94. James Taylor / Woman's Gotta Have It!
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Lee, I wanted to tell you how much your videos were a gift to make things easier during a hard time for all of us. This one in particular is just so lovely and from time to time I'll rewatch it whole or at least watch and listen to you playing over the record. Gives me a peace I can't describe. Thanks for giving us so much.
23:22 Man that hit me like a truck. So true. We all ned to remember our days are precious. Thanks again for todays highlight. Love, Marcus.
My parents took me to a JT concert when I was a kid. I was fascinated by your playing and the way it went with James’ guitar bass lines - been a fan ever since - and I’m 50 this year. Cheers and thanks for doing these!!!
I had some great friends at that time that were into music and we listened to James Taylor since we appreciated the music. It was as you described, perfect.
Thank you, Lee. Interesting and deeply heartening to see how many people are responding to your videos. I think many of us are searching for meaning, continuity, hope and fortitude in this time, and your tour through your life's work is really resonating right now. It really IS your time.... music is a heart healing thing. Best wishes :)
Thank You! I'm so glad that Beato intro'd your channel to me! Simply a Treat! Your anecdotes are the perfect antidote. You, my man, are the cat's pajamas!!!
Album artwork! I used to love taking home a new LP, gingerly putting it on the turntable and studing the album jacket while listening. Thick As A Brick was the epitome! I'm still reading that one.
There was a second edition of Thick as a Brick with a different cover but akin somewhat. As you say,(Touche`) I started to read also that original cover in 1973 (??) and still love it inside and out.
You’ve got such a big heart Lee!
Great playing as always, I love that song 👍🏼✨
Thanks for the great stories all with added years of music history wisdom and dry humor.
Beautiful and elegant bass line, Lee.
simply great.
Absolutely amazing that you play all the songs by heart, although played them last when you recorded them, like this one. A great musician with an incredible musical memory, especially when I think of your yesterday‘s words whereafter you only rehearsed 5 days for the TOTO-tour. 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻
I basically made the same comment last night. He's a little older than me and if I don't play something regularly, I forget all kinds of details. Jst another thing he's amazing at, eh?
jstnxprsn reminds me of story of Floor Jansen of Nightwish...when they brought her in to replace their singer, was given the setlist and asked...can you learn this in 72 hours?
@@helenespaulding9372 been there ,I got asked to play bass ,had 24 hours to learn their catalog for a 3 hour gig .I really feel for you !
@@helenespaulding9372 sorry for some reason i thought it was u ..
Darryl Moore Ha! I wish! 😁
Used to love album covers artwork. And the song order was put together with thought. Like a story.
Same. I almost miss using a thumbnail to get the plastic cover off. Almost. Well, actually not.
Tom Toren Good reply!
I always remember that song for it's beautiful bass groove.
Love your stories Lee because you are so raw! This is much better than a book any day ❤
This is better than "a book." Thanks, Lee. I grew up with your music.
“Lee’s Music Lounge” is back with James Taylor.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻.................also thank you to all essential and healthcare workers etc.
Yes. Back in the day, unwrapping and savoring the LP experience was a thing. Many times I would soak up the artwork, especially for the fold-out albums, as well as the jacket info (where the credits were in many cases) before even carefully placing the vinyl on the turntable. Good times. Thanks for your efforts, Mr. Sklar!
Album covers of the seventies made me decide to be an art director as my profession. I love the ritual.
Technology like TH-cam is helping to ruin the world. The exception is unbelievable content like this from fabulously talented people like Mr. Sklar who are producing content that if not for platforms like this, we would never of had the pleasure to experience. You don’t know how much this is appreciated Mr. Sklar. Thank you so much! The color you’re adding to my music memories is valued more than you might realize.
