Artists we take for granted

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Of course I mean myself. Maybe you do the same.

I was just watching Homeward Bound a Tribute to Paul Simon that aired last April on CBS.

I don’t own any of his music. I can only think that’s so because I’ve been hearing it everywhere since I was 13 years old.

Watching one superbly arranged and performed song after another today really made me think about how great a gift he has and how deeply his music is woven into my life.

The show can be found on YouTube unfortunately with the annoying commercials you have to click away.
 
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Mjark said:
Of course I mean myself. Maybe you do the same.

I was just watching Homeward Bound a Tribute to Paul Simon that aired last April on CBS.

I don’t own any of his music. I can only think that’s so because I’ve been hearing it everywhere since I was 13 years old.

Watching one superbly arranged and performed song after another today really made me think about how great a gift he has and how deeply his music is woven into my life.

The show can be found on YouTube unfortunately with the annoying commercials you have to click away.
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He’s the only childhood musical hero I’ve seen twice.
My wife and I saw him on the Rhythm Of The Saints tour, and I saw him on the Homeward Bound tour.
Both we’re unforgettably great.
He had an 18 piece band for the Rhythm show, and a mere 13 on the Homeward.
My Dad liked, and played Homeward Bound a lot, when I was a kid.
Though he’d never say so (my Dad), I think he related to it.
His USAF job kept him from his family, sometimes for years.
Personally, Old Friends/Bookends is a life lesson.
“Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you.”
I actually took it to heart, and lived by it.
Rumor has it he is now a neighbor.
I haven’t seen him at the grocery store yet.
 
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Mjark said:
Of course I mean myself. Maybe you do the same.

I was just watching Homeward Bound a Tribute to Paul Simon that aired last April on CBS.

I don’t own any of his music. I can only think that’s so because I’ve been hearing it everywhere since I was 13 years old.

Watching one superbly arranged and performed song after another today really made me think about how great a gift he has and how deeply his music is woven into my life.

The show can be found on YouTube unfortunately with the annoying commercials you have to click away.
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I agree that Simon, despite his worldwide fame for decades, is largely under-appreciated. A massively talented, creative, and skilled artist every second of his career.
 
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I think a lot of great artists are under-appreciated because they had the good fortune to not die young. I feel like Eddie Vedder is at least as talented as Cobain, but he hasn’t been mythologized because he’s still around. Bob Dylan and Springsteen are obvious exceptions.
 
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I was given to taking David Bowie for granted.

I loved all his albums and changes and evolutions.
Me and my band performed a lot of his songs over the years.
I thought that he would keep on keeping on forever.

And then he passed away.

Hurt my feelings, it did.

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I liked the Simon tribute. The renditions were indeed spectacular. Specifically, Loves me like a Rock and Mother and Child Reunion and America. I found some of the others a little pandering but I still came away thinking that guy can write a darn good song (or 50).
 
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Paul Simon and John Denver for me.

They wouldn't have been admitted to as major influences on me when I was a teen and eager to impress but I started my first band when I was 11 with my best mate and two older guys (bass and drums they were 14).
We rehearsed in the drummer's garage where he kept this old 4 piece drum kit, the bass through an old hifi, two acoustic guitars and me and my mate screaming at the top of our lungs to be heard over the racket.

The first two songs we played were "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "The Sound of Silence" nothing else for months, until I pilfered a Beatles songbook from the school library.

Both of them are woven into my musical makeup.

It still didn't stop me wanting to become the next Rod Stewart.
 
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I've listened to Paul Simon's latest, Seven Psalms, and it's a sobering experience; his voice is a bit weathered as he ponders all things life, death and the great beyond ... it almost feels like a goodbye. Acoustic guitars accompaniment throughout, and a cameo by wife Edie. A lot of heavy lyrical content packed into just 33 mins.
 
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Good question OP, now realizing that I take Dylan for granted, I've listened since I was 8 and he just keeps a-comin' around Never Ending Tour-ing, and consistently releasing albums ... I'm likely in the minority really liking the whole late era, gravelly-voiced rockin' roadhouse blues material, from Time Out Of Mind onward; love that loose vintage-y genuine sound. Following the excellent studio album Rough and Rowdy Ways, he is now releasing the live Shadow Kingdom, from a streaming pay per view some months back. Go Bob!
 
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