RIP Leonard Cohen

theconnactic

For my personal taste, Leonard > Bob. But as a pop icon, there's no comparison: Mr. Zimmerman is way bigger. Leonard Cohen's demise made waves, but Bob Dylan would be a tsunami.

Jocphone

Occasionally, not very often, one follows orders.

So in that vein here is my half-assed tribute to one of Lenny's songs, recorded about a year ago:

Hope I haven't ruined it for you.

Nkersov

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Yep....Bob will be a big one.

Paul McCartney, too.

Let's hope they both outlive Leonard Cohen.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Jocphone said:
Occasionally, not very often, one follows orders.

So in that vein here is my half-assed tribute to one of Lenny's songs, recorded about a year ago:

Hope I haven't ruined it for you.

What I love about this is how it made me listen to the words, I mean really to them...somehow the English accent made what I'd heard a thousand times before come back round again....thank you.

Jocphone

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Jocphone said:
Occasionally, not very often, one follows orders.

So in that vein here is my half-assed tribute to one of Lenny's songs, recorded about a year ago:

Hope I haven't ruined it for you.

What I love about this is how it made me listen to the words, I mean really to them...somehow the English accent made what I'd heard a thousand times before come back round again....thank you.

Thanks chief. It's testament to his songwriting that anyone can sound decent with his material. Learning his songs is an education in itself.

Bluepunk

@Jocphone said:
Occasionally, not very often, one follows orders.

So in that vein here is my half-assed tribute to one of Lenny's songs, recorded about a year ago:

Hope I haven't ruined it for you.

The opposite Mr Joc. Beautifully sang. You have soul. Mesmerising. I listened to this sat on a lone log, on an empty beach, with the waves crashing down. Pure gorgeousness.

Please thank whoever gave you the order. Pure bliss.

Jes

@Nkersov said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Yep....Bob will be a big one.

Paul McCartney, too.

Let's hope they both outlive Leonard Cohen.

Ummmm...they have outlived him...unless you subscribe to the 'Paul Is Dead ' theory...or, believe that His Bobness 'died ' (and was born again) when he released Slow Train Coming...

Jocphone

@Bluepunk said:
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Thanks Bluey, you are too kind. I've been singing the song for a good decade or more but still managed to cock it up, the Sh'tappens Recording Technique.

But anyway, it's a dedication to an artist I held in extremely high regard. His songs provided some company in times both difficult and happy.

JohnnyGoodyear

I was thinking about all of this again and Leonard and Chuck and you and me (eventually) and so on and I came across this quote from Bill McDonald, the Obits editor at The New York Times: “I go to sleep sometimes thinking about who might surprise us overnight,” he said. “For rock musicians, 65 is the new 85.”

robertreynolds

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed."