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There goes Rhymin' Simon

41Forever Feb 05 2018 03:16 PM

Like Elton John, Paul Simon is announcing he is done with touring after a final "Homeward Bound" tour. He says he might do some one-offs from time to time, but this will be the last of the big tours. [url]https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-simon-announces-homeward-bound-farewell-tour-w516359 I like Paul Simon. My fave Simon or Simon and Garfunkel songs, in no particular order. The Boxer Boy in the Bubble Graceland Old Friends Father and Daughter Homeward Bound My Little Town Bridge Over Troubled Waters Mrs. Robinson Sounds of Silence

cooby Feb 05 2018 03:25 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Mine is Scarborough Fair, which was written many centuries ago

Edgy MD Feb 05 2018 03:41 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Paul Simon did a one-off before Game Six: [youtube:1owzg0wu]K9U4bzK7VkU[/youtube:1owzg0wu]

metirish Feb 05 2018 03:53 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

His songs bring back great memories, what pub band didn't play The Boxer, Homeward Bound etc?

Fman99 Feb 05 2018 04:00 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Feb 05 2018 05:00 PM

I was at the free concert he did in Central Park, in 1991, along with several hundred thousand others. I was very high though and do not recall much of it. Oh, to be 18 again. My father also grew up in the same neighborhood in Flushing that S&G were from and, in fact, both he and my uncle played on Little League teams with each of their younger brothers. My dad also saw them as "Tom & Jerry," before they rebranded themselves. They played a junior high school dance that he attended as a student. OE: It was 1991, not 1990, so I was 18 and not 17. Literally a few weeks before I started my freshman year of college.

41Forever Feb 05 2018 04:05 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Fman99 wrote: I was at the free concert he did in Central Park, in 1990, along with several hundred thousand others. I was very high though and do not recall much of it. Oh, to be 17 again. My father also grew up in the same neighborhood in Flushing that S&G were from and, in fact, both he and my uncle played on Little League teams with each of their younger brothers. My dad also saw them as "Tom & Jerry," before they rebranded themselves. They played a junior high school dance that he attended as a student. That's AWESOME!

cooby Feb 05 2018 04:10 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

It took me a long time to realize they are not British

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2018 04:10 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I was at the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert in 1981 in Central Park. It was one of only two concerts I've attended in my lifetime that didn't take place in a school auditorium. The other was Darlene Love at Lincoln Center in 2016. Both of them, not entirely coincidentally, were free.

sharpie Feb 05 2018 07:10 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I was at the giant Paul Simon concert in Central Park. I was also at the sound check the night before with about 100 others. That was really awesome. I saw Simon & Garfunkel in 1983. Not very good. I saw Paul Simon last year at his farewell concert in Forest Hills. Rained like crazy. Fantastic show. Went half an hour past curfew since the show started so late.

Edgy MD Feb 05 2018 07:30 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Front row for Paul and Artie at Big Shea. Second ever concert! Highlight for me was AG singing "I Only Have Eyes for You."

G-Fafif Feb 05 2018 08:00 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Saw Paul on the Graceland tour at Radio City in 1987. Other than reworked versions of "Me and Julio" and "The Boxer," it was all from his contemporary and celebrated album (though maybe there was something from "Hearts & Bones"), which was understandable if a little disappointing. Great musicians working with the headliner, for sure. The evening ended with a performance of the South African national anthem, which some stood for, much to my brother-in-law's scoffing re "these people from Queens" and whatever hypocrisy he read into their gesture.

sharpie Feb 05 2018 09:59 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

At the Forest Hills show from S&G he did Sounds of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer and Homeward Bound plus an instrumental version of El Condor Pasa. I wondered why he didn't just sing it til I realized that Art sang the "away, I'd rather sail away" part and that Paul could never hit those notes.

smg58 Feb 05 2018 11:36 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I was at the 1991 Central Park show too, plus once at Nassau Coliseum and once at the Theater at the Garden with Garfunkel. I would imagine the final show(s) will be in New York.

