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Small Faces were led by Steve Marriot. It was he, McLagan, Laine and Kenny Jones. Marriot left to form Humble Pie, and was replaced by Ron Wood and Rod Stewart. They were originally called Small Faces, cuz all the guys in the mod band were short..but Stewart was tall, so the just became the Faces. Ronnie Laine ended up leaving (he and Rod did not get along, and Laine wanted to record more of his own stuff) to form Slim Chance. Laine was replaced by Tetsu Yaumuchi (sp?) who was also in Free. That lineup (without Laine) only had one live album. It is really terrific too ("Coast to Coast and Overtures"). You often find it repackaged as a live Rod Stewart album, but it is a Faces album, and was released that way at the time. Sadly, Ronnie Laine contracted MS, and died in 1997. His solo work is kind of up and down, but the good stuff is really good. He and Ron Wood were best freinds unti the end. Rod, not so much... What is funny, I suppose, is that the Faces backed Rod on all those wildly successful solo albums, but it went to Stewarts head. Once his obligation to Polygram was finished, Rod wanted to sign another solo deal, and didn't think he needed the faces. So, everything after "Smiler" was Rod with studio dicks....so you started getting things like "Tonight's the Night" and other, sappier songs. Rod didn't really have any committment to the Faces, and they were on shaky ground...the cord was pulled, when Ron Wood agreed to tour with the Stones, to replace Mick Taylor. When the Faces officially broke up, Wood joined the Stones full-time. Sorry...babling too much...love the Faces!

Well, honestly reddog, we have pretty much the same defense this year, as last...but the Bills are getting more turnovers than last year...so that is our improvement....last year, this time, the Bills were 0-6. It may be splitting hairs (bad is bad), but the defense is slightly improved, just by the addition of the turnovers into the equation. If the Giants had a turnover, or two last game, we might be 5-1 right now. BTW- as for Clayton, those saying he is weird looking...I remember watching a Super Bowl preview show a few years ago, live from the stadium...media day I think. Sal Palantonio was on the screen talking, and in the background, you could see John Clayton. Clayton turned, his back to the camera, to walk away, and, swear to god, he had a pony-tail about half-way down his back...I have never been able to look at him the same way since!

I don't know...the Merriman signing looked bad from day one. Not faulting Nix, hard not to want to take a chance on a guy with that reputation. But, he didn't come for "next to nothing", and aside from a spectacular pre-season game against the Bears this past summer, he really didn't ever show anything. I wouldn't be thanking him for accepting the Bills, he should be thanking the Bills for paying him for contributing very little, and getting paid pretty nicely to do so. I think people are overstating his positive influence on the franchise and fan base. I think the positive vibe rests squarely with Chan Gailey (who I was not a big fan of when he was hired), Ryan Fitzpatrick, Fred Jackson, and Steve Johnson. They were all here before Merriman, and all performed well, in anonymity, before Merriman got here. So, what did Merriman do? He convinced Kirk Morrison to sign in Buffalo? Wow...I thought our low-bar days were fading... Anyways, yes, screw Jerry Sullivan for being negative (but honestly, who didn't see this coming), and shame on the Bills for trying to take the short-cut on a major need. But, they aren't that far off...still feeling good about this team, even if Merriman never steps foot in a Bills locker room again. They got where they are now, with no help from him...

A little over a year ago, I was talking to Ian McLagan (piano player for the Small Faces, Faces, you see him in the video). He lives here in Austin. I was asking him about the rumored Faces reunion that was taking place this past summer... he said "Yeah, Ronnie (Wood), Kenny (Jones) we are all geared up for it...don't know about Rod though. He apparently can't fit it into his schedule, he still has nearly a century of music to murder" The Faces did a mini-reunion, with Mick Hucknell (Simply Red) singing, instead of Rod. As I understood it, they left it open to Rod, he could join them whenever he wanted...I think he may have done one festival date with them in England. Would have loved to see that...love the Faces...Westerberg always sites them as one of the Replacements big influences. If you haven't heard a lot of the their stuff, I would highly recommend it. The early Rod Stewart albums are, essentially, Faces albums. Stewart had signed, with the Faces, to Warner Brothers, and, at the same time (much to the bands chagrin) had signed a solo deal with Polygram. They backed him on those solo albums, to fulfill his contractual obligations...they ended up selling a lot more than the Faces albums. So, when you hear "Maggie May", "You Wear It Well", "Gasoline Alley" or "Every Picture Tells a Story", by Rod Stewart, you are listening to the Faces. The Faces really only had 4 albums with the Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Laine (deceased), Ian McLagan, and Kenny Jones. They aren't as polished as the Stewart "solo" albums, but they rock a little harder...would especially recommend "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink..." and "Ooh La-La". Two of my all-time 70's albums!

