James Taylor

[irul&ublo]

JT has a good streaming on guitar technique


JT was the first artist signed to Apple Records. Pre Sweet Baby James.

Was on the covers of both Time and Newsweek in the same week.

Got to bang Carly Simon when she was Uber hot

[lowsparkco]

My mom bought tickets to see him last summer and I joined her.

Always enjoyed his music. He put on a great show. Really cool old historic photos on the big screen, lots of stories told. The crowd was a little stuffy, but you can see it in their eyes, boomers checking off the last items on their bucket lists, lots of nostalgia. His story is pretty incredible, worth a read. He seems reasonably humble considering, and he’s smart enough to bring top notch hired guns on the road with him.

[Bunion 2020]

Was on a Grand Canyon 21 day private trip (92?). Nat Geo was filming a special on Martin Litton and his dories and history & JT was a passenger on their trip. At Redwall Cavern we were stopped to do the usual check it out thing and have lunch. The Nat Geo crew stopped to film him playing and singing and a buddies wife from our group asked him to sign her river axe. He obliged and seemed like a pretty low key & nice person.

[Woodsy]

Taos was my home mountain then, and I always tele’d, but I was never an instructor.

WHOO HOO HOO did you live in Basalt, CO for a while mid 90s??

[Meadow Skipper]

WHOO HOO HOO did you live in Basalt, CO for a while mid 90s??

It seems I must have some sort of Everyman look. No, never lived in Colorado.

[rideit]

I met him a few times in Telluride when I was (unsuccessfully) trying to bang his daughter. Nice guy, really tall. She was almost ten years younger than me, not a chance.
But it was fun hanging out a few times.

[KQ]

Crazy ass life for someone who, through his music, seems to be easy going and laid back (he's not - have seen him yelling at people on set during rehersals). His life was full of health issues, an abusive father, drugs (codeine and opium followed by a heroin and methadone addiction). Accidents. Amazing he's still alive and kicking.

[riser4]

I met him a few times in Telluride when I was (unsuccessfully) trying to bang his daughter. Nice guy, really tall. She was almost ten years younger than me, not a chance.
But it was fun hanging out a few times.

Meadow Skipper or James Taylor?

[MontuckyFried]

Taos was my home mountain then, and I always tele’d, but I was never an instructor.

Ha! No way! Perhaps we clinked steins at the Bavarian or had après brews at the Martini Tree Bar or the Alley. Speaking of which, are the martini trees still a thing there or is that now just a legendary thing of the past?

[Meadow Skipper]

Meadow Skipper or James Taylor?

LOL

Ha! No way! Perhaps we clinked steins at the Bavarian or had après brews at the Martini Tree Bar or the Alley. Speaking of which, are the martini trees still a thing there or is that now just a legendary thing of the past?

Maybe we hoisted one - you’re making me miss the St. B. I think some of the instructors - the older ones - might still stash a pitcher at one of the trees. But I sort of lost track what with all the ‘upgrades’ over the last couple years.

[Woodsy]

Crazy ass life for someone who, through his music, seems to be easy going and laid back (he's not - have seen him yelling at people on set during rehersals). His life was full of health issues, an abusive father, drugs (codeine and opium followed by a heroin and methadone addiction). Accidents. Amazing he's still alive and kicking.

Wow, when I met him a few times at my hotel in Aspen, as guest and performer he was super nice and so laid back.

[skaredshtles]

Ha! No way! Perhaps we clinked steins at the Bavarian or had après brews at the Martini Tree Bar or the Alley. Speaking of which, are the martini trees still a thing there or is that now just a legendary thing of the past?

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[lowsparkco]

Crazy ass life for someone who, through his music, seems to be easy going and laid back (he's not - have seen him yelling at people on set during rehersals). His life was full of health issues, an abusive father, drugs (codeine and opium followed by a heroin and methadone addiction). Accidents. Amazing he's still alive and kicking.

He talked a little about his mental health history. Evidently he was institutionalized in his youth. Knockin Round the Zoo source material.

[rideit]

He’ll, Taylor Swift was named after him, that’s some street cred right there.