ROCKS OFF

RON WOOD

"Ronplugged"at the Halfmoon Pub in London

Joe Seabrook Memorial, 3rd May 2000

Ronnie released recordings by Terry Hounsome and Gerardo Liedo

Ron with the Jeff Beck Group in 1969

Group/Artist

Album

Year

Notes or other musicians in the album

Ashton & Lord

First of the big bands

1974

Tony Ashton and Jon Lord (Deep Purple) with Cozy Powel and Peter Frampton

B.B. King

Deuces Wild

1997

With Mick Jagger (Harmonica and Vocals), Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Darryl Jones on one track: "Paying the Cost to be the Boss". Other musicians include Eric Clapton,Bonnie Raitt, Joe Cocker, Dr. John, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, Willie Nelson. A must for a Rolling Stone collector.

Long John Baldry

It Ain't Easy

1971

With Elton John and Maggie Bell. The album was produced by Rod Stewart.

The Band

The Last Waltz

1978

The farewell 1976 concert also on film. With Muddy Waters, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc.

The Jeff Beck Group.

Truth

1968

Ronnie was the bass player of this group. Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Aynsley Dunbar, Nicky Hopkins, John Paul Jones, Keith Moon, and others played in this album.

 

Beck Ola /Cosa Nostra

1969

With Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, and Tony Newman. Again, Ron plays bass only.

 

Beckology

1991

A compilation, including here since has some unreleased tracks with Ronnie and Nicky Hopkins.

The Birds

Hard up Heroes

1974

(one track only) This was an early group with Ron as a member.

 

These Birds are Dangerous

1985

Tony Munroe, Kim Gardener, Pete McDaniels, A. McKensie

 

Untitled

1989

Tony Munroe, Kim Gardener, Pete McDaniels, A. McKensie

David Bowie

Pin Ups

1973

With Aynsley Dunbar on drums.

 

Growin' Up

1990

With Bruce Springsteen and Aynsley Dunbar.

Kenny Burrell and The Jazz Guitar Band

Pieces of Blues and The Blues

1986

Ron plays percussions only

John Cale

Academy of Peril

1972

With John Cale, Adam Miller, Legs Larry Smith and Del Newman. Album cover by Andy Warhol.

Eric Clapton

Rainbow Concert

1973

With Rebop Kwaku Baah, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Rick Grech. From the legendary concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973.

 

No reason to cry

1976

With Chris Jagger, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson

 

Blues

1999

With Freddie and Albert King, Dave Mason, Duanne Allman, Gary Brooker, etc.

Jimmy Cliff

Special

1982

With Sly Dunbar but without Robbie.

Don Covay

Back to the Street

1993

A 16 tracks tribute. Mick Taylor, Robert Cray, Billy Squier, Peter Wolf, Iggy Pop, play also. Ronnie plays in one track: Chain of Fools.

Creation

Creation

1998

Released until 1998 this is an album of the 60s with Nicky Hopkins also

Bo Diddley

A Man Amongst Men

1996

With Keith Richards, Jimmie Vaughan (brother of the great and late Stevie), Richie Sambora, and many more

Bo Diddley & Ron Wood

Live at the Ritz

1992

From their 1987-1988 tour with the Gunslingers. Released only as CD on Victory Records in England.

Dirty Strangers

Dirty Strangers

1987

Woody plays guitar on "Baby", "here she comes" and "Easy to please". Keith is on "Thrill of the thrill","Wide boys and slim pickings", "oh yeah", "Didnt want to be an angel", "bathing Belles" and Diamonds

Lonnie Donegan

Puttin' on the Style

1977

With Albert Lee, Nicky Hopkins, Rory Gallagher, Brian May, Peter Banks, Elton John, Klaus Voormann, Ringo Starr, Gary Brooker, etc.

Donovan

Barabajagal

1968

Donovan Leitch married Linda Lawrence shortly after Brian Jones died and is the stepfather of Julian son of Brian Jones and friend of Rocks Off (check his site here). The album includes Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, and Aynsley Dunbar.

