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The Faces

Origin: London, England
Genres: rock, blues-rock
Years Active: 1969-1975, 2009-present
website: http://www.the-faces.com/

Members
-Ronnie Wood
-Kenney Jones
-Ian McLagan
-Glen Matlock
-Mick Hucknall

-English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces- Ian McLagan(keyboards), Ronnie Lane(bass), Kenney Jones(drums, percussion)- were joined by Ronnie Wood(guitar), Rod Stewart(vocals), both from the Jeff Beck Group

-New lineup was named Faces.
-They released 4 studio albums and toured regularly until the autumn of 1975, although Stewart alos pursued a solo career and during the band's final year, Wood also toured with The Rolling Stones, with whom he later joined.

-In May 2010, Faces talked of plans to reform with Simply Red vocalist Mick Hucknall
-On Dec. 7, 2011, it was announced they were to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the Small Faces

History
-The first band among these guys was called Quiet Melon, which featured Ronnie Wood's older brother Art Wood.
-With the addition of Wood and Stewart, the band renamed themselves Faces. The "small" part was dropped because the 2 newcomers were quite tall, Ronnie Wood was 5'8'' and Rod Stewart was 5'9''.
-As Rod Stewart's solo career started off, the band felt overshadowed by this.

Post-Faces
-Wood joined The Rolling Stons as a full member after Mick Taylor up and quit

Influence on music
-Their only real rivals were that of The Who and The Rolling Stones, Faces enjoyed alot of influence on later rock music.

Discography

Aerosmith: Boston-based Hard Rock

Ever notice that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, who are the lead singer and lead guitarist for Aerosmith are like the American versions of British-born lead singer Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones? Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are the major hotties in Aerosmith in my opinion!!!

These 2 r close enough to kiss, eww!

Beatles History on this Day

1969
-The Beatles perform their final concert on the roof of the Apple offices in London's Saville Road. They perform "Get Back" but the set is halted by 42 minutes as a nearby banker at the Roayl Bank of Scotland complained about the noise.

1967
-In Kent, England, The Beatles shoot a promo clip for their song "Strawberry Fields Forever" while the Jimi Hendrix Experience are filmed at London's Saville Theatre to promote their next single

The Small Faces

Origin: London, England
Genres: Rock, R&B, psychadelic pop
Years Active: 1965-1969, 1975-1978
Associated Acts: Humble Pie, Faces, Wild Horses, The Who
Website: www.thesmallfaces.com

Members:
-Steve Marriott

-Ronnie Lane

-Kenney Jones

-Jimmy Winston
-Ian McLagan

-Rick Wills
-Jimmy McCullough

-The Small Faces were an English rock and roll band from East London, who was heavily influenced by American R&B.

-Formed in 1965 by Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, Jimmy Winston. In 1966, Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboard player.

-The band is remembered as one of the most influential mod groups of the 1960s London era.

-The band started back up in the 1970s, only this time the band was renamed Faces, with Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, who were from the Jeff Beck Group. Ronnie Wood served as guitarist, Rod Stewart served as lead vocalist

-In the 1990s Britpop movement, The Small Faces are considered to be one of the biggest inspirations for most of the British pop groups of the 1990s.

History
-Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriot met each other in 1965 while Marriot was working at the J60 Music Bar in Manor Park, London. Lane came with his dad Stan to buy a bass guitar and this led to him going to Marriot's house to listen to records. The 2 recruited Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, who were best friends. How they came to use the name Small Faces is because of the band's small stature.

-Some of their early songs include "Jump Back", their rendition of James Brown's "Please Please Please", their rendition of Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me", Ben E. King's "Stand by Me". Their first major concert was at a working men's club in Sheffield. The band was paid after 3 songs because the crowd consisted of mainly Teddy Boys and hard drinking men. This band was heavily supported by Sonny & Cher, who lived in London at the time.

-The band got a contract with England record company Decca, through Don Arden. Their first major hit was "Whatcha Gonna Do About It", which became a Top 14 UK singles hit on the charts.

-In 1966, after they broke off Decca, they were offered a new deal from ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. So the band was given an open account at Olympic Studios in London. Their first hit was "Here Comes the Nice", which was said to have been influenced by their drug use.

-At the end of 1968, Marriot left the band, walking off the stage during a live New Year's Eve concert, simply yelling "I quit." He was looking ahead to form a band called Humble Pie with Peter Frampton.

1970-1975
-After the band split up, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan halted on music until they decided to join forces with Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, who were previously with the Jeff Beck Group. They dropped the Small part form the name and became just Faces.

-The band broke up in 1975, as later that year, Rod Stewart went solo and Ronnie Wood would go on to join up with The Rolling Stones.

