Truth

[Steven Koteff]

Cohen is the real deal, I agree. Of course this thing implies that TRP
liked (or at least read) one of Cohen's novels.

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> There ya go. Should note that my comment wasn't a criticism - I too
> went to the show a skeptic and came out a convert. And yes, he really
> does skip around on stage.
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Robert Christgau's review of Live in London confirms most of that. If
> he's
> > assumed to have some credible intel.
> >
> > http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=leonard+cohen
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Saw him last year. Asked a fan friend why Cohen seems to tour to
> >> Australia around twice a year (utterly unheard of) and she told me a
> >> story about how he was royally screwed over by a manager, I think?
> >> Which left him in great financial trouble. So he has to essentially
> >> work his butt off in his 80s just to pay the bills.
> >>
> >> Can't remember the details or if it was actually true.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> >> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >> > Great, great song.
> >> >
> >> > Two years ago Cohen took Berlin near the Olympic Stadium and played a
> >> > particularly intense version of "The Partisan" to honour the occasion.
> >> > It
> >> > was quite unforgettable.
> >> >
> >> > Thomas
> >> >
> >> > P.S. Actually, and perhaps sacrilegiously, I prefer John Cale's
> version
> >> > of
> >> > "Hallelujah" to the original.
> >> >
> >> > P.P.S. "Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the
> captain
> >> > lied"
> >> > -
> >> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
>
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