Leonard Cohen
24 September 1974
Philharmonie, West Berlin, West Germany
*Best Source Compilation*
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Lineage:
Source 1 (1-4,6-11//,12-17,19-23,25):
master/low gen tape > CDr > EAC > SF8 > TLH > .flac16
Source 2: (5,11,18,24,26-27 + all chatter/tuning between songs not present on Source 1)
low gen tapes > DAT > Denon DTR-2000 > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 thru S/PDIF > SoundForge 9.0e > Trader's Little Helper 2.4.1 > .flac16
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TT: 122:23.00
Set One:
01. [5:28.05] Bird on the Wire
02. [6:31.26] So Long, Marianne
03. [5:24.54] Love Calls You by Your Name
04. [4:43.74] One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
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05. [3:44.09] Diamonds in the Mine
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06. [5:36.53] Why Don't You Try
07. [5:33.35] Joan of Arc
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08. [3:05.11] Who by Fire
09. [3:24.01] Lady Midnight
10. [4:22.67] Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
11. [4:29.37] Tonight Will Be Fine
--- tape cut ---
Set Two:
12. [4:15.74] Chelsea Hotel #2
13. [5:27.68] The Stranger Song
14. [3:16.43] A Singer Must Die
15. [2:29.31] You Know Who I Am
16. [3:59.39] The Partisan (Anna Marly/Hy Zaret)
17. [3:58.65] Story Of Isaac
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18. [4:57.32] Famous Blue Raincoat
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19. [4:23.18] I Tried To Leave You
20. [3:57.07] Sisters Of Mercy
21. [4:26.04] Lover, Lover, Lover
22. [4:36.26] Take This Longing
23. [3:34.73] There Is A War
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Encores:
24. [4:31.17] Suzanne
25. [4:26.16] Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
26. [6:50.51] Is This What You Wanted
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27. [4:47.39] The Butcher
t12-15 Leonard Cohen solo
Complete show.
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The band is:
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, hand whistle (4)
Emily Bindinger - vocals
Erin Dickens - vocals
Jeff Layton - banjo, guitar, mandolin, strings
John Lissauer - keyboards, saxophone, woodwind
John Miller - bass
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LenTalk:
***before BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Thank you for your warm welcome. This is the Big Apple the other side. ..... speak English ........ . I remember you, guys, from a couple of years ago. I'm glad you can come again. (audience calls) That one sounded sinister. Terribly sorry to keep you all waiting. Was that a cause of the unreluctant ?????. Pardon? Is that the reason why you read ??? so unpleasantly? I see, thank you. I regret, I regret keeping you waiting, but there was a recording session with one of your great conductors, Karajan, in here, and that was the reason we were detained. His equipment and his band had to get off the stage before we could come in (applause).
***before SO LONG, MARIANNE:
Song for a beautiful, gracious, eternal woman.
***before LOVE CALLS YOU BY YOUR NAME:
Here's a song that searches out the middle place between the beginning and the end of things.
***before ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG:
I'm sorry.
Song from the other side of the marriage bed. The room is empty. The window is open. The lover is gone. A laugh is heard in the stadium.
***before WHY DON'T YOU TRY:
There are songs... There are songs of greeting and songs of parting, and then songs to those that you are stuck with. This is a song to one whom one is stuck with. With one whom one is sealed in a long conversation and a long embrace. In the first two verses we examine the predicament from various points of view for which the French would have many interesting explanations. In the last verse I attempt to marry the poor devils.
***after WHY DON'T YOU TRY:
That was John Lissauer on clarinet.
***before WHO BY FIRE:
Neither prayer nor fasting, nor good words, nor faith, nor devotion, nor indifference will avert this stern decree.
***after HEY, THAT'S NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE:
Thank you. I think we have made friends again. I would like to introduce... I would like to introduce the musicians to you. The musicians are the very best. The musicians dance around the shaft of light from the cathedral window to this dome floor there at the very dust(?). At the piano our musical director and the producer of my record, John Lissauer. On the guitar Jeff Layton. On the bass Johnny Miller. My dear creatures and my eternal canaries Emily Bindinger and Erin Dickens.
***before CHELSEA HOTEL #2:
Oh, we're deep into the seventies now. This is a song, kind of weightless elegy for those last years of the sixties. The song that is addressed to one singer I used to know. It's a great singer. Those were... a time you probably all remember full of great expectation and apocalyptic promise. There was many casualties from that time. Famous casualties and obscure ones. ?????? of acid-heads. I'm one of them. The song takes place at the Chelsea Hotel which is a place where musicians used to stay in New York when they worked there.
***before A SINGER MUST DIE:
This song is for all those who judge whether it's in the courtroom or the bedroom of in the theatre. For the critics and the evaluators, for those who give marks, for those who establish decrease and increase. It is for them.
***before THE PARTISAN:
This is a song of resistance. 'Twas written a long time ago about someone's grandparents and about your grandparents. But this song for me is an allegory of resistance.
***before STORY OF ISAAC:
This next song concerns the curious relationship between generations and that even more curious place where the generations seem to meet one another, which is usually over some altar or sacrificial block.
***before FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT:
This is another song from another area of ....... .
***before I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU:
Here's another song from the marriage chain.
***before SISTERS OF MERCY:
This is a song for Barbara and Lorraine (who) took me out of a snowstorm in Edmonton, Alberta, 1966.
***before THERE IS A WAR:
Sometimes review... interviewers are sent after me to ask me questions I who am the most confused of men. This is platform I established.
***before SEEMS SO LONG AGO, NANCY:
I would like to sing more. A few songs for you so if you got to go, the subways, the buses or a loved one is waiting for you... I wanna say once again and make it very clearly that we had no intention of keeping you waiting. We were here at 4 o'clock.
And you're known the world over as such a discerning audience. ......... .
***before IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED:
You stayed, didn't you?
This is a song that... a dialogue between you and your lover. Except that your lover is not present.
***before THE BUTCHER:
Thank you very much for your warm hospitality this evening.
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Last rev. 2May09
DiLeCo 2009