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  • this is quite simply as good a song as you will ever hear. period.

  • @almirCCR i totally agree

  • @marquimar read dick chenye's book, he doesn't once mention that he spent a good deal of his time in the regan white house promoting a private military concept, and once he left office immediately became head of Haliburton, a company standing to make a ton of money from such a situationa s he wanted, and as vice-president under W. (or over) haliburton's stock rose from under 10 dollars a share to over 30 in 8 years...intersting

  • @TheIrishlad12 dick chenye is a fuckin bastard

  • when was this concert?

  • @marquimar 1987 I guess.

  • I have this on VHS and the sound is much better. this is a dissapointment...

  • @elirednecker You're watching YouTube. Lossy compression. What did you expect?

  • good day hussein lincoln

    /watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

    play day

  • The sound of that fretless is soooo awesome. What make is it anyway?

  • I like to think that i am a good judge of character, so I won't waste any more time with you, I bid you farewell anonymous YouTube person, may your grasp of basic mathematical symbols carry you to great heights :)

  • @leedsmanc If you are a good judge of character, then you will stop talking with yourself, leedsmanc.

  • just listen to the music and shut up

  • @daz3406 Libs have no problem with listening and shutting up. That is how Obama got elected.

  • Stop arguing about America, Mugabe etc. We should be talking about Bakithi Khumalo's bass. It's just WOW!!

  • and BTW those tax breaks for the rich created how many jobs? that would be a loss of 700,000 a month until Obama was elected

  • how does a great pacifist like simon draw a moron like Searcherboy...who needs to brush up on his history, cause the 5t he refers to is the fact that two wars were finally added to the books after being hidden from us for nearly 10 years by the worst president in history...W.

  • @TheIrishlad12 You have absolutely NO idea of what information about war and crimes on humanity are still being hidden from from all of us... if you don't know or if you're not sure it's always better to remain in silence, rather look before you leap...If you like watch this movie: Lord of War (Nicolas Cage...), or the good shepperd (R.de Niro). Maybe that'll open your eyes...

  • Oh this brings tears to my eyes..i was a kid when he performed in Zimbabwe back when Zimbabwe was the best place to live on in the planet without a doubt..Zim in the 80s was magic...

  • TROOOOLLLLL!

    TROOOOLLLLLLL IN THE DUNGEON!

    Just thought you'd like to know.... -faints-

    Seriously, people, this is Paul effing Simon, show some respect. Music is meant to bring people together, not split over politics... it goes against the entire point of the song! Shame on you.

  • chills...head to toe!!! wow!!

  • argue somewhere else

  • @Epicpofunk for real its ridiculous somthing like that is displayed on a video of this man and his talents

  • Look at all the arguing while Paul sings such powerfully optimistic lyrics about the wonders all around us! "Don't cry, baby don't cry..."

  • RHODESIA was a great country! They never could have put on this concert without the electrical power that existed because RHODESIA created a modern infrastructure. I'd be surprised if they even have electricity in "Zimbabwe" today.

  • OK, the band he has...not too shabby!

  • Really?????? Do you really waste time answering these sort of people?????????? Mgabe is a assassin, piriod. And that is been written by a Brazilian a country that didn´t care for almost anything that happens outside.

  • Genius tune. Classic album. Simple as.

  • Amazing music admist great turmoil. Music connects us all as humans. Peace through music!

  • @DeptState799

    :)

    

  • Ya'll stfu and just enjoy this fantastic concert!

  • I get u Broomehall..good stuff.

  • the ability of the human race to hate is hard to comprehend..but so is the love that paul simon is trying to get across in his songs..the simplicity of hate and the complex idea of love..

  • @MrLethargic69 your handle may be lethargic, but your heart is working overtime. Loved your post.

  • The thing i find so strange about human beings is our ability to completely ridicule, disregard, enslave, torture, and worst of all ignore the beauty of our fellow human beings just because of their religious beliefs or colour of their skin? C'mon all you dictators, despots, Army Generals and stupid bigoted racists, start to love music and maybe, just maybe you can start to love the people behind it, no matter their creed or beliefs, then again, you just don't get it do you? your loss...........

  • What the hell does any of that political bullshit have to do with this great singer and his band playing one of the the best concerts I have ever seen in this country or in South AFrica

  • @123canuC thank uuuu!

