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Leonard Cohen has left the building
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Oh, wow.... I didn't know. That's sad. Some of the best songs of my life's soundtrack were written by Leonard Cohen. Rest In Peace. :frown:
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RIP, indeed. Another icon has left us to carry on. :emptiness:
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Absolute legend & a true artist.
From a story on a local paper he wrote a note to his muse & former lover Marianne Ihle:
I remember I was in Croatia a few years ago & he was playing some dates in the country at the time. I looked at the charts & he held 9 of the top 10 places! I think Lady Gaga interrupted the clean sweep & had her album in at No. 6. Legend.
You did good. RIP.
From a story on a local paper he wrote a note to his muse & former lover Marianne Ihle:
I remember I was in Croatia a few years ago & he was playing some dates in the country at the time. I looked at the charts & he held 9 of the top 10 places! I think Lady Gaga interrupted the clean sweep & had her album in at No. 6. Legend.
You did good. RIP.
I knew Mr. Cohen's editor at the Viking Press back in the '60s and '70s. The simple fact is that I was friends with his high-school-aged children. I mention this because it explains how I got to hear Leonard Cohen and his back-up band in 1970 (?) at the Forest Hills Tennis Center.
I was 17. I had read Beautiful Losers and knew who LC was.
At the concert: Leonard was a little bit under the influence of drink. Charlie Daniels, who was not famous at that time, was his bass player. Charlie was sitting with a Fender Bass in a folding chair about 15 feet from Leonard's left hand, chewing gum furiously, constantly scanning the audience with a big smile. He was lit up, too; something 'speedy'.
Cohen kept trying to do hand-whistles but was a little too drunk. He tried several times, as the crowd gently laughed. He finally got it right and the crowd cheered.
Back to Charlie. Cohen asked him to kick a song off. Charlie was too busy smiling and chewing gum to notice. Cohen asked him again, louder. "Mr. Daniels." No response from Charlie. Cohen barked, "MR. DANIELS!" Charlie heard him and kicked off the song.
A memorable night, even at the callow age of 17. Imagine my surprise decades later when I saw that Leonard Cohen's bass player had a hit song on the fiddle, called The Devil Went Down To Georgia.
RIP, Mr. Cohen.
I was 17. I had read Beautiful Losers and knew who LC was.
At the concert: Leonard was a little bit under the influence of drink. Charlie Daniels, who was not famous at that time, was his bass player. Charlie was sitting with a Fender Bass in a folding chair about 15 feet from Leonard's left hand, chewing gum furiously, constantly scanning the audience with a big smile. He was lit up, too; something 'speedy'.
Cohen kept trying to do hand-whistles but was a little too drunk. He tried several times, as the crowd gently laughed. He finally got it right and the crowd cheered.
Back to Charlie. Cohen asked him to kick a song off. Charlie was too busy smiling and chewing gum to notice. Cohen asked him again, louder. "Mr. Daniels." No response from Charlie. Cohen barked, "MR. DANIELS!" Charlie heard him and kicked off the song.
A memorable night, even at the callow age of 17. Imagine my surprise decades later when I saw that Leonard Cohen's bass player had a hit song on the fiddle, called The Devil Went Down To Georgia.
RIP, Mr. Cohen.
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
RIP indeed!
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
RIP indeed!
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When I was learning Suzanne many years ago I encountered the sad beauty of minor chords. I was also seeing a young lady named Suzanne at the time, so that period and that song are firmly affixed in my memory. :emptiness:
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There will be a 2-hour retrospective of LC's music this evening, Nov 11, on CBC radio. The broadcast will be 6-8 pm local time on CBC Radio 2. Anyone outside broadcast range should be able to find it on the CBC website, cbc.ca
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I've met Suzanne Verdal, the Suzanne of the song of the same name, several times.
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To all us would be poets in Canada, he was the guy....so cool.....urban, hip and very cool. And then he started writing songs, and I thought, yeah, that's the way to do it. The wife had on the internet radio awhile ago, and there were a bunch of songs, being played, some soon forgotten, most, quickly forgotten.....Little pieces of fluff with very little import. Then a song came on, and it was....whoa baby....check this out....this man has something to say, and he's saying it. Thanks Leonard.....