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Posted By: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
18-Aug-07 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: Rod Stewart Maggie May!
Subject: RE: Rod Stewart Maggie May!
'Mandoin Wind' was certainly Ray Jackson. He wasn't the world's greatest mandolin player, perhaps, but you could always tell it was him.

I don't think Ray Jackson was the only session player who felt short-changed off that record. Mick Waller was (if memory serves) famously pissed off about his relatively meager payments for playing on most of Rod Stewart's early solo hits. Sammy Mitchell, who played slide on 'Amazing Grace' on the same record, never made a lot of money. He died, pretty much forgotten, in Liverpool just over a year ago. A great shame.