  • this is why sting and peter gebriel loves to have all black musicians cause they show more passion and they love to jam.....this is not a racist statement by any means thats not what iam saying.....but most white musicians just cant digg this kinda sound and thats sad.....people should be more open minded.....thats what broke up the police....other then fights and shit.....sting had a vision but stuart and andy wasnt diggin it.....look at sting now......hes awsome

  • Comment on how awesome the song is and how amazing Simon is, not hateful comments.

  • just great music to live with no further agenda than to want to live.

  • oh this is so awesome it gives me a high i can't explain :)

  • love this beautiful music.....

  • instead of acceptance of our own failings we look for miricles and wonder

  • instead of acceptance or our own failings we look for miricles and wonder

  • Wonderful really Wonderful cant fault this song or Paul :)

  • Where is Jewboy on the issue of Whites being murdered in Zimbabwe? Funny, Israel was an ally of Apartheid South Africa - even negotiated to sell them a nuclear weapon (everything Israel has they stole from the US, btw) yet NO ONE ever mentions this in our controlled media.

  • @catothewiser Are you suggesting that because PS is Jewish he endorses everything Israel puts its name to? Does that mean I should be worried, because my Dad married a German? You do know that Zimbabwe is a different country to South Africa, don't you? I'm confused by your comment!

  • @catothewiser there's a difference between the US acting as an international arms deealer and it's outdated weapons being sold to Isreal.

  • STOP FEEDING THE TROLL FOLKS!!!!!! :(

  • still one of the best albums and concerts in the history of rock music. Great to see how South Africa has emerged out of the ugly legacy of apartheid. aAd to see what a basket case Zimbabwe has become.

  • what a bass line... just epic

  • still want to know what that song is at the beginning... 2 years later... i still want to know

  • This song is outstanding. In the video there is a banner that reads "Let us rally behind our great President Robert Mugabe". I wish we could still say that statement today about the President of Zimbabwe.

  • The Lyrics are quite amazing. And the Bass Player's solo break is wonderful.

    Graceland, Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms. Iconic albums and music of the '80's

  • What does it mean, the 'best' country? What is the 'best' ice cream? The list of countries with the happiest people in the world has Denmark far ahead of second place Finland. America is #14.

  • when the usa can produce wonderful people like paul simon isnt it sad that so many americans are politically retarded.great great song

  • @duboisdvoleur is paul simon wonderful? Do you know him? Or is he just a talented songwriter?

  • @duboisdvoleur if we don't agree? We're retarded?

    It's what makes America beautiful and paul simon would agree

  • @duboisdvoleur We are not retarded. 49% voted againt B Hussein Obama. He will lose the election and go to prison.

  • Respond to this video... God bless Paul Simon and God Damn Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The sound system came from South Africa you hypocrite bastards.

  • Respond to this video... Was at a Congressional Hearing with the other Paul Simon. He called Black South Africans "African-American South Africans." What an idiot....

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  • Yep - the US seems to be a nation of a few geniuses and a lot of burger-brains.

  • what a natural. so at ease with such a powerful performance. Bravo!  take a bow!

  • that bassline is so damn tight! im a bassplayer but i cant do that fretless, it has such a different sound then a normal bass

  • AAAAAAAH

    BARAYUMBAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    MEMADIIICHI BABAAAAAAAAAA

  • Twelve people forgot to click the like button. How sad.

  • Just stop arguing already and enjoy the music.

  • I havent got this version of the song, how can i get it, i prefer authentic African Vocals at the begininng

  • Garfunkel who?

  • AMAZING SONG AND SINGER!!!

  • superb....love to see that little kid dancin at 1.07

  • marxist like china kicking ur ass in the capitalist game ha ha now u care about human rights

  • What a beautifull Continent with most hopefull people,but what a shit destiny for it all.

  • @1polonium210 Where the fuck is here? Youtube?

  • @1polonium210 It sucks that you use this video as a pretext to bash Obama. How lame can you get? If you equate Obama with Mugabe, you have rocks in your head.

  • @searcherboy My heart bleeds to know that you are stupid enough to think that BH Obama is unlike Robert Mugabe. Do the nation a favor: Do NOT vote. Get drunk ... get stoned ... just stay away from the pollls on election day, as you are unable to discern between statesmen and statists.

