Here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIGvR8vZKvz9ubVuP7uIBA

So much of his great music. I don't think he is behind it, but it's still amazing!

None of the videos are actually accessible.

What do you mean, just go to the channel and click on the icon, title and they work.

This is all I'm getting

Some of the vids aren't there. But try this link and then go to Lewis Taylor. Most of the vids work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDQe-1b4ZjA

Nope. Every single vid uploaded by that channel isn't working for me.

they work for me-why?

Maybe geo restricted? No idea. Can anyone else confirm?

Lewis Taylor was too recherche for my tastes.

But he was a great musician; a "musician's musician."

What does recherche mean?

getfunked said:

Maybe geo restricted? No idea. Can anyone else confirm?

Works fine 4 me.

scriptgirl said:

What does recherche mean?

His music was too excessively refined for my taste. Too much studio polish and ornate arranging
and glossy production but not enough grit or quirkiness/playfulness.

Anyways, he's definitely good.

duccichucka said:

controversy99 said:

duccichucka said:

His music was too excessively refined for my taste. Too much studio polish and ornate arranging
and glossy production but not enough grit or quirkiness/playfulness.

Anyways, he's definitely good.

Yeah, there was something missing. The songs didn't come alive for me, if that makes any sense. It's like they were great ideas wonderfully executed, but they felt like an A+ homework assignment from a star student instead of tunes you could jam to. Might be because he was a one man band iirc. That's hard to do. Gotta be Stevie Wonder or Prince or something. Anyway, I'd love to hear new music from him, especially if he collaborates. Throw him in a studio with ?love and see what they create.

I think pairing Taylor with Questlove (who I think is kinda overrated as a producer similar to
Rick Rubin) is actually a pretty good idea. Quest gets the best outta D'Angelo and helmed a
really great Al Green album too.

And I totally get what you say when you refer to his work as being the homework results of an
A+ student! It's as if he was a studio production student at Berklee who nailed the class assign-
ment.

But the shit is technically good and you can't deny it.

Wow! Alot of stuff there I haven't even heard before. At least the In Session 2005 six track EP is totally new to me. I'm guessing this has something to do with the way Youtube is turning into a proper music service and artists are going get paid at least something. Lewis Taylor is a top 3 artist for me so thanks scriptgirl for this wonderful piece of news!

Ville said:

Wow! Alot of stuff there I haven't even heard before. At least the In Session 2005 six track EP is totally new to me. I'm guessing this has something to do with the way Youtube is turning into a proper music service and artists are going get paid at least something. Lewis Taylor is a top 3 artist for me so thanks scriptgirl for this wonderful piece of news!

In Session 2005 has always been on Spotify.

Ville, glad to be of service!!!

Now if I could only see footage of Lewis!

duccichucka said:

controversy99 said:

duccichucka said: Yeah, there was something missing. The songs didn't come alive for me, if that makes any sense. It's like they were great ideas wonderfully executed, but they felt like an A+ homework assignment from a star student instead of tunes you could jam to. Might be because he was a one man band iirc. That's hard to do. Gotta be Stevie Wonder or Prince or something. Anyway, I'd love to hear new music from him, especially if he collaborates. Throw him in a studio with ?love and see what they create.

I think pairing Taylor with Questlove (who I think is kinda overrated as a producer similar to
Rick Rubin) is actually a pretty good idea. Quest gets the best outta D'Angelo and helmed a
really great Al Green album too.

And I totally get what you say when you refer to his work as being the homework results of an
A+ student! It's as if he was a studio production student at Berklee who nailed the class assign-
ment.

But the shit is technically good and you can't deny it.

Comparing questlove to Rick Rubin is ridiculous. He's an ok drummer but certainly not a producer.

The last person Lewis Taylor would want to work with is questlove. All his career LT's been trying to distance himself from that soulquarian neo-soul movement fad. He's much more deeper than that and questlove won't last a day working with a real maverick like LT.

Lewis once said he would love to work with D and the feeling was mutual. I would love that.

