James Taylor 1977 "I've wasted a lot of time on drugs"

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    James Taylor and Carly Simon discuss his drug habit on Dick Cavett's show in 1977. After spending his early career addicted to heroin, James Taylor gave up all drugs in 1984, and has remained clean and sober.
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  • @mfwriter959
    @mfwriter959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The power of this interview is the realization that, despite James’ insights, he did not give up drugs for another seven long years.

    • @aarondavid5866
      @aarondavid5866 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      doesnt really make the interview more powerful. Speaks to drugs power and the fear of oneself intimacy

    • @NickNicometi
      @NickNicometi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My thought exactly. So, 25 years.

    • @johnSmith-yn7dg
      @johnSmith-yn7dg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Its a long road. Atleast by 1977 he knew it and started to get of the junk.

    • @NickNicometi
      @NickNicometi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnSmith-yn7dg Not a long road for everyone. People who don't have the good fortune of being "discovered" by Apple Records look at the reality of that hard road and decide they don't have the luxury to waste in excess for years.
      Some people do more with less; the intelligent ones, anyway.

    • @wrekkingcru
      @wrekkingcru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, unfortunately that's why it's addiction. A large part of you doesn't want to take that next drink or even light up that next cigarette, but then you wind up doing it anyway. It's partly a chemical addiction and dependence, but it's also an addiction to habits. Smoking becomes a habit and the habit of smoking - apart from how addicting nicotine is - is a hard thing to break. I quit smoking 13 years ago and still cach myself putting two fingers across my lips when I'm driving, like I'm going to take a drag on a Camel cigarette.

  • @jdmarr2259
    @jdmarr2259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Later on in life, James Taylor, (clean), said that doing drugs was like living the same day over & over again for 18 years & never realizing that all that time had passed.

  • @tsopuaifa
    @tsopuaifa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I spent 22 years drinking and I'm glad and thankful that I left that shit behind.
    Today will be a great day.

  • @Barbara-ld4ug
    @Barbara-ld4ug 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Thank you James and Carly for being so honest

  • @OzTerri
    @OzTerri 7 ปีที่แล้ว +198

    She totally nailed it about one of the reasons for drug use. I just finished reading her book. A class act.

    • @Cerph
      @Cerph 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But, but what if she partially nailed it. ;o)

    • @johnlawrence2757
      @johnlawrence2757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t you mean Class A act ? LOL!!!

    • @joefox9765
      @joefox9765 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Joe M why did you start drinking?

    • @MuMu-fu7qe
      @MuMu-fu7qe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was deep.

    • @danielsherwood3460
      @danielsherwood3460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try hiding from yourself on acid. Good luck.

  • @Michelle-zz7no
    @Michelle-zz7no 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So true Carly!! I absolutely used drugs in order to be more comfortable and outgoing! I met my first boyfriend at a dance hall. He was adorable and I never would have had the nerve to talk to him without using alcohol first. It started me down a dangerous path where I actually overdosed and was pronounced dead but God brought me back!

  • @joshuatrees797
    @joshuatrees797 6 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Carly really described the problem with drugs. Her explanation made more sense to me than someone just saying "Don't do drugs".

    • @lt.finglefubledingler1972
      @lt.finglefubledingler1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What did she describe exactly maybe I’m missing it. She seemed to just ramble a little about how drugs make u more comfortable around your friends. Which they do but that’s about all they do. It’s a myth that whole creativity thing. Creative ppl tend to take drugs drugs don’t make ya creative. That’s all James was saying.

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, but what I think they are not saying is that unfortunately drugs are also lingua franca in certain circles, meaning you will not be accepted if you don’t do what others do. Terrible for young and vulnerable seeking to find friends and soulmates.

    • @g.z.8495
      @g.z.8495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@solobano570 I know it sounds cliche and all but to any teenager out there, believe me, a real soulmate ain’t going to be someone you meet at a junkie circle or a dead end bar

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      G.Z. - True, but teens will find drugs easily working as busboys in restaurants (drugs are rampant among cooks and waiters, incl in high establishments). I am not even going into the world of music and arts and high pressure jobs. Teens like to imitate and belong. Drugs are everywhere. By the time they find out that drug mates are probably not their true soulmates, it may be too late. It would be much better if there are pubs and bars where kids 18+ could meet and have few naughty beers rather than have them confined to house basements where they are popping pills while playing mind numbing video games. Actually bars would benefit everyone psychologically in those sad suburbs. Nothing is more relaxing than few drinks, laughs and opportunities to meet new interesting characters. For any age.

