I tweeted to Steyn today that I heard the end of Feelin Groovy yesterday and recalled how cool that song was.
In 1980 or 81, I saw Simon and Garfunkel perform at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan.
Growing up in Dayton,Oh our “teen club” was The Caverns - in the basement of a shopping center. The stage was 12” tall so the performers were “right there”.
A local band, The McCoys (Hang On Sloopy) featured a young Rick Zehringer (later Rick Derringer). After their set, they stayed on stage to be the backing band for S&G on their PSRT tour.
My main memory was being really impressed with the guitar virtuosity of a young Zehringer who later became a highly acclaimed session guitarist in LA playing on many albums - from Steely Dan’s hot slide on “Show Biz Kids” to the blazing solo on Weird Al’s cover of “Eat It”.
In 1980 or 81, I saw Simon and Garfunkel perform at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan.
Only in your mind did that happen. They did not perform together between a 1978 Carnegie Hall appearance and the Concert in the Park on Sept 19, 1981 (which I was at). They then did a world tour in the summer of 1982. Michigan was not on that tour.
For a long time, I thought the lyric for the second line in
“Feelin’ Groovy” was
“Got to make the Morning Mass!”
when it actually was;
“Got to make the morning last!”
This was back when I was an Altar Boy in the St. Cecilia
Church. Naive, for sure. Why would Paul Simon, a Jew, be singing about going to a Catholic church for Morning Mass?