Previous visits to Version City.
Monday, 15 July 2013
Version City #12 - David McComb sings Leonard Cohen
The late great David McComb of The Triffids
was clearly an admirer of Leonard
Cohen, particularly, it seems, of laughing
Len's least loved LP, 'Death of a Ladies
Man'. First McComb (with Adam Peters)
covered 'Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On'
for the 1991 tribute album 'I'm Your Fan', then two years later, in cahoots with The
Blackeyed Susans, he delivered this sparkling
reading of 'Memories'.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Greatest Hits
-
One of rock music's odd little Trivial Pursuit facts is that Tim Buckley premiered 'Song to the Siren' on the last ever episo... -
I felt every one of my 58 years earlier this week, when telling a couple of work colleagues the name of the artist I was going to see i... -
Sometimes at work, a random song (or part of a song) will get lodged in my head and become an eight hour long earworm. One day last week,... -
In the precious few moments that I've had to sit down and listen to any music at all since Brian posted this at the weekend, I dug o... -
Miles and Reggie on stage Reggie Lucas, one of the two guitarists in Miles Davis' controversial 1972-75 band, died in New York last...
3 comments:
Good attempt, If I can remeber Bob and Allen Ginsberg are in the backing vocals on the original...I quite liked the album, strange cmbination Specter and Cohen.
I still like 'Death of a Ladies Man' too. It was the first Cohen album I ever heard, so you can imagine my surprise when I went back to check out some of his earlier LP's!
Good version! 'Ladies Man' is not really my favourite Lenny album but it has its moments. Phil Spector? Was this really a good idea? Didn't Bob and Allen only sing on 'Don't Go Home...' or was there more?
Post a Comment