    • @crustydog1666
      @crustydog1666 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lt.finglefubledingler1972 What she said was ... Don't do drugs.

  • @Sharsung
    @Sharsung 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a beautiful, amazing sweetheart of a woman Carly is. She was my go to female voice of the 70s and beyond. Remember her photo on the cover of Hotcakes, when she was pregnant? Never seen such a glowingly lovely, happy mother to be. Bless her forever with everything she needs to be joyful.

  • @strangerspodcast
    @strangerspodcast 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Carly is brilliant to word it that way. Drugs don't set you free, they limit you, your potential, and your ability to appreciate the beauty of human to human connections.

    • @anything7441
      @anything7441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Bratty Tarot very true, there is a time and place for medicine.
      I heard what she said and she is truly creative and intelligent

    • @strangerspodcast
      @strangerspodcast 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Konservative Kirby II shut your dumb ass up

    • @strangerspodcast
      @strangerspodcast 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Konservative Kirby II lol ok well be a junkie then what do I care

    • @aliceborealis
      @aliceborealis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You just need to find some better drugs.

    • @earthangel8730
      @earthangel8730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The HONESTY of human connection, not BEAUTY. Words matter.

  • @CamKnoppMusic
    @CamKnoppMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I think what Carly Simon said about it being valuable to feel tense with your friends is important. One realization for me is that if you always have to be drinking when around a certain group of people and you can't enjoy yourself otherwise, then its likely that they aren't your real friends.

  • @ranbo5150
    @ranbo5150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    So much time wasted in my teens and early 20s with drugs. I totally feel him on that. Looking back some people say oh I had the best time. I look back with regret That I could have used that time to better myself. Live and learn.

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well, you survived and there is still time to learn and enjoy. But, the sad thing is that young people don’t appreaciate the intellectual and physical potential they have. Too bad if it gets wasted on drugs. The age takes its toll and the natural abilities weaken even without drugs.

    • @jeffdunlap2754
      @jeffdunlap2754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't worry about it, you have the rest of eternity

  • @Daniel-ng7oe
    @Daniel-ng7oe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Carly Simon's body language is saying, "I bet you think this song is about you".

  • @MrChrissy1r
    @MrChrissy1r 6 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Carly Simon is an exceptional brilliant and lovely person,,,much underestimated, and not given the credence, love, and appreciation she deserves.....

    • @AllenMQuinn
      @AllenMQuinn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Absolutely and also one hell of a voice

    • @chucky1time337
      @chucky1time337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wth are you talking about she's a millionaire and worshiped by millions of people all over the world as an icon of music how much more appreciated does it get sheesh .

    • @v2807
      @v2807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Read her autobiography. She is an odd person with a good voice.

    • @danielstapleton8875
      @danielstapleton8875 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah? Please tell us how Carly Simon is brilliant.

    • @joedrew9418
      @joedrew9418 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wonderful guyz

  • @SRBrown9032
    @SRBrown9032 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We were experimenting a lot. With sex, politics, drugs, jobs, life styles, intimacy, all of it. We made mistakes, we changed and grew, sometimes we found ourselves, sometimes we lost ourselves. We found each other and loved freely, not always well. Carly and James were two of our icons, their songs and so many others became themes in our lives, to dance to, to live by. The civil rights movement, women's liberation, ending the Vietnam War, sex and drugs and rock 'n roll. So much that was hopeful and joyful, so much that was painful and disillusioning. I am very very glad to have lived through it the way I did. And to have folks like James Taylor and Carly Simon entertain and lead the way was a blessing beyone measure.

  • @thewallstreetwizard
    @thewallstreetwizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just stumbled across this interview -- These are two of my favorite artists/singers/songwriters of all time. The talent between the two of them! Incredible. I dont know why the marriage didnt work - but I'm glad that JT kicked his habit and is still with us in 2020!

    • @valleygirltotallyforsure
      @valleygirltotallyforsure 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have you checked out their sons music? Ben Taylor's first 2 albums are excellent.

    • @sharonrebibo6015
      @sharonrebibo6015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is a miracle.

    • @acerothstein4755
      @acerothstein4755 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The 'marriage' didn't work because he was banging every girl that moved and she was doing the same with every guy that showed her attention. Duh.

