Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (Live from Central Park, 1991)

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  • "Still Crazy After All These Years” Live from Central Park, 1991 by Paul Simon
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    Lyrics:
    Still crazy after all these years
    Oh, still crazy after all these years
    #PaulSimon #StillCrazyAfterAllTheseYears #Live

Комментарии • 244

  • @___David___Savian
    @___David___Savian 5 месяцев назад +28

    I lived across the street on that nights concert. I bought a few bottles of delicous chilled red wine and grabbed my high power vinoculars and I heard and saw clearly and loudly this entire concert for free that night in 1991. I still get chills remembering each song he sang. How many of your favorite big singers will come to sing outside your window ???

  • @douglasemsantos
    @douglasemsantos 7 месяцев назад +20

    I just found out about this pearl while watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm", and I'm so glad I found it! Beautiful!

    • @keishabranca9704
      @keishabranca9704 6 месяцев назад +3

      Me too 😅

    • @cdub7619
      @cdub7619 4 месяца назад +2

      Same here

    • @shannonrowan4671
      @shannonrowan4671 Месяц назад +1

      I’ve known this song as long as I can remember and it still reminds me of Larry David anyway lol

  • @georgehaigler2157
    @georgehaigler2157 2 года назад +76

    A most beautiful song and one of the greatest ballads ever written. The saxophonist was incredible and the keyboardist is the Gospel Truth! Still an amazing song after all these years. Thank you, Paul Simon, for making real music.

    • @studioblogic
      @studioblogic 2 года назад +2

      I agree 100%. The genius of this man is so inspiring. I sit at my piano for hours just playing his songs and he touches my heart while he taps all the bases from jazz & blues to classical, folk, pop & world music and always with class and musical elegance. He's a giant and rarely understood and appreciated as much as he should be.

    • @ricardo_valadez
      @ricardo_valadez Год назад

      It's good but maybe not of the greatest

    • @operations845
      @operations845 Год назад +1

      Yes my Brother. Especially live in Central Park concert from 80's too.

    • @matzabean
      @matzabean Год назад +7

      Michael Brecker on sax and Richard Tee on keys. RIP to both those giants.

    • @alan12345669
      @alan12345669 Год назад

      @@ricardo_valadezare you sure Michael Brecker is not among the greatest?

  • @bradsteinwehe3204
    @bradsteinwehe3204 Год назад +20

    A great song! What a treasure to watch the great Michael Brecker perform the solo live like that! 😢. He is missed.

  • @olly8
    @olly8 9 месяцев назад +15

    Excellent version. Turning 72 next week- a lot of my Peers are gone now, but still " I would not be convicted by a jury of MY Peers. Still crazy.. stil crazy.. still crazy after all these years" ❤ 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @Dan-gg8fk
      @Dan-gg8fk 4 месяца назад +1

      72 like you. Amen brother. Do we still have any peers left?

  • @lokir
    @lokir 9 лет назад +114

    Brecker's solo just hits me in the chest every time I hear it.

    • @Mr1964jazzbass
      @Mr1964jazzbass 2 года назад +1

      So true.

    • @stuartsmith5146
      @stuartsmith5146 Год назад

      Yeah man. But also all the harmonization and embellishments thru the final verse. Spot on

  • @jadezee6316
    @jadezee6316 4 года назад +50

    "but i would not be convicted by a jury of my peers"...is still the greatest single line ever written in a song....

    • @simoncaudwell6483
      @simoncaudwell6483 2 года назад +3

      Equalled I suggest by “He puts on aftershave, to compensate for his ordinary shoes.”

  • @SomervilleBob
    @SomervilleBob 4 года назад +57

    I loved the video of you on the Dick Cavett show with a partially written "Still Crazy...". Thanks for finishing it.

  • @robertglospie8994
    @robertglospie8994 Год назад +9

    One of my favorite songs of all time. That album won the Grammy. Well deserved..

