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"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons #2025265 02/01/13 12:57 PM
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England. peterws OP Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
OP peterws Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England.	- Intro only; Perhaps a good benchmark for a piano. How about you and yours? I`d love to hear it . . . Last edited by peterws; 02/02/13 04:54 AM. "I am not a man. I am a free number" ""

Re: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons peterws #2025342 02/01/13 03:11 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 4,565 Suffolk, United Kingdom E EssBrace 4000 Post Club Member
EssBrace 4000 Post Club Member E Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 4,565 Suffolk, United Kingdom	Originally Posted by peterws Here`s Paul Simon. Come on Peter, get it right. Larry Knechtel, NOT Paul Simon!

Re: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons EssBrace #2025354 02/01/13 03:47 PM
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England. peterws OP Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
OP peterws Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England.	"Knechtel" - sounds like a German overstrung . . . was he the player on that song, then? I just read Wikipedia . . .sounds like I`ve learned summat Last edited by peterws; 02/01/13 03:50 PM. "I am not a man. I am a free number" ""

Re: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons peterws #2025404 02/01/13 04:55 PM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 4,565 Suffolk, United Kingdom E EssBrace 4000 Post Club Member
EssBrace 4000 Post Club Member E Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 4,565 Suffolk, United Kingdom	Yes and he played guitar on Bread's "Guitar Man" and all sorts of things and prior to that was one of Phil Spector's session men. Super-talented guy. But his gospel tinged piano on Bridge Over Troubled Water was perhaps his finest moment. One of the reasons Simon and Garfunkel had issues with one another was that Paul Simon started to resent the beautiful moment during gigs when Art Garfunkel and Larry Knechtel would captivate the audience together on Bridge Over Troubled Water. So Simon started to join them and would share the singing duties to grab back a bit of the limelight - as if writing the songs wasn't enough!

Re: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons EssBrace #2025514 02/01/13 07:25 PM
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England. peterws OP Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
OP peterws Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England.	Everytime I`ve seen it on TV, Paul Simon has done the lead vocal and played the piano . . .Garf comes in on the last (Phil Spectre sounding) bit. I think they split soon after. "I am not a man. I am a free number" ""

Re: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Acoustic comparisons peterws #2025984 02/02/13 06:39 PM
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England. peterws OP Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
OP peterws Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 10,512 Northern England.	Aw, Come on, guys . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBx4JSrE8q4 "I am not a man. I am a free number" ""