  • @updownstate
    @updownstate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    James, you were great onstage in 73 and you're great now. You, Carly and Dick are all spot on in this little snip of tape.

  • @sugarspun4216
    @sugarspun4216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Yep that definitely rings true here. Apart from a few mushroom trips and weed for the first six months I smoked it, the 20 odd years I messed around with drugs were a total misuse of my time and life. Luckily I woke up and now enjoy life for real and actually remember my experiences.

  • @dawnscott8164
    @dawnscott8164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I never knew that James Taylor overcame drugs . His music has always been very special to me and had a way of calming me down if I was down . My first love recently died of a heroin overdose I kept telling him if he didn’t stop he was gonna die . He said that nothing felt better to him then the drugs . He ultimately lost his life in June . He has done them his whole life . The drugs took everything from him in the end . I’m so glad James Taylor didn’t let the drugs win .

    • @wendyjohansen6174
      @wendyjohansen6174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Taylor was back on HEROIN. That’s how he left Simon

    • @aekelly
      @aekelly 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great interview. Anyone know what James was saying when Carly started to speak, and he was motioning towards himself with his arms? Just curious...

    • @belindaintexas8789
      @belindaintexas8789 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aekelly It looked like he was saying "its about me". He did not seem to want to share the spotlight with Carly. That one gesture may have shown one of the main problems in their marriage. It was all about him, not about her and their kids. He was not ready to be a husband or a father, obviously. And he kept on doing the drugs after this interview, despite Carly pleading with him to stop....

    • @aekelly
      @aekelly ปีที่แล้ว

      @@belindaintexas8789 yeah he has said in recent interviews that he had no business getting married back then. That he wasn't mature enough.

    • @user-cp3tw6sm5q
      @user-cp3tw6sm5q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      James Taylor actually touched my heart with what he's saying in the video.

  • @rxw5520
    @rxw5520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Even with all this knowledge he still used for 7 more years after this. Goes to show how deep it can get the hooks get in you.

    • @julierood1228
      @julierood1228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Has nothing to do with knowledge, intelligence, etc.! It's an addiction. Hard to understand unless you've experienced it. And I hope you never do! ;-)

    • @rxw5520
      @rxw5520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@julierood1228 thank you for the sentiment! it hasn't something to do with knowledge doesn't it? Meaning learning about the disease is one of the first steps in recovery? Clearly though it's not everything.

    • @rmgj
      @rmgj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have known and seen physicians die by way of opioid OD, and they knew, has to be hell to know it is going to kill you and wanting it bad, reminds of my ex

  • @mbolduc
    @mbolduc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm not sure it would have worked on me, but goddamn I wish I'd seen this when it aired. Worth a million anti drug commercials

  • @brianjoyce9040
    @brianjoyce9040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Even though it wasn’t his end of use, it did end and shows a productive life can happen. It ultimately is a choice over choosing addiction. Being addicted IS a choice, not just a disease.

    • @brianjoyce9040
      @brianjoyce9040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blue Skies -I worked as a detox and drug counselor. Many lessons learned, but personal responsibility is key. Be well

  • @scottm8579
    @scottm8579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Carly divorced James 4 years later. Turns out James was married to the heroin.

  • @Mandrake591
    @Mandrake591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What they're saying makes so much sense. Being afraid of intimacy with others or getting to know your real self can be frightening, but definitely not as frightening as being a drug addict. I'm including alcohol as a drug. Once that begins to be #1 in your day, every day, you're really in trouble. I never thought I'd be happy being sober, but I am. No longer living in fear. No longer dreading the morning sunlight. There is hope for everyone who seeks help and recovery.

  • @budfox2337
    @budfox2337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The drugs really screwed James up, he was admitted to McLean Hospital for mental health issues. He and Carly have not talked in decades, even though they have two kids together, too bad.

  • @seaofmadness2622
    @seaofmadness2622 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We will always be your fans James no matter what you did! Im glad you quit drugs too

  • @SloMo2723
    @SloMo2723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    May 25 th. will be 33 years of being clean. I totally agree with James Taylor! Drugs are total flipping garbage! Just lost a great friend to drugs the other day. He was a kind man who always helped other people! RIP BIG JOE!!

    • @wendyknoxleet
      @wendyknoxleet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have been clean from heroine for 40 years now.
      Drugs gat me closer to the spiritual meanings of life than sobriety ever has. I do not regret my drug experience. I learned a great deal. I choose to be sober because of all I learned from drugs.

