I found this clip of the short-lived Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson band from 1975, during their one tour after their one album. Coming after Hunter's Mott the Hoople and Ronson's work with Bowie, Lou Reed and Mott themselves, this sorta paled by comparison, but in retrospect, "Once Bitten Twice Shy" is one of the most true-to-their-roots exercises either of them ever did. Rock and roll.
And Ronson's guitar work - an elegant blend of Jeff Beck's flair and virtuosity and George Harrison's structural melodicism - is kinda workaday on this performance.
Still: Hunter gets a hell of a good head of steam on rhythm guitar, and the whole thing rides a very spare and intense opening and goes to a crashing rock creshendo. Fantastic. Nuff said.
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