MUSIC NEWS - Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan recently confirmed that the reported rehearsals of the re-formed The Faces '09 reunion went well. On his official website, mscspages.com, McLagan posted;
'The rehearsals were a lot of fun, everybody was in fine form and things are looking good for a gig or two next year, but these things take time to work out and I'm just going to wait until there's something solid to report, so I'm not getting excited just yet. .....I'm holding my breath'.
The Faces line-up is McLagan on keyboards, Ronnie Wood on guitar, Kenney Jones on drums and Rod Stewart on vocals with Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea replacing the late Ronnie Lane on bass. The Faces grew from the 1960s band The Small Faces and became The Faces in 1969 when singer Rod Stewart joined the band. They've released four studio albums, the most notable being 'A Nod is as Good As a Wink’ which features the classic tune, 'Stay With Me’. Stay.. is still a part of Rod Stewart’s setlist ! The band broke up in 1975, as Rod Stewart had for the previous three years juggled his job as lead singer with his other job as solo superstar.
Details on a 2009 Faces reunion tour are still "tbd". 'We just have to sort out when and where and drop all of the management egos and just do what we can. We know we can do it. It’s just a matter of getting everyone’s availability sometime next year,' Ronnie Wood previously told Rolling Stone. We're hopeful for worldwide stops by the group !!!
UPDATE 1/21/09 - Rumors began to surface last year that Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea had rehearsed with the band, and yesterday Ronnie Wood confirmed that the LA-based rocker was a definite. Wood broke the news yesterday (January 20, 2009) at the South Bank Awards, held at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Woody also spoke enthusiastically about a Christmas trip he and Stewart took to Costa Rica, Bermuda and Miami. Besides partying, the duo wrote an album's worth of material ! "I had a great time," said Wood. "It wasn't so much a holiday but a mini-world tour."
UPDATE 1/22/09 - Despite recent reports that the Faces are reuniting for an album and a tour with Flea on bass, Billboard reports that a Rod Stewart spokesperson told the music press that "there are no plans for a Faces reunion tour this year." Additionally, a Flea's mgmt representative at Qprime told MNN that Flea "knows nothing" of a Faces tour. Part of the confusion originated for the Peppers themselves, someone should pull this Dec 04, 2008 post off the RedHotChiliPeppers.com site! Anyway, time will tell and we'll hope that Flea isn't keeping anything from his mgmt and see if Woody is correct.
A reunion of the Faces with Rod Stewart would be downright awesome...I love Rod and have from the very beginning. Hope it comes to pass. Wow!!!!
Posted by: Joan Fristoe | Feb 03, 2009 at 04:05 PM