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wouldn’t a great literature or philosophy do that?

    • @wendyknoxleet
      @wendyknoxleet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Solo Bano read philosophy and fine art at grad school. I found drugs expanded book learning. However, at 70 I still read.

    • @TheClimberbob1
      @TheClimberbob1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wendyknoxleet that's pretty deep. I know what you're saying. I got similar comments from people who were totally ignorant of rock climbing, all of them saying climbers have a death wish. they couldn't be more wrong. its a life wish. you're experiencing a lot more life and beauty than most. you educate yourself and learn how to use the ropes and the gear for protection. standing in a ledge 500 feet up a cliff and watching a 50 yard wide sheet of lightning explode about 400 yards in front of me, I was sure that I had experienced more by my mid 40s than most will in their lifetimes. there's no argument the highly addictive ones can destroy your life. but I've seen more widespread problems with alcohol in our society.

    • @TheClimberbob1
      @TheClimberbob1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@solobano570 possibly, but not necessarily. isxm reading about a place the same as going there? close, but there are things that don't translate, such as scale. Ever BEEN to Yosemite? its one thing to look at the picture from the turnout below inspiration point, but you'll have absolutely no sense of just how massive the walks of El Capitan really are until you stand below it, and even then you need to really look at it. next time you see that picture, look at it very closely. see the fuzzy edges on the top of El Cap? Those are trees on the valley rim. probably around 100' tall. Now scale that down and estimate how small if a spec a man would be. That wall is a mile high, as in 5,000 ft.

  • @ryanedwards4512
    @ryanedwards4512 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Steven Tyler had a great point too

    • @kp5187
      @kp5187 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahaha 😂

    • @lrn_news9171
      @lrn_news9171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lmao that cracked me up thanks

    • @artothewanderer9517
      @artothewanderer9517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was thinking Mick Jagger before I scrolled to the comments... but yeah you’re right. It’s like an exact 50/50 of Steven and Mick. Good shit. 😂

    • @bleuskye8124
      @bleuskye8124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You apologize to Steven Tyler. Lol

    • @mmaranta785
      @mmaranta785 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s a third person with a wide grille-financial guy Ken Fisher

  • @johnluke8390
    @johnluke8390 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Wonderful. First time I've seen this interview. They were a beautiful couple.

  • @rosalindglazer7454
    @rosalindglazer7454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Yeah, I knew James was off when I worked his Boston Commons gig as an usher in the summer of 1983. There was a wicked edge on him that just didn't match the musician I knew from his songs - a resistance to showing his vulnerability and to relating with his audience. Darkest before dawn - ya know? Glad it's all history now. Not an easy thing kicking heroin (or crack for that matter). Maybe one of the hardest things ever.

  • @carterlink
    @carterlink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love James Taylor and his work and always really respected the way he put all that stuff behind him and managed to move on and lead a clean life. I reckon that took a lot of strength. Mind and body.

  • @TheCream14
    @TheCream14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good for James to speak out on drug abuse. He's such a talent - never needed drugs.

  • @nancyprianti2355
    @nancyprianti2355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great interview 5/2020

  • @showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484
    @showgirlsaroundtheworldada4484 ปีที่แล้ว

    What honesty...great advice to all the young kids today!!

  • @markbearfoot6742
    @markbearfoot6742 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I abandoned drugs & alcohol in 1984 as well. No regrets.

    • @sharonrebibo6015
      @sharonrebibo6015 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No tears to cry
      Don't want you back
      We'd only cry again...
      Say goodbye again......(Scott Walker)

    • @jbw6823
      @jbw6823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I havent smoked a joint since 85. Gave up booze 15 years ago. Feel much better.

    • @chrischampagne4307
      @chrischampagne4307 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jbw6823 what a drag

  • @Stringman1950
    @Stringman1950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bravo for both of them for being frank and personal and honest. No doubt, it’s helped JT become one of the great songwriter/singers of all time.

  • @suesjoy
    @suesjoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this man so much. His speaking voice sounds just like his seeing voice! That’s really rare! 🙏💕🙏☮️👍🏻😎⭐️😘😊

    • @sylviarobinson5952
      @sylviarobinson5952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seeing or Singing?☺

    • @lizmedina2527
      @lizmedina2527 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sylviarobinson5952 Everything, I think. He's just special.

  • @skydancer7902
    @skydancer7902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He was so handsome! James Taylor is amazing. Carly Simon..also rocks!

