Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2008-06-26 14:22:00
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Leonard Cohen live last night: link is to a coherent review
And from that tiny shape in grey,
so small, so old, so far away,
that voice, that sound, that music.

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[info]kightp
2008-06-26 06:31 pm UTC (link)
I am in deep and utter envy. Cohen is a master - perhaps the master - of his time, my time, our time. I'm glad, but somehow not surprised, to hear that he's still got the power of song.

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[info]rysmiel
2008-06-26 06:34 pm UTC (link)
That's not a coherent review, that's a sketch.

Mind you, I'm not at all confident I will be able to do a coherent review, so it will do for now. (I never got anything reviewish up for the Gravy Bath Tempest because the sketches were so inadequate, and am trying to do better at putting at least something up when I see something stunningly good.)

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[info]iamjw
2008-06-26 06:51 pm UTC (link)
[info]bcholmes and I saw him in Toronto earlier this month and it/he was brilliant. I don't recall ever being to a concert that satisfied so completely - and given that this may well be his last go-round as far as touring is concerned, a more than fitting tribute to the artist that he is.

When I wrote about my experience seeing him, I said that I could think of only one or two other artists who could bring a Toronto audience to their feet just by walking on stage: Gordon Lightfoot, maybe Joni Mitchell. And, to my certain knowledge, Leonard Cohen.

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[info]galeni
2008-06-26 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Wow. Wish I weren't a couple thousand miles to far away to have gone.

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[info]elmwood
2008-06-27 01:59 am UTC (link)
I was otherwise engaged when he played Hamilton, which made me sad. I still listen to his music a great deal; the earlier stuff transports me back to England in he early seventies, doing my homework on a Sunday afternoon

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