  • @1polonium210 Try voting in Zimbabwe, you moron. Mugabe is a Stalinist dictator who uses famine as a political weapon, deploys paid thugs to intimidate voters, kill his opposition and steal land. To equate Obama with this evil POS is to deny the meaning of democracy and constitutional government. What are you going to rant next - that BO was born in Kenya? Blah, blah, blah. You probably thought it was just fine when Bush and Cheney lied the US into a $Trillion war with the wrong country. F*ckYa.

  • @searcherboy Asshole, Obama has chipped away at our rights at a faster rate than all other president's who have preceded him. By the time he is finished with this country, we will probably be on eye level with a shit hole like Zimbabwe, and the Bill of Rights will be regarded as fiction cooked up by novelists with overactive imaginations. Now, go play with yourself.

  • @1polonium210 keep searchin searcher boy - you sir are a fool!

  • @1polonium210 you're dumb please don't vote

    thanks

    America

  • @siti1ca Kiss off, sit1ca. Obama's vision of America looks more and more like Zimbabwe the longer that left-wing sack of shit is in office. I just returned from a three-week trip to southern Africa. The parallels between what Zero is doing to this country and what Mugabe did to Zimbabwe are staggering. Remember- Zero really said "Hoax and Chains," not "Hope and Change."

  • @1polonium210 Oh whatever.

    you're such a drama queen

    do we have food on the shelves?

    gas for cars? freedom of movement? speech?

    i was in Zim in 2006, and its not even close

    you're just spouting nonsense

  • @siti1ca Spouting nonsense? You must have been gazing into the mirror when you wrote that. Try again.

  • @1polonium210 Everyone will notice that you have provided no evidence contrary to my statements.

    You should try again

  • @siti1ca You've done nothing but rant and throw one conniption fit after another. Hurling epithets does nothing to make your case.

  • @1polonium210 definitely neither ranted or raved, or thrown conniption fit, just presented evidence

    contrary to yours.

    You ever lived in Zimbabwe? Mali? DR Congo? Egypt? Sudan?

    I have lived in all those countries and more. America is not perfect, but is better than all the others.

    Go and find out for yourself if you don't believe me

  • @siti1ca I have spent a good many months/years conducting geologic investigations in southern Africa. I recently returned from a trip to Kenya. I will return to Kenya for an extended investigation in the Rift Valley this summer. Et toi?

  • @1polonium210 na Mimi Nilisha mu kenya, nilifanya safari mingi, na kenya, na Tanzania

    Epuis, por le tout le long temps J'ai vivre in l' pays du Mali, ou j'ai voyager, passer beaucoup de temps in Pays Dogon.

    Nakagara mu Zimbabwe, na suburb Queensdale. Ndaka famba mu Zimbabwe zvose.

    Ndakaita music chimurenga na Mukanya Thomas Mapfumo

    Nabetaki pe musique congolaise, nafandaki, nawumeli mingi na Congo Kinshasa, mboka na ngai,

    kuetu mundela, wapi na botamaki. na yo?

  • @1polonium210 Go f*** yourself.

  • @1polonium210 You a geologist? Geographer?

  • @siti1ca btw, calling someone a "drama queen" = having a conniption fit.

  • @1polonium210 not true, conniption fit is a momentary burst of anger or being upset

    Drama queen could be someone who has a personality characteristic, which causes them to continually bring

    unnecessary drama into their lives for one reason or another, usually attention

  • @1polonium210 LOL I GEDDIT CUZ THERE B0TH BLACK RITE?!?!11/!/!?! LOLOLOL

    You're the reason I hate Americans. Go fuck yourself.

  • @XcatisX "You're the reason I hate Americans. Go fuck yourself."

    Is that the best that your 5-watt brain can do?

  • @1polonium210 I like to be concise. If you want me to write a 5 page essay on how completely stupid you are, I can.

  • @XcatisX Just give me a one-liner on how ignorant you are. That will suffice.

  • @1polonium210 Sure. How's this: Why don't you go back to complaining about how you missed your favorite tv show, or how the seat in your car isn't that comfortable, or how your flight's been delayed 20 minutes, or how your boss made you work on sunday meanwhile the people in Africa go without food for weeks on end, have no fresh water to drink, live in a tiny shack, and are often mercilessly slaughtered for no reason whatsoever. No one cares about your white person problems. The End.