Thankyou Leland I totally enjoy your clips I've seen you play with musicians in concert. Sir may I say I only dream of being at your calibre in music. I've played drums for well over 40 years My parents were involved in music and I can remember when groups I worked with folded my mother always convinced me not to give up and I am forever thankful to her for that because If she didn't convince me not to throw the towel in I wouldn't be where I am today. But sadly like you all my musician brothers have fallen off their perch. I remember I only discovered one of my very close friends had passed away, he played in my very first group I played in , it must have been 1967 I must have been 15 years old. He went to Vietnam and returned a different person. I only found out he passed away accidentally on the internet ,his passing floored me. Thankyou Leland watching your clips is like talking to my musician friends I used to now.
What an absolute pleasure to listen to you, Leland. Thanks for sharing with us. Stay safe. Be well.
Thank you Leland such a joy listening to your stories and memories.
In the pocket, indeed! It's such fun listening to you reminisce and play. Thanks!
The brief shout-out for Willie Weeks is appreciated. I've seen him several times in recent years with Boz. Big sound...and all the right notes. You're a generous dude, Leland. And the video's most memorable quote: "I don't rehearse my spontaneity." Words to live by.
Mike Leech (RIP) from American Studios in Memphis, came up with that oh-so-sickly-cool bass line for Bobby's record. It's not an easy one to feel with the right lope and skip. You recreated it like a boss!
“just sit back and DIG IT” ... I just subscribed...Thank you for playing wonderful music on the soundtracks of my life
I absolutely love the sound of the Frankenstein bass...it sounds so sweet on this track!!
I have a pal of 47 years who I met in college; and he has a wonderful voice, great harmonies, and we'd put on Beach Boys, JT, on and on, I'd do a lead vocal, sometimes I taught myself a harmony......but this is a guy I'd drive 50 miles to his tiny ap't and we'd spend 3-4 hours listening to music, pulling up concerts on youtube, and singing....I sent him the link to Doctor My Eyes and I'm sure he'll hit the subscribed button......Thanks Lee, they don't have a cure for Covid, they really aren't treating it; right now, music is the medicine for the body and for our minds...........
YOU are amazing, Lee...along with all of the "cats" that you have played with--much love, and many blessings! :)
Thanks Leland for the stories and encouragement
Absolutely fantastic performance!! One of my favorite JT productions of all time. And thank you for the reverence to album art and liner notes!!! 🙏
Sounded fine to me. Your intolerable sound is glorious to all of us. Thanks for the music and the stories.
Woman's got to have it. Man the bass just sets in the whole grove for that song. NICE
You make my days ligther Lee!
Y love J.T!
Your voice is hipnotic!
Thank you for another great song and a wonderful story.
Happy birthday, Mr. Sklar! Thank you for sharing your personal experiences with all of us out here.
I've realized lately how much I miss having it so it was a pain to bump to the next song on a tape/album. It kind of twisted your arm to listen to the whole thing (and you listened to the whole thing because you paid for it). There was nothing like sitting down to listen to a new one. I also really miss the album/cassette artwork and liner notes to read as you listen (that's how I first learned who Leland Sklar was on PC's No Jacket Required). Now, unless you know the members of a band you have no real clue who played what.
Please keep up with this. I love hearing your stories and listening to your magic.
I really feel like the era of Vinyl was an age of innocence like a teenager learning to express themselves and say what is important to them and actually have someone listen to what they had to say because it was important and meant something. Every record opened a new room full of ideas and experiences, all you had to do to return was to slide the record out, cue it up and sit in the comfy chair and you were back there in the 'room' that only that record could open. We were young and naive but it was so vibrant and hopeful, it was food for our spirits! I too miss those rooms, mp3's and digital is just not the same, like they somehow don't even exist.
I was lucky enough to make a couple of CD covers and a booklet for a couple friends bands and it was a great experience to be actually creating a room and taking part in arranging of the guys furniture, as in the songs being part of themselves and how valuable a thing those songs were.
