chuckography

400th BLOG. Yikes.

Moments in time.

My 400th posting on my blog.

Marked by a "1970s time travel" experience.

Yes. That is James Taylor in concert in Columbia a few days ago. Still in fine voice.

His Sweet Baby James album came out in 1970 with the intensely personal song "Fire & Rain."

He sang the title song as well as "Fire" and "Carolina On My Mind" but not "Steam Roller."

His "Special Guest" on the stage was his son Ben Taylor.

Singing, playing and banter was good from his barefoot boy.

The 63-year old dad broke his left leg skiing last week and quipped he was doing fine "thanks to some great chemistry." Ben added "Guess we should stop saying 'break a leg.'"

There were wooden stools on stage but both stood up to play and sing as well.

Earlier in the day I stopped at the Columbia Museum of Art.

Enjoyed 2 hours of time tumbling through the 60s, 70s and 80s.

No picture-taking was allowed inside but here's the poster out front with Punk stars The Ramones.

This classic shot captured a moment at Eric's Club in Liverpool,1977.

Get over to Columbia before this goes away.

The Beatles, Janis Joplin, baby-faced Keith Richardson and The Stones, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire, Kurt Cobain...all these and more were caught in front of these cameras.

Richard Avedon on his 1961 shot of the Everly Brothers: "A portrait is not a likeness....but an opinion."

Outrageous album covers were being imagined and created long before Photoshop.

Officials in Morocco were reluctant to allow placing actual giant inflated red balloons along the top of sand dunes at dawn but that was the vision of the album designer.

The funniest part of this looking back experience was using my Smartphone and GPS guidance system to find these places.


(Click images for detail. Koger Center for the Arts was aggressive enforcing no cameras..but only on the front row! Flashes going off all around the hall and my little non-flash camera acted as a magnet. Easy-to-get-to rules enforcement.)

Labels: Ben Taylor, Bob Gruen, Columbia Museum of Art, Elvis, Fire and Rain, GPS, James Taylor, Janis, Jimi Henrdrix, Koger Center For The Arts, Richard Avedon, Smartphone, Sweet Baby James, The Ramones

posted by chuckography @ 12:28 PM