Looks like he would have been a lute player during Renaissance festivals.

@joso8801

4 жыл бұрын

Damn straight

@pippipster6767

4 жыл бұрын

Brendan Whelan Hey Nonny Nonny.

@queenmagicni9736

4 жыл бұрын

Lol funny 😂

@gardensofthegods

4 жыл бұрын

Yep I really have to say you described him exactly.... I think anyone could picture that for certain

@julienz2024

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed hard at this 😂😂

"I was stuck there" "What got you stuck?" "Well, everywhere I went, led me where I didn't wanna be. So I was stuck." Genius answer :)

@PeanutSpring3

3 жыл бұрын

Welp, time to steal that quote for a song

@michaelb9619

3 жыл бұрын

"Well, everywhere I went, led me where I didn't wanna be. So I was stuck." This should be Aa song.

@PeanutSpring3

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelb9619 Working on it

@PeanutSpring3

3 жыл бұрын

@E.A. de Ruiter Slowly figuring things out for it. When I imagine it being a lyric, I imagine a delicate acoustic piece, similar to Overs, or some of the other stuff on Bookends. I just keep getting distracted with other song ideas XD But yeah, not middle eight yet.

@PeanutSpring3

3 жыл бұрын

@E.A. de Ruiter Thanks for the encouragement! I'll drop a link when it is eventually done!

this 11 minute clip has more substance in it than the past 11 years of late night talk shows

@pagamenews

3 жыл бұрын

What? You don't like it when Jimmy Fallon laughs spontaneously every 30 seconds? Or how Steven Colbert's show is totally scripted and everyone knows the questions AND the answers they are supposed to give?

@jenniferrothschild4329

3 жыл бұрын

Such truth.

@themeadowshadows

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I realized talk shows were actually semi genuine at one point

@kickstar1

3 жыл бұрын

haha totally

@yearnpill

3 жыл бұрын

@@ACMxxxx2 stop bringing politics into this bozo headass

2:26: “Am I speaking too often”, words that will never come out of the mouths of today’s talk show hosts.

@FPSBuzz

3 жыл бұрын

Oh shush

@bigtony1434

3 жыл бұрын

@@FPSBuzz Sad but absolutely true.

"Am I speaking too softly?" "No, am I speaking too often?" Such a gracious host.

@marcusbradley6207

4 жыл бұрын

brainflash1 yeh much better than Jimmy Fallon.

@Wise__guy

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcusbradley6207 a sack of potatoes is better than jimmy Fallon

@marcusbradley6207

4 жыл бұрын

Wise Guy yeh I feel bad saying it but he’s just not as intelligent or as interesting as Dick Cavett or David Letterman. He just looks like a random guy.

@docwill184

4 жыл бұрын

The worst is Hannity, and I usually agree with his politics. Has interesting, really accomplished guests and then interrupts to virtue signal how his mom was a C.O. and he supports L.E. and the military and on-and-on. So in love with his own voice; he must pay those people well. Just STFU already. Insufferable and unlistenable...

@oliverkalamata2753

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcusbradley6207 Yeah, he's literally a late night host that got his start just doing impressions... And his Trump impression is absolute cringe...

The second he picks up the guitar, he blooms.

@sgt.thundercok4704

3 жыл бұрын

Nice observation.

@matimus100

2 жыл бұрын

He's lost

@patrickdowling529

Жыл бұрын

He was born to it!

@mobilitytactics9877

Жыл бұрын

He truly became animated.

You just don't see personalities like Paul Simons anymore. Very very gentle

i grew up listening to Paul Simon His hair here is awesome Love it

Watching the old shows, one thing becomes clear: Cavett was the most clever, sensitive, on spot, and witty interviewer ever.

@ebbenielsen7

4 жыл бұрын

I don't like his style. It's as if he's constantly just waiting to make an ironic or humorous comment. And the other excellent questions are just necessary pause for the next "fun" feature. That's pretty strenuous.

@snwbm

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like a jerk

@devindevine6887

4 жыл бұрын

ebbenielsen7 Unfortunately that was, and still is, what the majority of the public wants. Most public talk shows nowadays don’t really go nearly as in depth as they could. Moreso geared towards “gUeSs WhAt bRaNd oF MaNgO tHiS Is?!?”-kind of games. You wouldn’t see anything close to this these days. At least he has some good questions!