That Lewis-D collaboration almost happened but D blew it up, he made the dude wait in a hotel room for days until he decided to go back to London.

I heard a different story, but either way, it should have gone down. Aaliyah also wanted to work with Lewis.

Thanks for posting this..Hopefully it will stay up for a few days.

nuttynutmeg said:

duccichucka said:

I think pairing Taylor with Questlove (who I think is kinda overrated as a producer similar to
Rick Rubin) is actually a pretty good idea. Quest gets the best outta D'Angelo and helmed a
really great Al Green album too.

And I totally get what you say when you refer to his work as being the homework results of an
A+ student! It's as if he was a studio production student at Berklee who nailed the class assign-
ment.

But the shit is technically good and you can't deny it.

Comparing questlove to Rick Rubin is ridiculous. He's an ok drummer but certainly not a producer.

The last person Lewis Taylor would want to work with is questlove. All his career LT's been trying to distance himself from that soulquarian neo-soul movement fad. He's much more deeper than that and questlove won't last a day working with a real maverick like LT.

First of all, why are you being a fucking dickhead to me, Nutty? From his wiki page, it indicates
thusly concerning Questlove:

"He has produced for artists including Elvis Costello, Common, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu,
Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse and John Legend. He is a
member of the production teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, The
Soultronics and The Grand Wizzards."

So he's certainly not just an okay drummer but a producer as well, regardless of how you feel
about him. There was no ridiculousness on my part. Furthermore, D'Angelo is also quoted as
wanting to move away from the term "neo-soul" - that didn't obviate him from working with
Questlove did it? So comparing Rick Rubin to Questlove because both are record producers is
a valid comparison - 'the fuck is your problem?

I'm with nutty. I am no fan of Questlove, aka Granny Jenkins. That fool can't keep his mouth shut, is always running off at the mouth about D and has appointed himself curator and historian of all things black music. Like no one can have an opinion but him. It's fucking annoying.

re that youtube channel-it's odd that it has stayed up this long. It's been there since mid December. A few months before that, someone posted bittersweet and Lewis had it removed. I am not really sure why the channel hasn't been taken down yet. It's odd indeed. Lewis is worse than Prince when it comes to getting his shit removed from the net.

scriptgirl said:

I'm with nutty. I am no fan of Questlove, aka Granny Jenkins. That fool can't keep his mouth shut, is always running off at the mouth about D and has appointed himself curator and historian of all things black music. Like no one can have an opinion but him. It's fucking annoying.

re that youtube channel-it's odd that it has stayed up this long. It's been there since mid December. A few months before that, someone posted bittersweet and Lewis had it removed. I am not really sure why the channel hasn't been taken down yet. It's odd indeed. Lewis is worse than Prince when it comes to getting his shit removed from the net.

Script, I don't really like Questlove either. But like I said, he's the co-producer for two of R&B's
greatest works, Voodoo and Black Messiah. And he co-produced Al Green's latest album which
was his best in years.

Regardless of what you think about him personally and/or as a musician, the fact remains that he's
1) a record producer and 2) a record producer with weight (pun intended) in the genre of R&B. This
means that it is not altogether strange that Questlove could produce a Lewis Taylor album.

duccichucka said:

scriptgirl said:

I'm with nutty. I am no fan of Questlove, aka Granny Jenkins. That fool can't keep his mouth shut, is always running off at the mouth about D and has appointed himself curator and historian of all things black music. Like no one can have an opinion but him. It's fucking annoying.

re that youtube channel-it's odd that it has stayed up this long. It's been there since mid December. A few months before that, someone posted bittersweet and Lewis had it removed. I am not really sure why the channel hasn't been taken down yet. It's odd indeed. Lewis is worse than Prince when it comes to getting his shit removed from the net.

Script, I don't really like Questlove either. But like I said, he's the co-producer for two of R&B's
greatest works, Voodoo and Black Messiah. And he co-produced Al Green's latest album which
was his best in years.