  • @XcatisX Assface, I am a geological engineer. I leave for Kenya again on Sunday - my third trip this year. I will be there for a month this time. I will be there to check on/supervise work at several water-development projects in northeast, southern, and western Kenya. What are you doing with your time, other than pissing and moaning about people who don't march in lock-step with your silly opinions? I solve problems for people who need water. You run your mouth.

  • @1polonium210 And yet you're still so ignorant? Amazing.

  • @XcatisX And you are ....?

  • @1polonium210 US Army and American citizen.

  • @XcatisX Is that the best that you can do, assface? Arschloch, sollten Sie in eine Gaskammer werden.

  • @XcatisX Tell us - are you a genetic defect, or do you practice hard to make it seem as though you are one?

  • @1polonium210 Suck cock pal.

  • @lyricesterisgod Run out of gas, ly......? Seems that you did, or perhaps you never had any in your little tank.

  • @lyricesterisgod You lose. Now, hike up your skirt and run away. That seems to be the best you can do. (Oh - try not to trip over your high heels on your way to door.)

  • @searcherboy Another note, Asshole: YOU went off on a tangent about BHO's citizenship. I didn't. You must be a desperate little ass kisser. I think BHO is a homegrown communist. You, on the other hand, are throwing shit at walls, hoping that something (anything) will stick. Now, go back to playing with yourself, and Hope that you have a little Change in your pockets after Obama fleeces you. "Hope and Change?" No, he really said, "Hoax and Chains."

  • Hahaha. Thanks for your well-reasoned, thoughtful posts. The title of this thread is indeed appropriate: "The Boy in the Bubble". That would be you.

  • @1polonium210 How dare you say Obama is worst than Mugabe,, you are obviously a thick American Child.. You have absolutley NO idea about what Robert Mugabe does to the country of Zimbabwe, the worst thing that could have possibly come to the country post colonialism.. You need to learn your history sir before you start a flame war. i find your ignorance deeply offensive. also read your comment before posting, you cuss the same things over and over again.,

  • @aceridgey Give him time. Zero will have the US looking like a third-world nation in two more years ... especially if American liberals are stupid enough to give Obamarx a second term.

  • @1polonium210 lol, you sound like a rebulican white trash.. scum of the earth

  • @aceridgey "Rebullican?" Have you been drinking formaldahyde?

  • @aceridgey "Rebullican?" Have you been drinking formaldahyde?

  • @1polonium210 what then?

  • @aceridgey What then?  Sober up.

  • @1polonium210 TROLL

  • @THthefirst Imbecile.

  • @aceridgey

    Mugabe causes immense suffering in his own country. Obama causes immense suffering in external countries - Palestine for instance.

  • @jonny616 "Obama causes immense suffering" - how, exactly? What a completely simplistic view of the world and its complex problems. Presumably the people actually in palestine doing the killing on both sides bear no responsibility for their actions?

  • @aceridgey internet trolls sir, you have been duped.

  • @aceridgey and who are you to say someone it wrong in there opinon? i may not agree with him/her but i wouldnt be that much of an asshole to hate comment about it.

  • @sich5648 people need to be educated about their ignorance man.

  • @aceridgey Did someone actually say that? Ignore them; they're obviously twats.

  • @nollafyzzil ye they did,, i just feel that some peoples ignorance needs educating

  • @nollafyzzil you're so right, i love insulting people on the internets. see you in a week! x

  • @aceridgey Agreed... Comparing Obama to Mugabe is like comparing Mother Teresa to Hitler.

  • @Ceaaa22 Well maybe Mother Teresa's a stretch...maybe Princess Diana and Hitler?

  • @aceridgey Sticks and stones, aceridgey. Sticks and stones. Obama and his czars are squeezing the life out of the Bill of Rights, just as a python crushes its prey. It will not be long before the Obama administration will be government by decree ... Congress be damned.

  • @aceridgey Idiot - Obama is not "worst" than Mugabe. He is "worse" than Mugabe. He is, however, the "worst" president the USA has ever had to suffer through. Now ... go play with yourself.

  • @1polonium210 Hi Nazi,, nice favourites you have in your youtube account.. Nazi invasions of france etc? You make me sick

  • @aceridgey Du bist ein idiot!. Die Welt wäre ein besserer Ort werden heute, wenn Hitler Kommunisten geschickt hatte und Leute wie Du zu den Gaskammern.

