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Ree, Thank you for sharing your experience.
I’m going to be very sorry about having to miss seeing this show. I love Bonnie Raitt and her slide guitar she is awesome. I really enjoyed the last show they did together at Fenway – was that only last year?
(Of course, Bonnie aside, you all know how much I adore our James Taylor – I’m the one to challenge Tavis Smiley’s public proclamation of he being JT’s number one fan!) The massive crowd in those large arenas must put out special energy reaching out to the performers, making for incredible energetic performances. At least that’s part of the wonderful surprise experience I had at Fenway with JT & BR.With both performers doing their own show with their own band – does that make for a very long evening? I wouldn’t complain for its length. I couldn’t get enough of these two artists performing live.
Thanks for the JT setlist but do you happen to have Bonnie’s setlist?
I understand you also saw the show at Tanglewood. So nice, and so lucky for you to see them twice already!I’m sorry to hear he isn’t interacting with fans at the stage – those moments are so special. I’ve been there many a time and have witnessed how moving it is not only to those who are able to get to talk with him, albeit too briefly, but also seen heartfelt sweet reactions from those far back in the arena who can’t get to him, but can only watch his reaching out to fans near him. So impressive and so moving it has brought tears to many, many eyes!
I do have to add that of all the James Taylor signings at stages around the country and even around the world, where I’ve had the great good fortune to be at, the worst, most ugly crowd pushing, elbowing in an ambience filled with a sense of desperation and greed to be near him has been at every single JT concert experience in the Shed at Tanglewood in recent years. Also the crowd there at JT summer concerts at Tanglewood over the years seem to have turned uglier and nastier from witnessing stuff going on in the parking lots and grounds after the concerts! Maybe its more of the drinking and partying crowd attending nowadays, rather than the picnic music crowd of earlier years.
I think it’s a sweet kind move on James Taylor’s part to his fans to personally interact as he does. Not many great and famous like him have the skill-set and patience to deal with needy but loving fans. Unfortunately it takes a few rotten fans with rotten reasons to be there to ruin it for the rest of us.
Keep on keeping on you JT loving fans…
Jenn – He didn’t stay after the show last year at Tanglewood or at Fenway! But he has a couple times at Tanglewood a few years back. I think at Tanglewood he is very busy these days with the BSO friends and family who come to Lenox around July. After the Fenway show with Bonnie Raitt there was no meet and greet for fans at all – James whole family – first family Kim and Rufus and Henry and their friends and all James siblings were there so he really had no time for fans. Poor guy – everybody wants a piece of him…hundreds and hundreds of fans. Imagine how exhausting that must be!
Also because of the beefed up security at all venues especially after the Marathon bombings in Boston, even a remote venue like Tanglewood is, these days, very tight with security and keen on moving everyone in and out as fast as possible. I suspect those days of James hanging out with fans before, mid and after shows are GONE! Not that he doesn’t want to, is my guess – but venue security may not allow it.
Just my two cents. Sad what our world is coming too – out of fear we rush to give up our freedoms!Wow! Thank you for posting this clip of the Taylor Siblings Dec 25 1986. Its so good to see them all and so young vibrant and alive. RIP Alex Taylor. Wow to Alex’s voice. Quite a good looking bunch don’t you think besides the great talent. Lovely been a great pleasure listening and seeing them all together.
LOL – ancient technology when those of us that missed concerts or JT TV appearances – pre VCR – counted on bootleg from anonymous shadow people to tape the shows and mail us cassette tapes of it. Terrible sounds on these cassette tapes but we relished and soaked up every word and every song. Then came the VCRs and tape exchanges – bad pictures and bad sounds – but we clamoured from kind friends who taped shows. NOW just send a link via email or text of a YouTube of any concert any TV appearance of our hero… Every developmental era of technology to get our JT concerts and appearances hit was thrilling and fun…and what a great community of friends we made thru it all…
Barb said:
“…and Rkiel,you say “as usual”. The only time you will find me speaking in James’s defense is when I feel his personal privacy is being invaded, as was the case when I learned someone was giving out his financial information.”Barb, your statement above to Roger – what do you mean? I hope its not a veiled threat to those of us who ‘dare’ buy Carly’s book. I say this in jest, because I only know your online persona having never met you in person – but I also wonder…would you really report on us or hate us and cut us off for reading the book?
I just finished reading Carly’s new book “Boys In The Trees” – A GREAT read and what a lovely ride Carly gave me for three days it took to read it – in between preparing, fixing, eating and cleaning up for the Thanksgiving Holiday feast…
Carly fearlessly reveals her inner most thoughts and personal experiences as only Carly can do…that James Taylor was a major part of her personal experience is honestly laid out. Really her marital experience is not unlike, though maybe a ton more intense, than 99% percent of marriages in this country during that era.
James Taylor loving fans need not fear what she might say about him. He is still a great wonderful icon even in Carly’s eyes. But she does humanize him and makes him more real…and endearing as such. That they have two beautiful children in Sally and Ben is lovely. I was very moved by her sharing the unique way James helped her thru the delivery of each child – choke up moment for me and anyone who has experienced the out of this world pain and exhilaration of childbirths with a loving companion to pull you thru.
She also reveals enough about herself for James Taylor fans to understand why he might have left her…
I read the book riveted to her every lyrical phrases and words, loving every minute of the experience and still remain an ardent loving fan of our hero James Taylor.
