tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post20436401253282689..comments2024-03-06T04:31:53.093+11:00Comments on Just in CASE: Homeward BoundTrevor Cairneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-29681276451193917382009-06-29T16:35:25.722+10:002009-06-29T16:35:25.722+10:00Seems too many fans with too little faith in the v...Seems too many fans with too little faith in the voices! Here are a couple of reviews to give you a sense of what you missed.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25652763-5003421,00.html" rel="nofollow">Brisbane</a><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/music/old-friends-take-fans-back-in-time/2009/06/20/1244918240215.html" rel="nofollow">Sydney</a><br /><a href="http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-generic-blog/simon-and-garfunkel-review/20090626-cyen.html" rel="nofollow">Melbourne</a><br /><br />No there voices weren't perfect, but the concert was wonderful, and I suspect that it got better with each outing (we saw night 3 in Sydney).<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />TrevorTrevor Cairneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-45778402810012022992009-06-29T14:14:32.162+10:002009-06-29T14:14:32.162+10:00Hi Trevor,
Glad to hear you enjoyed the concert! ...Hi Trevor,<br /><br />Glad to hear you enjoyed the concert! And thanks for these insightful comments on S & G and some of their songs. They certainly played a big part in setting the tone of their era. <br />We are big fans too, and were thinking of going. Then I received for my birthday a DVD of S & G doing essentially the same concert in 2004. I have to say we were quite disappointed, and didn’t think their voices had stood the test of time at all well (not forgetting, either, that it is now another five years on!). Their physical state, too, was sobering: these were no longer the beautiful young men who still grace the covers of their early record albums. <br />We eventually decided not to go. My great fear was that my only memory of hearing S & G live would have been a big letdown compared to the “definitive”, recorded versions of their great songs. I suppose it is a fear of mine generally that my heroes won’t live up to the image of them I have built up in my mind over many years, when I finally get to see them in person.<br />Sorry to be so negative, but the biblical slant I tend to apply to Simon & Garfunkel circa 2009 is best expressed by verses such as 2 Corinthians 4:16 (“Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day”), or Romans 8:21 (“the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay”)! <br />Like the (formerly) dynamic duo, my 50-something body has seen better days. Praise be to God for the hope we have in Jesus, “who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body”. <br /><br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />GregGreg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516178577146775301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-37787333978183449322009-06-27T23:35:17.900+10:002009-06-27T23:35:17.900+10:00Hi David, the SMH reviewer was a bit rough. They w...Hi David, the SMH reviewer was a bit rough. They were brilliant! Cheers, TrevorTrevor Cairneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-71607637533434202482009-06-27T18:54:10.088+10:002009-06-27T18:54:10.088+10:00Hi Trevor
The SMH reviewer said that Garfunkel'...Hi Trevor<br />The SMH reviewer said that Garfunkel's voice sounded like the voice of a soon-to-be 68 year old, and that he kept missing the high notes.<br /><br />You didn't experience the concert that way, I take it.David McKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04027490637755317026noreply@blogger.com