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Ans
Oct-26-2005, 08:05 GMT
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Netherlands

S&G Broadcasting Live.

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R
2&title=745221&p=57&g=72&pa=sr

It looks like another cheap release.

André
Nov-03-2005, 11:06 GMT
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Netherlands

Another cheap release (but still nice to have) for 6 euro at Music Store in Holland: the concert of Paul Simon in Philadalphia oct. 1980. Band almost equal to Central Park (including trumpets), a number of One Trick Pony tracks (your special attention for: Jonah) and a most beautiful version of Something So Right. 52 minutes of Paul in good shape (and still with a lot of hair on his head, no cap required

Bodo
Nov-03-2005, 17:36 GMT
IP:
Austria

The Philadelphia concert is an official release.

This DVD Ans mentioned not. I´m not sure what you will find on it...

Klausi
Nov-04-2005, 09:28 GMT
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Germany

This "lot of hair" was already not his own. He did it for One-trick pony and unfortunately changed it only since the time of Capeman, when he did not want to give concerts and be in the public anymore, but fortunately was forced too after the failure of this project.

Bodo
Nov-04-2005, 09:42 GMT
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Austria

Well... ´forced´ might not be the right word. At least I hope so :-)
Also after the Capeman I guess he had enough money to buy a nice toupet.

And now after the S&G concerts he can achieve himself a hair transplantation ;-)

Klausi
Nov-07-2005, 10:24 GMT
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Germany

I think you are right. But a successful musical can have a run of several years and we would surely have seen the official release of the cast album with 30 or so songs.

So YTO might have been out about now.

But what`s the difference ? We still don`t have a new album.

But we saw him live several times and I think, in this point he has really changed his thinking, also about collaborations with other stars.

A tour with Dylan was unthinkable before. And a tour without a new album or with Brian Wilson too.

He will have a huge income for the rest of his life, his song- catalogue has been judged as the most valuable owned by the composer (the Beatles did not own their songs).

Bodo
Nov-09-2005, 12:29 GMT
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Austria

Let´s talk about his touring with Dylan or Wilson.
I think this isn´t really something new for Paul. Dylan changed a lot in Paul´s live performances, he might be more relaxed on stage now when something unusual happens.

But I think doing a solo concert ,alone or with his smaller band now, is something which frightens Paul. I have that feeling, because Paul always had a lot of other musicians and bands with him on tour, in the 70´s with the Jesse Dixon Singers and Urubamba, Toots Thielmans, in the 80´s with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela then with Michael Brecker, a really big band + The Waters, then with Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson - and in the 60´s most of the time with Art Garfunkel.

I only know the OTP tour, the 12 City tour 1984 and the last 2 European tours where Paul played only with his band.
I sometimes have the feeling that he is afraid about to reach only a very small audience when he is touring alone (well that was true for the tour with Bob Dylan)... or doesn´t want to be alone on stage for 2 hours.
I think it is the 2nd point. He would like to sing in a doo-woop group, but is afraid that his fan´s wouldn´t like that. Would we? :-)

Bodo
Nov-09-2005, 12:36 GMT
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Austria

BTW, did anyone buy this DVD now?

Is is worth anything?

I guess it is just a remix of Art Garfunkel live DVD´s and Paul Simon live DVD´S + S&G Concert at the park...


But there are some songs I can´t find anywhere else on an official DVD.

3. Richard Corey
5. He Was My Brother
7. Leaves That Are Green
8. A Most Peculiar Man
10. Overs

The first 4 songs could be from the Haarlem 1966 tape. I think some songs have never been performed since that time.

And ´Overs´? Also from an Old TV tape in the 60´s ?

Ans
Nov-09-2005, 17:03 GMT
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Netherlands

I think he is more a bandleader and he likes the connection on stage with other musicians. I don´t think it frightens him to be alone on the stage, maybe it was in the past but not anymore, he doesn´t have to prove himself anymore.
With a bigger band he has more ways to alter the songs, try new things, like the theremin on the Old Friends tour.

What I notice when I look at performances after the split up with Art is that he enjoyed it much more, he could follow his own way.
Like on the Dick Cavett Show, he enjoyed it to perform there with the Jesse Dixon Singers, he was very relaxed, also at the interview.

He developed himself through the years, had disappointments which made him unsure but he came back, stronger.