The OP's sentiment is a little ludicrous...but let me remind him, in regards to the Sabres, every team seems to have another team that gives them fits. Florida is one of those for the Sabres.

That is great!

Rod Stewart with the Jeff Beck Group, the Faces, and his solo stuff through about 1976 (really just Faces albums) was awesome...I will agree, there are few in rock'n'roll who have betrayed their talents as fully as Rod, but in his prime, he was a terrific singer..

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Fred Davis is a pretty good replacement for Cooley!

I always liked Shawn Nelson. Very good receiving tight end...I think the Bills let him go for health (migranes?) reasons.

Yeah, I got a kick out of that...not that I would honeslty know what regular crystal looks like...

Bi-Polar Dis-Order?

Funny....I realize, most of this radio-pop stuff (not all) from the 70's was utter crap, but it is the music of my youth...I sort of have a soft spot for some of it. I used to be glued to the radio (WGR55, Tom Donohugh show) on weekends when I was a lad...used to even keep a notebook of the weekly countdown...but yeah, most of singer-songwriter stuff that came out during that time was just awful, and, you had peopel like Anka, and Neil Sedaka, who were songwriters from another era, enjoying success as middle-age performers all of the suddnen... "Laugther In the Rain" has got to be up there for all-time bad...

Okay, am I getting "crayonzed" here? Who is Chris Collins? Not Chris Collinsworth?

My theories: T-Mac (the black guy) got infected when the red-neck put the dead body on top of him in the season's first episode. Noticed, they made a point in this weeks episode during the "last week on Walking Dead" segment of showing him with the gaping wound in his arm... The conversation between Rick and the vet was a little strange...the vet says that man-kind has been hit with plagues throughout history, and they are god's way of evening things out. I think the vet is the one who started the plague that is wiping everyone out...just a hunch. Definitely something up with that guy, and his family...also, there were all of those cars piled up on the highway, dead people, none of them zombies...close to the vets house....I dunno, something suspicious about that to me...or maybe I just think too much about this stuff...I heard the creator of the show, on that gawd-awful "talking dead" thing afterward say that not everyone who dies becomes a zombie...if they suffer brain damage, their bodies can't regenerate, so they just die...no living dead for them. Also, I think that little girl (Sophia?) is going to end up being the victim of some experiment from the vet...not sure about the boy. Other question I have...when they mentioned going to the school for supplies, the fat guy says "that place was overrun a while ago" or something like that. If they go back, and it is still overrun, what keeps the zombies there? I am no zombie genre aficionado, but it seems like the zombies are just constantly looking for fresh flesh and blood to devour, and they have good appetites. So, what would keep them by that school so long? What are they feeding on there? There are a lot of them there...

Rob Johnson isn't even one of the five worst QB's in Bills history, let alone top 50 all-time. That list is pretty bad...Jake Plummer actually had some decent seasons in Arizona, not great...but he did lead the Cardinals to their first playoff appearence in eons...and had a solid, if not spectacular stint in Denver. In fact, a lot of the guys on this list had at least a good season or two during their career. Now, someone like Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith...those were just flat out bad QB's. Knock Bubby Brister, but he had some memorable moments in his time. I didn't see Marks' brother, Dan McGwire, the #16 pick of the 1991 draft...truly an awful QB. Just a bad list...I could probably think of 50 that were worse than the 50 on this list...

Chef, everytime I think I got you all figured out, you surprise me!

She did tell "little Jimmy's" wife that she used to "kiss his tinker" when she changed his dipers as a lad... love Gretchen Mol,but I gotta say, I hate her character...like you are supposed to!

Sounds pretty good...from the upcoming "Deluxe" edition of "Some Girls" to be released on 11/21. Always loved when the Stones did the sort of country-ish stuff. Like the "Exile On Main Street" thing they released in 2010, this one is going to have an extra disc of previously unreleased tracks, recorded during the "Some Girls" sessions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZ2CCVlXuE&feature=related

You're joking, right? If not, you should really give it another try.

You are such a drama queen... This would be hilarious if I didn't know you were serious. When did it go to 99%? I thought the non-paying, free-loaders were only 47%...somebody better tell the other 52%, they are going to be even more pissed...

Maybe her brother is a !@#$ tard Tea Partier? You don't know, neither do I...I would think you would be proud of Madonna..nobody rides for free!

Yeah...it isn't "Sopranos good", but it is pretty damn great show...it, "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" are easily my favorite shows...great cast on "Boradwalk Empire"...it is a bit of a slow burner, but like the Sopranos, things that seem insignifcant at the time, become key later on.