Paul, YOU ARE SO AMAZING. You speak so kindly and beautiful of Art. You should be the HERO, the MENTOR for a lot of these bands, some of who are brothers, even related to one another, who has stayed apart and bitter forever. Life is short and your humility Paul is so calming, and actually your character, resonates through your music! We LOVE YOUR HEART!
Paul Simon, the true poet, not Bob Dylan, not taking anything away from Bob, but Paul knew how to touch the working mans soul, and speak for us. God bless you Paul.
I'm happy to learned that that they are friends again, after all they are older maybe mid seventies? life's too short.They are wonderful boys, very talented God bless.
They've been through several marriages, many kids, countlesss breakups and reconciliations, and at least a dozen toupees over the last 60+ years. Mazel tov!
Art's voice is fine now. I saw him at The Kennedy Center in July. He was wonderful. Paul claimed he was retiring from performing last year but he's performing on Sept.22 in a Hurtucane Harvey benefit with James Taylor and Willie Nelson. So it's not over yet! I would love to see Paul and Art just once more. They are magical together! Always have been.
Paul has definitely not retired ! After that report he toured UK and Europe late last year. Also toured the US in June this year donating all profits from the to to the E. O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Looking forward to hearing him perform with Willie Nelson this week
Brenda Pugh I'm very glad he's not finished yet, but he did say he was ready to retire last June in this article. www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/nyregion/paul-simon-retirement-stranger-to-stranger.amp.html
Paul is a hard working artist. Kind words in these clips about Art. Friends since eleven, like our long term relationships, there are ups and downs. Paul was right to criticize John Lennon. Paul tribute playing of Surfer Girl tribute to Brian Wilson was an original arrangement, so beautiful. Paul has nice fingerpicking. Wrote good songs, many good lyrics, though some were depressing. Arranged great harmonies. I like the early stuff best. As a solo artist, Paul had solid pop songs, but not the tenderness. Foray into a Broadway show did not work out. Exploiting African and South American artists? No, he made them famous and their music heard. Many good contributions. Paul can be a temperamental man. Do not rub the wrong way.
I saw S&G at the New Orleans Jazz Festival sometime around 2010. Art had to stop singing after a while. He couldn't hit the notes. It was so sad, though it is good to know how Paul felt bad for Art, plus how he took up for him when a joke was made about Art in the movie he references in this video here. It's awful thing to lose one's singing voice, such a priceless gift.
I could tell exactly what was going on because I lost some range in my voice as well due to a surgery that I had on my neck where they sort of toss the vocal chords around to get them out of the way. I used to have a lot of range but not since 1998. It was a muddy day, remember? I can't stand for long, so I remember just sitting down right among everyone sort of in the mud waiting for them to start.
I know someone who got to hear them in Greenwich Village when they were still really boys, before anybody outside that little area knew who they were. Said they were already amazing together. I wonder what we missed out on because they had a falling out for so long. Well, because of that falling out we got a lot of amazing solo work.
When ever Paul Simon and ART Garfunkel decide to tour or release an album / they always refer back to the fights and the tensions that they had when they grew up/ and it works because it brings more focus and high lights their individual talents and their diffrences but it will never change the fact that they grew up together and lived 3 blocks from each other.....cheers
+Owen Shelley Thank you, For your post and for knowing S&G's history when tours are to happen/ or albums are to come out paul and art need to remind their fans how good they areand their music is....cheers lmichael.
Willie Finn - Nothing takes the place of being there. A good example you skipped is the British Invasion. But there was absolutely terrific TV show and movie themes, country music was great, with great songwriters, and the new blood making their way. Hell, there was great music in TV ads. There was plenty of bad music foisted off on us by the music industry, too. It's difficult to understand, most "60s music" you get is where the legal rights(publishing rights) have been settled. There are artists you never hear, because of a legal dispute over who's gonna get the money, like movies playing songs they can get cheap because of the corporate entity making the movie owning the rights to a song - and there's a better song, but No, they would have to PAY for it. For great music, I forgive both for everything. And I will still make jokes about how short they are.
My life mission from age 14 to meet them or hear them #tohether preforming as one. Hope life.won't disappoint me like always. It would speak to my soul.
Valerie Russo 1 yr. after Hurricane Kachina I got an unexpected call from a friend here in New Orleans. This friend had 2 free tickets to New Orleans Jazz&Heritage Festival! It was pouring rain when she called and the site was notorious for being muddy+difficult to park,huge crowds (hard to get up close) but we both agreed that to see Paul Simon live it would have to be worth it. And, in short, it was. He did some duets with local musicians and was on the same exact stage w/jumbotrons that is used for the 2010 tour kickoff video on TH-cam of Art&Paul together at Jazzfest. Paul must have enjoyed his New Orleans visit in 2006 because he returned with Art in 2010. My big sister got me hooked on folk music and them. I never thought I would ever see either one. And free!! Wonder why I love New Orleans? lol
I know that. Was just trying to say Paul says only nice things in public about Art. the other clips are more recent. Have not heard him say a negative word about Art in interviews for many years. they really drifted about many years ago. Sadly Art finds it difficult to let go of the past.
