James Taylor "A Glimpse Into the Vault"-Carnegie Hall, 6 of 9
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- In advance of his "Guitar Conversations" concert on May 6 at Carnegie Hall, James Taylor takes us on a rare tour of his guitar vault.
A walk back in time for the artist, he introduces the guitars that helped create the great songs-"Fire and Rain," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," "Something in the Way She Moves"-that have made him one of the most beloved artists of our time.
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James is a brilliant guitar player.
I couldn't agree more. His hit record "Fire & Rain" was one of the very first records that I ever bought. I was in love with that sound!
Besides "The Beatles", James Taylor inspired me to learn the Guitar, which I did and still play today. Although I didn't learn his
guitar picking Technique, I plan on doing it. All I want to say is, " кєєρ σи кєєριиg σи נαмєѕ"!🎸🤗
Yes and Jim Olsen is a great builder! Love that midrange !!
I’d love to sit in that room and play his guitars. ❤️
I like the way he treats his guitar like they're his family. He tells the last one he showed "goodnight" before putting it away
That was classic.
The way he gently puts it back in the case.
I have LOVED James Taylor since I was a 10 yr old- Im 52 now.
James has always been the man!
He is an underrated guitarist. Always has been.
How do you figure? He’s widely heralded as having one of the most unique and influential guitar voices in the fingerpicking world.
@@davestarns Well maybe he thinks his name should be spoken amongst the Hendrixes and the claptons and the Santana's the Garcia's
Love this guy since day one.
What a treat that was…………thanks
These guitars should be in the hands of players and being played and not wasting away! It took me quite some years to get Gibson and it's all I need!
Thanks for sharing your time line of guitars. Awesome. I still have my first Les Paul custom built in 1969, it still plays very well.
James is like your cool old uncle that you love to hang out with.
I wish, none of my uncles are that cool.
Beautiful Olson is collecting dust ?!! No comments...
For the amount of incredible and iconic music, he put out. I say the man can stash as many fancy guitars as he wants. A career that long and diverse...I'll bet he can put a song or a story or both to every one of them. And probably a cool story too...
Great video, thanks! I do not even play the guitar, but I have always loved JT's music and just the way he has about him. He is so articulate and expressive about music and just live in general.
Gran compositor e interprete. Me ha inspirado en muchas de las canciones de THE TRAVELLER
Love this man hit the spot for me in my early 20' his music played a big part of what was going down in the early 70's good to see He's still at it.Geoff /uk
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I could sit in that room all day.
You really can have too many guitars, I know us guitarists joke about it, but it's true. If they aren't being played it's pointless owning them.
Cars are the same way! My motto has always been, “There’s no such thing as too many cars, but five is the point at which they become a total pain in the a$$!”
😂
I have four sailboats. You can never have too many sailboats.
Yes, it is amazing how one's instruments (particularly the guitars)
so easily become your children along with any pets you may have.
I would hesitate before blowing off any observations of James Taylor regarding Guitars. Not only is he a magnificent guitarist, but he has spent a lifetime entertaining people through recordings and live performances, not just sitting in an armchair and pontificating about the topic. There may be an aspect of truth regarding his comment about the difference between guitars and members of the violin family as the latter have much stronger construction to withstand forces. It is not fair to compare Neil Young and Eric Clapton‘s guitars which are less than 100 years old to instruments that have been in performance for nearly 300 years.
Jonathan. I agree. A violin, or mandolin is a much tighter, condensed construction than forces on a big flat top.
If the make a Wish Foundation came to me, I’d ask to spend a day in that room.
I love it when I see someone with a room full of instruments they've collected. I show it to my wife, who thinks I've got a screw loose because I have, "...too many", and say, "...see?Twenty basses is nothing!" Of course I don't think she'll recognize James Taylor, as THE James Taylor! [Laffin'😄]
Just try neglecting your wife in the same way and see what happens.
I had 75 basses and 35 guitars at one time. It can become an OCD situation.
@@pretorious700
Wanna sell me a bass?🤔
Wow.
I am a big fan by the way I an a child of the 60's , so I followed your music many years and there are not many albums that you had made I don't have.
Copperline is one of my favorites
That's cool.
Amazing I hope one day I'll have a collection like that.
Cool guitars to play with.
The final scene here shows he realizes how insane it is to have that many guitars! 🤣
I've only got six guitars and my wife reckons that's five too many!
Still learning how to play since 73…I thought I did well on fire y rain y sang it…did not put it on TH-cam th😂ugh…y I just had my om 28 weeks ago…y before that I got my Guild D55 …y the cheaper ones so…but I tried playing y learning the old classic fr different styles…I sing solo y with my gf then that played th3 piano y formally we both sung together in harmony y my other ex😢…ty James for the music ❤🎉🎉🎉
The parlor Olson really rings !
