Simon & Garfunkel - BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, Canada, 8-22-1983

There are some no-brainer, must-have concert bootlegs that I've never gotten around to posting for one reason or another. This is one of them.

After breaking up in 1970, Simon and Garfunkel did a bunch of reunion tours, but never made much new music together. The closest they got was in 1981 to 1983, when they released "The Concert in Central Park" live album, then began recording a new studio album, to be titled "Think Too Much." I've already posted my version of what that would have sounded like, here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/12/simon-garfunkel-think-too-much-various.html

But in addition to some studio recordings that ultimately never got released, they also toured some before breaking up again. This is clearly the best bootleg recording from that tour, a soundboard. 

The set list is fairly similar to "The Concert in Central Park" album, recorded in 1981, especially by having Garfunkel sing harmonies on a bunch of Paul Simon solo hits from the 1970s. But they also did three songs from the planned new album: "Cars Are Cars," "Think Too Much," and "The Late, Great Johnny Ace." Plus, they varied up the set list in other ways, for instance with the covers "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "One Summer Night." So it's definitely worth having both, in my opinion. This also is about half an hour longer, so it just has more songs in general.

This album is an hour and 43 minutes long.

01 Cecilia - Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
02 America (Simon & Garfunkel)
03 My Little Town (Simon & Garfunkel)
04 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Simon & Garfunkel)
05 Scarborough Fair (Simon & Garfunkel)
06 Cars Are Cars (Simon & Garfunkel)
07 I Only Have Eyes for You (Simon & Garfunkel)
08 Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel)
09 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Simon & Garfunkel)
10 Late in the Evening (Simon & Garfunkel)
11 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
12 The Late Great Johnny Ace (Simon & Garfunkel)
13 El Condor Pasa [If I Could] (Simon & Garfunkel)
14 Think Too Much (Simon & Garfunkel)
15 Still Crazy After All These Years (Simon & Garfunkel)
16 Kodachrome - Maybellene (Simon & Garfunkel)
17 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)
18 The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel)
19 Slip Slidin' Away (Simon & Garfunkel)
20 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
21 The 59th Street Bridge Song [Feelin' Groovy] (Simon & Garfunkel)
22 Old Friends (Simon & Garfunkel)
23 Wake Up Little Susie (Simon & Garfunkel)
24 One Summer Night (Simon & Garfunkel)
25 talk (Simon & Garfunkel)
26 Late in the Evening [Reprise] (Simon & Garfunkel)
27 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

https://www.imagenetz.de/f6QJM

I looked for photos from this exact concert, and found two, both of them black and white. The other one only showed Simon, so I disregarded that one. This one is weird. I have no idea what was happening when this was taken. Their faces actually were even closer, with Garfunkel's nose overlapping Simon's a little bit, but that seemed even stranger, so I used Photoshop to move Garfunkel back a bit. I also used the Palette program to colorize it.

For the text at the top, I found an artistic rendering of their name, and stretched it to fit the space. Then I found a nice paisley pattern and used that to add some color and character to the letters.