Leonard Cohen 29 April 1993 Jaahalli, Helsinki, Finland FM Broadcast --- Lineage: Radio Mafia FM broadcast > ? > CDR > Exact Audio Copy v0.99pb4 > SoundForge 9.0e > Trader's Little Helper 2.4.1 > .flac16 --- TT: 84:30.00 01. [8:19.25] The Future --- fade out/in --- 02. [6:31.72] Bird on the Wire 03. [3:13.53] Ain't No Cure for Love 04. [6:56.38] First We Take Manhattan 05. [4:40.35] Avalanche 06. [6:31.62] Tower of Song 07. [9:06.04] Waiting for the Miracle 08. [7:31.30] Closing Time 09. [7:18.23] Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca) --- fade out/in --- 10. [6:57.72] Hallelujah --- fade out/in --- 11. [6:33.54] //Sisters of Mercy --- fade out/in --- 12. [7:48.57] Democracy (2) t05 Leonard Cohen solo Complete FM broadcast. Incomplete concert. --- The band is: Leonard Cohen - vocals Perla Batalla - vocals Julie Christensen - vocals Bob Metzger - guitars, pedal steel guitar Bob Furgo - keyboards, violin Paul Ostermayer - keyboards, saxophone, flute Bill Ginn - keyboards Jorge Calderon - bass Steve Meador - drums --- LenTalk: ***Radio Mafia jingle: Hello! This is Leonard Cohen and I hope you'll all be listening to Radio Mafia. ***before THE FUTURE: Oh, thank you so much for your warm reception and thank you for coming tonight. I appreciate it. I know that times are hard and ticket prices are high and... I appreciate you're in here. Many of the places that we go to we bring them our bad news, but we don't have to bring you the bad news, 'cause you know the bad news already. And the whole history of your country is knowing the bad news. In America, there was recently a documentary on your people in which it was indicated that you were solemn and melancholy and depressed. That I come here to cheer myself up! Yeah, give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul. Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima. Give me back the ozone layer with that little hole we can't repair. I've seen the future, baby. It is murder. ***after BIRD ON THE WIRE: Bob Metzger on guitar! Paul Ostermayer on the horn! ***before AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE: Thank you for your silence. You might have asked me for a song I have not rehearsed. When the Prince of Peace was hanging from the branch in his final tree, and He looked down at the Romans and the Jews. And He saw the faces of bewilderment and envy and greed and despair and melancholy. A lever was thrown in the cosmos. And He looked down at these anxious faces and He knew. He knew for certain. He knew at last. He knew with the finality that He had never known before. There ain't no cure for love. ***before FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN: I thank you for the items that you sent me. Those roses that you sent to my hotel this morning--who ever the kind person was--I thank you very much. They were the reddest roses with the largest thorns that I ever did see. And you were so kind as to sign your name in such a manner that I could not read it. I deeply appreciate your sense of modesty. I thank you for the items that you sent me: the monkey and the plywood violin. I've practised every night and now I'm ready. First, we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. ***after TOWER OF SONG: Perla Batalla! Julie Christensen! ***before WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE: Baby, let's get married. We've been alone too long. Let's be alone together; let's see if we're that strong. Let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle to come. ***before CLOSING TIME: And I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime. And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, It's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ, but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights so we're busted in the blinding lights of closing time. ***after CLOSING TIME: Bobby Furgo on the violin! ***before TAKE THIS WALTZ: Long time ago, in a second-hand bookstore in the city of Montreal I stumbled upon a book that altered the course of my shabby and tiny existence. It was the poems of Federico Garcia Lorca. And I accepted his invitation to enter that world of crystals and ants and thighs and arches... And when I got old enough to realize that I owned someone my gratitude, I wrote him this tiny homage based on a great poem he wrote called, "Little Viennese Waltz". ***over TAKE THIS WALTZ coda: Thanks a lot, friends. Thanks for your warm reception this evening. Bye! ***during HALLELUJAH: Bobby Metzger on the guitar! ***after SISTERS OF MERCY: Thank you so much, friends, good night! ***after DEMOCRACY (2): Thank you so much! Thank you so much, friends! --- Last rev. 17May09 DiLeCo.