Paul Simon live at Queens College, Flushing, NY 1964

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Aug 31, 2006, 5:11:02 PM8/31/06

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Some time ago I installed a torrent tracker in order to download a
linux dvd. Then I read about thepiratebay.org and thought I'd look for
rare Paul Simon stuff that's not available elsewhere. I found some
bootlegs of Simon and Garfunkel concerts from between 1968 and 1970 and
today I found this:

Paul Simon live at Queens College, Flushing, NY 1964

I got it within two hours and am listening to it now for the first
time. Audio quality is okay (something worse than the Paul Simon
Songbook because of clipping and more white noise but apart from that
absolutely listenable). What got me flubbergasted is the set list, the
place (USA) and time and the fact that it's Paul Simon solo. Here's the
set list:

1-Scarborough Fair
2-The House Carpenter Song
3-Gospel Ship
4-Pretty Boy Floyd
5-A Church Is Burning
6-The Sounds Of Silence
7-Leaves That Are Green
8-The Sun Is Burning
9-Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
10-Going To The Zoo
11-He Was My Brother
12-Thank You

I guess this is a rare recording from a concert after Paul's England
episode (he plays Scarborough Fair that he learned in England (BTW: he
plays it in a slightly different way)) but before Paul Simon and Art
Garfunkel got together again due to the success of Sound of Silence.
But then what about the story that Paul Simon heard about the success
of Sound of Silence when he was still over in England and hurried back
to record with Garfunkel? Any opinions? Or even facts? :)

Chris Stern

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Aug 31, 2006, 6:34:27 PM8/31/06

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Oh and S&G were performing together around this time as Wednesday Morning
3AM was released in 64. Paul flew back from England on Dec 8th 1965 when SOS
was climbing the charts. He thought he would be back fairly quickly...

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number6

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Aug 31, 2006, 9:38:33 PM8/31/06

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That is a good concert ... note that Paul acquired a touch of a British
accent ...

And the Tom Paxton songs ...

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Aug 31, 2006, 11:14:39 PM8/31/06

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> But then what about the story that Paul Simon heard about the success
> of Sound of Silence when he was still over in England and hurried back
> to record with Garfunkel? Any opinions? Or even facts? :)

He definitely made more than one trip to the U.K.

gr...@cs.tu-berlin.de

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Sep 1, 2006, 1:36:38 AM9/1/06

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> That is a good concert ... note that Paul acquired a touch of a British
> accent ...

You're not the kind seeder who provided this via torrent? I'd have to
say thank you... :)

number6

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Sep 1, 2006, 7:38:43 AM9/1/06

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No ... I got it from DIME quite awhile ago ... One of the others no
doubt passed it forward ...

gr...@cs.tu-berlin.de

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Sep 1, 2006, 9:24:32 AM9/1/06

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number6 schrieb:

> No ... I got it from DIME quite awhile ago

What is "DIME"?

number6

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Sep 1, 2006, 9:30:48 AM9/1/06

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www.dimeadozen.org ... has only concerts ... careful to exclude any
released material ...
Whereas thepiratesbay ... flaunts any laws and authority ... DIME tries
very hard to work within the rules ...

Chris Stern

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Sep 1, 2006, 3:14:20 PM9/1/06

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I know that some of these songs he sang on his first trip to England in
1963. He used to repeat the intro patter from Joan Baez's recordings
presumably thinking that no one over here would have bought her records.

Chris

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Bill Kawalec

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Sep 1, 2006, 4:04:10 PM9/1/06

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> number6 schrieb:
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>> No ... I got it from DIME quite awhile ago
>
> What is "DIME"?
>

ten cents, US

P

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Sep 1, 2006, 9:49:07 PM9/1/06

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Any chance someone could seed this for a little while? I'm at 96.8% and
will stay on seeding for some time when I get the full thing.

gr...@cs.tu-berlin.de

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Sep 2, 2006, 8:16:31 PM9/2/06

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P schrieb:

> Any chance someone could seed this for a little while? I'm at 96.8% and
> will stay on seeding for some time when I get the full thing.

I still seed this but I don't understand the underlying mechanism. I
only have a distribution ratio of 0.32 and a 16MBit/s connection... :/

Michel Couzijn

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Sep 3, 2006, 2:04:41 AM9/3/06

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gr...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:
> I still seed this but I don't understand the underlying mechanism. I
> only have a distribution ratio of 0.32 and a 16MBit/s connection... :

Same for me. Kudos to the OP who pointed me at this fine performance. I
downloaded it and am seeding it. Anyone could have a 100 kb/sec
connetion with me. Seems like the file transfer guys have gone out
drinking beer.

Michel

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Sep 3, 2006, 5:08:33 AM9/3/06

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Michel Couzijn schrieb:

> I downloaded it and am seeding it. Anyone could have a 100 kb/sec
> connetion with me. Seems like the file transfer guys have gone out
> drinking beer.

I think the problem with torrent is that every connection is made via
the central server. And that seems to be very slow. Or there is some
evil traffic shaping involved on the side of (y)our providers.