Thanks Brenda. Its always nice to know a Paul Simon fan who is my age. Other than Paul my other favorite over the years since the sixties is The Moody Blues.
I boo-booed many years ago. Introduced them as.....Gimon and Safunkel! ... Artie laughed.. Simon didn't.. I just wanted the floor to open and make me disappear... lol
Thanks for this montage! I've been a fan of S&G since -95, and since then they've fallen out and made up many times.. Here's hoping they'll get back to being friends again, even if Art reverted to a ten-year old in that interview. He said those things right after the journo told him Sting had performed 'Bridge..' w Paul, so I guess he got jealous or something.. still, really stupid things to say
He was MUCH less welcoming to Garfunkle on NPR this morning! 'Will you ever get together again?' NO! We don't get along anymore. It's not fun. So that will never happen again! www.npr.org/2016/06/03/479619178/paul-simon-on-stranger-to-stranger-and-why-you-can-call-him-al-again
these clips were made before Garfunkel's meltdown last year. ! Probably the reason they do not get along anymore. can't say I blame Paul for not wanting to tour again with him.
What Art did last year was just awful nasty. What made it worse was to read him say in the next breath how he'd like to tour with Paul again! I really cannot blame Paul for saying that's it! It seems to be an unpleasant traits of Art. Slag Paul off on one hand and then say how sweet it would be to sing with him! Not nice
Totally agree Pagan. Paul did not get into a slanging match over it. Wisely did not comment. Fair enough to say they would not be touring again. He must get sick of the question !
I think that the magazine might have twisted his words and turned his point upside down compared to his actual point to create a bit of scandal and get readers. I don't defend Art for what he's been like, but I can relate to him in the matter of losing your voice. I'm a singer myself and losing my voice is the most frustrating and depressing things that could happen to me. I lost mine last winter for couple of months due to the dry and cold air(I'm from Finland, so winters are sometimes very cold and dry) and prolonged flu kept mucus and slime in my throat and in my bronchus. Whatever I did and tried to reduce the mucus, it didn't work. So I lost almost an half of my vocal scale and couldn't record the songs for my band. Add relationship problems to that as well, so that your mind is not with you, when it should be. It'll make you sad and mad and I'm very sure that it was like that to Garfunkel as well. He wasn't really himself there. I overcame this condition in this spring/summer and I've got my voice back again. But that period of not able to sing well is very shit. I can imagine how Art's condition has eaten him inside and made him bitter. It just crushes your confidence to lose your talent you've done for many years.
Paul is really a swell guy to make accolades of his overblown pompous partner ( 4:36 ) who wrote a book outlining how he has been mistreated in the duo even though he is responsible for the great sound of their 60s material.....hmmmm...Who wrote the songs again?? Certainly they wouldn't sound the same without Art's voice, but his voice ins't what it once was...so lets not take away the fact that Simon was by far the most important piece of this puzzle!
Paul, YOU ARE SO AMAZING. You speak so kindly and beautiful of Art. You should be the HERO, the MENTOR for a lot of these bands, some of who are brothers, even related to one another, who has stayed apart and bitter forever. Life is short and your humility Paul is so calming, and actually your character, resonates through your music! We LOVE YOUR HEART!
I just love both of them. Thanks you for your music. Gives me so much peace
Paul and Art are both GREAT
Why arguing which hand is more important left or right.You are both made for each other.
Paul and Artie have been with me all my life..they were my moms favorites and she passed them to me .
"The Only Living Boy in New York" was Simon's ode to Garfunkel.
and "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" was another
And "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" - Art was studying architecture in college.
Paul Simon, the true poet, not Bob Dylan, not taking anything away from Bob, but Paul knew how to touch the working mans soul, and speak for us. God bless you Paul.
I'm happy to learned that that they are friends again, after all they are older maybe mid seventies? life's too short.They are wonderful boys, very talented God bless.
Sarah Saydee wish i was richest man in the world i would give it all away just to hear them live.......also like to sing for emily with them
Old friends, sat on the park bench like bookends. . .how terribly strange to be seventy.
What would the world be without Simon&Garfunkel? Sad, that's what!
Nostalgia Tour?
I wish they would put out more music, their songs are so good. It's good to know they are friends after going through their split.
