Welcome to this Leonard Cohen fan's collection
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"Te quiero te quiero te quiero" LC - Take This Waltz: Barcelona, 3 October 2021
Maybe he looked a little older that the last
time, three years ago, but at the same time he looked more vital and healthy,
as a sportsman living in a suit, fit, I'm very glad. I went to see from the
distance, looking from a far prospect, and again I fell in love. I was right,
since my early teens I have followed this man and I know it's not an uncontrolled
obsession, he is part of myself.
I wasn't alone, again around me nearly 12,000
souls, deeply touched, in mystical union with Leonard Cohen. It always amazes
me that so many people, so many beautiful people. All along the watchtower,
spying the most ardent fans through binoculars.
Palau Sant Jordi, the same inadequate and cold place,
too big, with huge gaps and the men in black trying to keep "the
order". With Dance the atmosphere already was warmed. The show is known
and effective evolved to the most high level, absolute great. Although we lost I Tried to Leave You.
This early morning I drove out of
The gift of his 75th birthday: Barcelona, 21 September 2009
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Living the same emotion and share my feelings with so many people in my town was evoked me once again the surprise than I recognise from the other concerts, and now even more intense. I wondered: Is it possible that we have so many like as me? ¿Would I prefer my beloved poet died outside a damn hungry? Is a concert built and evolved in order to like all these people? Should forced my intimate relationship with Cohen to be shared with a crowd? Yes, all this for a moment going through my head, really these questions didn't distress me just were an amusing irony.
Leonard Cohen seemed happy in his 75th anniversary concert, though he and some band members have survived the digestive problems that they drag from Valencia. That sounded great; "yes, every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah". The more than 14,000 people were enjoying or "llorando como beatas" (crying as female blesseds), as Javier Sabina said a month later in Catalunya Radio. I seemed to live a dream; our green candles lighting to Suzanne, the words of thanks at the end of the concert for Jarkko's forum members and the memories of the fantastic time shared with all these beautiful people in the previous activities.
Leonard Cohen 75th Birthday Tribute Concert
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The day after in the TV3 new broadcast, interview with Alberto Manzano |
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ForYourSmile, Barcelona, November 2009
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The last meeting: Copenhagen, July 5 2008
(edited in November 2009, no it was not the last.)
Leonard Cohen has embarked on a long and successful tour. For me it has been a great and pleasant surprise. We went to see him to Copenhagen, a magnificent concert even somewhat uncomfortable. When we came back I wrote this chronicle in LC Files forum:
I have my complaint, four hours standing up is a torture and something must say the Declaration of Human Rights on this. Before I was afraid about it but at the end I'm amazed. A good affair for the business but not for the fans.
We were dancing from 4 a.m. for the plane. The Cohenithes we keep the spirit forever young but not so much the body. For sure the situation was not comfortable at all from the proud Rusty Circle, because there were classes, it's possible in the plain, but the plain had a light slope up towards the stage and it's not the best situation. In addition the modern Vikings continue very tall for us, now they are a polite and charming people. Always we could be on tiptoe In spite of this the concert was so extraordinary and the sacrifice worthwhile, also for my dear support to which I want to be grateful for all the effort, she enjoyed the gig and the previous meeting too.
We have tickets for Joan Baez's concert in el Palau de La Música, for me the most beautiful modernist building of Barcelona, for July 28, in the third row and centered, where Cohen sang in 1974. Can you imagine it with Cohen? And we were exiled in the castle's field of Copenhagen in the far circle, without seats.
Well the ovation for Leonard Cohen was with the audience standing up, obviously. I was observing astonished that multitude, we had a blessed smile, how Catherine Tekakwitha, how illuminated in front of our god. We were balancing from a leg to the other one in tune with the music, probably to rest the afflicted feet, I remembered the dance of Breavman's the "Bunny Hoop". Not even a complaint, we were happy martyrs.
