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Bob Meyrick Jul 18 2011 at 3:42 AM	I caught JT on the last night of his UK tour at the Cardiff International Arena, and what a great show it was! A varied programme of favourites old and new, a cracking band (Larry Goldings, Mike Landau, Jimmy Johnson, Chad Wackerman), three excellent backing singers, one of whom played violin. Add to that JT’s amiable persona - during the interval and after the show he was signing autographs from the front of the stage - and you have the recipe for a great gig. I was slightly misty-eyed by the third encore, with 5000 Welsh voices singing along to "You’ve Got a Friend"...
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yossarian Aug 17 2011 at 5:09 PM	Sounds great. 02 not the perfect venue for JT but I guess a lot of people want to see the great man. Shame I missed it.
tokeyozi Aug 13 2011 at 6:40 AM	Same over here, flugeler, on hearing Wayne Johnson’s Arrowhead for the first time. If I’d been in a car I would have pulled over as well :) Not in the least because of Flim Johnson’s bass playing.
flugeler Aug 10 2011 at 1:21 PM	cdub - Yep - same guy. "Arrowhead," "Grasshopper," "Spirit of the Dancer"... First time I heard the tune "Arrowhead" was one of those pull the car over and dig it moments.
chetweir Jul 31 2011 at 8:20 PM	Just curious...is he the same dude who played bass in the Wayne Johnson Trio?
hman01 Jul 30 2011 at 9:18 PM	Ah yes! Jimmy(Flim)Johnson,also of Flim and the BBs.I still pull out my old DMP CDs and give’em a spin every once in awhile!
BobSmith Jul 30 2011 at 8:05 PM	fred--In my best Dana Carvey-esque imitation of Johnny Carson..."I did not know that..." Goes to show when you think you’ve got a handle on the music biz, the obvious and well-known by everyone else bites you in the butt. A micro second of googling woulda probably enlightened me.
fredsimon Jul 30 2011 at 12:38 AM	BobSmith, as you may know, Jimmy Johnson has played with James for decades now.
BobSmith Jul 29 2011 at 9:06 AM	zargb5--I must have missed that the first time I read the start of this thread--Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Johnson??...I had to rub my eyes a couple of times. I think JT is a brilliant musician and guitar player but those two on drums and bass would have been extremely unexpected to say the least, although I’ll give props to JT, he recognized their incredible synergy as a rhythm section and capability to play anything that’s thrown at them. I wonder if they’ll do a bit of Wardenclyffe Tower during sound check.
zargb5 Jul 26 2011 at 5:02 PM	Wow Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Johnson - thats the other two thirds of Allan Holdsworth’s oft used trio.
Peterw Jul 25 2011 at 11:08 AM	I saw JT a number of years back at Darien Lake PAC. He was great the band was terrific and featured Blue Lou Marino (of Blues Brothers Fame), and The incredible Steve Gadd on Drums. It was a great show.
hman01 Jul 22 2011 at 12:26 PM	1900s-Thats so "back in the day"!
Bob Meyrick Jul 22 2011 at 12:24 PM	Wild animals? You were lucky...
barley Jul 22 2011 at 9:27 AM	Pete, you tell that to the kids of today......they’ll never believe you.
thehague Jul 22 2011 at 2:45 AM	Pete, "stand outside", in a blizzard no doubt. While being attacked by triffids. Those were the days.
Pete_Vancouver Jul 21 2011 at 3:51 PM	barefoot through snow ? thats nothing . back in the 1900s we had to fight off wild animals and maruading vagabonds just to pay the concert hall owner for permission to stand outside and strain to hear a few tunes . But we were happy .
Tom Rudd Jul 21 2011 at 1:05 PM	Nice Fred! Back in the 1900’s I used to walk 20 miles through the snow, barefoot, to see James Taylor!
fendweller Jul 21 2011 at 4:38 AM	I took one look at the prices and decided not to go to the O2, which would have been my nearest venue. I’ve seen him indoors and out a couple of times in recent years and enjoyed both gigs a lot. I just felt I’d be repeating the dose in less agreeable surroundings this time. I’ll check out those clips though...
fredsimon Jul 20 2011 at 11:58 PM	Long ago, I accepted JT as my personal savior. One of the greatest. Larry Goldings, too! BTW, the singer who plays fiddle is Andrea Zonn, a fantastic musician in her own right ... check out her beautiful album Love Goes On. She’s the daughter of one of my university composition professors back in the 1900s.
Tom Rudd Jul 20 2011 at 7:36 AM	Yes, Love James and have seen him a number of times. Sweet Baby James just seems to keep getting sweeter!
Bob Meyrick Jul 20 2011 at 3:46 AM	If you search for "James Taylor UK 2011" on YouTube you can find video clips from the Manchester and Birmingham gigs which are of surprisingly good quality.
thehague Jul 18 2011 at 10:50 AM	Must have been great. JT is one of my favourite singers and performers of all time. I hope he’ll come to Holland one day.
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