On Sunday night, Bob Weir joined Paul Simon onstage for a take on “The Boxer” at San Francisco’s Outside Lands.
The Grateful Dead co-founder emerged at near the end of the set for the Simon & Garfunkel classic, before Simon brought the the annual festival in Golden Gate Park to a close with “American Tune” and “The Sound of Silence.” Earlier in the evening, Simon’s recent collaborators yMusic also augmented him on “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War,” “Can’t Run But” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
Though this marked the first time the icons of the 1960s and early ’70s have shared the stage for a duet, Simon told the crowd that he actually met Weir in 1967, when he knocked on the Dead’s door at 710 Asbury Street hoping to invite the group to perform at Monterey Pop and the guitarist answered the door.
Simon’s set at Outside Lands is one of only a handful of shows he will play in 2019, after officially retiring from extended touring last year. On Friday, he also performed a special Outside Lands “Pop-Up” show at Oakland, Calif.’s Fox Theatre and dedicated “The Boxer” to Jerry Garcia on the anniversary of his passing. Simon’s wife Edie Brickell was close with Garcia and collaborated with him during his later years.
Weir previously headlined Outside Lands with Furthur and has made a few surprise appearances over the years, most prominently with The National.
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Outside Lands 2019 (A Gallery) - Relix - AfricansLive
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Rusty
August 12, 2019 at 4:21 pmSome of you people are just plain sad.
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August 12, 2019 at 3:53 pm[…] Outside Lands returned to Golden Gate Park this past weekend, boasting music from Paul Simon (who welcomed Bob Weir during his set), Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots, The Luminers, Blink-182, Flume, Kygo, […]
Nick
August 12, 2019 at 1:51 pmPure garbage
Edwin Arlington Robinson
August 12, 2019 at 12:22 pmDuet? Lalalalalalala doesn’t make a duet unless something happened at the end, the noise hurt my ears too much. Better left unsung.
Richard Cory
August 12, 2019 at 10:52 amI love it. Two of my fave individuals of all time. It’s a one-off, spontaneous duet, Arthur: They didn’t rehearse this thirty times, dude. Enjoy it for what it is worth.
art garfunkel
August 12, 2019 at 10:07 amLove the song and both of these guys but this was simply horrible, a murderous rendition of the best S&G song ever. Both of them looked off & out of sorts. Bobby should play with Phil, Paul should play with Art. End of story..