1968 getting out of the Navy walking the streets of San Francisco in my navy uniform. Age 22. Watching all the hippies protesting. Remembering my friend Joe who got killed in Vietnam. Never came home alive.. Hopping on an air plane homeward bound to San Antonio texas. Remembering the girl who left me the year before. This song "Homeward bound" brings so many memories. Here I am age 75 Remembering all those things a lifetime ago.
When he starts playing it the top E string buzzes, and I thought it was going to ruin the performance, but it goes away. It took a couple of watches to realise as soon as it happens, he notices it and moves the capo a bit with his thumb and it goes away. Just an amazing musician.
The way they did it back then, there was a boom mic on top of where they were sitting. That's why you don't see anything - it's out of frame. The advantage to that setup is you don't hear any clothes rubbing on the mic when he moves around.
Thanks for this gem. I've been reading about the early career of Simon, as in what makes a genius, and my only conclusion is he was born with it, and cultivated with years of varied experience. A hit record in HS, busking in England, studio musician along with Carole King. Include graduated from college and a semester of law school. Pretty amazing.
A live improvised version that’s so one take perfect you could drop it straight to vinyl and cut the single. Just so pure and heart felt. How many artists could just sit there and in front of a studio audience and effortlessly reel that performance off?
I'm an old man now, and I really have no "home" to go back to. This song gets to me every time. This is surely one of the more beautiful versions of it. Thank you, Paul, for this treasure.
@@richieboy6825 I’m an old man now, too, and what I took from his comment is how it makes me feel when it’s so clear that you CAN’T be homeward bound. Not in the sense of the song. The world feels very different when your memories far exceed the horizon of the dreams left to you.
ThinkingOutLoud yeah, I understand. I’ve always been nostalgic to a fault & I know my childhood home and the people that lived there are gone. I’m reading Emerson right now and it’s just broadening my notion of what home means to me- a place where one can attain respite, comfort, and peace- that can be found in the natural world every day of our lives. Happy New Year to you!
@@richieboy6825 yeah, you nailed it. I was born in Montreal, but I moved when I was 12, 52 years ago. I've lived in several cities since then, and have been in Toronto for 25 years. I love it here, and I'll probably die here, but it's not "home". The house I was born and raised in is still there, and I last walked down my old street maybe 35 years ago. It was different. None of my friends were there. I recognized no one. I just didn't feel a connection. So it just doesn't feel like I have a "home" as in "the old family home" or a homestead or a home town.
I met him in Leeds station sitting on the old wooden stairs after a football match with West ham,we chatted and he told me he was going home soon,3 years later I am one of those fan for life.
@@ReneHvidsten I'm still trying to fathom the number of syllables in your name, not being a..., Er... Viking? No disrespect... The British are not that bright! However, here in good ole Blighty we say, "the choo-choo stop," so God only knows where he came up with these lyrics! 🤪
C’mon let’s face it , some people want it , some people try it , and there are not many people who have it ! but Paul Simon has it pure perfect and class
PS wrote this song when he missed the last train and got stuck on Widnes station. Few songs express such a deep longing to be elsewhere. If you have ever been to Widnes, you will have a deeper understanding of this classic tune.
It's the people and not the place. I have good friends in Widnes... Admittedly, that's the only reason I ever go there but, if more decent people relocated there, it'd be a better place 😊
Not true. Paul Simon said he loved the North of England. He stayed with his good friend there. He also said he wrote the song on his travels around the north, not just Widnes. I went to school next to that railway station.
One of the best acoustic guitar player and composer ever. As a guitar player myself I find its music incredible complex to play correctly (full of inventions and tricks the textures) but at the same time easy and smooth to listen, he is a master of acoustic guitar
Just came home from a restaurant where a guitarist was playing lots of old songs from the sixties and seventies - requested this and thought I'd also listen to the original again! I was 20 in 1975 when this aired but it seems like yesterday.
To think he wrote the words and music, AND performed it, is pure musical genius. And this is just 1 of 100 that are pure gold. This guy is a living legend.
