Rod Stewart and The Faces - Transmission Impossible (Legendary Broadcasts) - 3CD DIGIPAK

This triple CD collection serves to celebrate and compile some of the Faces finest live and radio session work between 1970 and 1973 – the absolute peak of the group’s short but extraordinary career.

Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Small Faces after lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie, the remaining Small Faces - Ian McLagan (keyboards), Ronnie Lane (electric bass, vocals), and Kenney Jones (drums and percussion) - were joined by Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (lead vocals), both from the Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed the Faces.

The band had a unique arrangement, as Rod Stewart had signed a separate solo recording contract with the Mercury label shortly before joining the group, which was signed to Warner. Band members often contributed to Stewart's solo albums as contract players, and Faces live shows of the period would feature as much of Stewart's solo material as that of the band.

The group lacked a single main songwriter as from the beginning each member would work in tandem to offer songs for each of their albums While Stewart was the primary lead singer, both Lane and Wood would also sing lead vocals on several tracks (Lane usually sang lead on his own solo compositions). Their first two albums, First Step (1970) and Long Player (1971), lacked a hit single, but their third, 1971's A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse, bolstered by the success of Stewart's solo work, became a worldwide hit, peaking at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart; it spawned the band's first hit single, ‘Stay with Me’.

DISC ONE here features sessions the lads performed in 1970 for the then recently formed Radio 1, at various BBBC theatres across London, in March, September and November of that year.

DISC TWO includes more Radio 1 sessions, this time from 1971, and includes the performance the group played for John Peel’s Sunday concert – a weekly feature on the station – alongside a session they recorded for the Sounds For Saturday programme later the same year.

DISC THREE concludes the set with a live show the band performed, while on their 1973 US tour, at Anaheim Arena in California, which was recorded for live FM radio broadcast.

TRACKLIST
DISC ONE
1 Flying 3:57
2 Three Button Hand Me Down 3:58
3 Wicked Messenger 2:57
4 Had Me A Real Good Time 4:53
5 Around The Plynth/Gasoline Alley 7:41
6 Country Comfort 6:04
7 You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It) 6:17
8 Wicked Messenger 4:19
9 Devotion 6:28
10 It’s All Over Now 8:19
11 I Feel So Good 8:28
12 Cut Across Shorty 6:29
13 Love In Vain 6:50
14 Bad ‘n’ Ruin

DISC TWO
1 You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It) 8:51
2 It’s All Over Now 5:56
3 Had Me A Real Good Time 7:05
4 (I Know) I’m Losing You 6:42
5 I Feel So Good 11:01
6 Three Button Hand Me Down 4:51
7 Maybe I’m Amazed 6:16
8 Too Much Woman/Street Fighting Man 6:42
9 Miss Judy’s Farm 3:56
10 Love In Vain 7:35
11 Stay With Me 6:04
12 (I Know) I’m Losing You 7:05

DISC THREE
1 It’s All Over Now 5:40
2 Cut Across Shorty 3:54
3 Too Bad/Every Picture Tells A Story 7:49
4 Angle 4:31
5 Stay With Me 5:12
6 I Wish It Would Rain 4:50
7 I’d Rather Go Blind 6:00
8 Borstal Boys 10:03
9 Jealous Guy 8:02
10 (I Know) I’m Losing You 7:07