Recently I re-found my CD of S&G in central park, to only one week later get the video of the same concert. Again one week later I found "Old Friends" at a discount table in a shop at central station of my city. I watched in awe! At the beginning it is really hard to look over the aged old friends who weren't always old friends.
There they stood, too old, fragile, and hardly recognizable... But only at the beginning. It took me a few songs to overcome the shock of age, and then suddenly, all the songs Paul Simon wrote at such a young age, suddenly had reached their final destination, at a concert in 2004.
I know I sound soggy, but if you liked S&G and loved their lyrics, then you owe it to yourself to watch this concert. The score for this show was so subtle, adjusted to their age and vocal span, almost transparent, intimate and overwhelmingly beautiful. Old age as art! Without any fear for their last years, I saw them embracing their great lyrics, giving it body and soul.
I loved it, and will watch it over and over again.
There they stood, too old, fragile, and hardly recognizable... But only at the beginning. It took me a few songs to overcome the shock of age, and then suddenly, all the songs Paul Simon wrote at such a young age, suddenly had reached their final destination, at a concert in 2004.
I know I sound soggy, but if you liked S&G and loved their lyrics, then you owe it to yourself to watch this concert. The score for this show was so subtle, adjusted to their age and vocal span, almost transparent, intimate and overwhelmingly beautiful. Old age as art! Without any fear for their last years, I saw them embracing their great lyrics, giving it body and soul.
I loved it, and will watch it over and over again.