Dino Soldo is a Smoothie
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:59 am
"Dino SoldoThe most entertaining review about yours truly that I've seen. "
http://bit.ly/08ZCuBO
11:51 PM Nov 20th from web
The above is from Dino's own twitter feed which sends you to the article below, which is a wee bit harsh I think.
Dino Soldo is a Smoothie
November 20, 2009...4:30 pm
http://jacobpedia.wordpress.com/2009/11 ... /#more-154
In browsing McSweeney’s website, I ran across Sean Michael’s review of a Leonard Cohen concert from last year. Most of what he says also applies to the Cohen concert I saw in Chicago in May, but none of it is more accurate than this:
My friends J. and J. write together sometimes. Once, they wrote a story where they go up to heaven. I think heaven in this story is the top floor of a peculiar hospital. In heaven, they meet an angel. He is a “smoothie.” When J. and J. used to read this story aloud, on a stage, they would gesture in the air to make it clearer what “smoothie” meant. It means someone with no genitals. They would move their hands like they were running their palms over the front and bottom of a beach ball.
A couple of years later, I was with J., another friend with the same initial, at a jazz bar in Kraków. We listened to the Poles’ cheesy, schmaltzy, soporific solos and he mouthed to me the word “smoothie” and I nodded.
All this is to say that every time Mr. Dino Solto [sic] picks up a saxophone, harmonica, or clarinet to play along with Leonard, I want to make a motion like I am running my palm over the front and bottom of a beach ball.
Dino Soldo is by far the worst part of Cohen’s mostly amazing backing band. He rarely adds anything good to the arrangements, and more often than not, his parts distract from the rest of the performers. His saxophone/clarinet playing is cheesy, and his harmonica playing is grating. Rationally, I know that Cohen is responsible for thinking that the sax/clarinet/harmonica parts sound good, but it’s hard to blame the man who wrote “Bird on the Wire” and “Famous Blue Raincoat.” It’s much easier and more satisfying to pile on Dino Soldo.
http://bit.ly/08ZCuBO
11:51 PM Nov 20th from web
The above is from Dino's own twitter feed which sends you to the article below, which is a wee bit harsh I think.
Dino Soldo is a Smoothie
November 20, 2009...4:30 pm
http://jacobpedia.wordpress.com/2009/11 ... /#more-154
In browsing McSweeney’s website, I ran across Sean Michael’s review of a Leonard Cohen concert from last year. Most of what he says also applies to the Cohen concert I saw in Chicago in May, but none of it is more accurate than this:
My friends J. and J. write together sometimes. Once, they wrote a story where they go up to heaven. I think heaven in this story is the top floor of a peculiar hospital. In heaven, they meet an angel. He is a “smoothie.” When J. and J. used to read this story aloud, on a stage, they would gesture in the air to make it clearer what “smoothie” meant. It means someone with no genitals. They would move their hands like they were running their palms over the front and bottom of a beach ball.
A couple of years later, I was with J., another friend with the same initial, at a jazz bar in Kraków. We listened to the Poles’ cheesy, schmaltzy, soporific solos and he mouthed to me the word “smoothie” and I nodded.
All this is to say that every time Mr. Dino Solto [sic] picks up a saxophone, harmonica, or clarinet to play along with Leonard, I want to make a motion like I am running my palm over the front and bottom of a beach ball.
Dino Soldo is by far the worst part of Cohen’s mostly amazing backing band. He rarely adds anything good to the arrangements, and more often than not, his parts distract from the rest of the performers. His saxophone/clarinet playing is cheesy, and his harmonica playing is grating. Rationally, I know that Cohen is responsible for thinking that the sax/clarinet/harmonica parts sound good, but it’s hard to blame the man who wrote “Bird on the Wire” and “Famous Blue Raincoat.” It’s much easier and more satisfying to pile on Dino Soldo.
