I have also heard the Dave Grohl is perhaps the nicest guy of all.
By contrast, most of your rappers (Jay Z, Kanye West, etc) are some of the biggest tools on the planet.
Posted on 05/25/2015 3:35:19 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Art Garfunkel has stunned fans by revealing he only became friends with longtime partner Paul Simon, because he felt sorry for him.
In one of his most candid interviews, the Bright Eyes singer tells Britain's Sunday Telegraph he initially quit Simon & Garfunkel and turned his back on showbusiness to become a teacher because he could no longer work with his sidekick Simon.
He says, "I don'€™t want to say any anti Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the glory and walk away from it instead. Crazy... (But) he was getting on my nerves. The jokes had run dry.
"A rest of a year was all I needed. I said, 'I'€™m not married yet. I want to jump on a BMW motorbike and tour round Europe chasing ladies'."
But it's his candid remarks about the start of his friendship with Simon, which led the duo to a recording deal as teenage act Tom & Jerry, that will surprise fans the most.
He admits he felt sorry for the singer/songwriter because he was so short, and adds, "That compensation gesture has created a monster.
"George (Harrison) came up to me at a party once and said, 'My Paul is to me what your Paul is to you'. He meant that, psychologically, they had the same effect on us - the Pauls sidelined us. I think George felt suppressed by Paul (McCartney) and I think that'€™s what he saw with me and my Paul.
"Here's the truth: McCartney was a helluva music man who gave the band its energy, but he also ran away with a lot of the glory."
During his interview with the Telegraph, Garfunkel also calls Simon a "jerk" and agrees with the interviewer that the You Can Call Me Al singer has a Napoleon complex, linked to short people hooked on power.
Despite his comments, Garfunkel, who last toured with Simon in 2010, is open to another Simon & Garfunkel tour: "Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that's quite do-able. As far as this half is concerned, why not?"
Paul Simon made the music. He’s entitled to some neurosis. Art Garfunkel describes a difficult personality, the reporter names Simon a monster.
I remember that song.
Wasn’t to my liking.
I’m sorry, Sharky!
The music can stand on its own.
I have also heard the Dave Grohl is perhaps the nicest guy of all.
By contrast, most of your rappers (Jay Z, Kanye West, etc) are some of the biggest tools on the planet.
AG always sounded like a depressed hippy.
I don’t understand why a digital device that fits in the old 35mm cameras is not available yet.
Could have been just filler talk by the DJ, or an urban legend.
Doesn't surprise me. I hope your son gets to work for a better person next time.
I think it is doable with any camera with removable backs. Probably too difficult for any camera without it as the sensor would have to be the same thickness as film.
Some of the functions could be built into the back. Probably not enough money in it.
Depends on your application.
I had Ektachrome 400 film in my camera when grabbed for a ski trip to Lake Placid. Turned out to be gorgeous, but the lens flare in the photos from the top of Whiteface would embarrass JJ Abrams.
Had I had even Kodachrome 64...
I think what is pretty clear is that Paul Simon has more talent in his little finger that Art Garfunkel ever had and Artie is just a little jealous. Garfunkel had a pleasant enough voice, but back in the 60s it was all about the song writers. What I always find strange is people posting things like, “Simon and Garfunkel? Never heard of ‘em.” “Who was Bob Dylan?” Might as well say, “I am socially retarded and have no life.”
Did your son mention how he sounded when he did sing?
If Art wanted to be an Everly Bro he shoulda learned some guitar...
That is how they made the first digital cameras. Kodak made a back that would fit on a Nikon F3. 1991
You can get cameras that will use the older lens but the adapter devices just don't work good enough.
I came away from this article thinking a lot less of Art Garfunkel. The author clearly had an agenda to print snarky things about Paul Simon, but Garfunkel obliged. He left Simon & Garfunkel to become a math teacher because he couldn’t stand Simon, but poor me why doesn’t Paul want to sing with me. Really? I was more popular than Paul in high school? How pathetic is that coming from a 72 year old man.
Art Garfunkel had a beautiful voice, but there are lots of great singers. Simon wrote all of the music for Simon & Garfunkel. Simon has a list of memorable songs as a soloist that’s longer than his list of hits with Simon & Garfunkel. Without Garfunkel, Simon might not have achieved the iconic status that they reached for a few years, but he would still have been a hugely successful singer/songwriter. Without Simon, Garfunkel might well have become a traveling coat salesman.
Bottom line: enjoy the music, comedy, or acting of the people that enertain us, but don’t look to them as role models who have it all figured out.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
Garfunkel had a exquisite voice (once), but without Simon no one would even know who he is. As for Simon being difficult, so what? Most geniuses are. As a single performer, Simon was very good, but with Garfunkel he was great (they both were). Art should just STFU.
At least Roger Daltrey knows his place, he knows without Pete Townshend’s songs, he’d amount to nothing in the business.
I tried my daughter’s D800 with some old manual lenses. Worked fine, but way too complicated for her tastes...
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