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| Author | Comment | mog
May-21-2026, 21:26 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Thanks Scaaty!
Thanks for the article; I had seen it but was blocked by a paywall.
It is a quite accurate description of what happened last night. This journalist or critic did a good job.
He also makes a favour to PS by not reporting his Freudian slip re: London instead of Dublin.
Yes, it was lovely to finally meet the grand Scaaty and her husband. They also managed to endure my strong accent. I thought I was a big fan, but I think Yvonne is a level above me!
As for the show, well…the first part, as though I thought it was brilliantly executed (liked indeed the live In My Opinion and Trail of volcanoes), I thought that the issue with Simon’s voice was putting the performance down as a whole, unfortunately.
But the second part got me and I had a great time. Voice was in better shape, despite its current limitations. I just liked the set list, the flow, the new twists in instrumentation and arrangements that made it sound fresh, once again.
So, should you go if you have not gone? I do not know. This show was mostly unnecessary (but he wanted to perform 7 Psalms), but if you do not mind paying a load of money and having a great time like Paul promises at the start of the show, then yes, go. And mostly, this may be well your farewell show of his.
Let’s not forget that the show was recorded last year, so I expect it to be broadcast this fall.
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| mog
May-22-2026, 13:53 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I saw yesterday a just-released interview with PS on YT.
I am no longer sure that this is his last tour now.
Looks like the big deal for him was to find a way to be able to perform on stage, which he did with Stanford University.
There seems no taking into account of the voice or just the fact of life that he is no longer 35.
He still wants to be creative, which who he is, in his opinion.
The man is hard to understand at times. Remember that he wanted to leave show-business and performing with The Capeman?! I went to the Dylan-Simon tour thinking that it was to be my only chance to see him live. Do not laugh.
After Stranger to Stranger, he said that he was happily finished…he would travel instead of spending 3 years on an album…
I think the man feels bad if he is not creating and playing. As simple as that. He does not just want to watch the grass grow.
I do think that Paul will stop for retirement, unless the great reaper pass.
He is certainly in great shape for 84. But I was noticing on Wednesday that coming up on stage with the little stairs was not that easy anymore.
In the interview, he seems a bit full of himself at one point. He has a chip on the shoulder against the Grammys. He says that they should have given him a Lifetime Award after Graceland (!). I agree that Grammys are a joke nowadays, but…I think he is bitter that they have not nominated his late-career albums.
| | | | Bodo
May-22-2026, 20:25 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Hm, I think YTO was nominated and So beautiful or so what.
(At Grammys)
I would say those are a lot nominations. Also So Beautiful was IMO his best album in the last 20 years | | | 1 Scaaty
| mog
May-23-2026, 07:39 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| No, So Beautiful or So What was not nominated. | | | | Matthias
May-23-2026, 11:54 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| But 7 Psalms was.
2024 Nominees best Folk Album:
Winner: Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live)
Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire
The Milk Carton Kids – I Only See the Moon
Nickel Creek – Celebrants
Old Crow Medicine Show – Jubilee
Paul Simon – Seven Psalms
Rufus Wainwright – Folkocracy | | | | mog
May-23-2026, 20:42 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Yes, that is true.
Although I have seen that nomination almost like an excuse for having ignored him for years before. But who knows? Also, is 7 Psalms folk?! They did not know where to put this…
PS had toured extensively in 2011 to support the album, hoping that it would have beefed up nominations chances. But he was snubbed.
I think it is in the Malcom Gladwell « audiobook » that we hear Simon say « SBOSW, remove the name Paul Simon on it, and it is album of the year. »
If he had been nominated, I think he could have established something, being an artist with a best album nomination for six decades in a row.
On the other hand, if I recall correctly, there was a Grammy sponsored show to acknowledge his music maybe two years ago?
I did not see the point in the Lifetime Award of this year.
Anyhow, maybe it was said tongue in cheek, but him claiming that he should have received it after Graceland seems a bit presumptuous to say the least.
A Lifetime Achievement award when you’re 45?!
| | | | Scaaty
May-24-2026, 11:17 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I suppose you could say (in hindsight) that Graceland was an achievement of a lifetime! Why is PS snubbed by the Grammies? Or is he? Didn’t he have the most Grammies until Taylor Swift or someone of that ilk recently beat him? I’ve often wondered why he doesn’t get the same public & media acclaim as Paul McCartney who IMHO makes very repetitive albeit catchy songs. Or reverence that is given to Bob Dylan - whose 85th the media is now celebrating!! | | | | mog
May-24-2026, 13:31 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Yes, we can say that.
I guess in the years after Graceland, one could say that it was a pretty good hit and a great comeback.
But it took a little while to understand the influence and impact it would have.
For those interested, here is the interview on YT: https://youtu.be/m58UmEnz1Xo?si=mgV9XAvrSVyzBlDv.
About Grammys, there are several things one could say. Once you are something like 65, unfortunately, since it has derived toward rewarding more performance rather than music, PS was not necessarily on top of the list, to say the list.
But I remember when SBOSW was snubbed, one commentator in a newspaper says that maybe Simon, with his Napoleon complex, had ceased to reign in the industry.
Let’s not forget that he had imagined this album as a « Time Out of Mind » moment with receiving praise, honours and awards like Dylan had.
YTO had been nominated, but already at the time, it had been seen as a recognition of the man’s achievements at the time, with no serious possibility of winning. Steely Dan won that year, could you imagine that today?!
By the way, to correct a typo in one of messages above, I do *not* think that Simon will retire, based on the YT interview. He has to keep creating…
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