Leonard Cohen - Is This What You Wanted? (live 1975)

I always wanted to hear this one live - not the best sound quality, but good enough. Live from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1975.

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[Malteseowner]

WOW! I don't believe this. To be able to relive this moment from the 1970's! I just saw Leonard at the Tower Theater (see my videos) last October 23 and at Madison Square Garden the following night. I actually met him once, in 1993 before the concert at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA. He was with Rebecca DeMornay; he autographed 3 of his poetry books and the insert of the Future cd.

[messalina79]

@Malteseowner Cool! There are more dates to come this summer in Europe...

[Malteseowner]

Do you happen to know if the venue was the Main Point Cafe? If so I believe I was there. Saw Leonard a few times there in the 70's.

[messalina79]

@Malteseowner, yes it was the Main Point Cafe - lucky you to have been there! I would have loved to have seen Leonard in the 70s.

[MrsActually]

Ruth, you're the best!

Never heard this one live...

Where is it from? Sounds like there weren't many people around and somehow it also sounds as if it had been a very tiny room... Or is it just me?

[messalina79]

oops, have amended description box! Apparently it was a small venue, c.200 people - it sounds very intimate.

[sweetgypsywife]

Thanks Ruth...this is incredibly cosy!!

[Malteseowner]

By the way, this really was a cafe. You walked in the front door into a cafe/bookstore. Then through a curtain into a large (I don't think it held 200 people though) room with childrens wooden school desks with attached seats and a small stage only a few feet away.  Many folk performers of the era played there.

[yangcy]

I've always found lyrics on this one incredibly witty. Good to hear that the audience gets into the right mood...

[ThisPoetsFan]

You are great, as always, thank you.