Chords for Mick Taylor & Jack Bruce interview 1975

was made that Mick Taylor would indeed be the guitarist in the new Jack Bruce band,
and it is a pleasure to welcome both Mick Taylor and Jack Bruce to the studio tonight.
Good to see you.
Jack, _ congratulations first of all on the album, Out of the Storm,
which I'm enjoying immensely, really, and on the formation of the new band, really, too.
It's,
I get the impression, really, that it's something that you've been wanting to put together now for
quite a long time.
Well, this, the way the band's working out, it's not the sort of thing that you _
could want to.
It's the sort of thing you could dream about, really, rather than plan. _
You know,
that's sort of the way it happened, you know.
_ You haven't settled on a drummer yet?
No, we haven't _
settled on one.
We have [Abm] several, _ and we're going to _ choose one of those.
How did the band come
together, Jack?
_ _ Well, I was rehearsing with some people, _ _ [G] _ but it just wasn't really working out.
It wasn't making me happy, _ and Andy Johns, _ who's a mutual friend of Mick's and myself,
he was staying at my house, and he said, _ let's phone up Mick and see if he feels like
playing, recording or something.
_ So we did that, and we went into the studio, and Mick,
_ _ well, that's how Mick, how I met Mick, and then _ Mick sort of told me he wouldn't mind playing.
_ _ _ What about the [A] other people, [Ab] Carla Bley?
Well, that was fantastic. _
I mean, Carla Bley is really
an amazing person, and I phoned up Carla to get Tony Williams' phone number, because I thought
he would be a good drummer to have, _ and not only did she have the phone number, but she asked if
she [G] could be _ the keyboard player in the band. _
So it's really, _ I didn't sort of plan the band or ask
anyone to join.
It just sort of [Ab]
happened.
And the [G] final, Max?
Yeah, Max, I did [Abm] ask to join, and
_ and he's very happy about it.
[G] So we'll have sort of keyboards, harmoniums, organs,
two _ keyboard players.
It makes it very versatile.
Right.
Mick, you, haven't you been thinking for
some time about Leaving the Stones? _ _
_ Yes, it had been sort of _ in the back of my mind for quite a
long time.
I mean, my role as a lead guitarist has always been very satisfying, especially
playing live on stage, which is where I feel I made my greatest contribution to what's great.
_ But _ as _ my own sort of music started to develop, it became more and more difficult to sort of _ _ _
express myself within the _ style of the group.
And I mean, it's the style of the Stones.
_ It makes them so good, [Abm] you know.
Yeah.
[G] And did you feel that style changed much when you joined?
_ _ _ _ Well, _ I feel it developed, you know. _
I think the whole band _ got progressively better as a
live _ performing _ band on stage.
[Ab] And I think that we reached a peak on the last European tour,
which was very good.
[Dm] But you see, _ _ [G] _ _
when I _ _ started to _ play _ piano and started to compose music on
piano, that's when I sort of _ _ realised that I had a lot more musical potential that
wasn't actually being used. _
When _ the opportunity came up to play with Jack,
we were very sort of enthusiastic about it because [D] we both had very similar tastes,
similar [Ab] ideas.
So did the telephone call from Jack actually prompt your leaving the Stones?
_ _ _ It didn't _ _ _ prompt me to _ _ _ _ _ actually leave.
I was thinking about that anyway.
But
I mean, it was _ so perfect, you know.
It was such an ideal opportunity [G] because
_ I'd been wanting to get together with Jack for a long time.
_ You must have enjoyed the time you spent with the Stones, then.
Oh, it was great.
Fantastic.
_ You've no idea who they're going to call upon now to replace you in guitar? _ _ _ _
_ I _ think [Ab] _
they're having problems, you know.
[G] _ It could be anybody, you know.
I feel that at this
stage in their career, it would probably be better to just use _ friends, you know,
_ on the recording sessions.
I don't really know, you know.
_ _ _ Okay.
_ Jack, the _ _ next step, presumably now, for all of you will be rehearsals.
[Eb] And are you planning to rehearse for that now, almost immediately?
_ Yes. _
The plan is, once we have our drummer, _ which we should have a drummer tomorrow, _ _ _ _
once we have him, [G] we're going to go to Jamaica _ [Ab] and _ [E] have some sun and get to know [Ab] each other,
rehearse [G] and possibly record.
[Ab] Because there's a [Gm] very good studio there, too. _
That's the plan. _ _ _ _
Drummer is the thing.
Yeah.
But it's really looking like we're going to find one.
Yeah.
Presumably, at this stage, it's very difficult to start thinking about putting
gigs together for a tour.
Are you planning?
Oh, yes, without any doubt.
_ It's difficult, obviously, for us to think, yeah, we'll start
here and, you know, start [Abm] at _ [G] _
point A, you know.
So where can we?
I don't know where we can play.
_ But, you know, we will play as soon as it's at all possible.
_ The plan is to play all over the world, everywhere, you know.
And Out of the Storm, presumably, will provide the nucleus of the stage set.
Well, _ _ initially, the band will be playing mostly my [Ab] material.
I mean, 90 odd percent.
But the band will grow.
_ And I should think very quickly, we'll be writing together.
I should imagine that Carla, Mick and myself will form, [E] _
Pete [N] Brown, you know, we should _
form a songwriting team, you know, and that is the _ potential of that actually sort of worries me.
So fantastic.
_ There really does seem to be things that Mick is getting into.
I mean,
I only knew Mick as a little guitar player with the Stones.
I didn't
know just quite what a musician he was, you know.
He's amazing, you know, potentially he's amazing. _
And I hope that the band will grow and give him an opportunity to to fulfil that potential.
[F] _ _ _
Well, the very best of luck.
Thanks for coming in.
Thank you. _ _
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