They've been through several marriages, many kids, countlesss breakups and reconciliations, and at least a dozen toupees over the last 60+ years. Mazel tov!
Art's voice is fine now. I saw him at The Kennedy Center in July. He was wonderful. Paul claimed he was retiring from performing last year but he's performing on Sept.22 in a Hurtucane Harvey benefit with James Taylor and Willie Nelson. So it's not over yet! I would love to see Paul and Art just once more. They are magical together! Always have been.
Paul has definitely not retired ! After that report he toured UK and Europe late last year. Also toured the US in June this year donating all profits from the to to the E. O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Looking forward to hearing him perform with Willie Nelson this week
Brenda Pugh I'm very glad he's not finished yet, but he did say he was ready to retire last June in this article.
www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/nyregion/paul-simon-retirement-stranger-to-stranger.amp.html
Cathy Wood I often wonder about todays generation...They have lost their identy..Sometimes I feel like getting into a time machine and go back to 1966
Brenda Pugh Well, after the current tour, Paul is kinda retired. At least from touring.
Paul is a hard working artist. Kind words in these clips about Art. Friends since eleven, like our long term relationships, there are ups and downs. Paul was right to criticize John Lennon. Paul tribute playing of Surfer Girl tribute to Brian Wilson was an original arrangement, so beautiful. Paul has nice fingerpicking. Wrote good songs, many good lyrics, though some were depressing. Arranged great harmonies. I like the early stuff best. As a solo artist, Paul had solid pop songs, but not the tenderness. Foray into a Broadway show did not work out. Exploiting African and South American artists? No, he made them famous and their music heard. Many good contributions. Paul can be a temperamental man. Do not rub the wrong way.
I saw S&G at the New Orleans Jazz Festival sometime around 2010. Art had to stop singing after a while. He couldn't hit the notes. It was so sad, though it is good to know how Paul felt bad for Art, plus how he took up for him when a joke was made about Art in the movie he references in this video here. It's awful thing to lose one's singing voice, such a priceless gift.
I remember that concert at NO Jazz Fest. Paul was very supportive when Art was struggling with Bridge Over Troubled Water
I could tell exactly what was going on because I lost some range in my voice as well due to a surgery that I had on my neck where they sort of toss the vocal chords around to get them out of the way. I used to have a lot of range but not since 1998. It was a muddy day, remember? I can't stand for long, so I remember just sitting down right among everyone sort of in the mud waiting for them to start.
I know someone who got to hear them in Greenwich Village when they were still really boys, before anybody outside that little area knew who they were. Said they were already amazing together. I wonder what we missed out on because they had a falling out for so long. Well, because of that falling out we got a lot of amazing solo work.
When ever Paul Simon and ART Garfunkel decide to tour or release an album / they always refer back to the fights and the tensions that they had when they grew up/ and it works because it brings more focus and high lights their individual talents and their diffrences but it will never change the fact that they grew up together and lived 3 blocks from each other.....cheers
i totally agree.
+Owen Shelley Thank you, For your post and for knowing S&G's history when tours are to happen/ or albums are to come out paul and art need to remind their fans how good they areand their music is....cheers lmichael.
+Lmichael Dobrosaulje :)
simon and garfunkel music, with dylan the beatles brian wilson elvis motown blues players, is the sound of the 1960`s.
true.
Willie Finn - Nothing takes the place of being there. A good example you skipped is the British Invasion. But there was absolutely terrific TV show and movie themes, country music was great, with great songwriters, and the new blood making their way. Hell, there was great music in TV ads. There was plenty of bad music foisted off on us by the music industry, too. It's difficult to understand, most "60s music" you get is where the legal rights(publishing rights) have been settled. There are artists you never hear, because of a legal dispute over who's gonna get the money, like movies playing songs they can get cheap because of the corporate entity making the movie owning the rights to a song - and there's a better song, but No, they would have to PAY for it.
For great music, I forgive both for everything. And I will still make jokes about how short they are.
i only liked 'in the ghetto' and 'suspicious minds'..both '69!!i passed by his career,i was a progressive soul.i was 16...lol
My life mission from age 14 to meet them or hear them #tohether preforming as one. Hope life.won't disappoint me like always. It would speak to my soul.
Valerie Russo 1 yr. after Hurricane Kachina I got an unexpected call from a friend here in New Orleans. This friend had 2 free tickets to New Orleans Jazz&Heritage Festival! It was pouring rain when she called and the site was notorious for being muddy+difficult to park,huge crowds (hard to get up close) but we both agreed that to see Paul Simon live it would have to be worth it. And, in short, it was. He did some duets with local musicians and was on the same exact stage w/jumbotrons that is used for the 2010 tour kickoff video on TH-cam of Art&Paul together at Jazzfest. Paul must have enjoyed his New Orleans visit in 2006 because he returned with Art in 2010. My big sister got me hooked on folk music and them. I never thought I would ever see either one. And free!! Wonder why I love New Orleans? lol
Awww I love their friendship, they've been friends for so long. Good to hear him speaking well of Arty.