  • @1polonium210 George W. Bush was more than an abject failure of a president, he was a laughing stock internationally, a morally bankrupt man, Obama is an improvement in every way.

  • @leedsmanc Attempts to justify Obama' ruinous administration through references to Bush's misguided ways is laughable.. On the log scale of idiocy, (1 = brilliant, 1= unredeemably idiotic), Bush was a 7.0 - 7.5. Obama, in less than three years, has risen to 8.5 - 9.0. If you like government with the Bill of Rights merely shredded, then Bush was your man. If you like government with the Bill of Rights shredded and the shreds incinerated, then, you should be happy with Obama.

  • @1polonium210 I'm sorry I resorted to a laughable comparison, from now on i shall base all my political opinions on log scales of idiocy and arbitrary points out of 100.

  • @leedsmanc I am sure that your version of idiocy would be in the 3rd or 4th order range (10^3 or 10^4 idiot.)

  • @leedsmanc If your basis of comparison is on the log scale, then you are somewhere in the terabyte scale of stupidity.  You have much company, I am sure ... stellar intellects like Barack Hussein Obamarx and Chou bi Den.

  • @1polonium210 your reply was much delayed and pathetic

  • @searcherboy they deserve it.

  • @searcherboy we got the 2 highest rated comments against the hater 1polonium210 lol, respect :)

  • @searcherboy "Mugabe is a Stalinist dictator who uses famine as a political weapon ..."

    And Obama is a Marxist who uses the questionable power of his office and "interesting" interpretations of the Constitution to enslave Americans. After running up nearly $5T in debt in less that three years (that's right, $5T dollars), he wants more and more and more from his slaves in the form of taxes, taxes, taxes to pay off his debt. Sounds like modern-day slavery, eh?

  • @searcherboy searcherboy, you are not the brightest light on the marquee.

  • @1polonium210 To compare Obama and Mugabe just shows how thick headed you are

  • @brendanmaz Anyone who overlooks the similarity between Obama and Mugabe is a dolt. Obama is worse than Mugabe. To make matters more unpalatable, the little Marxist's bitch, Napolitano, has embarked on a "spy-on-your-neighbor" campaign. ("If you see something, say something.") Hope you like Barack's Brave New World! He WILL shove it up your ass and expect you to like it.

  • @1polonium210 You're clearly an idiot.

    Or John Boehner.

    But what's the difference?

  • @1polonium210 You are a dumb fukk.

  • @lyricesterisgod Aw, ly......, I'm all broken up by your not-so-sharp response. Let me hazard a guess: you failed your IQ test?

  • @cwazymbfan If you voted for Zero, YOU are the idiot. I guess you are so accustomed to being in the company of other mental defectives that you would not know the difference.

  • @1polonium210 Fuck off.

  • @cwazymbfan Is that the best you can do? You are definitely NOT the brightest light on the marquee.

  • the intro gets me every time

  • this album is about the continetal okra drifters

    gumbo in new orleans

    every swirl that rolled of your tongue or off your coast just makes zydeco stronger

  • watch?v=BfThxVboEQw

    

  • hot damn he is pushin' that beat right along, isn't he? me gusta!

  • black mambazo u are the best can u imagen that?

  • Great song. Really nice rendition here. One of my favorite all time Simon lyrics.

  • The guy on the fretless bass is amazing. Reminds me of another great fretless bass player by the name of Rick Danko.

  • This was the song I loved before I went to South Africa in 1994 for the elections as an observer. I really want to thank Paul Simon for opening a door for me to hear great South African and African music. He was there at the right time. This is still a great song, not just the words,but the music is fantastic and true.

  • 1:12 Shame it wasn't so.

  • LONG LIVE PAUL SIMON :)...

  • LOVE this! Thank you!

  • shame about the picture of that murdering scum bag mugabi should be treated the same way as sadam hussain he wont be missed

  • brilliant in every aspect.

  • Not enough views. Should be well over 2 million.

  • brilliant

  • his band is brilliant!!!!

  • i love this man, i dance to his music everyday in my house haha. love it!

  • Paul at his best

  • brilliant geniuses

  • paul simon is an underrated musical genius

  • @kidlou well rate him higher then!

  • Does anybody know the choir in the intro?

  • kick ass bass solo.