I give him a ton of respect at least, haha. He's one of those guys where I'll learn one of his songs, and finally play it pretty well after playing it fairly regularly for two or three years.
Being a singer/guitarist myself, I wanna share that: it's one thing to play the guitar this way, because it's much more difficult than it appears it's another thing to sing this well while playing, again it's much more difficult than it appears finally to come up with both the song that is simply beautiful and also the lyrics, which are divine too, is beyond words And to play this live in a studio on the first take... Pfff, WOW! Thank you Paul Simon for sharing your talent with the world, may God bless you and yours.
All true, to add to that is the fact that the combination of voice and guitar is adding a harmony underneath the performance that sounds like a vocal from another musician, its sublime.
Very well said, AD. I say this as someone who can neither play the guitar nor sing but having tried both know how difficult trying to do one or the other is, let alone both... plus the rest as you pointed out.
also the nuance...raising and lowering the intensity from verse to end of chorus then dropping back...its all mastery...and a LOT of practice. But just writing the song in the first place...its classic songwriting. So simple but so out of reach for most players. I mean, Many great songs out there, but not ao many sublime ones...where it all comes together to make something like this
So many memories flood back to me from when I was wasn't even a teen growing up in early 70's and he which is making me incredibly emotional now because I was introduced to Simon and Garfunkel my brothers just a few years older than I as barely... I can hear my mother or someone's request in the family, yelling from somewhere in the house to put on one of their records on the family record player/stereo console that sat in the front room of house.
I bet the sound recordist is very proud of this video - whoever you are. A wonderful performance of a beautiful song and the sound is just great. I can here every note on Paul's guitar.
Honestly, one of the most impressive live recordings I've ever heard. He just casually belts out this tune singing and playing perfectly and beautifully.
I’m from near the station. About 10 miles away. When I was 17 (I’m 42 now), I went to South America. I spent a couple of months in Venezuela. Not many trains, but I sat in 18 hour long coaches. I listened to this song and missed home. My parents always played it in the car. This and Stevie wonder Good times and great music
Oh my goodness, I've come across this on the day Michael Parkinson died , I wasn't even looking for it , I didn't even know Paul Simon had been on Parkinson yet here it is and here I am on the day he died .
I return to this version of this song more often than any other live songs on UA-cam. It is perfect. I wasn’t even born till over 20 years after it was written and it just shakes my soul to hear it every damn time.
Paul simon...90% of Simon&Garfunkel. He is so unappreciated as a guitarist... How many decades will we have to wait until someone can hold a candle to this truly great composer/poet.
after 25yrs of trying the band route (2 bands 3 albums), i am now 60..my metal head days are behind me.. picked up my acoustic and played the first song i ever learned: baby i'm gonna leave you... have a soft drummer and a singer...if neither or both don't work out - i will be homeward bound with just my guitar... just play and it will come...
@fionnmaccuill415 Look where you are. No matter if the person is a household name, no matter how many awards they have won, no matter how highly respected the person is, no matter how much their instrumental skills are widely and highly respected, some bozo comes along and says they are underrated. "Underrated" is the youtube motto. Do a CTRL-F for it on every video you watch, it'll be there.
Fuck me that was good 👍 Paul Simon is one of the cleverest songwriters around. He just instinctively knows how to bring the best out in songs. A rare quality. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - is a great example. Cheers 🥂
Agreed! And the Sound Of Silence lyrics are prophetic. Even more relevant today. "And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made." Human nature to a T. That's what people do with cellphones now. And they create silence because of very low real social reaction. Wow. Just wow.
@Bill Hill so true, when it’s played 100’s of times, that’s when you get the feeling, you can play without worrying/thinking about each note and where/how to play it.