 

Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976

1992

With Nicky Hopkins. A retrospective album with some unreleased tracks and few folk hits he recorded before joining the label and a couple of early demos added

Bob Dylan

Shot of Love

1981

Only on the track "Heart of Mine"

 

Empire Burlesque

1985

He plays on "Clean Cut Kid" only. This album also has Mick Taylor playing.

 

Blowin' in the Wind

1985

Not official. With Al Kooper, Tom Petty and Benmount Tench between many others.

 

Knocked Out Loaded

1986

He plays on "Driftin' too far from shore"

 

Hearts of Fire (Sountrack)

1987

He plays on "Had a dream about you baby","The Usual"and "Night after Night"

 

Down in the groove

1988

He plays on a different mix of "Had a dream about you baby"

 

The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

1993

Ronnie does a great solo rendition on "Seven days",introduces Eric Claptons performance and then joins with the entire cast on the finale of "knockin on heavens door" (the concert was MSG 16/10/92

Rick Danko

Rick Danko

1977

With Blondie Chaplin, Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson betwen manu others.

Faces

First Step

1970

This album is credited to Faces, but my album say "Small Faces". IN addition to Rod, Ron, Kenny Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane, The great and late Steve Marriott plays guitar. Small Faces was the goup of Steve before the legendary Humble Pie. The album opens with Dylan's "Wicked Messenger" which IMHO is one of the best Rod covers of Dylan. Ron plays bass on "Three Button Hand Me Down".

 

Long Player

1971

With the legendary Bobby Keys.

 

A nod as good as a wink

1972

Produced by Glyn Johns.

 

Rod Stewart and the faces

1972

 

 

Oh La La

1973

The album cover was xxx on the Rolling Stone 100 best cover albums.

 

Overture (coast to coast) Live

1973

One of the greatest live albums ever. A great version of Jimi Hendrix' Angel is one of the highlights of this album. The bass is by Tetsu Yamauchi who play also trombone.

Marianne Faithfull

A Perfect Stranger

1998

With Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Steve Winwood, Morris Pert, Garth Hudson.

Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops

Motion Picture #2

1990

With Harvey Mandel and Barry Goldberg.

Aretha Franklin

Aretha

1980

With Kenny G

Kinky Friedman

Lasso from El Paso

1976

With Eric Clapton, T-Bone Burnett, Ronnie Hawkinds, Ringo Starr, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Richard Manuel.

Grant Geissman

Rustic Technology

1993

With Harvey Mandel and Barry Goldberg.

Barry Goldberg

There's a hole in my soul

1968

Ron plays percussions, Harvey Mandel plays guitar(s), Charlie Musselwhite plays Harmonica and Harp

George Harrison

Dark Horses

1974

With Nicky Hopkins, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Gary Wright, and Klaus Voormann

Iveys

Maybe Tomorrow

1969

He was a former member of this group

Don Johnson

Heartbeat

1986

With Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, Dweezil Zappa. Music composed by Willie Nelson and Barbra Streisand

Gladys Knight/Phil Collins

All Men are brothers: A tribute to Curtis Mayfield

1994

Ron with Rod on People Get Ready. Many other artists like Steve Wonwood, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Bruce Springsteen, Lenny Kravitz, Phil Collins (who also coprouced with Gladys as Executive Producer), etc.

Alvin Lee & Mylon Le Fevre

Road to Freedom

1973

With George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Mick Fleetwood, Jim Capaldi, Ian Wallace and Rebop Kwaku Baah

Gerry Lockran

Wun

1972

 

Ronnie Lane

April Fool

1999

With Pete Townsgend and Eric Clapton. A postum album by the late Ronnie ("It wasn't me") Lane.

Ronnie Lane & Ronnie Wood

Mahoneys Last Stand

1976

With Pete Townshend, Ian Stewart, Bobby Keys, Rick Grech and Keny Jones.

