crawfish wrote:Why is Fingers, not playing the whole show instead of 3 or 4 songs?
Kinda lame to me when 90% of the songs Jimmy does in concert had Fing on orig recordings. Whats up with this?
ragtopW wrote:crawfish wrote:I ASK ABOUT FINGERS!
Fingers is not a full time member of the band..
it takes something called practice to have a band as tight
as the CRs.. Fingers, due to his own schedule may not
have time to practice all the songs on the setlist..
also He may just want to be a part time player..
Here's my 2 cents: I went to Last Man Standing last Friday to see Fingers Taylor. I knew he'd be playing with a couple of bands that I presume he's never been a full-time member of. So I didn't expect that he'd play the whole night with either band, which he didn't.
A friend of mine and I sat with Fingers a bit, inside, while the other bands played without him. From the conversations and attitude, I could tell that he was just fine being inside, talking with fans, while the band played songs that I know he could have contributed to.
I then saw him again at the Hooters post-concert show, playing again with Stars on the Water, along with some others. The guys in Stars had to ask, via microphone where Fingers was, and if he could join them as soon as he was ready. I presume they had someone looking for him, but that wasn't working, so they had to announce to the world that they were looking forward to him joining them onstage.
I, of course, don't know the whole story, but it seems pretty apparent to me that Fingers is fine doing some of his own shows, playing what he wants to play. And then joining almost any other group for a few songs, whether they be Jimmy's songs or not.
Fingers is a great player, and obviously has interest in other forms of music, other than Jimmy's stuff. He'd be stupid not to, as he is a harmonica player, and they're not known exclusively for playing Jimmy's style.
Fingers was cool to talk with, cool to see interact with the fans. He was even cool when some guy asked him straight up what happened between he and Jimmy. (that same guy then asked him about the war in Iraq...I think he may have just been trying to rub him the wrong way). BTW - Fingers didn't answer either of those questions.
Fingers did a great job at LMS, where he was in control of his own sound. I hope he knows that when performing with Jimmy and the CRB that the crowd can't always hear him as much as he may think....or so it was at the MGM in Vegas on 10/21.
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Yep!! 
Way too many personal attacks in this thread... toward Jimmy, members of the CRB, and to fellow BNers.