  • @intoarut
    @intoarut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1:15 What did he mean making that gesture?

  • @foreclosenator
    @foreclosenator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I adore Carly as she keeps me stable!

  • @paulmetesh7981
    @paulmetesh7981 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2 beautiful gifted people. 🏅🍸

  • @micha6887
    @micha6887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Words to live by!

  • @CarbageMan
    @CarbageMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dick Cavett is a treasure. I've enjoyed the insights of so many of his interviews!

  • @annwe6
    @annwe6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Insightful words from Carly. Another interpersonal thing that happens when you're high on drugs is that it removes psychological boundaries. That can seem like fun at the time, but it takes its toll in the long run. Those boundaries are there to protect you from predatory wolves. It took me years to rebuild them after I stopped doing drugs - mainly molly, but LSD, mushrooms and plenty of hashish as well.

  • @ThomasWBaldwin
    @ThomasWBaldwin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    booze is a drug too. Carly nailed it!

  • @rogergreen9861
    @rogergreen9861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Realising that your friends are in the business of supplying also helps. They aren't doing you any favours about awakening your consciousness or opening doorways, they're moving product for profit.

  • @BillGraper
    @BillGraper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So....... It really WAS him who walked into the party like he was walking onto a yacht!

  • @stephenconlon653
    @stephenconlon653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Carly Simon is an exceptional person

    • @jbw6823
      @jbw6823 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And what a babe

  • @crc532
    @crc532 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know someone who was (and still might be) a heroin addict. He reminds me so much of James Taylor then. Totally self-absorbed and I am happy that James was able to kick this horrible habit. He seems like he is living a good life now. Perhaps his refusal to see Carly now is because he is afraid to face her without drugs. It's our fantasy for them. Love both of them as singers, "That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be" still absolutely haunts me 52 years later.

  • @wendymonette9958
    @wendymonette9958 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well spoken.

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Quite an honorable and honest thing to say on national TV way back when.
    And what Carly says also makes a lot of sense.

  • @leewalsh877
    @leewalsh877 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great insight there

  • @bobpress1235
    @bobpress1235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Put the drugs down, and join the partiy, my friends!

  • @mrsmacca126
    @mrsmacca126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wish he’d taken his own advice. Sobriety for still seven years down the road, for him. * why do we never hear what an enormous help Paul McCartney was, to James Taylor, personally & professionally? Credit, where credit is due.

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You get clean yourself. No one does it for you.

    • @suzintex2002
      @suzintex2002 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spaceghost8995, that's not really true. I have so many people who showed me the way and held on to me when I wanted to run back to what was my norm. The people who believed in me when I couldn't believe in myself will always be in my heart. I can never repay them.

  • @dmlevitt
    @dmlevitt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    some of the best advice on drugs I have ever heard. fear of intimacy with yourself.

  • @kathyh4804
    @kathyh4804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had no idea he was addicted to heroine
    So glad he was delivered from it
    Carly hit it on the spot..... drugs numb you

    • @wendyjohansen6174
      @wendyjohansen6174 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was back on it crashed his motorcycle on a lawn of a nurse. She got him off. Carly? 8 more years he was on it with her driving him nuts

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 ปีที่แล้ว

      *heroin

  • @samvallejo7729
    @samvallejo7729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i appreciate James Taylor's openness on drug abuse which i agree is time wasted only if it's not too late you learn come away free from it

  • @midlifemotox
    @midlifemotox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She's so intelligent,, Wow... I Just can't believe how intelligent she is... A genius. Get high,,,,James has a genius on his hands... What a gift.

  • @user-cp3tw6sm5q
    @user-cp3tw6sm5q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I feel the pain James Taylor. I've wasted a lot of time on drugs too. I feel his pain. 😮😮😮😮😮

  • @ldrobarts
    @ldrobarts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I heard it said recently about drinking to morn the loss for another that it really robs robs u of pain u should be allowing yourself to feel. Cowarldy really that u can't allow yourself to experience a little sadness and loss without masking it up with substance. Its like looking away when u see a good friend suffering. Deserting, running away.

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In my twenties, me and my small group of friends, spent every free moment trying to find weed. "Who can we call? Does he have some?" Wasting so much time and money, only to waste more time. At 50yo weed makes me lose the thing that I find in my left hand.

