03 November 2012

On my walk on Friday morning, I was listening to....

...one of my favorite live albums (a genre, I must admit, of which I'm generally not fond), Paul Simon's 1974 Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin' (with the South American band Urubamba and the gospel group the Jesse Dixon Singers).


It contains probably my favorite audience/performer exchange of all time.

From a member of the audience: Say a few words!

Simon's reply: Say a few words.  Well, let's hope that we're...let's hope that we...continue to live
(pause,
pause,
pause,
clear stop.) 

Applause.

Cue album's final track, "America"

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