The Rosenborg Castle is a beautiful Renaissance building without too much military aspect if we manage to avoid the vision of the soldiers. Some of them look as a lovely The Steadfast Tin Soldier of Hans Christian Andersen's, others exhibit modern clothes of combat, dressed to kill, everybody shows a terrible automatic rifle. I don't know if an AK49, for sure a powerful and terrifying weapon of war. Boy, take care with this machine! Awful! Maybe Cohen saw them or he reminded the traditional pacifist position of the Nordic countries, anyway in Anthem's introduction, an unusual song hopefully of Cohen, was an allegation for the peace. Maybe the report "The dreamer has found peace", posted by Jarkko speaks about it, (or is about The Traitor or the peaceful farewell). The deficient recording that I took the laughs of my neighbor and my damned comprehension of the English prevents me to reproduce it. He spoke about seeing us how a great regiment a battalion, of peace opposite to a world of killers and disorder, in the other hand satirized with the time that he takes out of the stages. I will be grateful if someone can remember it, it seemed to me to be very interesting, funny (seeing the neighbor) and an unheard presentation. The song was wonderful. In its time I did not understand Anthem (in fact I tried to pass of the meaning of The Future album, at all), this day the Anthem lyrics were write in my T-shirt. It was seeing the DVD of the NYC event when Perla and Julie sang it I realized its beauty and deep meaning.
At the end Ronny said to me that it couldn't be better. Yes, for Leonard, the band and the atmosphere of the people... but the comfort could be better.
The photos are not too bad, without flash and trying to jump over the heads.
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The Webb Sisters, Sharon Robinson at the back Neil Larsen keyboard |
Roscoe Beck, Rafael Gayol and Leonard Cohen |
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Bob Metzger, Javier Mas and Dino Soldo |
Where is Leonard? |
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I jumped so high than he saw me, here is the exact moment, he is looking to me |
Du dan danda du dan da |
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Roscoe Beck and Leonard Cohen |
anToni Molist, ForYourSmile, Barcelona, July 2008
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Because of. I said to a few friends that I would do to them a list of the things that I have of Leonard, as I had make enough good, here you have it; in my personal Web. Speaking about supposed freaks attitudes and the detestable phenomenon of the fans, sometimes I think that the fact to collect most be a pathological characteristic, especially worrisome when it begins to have obsession aspect. If we paid attention, the things that I have get were kept from the time in which they interested to me, obtained just at their moment, now simply they have been extended by Internet, classified and kept in a sacred sanctuary. Everything very natural. It is an unfinished collection. What you can see in red means that I do not have it and that interested to me, but I know already there are things that never I will be able to obtain, as the Albert Hall complete concert or the Isle of Wight of 1970, this is the time that more I like. The relation. My conscious relation with Cohen began by the 1972 when I listened You Know Who I Am of a CBS's promotion disc. Absolutely captivated I was interested for the whole work of this poet. The subjects that he was treating and like he was doing simply impressed this teenager. |
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He continues being for me guide who, a few years ahead, tells me my future. In a concert's program I wrote the first phrase of Bird On The Wire and I hooked it in wall, in front my table, to remember me my commitment with my freedom, I was conscious of the impossibility to keep it. I put away it, with extreme care when, to linger a fatal moment, I betrayed to the Men of Action (The Traitor) for to create a place where to procreate and love for always more. Now the good one of Leonard already speaks to me about the end.
The relations not always have been easy I have not even been a faithful pupil. His hard critics to the prophets of the Age of Aquarius when he did what could in that time, the lack of a political commitment in the direction that I wished and, finally, with my interpretation of The Future (1992) they led me to being absent to the 1993 tour. The time everything cures and a tender encounter came. I confess it, I was the one who had excused by that bad-tempered and unjustified attitude. |
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The presence. Breavman and Krantz went of hunting to communist meetings more interested in knowledge where the Tamara's long legs arrived that in them bombs full of contagious mosquitoes that the yankis shooting. For some reason they was interested in living those meetings. Mon pays malhereux! What was an Anglophilic Jew in those demonstration? Catched by the political or sexual collective excitation, which matters. He went to the Havana in April of the 1961 in full crisis of unforseeable consequences or to listed like volunteer in the war of the Yom Kippur to the 1973 where two peoples of long noses were shaking off. |
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The soldier of the life wants to be, and to live it.
Oh! What would give by having been in the Albert Hall that 20 of May of the 1970 and to be dragged by the Please Don't Pass Me By! Near Him I was in the concerts of Barcelona of the 1980:
In a too big space for my liking and his, approximately 8000 spectators, even so, his warmth and honesty moved to us deeply.
anToni Molist, ForYourSmile, Barcelona, February 2005
I want to be grateful to the following places for all good things that they have given me:
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/
http://www.twoshakesofalambstail.com/storeroom/
http://www.leonardcohenlive.com/
Last update of files November 2009