Art Garfunkel Charged With Pot Possession

[lucky wilbury]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109151,00.html

Art Garfunkel Charged With Pot Possession

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

HURLEY, N.Y. — Art Garfunkel (search), part of the folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel (search), was charged with marijuana possession after police pulled his limousine over for speeding in upstate New York.

Garfunkel, 62, had a small amount of marijuana in his jacket pocket when a state trooper stopped the limo Saturday afternoon in Hurley, 55 miles southwest of Albany (search), the Daily Freeman of Kingston reported.

The trooper smelled marijuana after approaching the vehicle, in which Garfunkel was the lone passenger.

Garfunkel, of Manhattan, was scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 28 on the charge, which carries a possible $100 fine, or he could respond by mail.

A representative for Legacy Recording, Garfunkel's New York-based record label, did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday.

Garfunkel completed a U.S. concert tour with Paul Simon last fall, their first in 20 years. The duo, who have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, produced a string of hits in the 1960s, including "The Sounds of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson," "Old Friends" and "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)."

[Sarge]

Dude is 62 and still smoking.
My brother.. older brother .. in his room he had a poster of Art Garfunkel.
he could have had any poster..
A poster of Led Zep.. the Stairway to Heaven one.. Van Halen..
Anything..
HE chose ART GARFUNKEL!
WTF?!

[Gmoney]

Are you a pothead Focker???

[Hecubus]

ATTA BOY, ARTIE!!

[SensibleShoes]

Just goes to prove that William Miller's mother from "Almost Famous" was right.

Anita smuggles home "Bookends" under her coat - Mom catches her and takes it away. "Do we have to listen to this trash"?

Anita - "Simon and Garfunkel is poetry!"

Mama - "Yes, the poetyr of DRUGS! Look at their eyes! (punctuating with her finger- They're ON POT!"

Anita - "F-F-F-FECK YOU". (runs from room)

Mama - "Well it's come to this. My own daughter used the F word."

William - "I think she said FECK"

Mama -"What's the difference?"

William - "the letter U"

Then you know the rest - Anita runs away from home and leaves a suitcase of Vinyl under William's bed with a note "These will set you free." Tells him to listen to the Who with headphones and a lit candle.

William goes on to become the youngest writer for Rolling Stone magazine and goes on tour with the emerging band "Stillwater" in 1973.

If old Art hand't been stoned - none of it would have ever happened!