Ron Wood

吉他手榮·伍德(Ron Wood)是目前滾石樂隊四名成員中最年輕的一位，1947年6月1日生于英國倫敦。60年代末，年輕的Ron Wood作為the Creation樂隊的一員首次參與錄制專輯。當(dāng)the Creation解散之后，Wood又被邀請到杰夫·貝克樂隊(the Jeff Beck Group)擔(dān)任貝斯手，當(dāng)時樂隊中的主唱是日后被稱作豆沙嗓的羅德·史都華(Rod Stewart)。雖然被寄予很高的希望，但樂隊只發(fā)行了兩張不錯的專輯就宣告解散。


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　　Ron Wood隨后又加入了the Small Faces(后期更名為the Faces)并跟隨樂隊發(fā)行了3張專輯，而the Faces樂隊最終于1975年解散。雖然Ron Wood在70年代中期發(fā)行了幾張評價不錯的個人專輯，但他真正為人關(guān)注還是從加入the Rolling Stones樂隊開始。Ron Wood第一次參與滾石樂隊專輯的錄制是1976年的《Black and Blue》。從80年代中后期開始，隨著Mick Jagger和Keith Richards的矛盾激化，the Rolling Stones進(jìn)入了冬眠期，而Ron Wood也有了更多的時間發(fā)展個人的事業(yè)。從80年代至今，Ron Wood又發(fā)行多張個人專輯，而除了音樂之外，Ron Wood還是一名出色的畫家。
by Greg Prato
Guitarist Ron Wood has been a member of several "classic" British rock outfits, but the one that he's undoubtedly most associated with is the Rolling Stones, with whom he's been a member since 1976. Born on June 1, 1947, in Hillingdon, London, Wood made his first appearance on record during the late '60s, as a member of the oft-overlooked mod outfit the Creation (Wood only appeared on a smattering of singles, collected years later on the compilation Complete Collection, Vol. 1: Making Time). Immediately after his split from the Creation, Wood was invited to play bass in the Jeff Beck Group, a band that also included a then-unknown Rod Stewart on vocals. Despite high hopes for the group (they're often credited as one of the founders of hard rock/heavy metal), the band only managed to issue a pair of classic recordings, 1968's Truth and 1969's Beck-Ola, before splitting up just prior to an appearance at the legendary Woodstock festival. Wood and Stewart opted to stick together, as they joined the Small Faces the same year (with Wood returning back to the six-string).
Releasing one album under the Small Faces' name, 1970's First Step, the group then shortened their name simply to the Faces and soon after became one of rock's most notoriously party-hearty outfits of the era (influencing such future punk outfits as the Sex Pistols and the Replacements, among others). Further albums followed (1971's Long Player and A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse, plus 1973's Ooh La La), before the group split up in 1975. Wood also found the time to issue a string of solo releases during the mid-'70s: 1974's I've Got My Own Album to Do, 1975's Now Look, and a collaboration with ex-Faces bandmate Ronnie Lane, 1976's Mahoney's Last Stand, but this era of Wood's career is best-remembered for his enlistment into the Rolling Stones.
With the exit of Mick Taylor in 1974, the Stones began auditioning replacement guitarists, but all along, founding Stones guitarist Keith Richards knew that Wood (a longtime friend) was the man for the job. Wood contributed to half of the Stones' 1976 album, Black and Blue, before becoming a full-time member and appearing on 1977's Love You Live and 1978's Some Girls. Although the Stones didn't issue any albums during 1979, the year was a busy one for Wood, as he issued his fourth solo release, Gimme Some Neck, and toured alongside Richards in a one-off side band, the New Barbarians. Wood and the Stones conquered the charts once more in the early '80s, with such hits as 1980's Emotional Rescue and 1981's Tattoo You, but tensions between Richards and Mick Jagger caused the group to not tour the U.S. between 1982-1988, while only managing to issue a pair of spotty studio albums (1983's Undercover and 1986's Dirty Work).
During this time, Wood issued such further solo albums as 1981's 1234 and 1988's Live at the Ritz (the latter a collaboration with Bo Diddley), and became an avid painter. Jagger and Richards eventually buried the hatchet by the late '80s, as the Stones sporadically issued new studio albums and toured from 1989 onward (1989's Steel Wheels, 1994's Voodoo Lounge, 1997's Bridges to Babylon, etc.). Wood has continued to issue solo recordings throughout the '90s and beyond (1992's Slide on This, 1994's Slide on Live: Plugged in and Standing, plus a pair in 2002, Not for Beginners and Live at Electric Ladyland). Additionally, Wood has guested on countless recordings by other artists over the years, including albums by the Band, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, and his old pal Rod Stewart, with whom he taped a popular edition of MTV's Unplugged in 1993, resulting in the hit album Unplugged...and Seated.