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Entertainment Inner Views
Versatile, imaginitive,
moving, effervescent. These are
some of the words I could use to
describe Livingston Taylor’s
performance last Monday night
at Erie Hall. Playing to a rather
small crowd of 400, Taylor had
the audience right where he
wanted them by the second tune.
His style has a touch of that
Taylor quality (he’s James’
younger brother). But definiely
an artist in his own right, he plays
a myriad of different instruments
guitar, banjo, piano, and flute.
Lyrically, he uses words like a
painter, using different colors to
describe emotions and feelings.
His personality is decidedly
eccentric - his ancedotes between
songs were unusual as well as
entertaining. The interview I had
with him prior to the show,
proved Taylor to be friendly and
easy going too. The type of person
who’ll put you right at ease from
the very beginning.
I asked him how he liked
playing smaller colleges or halls
as opposed to say opening up for
an act in a larger arena. “It’s
always more pleasant when you
can play where people know what
you play and have heard you
before or know your music. If
you’re warming up for somebody
in a big hall, that can be un
comfortable but then again the
energy level when you get them
on your side in a big hall can be
very, very exciting. So frankly, i
can do well in either place.”
1 asked Livingston a little about
his family. He has 4 brothers and
sisters who are very musical and
I wondered if his parents were
musical as well. “My parents are
musical, not terribly musical,
I've never felt so. There was a
fair amount of music around our
house.”
I then wondered what made all
of them so interested in music and
performing “I don’t know.
Though I’ve been asked that
question many times, I simply
have no answer for it, what
makes us interested in music as
opposed to something else.”
Many things have influenced
Livingston's style and I found
these influences, not the usual for
a rock musician. “I’m influenced
continually. A great influence on
ne was Ray Charles. I love show
ones, I love entertainers,
■jprisingly it’s much easier to
.olize.. Those who are not your
• ontemporaries, I really idolize
by Mary Jo Santilli
Entertainment Editor
older entertainers, men like Nat
King Cole or song writers such as
Richard Rogers or Oscar
Hammerstein as a lyricist. Or
Cole Porter, I can idolize these
people because I’m not close to
them. My contemporaries I’m not
close to them. My con
temporaries I’m very hard critic
of, as I would expect they are of
me as well.”
As far as his contemporaries
are concerned, he has a wide
range of tastes. “There are
people who I am just in love with,
Bonnie Raitt. I’m in love with
Jonathan Edwards. I like really
good rock and r 011... I love nasty
rock and roll, but by the same
token I love Aaron Copland there
are lots of things that knock me
out.”
The thing that impressed me
.though, was his attitude toward
his life and his situation I was
curious as to how he dealt with
the super stardom of his brother
'James and how it affected his
individuality as a preformer. “It
simply has no affect on my
performing, James and I are very
close friends and brothers and we
spend a lot of time together. It’s
very unfortunate sometimes to be
compared is irritating, but I’ll tell
you, I do fine. I’m a good player.
There are great quantities of
Ims does if again
by M. Scott Douglass himself, his world and the world
Collegian Staff Writer that everyone of us touch and
For two hours last Wednesday retouch daily in a complete and
night at the Behrend Coffee professional way. But something
House, a lone figure of more, perhaps the well-
Shakespearean appearance in established presense of John Ims
denim jeans and jacket, stood, on stage, reached out and
seemingly portraying moods in grabbed hold of his audience as if
his world of verse, before a his every word was wrought of
‘barren’ crowd, sharing himself wizardry. It was an evening of
with the few who had come to artistic perfection created by a
hear him play. But John Ims did local man striving for national
not come to Behrend College to recognition, and little doubt exists
sing or play guitar, he came to that he will attain his goal. As for
perform, and perform he did. a rating comparable to other
Strumming his guitar and singing Coffee House ratings—there is no
with a fabulous voice that ranged comparison and even this writer’s
from quiet and light to powerful highest rating is insufficient for
and intense, J ohn presented John Ims’ performance.
rj —-- * Don and Helen
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sol’m really not concerned. The
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soon. He had no comment on the
situation because in his words,
it’s a very provoking situation.”
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