JR chills out at a Tapas bar in New York City!

I spent 4th of July at Tanglewood in Lennox MA at a James Taylor concert. Some of the twenty thousand people who joined me can be seen in the back of this pic! John Travolta, Carol King and Yo Yo Ma all joined the party as well and joined James on stage. Musically,

Check out some great photos below from the Downey Liquid Tension Experiment show that were taken by Dave and Kitty Leece! You can see all of their photos by visiting this gallery. Also below is a photo with Producer and Logic guru David Earl and Michael Gallant of Keyboard Magazine taken at the Independent in San Francisco on Saturday night. … Read More

The Downey show rocked. The transcriber boys (pictured above and below) were there in force as well as my buddy Charles Tentindo who designed the Zen Riffer. He was nice enough to bring his personal one to the show for me to use. Now that is service! Sadly for the first tune I was gonna use it – it wasn’t … Read More

Last night in Chicago started out flowing very smoothly. Another day at the office until some guitarist or bass player decided to start playing in direct half steps to the rest of the band, or so I thought until it was a keyboard solo moment and that same horrendous sound continued! It was me! I moved the pitch joy stick…pushed … Read More

Yesterday was the first Liquid Tension Experiment show at Nearfest in PA. We had a day and a half of rehearsal before the show. The people at Nearfest are fantastic as they allowed us to come up to the festival early and set us up in a great little hall to have our practice time. It’s been ten years since … Read More

Some of you might know that some months ago I connected with the boys from Marcodi and began learning how to play a new instrument called the Harpejji. Well last night in Miami I got inspired to do my first video with it. Disclaimer: This is a new instrument that is different then anything I’ve ever played. It is a … Read More

We made it down to Miaimi the other day. The morning blur took us out hunting for the closest starbucks. Like lost desert explorers our first mirage of true coffee like sustenances came up short and proved non productive. Upon our last breath however, we indeed did see the light. A green and white beautiful sign that could only mean … Read More

My studio was wired by my ace tech, Robert Dorion this last weekend. He took a break from the usual road travels to stop by my place in NY and get down and dirty with a whole bunch of Planet Waves cables and wires and did some great work with some assistance from my boys – Gianluca and Jay. Things … Read More