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- Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:10 am
- Forum: USA & CANADA 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
- Topic: CONCERT REPORT: Chicago, Illinois November 23, 2012
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26810
Re: CONCERT REPORT: Chicago, Illinois November 23, 2012
Hi Joe, As requested here are the "live" lyrics of Anyhow. I have included the studio ones for comparison. Can't see how to do 2 columns here - easier to compare side by side. For AlanM. Here's one way -- but I lose the italics, so I've added asterisks. Anyhow Anyhow Studio version Live version Dub...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:52 am
- Forum: USA & CANADA 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
- Topic: Alternative concert reports
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7551
Re: Alternative concert reports
Love it! 

- Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:33 am
- Forum: USA & CANADA 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
- Topic: CONCERT REPORT: Calgary, Alberta, November 16, 2012
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17769
Re: CONCERT REPORT: Calgary, Alberta, November 16, 2012
A first hand observation and early in the evening.there’s no more Stella Artois left in the building.

It's possible that he should practice writing in that state more often.
It gets easier.
Learning is, after all, a state experience.
- Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:42 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: "on a chair with a dead magazine"?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 964
Re: "on a chair with a dead magazine"?
Does it have a centerfold? 

- Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: Avalanche
- Replies: 24
- Views: 52724
Re: Avalanche
King in/under the mountain I agree entirely - I wasn't trying to exhaust the subject - just trying to put the term Golden Hill into the mountain :) -Edit - I should have added a link such as http://www.indianetzone.com/33/rishabha_mythological_golden_hill.htm to explain that Rishabha is a name of a...
- Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:37 pm
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: Avalanche
- Replies: 24
- Views: 52724
Re: Avalanche
I do not need you: I live on a golden hill! I think the line is actually "I sleep beneath the golden hill." Some thoughts on the golden hill as an Axis Mundi : An Axis Mundi is quite a general concept across various belief systems, as the link above indicates. In Jewish tradition it could well be M...
- Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:30 pm
- Forum: Comments & Questions
- Topic: Sisters of Mercy Mystery Instrument
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3132
Re: Sisters of Mercy Mystery Instrument
Not sure why, but a Glockenspiel rings a bell?
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:48 am
- Forum: OLD IDEAS
- Topic: Symbolism of 'Different Sides'
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32052
Re: Symbolism of 'Different Sides'
I like fishies!Meryam wrote:There are 2 different sides to the individual LC, (like Gollem and Smeagol )
They also make good CD/DVD inclusions.

- Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:34 am
- Forum: OLD IDEAS
- Topic: Sylvie Simmon s thinks "Darkness" is about oral sex...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 26223
Re: Sylvie Simmon s thinks "Darkness" is about oral sex...
You must remember thisjdhayes wrote:Don't forget to remember that there are times when a cigar is just a cigar, as Freud once said.
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.

- Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:17 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: The Summer 2002 Quiz--> 2012 Quiz
- Replies: 94
- Views: 14807
Re: The Summer 2002 Quiz
Hmmm - that's not the house that Celine built.jarkko wrote:That would be too easy to answer... The last concert of the 2012 Old Ideas Tour will be in Brooklyn!!
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:10 am
- Forum: Comments & Questions
- Topic: Queen Victoria
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1776
Re: Queen Victoria
Perhaps just a lot of ancient egyptians.LisaLCFan wrote:A lot of alcoholics surf the web?Chris Spray wrote: Would like to know why the "beer" lyric is so ubiquitous.

The British Empire may have something to do with German beards - but the pyramids were built on beer for the artisans.

- Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:06 am
- Forum: EUROPE 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
- Topic: CONCERT REPORTS: Paris September 28, 29, 30, 2012
- Replies: 112
- Views: 47516
Re: CONCERT REPORTS: Paris September 28, 29, 30, 2012
Looks like you got a pic of Adrienne Clarkson on the 28th 

- Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:00 am
- Forum: EUROPE 2012 / CONCERT REPORTS & MEET-UPS
- Topic: CONCERT REPORT: Verona, September 24, 2012
- Replies: 104
- Views: 48543
Re: CONCERT REPORT: Verona, September 24, 2012
It sure seems like it.pink_is_dead wrote:Is it accurate the he dedicated "Suzanne" to Fabrizio De André? I didn't quite catch the name he mentioned.
Ligur Ligur, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
....

- Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:15 am
- Forum: Other music
- Topic: Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
- Replies: 1
- Views: 613
Re: Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit



- Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:26 pm
- Forum: OLD IDEAS
- Topic: Sylvie Simmon s thinks "Darkness" is about oral sex...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 26223
Re: Sylvie Simmon s thinks "Darkness" is about oral sex...
I have always thought that Leonard's songs are like onions; they have many layers and multiple meanings. That is the ineffable beauty. Sex, longing, desire, faith, connection, failure,redemption - all wrapped up in a mystical sheen. Marvellous. Someone once wondered about the value of words in a Ko...