Perhaps. No more so than to suggest that it's impossible because they're professionals though. I was not to the only one to perceive what certainly looked like - from fairly close up and from the screen - some sort of a bad vibe. This seemed to be confirmed both by LC's slightly wary attitude towards Sharon Robinson (contrast with the London dvd) and the palpable distance between her and the Webbs in the first half. It seemed to get better when Leonard moved beside her and quite clearly used body language in a conciliatory way.
Can all this just be empty supposition? Of course.
Does it matter now? Of course not.
But it was not insignificant then, nor the maddening audience behaviour that clearly some experienced, and others didn't.
But his Cohen-ish sincerity (he knows we know each encore is planned, and that he will say "I didn't come to <insert city> just to fool you", and he knows that some of the audience don't understand many of the words and are there for a mixture of other reasons; and finally he knows that we know (but sometimes forget) that he is just a man…) - his sincerity illuminates all else, and makes us more sincere ourselves, more creative, more engaged. Dylan, Tom Waits et al can do it sometimes. He does it all the time, and actually embodies it, so that to see a photo of him, or recall his words, is to experience almost the whole. It's also worth considering why peoples' love for him, and that's not too strong a word, is often unconditional. I think he embodies not only what we would wish to be, but what we would wish others to be as well, and that's extremely rare, and good practice at unselfish love too.
So you see, although I moaned in my first posting, I do actually appreciate him
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