Take a look around :50-:51 & notice the extreme saddle height & pronounced forward pitch of the bridge! Maybe it isn't "worn out" but it certainly has suffered from improper storage/exposure. However, I feel it's definitely worth trying to revive. A qualified & experienced luthier could do it!
Gotta love James humour.🙂
Olsen's are sweet but for me I love the sound James got out of his Gibson J50, especially the bass parts.
I agree! I love the melancholy sound James produced on the J50: the twinkly highs and the warm, slightly thuddy bass notes. I wish he would record with it again and play it during his concerts.
I always wondered why I couldn't get the bass tone for Riding on a Railroad quite right. I tried subtle muting and came close. Then I tried a Gibson J45 and the puzzle was instantly solved.
I agree. His Olson guitars sound a little too pretty.
Agree...that J50 is iconic...
Almost reminds me of my guild what was it a d50 that was rosewood and spruce and after putting a lot of money into it changing all the bridging and bones and redoing everything I could and while bartering with a luthier named Phil patilo than an Asbury Park and keeping his house painted and such he kept my guitar in mint condition until the day I took a trip on people's Express well that wasn't a good idea and when opening the case after returning I found out that rosewood isn't as hard as I thought it was cuz that guitar had many more parts to it than it originally started with
I have to disagree with his assessment of guitars. Neil Young still tours with Hank’s old guitar and Eric Clapton resurrected the acoustic guitar to its current status with a pre-war Martin for his MTV Unplugged performance. Vince Gill’s locker is full of old beauties. Sure, necks need to be reset and saddles adjusted, but fine guitars, like fine wine, only get better with time.
Another weird thing I heard James say in one of his lesson videos is to tune each string flat. In my experience, a compensated saddle works just fine for better intonation-no need to tune weird. James also plays the D chord backward.
To each their own, but I would not point beginners in James’s direction for any “advices” with all of his eccentricities. It’s obviously worked for James, but he's one of a kind.
Disclaimer: I'm stupid. James is smart. I was wrong. James was right. James is the best. I'm the worst. He is very good-looking. I'm not attractive.
i'm right there with you, Steve.
And think of Willie's
Steve Hanson, I might agree if a guitar was like wine, kept in a corked bottle, but it ain't. Also, many hundred year old wines uncorked are undrinkable!!
That disclaimer at the end cracked me up
Agreed
James Taylor - "Guitars wear out. You can only play them so long"
Willie Nelson's Trigger Guitar - "You were saying?"
It's not true - I have restored many guitars from the 1800's and early 1900's. They sound amazing! Also, the Olsen parlor sounded amazing.
if you restore em in the current day are they still from the 1800 and 1900's?
Agreed! I love James Taylor, but I have to disagree with him on that statement.
James would you be willing to share your songs on TH-cam?.. I'm ready for my lessons from James Taylor, anyone else?.
go to his website. he has multi camera angle lessons to walk you through some of his classic tunes. he has been doing it for years now. good luck.
Do you really keep the tension on the strings when you store the guitar for awhile? Is that good?
Someone should buy him a nice bench to open up the cases on. Don't get me wrong, I like the plastic chair.
His own little Mandolin Brothers. How quaint.
Regarding storing guitars with strings loosened...
I wonder if that’s what actually happens, and the three guitars he shows here were chosen and tuned up before filming? Just to keep the narrative moving in a short clip.
Lovely glimpse at some beautiful instruments with stories in them.
Man the saddle height on that!! Needs a neck reset. Guitars can last almost forever with a good guitar tech. They do pull apart from the tension if you don’t correct problems like neck angle, or bracing problems. ( luthier for thirty years).
Where is the guitar you have in Flag picture album!?? :-)
'' LOVE ''
Interesting, looks like he had the adjustable bridge swapped out on his J50. I wonder if he did that before recording his early stuff.
Look again, it looks to still have the adjustable bridge.
Well that's small body custom with the abalone trim sounded superb I could see why you wouldn't want to part with that one
@crokey64 Thanks! Have you checked out the other eight videos in this series and the rehearsal videos for James's 2011 Carnegie Hall concerts? They're at th-cam.com/play/PL84F7447EE3C4948D.html
Anyone know what year his Gibson J-50 is?
Gotta love JT.
And they stay in tune... stored away. Mine go out of tune with any whim of the weather, hiccups in gravity, solar flares, a sideways glance, a dog's bark, leaving them be, picking them up, guitar gremlins and a host of other factors that are way too many to mention. I need one of them special guitar rooms... I guess.
Me too. I had a guitar that went out of tune if you looked directly at it. Had to sneak up on the bastard.