@SThompsonRAMM_1203

4 жыл бұрын

L7 , Dick’s Biography is pretty fascinating. His style of show was considered conversational, allowing guests to talk about what they wanted to talk about, interjecting as little as possible. His subtle bits of wit is what got him noticed, after writing an opening monologue for The Tonight Show’s, Jack Parr, and later Johnny Carson. It was people like Carson, Groucho Marx, and Woody Allen that convinced him to try stand-up. Dick Cavett is very sharp, witty, and intelligent. After all, he was a Yale graduate. His show eventually was cancelled, even though it was highly acclaimed, won several awards, and had not only the most interesting guests but also tackled controversial subject matter. The ratings slipped as it was deemed to intelligent of a show for normal viewers leading to it’s cancellation. You want a dumbed down show, you got it. We want Howard Stern. Ugh!

@jaybestnz

4 жыл бұрын

He has a sensitivity and fully present authenticity.

Fun fact Paul Simon went on to write "Stranded in a limousine" in 1977

@sabbracadabra8367

2 жыл бұрын

Hah awesome!! :) I wonder if this is what inspired it.

Even when he speaks, he sings. Such a great voice.

@GjaP_242

2 жыл бұрын

6:33

@Bapuji42

Жыл бұрын

Totally, Eminem does that too.

At 06:49 Paul sings the famous chorale from J.S. Bach's Matthäus Passion (BWV 244) "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden." Very interesting to hear that this piece was his inspiration for Bridge over Troubled Water. Brilliant songwriter.

@QuicklyLiquid

Ай бұрын

It's also the melody to "American Tune", which he would go onto release five years after this interview. My jaw went slack when he started singing it

If this interview was conducted today, Dick Cavett would have some producer in his earpiece screaming about “dead air” during the entire conversation. It’s great to see people speaking normally on what has become a historic interview.

@ryand141

3 жыл бұрын

LMFAO. Great!

@FarhanAmin1994

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. It is truly historic. What extraordinary men, the both of them!

He's just so young!!! So absolutely precious!

This is a free masterclass. To have moments like these captured from one of the greatest song writers publicly known, is beyond precious.

Oh, how I adore this man. He has such child like innocence (up to this very day) and is so forthright. No canned responses from Paul. A towering genius.

@taylorferrari1153

3 жыл бұрын

not towering height-wise, though, i must clarify

@maryspencer4975

3 жыл бұрын

@@taylorferrari1153 So what.

@suehaden6103

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. I absolutely love this adorable guy and his music. Always have, always will. 💕💕

@BGmary

2 жыл бұрын

Paul Simon was inspired by a word from the Lord, from the Gospel Singer praising God. Any recent interviews (last 10 yrs) he claimed he had no knowledge of how the song came to be. Shows how hard his heart had become. A Jewish boy from Queens writing some of the best music in the world, got inspiration from listening to Gospel songs about Jesus...imagine that

@jeffthewhiff

2 жыл бұрын

There is no question that he is a musical genius.

Absolutely magnificent, I can't express how much more entertaining this unscripted, nervous but natural interview is to the canned, anecdote filled, never longer than a second without a wisecrack style we have on all talk shows today.

@davefiano4172

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed. When Letterman left the air it was “The Day Late Night Died” ( I know I should reference a Simon song lol).

@romandogbird

4 жыл бұрын

i blame cocaine

@timothysullysullivan2571

4 жыл бұрын

no one's watching them... in essence.

@melodymakermark

4 жыл бұрын

Dave, actually it died a couple years before Dave left, but I guess Dave had a few things to say.

@dackmont

4 жыл бұрын

@@romandogbird Oh, there was *plenty* of that in the 70's....

I now want a version of 'Bridge' with Simon just humming it like he does here. His vocal tone is beautiful!

@ens0246

4 жыл бұрын

The demo version is my favourite. Check it out on KZread. It's a shame, I can't find it in any better quality than that. I wonder if it's out there.

@chadbuarsons8551

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHdouKp_l7W4h7g.html

@am-us1ob

2 жыл бұрын

@@ens0246 yooo, thanks for posting this comment. that demo is a real treasure find.

Back in the days when people had actual conversations on TV.

