COHEN ABOUT SEEING DYLAN LIVE IN CONCERT 2008; read in ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE<\/p>\n
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You and Bob Dylan were in St. John\u2019s at the same time, playing consecutive shows.<\/strong> I went to his concert. It was terrific. I\u2019ve been to many Dylan concerts. This one, there was a walkway from the hotel to the auditorium, so you could enter into this private area, the people who had boxes. We were in one of those boxes. First of all, I\u2019ve never been in a private box in an auditorium. That was fun. And a lot of members of the band came. But it was very loud. Fortunately, Raphael, our drummer, had earplugs, and he distributed them. Because our music is quite soft and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been listening to for three or four months.<\/em><\/p>\n As Sharon Robinson said, Bob Dylan has a secret code with his audience. If someone came from the moon and watched it they might wonder what was going on. In this particular case he had his back to one half of the audience and was playing the organ, beautifully I might say, and just running through the songs. Some were hard to recognize. But nobody cared. That\u2019s not what they were there for and not what I was there for. Something else was going on, which was a celebration of some kind of genius that is so apparent and so clear and has touched people so deeply that all they need is some kind of symbolic unfolding of the event. It doesn\u2019t have to be the songs. All it has to be is: remember that song and what it did to you. It\u2019s a very strange event.<\/em><\/p>\n However, in a 2009 Rolling Stone<\/em> interview, Dylan claimed that he doesn’t see Cohen, or any other singer-songwriters, perform these days:<\/p>\n Do you get any time to sit in on concerts? Like would you go see someone like Leonard Cohen?<\/strong> Dylan: I know what Leonard does. I wouldn’t need to go see him. I still go see plays. I go to the symphony because I’d be hearing threads and things that are new to me that maybe would influence me in some kind of way. … I mean I would hear things harmonically that I might think, „Oh, well that’s not such a bad idea“ or maybe that kind of thing. But I wouldn’t go see anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COHEN ABOUT SEEING DYLAN LIVE IN CONCERT 2008; read in ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE You and Bob Dylan were in St. John\u2019s at the same time, playing consecutive shows. I went to his concert. It was terrific. I\u2019ve been to many Dylan concerts. This one, there was a walkway from the hotel to the auditorium, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}