Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony (Live)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony, taken from the 1980 movie One-Trick Pony. Recorded live at the Agora Theatre and Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio in September 1979.
Paul Simon's One-Trick Pony is a morose little art film about a minor Sixties pop star, Jonah Levin, who blows his only chance for a comeback by refusing to let a hack producer (played knowingly by Lou Reed) "commercialize" him. This moody, downbeat film is part road movie and part tribute to the Woody Allen school of Manhattan angst. Yet at its center is a question that Allen wouldn't dream of asking: Is the pop life just for kids? After Jonah's estranged wife contemptuously suggests that he's too old at thirty-four to want to be Elvis Presley, the singer meekly defends his commitment to music by retorting, "It's what I do."
One-Trick Pony's soundtrack album explains exactly what Jonah Levin-Paul Simon does, and its ten songs carefully weigh the pros and cons of taking rock & roll seriously when one's well on the way to middle age. But Simon offers no definite conclusions. At the end of the film, Jonah gives up music to become a full-time provider for his family, and we sense he's giving up the only work that will ever mean anything to him. Simon accepts his disappointment with sorrow and resignation.
The soundtrack's two major songs, "Ace in the Hole" and "Late in the Evening,". "Ace in the Hole" is a sly rock-gospel composition that combines the martial drumming of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" with the gospel exuberance of "Gone at Last." In "Late in the Evening," Simon compiles flashbacks of the moments that made him fall in love with pop music: remembering his mother listening to the radio, his harmonizing on a street corner, and getting high in a club and blowing away the audience. One-Trick Pony's title track, a live folk-funk production like "Ace in the Hole," is almost as powerful. Here, Simon works the "one-trick pony" metaphor into a double image: the hapless performer toiling on tour and the spirit of rock & roll incarnate.
If the aforementioned compositions evoke Simon's spiritual commitment to rock, the LP's seven pop-slanted songs display a more mundane viewpoint. "Jonah," "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" and "Long, Long Day" are bittersweet "adult" numbers that flirt with a Middle European modality as they further refine the shimmering, angst-under-glass folk-pop of Still Crazy after All These Years. Such tunes wistfully describe the rigors of a musician's life on the road--the loneliness, the physical exhaustion, the sense of futility and fear of obsolescence -- all the reasons, in other words, for hanging up one's guitar and getting a "real" job. Simon sings these ballads, which are weary to the point of effeteness, in a soft, whimpering croon.
"That's Why God Made the Movies" and "Oh, Marion" are lighter exercises in the hip-jive style of Michael Franks. A traditional spiritual, "Nobody," and the bluesy "God Bless the Absentee" boast spare folk-pop arrangements and sophisticated wordplay. Except for the bad grammar of "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" (an otherwise exquisite mood piece), these seven compositions are models of contemporary songwriting craft: the pop-tune equivalents of New Yorker vignettes.
(Stephen Holden -- Rolling Stone 16 october 1980)
Band;
Paul Simon: Vocals & Guitar
Tony Levin: Bass & Vocals (Background)
Richard Tee: Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Eric Gale: Guitar
Steve Gadd: Drums
Lyrics:
He's a one trick pony
One trick is all that horse can do
He does one trick only
It's the principal source of his revenue
And when he steps into the spotlight
You can feel the heat of his heart
Come rising through
See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
The way his hooves just seem to glide
He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is)
But he turns that trick with pride
He makes it look so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony
He's a one trick pony
He either fails or he succeeds
He gives his testimony
Then he relaxes in the weeds
He's got one trick to last a lifetime
But that's all a pony needs
(that's all he needs)
He looks so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony (take me for a ride)
One trick pony
Tony Levin has some serious monster bass sound here
most under rated of all Paul's Albums!
very true!
Agree 100%!!!
My parents had this album this was one of my favourite songs as a kid. I really liked horses too and thought it was literally about a pony.
I still think it is literally about a pony
one of the most important albums in my life
One of the greatest rock/blues songs ever written and performed by the amazing Paul Simon!!❤️💐🌹🎈
Master song writer....what a band!!
I can hear this over and over and over again
A fascinating song!Love the rhythm and the lyrics. 💐❤️⭐️
Any song that has the word "herky-jerky" in it deserves mad respect.
Gadd Tee Levin Gale ... what a band !
Ich habe Paul Simon in Frankfurt/Jahrhunderthalle 1981 erleben dürfen. Das Erlebnis, als er mir seine Hand reichte, werde ich niemals vergessen. Er und sein Orchester sind in "echt" genauso meeeeega wie auf CD. Unvergesslich spitze
1:40
You are so expecting that gadd will keep up with the sner. But hes going to the rim shot, and make everybody much more groovy and tight.
Amazing drummer, so smart
what a great bunch of real Musicians , Paul Simon has a great life , long may he run :) QC
eric gale..........just great...RIP..
Outstanding Mr Gadd as aways.
Great song- Paul Simon is one very fine artist!
"....he does one trick only, that's the principle source of his revenue" WOW!
He gives his testimony then he relaxes in the wings.
What a band!
