Faces Long Player Rare 1971 Warner Bros. Original Vinyl LP

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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 10 November 1970, at Fillmore East, NYC Genre

• Blues rock
• hard rock
• country rock
• boogie rock

Long Player is the second album by the British rock group Faces, released in February 1971. Among the highlights are a live cover version of Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed", the ballads "Richmond" and "Sweet Lady Mary", the party tune "Had Me a Real Good Time", and uptempo saloon bar rocker "Bad 'n' Ruin". Two tracks, "Maybe I'm Amazed" and "I Feel So Good", were recorded live at the Fillmore East, New York City, on 10 November 1970.

Background

A unique early mix of "Had Me a Real Good Time" appeared as a single ahead of the LP in November 1970, backed with the non-album instrumental "Rear Wheel Skid". While the latter track was eventually compiled to CD with the release of the Five Guys Walk into a Bar... box set of 2004, the different early mix of the A-side remains confined to the single and early vinyl editions of Snakes and Ladders / The Best of Faces in 1976.

A studio recording of "Maybe I'm Amazed" also appeared as the A-side of a standalone single release in the USA just ahead of the album itself. This track and its non-LP instrumental B-side "Oh Lord, I'm Browned Off" were rarities among Faces collectors until they were both compiled on the Five Guys Walk into a Bar... box set.

Also recorded during this period was the band's cover of the Temptations' "(I Know) I'm Losing You" which later appeared on lead singer Rod Stewart's solo album Every Picture Tells a Story rather than on a Faces release. The band's performance on the track was acknowledged with a 'thank-you' from Stewart in the LP's liner notes. The track was then released as a single credited to Rod Stewart and the Faces, but only in the USA. This practice led to increased murmurings of discontent in some quarters that Stewart's management was keeping the best Faces studio performances for Stewart's solo projects, to the detriment of the band as a unit.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Bad 'n' Ruin" (Ian McLagan, Rod Stewart) – 5:30
2. "Tell Everyone" (Ronnie Lane) – 4:22
3. "Sweet Lady Mary" (Lane, Stewart, Ronnie Wood) – 5:40
4. "Richmond" (Lane) – 3:05 (lead vocals: Ronnie Lane)
5. "Maybe I'm Amazed" [Live at Fillmore East, New York 11/10/70] (Paul McCartney) – 5:35 (co-lead vocals: Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane)

Side two

1. "Had Me a Real Good Time" (Lane, Stewart, Wood) – 5:50
2. "On the Beach" (Lane, Wood) – 4:15 (lead vocals: Ronnie Lane and Ron Wood)
3. "I Feel So Good" [Live at Fillmore East, New York 11/10/70] (Big Bill Broonzy) – 8:50
4. "Jerusalem" (instrumental) (Hubert Parry, William Blake – arr. Wood; erroneously credited as traditional) - 1:55