Posted 2016-11-10 8:16 PM (#530734) Subject: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR
I don't think that he played an Ovation.
But he did write a song that I play almost every day on the street corner.
And people actually say that Hallelujah is one of their favorite songs.
Posted 2016-11-11 3:59 PM (#530742 - in reply to #530734) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: December 2003 Posts: 848
Location: Canada
Awesome poet and songwriter, active to the end always with goose bump performances for me. Didn't even know he was an Ovation player back in the day (well who wasn't ... )
Posted 2016-11-11 6:40 PM (#530744 - in reply to #530734) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
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A sad day indeed. Cohen was so powerful because he had no problem wearing his work on his sleeve, yet still cloaked so much of himself as an ongoing enigma. A very difficult balance to truly achieve. Condolences to all associated.
Posted 2016-11-11 11:21 PM (#530746 - in reply to #530734) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: August 2003 Posts: 396
His music was used beautifully in the Robert Altman film "McCabe and Mrs. Miller." I love the song Sisters of Mercy. American Idol killed the song Hallelujah as it was sung over and over as if repeatedly beating a dead horse.
Posted 2016-11-12 1:17 AM (#530748 - in reply to #530734) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan
Wait,wait.... Take a look at that picture.
Doesn't it look a little hinky?
The head is to big for the body.
Why someone would spend the time on this is type of mash up is a mystery..
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Oh yeah.. RIP and all that.
Posted 2016-11-12 4:12 PM (#530753 - in reply to #530752) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: August 2002 Posts: 598
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Hi, Everyone,
I first heard, "Suzanne", from one of my counselors, (who lived in Montreal), who sang/played it at a camp I was attending, when I had just become a teenager. It was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar at the time. Then, later, I actually saw Leonard Cohen, "live, and in person", at The Mariposa Folk Festival, in Toronto, in 1970. Yes, Leonard Cohen was playing an Ovation, even way back then. Ovation was still considered a bit of a novelty, but was the only guitar guitar that cut through the mix, because it was windy/ raining all that weekend.
Mike S.
Ottawa, ON. CANADA.
Posted 2016-11-12 11:28 PM (#530754 - in reply to #530752) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 1555
Location: Indiana
Old Man Arthur - 2016-11-12 2:31 PM Y'all got to remember Proudly that back in the 70's Ovation guitars were the go-to guitars for any live acoustic performance.
Posted 2016-11-13 6:38 AM (#530756 - in reply to #530748) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
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Location: Flahdaw
Slipkid - 2016-11-12 2:17 AM
Wait,wait.... Take a look at that picture.
Doesn't it look a little hinky?
The head is to big for the body.
Why someone would spend the time on this is type of mash up is a mystery..
.
Oh yeah.. RIP and all that.
I think you are just bigoted against big headed people (bigheadeted?)
Posted 2016-11-13 2:41 PM (#530759 - in reply to #530734) Subject: Re: RIP-- Leonard Cohen
Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan
No problem with big heads.... it's little bodies that creep me out.
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Nobdy seems to think there's something fishy about that photo so maybe I'm wrong on this one.
RIP-- Leonard Cohen