@Elm98

3 жыл бұрын

This is literally exactly the same lol. It’s all acting. Notice the awkward, weird vibe in the start, then the seemingly impromptu offer to show how he wrote the song, then the guitar is just there. It’s all setup, scripted, msm has always been owned by the same families. That doesn’t deflect from Paul simons absolute genius tho.

@GuilainMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! It feels good not to hear Cavette scream "OK WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK!!!" and the audience scream as well....

@jameslarosa2396

3 жыл бұрын

And the host not having to be the center of attention.

@FPSBuzz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Elm98 so true. People romanticize everything that isn't NOW.

Paul Simon was so humble and self-effacing in this interview. You really like him.

7:23 "Well, everywhere I went, led me where I didn't want to be. So I was stuck."

@YodaXIII

4 жыл бұрын

7:33

@SThompsonRAMM_1203

4 жыл бұрын

Marc Raccioppo , I’ve been listening to Paul Simon my entire life. I remember singing Bridge Over Troubled Water in grade school, in choir for parents night, when it was a hit on the radio. That line you quoted brought me to tears. Paul Simon is a musical genius of our time as much as Bach and Beethoven was in theirs.

@moonharp

4 жыл бұрын

"Workin on my rewrite, alright..."

@louisbatsford8908

4 жыл бұрын

That'll do it.

@mrartician5250

4 жыл бұрын

IOW..."I had a brain freeze".

It's incredible how much Cavett shines in this interview while barely speaking. He was every bit the genius in his own field that Simon was in his.

@hasselett

2 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding me? He talked more than Simon in this clip. The interviewer outspoke the interviewee.

@tuckerbugeater

Жыл бұрын

@@hasselett What else did you hope to receive from this?

@hasselett

Жыл бұрын

@@tuckerbugeater Huh?

@erikkibler3466

11 ай бұрын

Yeah that’s a bit of a stretch

@blissfulbaboon

11 ай бұрын

😂I was just thinking how awful he was 😂I live DC but in this interview he interrupts Simon and his questions are terrible

this entire segment is profoundly beautiful

"Everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be." Story of my life.

A clever interviewer talking to a clever artist about the process of making sublime art...I'm having a hard time convincing myself that we've gotten smarter in the last fifty years.

@invisiblefriendmrj

4 жыл бұрын

What is so clever about Dick Cavett? I just pick up on his negative energy, using people so he can feel clever. That to me is a sign of an insecure person who needs to be the most clever person in the room but doesn't necessarily make him that. I sense he liked to set traps for his interview subjects. He says things all the time that I just think, 'how am I supposed to respond to this' pops into their heads. He boxes people in with his sarcasm. Awful in my opinion.

@anthonymartensen3164

4 жыл бұрын

@@invisiblefriendmrj negative Nancy nuch?

@brianshaffneraclc

4 жыл бұрын

It's okay. After the end of the recent Joker movie, talk show hosts will *all* be a lot more judicious, empathetic, and conscientious with their guests, from here on out..

@lotuseater7247

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, let's ignore the advances in science and social changes. We will judge humanity by mainstream light entertainment.

@cian2168

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianshaffneraclc ok you edgy fucking teenager

Wow... This genius is so humble. Nowadays you got kids with a big SoundCloud following who's music literally SUCKS and they act like they're special or something. Imagine being this creative, and still so humble. He acts like a regular person

@alonespirit_1Q84

2 жыл бұрын

Mark of Wisdom...

Brilliant songwriter I love how he grabbed his guitar and broke the song “ Bridge Over Troubled Waters “ down for us . Beautiful voice .

@AsadAli-jc5tg

Жыл бұрын

You mean, sang the song and broke the guitar?

@Nickbaldeagle02

8 ай бұрын

Water, not waters.

Always love when a genius shows you how their art is formed

could listen paul humming for hours

What a gem a young Paul Simon softly spoken so natural showing his fantastic genius as a world class songwriter this kind of stuff makes youtube a must Watch

From 7:10 even his humming is just stunning. Truly beautiful. Extremely talented artist

Paul didn't rat on Art in this interview I give him credit.

Brilliant interview. Brilliant, beautiful guest.

Paul's so calm and kind here, seems to be such a nice person to hang out with!

"Everywhere I went led to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck". What a great way to describe being stuck.

What a down to earth , genuinely, nice and humble guy Paul Simon is.

