“I was nervous. I said, ‘Hi, Keith. Ron Wood might have mentioned me…’” Nils Lofgren on the time he put his name forward to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones

“I was nervous. I said, ‘Hi, Keith. Ron Wood might have mentioned me…’” Nils Lofgren on the time he put his name forward to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones

A decade before he joined Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Nils Lofgren was flirting with the idea of joining another rock institution when he heard Mick Taylor was quitting the Rolling Stones.For any player in the mid 1970s, the chance to join the Stones as Taylor’s replacement would likely be the gig of a lifetime. So, when Taylor’s eventual successor Ronnie Wood was having second thoughts about the gig full-time, Lofgren volunteered his ser…