Velvet Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 I won't be able to pick up a ticket when they go regular onsale this Friday, so if anyone finds a presale code please let me know!!!! OTTAWA — Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s latest reunion tour is bringing them to Canada, including a stop May 14 at Scotiabank Place. The iconic American singer-songwriter duo of behind such classics as The Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Waters broke up in 1970 but have rejoined several times for hugely successful reunion tours and concerts. Tickets for the May concert go on sale March 12 at 10 a.m. They can be ordered online at www.capitaltickets.ca or www.livenation.com, by phone at 613-599-3267, or at Sens Stores at Rideau Centre and Place d'Orléans, any Ottawa Sports Experts location and at the Scotiabank Place box office. Prices range from $59.50 to $225, not included service charges or taxes. © Copyright © The Ottawa Citizen http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Simon+Garfunkel+play+Ottawa/2655296/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 I'd rather see Paul do his own thing... but still good news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobL Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 I too would rather see paul do his own thing too. I guess their goes the bluesfest rumour. Who knows though he may come back for a solo show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 No love for Art? I'll be there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 I too would rather see paul do his own thing too. I guess there goes the bluesfest rumour. Who knows though he may come back for a solo show. The rumour probably came from this show date. I'd be willing to bet someone in the know mentioned to someone not so in the know that Paul Simon was coming to Ottawa soon and they assumed Bluesfest. I am assuming an assumption!From what I know at this time, Paul Simon is touring with Art and has no plans for the summer of 2010 to bring out his band. Pay Day'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 10, 2010 Report Share Posted March 10, 2010 I won't be able to pick up a ticket when they go regular onsale this Friday, so if anyone finds a presale code please let me know!!!! Go here for Presale Presale code is: SILENCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 no cheap tix on the presale, the 2 cheapest at 150 came to 333$. sorry velvet, no tix for you today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Doesn't look like you can buy the cheap seats in the pre-sale.I'm waiting 'til tomorrow. These guys aren't worth $167 a ticket to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 they're not worth the hassle, crowd, shit sight lines and shit sound at SCOTIABANK place. This should be an NAC show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 i feel the same way bouche. kinda dreading it actually. velvet got me all nostalgic yesterday though and i agreed to go. wish it was at NAC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 They'd have to charge $800 / ticket at the NAC to gross same amount as they would at SBP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) fack... I had tickets lined up, but I can't get a hold of ms.hux. damn these last minute decisions. I think there's something that saturday that we're committed too, but I don't know for SURE!sorry wrong thread.what kind of nostalgia could you possibly have for simon AND garfunkle? Edited March 11, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Nostalgia ain't what it used to be! Hearing "The Sounds of Silence" on the AM radio in the 1960s is one of my earliest memories of music. Still, that nostalgia isn't worth $167. It's worth maybe $80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Friends of mine scored two in Row 16 Section C.$482!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Friends of mine scored two in Row 16 Section C.$482!!! Hard to think that 2 tix to see S&G in a hockey arena for $482 is a "SCORE" S&G are the ones "scoring" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 At least the acoustics should be ok for them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 I saw them at the CNE in 1983. had a great time. (aside: I got in for free as we knew an usher / ticket-taker who worked there who would let us into shows. years later this guy was arrested in the MLG child sex abuse scandal. He was an usher there as well. after the MLG thing I better understood why he was so interested in hanging out with a bunch of high school kids. we always declined his invitations to go back to his place for some beers.)after reading how paul simon screwed los lobos I've got issues with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 I was unaware of the Los Lobos thing, so I looked it up. It seems it one of those arguments that may never be settled. Controversy: Paul Simon v. Los LobosThe group Los Lobos appear on the last track, "All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints." According to Los Lobos's saxophone player Steve Berlin, Simon stole the song from Los Lobos, giving them no songwriting credit:"It was not a pleasant deal for us. I mean he [simon] quite literally — and in no way do I exaggerate when I say — he stole the songs from us... We go into the studio, and he had quite literally nothing. I mean, he had no ideas, no concepts, and said, 'Well, let's just jam.' ...Paul goes, 'Hey, what's that?' We start playing what we have of it, and it is exactly what you hear on the record. So we're like, 'Oh, ok. We'll share this song.' ...A few months later, the record comes out and says 'Words and Music by Paul Simon.' We were like, 'What the fuck is this?' We tried calling him, and we can't find him. Weeks go by and our managers can't find him. We finally track him down and ask him about our song, and he goes, 'Sue me. See what happens.'" Paul Simon answered:"I just said at this stage I don't care whether the album comes out without Los Lobos on it. I was getting really tired of it—I don't want to get into a public slanging match over this, but this thing keeps coming up. So we finished the recordings. And three months passed, and there was no mention of 'joint writing.' The album came out and we heard nothing. Then six months passed and Graceland had become a hit and the first thing I heard about the problem was when my manager got a lawyer's letter. I was shocked. They sent this thing to my manager, not me. If there was a problem, they could have contacted me direct. They've got my home number; we talked a lot. If you ask me, it was a lawyer's idea. You know, 'The record's a hit, and there's $100,000 in it.' They had nine months from the recordings to talk to me about all this, but I heard nothing. And it's still not sorted out, because they still keep bringing it up—I heard they'd done this interview for you. I don't want to get into a public slanging match with them, because I really like their music." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Well ordered my cheap less expensive seats. Anyone else going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted March 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 phorbesie mumbled something about getting us a pair of crappy seats for the show.She's sick today and I was at a gig so she's a trooper for dragging herself out of bed to get tix for us.Thanks phorbesie! Maybe we'll see you there FbN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSloth Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 I will also be in attendance. Turns out my girlfriend who pretty much listens to electronic, punk and ween exclusively loooooooooves S&G so we're going (and I spent a large portion of my youth listening to them as they, the Beatles and MoTown were common ground for the whole family so I'll have fun)Pretty happy with the tickets I got despite the price..... cheapest section but the one beside the next most expensive section, third row.Section 304, Row C, Seat 10-11 but approach with caution as I plan on being extremely mangled, you've been warned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peipunk Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Section 304, Row C, Seat 10-11 but approach with caution as I plan on being extremely mangled, you've been warned.Oh I know DUDE I love to rage my face off to Scarborough Fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSloth Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Word.59th Street Bridge Song.....I'll be feeling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted March 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 Section 304, Row C, Seat 10-11 but approach with caution as I plan on being extremely mangled, you've been warned.Section 304, row N.Ahem...."Sit down you fuckin' hippies, I paid for these seats!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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