@jvaish

Жыл бұрын

Hmm. Look up Paul Simon vs Los Lobos

@stormbringercoming8105

2 ай бұрын

Ummm, I don’t think you really know Paul Simon too well.

Possibly one of the most beautiful songs ever made.

@alfieholloway

4 жыл бұрын

Duc Jai possibly? Definitely.

@kubyco

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 70 and I decided it was for me the greatest pop recording ever made.

@JaneSmith0709

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite song of all time.

@Paulco67

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a truly wonderful song.

Interesting to hear that little piece of the Bach chorale that wound up in “American Tune”. Brilliant stuff.

@spinningwheel5230

4 жыл бұрын

The Bach piece actually appears repeatedly in both his St. John Passion and the St. Mathew Passion.. I wouldn’t have made the connection had he not mentioned it.

@mathuff5

4 жыл бұрын

Source: "American Tune" kzread.info/dash/bejne/c3lnza2Odbybh7g.html

@JeffRebornNow

4 жыл бұрын

I love 'American Tune.' Simon wrote (or in some cases lifted -- maybe incorporated is a better term) the most beautiful melodies. I think his last truly good song was 'The Obvious Child.' You don't get the gift of inspiration forever. The muse is yours for but a short time, and then she's off.

@harryhassell4669

4 жыл бұрын

JeffRebornNow Stranger to Stranger is a truly excellent album.

@linlasj

4 жыл бұрын

@@spinningwheel5230 Me neither and I have sung both...:-)

He looks like an angel, cherub, and sounds like one when he sings , talent from above the gods look down fondly on this man

Paul Simon is one of the greatest American song writers and singers of all time. I am touched by how shy and sensitive he was back in the day until he started to talk about how he composed what is one of the greatest American songs ever written and then he comes into his own and you can see his guitar playing is beautiful and he is such a talented musician that it simply blows your mind even now on July 2, 2023.

Such a nice change of pace to see these old interviews where the audience respectfully just listens to what the artist is saying or doing without obnoxiously cheering and clapping every 5 seconds. You know in a modern day talk show there would have been a lot of hooting and hollering and applause as soon as he picked up the guitar and after every little pause he made.

Dick Cavett’s interviews with Paul Simon are just wonderful. What a brilliant interviewer

I did not expect to enjoy this so damn much. What a brilliant and rare piece of history.

I enjoy a lot of these comments and agree with everything they say. What strikes me is this NY accent and the sound of their voices, the pitch actually is so beyond words.

"Everywhere I went led me where I didn't wanna be...so I was stuck" (with the melody). Paul Simon describing great songwriting in a single phrase...Most songwriters just follow one of the paths, just to get out. Paul Simon would not take the easy way out.

What does Art do? Seriously? He sings like an angel. That's what he does. How can anybody dismiss him as "the guy who sings Paul Simon's songs"? There's never been a better voice in the history of pop music.

Paul could've kept his secrets, given the usual cop out answer, "it came from the gods" and such... Instead he's giving us an honest and fascinating insight into the creative process. The song didn't just pop into his mind fully-formed. Even the greats get stuck, then find a way thanks to a solid musical foundation. Not every pop artist studies Bach harmonies, gospel changes... How he took these disparate influences as building blocks and combined them into a song that feels so effortless and inevitable.

Paul is just so soft spoken! Absolute genius.

The good songwriters , hear things ,within things...so a phrase someone says, or a tune or a picture ,can become part of something new.

@tombradleyjr.3990

3 жыл бұрын

That's what it's all about! 😃

I suspect Lord Farquaad was actually modeled on Paul Simon.

@brendanmccabe8373

4 жыл бұрын

Marietta Corsini fun fact he was actually modelled after the CEO of Disney

@johanponin1360

4 жыл бұрын

@@brendanmccabe8373 for behavior maybe not looks

@BlackDogDenton

4 жыл бұрын

@@johanponin1360 Looks wise I would say he was modelled on Richard III of England.

@MajRatbag

4 жыл бұрын

Farquaad was modeled on the voice actor, looks just like him

@BlackDogDenton

4 жыл бұрын

@@MajRatbag I imagine his face did but the design behind his outfit and hair must have come from Richard III. Especially with the bad reputation old Dick had before they found him buried in the car park!

