatjake No it's The Small Faces in 1964. Their arraignment of I think a Willie Dixon song. Robert "Percy the prat" Plant was an annoying little Kiddiminster Mod kid who used to always hang around the coolest band ever when they were in the midlands, and tell them he was gonna start a band etc etc. . . That done, he then lifted Marriott & Lanes version of You Need Lovin', and made Led Zepplins inferior version. Steve Marriott later said he's glad someone made a fortune off it, coz he sure as shit didn't.

@@Chris-Top-HerB Correct Chris ! I knew Robert when he was at school

Marriott was much prettier and way more sexy.