Tour/Album

Red Poppy · Post by **Red Poppy** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 pm

Been reading the various coverages of the SAGA and there have been a number of mentions of a 2006 tour and / or Cd.
Wondered if anyone has any word.
Interview the man (in a former life as a journalist) on his last two visits to Ireland and he was (unlike some supposedly bigger names) everything you could hope for - witty, erudite, patient, interested & interesting.
My one regret is that just as I had persuaded him to sing Bernadette acapella for the radio programme I was a making a minder came into the room and interrupted the interview.Now that would be something to have on tape!
Red Poppy

Post by **jarkko** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:35 pm

Welcome to the Forum. Check the latest news on the main site at
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/latest.html
-- you will find out that the album BLUE ALERT (Anjani/Leonard) is coming next, followed by BOOK OF LONGING and Leonard's own album, -- all these in 2006. And indeed the tour is also withing the bounds of possibility...

Red Poppy · Post by **Red Poppy** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:24 am

Thanks for that - look forward to all three ---------and the tour if it happens.
Great site - good work - keep it up
Red Poppy

Ghoti · Post by **Ghoti** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:47 am

Poppy, where abouts in Ireland you from?

ella · Post by **ella** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:27 am

ella wrote:
jarkko wrote:Welcome to the Forum. Check the latest news on the main site at
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/latest.html
-- you will find out that the album BLUE ALERT (Anjani/Leonard) is coming next, followed by BOOK OF LONGING and Leonard's own album, -- all these in 2006. And indeed the tour is also withing the bounds of possibility...

Thanks. I am so glad that I found this site.I really hope the tour will be a reality

Snow (retired) · Post by **Snow (retired)** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:40 pm

Jarkko wrote:
>. . . the album BLUE ALERT (Anjani/Leonard) is coming next, followed by BOOK OF LONGING and Leonard's own album, -- all these in 2006.

Music CD sales are nose-diving - it's hard to find a shop selling more than a couple of small rows of them nowadays. Everybody wants mp3s - and they get them free from fileshare sites like limewire.com. I don't know what's going to happen.

g

Joe Way · Post by **Joe Way** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:44 am

Hi g,

I love your new avatar; is it symbolic of anything?

Music CD sales are nose-diving - it's hard to find a shop selling more than a couple of small rows of them nowadays. Everybody wants mp3s - and they get them free from fileshare sites like limewire.com. I don't know what's going to happen.

I certainly don't know either, but most of Leonard's audience will buy a cd of his since he has placed so much "added value" by contributing drawings, lyrics etc. I am always at a loss when I have the lone aural moment. I need something tangible to hold in my hands with song names and, better yet, printed lyrics. Can't you remember the joy that you experienced by pulling that thick booklet out of the folds of the album cover? Hasn't the feel of the thumbnail ripping its way through the tender, frail saranwrap that ensconced the flat package of the cardboard, imprinted itself on your heart of hearts? To stroll unrushed, through the aisles and aisles of verticle files flipping forward like 45's in the machine of the wurlitzer. These perfectly round plates pressed meticulously through mechanical means, that we-serious purveyors of lyric fortune,-appreciated through the efforts of the craftsmen who brought us scents of rich black vinyl which lingered from the first pressings. Like vintners, we anticipated the effect of the bouquet which engaged our senses startlingly by ear rather than by mouth. Then, primed for the feast of sound, we walked home, swinging a bag in the hand that could be tucked between the arm and the armpit with nary an inch added to our back profile.

Perhaps it is the screeching sound of those hard plastic jewels-those fake, rat-bastard contraptions that jar the ear as one attempts to peruse the available songs that have driven us away from music. That, and those awful adhesives that refuse to allow us access-and then, worse-haunt the hand that peels it from its tight position of prevention of theft-and loss.

Joe

Young dr. Freud · Post by **Young dr. Freud** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:04 pm

What a wonderful parody of Snow's style...Thanks Joe!

