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This blogspot will be our new home to share updates on everyone's new cd's, links to music venues, and other activities.
You can also post remembrances, photos, and any other memorabilia you would like to share. It would be great if this could become like an archive for the Paradox -- then and now.
More information to follow as I figure this out. In the meantime, please add your comments and keep the site alive and growing.
If that link doesn't work for you, here's a bit of the story, from the New York Times:
....The idea for a collaborative tour first came up in 2007 when Mr. Taylor and Ms. King performed a series of shows together at the Troubadour to commemorate the club’s 50th anniversary. (A live album drawn from those performances currently sits at No. 11 on the Billboard charts.) Whenever they ran into each other over the years, they often spoke of doing “something” together. Suddenly the time seemed right.
As reunions go, this one is less dramatic than some others from the period. While Ms. King and Mr. Taylor performed and recorded together quite a bit in the early 1970s, they were never formally a duo. They never fell out and never broke up. Most significantly — and highly uncharacteristically for those freewheeling times — they were never lovers, so there was no complicated personal history to resolve. If the tour can be said to have a message, it’s that not everything has to end — or end badly.
“It’s nice to see a man and a woman who have continually respected what they meant to each other professionally,” said Sheila Weller, the author of “Girls Like Us,” a book about Ms. King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. “It’s like the people in ‘The Big Chill’: ‘I will never let you down. No matter where you are, call me and I’ll come.’ ”
The filmmaker Morgan Neville, who is working on a documentary about Ms. King and Mr. Taylor, said: “You almost can’t believe that two people with that much history can still feel that warm toward each other. But it’s genuine, and it comes across onstage. I think that’s a lot of what people are responding to — that rapport. The tour is definitely more than the sum of its parts.”
That much was evident when Ms. King and Mr. Taylor strolled onto the stage smiling, hand in hand, at the HP Pavilion at San Jose. The crowd itself seemed surprised by the depth of feeling the sight of them unleashes, so its greeting started out as polite applause but steadily built into a resounding roar. As the two unfurled a stream of instantly recognizable songs — “So Far Away,” “Carolina in My Mind,” “It’s Too Late” — pictures of them from 40 years ago appeared on screens above the stage. The images were received with the giddy delight — and occasionally tears —of old family photos. Suddenly Mr. Taylor, with his thick, dark hair down to his shoulders, is back to the days when he looked like a brooding young poet; Ms. King, with her soft curls and soulful eyes, is once again a hippie earth mother.
It's huge, it's nationwide. And it'll outsell any new music either of them feel like putting out.
I'd have paid good money to see that back in 1975, but these days, I'm so ovet the nostalgia scene. I even bailed on the McCartney dealie after three tunes.
One way you could get me out to see them would be if they were fronting a Rick Rubin produced album.
Didn't you just post a nostalgic Dr. Hook video a few days ago?
For some of us that don't have the gift of making music,I think nostalgia serves us pretty well. Nostalgia has allowed most of my musician friends the ability to support their families for many years. For me, I never get tired of hearing the "oldies" in both the original and re-imagined forms.
Rick Rubin would probably just stuff them in a coffin along with the term "Hippie" and "def" and hold a hip-hop funeral!
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Very nice....!
I mentioned this here earlier. Sounds like it has been a huge success:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/arts/music/06taylor.html
If that link doesn't work for you, here's a bit of the story, from the New York Times:
....The idea for a collaborative tour first came up in 2007 when Mr. Taylor and Ms. King performed a series of shows together at the Troubadour to commemorate the club’s 50th anniversary. (A live album drawn from those performances currently sits at No. 11 on the Billboard charts.) Whenever they ran into each other over the years, they often spoke of doing “something” together. Suddenly the time seemed right.
As reunions go, this one is less dramatic than some others from the period. While Ms. King and Mr. Taylor performed and recorded together quite a bit in the early 1970s, they were never formally a duo. They never fell out and never broke up. Most significantly — and highly uncharacteristically for those freewheeling times — they were never lovers, so there was no complicated personal history to resolve. If the tour can be said to have a message, it’s that not everything has to end — or end badly.
“It’s nice to see a man and a woman who have continually respected what they meant to each other professionally,” said Sheila Weller, the author of “Girls Like Us,” a book about Ms. King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. “It’s like the people in ‘The Big Chill’: ‘I will never let you down. No matter where you are, call me and I’ll come.’ ”
The filmmaker Morgan Neville, who is working on a documentary about Ms. King and Mr. Taylor, said: “You almost can’t believe that two people with that much history can still feel that warm toward each other. But it’s genuine, and it comes across onstage. I think that’s a lot of what people are responding to — that rapport. The tour is definitely more than the sum of its parts.”
That much was evident when Ms. King and Mr. Taylor strolled onto the stage smiling, hand in hand, at the HP Pavilion at San Jose. The crowd itself seemed surprised by the depth of feeling the sight of them unleashes, so its greeting started out as polite applause but steadily built into a resounding roar. As the two unfurled a stream of instantly recognizable songs — “So Far Away,” “Carolina in My Mind,” “It’s Too Late” — pictures of them from 40 years ago appeared on screens above the stage. The images were received with the giddy delight — and occasionally tears —of old family photos. Suddenly Mr. Taylor, with his thick, dark hair down to his shoulders, is back to the days when he looked like a brooding young poet; Ms. King, with her soft curls and soulful eyes, is once again a hippie earth mother.
It's huge, it's nationwide. And it'll outsell any new music either of them feel like putting out.
I'd have paid good money to see that back in 1975, but these days, I'm so ovet the nostalgia scene. I even bailed on the McCartney dealie after three tunes.
One way you could get me out to see them would be if they were fronting a Rick Rubin produced album.
My. I just don't have enough of that in my life these days.
Thanks, Gary.
Didn't you just post a nostalgic Dr. Hook video a few days ago?
For some of us that don't have the gift of making music,I think nostalgia serves us pretty well.
Nostalgia has allowed most of my musician friends the ability to support their families for many years.
For me, I never get tired of hearing the "oldies" in both the original and re-imagined forms.
Rick Rubin would probably just stuff them in a coffin along with the term "Hippie" and "def" and hold a hip-hop funeral!
I sure hope that when it comes to our reunion tour, we can convince you to join us, Rik!
As the article says, not everything has to end or end badly. And we all keep running into one another and the time does seem just about right....
Who is Rick Rubin?
Nice article Diane, thanks for posting this. Sounds like our reunion's.
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