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    most musicians and artists, people with talent, learn their craft sober, they work hard at it and become good, it's when you get lucky, get some notoriety that the trouble starts, many bands back in their days were literally fed drugs, were made available for them by record companies and the like... the myth is drugs make you more creative, not really, the creative part comes from all the hard work you did to get there, alcohol is even more destructive, more addictive. maybe some light recreational stuff just to loosen up once in a while, but people start to think they need to be high to perform, stage fright can be debilitating, can literally keep an artist from being an artist... the drugs become a crutch, and before long, destructive.
    carly makes a good point about friendship and being able to connect, it's the same thing with performing, you can't really get good at it if you have to get lit up just to be able to do it, you have to learn how to do it sober, overcome your fears, and develop as a person.

  • @sharonrebibo6015
    @sharonrebibo6015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If only his self-knowledge had enabled him to go clean early and save his precious and beloved marriage.😘

    • @taynaroberts9367
      @taynaroberts9367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally agree.

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 ปีที่แล้ว

      He seems much happier now with his present day wife.

  • @MsTruNorth
    @MsTruNorth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Peace and contentment...joy even...to everyone. Allow yourself to feel the peace. You'd want the same for anyone else, yes? Give it to yourself. :)

  • @floydzepplin1218
    @floydzepplin1218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Balance in everything

  • @mihills4168
    @mihills4168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that was when there was a community of artists musicians in la in or around topanga canyon and they were having a baby boom.

  • @Adam-qv2bd
    @Adam-qv2bd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Year I was born. That being said, drugs change your mood, which is a important and powerful thing.

  • @shawnsimmons1308
    @shawnsimmons1308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't regret using drugs. It taught me what kind of person I don't want to be. And to me, that was a valuable life lesson.

  • @greensombrero3641
    @greensombrero3641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Heroin, be the death of me
    Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life

  • @terribleTed-ln6cm
    @terribleTed-ln6cm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wasted 27 yrs doing drugs , i would like to tell any young person to not even think about taking hard drugs of any kind ! Because you have no idea the living hell your life will become , and even if you eventually get clean , you are permanently diminished to some degree depending on how long you were abusing. ....peace.

  • @fredapeeples6619
    @fredapeeples6619 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    She's amazing.

  • @davidmitchell1959
    @davidmitchell1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my daughters had a heroin addiction and I lost her for 3 years in a rehab. She is cured now and has 2 wonderful kids. She had a poor school time and no good friends. My other daughter had great, steady school time and some really good close friends. She is clean. For me, A Good Strong Friend circle will help a child to a better future. I hope your children get good, solid friends.

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She is not cured. Once an addict always an addict. She has arrested it.

    • @davidmitchell1959
      @davidmitchell1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Space Ghost. So out of the whole of my reply you pick out the word ‘cured’ and criticise my interpretation of its meaning in regard to an addiction? The main point of my comment was of the importance of having good friends when young. Do you take delight in going over comments to find any you can critique? Ok, so maybe she’s not cured but she’s been drug free for many years. Why go out of your way to try and bring a stranger down by belittling an achievement of his daughter. Does stuff like this make you happy?

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidmitchell1959 Relax dude. I'm on your side. I am an addict and alcoholic who has been clean since 1992. My correction was not meant to be a jab at you. It was to educate others reading. In recovery the word cured is NEVER EVER used. Didn't mean any offense.

    • @davidmitchell1959
      @davidmitchell1959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Space Ghost. Mate, your comment just dented my pride in her a bit and I struggle with negativity regarding her. Our whole Family went through hell during those long tears and my haste in writing my comment took over my need to proof read it so accurately. Keep up the good work Man. Too many don’t get through stuff like this.

  • @curtislavoy8701
    @curtislavoy8701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Daniel Day Lewis will play him in a film...

    • @pippipster6767
      @pippipster6767 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And it will be, yet another, boring film.

    • @JWEfannation
      @JWEfannation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He'll have to come out of retirement first.

    • @fenwayify
      @fenwayify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pippipster6767 Yeah, "The Last of the Mohicans," "Gangs of New York," "The Crucible," "My Left Foot," "There Will Be Blood" and "Lincoln" were so predictable and dull. People just fell asleep watching them.

    • @pippipster6767
      @pippipster6767 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fenwayify
      Exactly.

    • @cindyinnew
      @cindyinnew 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fenwayify thank you. Day Lewis? Boring ? Ffs.

