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...brought her roommates Victoria L. Shiah ’03 and K. Eliza Harris ’03 along for the lesson and the three of them sat in the Lowell Junior Common Room, guitars in laps, watching Taylor??s hands fly over the frets of a guitar. Hoelting, in search of musical wisdom, instead sat attentive as Taylor delivered well-rehearsed diatribes on the importance of rhythm, the occasional faults of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and what it means to make music for a living...
Taylor is a hands-on teacher. “Give me the guitar, I’ll just tune it for you,” he says after Hoelting admits she’d love to learn how to tune a guitar herself without a tuning tool. Taylor??s tolerance for amateur music-making seems too low to cater to Hoelting’s wishes for general inspiration, but she is endearingly chipper about the whole thing, even after he calls her version of the famous Beatles song a “panicked, struggling, almost, quasi...
What Hoelting and her roommates need, he says, is “bomb-proof rhythm.” This is Taylor??s favorite phrase. Yet to achieve bomb-proof rhythm, as Taylor explains it, actually requires a contradictory mixed metaphor. As he talks, Taylor??s foot smacks the JCR floor loudly in time to the music. “Mine sound like rifle shots,” he says, sizing up the considerably less audible ammunition Hoelting achieves with her green Converse All-Stars...
Listening to James Yorkston’s debut album Moving Up Country, it’s impossible not to think of his sleepy Scottish hometown. Amid the tranquil guitar strumming and naively religious lyrics (sounding like James Taylor??s take on gospel), the melodies have an unmistakable Celtic twang that imbues the album with much-needed hints of something fresh...
Gardner talked about the positive progress made by the teen magazine industry in its portrayal of young women. Congratulating YM’s new editor and chief Christine Taylor??s decision to eliminate dieting articles from the magazine, Gardner said she was happy with the small steps YM has taken to shift the focus away from body image...