@Bill Hill that is truth beyond measure when you're putting down the licks the nuances you got to believe it is just second nature and requires some thought but nothing as intensive is trying to pick it off a record or trying to figure it out
These things brings tears to my eyes. I may have only been a boy back then, but these songs of that era shaped us as people. The songs were about LOVE. Even though we had the same problems back then, if not worse--we all didnt hate each other. This wa such a magical time in humankind that will never be replicated but wil live on like the great masters of th e18th century. I now teach acoustic guitar, at 58--teaching music history at a university in Washington (History of Rock n Roll. Our most popular class) and if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go play this song.....1500 miles from home and all alone in life. not too many people my age around. An amazing thing about UA-cam for musicians is, that when you go to look up the chords to a song you'll get 5 different versions...well, here I can SEE exactly how he plays it and sure enough the capo is at the 3rd fret and that first chord is a "G". This is usually a song I have to completely avoid so I dont cry. Liej "I am a Rock" Oh my with that one when it's Christmas and youre alone away from home!
This nails that very experience. Living in the US in Chicago area driving home from our gathering with friends for the Forth of July, Seeing all the different communities setting off their fire works on the drive home. Great song from an amazing writer.
Not many people in the world can sing in a studio probably not made for music yet sound so good. Someone commented that the sound engineer was on his game that day and that's the absolute truth. Thank you for uploading it.
I dunno...my uncle was sound engineer on a Bee Gees track called Mr Natural, and when I asked how they got that vocal sound he said, "You just had to put the mic in front of them". These guys simply have the talent, so for sound engineers it's an easy job.
Top thé top. Thé friends.. For ever mythics thé duet of thé pop music. Its always a shiver. When I listen thé artist. Simon or art.... Garfunkel. Thé utmost.... Thé masters of guitar s with you and him. Performance.. Of apogys..... My friends my génération. Its à breathless when I listen yours songs hyper btful and grace-ful '.
It's a tough business. You need a lot more than just talent. Most people never make it. I reccomend he go to school and learn a trade and have something to fall back on when the music thing doest work out.
Where have the great songwriters gone? Nothing today speaks to me like the songs of the sixties, seventies and some eighties songs. I guess I have finally become my Father
I never realized what an incredible guitarist he is! Obviously an amazing musician and composer and songwriter but I never realized it could a guitarist he is!
I don't know if he has THE ultimate voice but he's one of the legends, or sure. Harry Chapin is/was right up there with him, IMO. ua-cam.com/video/fo-tCNtFI10/v-deo.html
Look again at 0.36 - I love the way he casually adjusts the capo with his thumb and doesn't miss a beat! As for the railway station, he said in a recent interview that it might have been Warrington, but other accounts do say Widnes. Ditton Railway is in that area...might he have been "Sittin' in Ditton"?
@@johntucker9782 Um.. you can beg all you like pal. I don't really care, to be honest. You're entitled to your opinion and you are entitled to disagree. But for me and many others, PS is number 1.
1968 getting out of the Navy walking the streets of San Francisco in my navy uniform. Age 22. Watching all the hippies protesting. Remembering my friend Joe who got killed in Vietnam. Never came home alive.. Hopping on an air plane homeward bound to San Antonio texas. Remembering the girl who left me the year before. This song "Homeward bound" brings so many memories. Here I am age 75 Remembering all those things a lifetime ago.
Awesome story, Thanks for sharing and for your Service. Hope you are well.. 🌞🌻
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Thank you for share this emotion - a feeling only music can give. Greetz from Germany
Welcome home and thanks!
Welcome Home... Thank you for your Service.
Dude wrote so many amazing songs it's literally unbelievable.
@DT Man and Van shut the fuck up, what are you even doing here
So you literally don't believe he wrote that many songs?
+dereksmalluk I literally think you don't know what 'literally' means.
@@absolving DT Man is correct.
"Literally", this word is so misused!
and hats off to the audio engineer too. Perfectly mic-ed
so much so that for a moment I thought it was lip synced but no it’s just pure talent
When he starts playing it the top E string buzzes, and I thought it was going to ruin the performance, but it goes away. It took a couple of watches to realise as soon as it happens, he notices it and moves the capo a bit with his thumb and it goes away. Just an amazing musician.