  • @lawyeredup
    @lawyeredup 2 года назад +8

    More than eight years later, people are still finding this classic and commenting. This may be my favourite Paul Simon song. It has always allowed me to reach back and think today that I am that more free-thinking young person I was so many decades ago. I guess I would like to think that I am still crazy after all these years.

    • @renaterosenthal443
      @renaterosenthal443 3 месяца назад

      EIN GROßARTIGES LIED UND EIN GROSSARTIGER SÄNGERB DER PAUL. ❤❤❤

  • @everettscott4745
    @everettscott4745 Год назад +9

    Paul Simon - Absolute and total musical genius. Wow, the keyboard player is out of this world exceptionally talented. I've never heard anything as good as this.

    • @bullwinkle428
      @bullwinkle428 3 месяца назад

      Fender Rhodes piano has a such a beautiful sound to start with, and this guy is an absolute virtuoso.

    • @user-yc2oz8kc5k
      @user-yc2oz8kc5k 3 месяца назад

      ​@@bullwinkle428the talented Mr. Richard Tee (1943 - 1993)
      He makes that Rhodes Piano sing. RIP.

  • @iainmasterton2
    @iainmasterton2 3 года назад +7

    I met Michael Brecker in Tower Records in Glasgow in the 1990s . He signed a new CD for me. His solo here is too beautiful for words.

    • @duncansmith8992
      @duncansmith8992 Месяц назад

      Superb. I saw him in 1987 at Bracknell jazz festival with the equally amazing Mike Stern. Mind blowing.

  • @marcelliswilliams7136
    @marcelliswilliams7136 3 года назад +9

    When I tell you I clap like I was in the audience every time I watch this video!
    I love it so much! Ladies & Gentlemen, Mr Paul Simon!!!!

  • @heyjude530
    @heyjude530 8 лет назад +72

    Outstanding!!! Still gives me chills after all these years!

  • @chrisarseneault5617
    @chrisarseneault5617 3 года назад +68

    Michael Brecker was fantastic on the saxophone.

  • @theloniouscoltrane3778
    @theloniouscoltrane3778 4 года назад +34

    2019
    one of the best singer-songwriters ever!

  • @tomsmyth4836
    @tomsmyth4836 4 года назад +8

    Seen you in London Paul........Brecker still kills me listening to his genius! RIP Big Man ....your solo beats Baker Street and any others....a musical talent that will not be matched ...ever!

  • @basusri1120
    @basusri1120 Год назад +6

    One of the greatest song writers in my life. A thinking man’s musician. Absolutely brilliant! The accompanying musicians are outstanding.

  • @misterarthur
    @misterarthur 6 лет назад +17

    Gotta credit the musicians, too:
    Paul Simon - vocals, acoustic guitar (electric on "Late in the Evening" and "The Sound of Silence")
    Mingo Araujo - percussion
    Cyro Baptista - percussion
    Chris Botti - trumpet
    Michael Brecker - saxophones, EWI
    Tony Cedras - piano, keyboards, accordion
    Dom Chacal - percussion
    Steve Gadd - drums
    Sidinho Moreira - percussion
    Vincent Nguini - guitar
    Ray Phiri - guitar
    Barney Rachabane - saxophone, pennywhistle
    Armand Sabal-Lecco - bass guitar
    John Selolwane - guitar
    Richard Tee - musical director, piano
    The Waters (Oren Waters, Maxime Waters and Julia Waters) - vocals

    • @coramarquez6400
      @coramarquez6400 4 года назад +3

      Awesome band! All talented in their own way.

  • @jonathanbruce1440
    @jonathanbruce1440 11 месяцев назад +2

    RIP Richard Tee on keyboards. He was amazing.

  • @graphictank
    @graphictank 3 года назад +2

    I was there... you changed my life Paul, I became an eternal fan, and I'm still crazy. Happenstance that my host & I were in NYC that day. Couldn't have asked for a better day with my best friend.
    This song seems so easy to you... but to so many it mean so much. I hope you know that.