You are now opening a new set of doors that are equally as precious :)
I heard my favorite Linda song on the way to work this morning “Your No Good “ and it made my day. Not sure if you played bass on that track. I wish I could get my comments in earlier but by the time I get off work this is pretty much a done deal. Man Willie Weeks and Jim Keltner. This reminds me of another great drummer Andy Newmark He was so great. I wonder if you ever got to jam with Andy. I feel for you and your insomnia. I too can’t sleep and it really takes a toll on your body. You just learn to live with it Great job as always.
Your videos are a joy to watch and I so appreciate that you are taking the time to produce them. Your involvement in the music that was the soundtrack to my younger life is deep. You played on tracks as well as toured with artists that made major impressions in my heart - Thanks for being the driving rhythm to so much that made me happy. We've actually met a couple of times back in the late 70's and early 80's when I was just a young teen and you were touring with James and Jackson. We talked once in the concession area at Pine Knob prior to a show when you were hanging out alone by the entrance. I got there early and stopped to say hello. You couldn't have been any nicer and you won me over from the start. We also talked a summer later after another Pine Knob show and I walked away knowing that I met not only a true musical artist but a gentleman as well. Thanks again for these videos and for sharing such beautiful stories. Be well.
We LOVE the digressions and the side-stories - that where a lot of the magic of your channel lies. It's so AUTHENTIC.
Lee, you're my new best friend. We'll never meet but my gosh- I love the bass & the stories. You're a true icon with such a breath of kind/fresh air during this time! Thank you for taking time to do this!! Brothers of a whisker!!!!
I know I have said this many times, but I have to say it again. Thank you so much for sharing your incredible life with us!
Saw Mr Sklar play with Jackson Browne in 1978 in Santa Clara or San Jose. Great show. His tone is amazing and his stories are priceless.
Gorgeous dancing bass line. Man - stunning.
As long as you sit there and tell your experiences and play your music for us, I'll sit here and listen to you! My favorite memories of my life are the times me and my friend would do that very thing all night long 🤗🎧🎶! Thanks for this!
"Woman's Gotta Have It" is a great song! I love that album, too. So many talented people on it!
All good Leland! All 3 are great guitar players. Michael has always been one of my favorites.
My music in my early 20's and has yet to be surpassed, Great musicians, great music.Peace & Love
Hey Lee your bass playing is so relaxing and love the story's. Your the best my friend. Take care and stay healthy and safe. 👍😷👍
In the Pocket Favorite Album of mine Lee. I have the vinyl and the disc. Am proud to say I was there Buffalo, N.Y. to here James's concert performance of In the Pocket . Many more of his Live performance's too! Gosh please could we bring back those times! Thanx for the Chat, Hope to shake your hand someday.
I love the bass line timing of this song, and Love JT's rendering. Thanks for picking on this one Lee!. I chuckled with your comment about buying albums for the cool cover art. I bought Son's of Champlin for the cover art back in late 60's. Great double album from SF bay area, turned out to be a lasting favorite.
Well.....must have been Scottish pipes, since Rod is Scottish, yes? My ancestry is Scottish, and often, hearing the pipes, I burst into tears. They reach a part of my soul that must come from my genes.....a cultural memory of the homeland.
Don't miss Mary Black's version of who knows where the time goes. Heart wrenching break with pipes.
a phillips beautiful......a new artist for me. Thank you!
Helene Spaulding ... if you are talking about Rod Stewart ... he is English.
Hi Helene, Rod is definitely English. Very much a Londoner. His mother was English and his father was Scottish. So Rod likes to play up his Scottish heritage and he supports the Glasgow Celtic soccer/football team, etc.
Brain Stormer thank you. I just heard an interview I’d Rod done by Dan Rather a couple of years ago. And yes, he did play it up. What totally shocked me was that he called the team the Seltics.....,..not the Keltics! I didn’t think a Brit would use that pronunciation!
These tunes bring me back to the 70s when things were for real,peace.
