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Why Paul Simon Won’t Play ‘You Can Call Me Al’ Again
UltimateClassicRock ^ | November 20, 2024 | Corey Irwin

Posted on 11/20/2024 2:56:00 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Simon started playing over 60 years ago. The damage is cumulative and you don’t have to be playing metal or hard rock. Just standing in front of a drummer for a few thousand shows can do it.


21 posted on 11/20/2024 3:44:03 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: nickcarraway
Huey Lewis has significant hearing loss as well, Ménière's disease. From The Messenger:“I know of one guy who was a pilot and he had Meniere’s so he had to quit flying airplanes because he worried about the vertigo mainly,” Lewis shared. “Six years later, his hearing returned, so that would be nice.”

For now, the 73-year-old is finding the positive in his current reality. Although he can’t sing, perform or listen to music, his hearing aids allow him to have conversations without any problems.

(Huey's a heckuva golfer, by the way. I'm sure turning down the noise helps with distractions once in awhile).

22 posted on 11/20/2024 3:44:37 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: A Navy Vet

Have you tried that treatment on Reddit for tinnitus?

Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org.

https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_lighting_a_mortar_shell_in_their_garage/cv3474n/


23 posted on 11/20/2024 3:44:56 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: nickcarraway

Because it reminds him of Chevy Chase?


24 posted on 11/20/2024 3:51:57 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: nickcarraway

Beethoven wrote some of the most incredible music ever created by humanity when he was stone cold deaf.


25 posted on 11/20/2024 3:52:12 PM PST by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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To: nickcarraway

Chevy Chase blowing a trumpet in Paul’s ear probably didn’t help.


26 posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:25 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: nickcarraway

In any large venue for most styles of music the stage levels can be loud. Between the instruments, individual monitors and main power amps the decibel level can hit easily damaging levels. Elvis was suffering hearing loss from stage levels.


27 posted on 11/20/2024 3:53:56 PM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: nickcarraway

Because it is not the true. He said it was caused by an autoimmune disease.


28 posted on 11/20/2024 4:03:26 PM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: nickcarraway

The antagonist of Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio” is a child who discovers his homosexuality with an older friend “down at the schoolyard.” Mickey Mantle, seen in the video, didn’t get it. But the kid befriends a “radical preacher” who was “on the cover of Newsweek,” evidently referencing the Boston Catholic priest associated with NAMBLA whose support from the media kept him from being removed from the ministry despite widespread indications he was regularly having sex with runaway boys.

Not OK, Paul.


29 posted on 11/20/2024 4:18:26 PM PST by dangus
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I don’t get what homosexuality has to do with it. Daniel or Phillip Berrigan, the referenced priest(s), has to do with anti-war politics and stuff like that, aren’t gay, or weren’t even talking about it then. And they weren’t from Boston.


30 posted on 11/20/2024 4:29:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He should retire, at least as a performer, he can’t sing anymore.


31 posted on 11/20/2024 4:45:50 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: nickcarraway

The song is about Julio and his friend doing something they enjoyed together. If Simon said this has something to do with anti-war politics, he flat out lied. Rock stars lie about their song lyrics a LOT, like when Blue Oyster Cult insisted that Don’t Fear the Reaper wasn’t about suicide.


32 posted on 11/20/2024 5:05:10 PM PST by dangus
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Because Chevy Chase is a dick?

Yes. You absolutely nailed it. But also because Chevy Chase ia actually Jim Morrison ("deceased" lead singer for The Doors). So both stoned and an a@@##0LE

33 posted on 11/20/2024 5:10:15 PM PST by FateAmenableToChange
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To: Roadrunner383

I have it also, a constant ringing in my ears. I attribute it to mortar and 106 rounds back in the day. We never used ear protection those days.


34 posted on 11/20/2024 5:18:05 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: A Navy Vet
...no loss of hearing in any ear as yet at 74. I can still hear the sizzle of a high-hat (I’m a drummer) and all lower frequencies.

The drummer afflicts others, not themselves. Worse, they play as loud as they want which forces the other musicians to turn up the amps and then suffer.

35 posted on 11/20/2024 5:18:26 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway

Hey, Beethoven was totally deaf, and he didn’t stop composing.


36 posted on 11/20/2024 6:04:51 PM PST by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: nickcarraway

Could cause the problem, not did.


37 posted on 11/20/2024 6:11:54 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: nickcarraway

He simply got tired of fans requesting his song about Artificial Intelligence …


38 posted on 11/20/2024 6:24:11 PM PST by mikrofon (2025 = 45^2 … DJT to the 2nd Power)
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To: nickcarraway
In one, scientists were able to restore hearing for zebrafish that had previously been deaf.

Okay, I'll ask. I would they know?

39 posted on 11/20/2024 6:34:15 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: GaltMeister
Beethoven wrote some of the most incredible music ever created by humanity when he was stone cold deaf.

A musician would be well served to develop the skill of audiation. Music “schools” should be roundly criticized for not teaching this skill.

The reason that “educators” ignore teaching audiation is because they aren’t smart enough to grade it.

40 posted on 11/20/2024 6:46:40 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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