Was going to list this in the "What Are You Listening To" thread but decided the album deserved it's own thread.
Heard this CD at my late audiobuddy's Lars Fredell's home eons ago. (In fact Lars went to the concert back in '81 that attracted 500K people to Central Park that night!) CD sounded pretty good, looked for the LP and couldn't do find it and the album slipped my mind over the years.
Fast forward to last week and someone I know was selling a bunch of records on FB. Picked this album up as well as a half dozen or so more and they all arrived yesterday. Did the necessary prep work and put the S&G on tonight. Wow! I had a mini, four side Simon and Garfunkel concert in my listening room tonight. Simply awesome and it was absolutely impossible to pick or single out one song as my fave. But "Wake Up Little Susie" was definitely my fave non S&G song from that night. Side four though was a knockout with "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, The Boxer" and then the three songs played for the encore, "Old Friends, Feelin' Groovy and The Sounds of Silence." The sound--and especially the vocals too--is far better than expected and there is a wonderful feeling of the crowd that attened that historic night.
But gosh. Finished the concert and all I could think of is have we ever seen a better song writer than Paul Simon or duo of Simon and Garfunkel. It is just lovely to hear Garfunkel singing over top of Simon. "The Sound of Silence" makes me melt into a puddle on the floor!
Oh the album can be found for a song on discogs now (I must have been a good boy because the album is in absolutely mint shape!)





Heard this CD at my late audiobuddy's Lars Fredell's home eons ago. (In fact Lars went to the concert back in '81 that attracted 500K people to Central Park that night!) CD sounded pretty good, looked for the LP and couldn't do find it and the album slipped my mind over the years.
Fast forward to last week and someone I know was selling a bunch of records on FB. Picked this album up as well as a half dozen or so more and they all arrived yesterday. Did the necessary prep work and put the S&G on tonight. Wow! I had a mini, four side Simon and Garfunkel concert in my listening room tonight. Simply awesome and it was absolutely impossible to pick or single out one song as my fave. But "Wake Up Little Susie" was definitely my fave non S&G song from that night. Side four though was a knockout with "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, The Boxer" and then the three songs played for the encore, "Old Friends, Feelin' Groovy and The Sounds of Silence." The sound--and especially the vocals too--is far better than expected and there is a wonderful feeling of the crowd that attened that historic night.
But gosh. Finished the concert and all I could think of is have we ever seen a better song writer than Paul Simon or duo of Simon and Garfunkel. It is just lovely to hear Garfunkel singing over top of Simon. "The Sound of Silence" makes me melt into a puddle on the floor!
Oh the album can be found for a song on discogs now (I must have been a good boy because the album is in absolutely mint shape!)
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