  • @pocopico7409
    @pocopico7409 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was watching something the other day about Carly and it talked about how she used to stammer/stutter when talking as a child, but her mother discovered that she didn't do it when she was singing. So she started "singing talking" to remedy the speech problem....and eventually grew out of it as she got older. I've noticed when watching these old clips of her at a still relatively young age that she did still show occasional evidence of the speech problem. It comes across as more of a nervousness (repeating of words) when talking than it does a speech problem. But I don't notice the problem at all on clips of her after she was well into adulthood.

    • @qtallenandrews3715
      @qtallenandrews3715 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just noticed it on most of her covers of standards..ea one was no comparison to her delivery on original songs.

  • @IgnisConsumens
    @IgnisConsumens 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The song “Last night (I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All)” (1972) featured the line, “the sleeping pill I took was just a waste of time.“ I would not have thought of using that descriptor, though now I have an idea of whence it emerged in the American consciousness.

  • @spellmadam2947
    @spellmadam2947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1:14 James was bothered Carly started to speak after him. He mouths what about me. That sums up drug addiction. Also, Carly's body language throughout this interview. She has leaned her body so far the opposite direction of James.

    • @charlesscott7748
      @charlesscott7748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think you got it exactly right. I can imagine how upset she must have been feeling by this point ... and poor James is still all wrapped up in himself. I've found it gut wrenching to watch the two of them sing "You can close your eyes" together. She looks at him with such devotion, while he remains wrapped up in himself. That's what the drugs did, preventing him from offering the intimate connection she longed for. th-cam.com/video/mjksn8mEt8M/w-d-xo.html

    • @spellmadam2947
      @spellmadam2947 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@charlesscott7748 yes

    • @globalheartwarming
      @globalheartwarming 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Childhood neglect, unintentional, soothed by drugs?

  • @sandrawade7268
    @sandrawade7268 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Drugs and alcohol made my friends skizo. Not good in relationships.

  • @bmul4411
    @bmul4411 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1:15 he is saying tsk! He's asking me!
    Not, good.

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ego is the greatest addiction of them all.

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Blue Skies Which is a disorder of the ego. My point stands.

  • @jclaytoncabral5106
    @jclaytoncabral5106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Until she spoke, I thought Carly was Steven Tyler

    • @rachelderenoncourt3881
      @rachelderenoncourt3881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That’s funny because both Steven and Carley are descendants of Africans.

    • @andrew19vato
      @andrew19vato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dude look's like a Lady

    • @tommyboy1653
      @tommyboy1653 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I kinda saw Oprah,but In a wierd way .

    • @batchagaloopytv5816
      @batchagaloopytv5816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i saw harpo marx

  • @johndavid933
    @johndavid933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very true 🙁

  • @jerrybisbo3824
    @jerrybisbo3824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well they say drugs as if their all the same. I consider alcohol a drug and some have huge problems with it while others enjoy a glass of wine with a meal or with friends. Theirs a big difference between heroin and marijuana, their just totally different in every way. I don’t think marijuana for the vast majority of the people who enjoy it addictive at all and I’ve never had any problems with it.

  • @hahabass
    @hahabass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Carly's body language says it all.

    • @jbw6823
      @jbw6823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shes pissed

    • @whitewindbluehand
      @whitewindbluehand 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She's actually orientating herself TOWARDS him and way from Dick, so she can see him/listen/be his audience...

  • @MrJohnr47
    @MrJohnr47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Taylor has spent most of his life clean and sober. His drug addition, while horrible for him and those who loved him, is in his past. So much more defines him than his addiction. It may be time to move on from this topic.

  • @richardrussell4065
    @richardrussell4065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yet alcohol and cigarettes are pushed so hard.. yet are the most damaging

    • @Valkonnen
      @Valkonnen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right, but not more damaging than "heroin" which is what they are actually referring to. Something like Cannabis, which is medically beneficial and 100% non-lethal is certainly safer than cigarettes which kill 435,000 people a year or alcohol which kills 85,000 people a year. Throughout all of recorded history no one has ever died from cannabis. You might say to yourself, "Why would they outlaw a plant which is harmless for adults to use recreationally and has thousands of health benefits?" you might also say, "For a class one narcotic by law that is on the same level as Heroin why do they say that it itself is harmless but "May lead to harder drugs"? Seems a bit odd to me.

    • @Valkonnen
      @Valkonnen 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Max Ruten It's harmless for adults to use, and I don't know anyone but successful professionals who enjoy it. Facts are facts and your personal opinion and limited view of people are of no importance.

