The live tours of LC

[lundell]

Hi I´m new to this exellent forum. I am very much into Dylan but have recently begun to discover LC. My favourite record is "Ten New Songs". Both the lyrics and the atmosphere are amazing.

I just heard that LC is probably going to tour 2008. That brings me to my two questions: 1) How many tours have LC done before. The ones I know of are 93, 88, 79, 72(?) Are there any more? 2) Which countrires does he usally tour? ( I live in Sweden and would very much like to see him live!)

Thanks and Happy New Year!

[Davido]

Welcome lundell,
All the info you are asking for is available here: http://www.leonardcohenlive.com/
All the best
Dave

[John Etherington]

Hi lundell,

Welcome to the forum! There's a list of all the tours here (see http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/touring.html). I've been luck enough to see most of Leonard's London shows. I saw him in 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976 (four times), 1979 (three times), 1985, 1988 (twice) and 1993 (twice).

I'm friends with some Swedish Musicians - the Stockholm Strings and Horns, who have played with Arthur Lee and Love and the Brian
Wilson Band. There's also a great young female singer named "Elin Ruth Sigvardsson" who is friends with them (she has just released a new album "A Fiction", which is well worth checking out).

All best wishes, John E

[Paula]

Forever Changes is one of my all time favourite albums John.

It is a classic.

[lundell]

Thanks everyone!

[John Etherington]

Hi Paula,

I agree "Forever Changes" is right up there with the best albums of all-time (and it is arguably the most enduring , relevant and repeatedly listenable album of all-time). I was lucky enough to see Love with Arthur Lee 19 times, between 2002 and 2005, and I became good friends with their lead guitarist, Mike Randle. Mike told me two interesting stories linking Love with Leonard...

On Mike's first album "My Music Loves You, Even if I Don't", he imitated the cover of "Death of a Ladies Man" (in fact it was discussing this that initiated our friendship). You can see the cover on:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_m_h ... =16&Go.y=9

One day, a friend of Mike's saw Leonard standing outside after, I believe, one of his son Adam's concerts. Mike's friend, who happened to have a copy of the "My Music Loves You..." CD with him, walked up to Leonard and showed it to him. Leonard took the CD and went to sign it. Mike's friend said "stop! take a closer look". When Leonard saw how Mike had copied his album cover, he burst into laughter for several minutes!

The other story is that Leonard apparently turned up to see one of Love with Arthur Lee's shows in the US a few years ago. Mike didn't get to meet him, though.

Love, John E

[Paula]

Its a shame that youtube is pretty void of Arthur Lee and Love there are a lot of people playing his songs but not many of him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPOlTHdK4w

This is aloneagain or

When I was reconstituting my CD collection from LP's this was one of the first I bought on CD along with all Cohen and Dory Previn another great artist

[John Etherington]

Hi Paula,

I love Dory Previn's "Mythical Kings and Iguanas album"...another classic in its own way. I see that they've just released a double CD compilation of Dory Previn's early Seventies stuff. There's a brief interview with her in the latest Mojo (plus a Joni Mitchell interview).

All good things, John E

[hydriot]

Having just discussed Al Stewart elsewhere in the forum, I am a bit stunned to find John and I share an appreciation for both Love's 'Forever Changes' and Dory Previn's 'Mythical Kings' (though the latter I have only on vinyl). This leads me to wonder if those who appreciate Leonard may not be secretly bound together by a taste for identical other singer-songwriters.

Anyone else also keen on Melanie (Safka), Neil Young and Van Morrison?

[anneporter]

John and I share an appreciation for both Love's 'Forever Changes' and Dory Previn's 'Mythical Kings'

Hydriot,
Add me to the list of Dory Previn fans, especially Mythical Kings and Iguanas, which I recently found on CD to replace the scratchy old vinyl. That song is one of the few non-LC songs that will be part of the lyric tarot deck I am making with my daughter and others (I have posted about this on other threads).

Leonard Cohen is overwhelmingly the strongest influence, but other artists have been added, mainly to honour the preferences of some of my family and friends who have taken an interest in the process. The other artists to make the cut (so far), in addition to Leonard and Dory,are:
James Taylor
Lenny Breau
Emmylou Harris
Alberta Hunter
Billie Holiday
Matthew Good

[friscogrl]

Count me in as a Dory Previn fan, at least I was in the late sixties. I loved the song
Michael Michael (muscle man, Michael Michael strong and tan)!

Frisco

[paddieu]

Nice one ! Count me in first of all as a major Dory Previn fan - Taps, Tremors and Timesteps is my own favourite, but for me she is right up there in the top 5, maybe,
of song writers. Criminally ignored, alas, but still alive and fairly well at 80+ I think.

And Arthur Lee with the Love Band certainly brightened my life from 2002- 2005 and
provided a similar kind of spiritual focus as Leonard has offered to us this year. Glad to hear Leonard caught a show

The older I get, the more it feels I rely on artists I care about to help me through these difficult later years of life. I'm sure music helped me through my teens etc, but this does feel different nowadays somehow - more urgently necessary. Anyone else feel that ?