Lone Justice

Sweet Sweet Baby

1985

Ronnie plays on a Dylan's "Go 'Way Little Boy" which was released as a B-side. Woody also plays guitar on Dylan's unreleased demo of this song, cut during the Empire Burlesque sessions - this version has also been bootlegged.

 

This World Is Not My Home

1999

With Bob Dylan, Benmont Tench, and many more.

Ian McLagan

Troublemaker

1979

With Keith Richards, Bobby Keys, Stanley Clarke, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner

 

Bump in the Night

1980

With Bobby Keys

The Miss Alans

Blusher

1994

Ron Wood plays drums, Scott Oliver guitar and Jay Fung plays bass.

 

Ledger

1996

Again Ronnie on drums.

Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana

All the King's Men

1997

Elvis Presley sidemen with Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and many more.

MTV

Unplugged Collection, Vol. 1

1994

Ron with Rod in Gasoline Alley from the Rod album's below

Ivan Neville

Thanks

1995

With the great Bonnie Raitt and Neville Brothers.

Rolling Stones

All audio and video since Black and Blue

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He also is a co-author in many tracks with Jagger-Richards.

Rufus

Ask Rufus

1979

With Chaka Khan and Kevin Murphy

Santa Barbara Machinehead

Tracks on Blues Anthology Vol. 3

1968

With Jon Lord, Kim Gardner and Twink

 

Tracks on Anthology of British Blues

1969

 

 

Tracks on Best of British Blues

1971

 

 

Tracks on Best of British Blues

1999

 

Rod Stewart

An Old Raincoat Won't Ever let You Down

1969

With Keith Emerson, Ian McLagan, Martin Quittenton and Mickey Waller

 

The Rod Stewart Album

1969

With Keith Emerson, Ian McLagan, Martin Quittenton and Mickey Waller

 

Gasoline Alley

1970

In addition to all the Faces members (see above), Pete Sears plays bass and piano.

 

Every Picture Tells a Story

1971

With Pete Sears on piano and Madeline and Maggie Bell on b. Vocals

 

Never a Dull Moment

1972

This great album has credits as Woodsy. Great cover, great album. Ronnie plays electric and acoustic guitars on all tracks except Dylan's "Mama you been on my mind" and bass (on three tracks)

 

Smiler

1974

With Pete Sears, Mickey Waller, Elton John, Willie Weeks, Andy Newmark, Martin Quittenton

 

Unplugged

1993

With Jim Cregan, Chuck Kentis

Izzy Stradling

Izzy Stradling & The Ju Ju Hounds.

1992

With Nicky Hopkins, Ian McLagan and Mickey Dread.

Sun City Artists

United Against Apartheid

1985

With Bob Dylan, Jimmy Cliff, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Womack, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Ringo Starr and Pat Benatar. Produced by Little Steven.

Taboo Zoo

Taboo Zoo

1983

He plays drums only!

Various Artists

1998 Grammy Nominees

1998

With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Blondie Chaplin, Sheyl Crow, Paula Cole, Bernard Fowler, Tony Levin, and many more. Produced by the Glimmer Twins.

Various Artists

I Shall Be Unreleased: The songs of Bob Dylan.

1991

Ron on two tracks, the opening "Only a Hobo" with Rod Stewart and "Seven Days" Performed by him, this song as explained below was written by Bob Dylan for Ronnie's album "Gimme Some Neck".

The Who

Magic Bus/My Generation

1974

With Eric Clapton, Tina Turner and Elton John.

 

Tommy Soundtrack

1975

Also Nicky Hopkins. Both play only in the Soundtrack version.

Willie and the Poorboys

Willie and the Poorboys

1985

With Jimmy Page, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mel Collins, Andy Fairweather Low, Keny Jones and Ringo Starr between many others. Produced by Bill Wyman.

 

Live

1994

 

 

The Best of Willie and the Poorboys

1994

 

Ron Wood

I've got my own album to do

1974

With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Ian McLagan, Rod Stewart, Pete Sears, Andy Newmark and many more.