Agora Ballroom in Cleveland love it
I been watching that black man in the blue shirt play in this band a long time. He really gets into the music
"E-Gadd"! 😂 🙂👍🎶
Just LOVE this one and I thumbed it up - but this is not live
Yeah it is. He only ever released a live version
GREAT STYLE
Mannnnnn,I dont know !!every time that I hear this Track,have to stand up,and jammmmmm😂
Fine Funky Jam...
I had to come here after seeing Siskel & Ebert's review of the movie (where THEY ACTUALLY GAVE IT THUMBS UP) I heard this movie flopped so badly with critics and audiences that Purple Rain with Prince was almost not greenlit a few years later because Warner Bros executives did not want another One Trick Pony.
Can't understand why it flopped. I personally like the movie a lot. And the music is sensational.
Here for Tony Levin!
Like the King Crimson avatar wasn't a dead giveaway...;)
tony levin on bass ---not too shabby
The band is in fact "STUFF", except Cornell Dupree, git, and Gordon Edwards, the bass player, founder and boss of "STUFF".
Greatness
Funky Mr. Rhymin' Simon.
love this song!
Greatmovie
RIP Richard Tee Eric Gale !!
ERIC GALE ALSO PLAYED ON GROVER WASHINGTON S MR MAGIC 1976
Love his playing ..:)
incredible!!
love, love, LOVE !!!!!!!!!thank you sooooooo much Hvdlinde;-)
Yessss!!!! It makes me think about all these extra moves I make...He's a one trick pony. I. Love. It!!! Thank you for posting it. I bought the movie to be able to watch that one song. Now I moved and can't find the DVD.
Now available on Amazon as a DVD-R
Epic
I use to really enjoy Paul Simon till the day I went to Muscle Shoals. When there was informed Paul went there with words to songs but had not music with them. They put music to First song rather quickly and Paul was hungry and someone took him to get something to eat, while gone he left other writings and they put music to them, which a few were Hits. The Swampers never received a dime for any of these. Shame on you Paul Simon.
Learn English, moron.
Did Tony Levin EVER have hair? He's rock n' roll's version of Principal Strickland. Lol.
Yup. Check pics of him in the late seventies, he had male pattern baldness.
@@synthonaplinth5980 This was the late 70s. Lol. "One Trick Pony" was filmed in 1979.
Master pice of Musik
Si eres un cantautor autor de Los Sonidos DEL Silencio, que tiene en su banda a un Steve Gadd que está tan contento con su batería al acompañarte, pues, es síntoma de que eres un gran músico y que le motivas... y el solo tan pleno de Eric Gale para One Trick Pony de Paul Simon, puro blues con su guitarra, Eric le ponía a todo... el lado más funky soul hasta ese momento de Paul Simon
Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, Richard Tee, Eric Gale, -Cornell Dupree- …
I listened to this album so many times.
Not live, more like a promo video, it’s exactly the same as the album, but it’s ok.
Where is Cornell Duree?
@@andrewsandoz8005 ahh you’re right, no Dupree in this album, got confused with the _Stuff_ personnel
It's from the movie.
@@meh8982 Ah. I don’t think it was released in my country, never got to see it.
Gosh, you could cut and paste Tony Levin in this video and paste in any of Liquid Tension Experiment photos and you would not notice any difference. Does this guy have a youth elixir???
Con esta canción viví toda una época muy linda. siempre la estoy escuchando con mi esposa Irene Enriquez. desde salinas ECUADOR.
This feels very Scorcese. Probably those lil zoom ins
Steve Gadd!
That sweat though d:
Paul is... is... is... soooooooOOOOOOO CUTE AND HOT !!!!!!!!
Does he mist his face before playing?
I’m a “dark” guy, that’s why Paul is MY GUY ( not counting Dylan’s complexities, which are infinite)
who is that guitarist with glasses there , .. .. someone must know ? , .
EXCELLENT ♫♪ ;-)
guitarist is Cornell Dupree
Eric Gale is the guitarist.Like Cornell he is a great player.
They were both in Stuff
+Dom Minasi thanks so much Dom, I checked out Cornell..he is great..
+ BERN NIX Bern, thanks so much, i researched Eric and loved his work. I just looked up both Cornell and and Eric. Found some great music doing that. heeh. Thanks
Passed away not too long ago unfortunately.
Who is the guy with sunglasses on the guitar in this 2:18? He is awesome. I was lucky enough to see Paul and Art after their Central Park Tour in Atlanta at Grant Field ( Downtown Atlanta). It was one of the most awesome concerts I have ever seen. I would have loved to have seen Paul in this tour. Love it!
Eric Gale is the guy in the glasses.
Nigel Miller - Eric played on more records than anyone could count. First call studio guitarist among other things.
Richard Tee so cool.
Eric Gale a jazz guitarist
Steve Gadd
If it's alright by Douglas Adams, it's alright by me...
must be nice to move like god's immaculate machine
could mean puppet. at least that's how i understand, no bad connotations at all on that.
Goldness :) QC
☆☆☆☆☆
very good
no, top!
ERIC GALE
:) QC
Not under rated by me
"Live"? Ha ha.