    • @ahlandias
      @ahlandias 7 месяцев назад

      Thank you for being there for us all. The memoriiiies🎵🎶

  • @MrSirViking
    @MrSirViking 10 лет назад +27

    This is one of the best versions of this song! But the best one was the one i heard live a couple of years ago when i heard him live.. Ohh Mr Simon, you are truly a great musician!

  • @JuckoLelle
    @JuckoLelle 6 лет назад +12

    One of most musical songs ever written...:-)

  • @highfive6553
    @highfive6553 2 года назад +4

    So many songs by Paul that are brilliant and beautiful!! Thanks Paul!!

  • @robcs6170
    @robcs6170 4 года назад +4

    😭💞 Nostalgic 😢...I Love this song and Paul 😘💝 greetings from New York 😘✌️🗽💞

  • @jackjones4564
    @jackjones4564 5 лет назад +7

    62 and still crazy after all these years....

  • @senegal66025
    @senegal66025 8 лет назад +7

    Saw it on SNL. Best SNL ever. Miss Gilda and some of the departed players.

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 5 лет назад

      When Simon dressed up as a Thanksgiving turkey LOL and sang this awesome tune = Still love it!

  • @abejacgot
    @abejacgot 4 года назад +7

    Always loved to hear the interlude on the old SNL shows. Timeless

    • @kathymisuraca5047
      @kathymisuraca5047 4 года назад

      Thought that was Every time you walk into the room. Maybe that was Letterman

  • @jimott7342
    @jimott7342 4 года назад +6

    Major chills at the brass/sax solo moment!

  • @Valentina21131
    @Valentina21131 9 лет назад +12

    love Paul Simon music!!!

  • @mexicansage
    @mexicansage 3 года назад +2

    This song was on my dad's funeral slideshow. It was perfect. ❤

  • @hg.5968
    @hg.5968 6 лет назад +4

    Paul Simons top 3: Bridge over troubled water, Sound of silence and Still Crazy

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 6 лет назад +1

      Bridge, Love Me Like A Rock & You Can Call Me Al. :)

    • @jazzartdesign
      @jazzartdesign 5 лет назад

      Could go forever with this, but that's as good as take as any.

  • @tammyleederwhitaker649
    @tammyleederwhitaker649 5 лет назад +7

    Timeless are you Paul Simon! Great music ALWAYS! Central Park is beautiful. Rode around it in a horse drawn carriage with my Momma. Listening as well to street performers. Music always in our hearts.

  • @M4BoarBiker
    @M4BoarBiker 5 лет назад +5

    One of America's greatest. Just superb.

  • @cleopatra6912
    @cleopatra6912 2 года назад +3

    Best concert ever!

  • @gmetayern
    @gmetayern Год назад +3

    Brilliant artist!

  • @Martin-hi7wx
    @Martin-hi7wx 16 дней назад

    George I can't agree with you more. Great song. Sax player a maestro

  • @Harmonical1
    @Harmonical1 10 месяцев назад +1

    Simply one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

  • @hiroshihasegawa5297
    @hiroshihasegawa5297 3 года назад +3

    1980 I was in New York, the New Trade Center was still there. It was a live performance at Central Park at that time.

  • @remotegod255
    @remotegod255 6 лет назад +10

    wow, that saxophonist is an absolute fucking beast

    • @ricaard
      @ricaard 3 года назад +2

      Michael Brecker.

    • @DJM626
      @DJM626 3 года назад

      No one could ever do justice to your comment about Michael Brecker. Greatest sax player that ever lived

    • @iainmasterton2
      @iainmasterton2 3 года назад

      @@DJM626 apart from Sonny Rollins...?

    • @DJM626
      @DJM626 3 года назад +1

      @@iainmasterton2While I like and respect Sonny Rollins, hands down Breaker was the most versatile saxophonist that ever lived. He's played and recorded all styles of music exceptionally well. Not just one genre

    • @iainmasterton2
      @iainmasterton2 2 года назад +1

      and Coltrane

  • @raycisneros9342
    @raycisneros9342 5 лет назад +4

    Damm Paul, Still crazy after all these years. AMEN...