YdF

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:45 pm

Joe Way wrote:"Hasn't the feel of the thumbnail ripping its way through the tender, frail saranwrap that ensconced the flat package of the cardboard,
Joe

If only it could be true for the CDs I am buying...

no "tender, frail saranwrap" there, I tell you. It is a transparent shell more secure than the measures they take to keep gold of the nation in US. By the time I succeed to get the CD free of it, I am exhausted like after a battle.

Red Poppie wrote:Interview the man (in a former life as a journalist) on his last two visits to Ireland and he was (unlike some supposedly bigger names) everything you could hope for - witty, erudite, patient, interested & interesting.
My one regret is that just as I had persuaded him to sing Bernadette acapella for the radio programme I was a making a minder came into the room and interrupted the interview.Now that would be something to have on tape!Red Poppy

How interesting!

Thanks to share that. Do you mean this interview is taped somewhere? Could you bring it here in a way or another or tell me where it is on the net, please?

Joe Way · Post by **Joe Way** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:44 pm

YdF wrote:

What a wonderful parody of Snow's style...Thanks Joe!

Very clever! You say that what I write is parody and what Snow writes is deserving of parody.

Well, I only wish I could write as well as Geoffrey. They say that imitation is the palest form of parody and as my prose plumbs the umber depths while Geoffrey's soars above us, I guess I can only be flattered to be compared to his style.

But what of the issues? Will we be finding less and less music in our shops as Geoffrey says? Will downloading music deprive us of the pleasures that we found integral to the music experience of our youth? Enough cynicism-let's see some genuine replies from you.

Joe

Young dr. Freud · Post by **Young dr. Freud** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:16 pm

Well, I don't know about the "deserving" part, Joe. Snow soars a little too much for my taste.

I shouldn't worry about the lack of CDs in stores....haven't you heard.... Snow says we're all going to be killed by the bird flu...those of us without THIS IS SPAM! that is....so there will be plenty of CD's to go around for the Pandemic Survivors. Snow can wander around like Charleton Heston in The Omega Man...breaking into shops and taking whatever he likes.

YdF

Jeremy (retired) · Post by **Jeremy (retired)** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:31 pm

Snow can wander around like Charleton Heston in The Omega Man...breaking into shops and taking whatever he likes.

YdF

if he can work a projector he can go to the cinema and watch "woodstock"

Young dr. Freud · Post by **Young dr. Freud** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:57 pm

if he can work a projector he can go to the cinema and watch "woodstock"

Yes! Awesome!

And he can wear 70s clothes. Plus, take any car he wants from the dealerships and drive around as fast he can the wrong way on one-way streets.

YdF

John K. · Post by **John K.** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:24 pm

Joe Way wrote:
Enough cynicism-let's see some genuine replies from you.

Joe, this YdF person, whoever he is behind the mask, provides this forum with little but bile. There is no genuineness, only inflammatory posts. It would be nice if YdF had something to give besides personal attacks and criticism .... perhaps it's done under another forum name.

Sherry · Post by **Sherry** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:37 pm

Hi Joe,

I thoroughly enjoyed your very sensuous description of the pleasure entailed in shopping for, buying, carrying home, peeling open and playing a music CD, particularly one with drawings and printed lyrics, such as L.C.’s. I agree with Tchocolatl, however, that trying to get that plastic wrap off the jewel-case somewhat spoils the pleasure!

Regarding Snow’s comments, I have not noticed any decline in CDs in the local stores here in Geneva, but, on a more serious note, I can’t help but wonder how musicians, particularly young up and coming musicians, can hope to be fairly recompensed in the future if the current trend of downloading music - especially from illegal free sites - continues. I would think that the number of new artists and the diversity of music will likely decline.

I’m not particularly computer-literate, and I don’t even know how to find these sites, let alone download from them, but even if I did, I would still prefer to buy my CDs. I feel if I like somebody’s music enough to listen to it, I should be able to take the time, trouble and expense to go and pay for it. If I find it too pricey, I always have the option of not buying it. No doubt the pirating of music, movies, etc. is driving up the costs that we ultimately pay at the cash register, so those who are engaging in this activity are certainly not doing any favours for the rest of us who don’t.

I don’t mean to sound preachy, but I believe that just because something can ‘technically’ be done, does not make it ethically or morally right.

Sherry