ALBUM: Slim Chance
MVC Rating: 4.5/$$$$
On any given day, this album may be my favorite and this underrated British musician may be my favorite rock ‘n roll character.
Check out a documentary on this lovable guy on YouTube and learn about how he bought a rundown farm and began traveling to gigs in a dilapidated travel camper only to miss said gigs because it broke down. Took him days to travel to venues.
Lane died too early of multiple sclerosis on 1997 at age 51.
He was born in 1946 on April Fool’s day.
He wrote a song about being an April Fool.
I have Ronnie Lane all over the place, my Small Faces and Faces records, a collaboration with Pete Townshend (see Annie) that’s excellent and collaboration on a movie soundtrack with Ron Wood. Love all the above. Except for Faces, the other albums have not yet been reviewed in my alphabetical countdown. (I’ve just started the L’s).
Lane first gained attention in Small Faces and Faces where they came up with ”Ooh La La’ and ‘Itchykoo Park.’
Lot of videos in this post but they work better than my words in explaining this whimsical Leprechaun. RIP Ronnie.