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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The greatest American Poet (musically), 3 Aug 2002
I bought this CD last week and havent stopped playing it since. As a Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel fan since i discovered them as a 12 yearold in 1980, this CD is incredible. The quality for a 35 year old recording is astounding. And the range of songs throws up a load of unusual tunes as the concert took place when they only had three albums released. With two men, one guitar, one stage and an entralled audience and great versions of A most peculiar man, Richard Cory, Hazy shade of winter and a new song never before released called where your interest lies, this is a must for all S&G fans. The chat in between songs is also very enjoyable and witty. The guy in the last release was saying it would be better if more songs were added but there wasnt anymore to add, this is the entire concert. In the 60's concerts never lasted more than an hour anyway. On headphones you have Paul Simon in your left ear, Art in your right and the harmonies are just beautiful.
So come home some night late, turn off the light, plug in the headphones, put on the CD and lie back and close your eyes. Bring yourself back to the 60's and hear some great acoustic versions of S&G classics and other songs you never hear live. A lot of people think Bob Dylan was the greatest American folk/poet of the 60's, for me, no one touches Paul Simon, just listen to A poem on the underground wall.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
S&G Live In New York, 16 Jul 2002
Anybody with a passing interest in Simon & Garfunkel will not be disappointed with this new release from Sony's Legacy label; fans who have all the releases may feel that a little more could have been offered. The CD itself is of the quality you would expect of a remastered concert from 1967, and the liner notes are suitably evocative. The actual concert pre-dates S&G's rise to superstardom, and as such does not include what many people who own Greatest Hits albums, would know as their more well known songs: no 'Mrs.Robinson', 'The Boxer', 'Bridge', or 'America'. However, this should not be seen as a negative, as it allows the duo to showcase their more folkly Everly Brothers roots.
Four tracks have already appeared on the 'Old Friends' box set, and at just under an hour, it may be suggested that a few more tracks could have been included.
But don't let this put you off, this in an excellent, if long overdue addition to the brief cannon of work of an underappreciated, yet important '60's group.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As essential as any of their studio albums - if not more so, 6 Jul 2007
The sonic quality of this recording is amazing. Fair enough, one doesn't need 64-track technology to record 2 voices and a guitar (and the audience) but nevertheless, the standards that were employed to produce this recording were of the highest.
The performance is at turns exciting, funny and moving.
Both singers are in fine voice, notably on 'Benedictus' (first heard on the debut album), taken to a new level here in terms of perfectly matched harmony, melody and counter-melody. Beautiful stuff.
The only low points (and they're not really all that low) are 'Homeward Bound' - Arty strains to get the high notes at times (hear a better live version on the Greatest Hits album) - and 'You Don't Know Where You're Interest Lies', which was only half-developed at the time, and even in its finished state was never the strongest of Simon's songs.
Still, this album is still brilliant, even breathtaking the first couple of times you hear it such is its amazing sound. Put it on, lie back, listen, and (assuming your system is half-decent) you'll be right there.
* Of the earlier reviewer who gave this a low score, lamenting the lack of 'Mrs Robinson' or 'The Boxer' - this performance predates those songs.
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