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Definitely. I like his playing in '69, Altamont and such, but man he starts to really cook in '72 or so. Of course, his playing on Sticky Fingers is particularly amazing studio work too.
It's crazy how the Stones allowed themselves to really be kind of shown up by the wunderkind on all these tours, but yet, when he demanded more songwriting credits, they axed him. I guess Keith figured that a lot of people attending big shows would just assume it was him busting out those hot licks...haha. And Taylor had to put up with a bunch of shit too. He can really be heard a lot on Sticky Fingers and that's because the Glimmer Twins were too smacked out to hardly ever show up to the studio at the same time. By the time of Exile (which was only mostly cobbled together from a bunch of separate studio sessions), Taylor sort of sounds like he's just going through the motions, but he really outdoes himself on some of the tour performances.
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