Sharp eye and ear. I didn't notice the buzz listening on my phone. That's a great musician's improvisation.
I noticed the buzz but didn't see him adjust it. You are very perceptive and he is very talented.
Low E. Good spot tho.
Absolute pro, didn't even flinch.
It was not a mistake. Watch central park concert, he did the same thing
Never seen anyone with such simultaneous ability to sing and play
I know what you mean! It's great, but I reckon Lindsey Buckingham is just as good, especially when he performs Never Going Back Again live.
Karen Carpenter playing drums and singing!
Consider B.B. King. An absolute legend, who never sings and plays his guitar at the same time.
See Richard Thompson live sometime.
Bob Dylan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The sound quality is really impressive. The sound engineer did a really great job, no micro really visible. 👏
Damn yes!!
The way they did it back then, there was a boom mic on top of where they were sitting. That's why you don't see anything - it's out of frame. The advantage to that setup is you don't hear any clothes rubbing on the mic when he moves around.
Absolutely love that video, he's so calm and relaxed, and plays the guitar and sings so naturally as if he was just breathing or eating.
irving blades. good man irving - (MULDEW) gary b.
I'm pretty sure I saw him do that song underwater while eating a turkey and swiss sub
@@arlenmargolin1650 wouldn't the sub get wet. Proof or it didn't happen.
@@irvingblades3756 What, you don’t like soggy chlorine sandwiches?
That’s because he’s very hubristic.
Thanks for this gem. I've been reading about the early career of Simon, as in what makes a genius, and my only conclusion is he was born with it, and cultivated with years of varied experience. A hit record in HS, busking in England, studio musician along with Carole King. Include graduated from college and a semester of law school. Pretty amazing.
Absolute musical genius Paul Simon.
A live improvised version that’s so one take perfect you could drop it straight to vinyl and cut the single. Just so pure and heart felt. How many artists could just sit there and in front of a studio audience and effortlessly reel that performance off?
Just turned it gold
I agree to an extent, but he does flat some notes. He is a genius
I'm an old man now, and I really have no "home" to go back to. This song gets to me every time. This is surely one of the more beautiful versions of it. Thank you, Paul, for this treasure.
Make a new home man! I hope you find it!
@@richieboy6825 I’m an old man now, too, and what I took from his comment is how it makes me feel when it’s so clear that you CAN’T be homeward bound. Not in the sense of the song.
The world feels very different when your memories far exceed the horizon of the dreams left to you.
ThinkingOutLoud yeah, I understand. I’ve always been nostalgic to a fault & I know my childhood home and the people that lived there are gone. I’m reading Emerson right now and it’s just broadening my notion of what home means to me- a place where one can attain respite, comfort, and peace- that can be found in the natural world every day of our lives. Happy New Year to you!
@@richieboy6825 and Happy New Year to you too, sir.
@@richieboy6825 yeah, you nailed it. I was born in Montreal, but I moved when I was 12, 52 years ago. I've lived in several cities since then, and have been in Toronto for 25 years. I love it here, and I'll probably die here, but it's not "home". The house I was born and raised in is still there, and I last walked down my old street maybe 35 years ago. It was different. None of my friends were there. I recognized no one. I just didn't feel a connection. So it just doesn't feel like I have a "home" as in "the old family home" or a homestead or a home town.
I met him in Leeds station sitting on the old wooden stairs after a football match with West ham,we chatted and he told me he was going home soon,3 years later I am one of those fan for life.
The use of railway station instead of train station was always something I liked.
Well, "railway" scans better than "train", I suppose.
In Britain we have railway stations, not train stations so in truth he was waiting in a railway station.
@@ReneHvidsten lol 😁
@@ReneHvidsten I'm still trying to fathom the number of syllables in your name, not being a..., Er... Viking?
No disrespect... The British are not that bright!
However, here in good ole Blighty we say, "the choo-choo stop," so God only knows where he came up with these lyrics!