1975-1978
-The band tried to re-record an old hit called Itchycoo Park, which hit the charts once again. But unfortunately, Ronnie Lane was beginning to show symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which everyone thought was a drunken tantrum.

Post reunion: 1979-present
-Ian McLagan went on to perform with musicians such as The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, David Lindley, Billy Bragg.

-Kenney Jones became the new drummer for The Who after Keith Moon's death in 1978 and continued until the late 1980s. He recently formed a band called The Jones Gang

-On Saturday, April 20, 1991, Steve Marriot died in sleep when a fire, caused by a cigarette, swept through his house in Essex, England. His death came a few days after he began work on a new album in America with Humble Pie band member Peter Frampton.

Ronnie Lane's career took a sharp turn because of multiple sclerosis, but he managed to do work with Who guitarist Pete Townshend and Rolling Stones guitarist and former band mate Ronnie Wood in the 1970s. Lane died on June 4, 1997 in his home in Trinidad, Colorado after battling MS for nearly 20 years

Discography

Rock Band Etymologies

Rock Band Etymologies

Ever wonder how a rock band or musician comes up with a name? Here's how.

A-Ha
-Origin: comes from a title member Pal Waaktaar thought about giving to a song. Morten Harket was looking through Waaktaar's notebook and came across the name "a-ha". He liked it and said "that's a great name". It worked because it's short, easy to say and unusual.

ABBA
-Origin: acronym from the initials of the first names of the members: Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad

AC/DC
-Origin: Malolm and Angus Young developed the idea after seeing "AC/DC" on an electric sewing machine.

Aerosmith
-Origin: Joey Kramer came up with the idea Aero. One day, he and a friend were throwing out words to go at the end of Aero and his friend said "Smith". So it stuck.

The All-American Rejects
-Origin: All Americans and Rejects were merged

Alice Cooper
-Origin: was a band before one of it's members started a solo career under the same name. Was the name of a spirit members of the band came into contact with using a ouija board

The B-52's
-Origin: from the name of a beehive hairstyle. Also named for the famed Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Beatles
-Origin: taken from the idea of Buddy Holly and the Crickets

Black Sabbath
-Origin: took the name from 1963 horror movie Black Sabbath

The Doors
-Origin: Took the name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception

Def Leppard
-Origin: came from Deaf Leopard, while coming up with ideas for imaginary bands in his English class. The spelling was modified slightly to make the band seem less like a punk rock band.

Duran Duran
-Origin: played at Birmingham's Barberella's nightclub. Took the name from the villain in the sci-fi cult movie Barberella, Dr. Durand-Durand

E-Street Band
-Origin: named after E-Street in Belmar, New Jersey, because the band would practice at the E-Street home of pianist David Sancious' mother.

Green Day
-Origin: slang term for spending a day smoking marijuana. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote a song called Green Day about his first experience with the drug and it soon replaced Sweet Children as the band's name.

Iron Maiden
-Origin: Steve Harris named the band after the iron maiden torture device as shown in the film The Man in the Iron Mask.

Judas Priest
-Origin: taken from the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

Lady Gaga
-Origin: taken from Queen's Radio Ga-Ga

Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Origin: named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida. He was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's rules about boys having long hair.

Maroon 5
-Origin: comes from the fact that front man Adam Levine attended Five Towns College and one of the school colors was maroon and there are 5 guys in the band

Megadeth
-Origin: While Dave Mustaine was traveling back to his home in the Bay Area after getting kicked out of former band Metallica, he would write lyrics on the back of a handbill to pass the time. The handbill itself quoted "The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to," which inspired him to use Megdeath as his band name. He dropped the A in Megadeth after finding out that "The Megadeaths" was the former band name for Pink Floyd.

Motley Crue
-Origin: came from a member of a band called White Horse saying they looked like a "motley looking crew".

Motorhead
-Origin: taken from the song Motorhead by Hawkwind

Panic at the Disco
-Origin: from the lyrics of a song called Panic by Name Taken, a California-based indie punk rock band

Poison
-Origin: changed the name from Paris to Poison to sound more glam

Queen
-Origin: Freddie Mercury thought the name sounded very regal. Strong and universal name.

The Ramones
-Origin: Paul McCartney used the alias Paul Ramon when booking hotel rooms. So the band decided to use the last name Ramone even though it's not their given name

The Rolling Stones
-Origin: from the Muddy Waters song Mannish Boy. Which The Rolling Stones later did their version of. And according to Wikipedia, it says The Rolling Stones name came from the song Rollin' Stone by Muddy Waters.

The Sex Pistols
-Origin: evolved from their prior name The Strand. Their other name was QT and the Sex Pistols, so they shortened it to just The Sex Pistols