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An early demo of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York” (excerpted from the 1975 BBC series on the duo). I wish this line had made it into the final version!
From SXSW 2019 panel:
Neil: Crowley actually is really smart and he’s the same character. He goes through, you know, an awful lot, but he’s the same person at the beginning on the wall at the Garden of Eden as he really is at the end of the story. Aziraphale actually has to change. He’s like somebody who for years has just been such part of a group, part of a political party, part of something that he kind of believes and trusts, and now he’s starting to realize that actually that… we fucked… he actually has much more painful journey. He makes more mistakes. Crowley knows how appaling Hell is, so that never really changes for him, and he knows that he likes being on Earth. He is against the Armageddon from the word go. He thinks the world is great and is comfortable and it has restaurants and wine; it has a few strange things, you know, he’s never been able to get anything other that The Best of Queen to play in a radio. It’s a great place to be. Aziraphale kind of knows that, but he also believes that Heaven and Gabriel, they kind of know what they’re doing - don’t they? So he’s the one that goes through the journey.
Interviewer: Crowley has lived a life of bravery. I mean, if it’s a metaphor for a human existence, he’s the guy who put himself out there, he’s fallen down, he’s got back up, he knows what it feels like to be alive. Aziraphale’s lived a very guarded life and as a result he fears, you know, with the good and the bad so he really is a metaphor for the rest of us trying to figure out who we are.
David: Yes, ‘cause Crowley was once an angel too, remember. He’s an angel who fell from grace, so he knows he’s amongst wankers to begin with. It is really about… dealing and surviving and if only he could make the scales fall from his mate’s eyes they’d be in a much better position.
Half of my life is gone truly had a power of its own, though it's heartbreaking enough like this, too.
Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where And we don’t know where Here I am…
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I remember a wonderful interview where Artie said something among the lines of "if you listen to his guitar playing, you'll get what a great lover Paul Simon is - not that I would know of course, but I mean...", stuff like that.
So.
Yeah.
I'll look for it. It was from a BBC Radio 6 Music series named The Paul Simon Songbook, covering the history of well, Paul's music. I had the transcripts of these from gods know where, probably Artie's website old forum? Anyway, episode So Young, Yet So Full of Pain (gotta love it) is about their 60s pre-BOTW works, and at a certain point they focus on For Emily. Well, Artie's quote for y'all to enjoy: "The first thing I think about with that song is what a great lover Paul Simon is. I mean... I've never been in bed with him, I don't know (audibly smirking), but I assume he's a very caressing lover, because if you listen to him play the twelve-string underneath my voice, that carriage, that ride he's providing for the vocalist, is very intimate and very beautiful. He's so underneath my vocal, and swelling just where the vocal is swelling, and clearly the frienship is a really close one, you can hear so much on there... at this point we're friends since 13 years old, that's a close friend! So it shows up in the music that we're reading each other's next musical intention, even though it's a hundredth of a second away, we know based on what's happening in the present what the immediate next future is gonna go to. That's just musicians... being very together."
Linda Eastman Simon and Garfunkel, New York City 1966
“I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don’t know why I’m writing what I’m writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it.” Paul Simon, 1984
“[T]he loving, caressing guitar work that Paul Simon does on a Martin acoustic guitar, just kills me and makes me sing lovely. I ride that guitar like a jockey on a horse that is having a fabulous little spring.” Art Garfunkel
babe are you ok? youve been playing america by simon and garfunkel for the past 4.5 hours now.
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me
🖤
Homeward Bound.
@duchess-of-chaos' post on Feuilles-O reminded me of something.
Bridge Over Troubled Water was published on January 26, 1970.
I remember hearing Feullies-O for the first time on some compilation like 20 years ago or something, and there were other demos they cut later, on July 8, 1970. I know those demos were later included on Sounds of Silence releases in 2000s, but I checked on the compilation booklet and that's the date they were recorded, not 1966 but 1970.
The demos I'm talking about are Barbriallen, Roving Gambler and Rose of Aberdeen. The latter was also performed live at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on July 18, 1970 (link has the wrong title, but it's the right song). As we know, they also used to sing That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine and Lightning Express in concerts between 1969 and 1970, not to mention Bye Bye Love, which they covered since 1968 at least.
I've been wondering all these years... were they just having fun, recording those tracks in Summer 1970? Or maybe, just maybe... they were thinking about a potential next album?
Stay with me on this for a while. How to follow the huge success of BOTW? A compilation of cover songs would have taken lots of pressure off of them. And what's better that a homage to the Everly Brothers, and/or to traditional music in general?
This is just a thought of course, but I've been wondering for quite some time... it would've been a marvelous album, imho. They sound great singing these songs, their voices are a perfect match to this kind of music.
What you think about it? Am I being silly, or is it at least a bit fascinating?
anon asked: inside no. 9 + most heartbreaking scene ↪ bernie clifton's dressing room
if ur ever feeling sad abt todd and neil DO NOT!!!! i repeat, DO NOT!!!! listen to "all i want" by kodaline
SPOILERS FOR DRDT CH 2 EPISODE 15
I didn't care about Ace at first, I found him annoying and I hated the constant screaming and I'll be honest, at first I felt happy he was going to go, but then I realised how beautiful and tragic his character is.
He's constantly outcasted for his personality to the point he's extra aggressive almost as a front it seems, considering how he calmed down a lot at the end, but he always pushes people further away. But when Nico tried to kill him, Ace realised that the others weren't just annoyed by him but were actually malicious towards him, even if only Nico tried to kill him, in his eyes everyone wanted to kill him.
Ace was desperate to survive by any means, yes he was selfish but he was human and he was scared, and now in his fight to stay alive he's going to die.
Ace is going to die knowing the only person who he thought ever gave a crap about him secretly never cared at all.
Ace is going to die knowing that his only defence in the eyes of the cast was that he was stupid and that they all thought so little of him.
Ace is going to die alone and terrified knowing that everyone hated him and is glad to see him go.
Ace Markey, I didn't like you. I used to hate you even, but now I see that you're just human. Humans can be annoying and loud and so so selfish but they're still human.
I'm going to miss Ace.
Today we reached Chapter 23 of YWDMP in my stream series, and I've been so excited for it because of how it ends.
This moment is everything to me. I just had to illustrate it.
completed September 19 2024