He was a highly talented megalomanic, and a monster, in short.
At least according to Carly.
Posted on 02/17/2020 5:09:42 PM PST by Pelham
..Born in Boston in 1948, Taylor was, according to his memoir, “brought up devoted to progressive politics, self-improvement and the arts”. His father, a doctor, moved the family to the south when he became the dean of the medical school of the University of North Carolina; his mother didn’t want to go, and fought against the politics she found there. She saw the north-eastern state of Massachusetts as a “lost Eden” and would spend her days doing sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, on protests, and hauling her five kids to Martha’s Vineyard every summer to “restore our Yankee credentials”. Not long after moving the family to North Carolina, Taylor’s father was assigned to the navy. He spent two years on an expedition to the south pole, where he held the keys to the liquor cabinet of 100 men. He went to the bottom of the world and returned with a serious drinking problem...
....He hopes this year to perform to help get out the vote ahead of the US presidential election. He met Donald Trump once, “in an airport. I just thought of him as a frivolous, minor player. It drives me crazy how unworthy he is of our attention and how much of it he has.” He is rooting for the Democratic candidates Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren – both from Massachusetts, where he now lives. “But at this point, I’d be happy to see pretty much anyone in – the bar is so low. Because the very worst person possible that you could think to be heading the thing is there. It’s like the Confederacy has won the civil war.”
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Lennon wanted to leave the Beatles beginning in 1966. He used Yoko as a wedge to finally make the break. Yoko and her “art” friends were heavily into opiates. She, not Taylor, introduced John to opiates.
Not really. I am a principal in a small company that had something he needed in order to build a golf course. He negotiated the deal himself over the telephone. Total class. He asked for a price, we gave it to him, he beat us up a little bit (as we anticipated and within limits that we were willing to accept) and he had a check to us exactly when he said he would. His enemies love to give the impression that he is a dick to do business with, but that was far from our experience.
The Beatles hook in the article was nothing more than that. Seemed like it was just an excuse for putting Beatles in the title.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong with this singing turd.
That’s a great story.
Yeah they like to make him out to be a monster.
He’s just a smart, hard working business man.
And of course dems hate anyone like that.
I don’t suppose that it has occurred to Sweet Baby James that the North Carolina that his father moved the family to was run by Democrats at the time. For him to have such a negative opinion of Trump when his own mother was laying it on the line way back when? Kinda makes you look like a fool, huh Jimmy?
He was also a LOUSY father to his first two and Carly wasn’t much as a mother either.
His biggest contribution to the Beatles was giving George the idea for the line, “Something in the way she moves.” I think it was a tit-for-tat for something they thought he had stolen from them, but I don’t remember and it wasn’t a contentious situation because they signed him to Apple.
Oh yes...that was REALLY stupid and disgusting!
Thanks.
I sort of half watched it one Saturday afternoon on TV.
I remember the last scene, though.
He was a highly talented megalomanic, and a monster, in short.
At least according to Carly.
Jesse Helms was a North Carolina Democrat when James Taylor lived there. If you think Southern Democrats of that era had anything in common with the current crop you are sadly mistaken.
Fire & Rain and Carolina in My Mind being two of my favorites. Mockingbird with Carly is also pretty good.
Those are good.
I liked “Copperline” a lot, as well.
What a ridiculous comment for him to make. He grew up in Chapel Hill, his father was from NC before he went to school in Boston, where Taylor was born.
The clintons were clearly Klan democrats— that is the “gubmint plantation” handouts for the black votes— an insult to conservative Southern blacks. He supported them— why? Because his idiotic mother kept taking them to Mahthas Vineyard of black Marxists (where obamaumao now resides as a neighbor to labor racketeer Vernon Jordan.
This navel watching, heroin addict constantly “i’ll sing about me and maybe you’ll have the same experiences”— is so passe’. Music that reaches out TO people not constant depressogenic self abuse.
Of course he doesn’t get Trump. Trump does not drink, he’s not an addict. Taylor is still...an addict. And, btw, Joni Mitchell went completely whacko saying she had fibers coming out of her skin (got Congressional funding to “study” her own psychosomatic disorder).
These are broken people— perfect for democrat candidates to take the place of responsibility, with other people’s (OUR) money. EU is going away and so is this Existentialist pablum of Jean Paul Sarte.
Somehow we survived listening to the Atlanta Rhythm Section— who were just drinkers— trying to avoid all the sparkle and coke and heroin the rest of the industry was built on.
ARS—only two surviving members. But what great players, and writers.
“Champagne Jam” and “Georgia Rhythm” had a lot of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer way in the back as inspiration.
Overrated, IMO and he has a hypernasal voice.
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