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@@ReneHvidsten A happy new year to you too 😊
Makes perfection look like light work.
C’mon let’s face it , some people want it , some people try it , and there are not many people who have it ! but Paul Simon has it pure perfect and class
This song and those lyrics and….. that voice of sincerity takes you to another place and time.
Such an incredible performance. How many modern artists could perform something so beautifully live on a talk show?
Katy Perry? Just a guitar and a microphone and Katy Perry. Yeah?
+Dixon7JB
Who?
+Neil Scott answer is:NONE
I agree
I could play that on TV. Not difficult. But write probably not lol.
PS wrote this song when he missed the last train and got stuck on Widnes station. Few songs express such a deep longing to be elsewhere. If you have ever been to Widnes, you will have a deeper understanding of this classic tune.
It's the people and not the place. I have good friends in Widnes... Admittedly, that's the only reason I ever go there but, if more decent people relocated there, it'd be a better place 😊
More decent people to Widnes,half of the north of England would have to move,no southerners allowed.
Not true. Paul Simon said he loved the North of England. He stayed with his good friend there. He also said he wrote the song on his travels around the north, not just Widnes. I went to school next to that railway station.
Boy, I'm sure glad he missed that last train! 😏
@@garychambers5850 To Clarksville or The One After 909?
One of the best acoustic guitar player and composer ever. As a guitar player myself I find its music incredible complex to play correctly (full of inventions and tricks the textures) but at the same time easy and smooth to listen, he is a master of acoustic guitar
yes, wish I could figure out how he does that intro at 20-25 sec
Another is Willie Nelson .
Don’t forget Mary Chapin Carpenter! She does a whole evening just her and her guitar (Greven). “One Night Lonely” most articulate guitar work.
subtly crushing it.. amazingly beautiful human creation right there
Sometimes we forget just how talented some performers are , what a songwriter and singer the bollocks
Just came home from a restaurant where a guitarist was playing lots of old songs from the sixties and seventies - requested this and thought I'd also listen to the original again! I was 20 in 1975 when this aired but it seems like yesterday.
Hello Annabelle
How are you doing today?
@@ThompsonSmith505 Fine! Listening again to this!
To think he wrote the words and music, AND performed it, is pure musical genius. And this is just 1 of 100 that are pure gold. This guy is a living legend.
Paul Simon doesn't get enough credit for his guitar playing.
Thumb and index finger only? Looks that way.
I give him a ton of respect at least, haha. He's one of those guys where I'll learn one of his songs, and finally play it pretty well after playing it fairly regularly for two or three years.
So true!
He does from other players. I can play all his songs. Just not quite right.
I've made that observation before. It's amazing it's not recognized.
Paul Simon. A musical legend. A memorable songwriter and performer.
Right up there with Dylan.
I have to agree, right up there with Dylan.
Being a singer/guitarist myself, I wanna share that:
it's one thing to play the guitar this way, because it's much more difficult than it appears
it's another thing to sing this well while playing, again it's much more difficult than it appears
finally to come up with both the song that is simply beautiful and also the lyrics, which are divine too, is beyond words
And to play this live in a studio on the first take... Pfff, WOW!
Thank you Paul Simon for sharing your talent with the world, may God bless you and yours.
Yes, it was a great performance
All true, to add to that is the fact that the combination of voice and guitar is adding a harmony underneath the performance that sounds like a vocal from another musician, its sublime.
Very well said, AD. I say this as someone who can neither play the guitar nor sing but having tried both know how difficult trying to do one or the other is, let alone both... plus the rest as you pointed out.
also the nuance...raising and lowering the intensity from verse to end of chorus then dropping back...its all mastery...and a LOT of practice. But just writing the song in the first place...its classic songwriting. So simple but so out of reach for most players. I mean, Many great songs out there, but not ao many sublime ones...where it all comes together to make something like this
Talent likes Paul Simon's comes just once in a lifetime...
Very classy guitar work, great right hand control
He should go pro.
