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Selected materials from the former MickTaylor.com and sw5 email list archives are being re-posted to GimmeMT to preserve valuable first-hand facts, impressions and opinions about Mick Taylor's career and performances.

We hope to preserve them from being lost to "internet rot."

By placing posts in relevant show threads by date, we make them more easily retrievable for interested readers.

In some cases we used "Copilot AI" solely to standardize formatting and spelling.

Everything being re-posted was already posted publicly on the internet and likely remains archived somewhere. Nonetheless, we have attempted to remove unnecessary personal identifying information except where it appears the poster clearly wanted to be credited.

We have left an initial or two where possible, to allow individuals to claim credit for their posts and to demonstrate we are not attempting to claim authorship. Some posts were originally made without identifying detail. Some were themselves re-posts made by others.

Dead web links have been removed where appropriate.

Access to the archives of the original MickTaylor.com website, and its sister sw5 mailing list come to GimmeMT via special arrangement.

What became MickTaylor.com started out n the first days of the World Wide Web as "The Mick Taylor/Rolling Stones WebSource" at WWW address interport.net/~gary/m_taylor/.

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Launched in March 1995, The Mick Taylor/Rolling Stones WebSource was the first Rolling Stones-related internet site, beating even the always cutting-edge, media savvy Rolling Stones themselves to the electronic punch.

Its purpose was advocacy -- to highlight the then under-appreciated Golden Age of the Rolling Stones.

An initial announcement made on the Blues-l Usenet mailing list

lists.blues-l.com
Blues-l Info Page
Delivered by Mailman
several weeks after launch is still retrievable.

Mick Taylor/Rolling Stones WebSource

g[ ] g[ ] at INTERPORT.NET
Sun Apr 9 21:04:13 EDT 1995
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Our attempt at a value-added non-commercial (that means we have opinions) WWW site is the Mick Taylor/Rolling Stones WebSource. We are only a couple of weeks old, and will grow much more, but for those interested in Taylor, we may now be worth pointing your browser to.

interport.net/~g[ ]/m_taylor/

Thanks.

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The sw5 Mick Taylor mailing list was created by the original MickTaylor.com website, as an adjunct to its popular message boards. The earliest evidence of its creation that exists today dates back to April 1997.

sw5 used the latest emerging mailing list technology and was hosted on different providers, until its last hosting provider, Topica, folded up shop in 2017.

Shortly after its creation, for most of its twenty-year run sw5 was primarily moderated and administered by a gentleman using the email handle A100yearsago, who generously gave the MickTaylor.com proprietor some much needed help. sw5 then long-survived the closure of that original website in late 2002.

sw5 subsequently spawned its own spin-out, another mailing list called Parchman Farm which focused on newly emerging digital methods of trading live recordings.

The moniker "sw5" was chosen for several reasons -- one was that, at three characters, it was a perfect, short and relatively unique email handle.

Another was that YouTube Icon S.W.5 is the title of a song

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Mick Taylor - S.W.5 1979
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on Mick Taylor's first solo record.

I went down to Southwest 5
To see if my soul was dead or alive

Finally, to the American mindset, the English postal code S.W.5 represented the Earl's Court area of London, a raucous entertainment district perceived to have been a spiritual progenitor of New York's Times Square and Greenwich Village.

Surely the lively discussions and social community that emerged on sw5 reflected the energy and spirit of this famous London locale. In retrospect, through the mist of nostalgia and the music of Mick Taylor, we found our souls then to be very much alive.

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