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Richard USVI
Sep-03-2015, 13:51 GMT
Unknown
 | Here is something I found on the internet:
NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 21, 2015—Twelve-time Grammy winner Paul Simon has been added to the stellar lineup for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s All for the Hall New York benefit concert on October 6 at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square. Simon will join award-winning Grand Ole Opry members Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, as well as Country Music Hall of Fame (and Opry) members Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris in a guitar-pull format performance.
With the exception of Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, some of Jerry Lee Lewis and some of Willie Nelson, I am not a country music fan, but this is an interesting appearance. Does anyone plan to attend? What is a guitar pull format?
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mog
Sep-03-2015, 14:23 GMT
Canada
 | This interests me. I am an Emmylou Harris fan as well.
But does benefit show means tickets at $1000 ?
Need to find out ! |
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mog
Sep-03-2015, 20:26 GMT
Canada
| It is sold out. |
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Klausi
Sep-07-2015, 12:42 GMT
Germany
 | Paul did a lot with Willie Nelson. |
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Bodo
Sep-07-2015, 19:50 GMT
Austria
  | "Paul did a lot with Willie Nelson."
But somehow my imagination of Paul sitting on the other side of that table does not work well.
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Bodo
Sep-07-2015, 19:52 GMT
Austria
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Richard USVI
Sep-08-2015, 14:59 GMT
Unknown
| Thankfully, Paul gave up smoking -- I assume it was him smoking on Bookends. Does anyone know when he stopped? (I am talking about tobacco) Paul has implied that they were smoking pot when they recorded Cecilia, but I assume he has given that up too.(Even McCartney has given up pot now.) |
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Bodo
Sep-08-2015, 20:57 GMT
Austria
| Richard...researching your question this really very interesting article from 1997 came up
http://www.nydailynews.com/smokeless-old-friend-pl
aying-photo-trick-paul-simon-cigaret-slip-slide-pi
cture-article-1.770811
How strange is that... you might think Paul Simon has better things to do, than to pretend to his children he never smoked...eh (thats just my assumption, but would make sense, given the time) |
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Bodo
Sep-08-2015, 21:02 GMT
Austria
| the lost cigarette...1997
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Bodo
Sep-08-2015, 21:03 GMT
Austria
| or was it "the last cigarette"... |
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Bodo
Sep-08-2015, 21:16 GMT
Austria
| In the Playboy interview (from 1984?), Paul said he sometimes used drugs.
No clue what he defines as drugs (alcohol, smoking, cannabis), but I personally think the might have smoked (sometimes) till the mid/end of the 1980's...
I remember that in the late 1980s it became very popular (for the first time I guess) to quit smoking.
Playboy: Do you use drugs to write ?
Simon: Sometimes. I know a lot of writers who use various drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if the overwhelming majority of them used some sort of drug. I'll put alcohol in there. F. Scott Fitzgerald did it to write. Couldn't get loose enough. Guys in rock smoke a joint. To get the stuff out of you - especially if what you're dealing with is yourself - requires you to open up and touch tender spots. And to touch those tender spots, you have to be anesthetized a little bit. Of course, there's a penalty: you get the bill eventually. The currency you pay with is your health. You lose your health; possibly, you lose the length of your creative life. That's what they mean when they say someone's burned out. |
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Klausi
Sep-09-2015, 11:18 GMT
Germany
| Guess he quit smoking Cigarettes latest in the early seventies, because at that time he mentioned that to quit smoking improves your voice.
And to me it seems his voice on sixtie`s Albums sounds darker. Even on Songbook.
In 1984 he talked about drugs I think. Carrie Fisher was using drugs, and Paul in the late seventies too. How long? Probably not much longer than his separation from Carrie Fisher. |
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Bodo
Sep-09-2015, 11:49 GMT
Austria
| Makes sense too.
BTW: did Leonard Cohen ever quit smoking? Would say it improved his voice ;-) |
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Richard USVI
Sep-09-2015, 15:13 GMT
Unknown
| Bodo -- thanks, that is an interesting article. I've seen that photo so many times, I never even noticed that the cigarette was gone. Photo shopping and electronically manipulated appearances by dead celebrities raise all sorts of interest ethical issues.
I have read that Leonard Cohen stopped smoking in his 70s, thinking it would help his voice. But then he claimed it actually hurt his voice and said he wanted to start smoking again at 80. Somehow, I doubt he was serious.
Whenever Paul stopped, I think it helped his voice, as it seems stronger to me on his 70s albums than before. Also, I think I can hear the difference in Sinatra in the albums that he said he stopped smoking to prepare. One thing I believe we can all agree on is that smoking has not been good to Art. |
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Ans
Oct-07-2015, 09:41 GMT
Netherlands
 | Nice photos from the event.
http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Paul+Simon/Country+Mu
sic+Hall+Fame+Museum+Presents+Hall/DPZ6TUcSBgn |
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