I’m talking about Mr. James Taylor here (rated “ the number one biggest wuss ever“). Fine, the man’s talented, and seems pretty nice (plus is pretty funny), but I can’t tell the difference between any of his songs.

I think he starts out with a template. I’m dead serious, a template. Modifies some notes, whatever, puts some lyrics he thought up in there, and boom, a new song. I’m not saying he’s talentless, but the man needs to get some new material going that doesn’t sound like it’s still from the 70’s.

Why I even bother talking about him is because I was taken to a concert of his (my parents seem to be fans of Tanglewood) and with every passing song, I came to the realization described in the above paragraph. However, I got more entertainment from the man talking than him singing. He’s quite a funny guy and goes into detail about what each of his songs are about before playing them (with much commentary). He’s also a big visual guy, so he had Keynote running on a screen in the background during the commentary bits with photos of what he was talking about. Pretty different for a concert.

I suppose my biggest pet peeve with Tanglewood is the fact that it’s so jam packed, hell, even getting to the place three fucking hours early won’t get you a good spot on the lawn. Fine, I’ll admit that we got something OK, but it was one of the last good spots on the lawn. I think Tanglewood needs to expand the lawn or some shit, because it’s pretty apparent that not everyone fits.