New bootlegs 2016/2017 (so far 16)

[jarkko]

More vinyl bootlegs:




The Zurich concert at Congresshalle on May 21, 1993, copied originally from the FM broadcast.
Same title as a 2CD release last year, probably with identical track listing.

According to my notes at www.leonardcohenfiles.com/bootleg3.html, this is already 11th bootleg of the same Zurich concert.

Label/Make: Parachute

Thanks to Dominique!

[jarkko]

Another DVD of the San Sebastian 1988 concert (copied from the Spanish TV) has been listed on Amazon France and Amazon Germany.

Set list:
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Aint No Cure For Love
Who By Fire
Bird On A Wire
Avalanche
Chelsea Hotel
Tower Of Song
Sisters Of Mercy
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
First We Take Manhattan
Everybody Knows
Joan Of Arc
Hallelujah
Take This Waltz
The Partisan
Suzanne
Heart With No Companion
Coming Back To You
I Cant Forget
So Long Marianne

Recorded on 20th May 1988 at Velodromo De Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain

Publisher: Mainstreet

[WiTS]

"Audiobook + Radio recordings. Unauthorized"

Audio CD (20 Jan. 2017)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Laser Media
ASIN: B01NA6GMI7

1. Leonard Cohen About Halleluja (Fm Interview)
  2. Hallelujah (Tribute)
  3. Tower Of Song (Live On Air)
  4. Suzanne (Fm Broadcast)
  5. My Guitar Is Come Home (Fm Broadcast)
  6. Rare Interview, 1980
  7. Fm Interview, 1976
  8. Coming Back To You (Live On Air)
  9. Hey, Thats No Way To Say Goodbye (Live On Air, 1972)

Thanks to Dave Meloni for the track listing.

got this one and it is a DONOT buy item, a truly crappy patched-together.

[jarkko]

Another Toronto 1988 bootleg (CD)...
https://www.amazon.fr/Toronto-Radio-Bro ... NARD+COHEN

5 May 2017
1 CD
Label: Egg Raid
ASIN : B06XS9735V

Thanks to Dominique Boile for the link

[idealcrash]

‘Upon a smokey evening’ CD - contents as good as you’d expect, but if you compare the tracks it has in common with ‘Field Commander Cohen’ (noticeably slower, and around a semitone lower in pitch) it’s clear that there has been an uncorrected issue with the speeds of the various tape machines used in an otherwise very nice recording. It’s a pity, because the recording is very clear, and in many ways it’s a much more satisfying listen than the official CD. It would have been so straightforward to get it right…

I completely agree - was listening to this a few days ago and immediately it struck me that Leonard's voice sounded thicker than normal. I would try to adjust it myself but it would be from a lossy source and anyway I wouldn't get it 100% right... hopefully the right pitch recording surfaces soon.

[jarkko]

Leonard Cohen Live At The Complex, L.A. 1993 FM Broadcast

There is no end of new bootlegs of the same concert at the Complex in Los Angeles on April 18, 1993, before the beginning of his The Future Tour.

All copied either from the FM broadcast or the official, promotional CD issued by Sony.
More about the "Columbia Records Radio Hour" promo CD here: www.leonardcohenfiles.com/tour4.html

This one comes from Rainbowed Records, Cat # RAIN784LP, on July 7, 2017. "Released in a limited edition on pink vinyl with white splatter."

TRACKLIST
A1: First We Take Manhattan
A2: Ain't No Cure For Love
A3: Dance Me To The End Of Love
A4: Democracy
B1: I'm Your Man
B2: Coming Back To You
B3: Waiting For The Miracle
B4: The Future

Dominique Boile was - as so often - the first to find this

[WiTS]

Live On Air - Classic FM Broadcast/The Early Years
To be released on March 24 by Laser Media

1. Ain't No Cure For Love
  2. Bird On The Wire
  3. I'm Your Man
  4. Heart With No Companion
  5. Take This Waltz
  6. Interview
  7. Tower Of Song
  8. Joan Of Arc 9
  9. Jazz Police
  10. First We Take Manhattan
  11. Suzanne
  12. I Tried To Leave You

Information taken from Amazon (thanks to Dominique Boile). The date/venue has not been mentioned but the set list makes me think that this is just another release of concert at the Exhibition Hall, Toronto, on November 9, 1988

These 2 interviews were recorded backstage before the concert
https://youtu.be/JT4P-VFnirE
https://youtu.be/3AyUADwypc4

so far, maybe the best bootleg version of this concert

and is the venue called Massey Hall not Exhibition Hall ?

[B4real]

Wellin, the consensus says it's Massey Hall.

I did some research about the two images above having a slightly varied set list and these links confirm it's the same product. The back cover here is the correct listing.

front cover and full set list - https://www.oldies.com/product-view/46826P.html
front and back covers - https://www.amazon.com/Live-Air-Broadca ... B06WD3P4BX

Yeah, I like to dot my "i's" and cross my "t's"

[Geoffrey]

Wellin, the consensus says it's Massey Hall.

I did some research about the two images above having a slightly varied set list and these links confirm it's the same product. The back cover here is the correct listing.

front cover and full set list - https://www.oldies.com/product-view/46826P.html
front and back covers - https://www.amazon.com/Live-Air-Broadca ... B06WD3P4BX

Yeah, I like to dot my "i's" and cross my "t's"

i always thought there were two h's in 'wither'

[B4real]

i always thought there were two h's in 'wither'

Yes, Geoffrey, I agree

[LisaLCFan]

i always thought there were two h's in 'wither'

Yes, Geoffrey, I agree

Actually, it depends on whether or not one is going to wither or to where one may whither. But of course, for the song title, it should be "whither" (and thus it is not really a matter of agreeing or disagreeing, since there is an objectively correct whither, and an objectively incorrect wither in this particular case). Mind you, if it were "wither" in the song title, it would have quite interesting connotations! Can one witheringly whither? Why not?

[B4real]

Yes, Lisa, I agree

Whither thou goest, I will go ~ Whither Thou Goest

Whither thou goest I will go ~ Ballad of the Absent Mare

The almond trees wither ~ Did I Ever Love You

From a withered limb ~ By The Rivers Dark

and if she withered I would be to blame ~ The Traitor

[LisaLCFan]

It's always nice to be agreeable!

And, thanks for the list of Leonard's whithers/withers!

Another Wither was George Withers, a writer (poet/satirist/writer of hymns) from the late Renaissance/Shakespearean Era. Some of the hymns for which Wither wrote the words had music supplied by a very well known composer and organist called Orlando Gibbons, who wrote all sorts of keyboard and consort music as well as many madrigals. I can't say that I know of any of Wither's works, but I've heard some of Gibbons' music. Glenn Gould played some of Gibbon's music on piano. What does any of this have to do with Leonard Cohen? Well, we were were speaking of his "withers", he is a poet and writer, like Shakespeare and Withers, he is a writer of songs, like Withers and Gibbons, and he is Canadian, like Gould. See, it's all connected (isn't everything?).

I know, this thread is supposed about bootlegs from 3 or 4 years ago. I was bored with that. Cheers!

[AlanM]

Don't forget:
withers[ with-erz ] noun (used with a plural verb)
The highest part of the back, at the base of the neck of a horse, cow, sheep, etc.

I don't recall that meaning getting a mention from Leonard.

Alan

[Geoffrey]

I know, this thread is supposed about bootlegs from 3 or 4 years ago. I was bored with that. Cheers!

it's pleasing to learn that my propensity to initiate a deviation from the chosen subject has been of some service to someone