Forum guest
Jul-19-2011, 12:09 GMT
Hungary
 | Hi, I´m just dropping a few notes about the last week´s gig in Berlin.
This was my first ever PS show, we travelled from Hungary to see him and totally worth it!
The venue was beautiful and intimate - I think its capacity was less than 1000 people. We succeeded standing in the first row in the middle right before Simon.
The show itself was what we expected. Simon´s weak, but effective voice and very loose, spontaneous performance which I´ve never seen before any of his concert videos. He and the band seemed enjoying themselves after the first few songs, the whole performance seemed fresh since they were playing many new songs and ommitting the overplayed hits. The highlights for me were the Hearts And Bones medley which featured drummer Jim Oblon on fingerpicking guitar (accidentaly on the same afternoon we shared our table with him in a fastfood restaurant in the center of the city, but I wasn´t sure if he was that guy) and Gone At Last. Though this tour is not really about the hits, it was fun and moving to hear Sounds Of Silence and You Can Call Me Al live from THAT guy. These two songs always give me cheerful moments and I´m sure that millions of people feel the same way.
When we were waiting for the gates open we heard the soundcheck too. They started with Gumboots and Late In The Evening. They went through Afterlife, azzling Blue, So Beautiful and finally Kodachrome / Gone At Last. The coda of this last song was played several times over and over wich made me curoious what to rehearse more at the end of the tour :)
It seemed to be a right decision that Simon went to and indie label or not sticking to the point in his career when he was bigger star than today and played just in arenas. He´s humble with his age and the fact that the musical history might be over him and that thing makes him unique and authentic today.
Anyway we organized a little holiday over this Berlin gig and I recommend to all of you visiting this beautiful city.
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Bodo
Jul-19-2011, 13:03 GMT
Austria
 | Ok, thats a new viewpoint.
weak voice... compared to who? AG?
ommitting the overplayed hits.(which one exactly :-)? you missed The Boxer and bridge, right?, but he had 6 Graceland songs on that list)
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Forum guest
Jul-19-2011, 18:04 GMT
Hungary
| I meant weak as the silent bluegrass or traditional singing, which I actually like :)
Hits: I think we could easily make up a list of 20-25 songs of only hits which may not contain some new stuff or interesting stuff like Peace Like A River or Crazy Love. I preferred hearing these or the newer songs live than a bored Me and Julio or yes, Bridge. Though I like these songs as well, I was totally satisfied with that setlist. |