Category: Ian McLagan

On October 22, 2006, the Rolling Stones played a historic free-ticketed concert at Zilker Park in Austin, and it was Ian McLagan and his Bump Band who the Stones picked to open the show. It was a fitting bill: McLagan had toured as a sideman with the Stones in 1978…

For roughly a decade after settling in Central Texas, Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan and his Bump Band held down a Thursday night residency at the Lucky Lounge, a downtown club on West 5th Street. It became one of Austin's great standing dates: Mac thumping the piano and…

In 1994, while out on tour with Rod Stewart and reeling from the Northridge earthquake back home in Los Angeles, Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan and his wife Kim bought a two-story wooden house on 15 acres six miles outside of Manor. McLagan loved that the little town…