Leonard Cohen
14 June 1993
Paramount Theater, New York City, New York
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Lineage:
Cassette Master > 1st Gen cassette > Sony TC-WR97ES > M-Audio2496 (analogue port) > Cool Edit Pro > flac > Sound Forge 9.0e > Trader's Little Helper 2.4.1 > .flac16
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TT: 137:05.00
Set One:
01. [06:25.65] Dance Me to the End of Love
02. [07:06.38] The Future
03. [05:54.64] Ain't No Cure for Love
04. [07:36.45] Bird on the Wire
05. [06:21.24] Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
06. [06:15.73] Anthem
07. [04:59.64] There Is a War
08. [05:59.45] First We//Take Manhattan
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Set Two:
09. [04:35.09] Avalanche
10. [04:03.28] Suzanne
11. [07:11.62] Tower of Song
12. [08:25.69] Democracy
13. [10:49.51] Waiting for the Miracle (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
14. [06:01.66] I'm Your Man
15. [06:07.14] Joan//of Arc
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16. [07:21.28] Closing Time
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Encore #1:
17. [06:26.55] Sisters of Mercy
18. [05:58.02] Passin' Through (Richard Blakesley, arr. Leonard Cohen)
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Encore #2:
19. [07:51.40] Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Encore #3:
20. [09:04.50] I Tried to Leave You
21. [02:27.08] Whither Thou Goest (Guy Singer after the Book of Ruth 1:16)
t09 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:
Bobby Furgo on the violin!
***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, brother: it is murder!
***before AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
When the Prince of Peace was hanging from his cross he looked down beneath his feet at the upturned faces, the faces of anger, envy, regret, despair, melancholy... the voices crying out, "Get a life!" He knew then a lever had been thrown in the cosmos and nothing ever would be the same again. He knew, he knew for certain there ain't no cure for love.
***after BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen! Mr Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone! Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboards! Mr Steve Meador on the drums! Mr Jorge Calderon on the bass! Mr Bob Metzger on the guitars! Mr Bobby Furgo on the keyboards and violin!
***before EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Everybody knows the deal is rotten, Ol' Black Joe still pickin' cotton for your ribbons and bows. Everybody knows.
***before ANTHEM:
Ah, thank you so much. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
***before FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN:
Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen! Further... I wish to thank you for the items that you sent me: the monkey and the plywood violin. I've practiced every night and now I am ready. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
***over FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN coda:
20 minutes! Thank you, friends!
***after Leonard's solo on TOWER OF SONG:
You're very, very kind!
***after TOWER OF SONG:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before DEMOCRACY
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
From the eye above the pyramid in the dollar's cruel display
From the law behind the law behind the law we still obey
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
***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:
Mr Paul Ostermayer on the flute! Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboards! Mr Steve Meador on the drums! Mr Jorge Calderon on the bass! Mr Bob Metzger on the guitar! Mr Bob Furgo on the violin! Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before I'M YOUR MAN:
Thank you so much for your modest ecstasy!
***before JOAN OF ARC:
I saw her wince, I saw her cry. I saw the glory in her eye. Myself I long for love and light, but must it come so cruel? And must it be so bright?
***after
Miss Julie Christensen!
***before CLOSING TIME:
Well, we're drinking and we're dancing, but there's nothing really happening; the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night. My very close companion gets me fumbling, gets me laughing. She's a 100, but she's wearing something tight. 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: an 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.
***before SISTERS OF MERCY:
Thank you so much, thank you.
***before TAKE THIS WALTZ:
Thank you so much, friends! You're so kind! Please be .... .... . It is only... . Oh, thank you so much for your incoherent screaming. It was many years... It was... [heckler] Yes, I'm looking at the book... and the book is looking back at me. And the communion is perfect. Afterwards, in a more appropriate moment, I will take the book and study its contents. But right now, I would like to sing another song. It was many years ago in a bookstore in Montreal, I stumbled upon a book, I opened it, and I accepted the poet's invitation to enter into a universe of crystals and ants and arches and thighs that slipped away like schools of silver minnows. And I've never left that world. And tonight it is my great and ..... privilege to render my tiny homage to the great Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, Take This Waltz.
***over TAKE THIS WALTZ coda:
Good night, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much.
***during I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU:
Mr Paul Ostermayer - saxophone, flute, keyboards!
Mr Bobby Metzger - electric guitar, steel 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:
Good night, friends. Don't catch a summer cold. Be careful going home. Thank you so much for the warm reception this evening. G-d bless you, good night.
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DiLeCo 2009
Last rev. 9Sept09