  • @davidcarroll1883
    @davidcarroll1883 6 лет назад +5

    I Love Paul Simon! That's all.

  • @MegaGravyboy
    @MegaGravyboy 8 лет назад +12

    one of those sings that catches you in the throat ..

  • @studioblogic
    @studioblogic 2 года назад +2

    I just realized this is your channel Paul. I just wanna say... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  • @HeyCupertino
    @HeyCupertino 4 года назад +7

    Yes, this concert does scream
    90's, but I love it.

  • @SusanSchulman-pw9sl
    @SusanSchulman-pw9sl Год назад +2

    Still a great ballad.The Sax is amazing ❤

  • @greymorris9006
    @greymorris9006 2 года назад

    Another Paul Simon classic.
    Still Crazy After All These Years echoes the lonely people in the world.

  • @gundegavilemsons9213
    @gundegavilemsons9213 5 лет назад +6

    The BEST lad in the band is Paul Simon though, he’s music will be classics in the future. Nowerdays he is writing more.. chambermusic. He’s a genious❣️
    // Gundega 66

  • @mikeysuzefour
    @mikeysuzefour 5 лет назад +2

    *I'm still crazy after all these years Paul Simon (53 so far)!*

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 Год назад +2

    Still one of my absolute favorites of Paul :D

  • @danielfeilmeier348
    @danielfeilmeier348 9 месяцев назад

    Simply the best singing a timeless song - thank you, Paul.

  • @Eden_Rubin_Music
    @Eden_Rubin_Music 3 года назад +1

    When I heard Michael Brecker on this performance I just ran to listen! Amazing!

  • @sheriff2539
    @sheriff2539 7 лет назад +66

    There's Michael Brecker, then there's everyone else. He invented that New York sound copying black gospel music; using overtones, bending altissimo notes, weaving in and out of the blues in pop music. Mike's hero was a harmonic master and technical genius, John Coltrane. I once heard Mike in an interview, and answering a question about the amount of time he spent practicing. Like Charlie Parker, and Coltrane- Mike said; he used to practice 12 HOURS per day. He then said he wasn't a very nice person during that time and cut back on his practice regimen. No surprise that Paul Simon would want him here, given Mike was on the original '75 recording. The late 70's early 80's time period happens to be my favorite of Mike's career. You can hear the energy, exploration, and fire in his playing during this time. I always felt he mastered playing funk, rock, pop, and fusion. Nobody else can touch him in those genres. Yes, the God given talent was there, but also was the discipline to spend thousands of hours mastering the instrument.

    • @misterarthur
      @misterarthur 6 лет назад +3

      Speaking of gospel - you don't get much better than Richard Tee.

    • @r.e.mcknight9373
      @r.e.mcknight9373 4 года назад +1

      What are you talking about ..man this good music BTW..all lives matter not race or skin complex

    • @stevesaxmusician65
      @stevesaxmusician65 4 года назад

      Well said.

  • @tjmpiano
    @tjmpiano 8 лет назад +14

    The Fabulous Richard Tee on keys....none better.

    • @marone0324
      @marone0324 4 года назад +1

      yeah, his fills are so warm and wonderful

    • @TonySchopp
      @TonySchopp 3 года назад +3

      His playing always seemed like flowers opening up to the time signature of any given song.

    • @TonySchopp
      @TonySchopp 3 года назад +1

      His playing always seemed like flowers opening up to the time signature of any given song.

  • @planes3333
    @planes3333 Год назад

    I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel in Vancouver Canada when I was 13, my friends were listening to Metallica. I listened to music that I liked, not what everyone else was doing, I still like simon and garfunkle and feeling old now at the age of 47 and having bipolar I really empathise and relate to this music, I dont think I understood the lyrics back then but I do now and the music I have always loved.

  • @russcanzona6940
    @russcanzona6940 2 года назад +1

    Incredible writing and singing Paul!

