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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Two of my favorites. ‘Angel’ was also a great song.
Oh, and I almost forgot ‘Not gonna let it bother me tonight’
A no talent performer with worthless opinions.
No, Yoko Ono was a bad infuence on the Beatles.
I never cared for any of his music. It was played way too much.
Now that I know of his Massachusetts background, I am glad he went back up there where he will be happier.
Great movie!
I have no idea how JT got the role. He's not an actor.
Gotta love Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton, though.
HDS plays a gay hitchhiker who Warren Oates picks up.
He puts his hand on Warren's leg, and Oates says: "I ain't into THAT!"
Harry Dean Stanton was notorious for not remembering people he worked with in movies.
He said about James Taylor: "I think he was a singer or something..."
James Taylor had no influence on the Beatles.
He was an act signed to Apple out of artistic generosity and several years younger than the Fab Four.
It’s not like he hung out with them.
Whiny voice? Try Neil Young.
Probably the only newsworthy item in the story. The guy sat in on the White Album sessions? Certainly the connection between Taylor and the Beatles was the only reason I read it.
Maybe her click introduced him — I don’t know if that’s right or not. But Lennon ended up with the serious drug problem not Ono.
My friend was his personal pilot for several years and he has nothing but good things to say about Donald.
You got a point there.
Yeah and what a quality singer Yoko OH NO! was. Talentless biotch with a rich Jap banking daddy. She’s a AH tist. A junkie.
This clip is the reaction of a true musical great- Chuck Berry, reacting along with John Lennon to Yoko’s senseless moronic screeching..... it is priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZiPO9V_aQ
Exactly. Helms was brilliant— in foreign policy especially.
And he did have a heart about the burgeoning self caused disease state of queers—the nascent AIDS virus, later to be described as HIV immuno suppression. Interestingly, way back then— the epidemiology of AIDS spreading into the US was traced back to Haiti, and from there to Angola and the large contingent of communist Cuban “volunteers” who brought the virus back from there to surreptitious jousts in Haiti. Haiti at the time being a favourite sex tourism destination for the ultra queers of NYC and LA, then an underground.
Have always thought that obamaumao-care was one more “every one else pay for our care” concept because of the huge costs of Aids Related Complex, and the viatical settlements (reverse mortgages of a terminal patient’s entire net worth, if you will). A way they could continue with un-natural behavior exposed to the clear risk,and have the rest of us pay for it. Still do think it is that— with a marxist twist.
Helms was a very merciful man— and we could sure use him today to fight off these con artists.
Cripes...I never saw this. Brilliant, lol. Chuck’s face when Yoko starts howling:)
What in the world’s come over us... yes indeed. What have we done?
“Way back once upon a time, all our clouds were Number 9
Every day was heaven sent wonder where the magic went?”
And real melody in great musicality of rock players who could play....straight up killer players and singers.
Of course- they were the original Classics IV behind Dennis Yost— so melody was in their blood.
College radio station I used to listen to ages ago used to have a DJ who’d intro every Neil Young song with “Now whine along with Neil!”
One comment was right. His music is depressing.
Massachusetts is where he belongs.
I saw Taylor in concert in 2011 when my friend gave me a free ticket . I realized then how dull and uninspiring his music is. Now I realize he’s an elistist liberal yankee and I don’t like him either. I think he lucked into a music contract and made it big with sappy love songs because there was a market on radio for them in the 1970’s.
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