Long Player (album)

Long Player
Studio album by Faces
Released	February, 1971
Recorded	September 1970-January 1971 at Morgan Sound Studios, London and with The Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit, live tracks recorded at Fillmore East, NYC
Genre	Rock & roll, boogie rock, blues rock, hard rock, protopunk
Length	45:16
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	The Faces
Faces chronology
First Step (1970) Long Player (1971) A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse (1971)

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Allmusic	[1]

Long Player, from 1971, was the second album by the British rock group Faces. Among the highlights are the live cover of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed", the wistful "Richmond" and "Sweet Lady Mary", the rave-up "Had Me a Real Good Time" and the opening "Bad 'n' Ruin".

A single version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" appeared just ahead of the album, featuring a studio version of the song in lieu of the live version presented on the album itself.

On 28 August 2015, the album was reissued in a remastered and expanded form, including two previously unreleased outtakes, "Whole Lotta Woman" and an instrumental called "Sham-Mozzal". The reissue used the U.S. cover artwork.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Bad 'n' Ruin" (Ian McLagan, Rod Stewart) - 5:24
2. "Tell Everyone" (Ronnie Lane) - 4:18
3. "Sweet Lady Mary" (Lane, Stewart, Ronnie Wood) - 5:49
4. "Richmond" (Lane) - 3:04
5. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney) - 5:53

Side Two

1. "Had Me a Real Good Time" (Lane, Stewart, Wood) - 5:51
2. "On the Beach" (Lane, Wood) - 4:15
3. "I Feel So Good" (Big Bill Broonzy) - 8:49
4. "Jerusalem" (Traditional, arr. Wood) - 1:53

2015 Reissue bonus tracks

1. "Whole Lotta Woman" (Marvin Rainwater)
2. "Tell Everyone" [Take 1] (Lane)
3. "Sham-Mozzal" [instrumental] (Jones, Lane, McLagan, Wood)
4. "Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man)" [Live at Fillmore East, New York 11/10/70] (Ike Turner)
5. "Love In Vain" [Live at Fillmore East, New York 11/10/70] (Robert Johnson)

Personnel

• The Faces - production
• Rod Stewart - vocals
• Ronnie Lane - bass, acoustic guitar, percussion and vocals
• Ronnie Wood - lead, slide, acoustic and pedal steel guitars, backing vocals
• Ian McLagan - piano, organ and keyboards
• Kenney Jones - drums and percussion
• Bobby Keys - tenor saxophone on "Had Me a Real Good Time"
• Harry Beckett - trumpet on "Had Me a Real Good Time"

Other information

• Tracks 1 and 2 recorded with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Engineered by Martin Birch.
• Tracks 3, 4, 6 and 9 recorded at Morgan Sound Studios, London. Engineered by Mike Bobak.
• Tracks 5 and 8 recorded live at Bill Graham's Fillmore East, New York. Engineered by Dave Palmer.
• Track 7 recorded with Revox spare room unit. Engineer unknown.

The album sleeve was originally a stitched-together facsimile of bootleg records as well as the old style 78 RPM singles,with the record label showing. The album was reissued in the mid 1970s as part of the double album 'Two Originals of The Faces' with record one being 'First Step'.

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Faces: Long Player > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 25 September 2011.