At the 4 minute mark, Dick Cavett asks Paul if it would be hard to write "a song about a limousine." In 1978, "Stranded in a Limousine" was released, though it was likely recorded much earlier. I have to wonder if this interview is what inspired it.

Cavett gets a scoop - on one of the finest ballads written in the pop-rock era. I didn't know the background - Bach meets (at the time) modern gospel, "I'll be a bridge over deep water, if you trust in my name."

He's like a little boy--until he picks up that guitar. Then he becomes some sort of seraphic genius. The Prince Valiant haircut is a mere bonus.

Loved every second of this...riveting for every reason.

Love hearing about the background and creation of great classic songs!

@paulsimon4381

Жыл бұрын

Hello Christian, how're you doing, Your comments caught my attention and that is why I am reaching out to you.

This is soo wonderful to see how Paul Simon wrote one of the most beautiful songs ever. I keep this song in my playlist as it will never get old.

I can't tell you how good that this makes me feel.

@martinwise2235

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Paul Simon is such a nerdy geeky musical genius. Love it.

A lot of great artists came out of Queens NY. Must be something in the water there.

@bibobeuba

3 жыл бұрын

yes, the water is troubled. That's the reason.

@vladislavno

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, fluoride and LSD.

@chrismcgovern1647

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from there too

@josephkelley8641

2 жыл бұрын

I stayed in Queens first summer in NYC - took about six years to get back there - and from Manhattan subway station/Broadway on West Side -line. The train could stay on the tracks half the night. Not move. No one even asks the conductor why. So used to the return trip (back to Queens) taking forever.

@dang2443

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing you mean Kiss and the Ramones?

“That’s where I’ve been leading you. And he’s in the wings with a subpoena.”

This was an amazing piece of songwriting history.

For those of us who are intensely interested in the arts, and especially music, hearing Simon explain one type of creative process (there are many) this is fascinating. The old sayings, "There is nothing new under the sun" and "All art is derivative" is true. Great artists seem to take the things that already exist and recombine them in new ways to come up with something totally different and compelling and completely new. At least all the greats seem to do this.

@peps1943

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy

@jackcore6969

Жыл бұрын

Which is why most American law firms exist. Sifting through anything they can match up to create a case. Pathetic!

@erikkibler3466

11 ай бұрын

I’ve been writing music over twenty years and although I don’t always do this,I def do it.not to mention how much I subconsciously do it😊

@blissfulbaboon

11 ай бұрын

Great comment!❤ So very very TRUE!They were all thieves in a sense

We are all incredibly fortunate to have this moment captured

-How did you write BOTW? -It’ll take me a minute or so do you need to break? So humble !

I really love Paul Simon; what an incredibly genuine, articulate, soft spoken, intelligent and playful individual. Not only a musician of renown, but a remarkable person as well :)

Paul Simon has always come across as a sensitive and caring man. A brilliant song writer.

I write songs today because of guys like this. Peace. 🐰💙🇺🇸🎸🎶🤝✌️

Paul Simon is a phenomenal guitarist and singer, what a genius and gentle soul.

8:30 Paul has such a beautiful falsetto around this time in his career!

I’ve watched a few Dick Cavett shows now and I have to say I think he was possibly he best chat show host ever........

@ebbenielsen7

4 жыл бұрын

I don't like his style. It's as if he's constantly just waiting to make an ironic or humorous comment. And the other excellent questions are just necessary pause for the next "fun" feature. That's pretty strenuous.

@onetwo3411

4 жыл бұрын

@@ebbenielsen7 you're just looking for something to hate. Pretty obvious since you copy and pasted this same text under other comment threads. He's not that bad. Pretty good actually.

@ebbenielsen7

4 жыл бұрын

@@onetwo3411 I try to come up with a different angle on him; because so many are so excited about him - and I really can't understand why.

@classicartfoundation639

4 жыл бұрын

Really? I find him annoying

@ebbenielsen7

3 жыл бұрын

@E.A. de Ruiter I can see that you have a different opinion than I have - and that you just experience the interview differently than I do. Fair enough. We are two different people. And that many people are enthusiastic about him and his style is, to put it mildly, not an argument for why I should think so too. I still find his interview style strenuous with his, to my taste, frequent failed and awkward attempts to pull questions and focus in a humorous direction. And yes, it is definitely a copy paste of my previous opinions.

