Leonard Cohen is the man
June 13th, 2008 by Wade Tatangelo in News
I’m hoping Cohen’s current tour is miraculously extended to include the United States and a Tampa Bay date, for which I would wait in line all night for a ticket.
In the mean time, I’ll have to settle with these awesome interviews he’s giving and whatever I can find on YouTube.
From MacLean’s.CA:
Q: Why did you need to drink?
A: I was very nervous. And I liked drinking. And I found this wine, it was Château Latour. Now very expensive. It was even expensive then. It’s curious with wine. The wine experts talk about the flavour and the bouquet and whether it has legs and the tannins and the fruit and the symphonies of tastes. But nobody talks about the high. Bordeaux is a wine that vintners have worked on for about 1,000 years. Each wine has a very specific high, which is never mentioned. Château Latour, I don’t know how I stumbled on it, but it went with the music, and it went with the concert. I tried to drink it after the tour was over, and I could hardly get a glass down. It had no resonance whatsoever. It needed the adrenaline of the concert and the music and the atmosphere, the kind of desperate atmosphere of touring—desperate because I was drinking so much! I had a good time with it for a while, but it did wreck my health, and I put on about 25 pounds.
Click here to read the rest of this backstage interview titled “Cohen wore earplugs to a Dylan show?”
Leonard Cohen performing his classic “Hallelujah,” May 11, 2008.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
The legendary French winery Chateau Latour can be a scintillating experience (one I’ve had only a few times when someone else paid, so that added to the “high”), but so can any other wine in the heat of the right moment. There’s no doubt that the wine high changes with mood, atmosphere and even how much water/food you’ve had that day. This explains why, if you visit wine country and have a mind-blowing, jesus-calling experience drinking a wine, buy a $500 case of it on the spot, then open one at home… and it sucks. Yes, all in the moment…
June 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Wow, feedback from CL wine guru Taylor Eason.
I have a bottle of the Primus you steered me to at Bern’s Winesfest sitting at home and that scotch (thanks again) ready to go this weekend. I’m hoping one or both result in a “jesus-calling experience.”
Read Taylor Eason:
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/BrowseArchives?searchCategory=oid%3A1425
June 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I’d love to see Leonard at Tampa Theatre.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I’d love to drink some scotch at Wades place…
June 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
You’ll have to be best buds with Wade.
Like me.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Now boys, don’t make me play favorites.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Perhaps I should have said…
“I’d love to drink someone else’s scotch”.