jarkko wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:45 pm
I am sorry if this teaser/countdown thread resulted in so very high expectations of the product that was to be released. From the other thread I have understood that members have quite mixed feelings about the box now when the news is out. (Well, isn't it the same with many other things in our lives, too...)
Jarkko, thank you for your reply - much more than I was expecting.
These words from poet John Lydgate, often quoted by President Lincoln, are surely applicable:
You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
Actually, by confirming the quote, I found out it wasn't an Aesop's Fable moral! So, I am already a wiser person.
I am grateful, as I'm sure many of us are, for what you have done for the Cohen fan community in regards to the Files, Forum, Events and Gatherings, along with arranging the memorial bench and by no means least, all those tickets you arranged for us to have priority access to.
My wife and I got to the Hydra meet-up last year, met many lovely Cohen fans and even saw you at a distance!
We hope to return when travel restrictions permit.
I am also grateful to the many people who have also helped to bring Leonard into our lives, minds and souls, including whoever decided to give him the grants to keep him writing. In some ways, I am even grateful that Kelley Lynch indirectly got him on the road again.
When you do decide to step down from the Files and Forum, I wish you and your family a long, healthy and happy life. As Roman pointed out, I did enjoy the countdown, and would happily partake in others.
My main Cohen regret is that the 1988 and 1993 tours did not include Australia, so if any hints were to be dropped in the direction of future projects, releasing more concert material from those tours would be really nice.
Cohen Live is one of my favourite albums.
Of course there is also the possibility of
Songs From the Road volumes 2, 3, 4, etc., ideally in DVD/ Blu-Ray formats, from the 21st century tour(s).
Thank you again for all your efforts on our behalf,
Alan