  • @tracya.schneider7698
    @tracya.schneider7698 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We are all on a path...we need to learn

  • @sonnywhitefeathermarshall6899
    @sonnywhitefeathermarshall6899 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he was exhausting ..she deserved better.

  • @jeffconway8729
    @jeffconway8729 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I didn't realize how beautiful Carly's eyes are.

    • @cactaceous
      @cactaceous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I guess that's the only attractive physical feature.

    • @barryrichman4475
      @barryrichman4475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s cause she’s high on crack !

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The way she sits is attractive, long slim arms and elegance. It’s not all in dissected features, but how it all works together

    • @barryrichman4475
      @barryrichman4475 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Solo Bano.....I’m going to take a wild guess, and say that you are “gay” ?

    • @solobano570
      @solobano570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. I cultivate esthetics and brain muscle, probably hard to understand for you...let me guess, you’ve eaten more soggy Mickey Dees than read books in your life?

  • @tomcabrera8223
    @tomcabrera8223 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me and my friend tried to quit drugs back in the day only to realize that drugs had become our best friend and went back because we felt lost and that all our other friends were only friends because of our common bond.

  • @johnnymfan5065
    @johnnymfan5065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Is that why Carly left him? Oh No, I was told Carly had a huge coke addiciton in the 70s and 80s. I am surprised that a guy who made such mellow music as James Taylor was a junkie. My sister met him on the street once in the 80s and she wanted to know where a record store was. He told her. She didnt let him know she knew he was but said he was very nice.

    • @outinsider
      @outinsider 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I just read Boys in the Trees, and my understanding is that it was either the drugs or her, and James chose the drugs.

  • @jrock8089
    @jrock8089 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I agree with James.

    • @subg8858
      @subg8858 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was just doing the wrong drugs

  • @ynotttt
    @ynotttt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This interview is 1977. At the end it says he gave up drugs completely in 1984? Seven more years after saying all this?

    • @jarrettthomas4865
      @jarrettthomas4865 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @vyrodwarvenking
      @vyrodwarvenking 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      acknowledging a problem and fixing a problem are two different things

    • @suesjoy
      @suesjoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps he relapsed. I’ve been in AA for 7 years, but I’ve relapsed several time’s, thankfully for not long!! One day at a time, keep (going) back!!!

    • @ynotttt
      @ynotttt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@suesjoy .......fair enough. Good luck to you.

    • @ronniemerchant4341
      @ronniemerchant4341 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I get knocked down
      But I get up again
      Ain't nothing gonna keep me down

  • @gayhendrie84
    @gayhendrie84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Her body language says it all

    • @whitewindbluehand
      @whitewindbluehand 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She's actually orientating herself TOWARDS him and way from Dick, so she can see him/listen/be his audience...

  • @whateverwhatever6496
    @whateverwhatever6496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the reason why he has absolutely NO relationship with his first wife anymore, is because he associates that time which such shame, that he had to just walk from everything at that time period completely and never look back. He is just Too Ashamed.

  • @PearlJamAndBiscuits
    @PearlJamAndBiscuits 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    James Taylor is the best

  • @logicalnotes5007
    @logicalnotes5007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I thought at first, the person sitting beside James was Steven Tyler.

    • @wendymonette9958
      @wendymonette9958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not quite as pretty as Carly tho.

    • @Caligari...
      @Caligari... 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dumb ass

    • @paulinbrooklyn
      @paulinbrooklyn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Come on folks! I’m a big fan of Carly Simon and there are times when she looks amazing, but this interview was not one of those times and LogicalNotes’ comment will be funny to you too once you remove the large sticks from your orifices.

    • @KARENboomboomROXX
      @KARENboomboomROXX 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are probably closely related. All the world's a stage.

  • @Julian2Sounds
    @Julian2Sounds 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When The Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress - Dr. Gabor Mate'

  • @johnSmith-yn7dg
    @johnSmith-yn7dg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    word!

  • @shyba2011
    @shyba2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me too!

  • @kevin6293
    @kevin6293 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I only clicked because I wasn’t sure if that was Carly Simon or Stephen Tyler.

  • @greenyoshigamergamingvlogs5197
    @greenyoshigamergamingvlogs5197 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Boy that's sure true ...

  • @shontoo6979
    @shontoo6979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Her body language in this. Seems exhausted by it all.