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'.
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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?
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