I´m not sure I like Doo Wop, but maybe he will Surprise me like he surprised me with the BOTW gospel version.

Klausi
Nov-10-2005, 07:56 GMT
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Germany

Paul Simon began his professional career touring alone in England before audiences of a few hundred people. This experience was very important for him, and he was mostly well received and had growing success.

He was always nervous when touring, once explaining his bad dream he oftenly had was beginning a concert before a (half filling the place) crowd talking which each other and not noticing that he is on stage now. And then the sound system is destroyed and can`t be repaired. You can see part of this dream at the beginning of his 1978-special.

But the main reason for chosing small halls in the 70`s and early 80`s was the sound conditions at big places, with which he was never satisfied.

On the sold out OTP tour 1980 (with the Jessy Dixon Singers!) he knew right from the beginning it brings him about 300.000,- Dollars loss.

He never had problems in the US and UK to fill places of 10.000 or more people.

Asked before the one-man-tour 1984, whether this does not mean a lot of more responsibility, he answered: "It´s different. With a band I have total responsibility that the whole band is playing well. Alone I have total responsibility for every single note. But I have more freedom. I can change the tempo in the middle of a song or change the whole program when already on stage."

Working with other stars was growing very slowly compared to others.

And Dylan and Simon? The two most compared American songwriters being so different? Simon, the much more record-selling, urban hit-maker with this extraordinary and introspective sensitivity and Dylan, the intelligent protest-singer with cult and symbol-status, often being lousy even in the studio, making an album within a few days.

You could read the name "Dylan" ten times before "Simon" was mentioned once (and then sometimes Carly) in the music-press, but there were maybe five times more Simon-songs in the households and on airplay.

I think Simon simply realized now that people want to see and hear him and other 60`s heroes and sometimes he estimates this demand higher than his passion to be a privat person, writing songs.

Also because, as Bing-Frisby mentioned weeks ago, it is hard to be the center of attention, but even harder not being noticed when having worked hard, as happened with the capeman (and the movie OTP and Hearts And Bones).

Nik
Nov-10-2005, 13:34 GMT
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Unknown

i´ve been thinking about which style of paul in concert i prefer. i haven´t seen many of the sixties and seventies concerts, so can´t comment there. but out of the more recent decades, the concerts do seem much more fun and energetic. but then the other side of it is paul was so incomparably gorgeous in the late eighties/early nineties (lol and then he got older and lost his hair). though he still looked really good again around the yto period, i reckon. in fact, the yto dvd is one of my favourites.

Denise
Nov-10-2005, 16:45 GMT
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USA - United Staates America

I also like the Paul on stage in the nineties and on. I like seeing him enjoy himself on stage. It does bring a greater joy to all when Paul is happy. I Love his sense of humor. I am glad he decided to show that side of himself.

Micky
Nov-13-2005, 00:27 GMT
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USA - United Staates America

Well, it´s also on amazon.co.uk

Hugs

Me

Bodo wrote on Nov-03 at 17:36

The Philadelphia concert is an official release.

This DVD Ans mentioned not. I´m not sure what you will find on it...

Brandy
Nov-13-2005, 17:18 GMT
IP:
Canada

Hmm, interesting discussion. . .

I think that one of the reasons Paul may not like playing all alone on stage is because of his voice. He has claimed to be insecure about it, and so maybe singing on stage with guests like LadySmith and a large band makes him feel more at ease because his voice won´t have to stand out as much. When you´re singing with just a guitar, all by yourself, the pressure to sound good vocally increases because it is the centre of the performance.

Having said that, I must say that there is nothing I Love more than to hear Paul singing alone with a guitar. I believe it takes an extraordinary song to sound good with only the simplest (and most sparse)accompaniment possible. Even a rather poor song can sound much better when it is performed with a great band . . . but when all you have is a guitar and your voice, however, then the true quality of the song is revealed. The fact that S&G could hold an audiences spellbound with just their voices and an acoustic guitar is an incredible (and icnreasingly rare these days) accomplishment.

I wish that Paul would take more pride in how well his songs stand up in such a humble setting. I can enjoy his band´s great performances, of course, but nothing beats having just Paul.

BingFrisby
Nov-15-2005, 20:31 GMT
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USA - United Staates America

Simon played to NINE people upstairs in a pub in Bolton, Lancashire, on his NW tour of England.(Source of info - Chorley folk club-1990s)

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