{"id":2447417,"date":"2019-08-12T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=870268"},"modified":"2019-08-12T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:07:28","slug":"watch-bob-weir-join-paul-simon-for-the-boxer-at-outside-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-bob-weir-join-paul-simon-for-the-boxer-at-outside-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bob Weir Join Paul Simon for \u2018The Boxer\u2019 at Outside Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_10360149b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-simon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-simon\" data-tag=\"paul-simon\">Paul Simon<\/a> closed out Outside Lands by calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-weir\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-weir\" data-tag=\"bob-weir\">Bob Weir<\/a> on stage to join him for a performance of Simon &amp; Garfunkel\u2019s 1969 song \u201cThe Boxer.\u201d The musician, who announced he would donate the proceeds of his appearance at the festival to San Francisco Parks Alliance and nonprofit greening organization Friends of the Urban Forest, brought Weir up after a lengthy set of his classics like \u201cDiamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes,\u201d \u201cMe and Julio Down by the Schoolyard\u201d and \u201cYou Can Call Me Al.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simon recalled first meeting Weir in 1967, when he knocked on the door of the house where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-grateful-dead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-grateful-dead\" data-tag=\"the-grateful-dead\">the Grateful Dead<\/a> were living, hoping to invite the band to perform at the Monterrey Pop Festival. \u201cBob Weir opened the door,\u201d Simon told the audience. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been friends ever since. But actually this is our first duet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair performed the emotional track on guitar and vocals with the help of Simon\u2019s backing band, drawing it out to nearly six minutes. After the song finished the musicians put their arms around each other and grinned at the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Outside Lands, held in San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park, also included performances by Childish Gambino, blink-182, Twenty One Pilots, Kacey Musgraves, The Lumineers and Lil Wayne.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-weir-paul-simon-the-boxer-outside-lands-870268\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Simon closed out Outside Lands by calling Bob Weir on stage to join him for a performance of Simon &amp; Garfunkel\u2019s 1969 song \u201cThe Boxer.\u201d The musician, who announced he would donate the proceeds of his appearance at the festival to San Francisco Parks Alliance and nonprofit greening organization Friends of the Urban Forest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 02:20:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}