THIS is the version I remember when I saw him Live at McNichols Arena in Denver in '87 or '88. Amazing! I have been blessed to see him twice. Once with a reunion show with Carol King about 25 years later. James is a national treasure!
So, so, SO glad he got clean - and we've had him - this living treasure - for all these years. Just absolutely love his musicianship, his songwriting, his incredible voice, his soulfulness . . . just everything that is JT. Yes, indeed . . .
James Taylor was my first concert, when the album Mud, Slide, Slim came out at The Hollywood Bowl. Myself & 5 friends, we were in 8th grade. What a first concert! My parents dropped us off, & it was just freaking amazing!! Too cool.
Loved his music 50 (DANG) years ago. Love it now. Thousands and thousands of hours later put into James Taylor music, I do declare there is NO SUCH THING as "too much JT." NEVER. Not ever. !!!
A little trivia- James went to England to try and make something of his music- he landed right in the midst of London with non other than the Fab four. His first single, "Something in the Way She Moves", was recorded in the famous Abbey Road Studios-Where George and Paul were blown away. In fact George Harrison's version of "Something" is a spin-of of James original song. The rest is history.
@@tatianaroveda JT was given the telephone number of Peter Asher who lived in London by JT's close friend from his teenage years guitarist Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar. Kortchmar played with JT from his early years, was a founding member of The Original Flying Machine and was an integral part of JT's music for decades. Asher was the Peter of the famous British duo Peter and Gordon. When Peter and Gordon came to the US the concert promoter would hire a local band to back them up. Kortchmar's band the King Bees was that band. Kortchmar and Asher became close friends (still to this day) Kortchmar gave JT Asher's telephone number in London for JT to play his demo/music. Asher was R&D director for the newly founded record label Apple Records owned by the Beetles. Paul McCartney at that time was dating Ashers' model/actor sister. JT played his music for Asher then Asher got him in front of a couple Beetles who OK'd the signing of JT to Apple Records. A few Beetles even played on his Apple record titled James Taylor. When Apple Records was breaking up Asher and JT came back to the states reuniting with Kortchmar and Carole King who was also introduced by Kortchmar to JT. That is how the Kortchmar to Taylor to Asher to Apple Records to music greatness was made. BTW Carole King was JT's first piano player when he started to roll in the US. Kootch was on guitar, Leland Sklar on bass Russ Kunkel on drums and Carole King on piano. King was later replaced by Craig Doerge when Carole went out on her own (Kortchmar, Sklar and Kunkel also played with King)
Now this is just excellent! There really isn't anyone in the world like Mr. Taylor, is there? He is magical! The Zeppelin part was very, very cool too!
JT grew so much personally, his comfort as a performer, arranger brought Steamroller to a WHOLE new level! Pure energy, power and joy was crackling that night, and every night on that tour!
glad this got on the tube....I saw this years ago on PBS during fundraising week....had it for a long time on a terrible video taped copy....space man indeed!
Seen James a million times, from BeanTown/BossTown, to MSG, to Maui!!! ALWAYS THE BEST!!! Got tickets for him and Clyde Jaxone Browne in Portland in May!!! OH YEA!!!!
♥ And ... can you imagine just a little bit --- how and what James felt ... when ELVIS PRESLEY - THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE did his song LIVE ON STAGE in 1973 !!!!????? And JAMES TELECASTER-BURTON did the mega-guitar-solo ??????!!!!!! ♥
I first saw James perform this in Dublin in 1999 as the final song of the concert (encore was Sweet Baby James) and about 4 or 5 times since. The lead guitarist has always been different but the solo is always red hot
Dan Dugmore does the first guitar solo at 2:51 when he chases James around the stage. Then Bob Mann does the second guitar solo at 6:43 when he and James jump around.
I lost my last girlfriend over this song. I played this video and ask her what she thought. Well I'm happily single now. I think I'll probably dodged a bullet on that one.
So...a week ago last Sunday I was leaving work for the night and my OCD kicked in when I saw some trash on the floor... bent down, picked it up & it slipped out of my fingers, so of course I stayed bent over low to get it & got hit by a forklift! I'm mostly just sore, & it is not the driver's fault any more than mine... but ain't life a SOB sometimes! Here's to keeping on with keeping on! \m/_
All right, can we stop with all the Justin Bieber comments? Every video I've seen here on RU-vid that has music someone leaves a comment bashing Justin Bieber. I don't really care for him either, but knock it off already! I'm getting very tired of it.
@@williamlangan5902 I made that comment 8 years ago when someone made a comment on Justin Bieber. For a while then, I couldn't see a RU-vid video that had older music that didn't have a comment complaining about Justin Bieber and how he sucked. It was getting annoying.