That's the first time I've heard anyone explain how they wrote a song. Most people give the impression that it's some complicated, unexplainable process. But he just sat there and demonstrated it, almost as if anyone could do it 😃 He's also so articulate, something you don't see so much these days. And I love his honesty and his humility. And his definition of being stuck was brilliant! 😁

@paulsimon4381

Жыл бұрын

Hello senorita, how're you doing Comments like this are priceless, Thank you❤️ it's nice meeting you here.

@johnsayles4316

2 ай бұрын

There is an old Tom Petty Documentary where Tom discusses how he would have one lick, and spend a week on it, trying to add to it.

I was lucky enough to see S&G in concert about 10yrs ago. Absolutely brilliant.

One of the greatest American songwriters of all time.

He demonstrates perfectly why music plagiarism lawsuits of late are preposterous. Music provides inspiration and fosters creativity. It is never created in a vacuum.

@FarhanAmin1994

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting it so succinctly.

@musicsansnotes

2 жыл бұрын

Our society has become hypersensitive and selfish.

@Charles-db3kr

2 жыл бұрын

Music is inspired by what went before. Just as science builds on past advances. It is so dispiriting to hear people complain about cultural appropriation. If you can use what is good from other cultures we all benefit. Just as Paul Simon integrated African and South American music into his later works. Built on it and comes up with beauty

@dilanrajapaksha

Жыл бұрын

Not just preposterious but intentionally malicious since these record companies spend millions on stopping people from earning even a cent from their songs

@Humblemumble7

Жыл бұрын

Well, I don't know man.. If someone clearly took something you wrote and made millions from it, I doubt you'd be so eager to chalk it up to "insensitivity of the times"

The last part starting at 8:35 when Paul resolves the melody gets me every time. Just a beautifully constructed piece of art.

@michaelmyersfan1001

5 ай бұрын

I’m sure if this channel checked their rewatch time statistics on the video they would see 97.5% of it is me having been replaying that exact part over and over again for the past I don’t know how many years I’ve been coming back to this video and always doing the same thing every time.

What a humble kind of guy.

Songwriting lesson from the great Paul Simon.I love how he becomes more comfortable and confident with a guitar on.Brilliant.

Paul Simon is so down to Earth. He doesn't need a script or glitz or pretense. Just a very smart, talented, every day guy.

What a joy to see two such wonderful, intelligent, and charming men have a great conversation about creativity. Paul Simon is an American National Treasure.

I keep coming back to listen to his humming.

I am wowed by the humility and honesty that Paul Simon brought to the conversation about the creative process and grateful that Dick Cavett was graciously allowing it to happen. But then again, I believe that this is a hallmark of Cavett's interviewing style, along with his dry humor - which I have come to appreciate as I get older.

That was really nice to watch. Paul Simon starts off very nervous on the chair. But once he gets the guitar in his hand, his whole demeanour changes. He becomes more confident and provides a very honest account of how a timeless tune was formed. Thank you for sharing.

I could watch 1000 hours of Paul talking about his process. We also got an insight into American Tune here!!

Such an honest & intelligent man. I admire Paul Simon's view on life & creativity. Very respectable.

Paul McCartney also said he'd often get stuck on a song, as would John Lennon, but then they'd get together and finish off each others songs. He also said they never once came away from a session together with an unfinished piece, but that they both had loads of solo creations that never got finished.

@HumbleTrader001

4 жыл бұрын

THE URANIUM CAFE Or not :)

@cninh4574

4 жыл бұрын

Feels like an utter tragedy; all those songs never released

@MarkSeibold

3 жыл бұрын

We might just finally see some of these incompleted numbers in the soon to be released Beatles Get Back movie, with director-producer Peter Jackson editing over 56 hours of never before released tapes and film reels. Have you seen the new preview that Jackson just released about a week ago? The film quality looks like brand new digital as if it were made yesterday. It actually looks better than digital because it's on actual acetate classic movie film from 1968-1969.

@buddyneher9359

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkSeibold Can. Not. WAIT for "Get Back"!!!!!

@buddyneher9359

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkSeibold Can. Not. WAIT for "Get Back"!!!!!

What a pleasure to watch. Two men doing their best to simply have a conversation, and finding pleasure in each other's company. No ego, no showing off, and both of them showing courtesy. It's not that hard, but how rare to see it these days.

