Found new information about another 1967 concert: Detroit, January, University of Detroit

Read the very nice story here

The ‘Bridge over troubled water’ The 40th Annivesary Edition has become available. Although this is an informational blog and not my intention to ventilate my own thouhgts, I would like to make some if you don’t mind as an exception to the rule.

1) The ‘Harmony Game’ video on the DVD disk is superb. Why? First of all the information that is shared by, especially,  Paul Simon and Roy Halee. We now know what makes Simon & Garfunkel sound like Simon & Garfunkel did. The way they recorded their voices: first track was 2 voices together, than the separate voices were recorded, and this mixed together….
Secondly it is ‘almost giving a warm feeling’ to see how Paul Simon has enjoyed the cooperation with Roy Halee. One studio freak together with another, makeing beautiful thing together. Thirdly, it is astonishing that Paul and Art had to be recorded separately for the interviews. Have they really grown apart so much (again)? The album was recorded in almost no harmony at all it seems (Art being actor in ‘Catch 22’, Paul on his own most of the time in the studio).

2) The booklet. Again no session info. Just some dates, not who played what, how where. There a two pictures of the Label Copy Mastering Instructions. These show recording dates and the remark ‘Studio ?’ after several tracks. Indeed with a question mark. Was this album really intended to be a live album ( all shows of the 1969 US tour were recorded ). Why not tell us about that. CBS / Sony of Japan used this info on their sleeve too, under the impressions probably, that it was a live album. This is the 7th or 8th edition I know have of ‘bridge over troubled water’ and again the liner notes are dissapointing to me. The information we get is nice to know.  Thanks to ‘The harmony game’ we know a bit more.

But, the album still is a masterpiece after 41 years!

Jazz drummer Joe Morello died last weekend, at the age of 82. He was wellknown for his work in the The Dave Brubeck Quartet.  Joe Morello was famous for his brush-work on the drums.

Why a post about it on this Simon & Garfunkel blog? Well, there has always been a rumour that the rhythm-section of Dave Brubecks Quartet played on Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin”  groovy)’. But the liner notes to the (re)releases of ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme’ never unrevealed this info. So a year or two ago I decided to ask it Joe Morello himself, if he and bass-player Eugene Wright, were hired as session-musicians for the recording of ‘Feelin’ Groovy’.  Joe Morello replied to me very quickly and wrote:‘ I was indeed part of that session. Unfortunately I do not remember where or when it took place’.

So now when you listen again to ‘Feelin’ groovy’…that’s Joe Morello using his brushes.

Added this concert to the 1980 concert overview

This poster is on sale now at eBay for a nice amount. But was it in 1967?

In 1974 Paul Simon visited Japan for the first time. According to the info we have found so far, he performed at the following dates:

1974-04-01 Osaka – Japan Festival Hall    
1974-04-03 Osaka – Japan Festival Hall     
1974-04-05 Aichi – Japan Ken Tai-iku-kan    
1974-04-09 Tokyo – Japan Budokan     
1974-04-10 Tokyo – Japan Budokan

The Japanese music magazine ‘Music Life'(1974/4) presented a letter by Paul Simon. dated February 25th 1974, in which he stated that he was soon to play in Japan and looking forward to his stay in Japan. The magazine has also an interview with Paul Simon, which I hope to be able to share with you soon. It is in Japanese and has to be translated.

   

As Kazunori points out in his comment in an earlier issue of Music Life, the first part of the interview was published.

In the May issue of Music Life an article of Paul Simon’s show was published. Thanks to Kaz we can now show you some pictures of this article:

 

The Pacific Stars and Stripes journal ran an interview with Paul Simon, during his Tokyo stay, on April 5th:

A couple of years ago a bootleg was released of one of the Japan shows:

– to be continued –

While the new album ‘So beautiful or so what’ will be with us in April, Paul Simon will tour the US this spring: 

4/15/11 Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater
4/20/11 Los Angeles, CA – Pantages Theatre
4/21/11 Los Angeles, CA – Pantages Theatre
4/23/11 Temecula, CA Pechanga – Resort & Casino Theatre
4/25/11 San Francisco, CA – Davies Symphony Hall
4/26/11 Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
5/2/11 Minneapolis, MN – Minneapolis Convention Center Auditorium
5/6/11 Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
5/10/11 New York, NY – The Beacon Theatre
5/11/11 New York, NY – The Beacon Theatre
5/17/11 Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
5/19/11 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
5/22/11 Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Festival
5/25/11 Washington DC DAR – Constitution Hall
5/28/11 Atlantic City, NJ – The Borgata
5/29/11 Mashantucket, CT MGM – Grand Theatre @ Foxwoods
6/1/11 Boston, MA – Wang Theatre

Possibly also one or two shows in England are done, but not confirmed so far.

Since Art Garfunkel’s voice has not gotten better since last year’s May, there will be no touring as a duo.

The latest Record Collector Magazine (April 2011) had another gemm to show. On their ‘Most wanted’ pages they a picture of  a 1965 folk-concert flyer. It’s the January 29th ‘All Star Folksong Concert’ which shows the names of Martin Carthy, Paul Simon, Dorris Henderson and Martin Winsor. The concert took place in London’s ‘The City Temple Hall’.

I had the date already mentioned in the 1965 section, but here’s a picture to make it complete: