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Re: Kenny Jones



In a message dated 96-07-16 16:05:57 EDT, you write:

<< 
  -What the Who got in Kenny was what the needed least; a  staight-ahead,
  - timekeeper type drummer.  When he did try and become more active his
fills
  - were ordinary and unimaginative.
  >>

Kenny was much better when in the early Small Faces with Steve Marriott.  A
listen to their first two LP's (released in the UK only) show him to be a
very busy drummer with good fills and sense of timing.  When Rod Stewart and
Ron Wood joined the band and they became England's number one drinking band
(even more than the Kinks in this respect) they began to get very sloppy in
concert.  Having seen the Faces twice - once when sober and once when drunk -
it was basically Kenny that held them together.  Their music was much more
backbeat oriented than the earlier mod stuff which was more R & B style and
demanded a looser drumming method.  Those years of playing behind Rod and Ron
are what changed him as a drummer so that, when he joined the Who, he was too
much backbeat and not enough of the more propulsive, open style the music
needed.  I do think he got better as he stayed longer with the Who however -
he was better onstage in 1982 than 1980.

Greg Biggs