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  • May. 15th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
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Dear Evil Sexy Leonard Cohen:

Sir, when I grow up, I want to be just like you*: the ease, the professionalism, the honestly, the unpretentiousness, the complexity, the graciousness, the joy. Last night, I witnessed an artist totally in command of his material and the tools of his craft. A grandmaster who has surrounded himself with other grandmasters. There was not a musician on that stage who I would not have paid handsomely to see perform on his or her own.

That is all.


Also, three hour and fifteen minute concert, including an intermission. Damn. Here's the NPR writeup of a concert earlier in the tour.

Seriously, my new professional goal is to live so long that the kids of the people who never quite got what I was doing in the first place flock to my work in awe and admiration. Also, when I am 75, I want to rock skipping onstage in a fedora. It's a good reason to live that long.

That was just sublime. And fortunately the drunken obnoxious grabby guys seated next to [info]cristalia and me left after half a song. 
  • Mood: hopeful
  • Music:Willie Nelson - Hallelujah

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[info]sizztheseed wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 01:14 pm (UTC)
Oh, Man! We've got tickets for next Friday. Can't. Wait. Must. Exercise. Buddhist. Detachment.
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[info]also_huey wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 01:18 pm (UTC)
Saw him in DC a few days earlier. Amazing. I can only hope that I'm that cool when I'm that age.
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[info]elmwood wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 01:47 pm (UTC)
I'm going to see him this Tuesday and am almost beside myself with excitement about it. When I was sixteen I used to play Songs from a Room over and over while I did my homework on a Sunday afternoon.
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[info]dlganger wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 02:58 pm (UTC)
Still waiting for the implied footnote.
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[info]madrobins wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 03:37 pm (UTC)
What were drunken, obnoxious grabby guys even doing at a Leonard Cohen concert? Doesn't seem like it would be their venue. Arrowsmith, maybe, not LC.

I am green with envy.
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[info]blackcoat wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 04:29 pm (UTC)
I'm SO pissed that I managed to miss this tour.

But it also wasn't worth 300 bucks to a scalper in order to see it.
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[info]aedifica wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 04:31 pm (UTC)
Saw him in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago. Wheee!

I am the offspring of someone who did get what he was doing. My first Leonard Cohen album was a birthday present from my dad. (I lived at my mom's, and we didn't have a CD player yet--it was back before they were such a standard household item. Dad gave me a Cohen CD, but because he knew we didn't have a CD player, he dubbed it to tape for me and gave me both the CD and the dubbed tape. I listened, and enjoyed, and eventually bought more!)
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[info]madam_silvertip wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 05:56 pm (UTC)
I don't understand the people who say he hasn't got a good voice. That shy sexy bass tells a million stories as soon as it begins. It's a bardic voice.

He is SO cool. (My husband looks a little like him.)
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[info]matociquala wrote:
May. 16th, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)
He used to have a very nasal, Dylanesque delivery. Fortunately, he learned better.
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[info]madam_silvertip wrote:
May. 16th, 2009 01:13 am (UTC)
That's interesting. I don't know if I have heard his earlier songs sung by him, as opposed to other people singing them.

Sounds a little like the change in singing style that Richard Thompson went through. He has a similarly limited but soulful-in-range kind of voice, and his first album finds him trying the Dylan voice and sounding like Andy Capp.
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[info]boxofdelights wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 05:59 pm (UTC)
[*]?
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[info]charleeg wrote:
May. 15th, 2009 07:01 pm (UTC)
*envy* He's not touring anywhere near me. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I'd not heard his music until recently. Well, I had heard it, but not listened to it, if you will. Instant fangirl sweaty squee with mad purchasing of musics accompanied by disappointed pouts that his tour doesn't come near to podunkville.
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[info]longleggedbeast wrote:
May. 16th, 2009 01:28 am (UTC)
When the fedora-ed skipping happens, I definitely want to see. Also, I'm oozing jealousy that you got to see him. Damn awesome man isn't coming to pittsburgh...::oozey grumble::

-molly
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[info]asakiyume wrote:
May. 17th, 2009 11:18 pm (UTC)
One of my earliest memories is of my mom putting on Leonard Cohen and doing yoga to it while I listened to the words just some Joseph looking for a manger while I looked at the back of an album cover that showed a woman in chains, in flames, with a peaceful expression on her face.

... it makes an impression on a person...

<3 Leonard Cohen.

(I come to visit you from time to time. You may remember me from such primetime locations as [info]jmeadows journal)
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[info]matociquala wrote:
May. 17th, 2009 11:30 pm (UTC)
Hi there!
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