The former Small Faces and Faces drummer had been close friends with Keith Moon, and they’d been together the night Moon died. When asked to take over as the Who’s drummer, Jones initially refused outright because he had other things on his mind. In the end, it was guitarist Pete Townshend who persuaded him to agree,(Ultimateclassicrock)
Kenney Jones looked back on Faces’ musical output and said it could have been better if the band hadn’t spent so much time partying.
Describing Rod Stewart and his other bandmates as an “unmanageable” group, he regretted the fact that they’d often be drinking before they started recording sessions, and that they didn't come prepared with much material to explore in the studio.
“It was very frustrating sometimes when we went in to record, because I feel that we were working things out as we went along,” Jones said in the June edition of Uncut. “We’d do a riff, then see if we could make it work, rather than go in with a finished song. … Musically, I think we could have done a lot better had we been more sober.”
“We were a bunch of piss-takers," he explained. "[Manager] Billy Gaff was Irish, a lovely guy. But he could never have a serious group meeting with the Faces, as we’d be putting things on his head and throwing stuff. It meant he could never discuss anything. How he ever made any decisions, I’ll never know. Tony Toon was our publicist. We used to treat him the same way.
About The Who's John Entwistle, Kenney recalls:" Oh, John. God, I miss John. I loved John. Apart from doing things together in Small Faces and The Who, like that Australian tour, we used to do sessions together. John and I used to hang out, especially once I’d joined him in The Who, just all the time. My old drinking partner. I learned to lip-read from John. He’d played his bass so loud and yet he’d talk so quietly, [laughs]I had to lipread him. I developed a really quick foot playing with John. All those triplets he’d do with his fingers, I had to do with my foot. I learned a lot from John"
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