Bassist and guitarist will join the band as special guests for the 50th anniversary shows at the O2 Arena in London
The Stones fans will receive a prize at the O2 Arena in London, where the band will join two figures of the past. The Stones have confirmed that original bassist Bill Wyman and guitarist Mick Taylor, who played with the band from 1969 to 1974, will be presented to them as special guests on Sunday 25 and Thursday 29 November.
The remaining four Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood - have been drawing the couple back into the fold in recent years. Both were interviewed at the recent 50th anniversary of the official documentary Crossfire Hurricane, in which Taylor revealed that one of the reasons why he left the band was his heroin addiction.
Taylor also recorded guitar parts for new bonus tracks on the reissue of 2010 album Exile. It is considered by many fans of the Stones, as the best musician in the band playing, and has appeared in some of their classic albums like Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Goats Head Soup. He has been linked to individual group members to live shows in recent years - with Ronnie Wood playing a benefit concert to save the 100 Club in London in December 2010, and Wood, Wyman and Watts in a event Released an album in honor of the Stones pianist and co-founder Ian Stewart in March 2011.
Wyman left the band in December 1992, and since then has concentrated on his career with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
[quelle]http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi…es-bill-wyman-mick-taylor[/quelle]
Die beiden bekommen übrigens keinen müden cent dafür! Das ist kein Witz!
Allerdings frage ich mich auch, warum Mick Taylor das mitmacht?