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Simon & Garfunkel: Old friends on tour

Fans couldn’t help but be curious last fall when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel strode onstage to open their reunion concerts with the song “Old Friends.”

Old friends, yes. But still friends?

The boyhood chums have been famously estranged through the years, the classic example of a duo that made sweet music onstage and hit sour notes when the lights went down.

Now, however, “my friendship with Artie is back to where it was when we were 12 years old,” Simon said. “We’re laughing and kidding around all the time. It’s a lot of fun.”

Agreed Garfunkel: “We are remarkably like brothers in our musical calling and our senses of humor.”

Good vibes. Without them, Simon & Garfunkel probably wouldn’t be going out on the road again this summer, starting June 10 in Albany. The $64.5 million in ticket sales for the first leg of the “Old Friends” tour probably helped their mood, too.

Two very different points of view They may be friends again, but that doesn’t mean they always see eye to eye. In the course of two interviews, they disagreed on whether Simon & Garfunkel has a recording future, a touring future beyond this summer and whether a change in their show for Europe was politically motivated.

Last fall, during the song “America,” a video montage ran on screens behind the two singers, showing images of the nation during the past 40 years. That will be either changed or eliminated when the tour moves to Europe.

“It’s what an artist does when he feels the name of his country speaks too loudly and too provocatively (that) it pushes the music aside,” Garfunkel said, somewhat cryptically. He wouldn’t comment further.

Simon said it will be altered to be more appropriate to Europeans.

“It’s not a political statement,” he said. “It’s a geographic reality.”

The singers’ repertoire is kept strictly to the Simon & Garfunkel recordings, except for Simon’s early 1970s solo recordings “Slip Slidin’ Away” and “American Tune.” Trying to balance the duo material with more solo work would have been too difficult, Simon said.

“It’s particularly appropriate now to stay locked into a time capsule, because it has a lot of resonance,” he said. “The power of the elapsed time adds emotion to the songs. A lot of these songs, even back then, were dealing with the passage of time.”

Putting the ‘old’ in ‘Old Friends’ Simon was in his early 20s when he wrote a line in the song “Old Friends” about being 70. The idea that he’s performing the song at age 62 “is still shocking to me,” he said.

Simon spoke from his office in the Brill Building, a legendary location for songwriters during the 1960s. His walls were covered with old posters and album covers, along with the New York Yankees fan’s impressive collection of baseball memorabilia.

Garfunkel talked at his three-story apartment off New York’s Central Park, shortly before leaving on a trip to continue a walking tour of Europe.

Preparing for the show was difficult in an odd, unexpected way, Simon described. For most people, their memory of Simon & Garfunkel is two singers, one guitar. But the old recordings usually had full bands. The challenge was being true to the fans’ memories yet updating the sound. The duo travels with a seven-piece band.

Mutual admiration The tour gave Simon a greater appreciation for what Garfunkel’s voice meant to his music.

“The sound of the two voices is unique,” he said. “The fact that the Everly Brothers are part of the show really connects us to our beginnings. Just the fact of duo singing is a powerful thing. It’s gone.”

Between the Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel and John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles, the sound of two voices blending to make a sound distinct from each alone is a powerful thing, he said. It sounds shocking today because no one is doing it, he said.

“I find Paul at his absolute best,” Garfunkel said. “He is a benign papa, with that same considerable talent and a beautiful work ethic. I love people who respect their work.”

Costly tickets Seeing the duo isn’t a cheap date. The average ticket price for a Simon & Garfunkel show last fall was $136.90, well above the industry average of around $50, according to Pollstar magazine.

“It’s a hard subject,” Garfunkel said. “It puts me on the defensive. I didn’t make the ticket price. I’m involved in it, my profit is related to it. Am I squeezing the American people? Well, if they show up and say we’re happy to buy your ticket price and come see the show, who am I to say you shouldn’t be happy?”

Garfunkel said he’s had great fun with the reunion, which he called “an open-ended experience.” The idea of new recordings from Simon & Garfunkel is “a very interesting and feasible possibility,” he said.

That may be wishful thinking.

Although they’re preparing a CD and DVD recording of their Madison Square Garden from last fall, Simon doesn’t expect any new music from the duo.

“I think we’re about what we were,” not what we could be in the future, he said. Simon is halfway through a new album, an intriguing partnership with soundscape engineer Brian Eno.

He also predicted it would be the last time on the road for Simon & Garfunkel.

“If it was an ongoing act where there was new material being recorded and you were working that into the repertoire, maybe there would be some justification,” Simon said. “But I think this is a good example of the music that we made and I don’t really see any powerful reason to do it again, because we did it. It’s not a Shermanesque declaration. It’s just how I feel.”

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• Old Friends / Bookends Play Video
• A Hazy Shade of Winter Play Video
• I Am a Rock ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• America Play Video
• At the Zoo Play Video
• Baby Driver Play Video
• Kathy's Song ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• Hey, Schoolgirl ( Tom & Jerry  cover) Play Video
• The Everly Brothers
• Wake Up, Little Susie ( Boudleaux Bryant  cover) Play Video
• All I Have to Do Is Dream ( Boudleaux Bryant  cover) Play Video
• Let It Be Me ( Gilbert Bécaud  cover) Play Video
• Bye Bye Love ( Boudleaux Bryant  cover) (with Simon & Garfunkel ) Play Video
• Scarborough Fair ( [traditional]  cover) Play Video
• Homeward Bound Play Video
• The Sound of Silence Play Video
• Mrs. Robinson Play Video
• Slip Slidin' Away ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• El cóndor pasa ( Daniel Alomía Robles  cover) Play Video
• Keep the Customer Satisfied Play Video
• The Only Living Boy in New York Play Video
• American Tune ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• My Little Town ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• Bridge Over Troubled Water Play Video
• Cecilia Play Video
• The Boxer Play Video
• Leaves That Are Green ( Paul Simon  song) Play Video
• The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) Play Video

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• All I Have to Do Is Dream by Boudleaux Bryant
• American Tune by Paul Simon
• Bye Bye Love by Boudleaux Bryant
• El cóndor pasa by Daniel Alomía Robles
• Hey, Schoolgirl by Tom & Jerry
• I Am a Rock by Paul Simon
• Kathy's Song by Paul Simon
• Leaves That Are Green by Paul Simon
• Let It Be Me by Gilbert Bécaud
• My Little Town by Paul Simon
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• Slip Slidin' Away by Paul Simon
• Wake Up, Little Susie by Boudleaux Bryant
• Baby Driver
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Keep the Customer Satisfied
• The Only Living Boy in New York
• A Hazy Shade of Winter
• Mrs. Robinson
• Old Friends / Bookends
• Homeward Bound
• The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
• The Sound of Silence

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