  • @mikeydluffy2718
    @mikeydluffy2718 3 года назад +1

    Nice, I caught this concert on tv the other day.

  • @justanadams9430
    @justanadams9430 Год назад +6

    I would have this song on repeat and I would lay in bed 🛏 thinking about the woman who I'd been longing for. I'm still crazy about her after all of these years .

    • @tdhawk167
      @tdhawk167 Год назад +1

      I totally understand. I'm hear while thinking about a man I used to know, I'm still crazy about him after all these years

  • @johnsimmons-ml5tb
    @johnsimmons-ml5tb Год назад +1

    such a great song

  • @skepticusmaximus184
    @skepticusmaximus184 Год назад

    I always loved the lyric "i would not be convicted, by a jury of my peers'. I s'pose I'm still crazy, after all these years. Wooooh still crazy after all these years.

  • @InSpirAll
    @InSpirAll 2 года назад

    This is one of my all time favorite songs... Beautiful rendition, and that sax!!!

  • @teddyrailroad
    @teddyrailroad 7 месяцев назад +1

    STILL AND ALWAYS.....

  • @kellymathews6615
    @kellymathews6615 2 года назад

    When I was young this was one of my favorite songs. I liked so much thinking it was about not worrying about getting older because a lot of good things come with it. About old lovers meeting and still having that spark and spirit of fun. Also as a Gen Xer I swear it feels like they played this song every other Saturday Night Live sometimes, LOL. No but really, now that I am 47 I have run into old lovers. I realized I was the one to grow up and change. Turns out I'm not so crazy after all these years in a lot of ways. I never would have guessed.
    I was always the romantic when everyone else was the cynic, believing in true love, soul mates. I still do, am not cynical or bitter, but a lot wiser and happily deeper. I don't chase after some golden time with lovers. I cherish the time I live in now, instead. As in I don't need old days to make me feel alive again in that way. I do love reminiscing with friends, and family, about the childhood, teens, 20s, but not lovers I bump into. I think it's because I have a habit of tying everything up as much as possible so I can move on. I never liked loose ends in books or ambiguous endings. I leave those kinds of endings in real life for other people lol. I don't leave loose strings laying about. I cut threads and ties, though more subtle at it than Alexander and the Gordion Knot, I suppose. Interesting how old songs bring out all these thoughts and emotions.

  • @mamosamotholo1603
    @mamosamotholo1603 5 лет назад +2

    Wow. Still crazy after these years indeed

  • @teddyrailroad
    @teddyrailroad 2 года назад +1

    love this classic....

  • @denisecorbin1693
    @denisecorbin1693 8 лет назад +3

    Classic Simon

  • @patriciamurphy6559
    @patriciamurphy6559 3 года назад

    Have always loved this song, and album. I miss him as my neighbor. 😕 Lived nearby me for years. Don't know where he moved to.

  • @joelbates6499
    @joelbates6499 Год назад

    So cool to hear the audience singing along in the first verse!

  • @lokir
    @lokir 4 года назад +32

    As an instrumentalist, Brecker was as close to flawless as you can get. 😊

    • @aquamarine99911
      @aquamarine99911 4 года назад

      The whole band was. Steve Gadd was flawless, which is why I never really warmed up to him as a drummer. I assume that Tony Levin is on bass here, as in the original. I mean, how do you ever play better than that? But I found the performance (of maybe my favorite song ever) kinda static and lifeless. Paul's voice was providing the bare minimum energy for the song.

    • @tenorone1
      @tenorone1 Год назад

      i think you'll find he was flawless

  • @duncansmith8992
    @duncansmith8992 5 лет назад +2

    Paul and Michael are superb

  • @ingermarieanti304
    @ingermarieanti304 2 года назад

    I remember my brother and i was pregnant 7 . Months in concert with my sister for brother. He love your music that time

  • @yvonnerocchio8445
    @yvonnerocchio8445 8 лет назад +8

    Fantastic Sax.....

    • @lorenzmuller3542
      @lorenzmuller3542 4 года назад +1

      The legendary Michael Brecker. Rest in peace.

