Ep339: Kenney Jones - The Who, The Faces, Small Faces & more
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kenney Jones, legendary drummer of The Faces, Small Faces & The Who, joins us to talk vinyl, the records of his career, recording with Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, John Bonham PLUS the upcoming plans for The Faces & a limited vinyl pressing of a recently surfaced 1966 Small Faces gig.
Topics include:
- Interview startup
- The Small Faces 1966 recordings that just surfaced
- Led Zeppelin were influenced by early Small Faces
- Growing up in a house with 3 records
- Kenney originally wanted to play the Banjo
- The story of Kenney playing drums
- How did Kenney get records in his youth
- Pat Meehan / Don Arden discovering the Small Faces
- Negotiating with Don Arden / Carnaby Street
- Purchasing handfuls of records to make a single chart
- What was Don Arden like to work with?
- Ogden's Nut Gone Flake record package
- Immediate Records going bust
- What happened to the Ogden's master tapes
- Kenny is re-recording Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
- Location of the other master tapes
- Rare recordings and outtakes were sourced from stored tapes & acetates
- Kenney has loads of tapes to release on Nice Records
- The EU copyright laws
- Kenney's single "Ready or Not"
- Kenney's unreleased single with Paul McCartney
- Recording with Wings, John Bonham in the 'Rockestra'
- The story of The Rolling Stones "It's Only Rock & Roll" session
- New recordings / upcoming record & tour from The Faces
- The night before Keith Moon died
- The Who wasn't sure they would continue after Keith
- Were there demos for "Face Dances" that Keith recorded before he died?
- The connection between Kenney & John Entwistle
- How did he compare between playing with John Entwistle and Ronnie Lane?
- Does Kenney still listen to records?
- Interview wrap up
Nice Records - Small Faces 1966 vinyl
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| 0:29.8 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:33.5 | Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to episode 339 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds, where we get the stories of the record on the record. |
| 0:43.7 | And this week, my God, my life continues to get surreal. I'm totally humbled to be speaking to an absolute legend and a real lovely guy, Mr. Kenny Jones. |
| 0:53.7 | Now, I'm sure everyone knows Kenny from his time with The Who, the Small Faces, the Faces, |
| 0:58.5 | as well as many other adventures, recordings, and rock and roll history. |
| 1:02.3 | Today, Kenny shares all about those bands, the early days, the records of his youth, |
| 1:07.0 | connecting with Don Arden. |
| 1:08.4 | The stories behind the Small Face faces penultimate record, |
| 1:11.5 | Ogden's nut gone flake, |
| 1:13.0 | is time hanging out with Keith Moon, |
| 1:14.8 | joining The Who, |
| 1:15.7 | unreleased recordings with Paul McCartney, |
| 1:18.0 | playing on a Rolling Stones hit, |
| 1:19.4 | the upcoming album and touring plans for the faces, |
| 1:22.3 | and much, much more. |
| 1:24.7 | Also, just to note, |
| 1:26.2 | there's an extended version of this interview available to supporters of the show at patrion.com |
| 1:32.3 | slash vinyl guide. Head up there now, support the show, give us a bit of love, buy me a beer, and you'll get all the extras, including commercial-free interviews, secret episodes, extended interviews, early access to episodes, |
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