Paul Simon in Concert
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Paul Simon in Concert dates from October 8, 1980, when singer-songwriter Paul Simon
performed a concert at the Tower Theater outside Philadelphia as part of his One Trick Pony Tour. The concert was recorded and released as a VHS
video under this name. This concert has also been widely bootlegged on CD due to the quality of the performances of classic Simon songs as well as now-rare live recordings of songs such as "Jonah" and "Ace in the Hole" from One-Trick Pony
.
In November 2003, the recording was re-released on DVD
with the title Live at the Tower Theatre. The original recording was reproduced in surround sound
and the DVD's extra features include biographies of the band members from the One Trick Pony film and soundtrack including the late Richard Tee
and Eric Gale
.
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
performed a concert at the Tower Theater outside Philadelphia as part of his One Trick Pony Tour. The concert was recorded and released as a VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
video under this name. This concert has also been widely bootlegged on CD due to the quality of the performances of classic Simon songs as well as now-rare live recordings of songs such as "Jonah" and "Ace in the Hole" from One-Trick Pony
One-Trick Pony (album)
One-Trick Pony is the fifth solo album released by Paul Simon, in 1980.Paul Simon's One-Trick Pony was released concurrently with the film of the same name, in which Simon also starred...
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In November 2003, the recording was re-released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
with the title Live at the Tower Theatre. The original recording was reproduced in surround sound
Surround sound
Surround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...
and the DVD's extra features include biographies of the band members from the One Trick Pony film and soundtrack including the late Richard Tee
Richard Tee
Richard Tee was a pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger.Tee graduated from the High School of Music and Art and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the...
and Eric Gale
Eric Gale
Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gale began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as...
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