05-25-2015, 09:18 AM
|
#2
|
|
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
|
Paul Simon (“The World’s Biggest Prick” According To Some Dude In Los Lobos)
http://www.stereogum.com/9106/david_...est_pri/video/
I mean he [Simon] quite literally — and in no way do I exaggerate when I say — he stole the songs from us…. And you know, going into it, I had an enormous amount of respect for the guy. The early records were amazing, I loved his solo records, and I truly thought he was one of the greatest gifts to American music that there was.
David starts playing “The Myth of the Fingerprints,” or whatever he ended up calling it. That was one of our songs. That year, that was a song we started working on By Light of The Moon. So that was like an existing Lobos sketch of an idea that we had already started doing. I don’t think there were any recordings of it, but we had messed around with it. We knew we were gonna do it. It was gonna turn into a song. 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 #### is this?”
He said, “You don’t like it? Sue me. You’ll see what happens.” We were floored. We had no idea. The record comes out, and he’s a big hit. Retroactively, he had to give songwriting credit to all the African guys he stole from that were working on it and everyone seemed to forget. But that’s the kind of person he is. He’s the world’s biggest prick, basically.
[In the comments there is Simon's response, then a rebuttal from Steve Berlin]
Last edited by troutman; 05-25-2015 at 09:27 AM.
|
|
|
