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| Headline | Should I bring a book to the show |
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kronsk
Jun-29-2006, 12:53 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
 | That setlist is lame...I guess its a 98% sit down show? Maybe Ill sell my tickets Ive had it... |
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Proof
Jun-29-2006, 14:47 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Boy in the Bubble
Al
Diamonds
Gumboots
Loves Me Like A Rock
Julio
Mrs. Robinson
Outrageous
Northeast
Quite a few rockers, actually. I just want some R of the Saints songs! |
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kronsk
Jun-29-2006, 14:49 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Im just bitchin to bitch I guess. Cant believe no Late In The Evening. Usually a staple |
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Beth
Jun-29-2006, 15:09 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| kronsk,
There are people on this Board from all over the world who do not have the opportunity this time around to see him...Be thankful.....Be a bit humble.....
He has changed his thinking from ´Late In The Evening´...more into where he is now...."Surprise" is full of that....trying to figure some things out...and trying to leave statements before he cashes in his lottery ticket....as "I´m in the valley of twilight.."
So, to me, this concert combines the best of what in past songs is still a part of him...... |
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kronsk
Jun-29-2006, 15:51 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Ive said it before and Ill say it again.. If it aint broke dont fix it... You dont work 40 years to create your own style of music. and then throw it out because you turn 65. |
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Ans
Jun-29-2006, 16:11 GMT
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Netherlands
 | That´s nonsense, Paul Simon always had different styles, now he turned back to the more american style with his music.
As long as you didn´t see and hear a concert for yourself you can´t judge it. |
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Beth
Jun-29-2006, 17:05 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| "Ive said it before and Ill say it again.. If it aint broke dont fix it... You dont work 40 years to create your own style of music. and then throw it out because you turn 65."
kronsk....I am a bit different in my thinking than I was 40 years ago...So is Paul...he hasn´t thrown anything away......All of his past is still there....Loosen up a bit.....
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kronsk
Jun-29-2006, 18:11 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| ALL his past is represented except for my favorite period.. Early 90s.. Just a little bumbed Ive been waiting for 5 years. |
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Micky
Jun-29-2006, 22:26 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| At it again Kronsk?...when I saw Paul in concert there was no Late In The Evening. It is impossible for Paul to have every song, staple or not, on his set list.
There´s a saying: You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time... |
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Beth
Jun-29-2006, 22:53 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Richard...I totally agree with you and Micky...I was waiting for SOS last night...He always plays that one....But something really interesting happened....´Wartime Prayers´...and the lady next to me was not the only one crying... |
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kronsk
Jun-30-2006, 02:02 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| some of you guys crack me up. Paul Simon could come on stage and recite law and order episodes for 2 hours and you guys would be like. " hey man hes an artist it keeps it fresh man". Just like he has the right to play what he wants.I have the right to bitch about the set. |
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nancy
Jun-30-2006, 03:19 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| You are right-go ahead. Just don´t expect a lot of us to agree with you. |
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Tim/Brie
Jun-30-2006, 11:20 GMT
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United Kingdom
 | I´ve only seen Paul Simon live once (at Edinburgh castle in 2002), and I vividly remember him playing SOS. He did it in the beautiful arrangement he did it on the Concert In The Park 1991. I´m not ashamed to mit I cried all the way through - it was so beautiful. And this from a guy who´s not a huge Simon and Garfunkel fan.
I think anyone who has been playing as long as Paul and who has written so many fantastic songs would occassionally get sick of having to play a few that people feel represent him (ie. Sound of Silence, The Boxer, Bridge Over Troubled Water, You Can Call Me Al etc..), and would want to throw in some new ones, or new arrangements.
I Love it when he puts a new spin on his Old songs, and they occassionally make me see them in a new light. They also often make me really appreciate a song I´ve not been a big fan of before, such as:
Kodocrome - this has never been my favourite, but his ´funky´ version at Concert in the Park ROCKS!
Bridge over troubled water - I sometimes get a bit sick of this one, but his arrangment of it around the time of You´re The One (in a kind of ´Quiet´ way), is fantastic
I Am A Rock - again, not one of my favourites, but the extended chorus version he does on that live in Paris DVD really contemporises it, and was the first time I had heard distorted guitar on a PS song (apart from maybe the album version of Blessed, which sounds like it comes off the first Velvet Underground album -quite a departure), later to be seen on How can you live in the North-East, and this made it really exciting and fresh.
So, in conclusion, I like a bit of a mix from him live, but I think to a certain degree it´s up to him. PS has alwas played by his own rules, and has been more exciting for it. I might not always like every direction he goes in, but I respect him for experiementing, when so many songwriters stick to the same format that makes them popular, but not nesecarily as exciting.
Tx |
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Micky
Jun-30-2006, 14:18 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| kronsk why do you come here...all you do is bitch about how much you dislike Pauls latest work, and wax lyrical about the good Old days and find it impossible to see beyond the end of your nose.
If Paul never changed the arrangements you´d end up with Paul eiother standing there bored rigid and putting out a VERY lacluster performance, or he´d just retire, because he was bored stiff of playing over and over again the same old arrangements. There HIS songs, not YOURS and he wasnts to modernise them and refresh them then that´s for him to decide and not yours and mine. Wait a moment I´m starting to saoun like a broken record here...Just quit with the bad mouthing because nobodies interested. You´ve decided you don´t like them and nothing we say will change that. We all know your opinion, so lets leave it at that shall we.."Because I´m Tired....." |
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kronsk
Jun-30-2006, 14:50 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| I NEVER EVER said I diddnt like his latest work.... I Love suprise and YTO...
So Please try to lay off of the whole "why do you come here" I think Ive read that about 100 more times on this board than Ive bitched...
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