Beautiful? No, just true metaphorically. I'm only disagreeing because it's such a specific metaphor and then you go and cover it with the vague drapery of beauty.
I love it when he says: "I am a good guitar-player, but..." It's not a brag, or even a humble brag; it's a statement of fact which leads to the point he is about to make.
Paul’s interviews are really good, early songs like “Flowers Never Bend” and “For Emily……..” sound as beautiful as ever, and he’s always on a quest to learn more, like he said about playing guitar, “It’s a universe!” The real deal.
What an outstanding interview. I always had Paul as the number one guy I wanted to hear Howard interview, with trepidation that they wouldn't jive. So glad this exists.
What a treat. Paul Simon's most recent release, Seven Psalms, prominently features his acoustic guitar. It is as if he went back to his musical roots and combined them with decades of experience. The songwriting is very sophisticated, and a delight for fan's of Paul's guitar playing.
His playing is what got me playing the guitar. I learned fingerpicking also playing his songs. Though, the Travis picking method I actually learned from Dust in the Wind... lol.
Me too, back in the 70s. The Boxer...one of my absolute favorites. Still in my performing lineups, and I've always said, if I ever get a boxer, I'd name him Paul Simon!
He's very right about the guitar. I also get uncomfortable or bothered if I go more than a day without picking it up. Although I feel like I need to do legato and alternate picking exercises every day to keep my chops and finger constitution up to par. It is an endless love with no final destination.
Simon is an inspiration!! Writing great songs for almost 70 years!!! I sing “ St Judy’s Comet “ to my grandkids when they stay overnight! When I would hear he had a new album, I didn’t have to hear it. I knew there would be great music on it! God bless him!!
I have always admired Paul as an acoustic guitarist. I don't think I'd be writing folk songs today if it wasn't for Simon and Garfunkel. Maybe they didn't get along, but they recorded incredible music together.
When he goes into Mystery Train wow that was cool. Always the happy surprise with Paul and you can see how he connects the dots musically with his inspiration.
I too picked up the guitar at Bar-Mitzvah age. My early teachers always told me that I had a natural knack with fingerstyle. Always loved Paul's playing.
How I understand Paul 'bout the need of playing guitar every day. I am just a 70 years old amateur guitar player and every morning after my breakfast I have to pick the guitar and try to write something even if the words don't come easily. God bless Paul.❤
Always loved Paul's music, and guitar playing, and appreciate his skills. But he did learn A LOT when he came to England, and hung around with the English Folk artists of that time, Bert Jansch etc, and he took a lot from their styles and added it to his own.
I was introduced to Travis picking from Lindsay Buckingham, both in Fleetwood Mac and solo. I had been listening to the style in Simon's work and not really realizing it for year before though!
Lindsey is another underrated guitar player, that term gets tossed around too often but in some cases it actually fits,he incorporates Banjo and Travis picking which are similar but not the same.
Love hearing the guitar fingerpicking story from Paul. Howard asks some great questions. Couple of great fingerpicking acoustic players are Michael Johnson and Martin Simpson!
I've loved finger picking for ever (because of Flamenco).. and break my finger nails all the time (i just started using a hard as nails polish to preserve my nails)... thanks for showing his hands close up.. thats a master class
I must say thank you Paul Simon. For your all of your music. You were a and still are a great inspiration for me as far as guitar playing goes. I didn’t pick it up at 13. I picked it up at 22. In 1974 you and Paul Simon we’re going very strong on the radio. I loved your music then and still love it today. Thanks so much for all of your music.👍🏼👍🏼😁🎸☮️
Stream the FULL interview now on SiriusXM: sxm.app.link/HSPaulSimon
i thnk hes a better song writer then a guitar player. Genius level BTW
We really need to appreciate these legends while they are still around
Legends are dead.
@bobabooey4537 not true. There are "legends in their own time". And also "living legends".
@@roberto3262 Exactly, Michael Jordon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks,Tiger Woods, Michael Schumacher still alive folks
@@ehLeanne311 don't forget Nancy Pelosi 😂
@@roberto3262Moronic
What a treat it is to see and hear paul demonstrating his fingerpicking skills!
Agreed!!
it's actually unsettling to see his gollum nails
@@FAYMprod It is!
@@FAYMprodis it?
IKR
“The guitar is like a universe” was a beautiful thing to say
His Martin was simply gorgeous.
@@kingrobert1st A signature model D-42...
@@kingrobert1st I meant an OM-42!!
Beautiful? No, just true metaphorically. I'm only disagreeing because it's such a specific metaphor and then you go and cover it with the vague drapery of beauty.
@ it’s both, agree?
I love it when he says: "I am a good guitar-player, but..." It's not a brag, or even a humble brag; it's a statement of fact which leads to the point he is about to make.