  • @Oochakaballa
    @Oochakaballa 4 года назад +7

    Thanks, Paul. I shared this today. It suited my mood.

  • @Carladri07
    @Carladri07 8 лет назад +9

    Amo esta música e letra/ Love this song and lyrics.

  • @lyonsmontoya3406
    @lyonsmontoya3406 4 года назад +1

    This song is beautiful!

  • @johnthomson2164
    @johnthomson2164 3 года назад +2

    Richard Tee, always brilliant.

  • @thegezabel
    @thegezabel 8 лет назад +3

    excellent #LIVEPERFORMANCE He wrote every song on this album of course.

  • @manguera9
    @manguera9 Год назад +1

    that was Michael Brecker who recorded the solo sax in the record, and now he is in this video.rRIP Michael

  • @kiddycato
    @kiddycato 11 лет назад +2

    This is just so sweet.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 4 года назад +4

    “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
    Leonardo da Vinci.

  • @UBZUKki
    @UBZUKki 2 года назад

    Those opening chords....so beautiful....

  • @otmargreb6110
    @otmargreb6110 Месяц назад

    Wonderful Song!

  • @nickjaxon1311
    @nickjaxon1311 Месяц назад

    The best

  • @tracygan62
    @tracygan62 3 года назад +4

    I met my old lover on the street last night
    She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled
    And we talked about some old times and drank ourselves some beers.
    Still crazy after all these years.
    Oh! Still crazy after all these years.
    I\'m not the kind of man who tends to socialize
    I seem to lean on old familiar ways
    And I ain\'t no fool for love songs that whisper in my ears
    Still crazy after all these years
    Oh! Still crazy after all these years.
    Four in the morning
    Cramped out, yawning
    Longing my life away
    I\'ve never worried, why should I?
    It\'s all gonna fade.
    Now I sit by my window and I watch the cars.
    I fear I\'ll do some damage one fine day
    But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers
    Still crazy after all these years
    Woah! Still crazy
    Still crazy
    Still crazy after all these years

  • @sunfish87
    @sunfish87 11 месяцев назад

    Nice to hear how you finished the song Simon. 👍

  • @dursode
    @dursode 10 месяцев назад

    still amazing after all these years

  • @NothingMaster
    @NothingMaster 4 года назад +4

    His original version is still the best.

  • @maartengoossens5252
    @maartengoossens5252 2 года назад

    Still crazy after all these years.... Awesome

  • @rlevitta
    @rlevitta Год назад

    Michael Brecker was such a genius. He left us too soon.

  • @riadhbouafsoun
    @riadhbouafsoun 10 лет назад +2

    so sweet

  • @georgiapeach7666
    @georgiapeach7666 Год назад

    I'm always gonna love you, Simon

  • @tonyhomsi2245
    @tonyhomsi2245 6 лет назад +5

    I imagine heaven being Living Eternal in Paul Simon's voice

  • @emanuelvalente1526
    @emanuelvalente1526 2 года назад +1

    Memórias que o tempo não apaga!

  • @carloscunha5684
    @carloscunha5684 7 лет назад

    Happy Birthday, Paul Simon!

  • @carolinedesmond-obrien8658
    @carolinedesmond-obrien8658 4 года назад

    ❤️❤️❤️😊love him, love this... love them all ❤️😍👍

  • @kevinbarksdale7897
    @kevinbarksdale7897 11 месяцев назад

    This was over 30 years ago. A man can go insane wondering where all that time went...

  • @monalund794
    @monalund794 3 года назад

    Yes, one of the really great one. 🎶🎶🎶😊

  • @roseanneking4950
    @roseanneking4950 3 года назад

    Still listening to the song.after all these years

  • @JohnBoy-Ramone
    @JohnBoy-Ramone 3 года назад +1

    Even from an old punk rocker's perspective, this is without a doubt, one of the greatest live albums ever made.

  • @johnthomson2164
    @johnthomson2164 3 года назад

    One of the great songs