From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Janis Joplin On Leonard Cohen
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Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Janis Joplin On Leonard Cohen
To: Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, moseszzz <moseszzz@mztv.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, "Hoffman, Rand" <rand.hoffman@umusic.com>, Mick Brown <mick.brown@telegraph.co.uk>, woodwardb <woodwardb@washpost.com>, "glenn.greenwald" <glenn.greenwald@guardiannews.com>, lrohter <lrohter@nytimes.com>
Hello Mr. Riordan,
Here is another version of Leonard Cohen's good rock and roll story about Phil Spector. This one appears to take place at the studio - at not Cohen's place at 3 AM - and involves Phil Spector cocking a gun. Here, as well, is an example of Leonard Cohen's shameless exploitation of Janis Joplin after her death which I've always found unconscionable.
Military film noir. Well, it's clear to me - Leonard Cohen understands that Phil Spector likes Wagner and wanted to conduct a Wagner piece.
Love,
Kelley
One of them, a brief affair with Janis Joplin that is preserved in "Chelsea Hotel," is a source of embarrassment to him. A memoir of uncommon frankness ("Giving me head on the unmade bed / While the limousines wait in the street") and unsentimentality ("I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel / That's all / I don't think of you that often"), the song now strikes Cohen as "an indiscretion." "I don't know how it got out, but it did," Cohen says of the song's subject. "I said it somewhere. I may have been juiced at a concert and spoken about it in a way that seemed appropriate at the moment - and I have regretted it. There's nothing I can do about it. If I could do it again, I would have kept my mouth shut."
Death of a Ladies' Man, the 1977 album produced and co-written by Phil Spector, represents the oddest collaboration in Cohen's career. "It has its admirers," Cohen says, while calling it "a grotesque, eccentric little moment." Spector, Cohen says, "was in his Wagnerian phase, when I had hoped to find him in his Debussy phase." "I was holding on for dear life," he continues. "My family was breaking up at the time - just to show up was rough. Then I'd have to go through this ninth-rate military film noir atmosphere. I've never forgotten Phil coming towards me with a bottle of Manischewitz in one hand, a .45 in the other and putting his arm around my shoulder, shoving the gun into my neck, cocking it and saying, 'Leonard, I love.' It wasn't that much fun."