Paul’s interviews are really good, early songs like “Flowers Never Bend” and “For Emily……..” sound as beautiful as ever, and he’s always on a quest to learn more, like he said about playing guitar, “It’s a universe!” The real deal.
We need this Full interview uploaded please! What a legend. What a talent. Could watch & listen to Paul Simon for hours.
This was so moving. Playing the guitar is like speaking or maybe even breathing to Paul. So much knowledge is given here. Love it
Thanks million Mr.Stern...❤
Love watching a master discuss his craft.
That's who I learned fingerpicking from. He was a real hero to me. America and The Boxer are still two of my favorite songs ever.
America and The Boxer !!
I'm tearing up watching this video, what a legend.
Paul Simon is a global treasure 😀🎸🎶❤️
A national treasure. I had the incredible honor of shaking his hands once after a Paul McCartney concert at MSG in 1989.
His hands-plural? Did you shake both of them?
This was by far the best Stern interview in years.
Thank you Paul Simon for your music and Graceland in particular! You saved me in times I felt scared. You are a legend.
That was beautiful. It's great to see his love for playing is still strong.
When he talks about comfort, that really hit home for me. I feel uncomfortable without my guitar. It's a very special feeling.
What an outstanding interview. I always had Paul as the number one guy I wanted to hear Howard interview, with trepidation that they wouldn't jive. So glad this exists.
What a treat. Paul Simon's most recent release, Seven Psalms, prominently features his acoustic guitar. It is as if he went back to his musical roots and combined them with decades of experience. The songwriting is very sophisticated, and a delight for fan's of Paul's guitar playing.
Most direct, succinct explanation of the Travis pick that I've ever heard. A distillation to the essence of what it is.
I learned fingerpicking in the 80s playing his songs. Still play them today. Timeless masterpieces.
His playing is what got me playing the guitar. I learned fingerpicking also playing his songs. Though, the Travis picking method I actually learned from Dust in the Wind... lol.
Me too, back in the 70s. The Boxer...one of my absolute favorites. Still in my performing lineups, and I've always said, if I ever get a boxer, I'd name him Paul Simon!
That was a nicely done interview, I enjoyed the enthusiasm of both host and Paul, cool 😎👍
“I’m just fooling around”. Love it!
He's very right about the guitar. I also get uncomfortable or bothered if I go more than a day without picking it up. Although I feel like I need to do legato and alternate picking exercises every day to keep my chops and finger constitution up to par. It is an endless love with no final destination.
He’s endlessly interesting in interviews. What a treat he lets us inside.
Love the new thing he played at the end, those are beautiful chords.
Paul Simon is a legend, will always be a legend.
Absolutely brilliant love his guitar playing and the songs he wrote where out of this world a legend
...at 81! tooo good...cheers Paul.
Simon is an inspiration!! Writing great songs for almost 70 years!!! I sing “ St Judy’s Comet “ to my grandkids when they stay overnight! When I would hear he had a new album, I didn’t have to hear it. I knew there would be great music on it!
God bless him!!
I started listening to you and Paul in the 1960s when I was a teen, and I still love and appreciate it very much
Paul Simon is a superb and an extraordinary guitar player and musician...
I have always admired Paul as an acoustic guitarist. I don't think I'd be writing folk songs today if it wasn't for Simon and Garfunkel. Maybe they didn't get along, but they recorded incredible music together.
When he goes into Mystery Train wow that was cool. Always the happy surprise with Paul and you can see how he connects the dots musically with his inspiration.
I too picked up the guitar at Bar-Mitzvah age. My early teachers always told me that I had a natural knack with fingerstyle. Always loved Paul's playing.
Man I could watch Paul Simon all day!!
Paul Simon 72’ album is a total masterpiece. Some of his best deep cuts
Genius musician, singer, songwriter!
How I understand Paul 'bout the need of playing guitar every day. I am just a 70 years old amateur guitar player and every morning after my breakfast I have to pick the guitar and try to write something even if the words don't come easily.
God bless Paul.❤
What a great interview. Paul Simon is an absolute treasure! Oh my!
It all goes back to Travis picking… such a guitar magician.
Wow Paul. decades on, you just reminded me why I picked up my first guitar. ty
Everything about this was magic.
Yup. That's all there is to it. Infinite possibilities from one technique. Love it.
Love Paul.Such an enormous influence on me learning to play guitar.Thank you.❤
while i listened to the entire interview i wasn't as captivated as i am watching it .. nice job
Paul Simon's unique guitar playing is always music to my ears--like Ray Manzarek's keyboards still are.
So true!
Paul is one of the tastiest guitarist ever...'The Rhythm of the Saints' his masterpiece!