I know that. Was just trying to say Paul says only nice things in public about Art. the other clips are more recent. Have not heard him say a negative word about Art in interviews for many years. they really drifted about many years ago. Sadly Art finds it difficult to let go of the past.
Thanks for this. It's a beautiful compilation.
Such a sweet man!
Have been a fan since first hearing his music. I am 68 about the same age as Paul.
My age too Ralph. Though Paul is a little older at 75 !
Thanks Brenda. Its always nice to know a Paul Simon fan who is my age. Other than Paul my other favorite over the years since the sixties is The Moody Blues.
Ralph Hughes i
76
Thank you so much for posting this!
I boo-booed many years ago. Introduced them as.....Gimon and Safunkel! ... Artie laughed.. Simon didn't.. I just wanted the floor to open and make me disappear... lol
Leah Jordana wtf ROFL
you still should be ashamed for that mistake...revealing that makes it even more shameful...
Simon-Garfunkel=*Hellodarknessmyoldfriend*
shut up and hug one more time
Hey all, at 1:24, it looks like a black bird flies to the right of Paul, look by the carpeted stairs..
What is that???
since they were 11!
Thanks for this montage! I've been a fan of S&G since -95, and since then they've fallen out and made up many times.. Here's hoping they'll get back to being friends again, even if Art reverted to a ten-year old in that interview. He said those things right after the journo told him Sting had performed 'Bridge..' w Paul, so I guess he got jealous or something.. still, really stupid things to say
Thank you for your comment Stella
Whats art? These two guys, and creating ain't easy.
ya, "old" friend
would u be kind to upload some clips of paul & Artie any one will do,fightings, fooling round, Interviews or whatever. Thanks for uploading
Awww! Isn't Sting a Nice, Modest Man!
He was MUCH less welcoming to Garfunkle on NPR this morning!
'Will you ever get together again?' NO! We don't get along anymore. It's not fun. So that will never happen again!
www.npr.org/2016/06/03/479619178/paul-simon-on-stranger-to-stranger-and-why-you-can-call-him-al-again
these clips were made before Garfunkel's meltdown last year. ! Probably the reason they do not get along anymore. can't say I blame Paul for not wanting to tour again with him.
What Art did last year was just awful nasty. What made it worse was to read him say in the next breath how he'd like to tour with Paul again! I really cannot blame Paul for saying that's it! It seems to be an unpleasant traits of Art. Slag Paul off on one hand and then say how sweet it would be to sing with him! Not nice
Totally agree Pagan. Paul did not get into a slanging match over it. Wisely did not comment. Fair enough to say they would not be touring again. He must get sick of the question !
I think that the magazine might have twisted his words and turned his point upside down compared to his actual point to create a bit of scandal and get readers. I don't defend Art for what he's been like, but I can relate to him in the matter of losing your voice. I'm a singer myself and losing my voice is the most frustrating and depressing things that could happen to me. I lost mine last winter for couple of months due to the dry and cold air(I'm from Finland, so winters are sometimes very cold and dry) and prolonged flu kept mucus and slime in my throat and in my bronchus. Whatever I did and tried to reduce the mucus, it didn't work. So I lost almost an half of my vocal scale and couldn't record the songs for my band. Add relationship problems to that as well, so that your mind is not with you, when it should be. It'll make you sad and mad and I'm very sure that it was like that to Garfunkel as well. He wasn't really himself there.
I overcame this condition in this spring/summer and I've got my voice back again. But that period of not able to sing well is very shit. I can imagine how Art's condition has eaten him inside and made him bitter. It just crushes your confidence to lose your talent you've done for many years.
Paul is really a swell guy to make accolades of his overblown pompous partner ( 4:36 ) who wrote a book outlining how he has been mistreated in the duo even though he is responsible for the great sound of their 60s material.....hmmmm...Who wrote the songs again?? Certainly they wouldn't sound the same without Art's voice, but his voice ins't what it once was...so lets not take away the fact that Simon was by far the most important piece of this puzzle!
Art Garfunkel should have gone with the flow..., without Paul Simon’s song writing and guitar playing, Art Garfunkel would not have been famous...
when was this from?
+Aubrey I have updated info to show dates of the 7 clips.
Brenda Pugh thanks :-)
De qué van a hablar,,,,del uno del otro siempre,,,,,les guste o no
Paul, you were far too nice with this man who awes you his fame but since he spat his nasty comments in the press, the game is over and well over.