Biggest mistake ever

[Tim]

Great song. Great band. Great performers. Terrible moustache.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_YQ6JuNpA

[TripletDaddy]

I love S&G.

Art Garfunkel is the luckiest SOB in music history. Dude barely wrote anything, didn't play an instrument, simply stood around and harmonized with Paul Simon. And in the process became part of one of the most influential and famous music groups of the last 50 years.

[RobinFinderson]

I love S&G.

Art Garfunkel is the luckiest SOB in music history. Dude barely wrote anything, didn't play an instrument, simply stood around and harmonized with Paul Simon. And in the process became part of one of the most influential and famous music groups of the last 50 years.

You weren't moved by Art's role as Captain Nately in the film version of Catch 22?

[Non Sequitur]

I love S&G.

Art Garfunkel is the luckiest SOB in music history. Dude barely wrote anything, didn't play an instrument, simply stood around and harmonized with Paul Simon. And in the process became part of one of the most influential and famous music groups of the last 50 years.

Didn't he also get to bang Murphy Brown in Carnal Knowledge?

[Tim]

I love S&G.

Art Garfunkel is the luckiest SOB in music history. Dude barely wrote anything, didn't play an instrument, simply stood around and harmonized with Paul Simon. And in the process became part of one of the most influential and famous music groups of the last 50 years.

Let's not underestimate his contributions here. He has perhaps one of the most beautiful, simple, soothing tenor voices in the history of pop music. Without him, Paul would've been just another folk voice in a sea of folk voices. Both were necessary pieces of the puzzle.

[Clark Addison]

Let's not underestimate his contributions here. He has perhaps one of the most beautiful, simple, soothing tenor voices in the history of pop music. Without him, Paul would've been just another folk voice in a sea of folk voices. Both were necessary pieces of the puzzle.

I agree to a point. Paul Simon, IMO, is a certifiable music genius. He's done a lot of great stuff outside of S&G, and I think he would have done well without AG. I don't think he would be "just another voice". Having said that, AG has possibly the most beautiful voice in the history of pop music. Without him, PS wouldn't have been noticed as quickly, or reached the popular heights that he did, which then allowed him to go out and bring some odder stuff to the mass market. I am not a Simon and Garfunkle expert, but I think AG's impact goes far beyond just being a pretty voice. I think he had a major influence on the Simon and Garfunkle "sound".

There was always a lot of conflict between the two of them, and one of the things that kept them together as long as they did was that Paul was afraid that once they split up, Art would become much more popular than him. That seems kind of funny, knowing how things turned out, but says something about what Paul thought of Art's contributions and skills. I don't think he thought of him as just "the guy who can do the high harmonies".

[Clark Addison]

Several years ago, one of my prior bosses (a female), confessed to me that, as a teenage girl (it would have been in the early to mid 70s) she thought Art Garfunkle was extremely hot and had a big poster of him in her room.

I admit that I lost a little respect for her right then.

[ERCougar]

I agree to a point. Paul Simon, IMO, is a certifiable music genius. He's done a lot of great stuff outside of S&G, and I think he would have done well without AG. I don't think he would be "just another voice". Having said that, AG has possibly the most beautiful voice in the history of pop music. Without him, PS wouldn't have been noticed as quickly, or reached the popular heights that he did, which then allowed him to go out and bring some odder stuff to the mass market. I am not a Simon and Garfunkle expert, but I think AG's impact goes far beyond just being a pretty voice. I think he had a major influence on the Simon and Garfunkle "sound".

There was always a lot of conflict between the two of them, and one of the things that kept them together as long as they did was that Paul was afraid that once they split up, Art would become much more popular than him. That seems kind of funny, knowing how things turned out, but says something about what Paul thought of Art's contributions and skills. I don't think he thought of him as just "the guy who can do the high harmonies".

Someone with better Youtube skills and memory than I have needs to pull a video of the SNL skit of the half of the music duo clapping (I think). Kind of foggy now, but I remember laughing really hard at the time.