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Lacey
Social climber
Nevada
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Nov 10, 2016 - 06:37pm PT
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He Just released an album earlier!!!! Sad... That's two heartbreaks in the last 72 hrs..... :(
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 10, 2016 - 06:43pm PT
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Leonard Cohen passed away today.
Sad news.
Listen to the rap.
That's right it's come to this. This is for Bob if you're still out there.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:06pm PT
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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picked the right time to check out
I'd call that a beautiful death
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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All kinds of sad news this week.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:27pm PT
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eKat - my introduction to Mr. Cohen. Very powerful. No argument here.
Another Side of Suzanne
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Sure sounds like Richie Havens. Yep.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:38pm PT
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Hard to believe, hard to understand how much leaves us when anybody dies, but someone like this, well... loved his music.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:39pm PT
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One of the two most influential songwriters of the last fifty years. (Along with Dylan)
A true genius.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Nov 10, 2016 - 07:47pm PT
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Man the news just keeps getting worse.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Nov 10, 2016 - 08:19pm PT
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A genius as a songwriter.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Nov 10, 2016 - 09:08pm PT
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I'm really shaken by this news. Unexpected and saddening. I put Cohen up there with the other great contemporary poets (intentionally not mentioned). I didn't realize he was that far along in years - the clock ticks faster these days, it seems.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Nov 10, 2016 - 09:52pm PT
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The entire enterprise of life, from cradle to grave, is fraught with uncertainty and peril and no one gets out alive.
Thanks Leonard for being whoever it was you thought you were.
Respect, RIP.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Nov 11, 2016 - 04:25am PT
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Suzanne was my introduction too when I was in high school 20+ years ago.
Montreal lost one of her favorite sons.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 11, 2016 - 07:23am PT
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^My how times fly. That album was actually released in 1966. I was in college and that was 50 years ago.
From Johnny's 81st album in 1994 American [!] Recordings.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Emotional roller coaster:
Suzanne
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Bird on a Wire
Leonard from the days when he lived up the hill at, you guessed it, Mt. Baldy.
What did Bob Johnston [RIP 2015] say:
Dylan, Cash, Cohen - all the same to me, pleasure to work with
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 11, 2016 - 08:57am PT
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Closing time
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2016 - 11:47am PT
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Being that it's Remembrance Day, Cohen recites John McCrae's famous poem, "In Flanders Fields".
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Nov 11, 2016 - 12:28pm PT
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And now the Man from Uncle is dead... Jesus, I just wish people would quit dying!
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Nov 12, 2016 - 01:44pm PT
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Must say good night to Leonard Cohen. I met him at the Zen Center, up in Baldy. Hiked Ice House Canyon with him once, his favorite haunt. What can I say..... Underrated and under appreciated( except by those in the know) he had a brilliant, expressive body of work.
RIP
TY
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Nov 12, 2016 - 11:26pm PT
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I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
As time cannot decay
I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the USA
To the USA
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ecdh
climber
the east
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Nov 13, 2016 - 12:27am PT
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cohen, dylan, waits, beefheart. irreplaceable. id lump them with lao zi and rumi before id lump them with pop stars.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Nov 13, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
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Aw man,
Thanks Leonard . . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 13, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
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Thanks, Guido. That surely was a beautiful tribute by Cohen.
I liked Cohen's idea that a lament should be done in a proper fashion.
And his story of the six-chord flamenco progression was enlightening and entertaining.
Cohen's speaking voice is one of the mellowest. Or was...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 13, 2016 - 04:54pm PT
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Oh Canada
No Pepsi, Coke
DogGone
Cat here
kd said
Thank you Leonard Cohen
Swift rebirth my friend
Oh Mercy
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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chill
climber
The fat part of the bell-curve
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Nov 15, 2016 - 07:59am PT
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I think he was a true genius. "Everybody Knows" is one of the most cynical but truthful songs ever written. Perfect for our times.
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Nov 15, 2016 - 08:56pm PT
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it's not often that a youtube vid played through shitty computer speakers has made me weep.
thank you leonard cohen. [thank you kd lang.] (thank you Tami.)
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