Please Go To MSG To Attend JT And Carol King, I will Be Vindicated

In 1971 I went with my buddy Steve to the Garden to see a 21 year old James Taylor in a concert coinciding with the release of one of the most appreciated "perfect" albums, Sweet Baby James. I think it was in 1968 that James Taylor sat in with the Beatles in the Apple recording studio as a session man. He was and is a prodigy when it comes to acoustic and similar guitar and singer songwriting. I was his age when I saw him in that concert almost 40 years ago. Everybody at NYU knew the sardonic implications of "Fire and Rain" and "Knocking Around the Zoo" but we loved JT as a magnificent singer songwriter and his personal travails at the time were of no importance to us. James Taylor created perfect albums while today we have buffoonery and cherry picking. Carol King without a doubt teamed up with her husband Gerry Goffin, sat in the Brill Building and in the days of the single records churned out hit after hit. Across from her desk sat Neil Sedaka, a virtuoso pianist who looked and dressed like a stockbroker and Neil Diamond, everyone a musical computer head. Johnny Rivers tramped up from the Bayou and began knocking on doors with sheet music in hand. Later the Wall of Sound was created in that building by Phil Spector for the Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that Love and Feeling, the listener felt he was stuck within a radio. Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood were at MSG recently. James Taylor and Carol King are coming up soon at MSG, If you want quality music go there and not to your TV. The Who will play the Superbowl. My mission to improve the industry away from the Abbot and Costello ignominious repertoire of today is inch by inch becoming a reality. We want professional music back on our TV sets.