@@MrBsbotto You think thats bad, mine verbally abuses me when I attempt to fix its twang
That Olsen ! Superb. Maybe de- tension the strings a little if they’re just sitting in the cases. Doesn’t take much to tune up. Gotta do it anyway.
I never never got behind that lowering the tension because the most stable a guitar is in tune.
That’s an old wives tale. If you tune way down you’re still gonna have the truss rod putting pressure on the neck. The best way to store a guitar, especially in a controlled environment is to keep it in tune.
I have an 1880 Martin 00-21 NY and sounds better than any of my modern guitars including my Bourgeois!
Auction them 🎸👍
They wear out, but can they be "forever renewed"--new bridge, new--whatever other parts--brought back to life, time and again? Of, is there a point where they must be retired?
Ya love James musical talents ❣❣
I agree with some others to disagree with some of his assessment on guitar , such as flattening some strings a certain tweek , tried it for awhile & honestly I couldn't tell much of a difference anyway ; far as guitars growing old and breaking down as compared to old violins etc. he has a point but can be taken out of context , I do Not think he specifically implied the tones will diminish with the guitar aging ; I think he simply meant guitars stand a lot more string pressure, and wear on the road comparatively and could not possibly keep in tact like an old well cared for violin (of course guitars do not really have the same amount of history) ; also even good guitars are produced in far larger quantities than good violins which leads me to believe the craftsmanship and time required to make the best violins are the next level above good guitar making.
Let someone else have them then !
No kidding, how selfish!!!
2:16 JT to Olson guitar: "Good night. Your mother and I will be back to check in on you in a couple hours." 😊😂❤
KIm. Yes, I loved that too, and then he hugs it. Just brilliant James. Like him, we really do love and adore our instruments almost like our children.
My girlfriend and I called in on Jim Olsen in Circle Pines Minnesota three years ago just to meet him. Unbelievably he had James' Olsen #4 in for some work and he let me play it. Still haven't quite recovered! Roger from England.
He sounded mighty fine on the dobro. I was instantly transported to a shack in the Mississippi Delta just after the Great Depression.
no you werent time machines dont exist
James always hated white morons who try to steal the blues. That's why he wrote "Steamroller Blues".
@@Josh-it6uy they do if you have an imagination and not a head full
@@Blinki18284 I don't know that's a strange situation I mean how do you steal the blues how do you steal jazz how do you steal classical music music is free for the taking to switch to adjust to moderate to change I've got a feeling it'll change his mind about that one if he really thinks about it
@@arlenmargolin1650 Stealing was not the right word. I think, James wouldn't mind that and would absolutely agree with you (so do I). Take Eric Clapton or the Stones, the did a great job. But there were all this middle class kids with no life experiences hanging around in the 60s, talking about "the blues" and imitating black musicians. James hated that kind of attitude and that's what the song is about.
Just a very daft comment here,if you took the stress out of the neck by taking the tension off the strings would that not make them last a bit longer ?
True - it wouldn't be the end of the world. Every other change I tend to take that opportunity. But it doesn't take long for me to change strings. So, my caveat would be aimed more toward those who may not think twice about leaving the instrument string-less for long periods of time. Thanks, stuco.
Anyone know what song he’s playing at 1:57?
Anyone know the guitar he played after the Gibson J50 in the mid to late 70s? It had a W on the headstock
Whitebook.
Carly has his old ones
@Cortisol: I hate to disagree with you but I also have to agree with JT. I still have a beautiful 1961 Solar Gonzalez Classic guitar, however, the tone or voice has sadly softened, the neck is warping and the action is much high than it use to be. It has always been in a case and has also received a few knocks over the past 50 years.
i wish James would do a flat out old school Delta Blues album , just him and a dobro
I love James with his guitars but come on how many people would say that there Gibson or Martin wore out in a special room.Really I should have that problem.
Seems to me, if a musician has had success and accumulated wealth AND nice guitars sometime in his waning years he should give them to poor young musicians. Just seems like passing a torch.
Also, if you’re lucky enough to be able to afford, it find a local luthier and get one built just for you. I have three, I don’t deserve to have such fine instruments but when I’m gone they’ll be going to kids who do...
u will never ever witness anything cooler in your life than this.
I volunteer to come play your guitars😉
I wonder how many Olsen Guitars he has sitting around not being played....granted its James Taylor....but all in all, thats a shame
I could not afford the strings in that room..HAHAHAHA
Please do a dobro lesson?
is this the basement in his house?
I think what he was saying is Gibson accostic guitars wear out.
@2:12 "Okay. Nice. Goodnight. Your mother and I will be back to check in on you in just a couple of hours"
NOT FAIR!!!