I remember two albums I bought because of the cover, and I never heard of these artists before I bought the albums..1. Pat Methany American Garage..Bunch of Airstream Trailers 2. Octopus Gentle Giant..yea was amazed by both albums, became huge fan of these artists. I do have 1 request.. do whatever the hell you want, love watching you play the bass. When I was a teenager playing in our parents garage, our mixers were our volume knobs...
Thank you for bringing back Wallach's Music City to my thoughts. In later life my Mom became a friend of Dorothy Wallacks, Glen's wife. She was a wonderful lady. Driving her through Hollywood was like reading a great novel of the Los Angeles entertainment industry. Thanks so much
Amen brother!
Lee, thank you, thank you for being so selfless and sharing your immense talent and endless stories and moments. I’m a big fan of Buffalo Springfield and the fluid bass work of Bruce Palmer. Any memories of Bruce? Thanks.
I didn't know who you were at the time, but I saw you live on the Troubadour Tour in Philly in 2010. Who was the cool dude with the long flowing beard? It was my hero! Leland Sklar. May you live long and may we all enjoy many more of your adventures. Keep on doing this even after quarantine is over. Bless your soul.
great version,bobby womack tune,lovely to hear the bass line, beautiful
My daily soul place. Thank you, Lee!
Thank you for doing this, I think it's the best new channel on TH-cam
65 years old seen you play many times. You upped the game sir. Or as JT would so reverently refer to you
as: Shroud of Turin..
-Peace and love
Screw the book. This works perfectly! You are a treasure. Peace!
Variety! I, for one, love it! Thank you for posting!!!
You are 100% correct about albums! I love getting them out and spinning them with the receiver cranked!
Terrific consistency and accuracy. Lee, you certainly are something else. Kudos!
More power to your wheels Lee , Thanks helping us through this, it really helps cheers.
Hi Lee, Thanks for the videos. I'm really glad you enjoy doing them! Very nice to hear you mention Red Callender today. He's my most important teacher and mentor for string bass. I fell in love with his tuba playing on Everybody Has the Blues before I met him. You are a very bright spot to dig at youtube during #stayhomesavelives #bakerbass
STAY DISTRACED! KEEP STRAYING FROM THE PATH, LELAND! Please share all those anecdotes of years gone by!
Thanks again, Leland. I am 60 years old and grew up listening to JT, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, CSNY, Joni Mitchell, etc. I only recently bought another turn table and now I am rebuilding an album collection . It feels so good to go to my local record store and browse different sections and appreciate the art work of recordings new and old. I am having the same fun buying records as I did in the 1970s.
Reinventing History 101 - with professor Sklar! 👍🏼😁
We are really diggin it! You're doing it your way And it's so much better than a book.. You're playing, you're talking, you're telling us about real life stories, and you're sharing it with the generation ahead. Awesome..
Awesome hang today! This video felt like a one on one hang. I found myself cracking up many times with a few belly laughs. Great stories - I could listen all day! Keep em comin my man...!
Amazing!!! I love this bass lines since 1977 ,Argentina edited Gorilla and in the pocket.
People rarely remember data, trivia, junk-culture, etc, but they will always remember a good story, and for musicians my age (65) your stories are gold. They tie-together so much of what I've been listening to my whole life in the music world and in particular, what you and the other guys in The Section were doing and thinking about back then.
Lee, I love your entire catalog man but still my favorite work of yours is one of your earliest recorded pieces and that is The Section tune, "Sporadic Vacuums Of Thought" and if you're reading this, could you possibly entertain doing that cut in one of your videos. Those Section albums are pretty rare and not that many people know about them and that cut to this day has some of the very best bass-playing virtuosity that I've ever heard and there are so many nuggets in there (slides, punches, playful sections) along with the heavy business of keeping that whole song sorted...not an easy task to my ears. Thank you, and maybe writing a book isn't your thing but we'll take as many of these TH-cam sessions as you can manage. (BTW: I introduced my band-mates in my first club gig on Maui in 1975 to that Section cut, "Doing The Meatball", they loved it and we covered it at the gig that year...people (and the band), loved it!). Peace.