This song brings me back to a summer nite in Forest Hills Stadium in 1965 or 66 at a S & G concert. Garfunkel sang this song and when he was done there was absolute silence for what seemed like an eternity. I was as though no one wanted to brake the spell, then an elevated subway train passed nearby and the audience exploded...I’ll never forget that moment.

@jurgostuff

Жыл бұрын

They sang a song from 1970 four to five years earlier??

Once upon a time great musicians roamed the earth and shared their music with all that would hear it. We revered them then and still do today as legends.

I’m a 21 year old, and I found this whole video so captivating and mind blowing. For several reasons

@lotuseater7247

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you are 21. That's great. I mean, really. Amazing. Twenty one!!! 21!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@DanielBoonelight

4 жыл бұрын

@@lotuseater7247 TF is the point of mocking that statement. it's contextually appro, and you just sound like a dick, and not cavett.

@khappy1286

2 жыл бұрын

It was a great great great time to be alive. Not kidding.

Notice how polite and civilized the audience is. They sit quietly and listen. Even when Paul finishes his demonstration they don't erupt in applause and whooting and whistling. Manners: what a concept.

@Wise__guy

4 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@lynneceegee8726

4 жыл бұрын

Wise Guy admit it, you’ve been dying to say that haven’t you! I’ve come to notice everyone who uses that expression is usually thick totally ignores the entire comment. No idea when you dragged your sorry ass into the world, but it hasn’t improved matters.

@blahdelablah

4 жыл бұрын

I've went to a filming of the David Letterman show. Before the show there was an "audience bootcamp" where they hyped up the people who would be in the crowd and encouraged them to clap/laugh. I would suggest to you that this is the reason modern talkshows have this kind of atmosphere, this is what the producers want.

@fretbuzz59

4 жыл бұрын

@@blahdelablah Yes, it is what the producers want. However, this behavior isn't unique to primed TV audiences. Been to or seen a concert in recent years? I saw Letterman when he was NBC, and though there was pumping up of the audience, the level was nowhere near the frenzy in the later years of the Late Show, which was unbearable. Even though it may be what the producers want, are people chimps? They don't HAVE to behave the way they're being encouraged to.

@fretbuzz59

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wise__guy Okay loser.

Such a chilled guy.

My earliest memory was when i was 3 years old in 1970, around the time of this interview. I was walking with my Dad in South London and as we happened to walk across a bridge, he started singing Bridge over Troubled Water as it was number 1 in the charts at the time. I often think of this now distant memory and this incredible song, a song which has helped me get through some tough times, including my Dad's recent passing. God bless, Dad and God bless you, Paul Simon for writing it.

Continued success! Fifty years later now!

"Everywhere I went led be to where I didn't want to be"...pure Shakespeare.

this guy was absolutely amazing in no country for Old men. 5 stars

@ciankeane6485

2 жыл бұрын

His voice is alot softer! that cashier wouldnt be as tense when he was forced to call it

@fredgarvinMP

2 жыл бұрын

Lol!!

@nezkeys79

Жыл бұрын

😅

This is extraordinary. The same chorale influenced "American Tune" . One short melody by Bach inspires two of the greatest songs of the 20th Century.

@dbadagna

11 ай бұрын

I don't hear the similarity between the first phrase of the Bach chorale melody Simon quotes in this video and the phrase in "Bridge Over Troubled Water" it supposedly inspired (E | F E D G | E). Oh, I just looked at the score and found it: the last six notes of the Bach chorale, which Paul Simon didn't demonstrate in this interview (transposed to the same key he was playing in in this video): E | F E D G | E, exactly the same notes as in "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The lyrics of that phrase are "ge - grü - ßet seist du mir."

In a 1996 Rolling Stone poll of British and American songwriters, they overwhelmingly picked Bridge Over Troubled Water as the song they wished they'd written. But it really was an amazing interview to have him explain, try to explain, how the mind of a genius works. Simon is absolutely, no doubt, a musical genius. Hearing his musings on how the "song came together" is akin to listening to Einstein explain how he came around to his theories on relativity. It makes some sense to you, a little maybe, but mostly it's a wonder.

True substance. Such a super rare quality these days.

My goodness his falsetto, I got chills.

"(When) Everywhere I went led me where I didn't want to be"...add this to the OED as a perfect example of "stuck". Beautifully put.