1:58 - 2:08 My kingdom to know in which song those sounds ended up ....
I think guitars get better. Back in the 60's I had a classical that was made around 1935. Very sweet. I currently have a cheap Hohner pushing 20 years old and it sounds better than new guitars that cost a lot more.
@1942LG2 Really ? Even when you're playing a gig a night thru decades, throughout five continents ? Picking them from way below zero temperatures at the luggage plane's compartiments to 100-plus ºF inside overcrowded arenas ? Wow...
Do electrics wear out, too? I believe they might.
James You Maybe Give them away
What characteristic would be evidence that a guitar is worn out?
Shouldn't you take the tension off the strings when you store them like that?
No, that’s an old wives tale.
Maybe those Guitars don’t last as long because they are not taken care of like violins. Unless I don’t see it- it is hard to believe these are not in a humidifier and temperature controlled room. Are the gibson and Martin guitars which are in very good shape ( the few) from the 40s - fakes?
You guys are all missing the point...I'll bet that J50 did get beat out, from when he started to maybe the early-mid '70s, then I think Whitebrooks were his first custom-made guitars. I noticed the J50's repaired top crack, the replaced bridge. Does it sound great? Probably, but structurally it's beat. I'm sure his 25-grand each Olsons have fared far better, but in a few clips I've seen, at least one Olson that looks finish-worn-through. He only uses two or three Olsons and that's it.
I like to think that those were the guitars he played while he was playing w a young Carly Simon, James is an institution, with a world of knowledge and experience, love to have a cup of coffee with him one day, like when they ask the sports stars 3 people you’d like to have dinner with
You know for as many interviews as these people have out on the internet you can almost pour some coffee for yourself and imagine cuz these people do reveal a lot in those
I guess because violins are so much smaller. If a guitar had the same ratio of thickness in it's framework that a violin does for it's size, a guitar would probably be quite heavy yet last centuries too.
Give me one
Norman @ Norms rare guitars.....just fell off his chair...!!
hey now,,,, like your avatar.
You're not kidding "a glimpse..." little information that didn't go far enough IMO. That J50 had about 10 seconds and could have been the whole 2plus minute glimpse n story .....
Almost nut when he shipped out the resonator
Steel string guitars have a lot more tension than a "natural" string guitar. (classical) That is why.
You can let some of the tension off when storing your
instruments (or all the way off when shipping them.)
Not even close.
Wrong.
Interesting disagreements. Can someone elaborate on why steel string instruments have less tension? I always heard and assumed steel would create more. Is it because of the bracing?
@@mariomanningfan steel has more, that is why they have heavier bracing then classical. Also is y u can put nylon strings on an acoustic but not steel on a classical, it would likely pull the bridge off a clasical.
500 bucks for all of it. One time offer. Yes or no.
$510
Consistent and constant pressure from tightened strings is imperative, a an acoustic guitar ages. For this reason, when you change strings, change them one at a time.
Well James old Boy. Beings you think that old Gibson J-50 is Past it’s life/Dead--Send it to me! I like old Vintage Guitars🇺🇸
sorry man but all i play is a old gibson acoustic guitars. she still sounds great.
I have an underground vault under my house where I store my 3000 Les Pauls and an equal number of vintage amplifiers. It's great, I hold viewing parties from time to time. I hire people to turn them over every week, just like my collection of thousands of fine wines...
James Taylor is a fine player and an equally fine person, BUT: this is part of the problem that makes vintage instruments so freakishly expensive. And seeing a superb instrument go virtually unplayed is incredibly sad to me
My last post about the poignancy of seeing fine instruments locked away may sound like sour grapes. Not so. My 10 year old Les Paul copy is a source of joy to me. I make music on it and it makes me happy.
No offence to collectors, but this seems a bit like keeping exotic birds in captivity.
I dig the deep reverence for the art of guitar making, but why not loan some of them out to some serious, respectful young players? It would have meant the world to me.
@graachAhim
But you can be right and believe I am just dead wrong here. Im fine with that. And hey, if you have an old worn out early 50s Gibson laying around, I know where you can get rid of it! If it's early 40s or late 30s, all the better! And especially if it has just had the holy crap played out of it for all those years!
Has Yngwie Malmsteen ever performed at Carnegie Hall ?
Yngwie Malmsteen has not performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
I have had many guitars through the years and they all got better with age , the more I played them the better they sounded. So I have no idea where he got that idea that guitars wear out with time.
Feel free to duplicate the keys to that guitar vault for me at anytime. I would take care of these guitars free of charge!! I will pet them and play em' night and day no problem, I have plenty of time to do that. Also I might be able to provide the strings and humidifiers if I sell a few of my guitars.