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GEORGE HARRISON AND PAUL SIMON from Saturday Night Live

Simon & Garfunkel (1975)

Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends...

"Quiet" ....Text by Paul Simon

Benjamin : "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
Mrs. Robinson : "Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?"
... Dedicated to Anne Bancroft. Music   more...: Simon and Garfunkel. Letterbox / Psychedelic.  less

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD,
SPECIAL PEACE VIDEO

Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence

classic 60s hit by Paul Simon and Art Garfinkle

classic Paul Simon and Art Garfinkle

Simon and Garfunkel Live in NYC - I am a Rock

'The Boxer'
written by
Simon and Garfunkel

Acoustic Cover by
Kris Shred

Added 2nd voice (first take, didn't practice the 2nd voice before)

Enjoy! Happy Easter! ;o)

Kris

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Protest Music : To Dissent is To Be Patriotic. Protest Music is "Patriotic."
"Sounds of Silence" - ((Simon & Garfunkel))
"Thousands March on DC for Peace/Impeachment"   more...
(( Jimi Hendrix)) - Overlays: WindHarps  less

this song should bring back some memories for everyone.. enjoy.... oct

PAUL SIMON

THE BANGLES

words and music by Paul Simon
piaNOwaristed by eLi gARF

LoVeARThOpeACE

I’ve always had a fascination with trains . . . . . I was fortunate to grow up in a time when, as a kid, I could still see the incredible, massive, old, powerful, smelly, noisy, visceral, menacing, WONNNNDERFUL   more...steam locomotives. . . it was always an amazing experience as a kid, watching these aging behemoths arriving at a station . . . you could hear these monsters coming from a LONG, LONG ways off, and could see the smoke and steam from the smokestacks, announcing the eminent arrival of these brutes . . . I was always in awe of the sheer size of the locomotives and vividly remember having to look WAYYYY up to the top of the huge driver wheels . . . . . . to watch these locomotives arrive at a railroad station was always “An Event”, so I spent a LOT of time at my nearby railroad station watching these trains come and go . . .

Then the steam locomotives came less and less often . . . as they were replaced by, in my opinion, the boring, sterilized, pasteurized, homogenized, understated modern Diesel-Electric Locomotives we see everywhere in the USA today, as the old steam locomotives went the way of the slide rule and buggy whip . . .

“Tempus Fugits” . . . so yeah, anyway, I still love trains tho’ :) :) (I just miss those old behemoths, most of which have long since been trashed and melted down :( )

In later years, before I could afford a car, I would hop slow moving freight trains to ride back and forth short distances to places I needed to go . . . . not “QUITE” the safest way to travel, but it was sure lots of FUN!! :) The “game” of course became to see where my “comfort level” ended, i.e., at what speed the train would get up to, before I felt it would become UNsafe to jump off without falling, and thereby risking accompanying body abrasions, contusions, concussions, or worse LOL . . . I’m still here today, with all body parts (and lifelong adrenaline junkie attitude) still attached and in working order, so guess it all worked out OK :)

“ “Tempus Fugits” . . . so yeah, anyway” (Part Two) . . . part of the joy I have in England is that they’ve got a wonderful train system that connects SOOOOOOO many great places to visit, and, AND. . . . their trains almost always RUN ON TIME!!!, versus America’s Amtrak system where trains can OFTEN be MANNNY hours late!

But I digress (again :) ) . . .

So this video is a brief “homage” to the joy of “Riding the Rails”, and to the “ghosts” of the old steam locomotive “forefathers” which still haunt the rails, if you simply open your minds enough to see and hear them :) :) . . . . .

The music for the video is two versions of “Homeward Bound”, one by Simon and Garfunkel, and the other by Willie Nelson with Waylon Jennings.  less

There is little left of the original story of this ballad. In an earlier version, "The Elfin Knight", the reason for making the impossible demands is so that the maiden won't have to marry the   more...Elf who is wooing her. All we have now is the list of impossible tasks.

This song is well-known because it was popularised by Simon and Garfunkel who used it in their soundtrack for the film, "The Graduate".

It was also the inspiration for Dylan's song "Girl from the North Country".
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Focused a little on everyone.

Lyrics:
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision   more...that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence  less

What seems to be lacking these days in contemporary/mainstream music, is the vulnerability or 'nakedness' of the true acoustic performance. This is a solemn reminder that a voice and instrument can be   more...just as effective as any recording.  less

Paul Simon - Call Me All