G-Fafif Feb 06 2018 05:22 AM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 06 2018 07:09 AM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I did the Theater at the Garden with Garfunkel, too. I can’t tell you how many times I covered/rearranged S&G stuff with friends, in any number of venues.

Zvon Feb 06 2018 09:23 AM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Edgy MD Feb 06 2018 03:59 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

What an impressive story and career Vincent N'Guini had. He was introduced to Simon by Hugh Masakela, because of course he was.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 16 2018 04:18 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Peter Ames Carlin's bio will convince you that as good a career as this guy's had he's kind of a dick irl.

Vic Sage Feb 16 2018 05:22 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

My "baker's dozen" Simon and Garfunkel song countdown: Cecilia Dangling Conversation I am a Rock Mrs. Robinson Old Friends/Bookends Hazy Shade of Winter Scarborough Fair Only Living Boy in NY Bridge Over Troubled Waters America Homeward Bound The Boxer and #1... Sounds of Silence

Mets Willets Point Feb 16 2018 05:54 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Peter Ames Carlin's bio will convince you that as good a career as this guy's had he's kind of a dick irl. His dickishness is well-documented from in-studio collaborators to wives & girlfriends to Garfunkel himself. Brilliant musician, though.

Edgy MD Feb 16 2018 06:03 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I'm almost getting the idea that the Eagles documentary has made it cool for veteran musicians to just go let biographers portray them as dicks. We're in a bizarrely Randian era.

Mets Willets Point Feb 16 2018 11:08 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

It is kind of funny that his most famous video is his him side-by-side with Chevy Chase. Both are loathed by most everyone they've worked with so it makes sense that they're friends.

Edgy MD Feb 17 2018 04:17 AM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I think Chevy Chase, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin are some sort of weirdo old-grouchy-guy brat pack.

Frayed Knot Feb 17 2018 10:17 AM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Edgy MD wrote: I think Chevy Chase, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin are some sort of weirdo old-grouchy-guy brat pack. There could be something causing all that grouchiness in the water at Sag Harbor where all of the above (except maybe Martin) have been known to hang out. Would explain Keith's occasional get-off-my-lawn tendencies also.

bmfc1 Feb 19 2018 07:40 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I saw Paul Simon last summer at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD and it produced one of the best concert moments of my life. It's "Homeward Bound" and as soon as it starts, we're singing with him I'm sitting in the railway station. Got a ticket for my destination. On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand. And every stop is neatly planned but then Paul starts to lose his voice. It's OK, he's in his 70s, he's Paul Simon, we understand. He holds up his hand, just a second, let me get a drink, but we keep on singing for a poet and a one-man band. Paul tells us to keep singing while he gets a drink and we do Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound, Home where my thought's escaping, Home where my music's playing, Home where my love lies waiting silently for me. He goes back to the mic, salutes us, and resumes the song. At the end he applauds US and says (after the video ends) "thank you for sharing that song with me". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXf59F2nw3I

cooby Mar 16 2018 07:00 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

I did not know he is married to Edie Brickell

Frayed Knot Mar 16 2018 07:16 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Seeing as how he was 50 when they married (1992) and she just 25, it's possible that instead of marrying her he merely adopted her, but I'm a bit sketchy on the specifics.

cooby Mar 16 2018 07:26 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

Ew, like Woody Allen

cooby Mar 16 2018 07:39 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

It's weird how I found out...I googled her yesterday to see if she's still so cute

Frayed Knot Mar 16 2018 09:01 PM Re: There goes Rhymin' Simon

They got into a domestic scrap a couple years ago (five?) which led to a police visit and a later court appearance. And being not just a quarter century younger than her then 70-ish y/o husband but also the better part of a foot taller, he was the one reportedly getting the worst of it. She wound up admitting fault and no charges were pursued. P.S. the adoption line was merely a joke about their age difference. Unlike Woody and Soon-Yi(?), Paul & Edie weren't semi-related prior to getting hitched.