a very young James Taylor on a Gibson accompanies Carole King

[jojobean39]

Originally Posted by mcduffnw

See...I am the exact opposite. I never thought JT sounded as good with that old J-50. I don't even think that was a "good" sounding J-50 by old J-50 standards...too dry, dead, thumpy sounding to me.



I thought his sound improved 10 fold when he switched to the Olson guitar. It's tone, timbre, and dynamic voice matched perfectly to his style of playing and chord shapes and progressions...again...for me.





duff

Be A Player...Not A Polisher

I agree. This guitar thumps to my ears, where his Olsons ring out with each hammer on.

I’m excited to say I’ll be watching him in concert next month!

[tippy5]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

Any other geeks out there notice Tapestry producer Lou Adler sitting behind the plate at the Dodgers' game last night?

Yaeh he saw a great game!



I too prefer the acoustic tones of James recorded music from the J-50 days.

Guess that's why of my 8 acoustics 3 are Gibby's.... and my goto. I also have the Goodall's and a smooth Martin 00-15.

Just a preference I know but my '59 CW, with the forward non scalloped bracing, has the most personality of all of them.


Go BLUE!

[mr. beaumont]

Thoughts:

There is such a thing as "musical soulmates."

And how musical they were (and still are)

Man, I love this.

[davenumber2]

Originally Posted by jojobean39

I agree. This guitar thumps to my ears, where his Olsons ring out with each hammer on.

I’m excited to say I’ll be watching him in concert next month!

I’d rather have the thump than the ring but that’s just me. We all have different tastes.

[gmel555]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

Any other geeks out there notice Tapestry producer Lou Adler sitting behind the plate at the Dodgers' game last night?

Did not notice that, but a HUGE "Tapestry" fan here. One of those albums I always come back to. All it takes is to hear one cut on the car radio and the entire album gets played un-interrupted when I arrive home.

[Silly Moustache]

31st, October 1970.

I somehow managed to get a front row centre seat at the London Palladium to see Matthews Southern Comfort and James took the second half.

he was playing that old Gibson, and looked nervous/shy and gangly, but he sung/played beautifully.

i was close enough to stare at his hands and marvelled at how his fretting hand seemed to move so smoothly and gently whilst doing all those things he does so well.

James was born one day later than me. (I often wondered that if I'd been born a little later, maybe I might have been a famous singer-songwriter too! .....probably not!

[gmel555]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

31st, October 1970.
i was close enough to stare at his hands and marvelled at how his fretting hand seemed to move so smoothly and gently whilst doing all those things he does so well.

That's a great memory to have. I've always thought of his playing as being "graceful" and combining that with his equally "graceful" voice/singing completes the JT music that so many of us love.

[Bob from Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by gmel555

Did not notice that, but a HUGE "Tapestry" fan here. One of those albums I always come back to. All it takes is to hear one cut on the car radio and the entire album gets played un-interrupted when I arrive home.

Saw something fairly recently on Tapestry and Adler talks about wanting it to feel like you were in the living room with her and that's how I've always felt!

[dodge]

Not to hijack the thread but here's a cool video of JT playing his acoustics recently. J-50 still sounds pretty good to me.

https://youtu.be/LrQn6VfwHWQ

[airborne1]

Both are treasures in the music industry, and well deserved.

I must be the only one who did not hear the guitar playing much at all.

Oh well, 72 years of age will do that, I guess!

[darylcrisp]

Originally Posted by J Patrick

…nice trip down memory lane….I’ll be seeing JT in a few weeks along with Jackson Browne……

both will be amazing. couple years ago i saw Jackson Browne solo, i'm thinking he had two rollaway racks, each filled with about 8 acoustics. he would play a song, stick that guitar back, grab another one. about midway thru the concert he asked if anybody had a request-that did it-everybody was yelling JB songs, he would grab a guitar, play a song, stop and listen, run over and grab another guitar, on and on. he later explained he had a lot of different tunings on different guitars and certain songs required such, or a certain guitar simply sounded better to him on certain songs. amazing amazing concert.

would love to see J Taylor.

you'll definitely need to report back to us on both of these
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[darylcrisp]

Originally Posted by airborne1

Both are treasures in the music industry, and well deserved.

I must be the only one who did not hear the guitar playing much at all.

Oh well, 72 years of age will do that, I guess!

it was faint all along, but present. i liked it a lot because of the smooth quiet nature that filled spots here and there.

[darylcrisp]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

Saw something fairly recently on Tapestry and Adler talks about wanting it to feel like you were in the living room with her and that's how I've always felt!

i've been going thru "everything" i own lately, moving items not used on to others, and i found a big box of a lot of old albums, Tapestry was there along with an early JT, i've been playing both nonstop in my shop as i do work and zone out on the magic of the music of that time period.

talk about trips back to memory lane............

really amazing music

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[darylcrisp]

well, there are guitars in these video, nice looking Taylor in the first, and Olson in the second.
Carole still has it in spades!
the very cool thing is reading the comments, just really nice, good feeling comments, no trash talk. these folks just have that deep aura that they carry and sing out, people feel it. and the lyrics, you just don't find this depth much these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbMI4imWFzY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVk13aLhbZo

[Jim Owen]

My first date was a twin-bill James Taylor/ Carol King concert in Raleigh’s Dorton Arena. He played that J 50.