Paul Simon is up there with Lennon /Mcartney musical genius great interview thanks loved Mystery Train intro 💜💙💚
Very interesting! Paul Simon has just broadened my horizons! Thanks Mr. Simon!
Always loved Paul's music, and guitar playing, and appreciate his skills.
But he did learn A LOT when he came to England, and hung around with the English Folk artists of that time, Bert Jansch etc, and he took a lot from their styles and added it to his own.
In particular Bert’s version of Davy Graham’s Anji
A genius song writer and musician. Respect!
Such a humble artist! A true musician!
What a beautiful soul. One of the greatest singer/ songwriters of this generation
One of the greatest to ever do it 🙌 God bless paul
I was introduced to Travis picking from Lindsay Buckingham, both in Fleetwood Mac and solo. I had been listening to the style in Simon's work and not really realizing it for year before though!
Lindsey is another underrated guitar player, that term gets tossed around too often but in some cases it actually fits,he incorporates Banjo and Travis picking which are similar but not the same.
One of the Greatest Singer Songwriters EVER !
I think of all the greats he is the most centred and articulate. He is so close to his art. What an inspiration.
One of my guitar heroes!
No ego at all.What a great, musician,& songwriter.Top-drawer!
Thanks Paul. Been following you since Graceland when I was 12
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Wow, he is so sympathic and I wish, I could learn from him. Such a great Talent ❤🎉💯😊🎶👍
Amazing talent. Love the demonstration and the artist.💐
Learned to play listening to Paul - vastly underrated as a guitar player and innovator
Why am I crying?😭😭😭
Magical musical genius, so lucky to have him❤
And that is why I love Paul Simon 🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
great lesson about the thumb
Love hearing the guitar fingerpicking story from Paul. Howard asks some great questions. Couple of great fingerpicking acoustic players are Michael Johnson and Martin Simpson!
Check out Doyle Dykes some time. Chet Atkins once said Doyle is the best fingerstyle player out there at that time. He's incredible.
Best is Tommy Emmanuel by a longggg way.
I've loved finger picking for ever (because of Flamenco).. and break my finger nails all the time (i just started using a hard as nails polish to preserve my nails)... thanks for showing his hands close up.. thats a master class
Paul Simon stood on the shoulders of roots music giants and became the giant on whose shoulders so many modern musicians can stand.
Criminally underrated guitar player.
Explain why...
Underrated?!? Paul Simon?!? What???
Nobody underrates Paul Simon, nobody.
I know what you mean, but Paul Simon is anything but underrated.
Agreed
One of my favorite musicians.
Fantastic
Paul Simon has written some of the most amazing songs in the last 100 years.
If you're interested in this then the Paul Simon Barnes and Noble interview on RUclips is worth checking out. So much information.
Paul Simon is an excellent guitar player..very impressed 🎶🙂🕊️
Thank you Howard Stern, simply the best person to bring the humanity of the artist to our eyes and ears!
Thanks Paul for sharing your fingerpicking skills...
Howard’s youtube posts have the best commercials
A hero to me beginning to play guitar 60 yrs ago
listen to the intro to Homeward Bound....beautiful...
So nice to hear Paul Simon hitting dull notes and buzzy notes too!
Paul Simon is unrivaled
Just got into fingerstyle and the boxer was the second song I learned. I haven’t been this addicted to a hobby in a long time!
Howard is really a great interviewer with the icons. These sessions are historic.
A living legend teaching us music skills
LOVE THE WAY PAUL SIMON PLAYS GUITAR !!!
I have a lot of love for this
Loved those few seconds of "The Boxer" improv. Sweet.
Cheers from “down under”. Please come to visit us Paul here in sunny Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 … soon 🙏🙏
Paul's guitar is very beautiful and fun to play.
It is great to know that PS is still motivated and inspired by the guitar.
Paul Simon is a legend! Love that guitar! Martin is definitely one the best in the game!
great interview - my favorite Paul pick is April She Will Come
I always tell people Paul Simon is massively under rated as a guitar player
Not really, there's nothing really special or unique about his playing. He's a competent player but nothing special.
@@zombizombiits not about compentancy, its about simplicity and the melodies you are able to harness.
@@zombizombi and yet he produces some of the richest and fullest acoustic melodies
@@justthinking650 Wtf does richest and fullest mean exactly?
@@zombizombinot trying to argue, which guitar players do you recommend checking out?
Wow, hypnotic!
Best song writer ever
Definitely in the top 5!
One of the greatest songwriters of all time
An American treasure
I must say thank you Paul Simon. For your all of your music. You were a and still are a great inspiration for me as far as guitar playing goes. I didn’t pick it up at 13. I picked it up at 22. In 1974 you and Paul Simon we’re going very strong on the radio. I loved your music then and still love it today. Thanks so much for all of your music.👍🏼👍🏼😁🎸☮️