Yup, I think he has a future in music
@@joncaju this was from 1975, he had a successful career, he's literally 79 now!? so what do you mean by "i think he has a future in music"
@@dex.112 Look up the term "sarcasm" in the dictionary......
@@joncaju Love his retro hair style and outfit.😉
So many memories flood back to me from when I was wasn't even a teen growing up in early 70's and he which is making me incredibly emotional now because I was introduced to Simon and Garfunkel my brothers just a few years older than I as barely... I can hear my mother or someone's request in the family, yelling from somewhere in the house to put on one of their records on the family record player/stereo console that sat in the front room of house.
That’s what real talent looks & sounds like .
I bet the sound recordist is very proud of this video - whoever you are. A wonderful performance of a beautiful song and the sound is just great. I can here every note on Paul's guitar.
The quality of the microphones is obvious, but their placement and input settings are perfect.
Honestly, one of the most impressive live recordings I've ever heard. He just casually belts out this tune singing and playing perfectly and beautifully.
@@jeremyphillips3087 sitting down too, not easy to project
B B C
He is a musical genius and his lyrics are so beautiful
You've just listened to one of the finest songwriters of all time. What a pleasure.
His voice is so soft and powerful at the same time. Master
Two of the worst haircuts ever.
@@richardplane2155good singing bad haircut
Wow wow wow. Paul Simon. Just Amazing
What a talent, this brings joy and tears.
Paul Simon einer der größten Musiker auf diesem Erdenball!!Habe ihn nur nie Life gesehen!
I was fortunate to see him live, about 5 years ago in Vancouver. Much past his prime. What a legend.
Shakespeare of the song... 💝
🤣🤣🤣🤣, Is that a dig at that look he's rocking?
@@pastohh No, not a dig, I think Paul is brilliant! 💖
@@pastohh Haha! No. RexRed means that Simon writes such masterful songs, like Shakespeare did for literature.
@@paulm.6818 and he also has the same hair, coincidence? i think not!
Yes !
I’m from near the station. About 10 miles away. When I was 17 (I’m 42 now), I went to South America. I spent a couple of months in Venezuela. Not many trains, but I sat in 18 hour long coaches. I listened to this song and missed home. My parents always played it in the car. This and Stevie wonder
Good times and great music
Remember this, liked Parkinson ,he allowed the guests to talk and express themselves, something we have lost today 😢
As a songwriter i think Paul Simon sits alongside the greatest songwriters of all time
What an incredibly natural talent, so effortless, I could listen to that all day. Just amazing...
Oh my goodness, I've come across this on the day Michael Parkinson died , I wasn't even looking for it , I didn't even know Paul Simon had been on Parkinson yet here it is and here I am on the day he died .
Oh. Parkie died. RIP to a legend
I return to this version of this song more often than any other live songs on UA-cam. It is perfect. I wasn’t even born till over 20 years after it was written and it just shakes my soul to hear it every damn time.
Paul Simon was born with a guitar in his hands... I salute his mother who suffered but it was worth it.
First thing he played was Fish scales 🐟
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k Go home
@@seanmatthewking Ah, home... Home where my love lies waitin' silently for me.
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k damn
Good old Parky, interviewed all of the greats of the time, great clip
He makes singing look totally effortless
Best song writer, singer and composer He is Paul Simon..I love all his songs !!!
Best is subjective, it cannot be measured.
He might be the best in your 'opinion' but that is all.
Simply the best singer-songwriter we'll ever have.
arniebunny I know why you feel that, me too, but don't forget about the bard from Hibbing, MN
Don't know about "ever", but an amazing specimen, that's for sure.
Are you fucking stupid.
America yes, Britain or the world, no.
ONE of the best. Gordon Lightfoot might have something to say about that.
