Paul Simon's "Night Game"

[Chad Clark]

I'm staying in the Fairmont in New Orleans after the Tape Op
convention and I'm making a duo record with the violinist Jean Cook on
a powerbook/digi002 rig in the hotel room. That should give you the
context for this next question.

We're covering Paul Simon's "Night Game" (from "Still Crazy After All
These Years") and we have a simple question: is the story in this song
true, an actual historical event, or is it one of Paul's famous
surreal/allegorical concotions? I don't know anything about baseball
or baseball history. It's just a great tune and a haunting set of
words.

If anyone knows, I'd be very grateful.

--- Chad


P.S. We're using West Dooley's new R84 ribbon microphone into a
Universal Audio 2108 preamp and I've never heard anything better on
violin. But I can't say I have that much experience with recording
violin.

[Don Cooper]

Chad Clark wrote:

> We're covering Paul Simon's "Night Game" (from "Still Crazy After All
> These Years") and we have a simple question: is the story in this song
> true, an actual historical event, or is it one of Paul's famous
> surreal/allegorical concotions? I don't know anything about baseball
> or baseball history. It's just a great tune and a haunting set of
> words.


I follow Baseball and Paul Simon, and I think it's just Paul's creation.

"If you want to write a song about the moon,
Walk along the craters of the afternoon."


Don

[Don Cooper]

Chad Clark wrote:

> We're covering Paul Simon's "Night Game" (from "Still Crazy After All
> These Years") and we have a simple question: is the story in this song
> true, an actual historical event, or is it one of Paul's famous
> surreal/allegorical concotions? I don't know anything about baseball
> or baseball history. It's just a great tune and a haunting set of
> words.


I follow Baseball and Paul Simon, and I think it's just Paul's creation.

"If you want to write a song about the moon,
Walk along the craters of the afternoon."


Don