Regardless of what you think about him personally and/or as a musician, the fact remains that he's
1) a record producer and 2) a record producer with weight (pun intended) in the genre of R&B. This
means that it is not altogether strange that Questlove could produce a Lewis Taylor album.

Thanks scriptgirl, I know I'm not alone.

duccichucka, as always, it's never personal. But I do think the proposition is laughable and it shows that you don't know LT that well.

Lewis would only want to work with real wizards like Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, and the only guy among his own contemporaries is D'Angelo. I'm pretty certain he has been influenced in one way or another by Prince, but I don't think that he puts Prince in such a high pedestal. You don't hear him doing a cringe-worthy Prince pastiche like Sam Sparro or gushing over him like questlove.

As a self-contained singer/songwriter/musician/producer, I doubt it that he'd let just anyone produce him, let alone questlove.

I think the opinion that Rubin is overrated is overrated. Rick is one hell of a producer. He might not that hands on all the time, bus his diverse outputs along with all the accolades and recognition speak for themselves. Few people who disagree only include minor Radiohead cover bands like Muse. Comparing Questlove minor co-production spots here and there to Rick's body of work is indeed laughable bordering on hallucinations-- sorry.

Most people think of questlove as the drummer for Jimmy Fallon house band, not a producer. Fact.

First of all, like Whitney said, I wanna see the receipts. I wanna know the actual breakdown of exactly what Quest did as producer of Voodoo and Black Messiah other than playing rare episodes of Soul Train for D and talking shit.

RE Lewis, he's a funny one to be sure. Early on, when he released that first neo soul album, he went on about his soul influences, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Marvin and then later, when he did those prog rock cds, the Lost Album, etc, he said he never listened to soul and then said that no matter how he tried not to, he came out sounding soulful and implied he wasn't crazy about it. He is all about prog rock.

I DOUBT Lewis is a P fan. I can't see it. It could be because they are similar. D is nothing like Prince-he lack's P's mentality. D seems to be simpler ( I don't mean dumb) and not as complex as Prince.

scriptgirl said:

First of all, like Whitney said, I wanna see the receipts. I wanna know the actual breakdown of exactly what Quest did as producer of Voodoo and Black Messiah other than playing rare episodes of Soul Train for D and talking shit.

RE Lewis, he's a funny one to be sure. Early on, when he released that first neo soul album, he went on about his soul influences, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Marvin and then later, when he did those prog rock cds, the Lost Album, etc, he said he never listened to soul and then said that no matter how he tried not to, he came out sounding soulful and implied he wasn't crazy about it. He is all about prog rock.

I DOUBT Lewis is a P fan. I can't see it. It could be because they are similar. D is nothing like Prince-he lack's P's mentality. D seems to be simpler ( I don't mean dumb) and not as complex as Prince.

I remember in an interview he (LT) said he wanted to be Ian Gillian, but came to realize very quickly that his voice sounds too sweet to be a screamer.

Script, have you heard his Sheriff Jack releases?

Nut, Sheriff Jack-is that the shit he did in 86? If so, yes. Awful stuff. His voice is so weak and thin. Horrible. Hard to believe that it is the same person, because Lewis' voice now is one of the best I have ever heard. Even my mom likes it and she stans for NO ONE.

That Sheriff Jack stuff sounds like 3rd rate Blow Monkeys/New Wave/New Romantics stuff.

scriptgirl said:

Nut, Sheriff Jack-is that the shit he did in 86? If so, yes. Awful stuff. His voice is so weak and thin. Horrible. Hard to believe that it is the same person, because Lewis' voice now is one of the best I have ever heard. Even my mom likes it and she stans for NO ONE.

That Sheriff Jack stuff sounds like 3rd rate Blow Monkeys/New Wave/New Romantics stuff.

Yes. LT admitted in an interview that he was a horrible singer up until around early 90's and he worked really really hard to improve his singing. I don't know what he did then, maybe he took real serious vocal lessons, but it obviously worked. His is the most amazing vocal transformation I've ever heard. From Sheriff Jack to LT? Damn.