Lord a’mighty that’s a heap o’ talent
Paul simon...90% of Simon&Garfunkel. He is so unappreciated as a guitarist... How many decades will we have to wait until someone can hold a candle to this truly great composer/poet.
unappreciated? as a guitarist, and i'm sure i'm not alone, i've always considered him top notch
***** My point was that he was always labelled a poet before a musician. Something that he absolutely despised.
Marc w I think it's more like 99%.
Ed...
It's the harmonies that always intrigued me about/attracted me to S&G. I'd say 80%.
after 25yrs of trying the band route (2 bands 3 albums), i am now 60..my metal head days are behind me..
picked up my acoustic and played the first song i ever learned: baby i'm gonna leave you...
have a soft drummer and a singer...if neither or both don't work out - i will be homeward bound with just my guitar...
just play and it will come...
That intro and closing hammer lick is classic Simon. The guy can play !!!
Paul Simon is such an incredible guitar player.... very underrated
@fionnmaccuill415he was talking specifically about his guitar work mate
@fionnmaccuill415 Look where you are. No matter if the person is a household name, no matter how many awards they have won, no matter how highly respected the person is, no matter how much their instrumental skills are widely and highly respected, some bozo comes along and says they are underrated. "Underrated" is the youtube motto. Do a CTRL-F for it on every video you watch, it'll be there.
Bravo!!! Paul Simon is a National Treasure. He and Garfunkel were hallmarks of a 'New' America in the 70's. We still love them, today.
Jeff Kelley I agree!!!!
Fuck me that was good 👍 Paul Simon is one of the cleverest songwriters around. He just instinctively knows how to bring the best out in songs. A rare quality. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - is a great example. Cheers 🥂
One of the greatest singer/songwriters ever!
All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity like emptiness and harmony I need someone to comfort me ..... what a lyric
Awesome!👍🏻
@@BestUserNameUK I agree, but I think it's emptiness in harmony
He is a great lyricist. I'm sure you've listened to all the classics. He would make a great poet too 😊
Agreed! And the Sound Of Silence lyrics are prophetic. Even more relevant today. "And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made." Human nature to a T. That's what people do with cellphones now. And they create silence because of very low real social reaction. Wow. Just wow.
@@5p3ckyf0ur3y3d833k Poetry is mentioned in "I Am A Rock."
This is the result when passion is fused with genius. Simply amazing songwriting, playing and singing.
Some are jacks of all trades and master of none. Paul is a master of all he touches. There are few if any peers.
He makes it look effortless: it's not.
yes, wish I could figure out how he does that intro at 20-25 sec
The Man was, and is, brilliant and an inspiration to all of us who are heavily influenced by him. He has made my life richer.
@Bill Hill so true, when it’s played 100’s of times, that’s when you get the feeling, you can play without worrying/thinking about each note and where/how to play it.
When you're young you have breath control. Cigarettes took mine away.
@Bill Hill that is truth beyond measure when you're putting down the licks the nuances you got to believe it is just second nature and requires some thought but nothing as intensive is trying to pick it off a record or trying to figure it out
This is Greatness.
That is what pure genius sounds like. A very rare find in modern music.
Memories from back when ...... thanks
These things brings tears to my eyes. I may have only been a boy back then, but these songs of that era shaped us as people. The songs were about LOVE. Even though we had the same problems back then, if not worse--we all didnt hate each other. This wa such a magical time in humankind that will never be replicated but wil live on like the great masters of th e18th century. I now teach acoustic guitar, at 58--teaching music history at a university in Washington (History of Rock n Roll. Our most popular class) and if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go play this song.....1500 miles from home and all alone in life. not too many people my age around. An amazing thing about UA-cam for musicians is, that when you go to look up the chords to a song you'll get 5 different versions...well, here I can SEE exactly how he plays it and sure enough the capo is at the 3rd fret and that first chord is a "G". This is usually a song I have to completely avoid so I dont cry. Liej "I am a Rock" Oh my with that one when it's Christmas and youre alone away from home!
After 50 years, these songs are still so intriguing... I had to watch this video a few times.
absolutely brilliant composer and performer, one of a kind, a living treasure.