 

Now Look

1975

With Keith Richards (harmony vocals and guitar), Mick Taylor (slide on), Kenny Jones and Andy Newmark on drums, Bobby Womack (vocals and guitar), The Womack Sisters backing vocals, Ian McLagan, Willie Weeks, Andy Newmark, Jean Roussell. This album has the original version of "Breathe on Me" later a faster vesion of the New Barbarians setlists. This is maybe the least popular album by Ron, but it's good IMHO.

 

Gimme Some Neck

1979

Bob Dylan wrote "seven Days" for this album, it was first track, side two. Dylan never recorded this song in studio. It has a great album art with photos And art by Ronnie. The musicians include Mick jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bobby Keys, Ian McLagan, Mick Fleetwood, Jim Keltner, Dave Mason and some more. "The New Barbarians" was a live group with Ron Wood as leader and Keith Richards, Stanle Clarke, Ian McLagan, Bobby Keys, and Joseph "Ziggy" Modeliste, that toured in 1979 to promote this album. They had Mick Jagger on vocals in Toronto and xxx on Harmonica in yyy. They were the opening act for Led Zeppelin during their last tour in some venues. IMHO this is the best Ron Wood solo album.

 

1234

1981

"123456 that's how many months this took" Andy John (Producer). Musicians include Booby Keys, Nicky Hopkins, Bobby Womack, Jim Keltner, Jim Horn, Ian McLagan, Ian Wallace, Charlie Watts, Carmine Appice, Jay Davis, Robin Le'Mesurier between manu others. Redeyes is an instrumental track inspired by Mick Jagger. Priceless was arranged by Rod Stewart.

 

Cancel Everything

1986

I have not this album :(

 

Slide on this

1992

With Charlie Watts, Ian McLagan, The Edge, Joe Elliott, Sergei Erdenko, Bernard Fowler (Keyboards, Programming, Vocals, Producer. Remixing, and Drum Programming) Sean Garvey, Felim Gormley, The Huthouse Flowers, Simon Kirke, Chuck Leavell, Colm McCauchey, Oleg Pomamarev, Wayne P. Sheehy, Jim White, Wimbish, Joe Elliot.

 

Slide on Live - Plugged In & Standing

1993

Ron Wood - Guitar, Vocals Ian McLagan - Keyboards Bernard Fowler - Vocals Chuck Leavell - Keyboards Johnny Lee Schell - Guitar Wayne P. Sheehy - Drums Shaun Solomon - Bass

 

Stay with me

1993

With Bernard Fowler, Ian McLagan, Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark.

 

Slide on Live

1998

Recorded at the Slide-On-Live World Tour 1992-1993. This includes two bonus tracks. The band was Ron Wood, Bernard Fowler, Ian McLagan, Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark.

 

Live and Eclectic

2000

An album from the 1992 radio broadcast. Same line up as above.

Bill Wyman

Stone Alone

1976

With Ron Wood, Al Kooper, Van Morrison, Dallas Taylor, Terry Taylor, Joe Walsh, Bob Welch.

 

Cover of Ronnie Wood's second album.

Ronnie with the New Barbarians 1979 from my private collection of original photos.

Jo, Tyrone and Ronnie Wood

LINKS

The World of Ron Wood

San Francisco Art Gallery

Woody's Page WOODWORKS 1957-1975 by Nico Zentgraf

Check's Lord Voodoo's Sites For Ronnie's New Barbarians poster and setlists. And Ronnie Wood's solo tours: 1974 Tour. The 1987 Tour and 1988 Japanese, Swedish, USA and European legs of the Tour all with Bo Didley. And 1992 and 1993 Tour Dates

Wendy's Page An original site with guitars, personal encounters, hair styles and more... since 1995!

With the information on this site and the previous links you will have almost all Ronnie's works on both music and visual arts.

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This is Ronnie at 13 years old. Photo from a local newspaper.

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