Leonard Cohen
8 June 1993
Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Lineage:
Sony WM-D3 with supplied mic > TDK SAX-100 master cassettes > Sony TC-WR97ES > M-Audio2496 (analogue port) > Cool Edit Pro > flac > SoundForge 9.0e > Trader's Little Helper 2.4.1. > .flac16
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TT: 145:15.00
Set One:
01. [03:27.27] //Dance Me to the End of Love
02. [07:02.14] The Future
03. [06:01.48] Ain't No Cure for Love
04. [07:12.53] Bird on the Wire
05. [06:15.23] Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
06. [06:25.05] Anthem
07. [05:41.61] One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
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08. [06:27.19] First We Take Manhattan
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Set Two:
09. [05:21.71] Suzanne
10. [04:19.44] Avalanche
11. [06:53.45] Tower of Song
12. [08:51.33] Democracy
13. [10:47.71] Waiting for the Miracle (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
14. [06:31.53] I'm Your Man
15. [06:31.32] Joan of Arc
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16. [07:30.43] Closing Time
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Encore #1:
17. [07:48.06] Chelsea Hotel #2
18. [08:08.48] Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Encore #2:
19. [06:02.09] So Long, Marianne
20. [06:44.24] Sisters of Mercy
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Encore #3:
21. [09:03.15] I Tried to Leave You
22. [02:07.06] Whither Thou Goest (Guy Singer after the Book of Ruth 1:16)
t10+17 Leonard Cohen solo
Complete concert.
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The band is:
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboard
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
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LenTalk:
***after DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE:
Mr Bobby Furgo on the violin!
Thank you so much for your warm reception. May I encourage you to drink... You will in no way offend me if you rise from your places and visit the bars on either side of this awkward auditorium.
***before THE FUTURE:
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" in French].
***after THE FUTURE:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
When Jesus Christ was hanging from the final branch, he looked beneath him at the upturned faces arranged around the foot of the cross. Faces of anger, envy, despair, regret, melancholy... Voices crying out to him, "Get a life!" He knew that a lever had been thrown in the cosmos and nothing would ever be the same again. He knew, he was certain, there was no longer any doubt in his heart. There ain't no cure for love.
***after AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
Mr Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone!
***before BIRD ON THE WIRE:
[in French].
***during BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Bobby Metzger on the electric guitar!
***after BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Thank you so much, friends.
Thank you for your warm reception. Thank you very much. Have another drink! I think I will, thank you.
***before EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Everybody knows the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody's got this broken feeling like their father or their dog just died. Everybody knows.
***before ANTHEM:
Yeah, we asked for signs. The signs were sent. The birth delayed, the marriage spent. The widowhood of every single government... signs for all to see. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
***during ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG:
Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone!
***before FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN:
I want to thank you for the items that we sent me: the monkey and the plywood violin. I've practised every night. Now I am ready, first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
***over FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN coda:
We'll take an intermission of about 15-20 minutes. See you later, friends. Thank you.
***before SUZANNE:
[to a heckler]: Pardon? That's why I came. Say that again?!? I got a lot of songs... It's really... It's really very pleasant to be here with you...
***after AVALANCHE:
Ah, thank you so much, friends
***after TOWER OF SONG:
Miss Perla Batalla! Julie Christensen!
***before DEMOCRACY:
Oh, thank you so much, friends.
It ain't coming to us European style
Concentration camp behind a smile
It ain't coming from the East
With its temporary feast
As Count Dracula comes strolling down the aisle.
And I know your baby's missing
Oh, we sited her today
She was cleaning her machine gun
She was waving her beret
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
***after DEMOCRACY:
Steve Meador on the drums! Jorge Calderon on the bass!
[answering hecklers' calls]: Trust me, trust me.
***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.
***after WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE:
Paul Ostermayer on the flute! Bill Ginn on the keyboard! Steve Meador on the drums! Jorge Calderon on the bass! Bob Metzger on the guitar! Bobby Furgo the violin! Perla Batalla - vocalist! Julie Christensen - vocalist!
***before I'M YOUR MAN:
So many people running for office... I, too, am competing for your affection. I have no platform, have no solutions. I've no plan, no strategy, and still I want you to love me. I guess I'm just like everyone else. I'm your man.
***before CLOSING TIME:
So we're drinking and we're dancing, but there's nothing really happening. And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night. And my very close companion gets me fumbling, gets me laughing, she's a 100, but she's wearing something tight. 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. The whole damn place goes crazy twice, and it's once for the Devil, and it's once for Christ, but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights, we're busted in the blinding lights of closing time, closing time, closing time...
***before CHELSEA HOTEL #2:
Yes, you know I was a ..... man when I decided to go to New York City to make my fame and fortune. My mother said, "Be careful of those people. They are not like us." I said, "Mother, I'm a grown man. You can't talk to me like this." But when I got down there, I found that she was right. I found a place in a nice hotel... Less sophisticated place... a compassionate place... You could come in there at 3 o'clock in the morning with a dwarf and a bear. No one would raise an eyebrow. The sophisticated place and the compassionate place. The lonely place. Spent money hours riding the elevator. One of these nocturnal rites .... find space of up and down, of course. The elevator knows no imagination. On its appointed course which I did not question.. those days. Up and down, there used to be another rider. Another nocturnal rider that I would sometime encounter. A young woman. Fine young woman. Fair of face, although not so beautiful as to turn men's hearts and minds, but still of ..... appearance. One time I decided to try my well-known wit... upon her. I said, "Are you looking for someone?" She said, "Yes. I'm looking for Kris Kristofferson". I said, "Little lady, you're in luck. I'm Kris Kristofferson." Such was the generosity of those times... for Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel.
***after CHELSEA HOTEL #2:
Thank you so much, friends.
***before TAKE THIS WALTZ:
Many years ago in a second-hand bookstore in Montreal, I opened this book and I accepted the poet's invitation to enter into a world of ants and crystal and sunlight and arches and thighs that slipped away like schools of silver minnows... and I've never left this world. I'm in it now. I'll never leave it. They can't prime me away with wild wild horses... And tonight I render my tiny homage to the great Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, Take This Waltz, Take This Waltz.
***over TAKE THIS WALTZ coda:
Good night, friends. Thank you so much!
***intro to SO LONG, MARIANNE:
Here comes the morning boat
Here comes the evening train
Here comes Marianna
To wave goodbye again
So long, Marianne...
***new verse in SO LONG, MARIANNE:
Your eyes, I forget your eyes
Your body is at home at every sea
How come you gave your news to everyone
I though it was a secret just for me
So long, Marianne...
***during SISTERS OF MERCY:
Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone!
***over SISTERS OF MERCY coda:
Good night, friends. Thank you.
***during I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU:
Mr Paul Ostermayer - saxophone, flute, keyboards!
Mr Bobby Metzger - steel guitar, electric guitar!
Mr Bobby Furgo - violin, keyboards!
Miss Perla Batalla!
Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboards!
Miss Julie Christensen!
Mr Jorge Calderon on the bass!
Mr Steve Meador on the drums!
***during WHITHER THOU GOEST:
Thank you so much for the warm reception, friends. Good night! G-d bless you!
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DiLeCo
Last rev. 27Aug09