Don't know why but this song somehow explains to me that we're only here for a fast moving limited amount of time. And to use it well
That’s what it made me feel too . . .
Beautiful!
Such a wonderful creative time for music in the early 70's. So many legends created then who will always remain relevant. What happened.
His lyrics, music, composure style. Sublime and lovely. Much appreciated but still much underrated.
This nails that very experience. Living in the US in Chicago area driving home from our gathering with friends for the Forth of July, Seeing all the different communities setting off their fire works on the drive home. Great song from an amazing writer.
Not many people in the world can sing in a studio probably not made for music yet sound so good. Someone commented that the sound engineer was on his game that day and that's the absolute truth. Thank you for uploading it.
I dunno...my uncle was sound engineer on a Bee Gees track called Mr Natural, and when I asked how they got that vocal sound he said, "You just had to put the mic in front of them". These guys simply have the talent, so for sound engineers it's an easy job.
Exquisite. Lovely. Paul is truly a poet. A great American original.
That is incredible, astonishing. He is the modern interpreter.
So nice to hear your wonderful voice again!
Watch him adjust the Capo at 35 secs - class !
***** cool that you pointed that out ... damn, what a pro .. so smooth !
LOL - a true pro
Hahaha it buzzed! Man what a speed reaction he had..
@@TheHobieBoy I think it's cool how gently and smoothly he did it - no rush at all. Just nonchalantly nudge it a little, without skipping a beat.
Un capo!!!!
Thank you Paul for all your beautiful music!
Here ,here
Absolutely beautiful
He does it all so effortlessly
A true Master, and a great Artist
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He is one of the few true music geniuses, IMO.
How many modern popular musicians could showcase their work with only voice and guitar? Wonderful!
Brilliantly. He is simply genius, thanks God and 60’s.
Amazing. Perfect.
This guy is talented. He should start a band.
Funny 😄
Don't rate this mustachio'd newby. I'd be surprised if he has ANY success!
... and have a blonde curly haired guy as his errand boy.
Needs a shave and a hairtcut though...
It's a tough business. You need a lot more than just talent. Most people never make it. I reccomend he go to school and learn a trade and have something to fall back on when the music thing doest work out.
Where have the great songwriters gone? Nothing today speaks to me like the songs of the sixties, seventies and some eighties songs. I guess I have finally become my Father
The emotion in his voice is amazing
Smooth and delightful ❤️💕
I never realized what an incredible guitarist he is! Obviously an amazing musician and composer and songwriter but I never realized it could a guitarist he is!
Beautiful - love the simplicity and purity of this version!
This man with two first names has the ultimate story telling voice. I will love him always.
I don't know if he has THE ultimate voice but he's one of the legends, or sure. Harry Chapin is/was right up there with him, IMO. ua-cam.com/video/fo-tCNtFI10/v-deo.html
Very nicely done. Beautiful.
I actually started to well up listening to that.....such a natural talent.
Hello Pat, How are you doing?
capo on 3 and I have had it on two all these years!
My god, he's a national treasure.
Such wonderful talent as a singer and song writer and his back up music is so very nice, I still love to hear him singing today and will always
Look again at 0.36 - I love the way he casually adjusts the capo with his thumb and doesn't miss a beat! As for the railway station, he said in a recent interview that it might have been Warrington, but other accounts do say Widnes. Ditton Railway is in that area...might he have been "Sittin' in Ditton"?
Oh yes! Simon is a genius, and aging very well!
The finest songwriter to emerge from the 1960s.
Kind of ever...
Um...no.
Top 5 for sure.
@@johntucker9782 Um... Other opinions are available. For me and many others, he's number one.
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Paul would even tell you that Bob was the best, so he and beg to differ. Our opinions also count.
@@johntucker9782 Um.. you can beg all you like pal. I don't really care, to be honest. You're entitled to your opinion and you are entitled to disagree. But for me and many others, PS is number 1.
It looks so effortless for him to sit there and play this song. That's the kind of talent I'm jealous of.