Right on , Lee. Some heavyweight credits on that LP . Thanks and BASS ON🙌🏽 Had the opportunity to hang with Herb Pedersen when he recorded his first solo effort . A real gem, he is .
Leland thanks, I love the way you make every note matter.
James Taylor has his own particular groove. Unmistakable.
Vinyl Albums and their awesome album artwork are the best ! Starting collecting vinyl again just because I miss that "look" and that "sound"!
I rarely dropped the needle on a new album without settling in to listen to at least the first side. Usually, the whole album in one sitting. God, that was such a great time. Recorded music could be nearly as enjoyable as a concert.
Thank you again for the great story.
Lee, please keep sharing your personal stories. My wife and I enjoy watching and listening to you during these trying times. Thank you!! ❤️
Thank you Lee, you are an inspiration as a musician and a person!
Love it. You never cease to amaze...
A wealth of knowledge and a gentleman bassist.
Cool tasty hooks with your bass lines, especially on the change up. Great classic song.
Lee, your TH-cam channel is your book and what's great is that you cannot skip pages or go to the end. It is like wine testing, every day you savor a new one and can't wait for the next day to taste another one. Thank you!
Just watched the garden view.Love the variety,colors are everything.Then you add fragrance from the roses.Oh,and their is fruit.No wonder you enjoy hours and hours there.The bassets are a treat also.Thanks for sharing.Oh,we are going to discuss James Taylor.Sweet Baby James was one of three 1st albums I purchased.The other two were Black Sabbath, Paranoid and last was Allman Bros,Idle Wild South.Saw Allman Bros,1971.Ticket was 5.00.My how time has changed!!
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Love all of your videos. Everything is perfect! Cheers from Ontario Canada.
Thank you!!! I made this request on Facebook! Thank you so much for doing it.
We love your stories Leland, please keep them coming.
I love watching your videos. Very interesting and entertaining. As a side note, I’m watching an old Huell Howser episode of the 1997 Bassett Hound picnic, and there you were in the group with a dog. Dogs make people well-rounded.
I really enjoy your videos, Lee. So agree with your comments on albums and album covers. CDs were bad enough in how they eliminated the flow of album sides and miniaturized the artwork. At least you still had a physical item to hold, which is more than can be said for today's digital/streaming distribution. I feel a real sense of loss of the connection that used to exist between the music and the art of albums.
You mentioned the group photo of the musicians from "In The Pocket". I pulled my LP to take a good look, and got a chuckle from the way everyone is identified as Ms. or Mr. so-and-so.
Thanks for the memories! Keep 'em up.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Really enjoying your channel, be well!
Fantastic, Leland. You've got lots of us totally hooked on these vids - all of them - even loved the yard video.
Thank you, thank you! I heard that bass line, & I was right back in college... ❤️
I love the stories. Thank you so much for doing this
I swear vinyl sounds significantly clearer than anything. I remember I listened to all of those with headphones on and I could hear the singers breathing. On of my favorite albums (In the Pocket)
Thanks for sharing your wonderful playing, Lee. If the Rod track had bagpipes, the reference was probably a Scottish song. It it was Irish, it would have been Uileann pipes - related but different. In terms of commercial tracks, Rod did use Bagpipes on the Rhythm of My Heart - a big hit for him. Thanks again - from Ireland.
Sitting here waiting for the launch to the space station and thought *ding, Lee just put up another one and I'm gonna watch it while I wait for blast-off. Great song, great story and masterful playing even though i couldn't catch all the changes. Caveat is I can go back and figure it out, haha. Peace brother and "finite"
is but a mortal term, you'll just flip onto the next stage when the maker takes his quarry.
Thanks so much for all these videos Leland, saviour of lockdown and a great inspiration:)