CONCERT REPORT: Paris, France, June 18, 2013

B4real · Post by **B4real** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:16 pm

And the UHTC is once again off and running!
Thanks everyone for your reports, links and photos.
Maarten, as something different, I love the photo of Raphael's eyes peering over his drum kit

susanne30072009 · Post by **susanne30072009** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:48 pm

Maarten wrote:Hi
Here's a link to my photo album on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... e00a83d886
Feel free to share!

Maarten

Maarten: your Fotos are sooooooooo beautiful! Please visit some more Concerts from Leonard (not only because of the Pictures). Hope to see you, we will go to Oberhausen, Montreux, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Zürich...
Thanks so very, very much!
Uwe + Susanne

HelenOE · Post by **HelenOE** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:18 pm

sturgess66 wrote: Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayVqilOXCmc

At 2:30 is he saying "I caught the future..?"

Hartmut · Post by **Hartmut** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:19 pm

basecamp wrote:...an Leonard changed the lyrics of Darkness! "I caught the future."

Did he do that on purpose? Maybe it was just a mental spillover from the line 'I've got no future'.

And did he also sing: 'I have seen the darkness, brother, it is murder'?

HelenOE · Post by **HelenOE** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:55 pm

I guess we'll have to wait for video of his next performance of The Darkness to know whether it was a lyric change or just a bit of interference from The Future. I'm guessing a slip. Every performer does it occasionally.

twickmag · Post by **twickmag** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:30 pm

Wasn't quite clear what he was singing just prior to introducing Rafael?

HelenOE · Post by **HelenOE** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:43 pm

twickmag wrote:Wasn't quite clear what he was singing just prior to introducing Rafael?

That didn't seem like actual lyrics to me... more like scatting or verbal percussion. Leonard the beatboxer?

Goldin · Post by **Goldin** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:59 pm

Thanks, Maarten! Gorgeous pictures!!

twickmag wrote:Wasn't quite clear what he was singing just prior to introducing Rafael?

The same African/Native Nations/??? rhythmic chant as it was in Boston.

holydove · Post by **holydove** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:08 pm

Thank you to everyone for the great reports, photos, & videos!! I've been eagerly awaiting news about this concert, so everyone's posts are greatly appreciated. It is so exciting & wonderful to see Leonard & the UHTC back onstage, looking happy & energized & beautiful as ever, & off to a fantastic start!

Wow, Darkness is amazing!! The "I caught the future" lyric seems deliberate to me, because he sings it twice - unless the 1st time was a slip, & he decided he liked it, so he kept it for the second time. . .but the second time, esp., looks very deliberate to me, & it looks like the band members were surprised by it too. We shall have to wait & see if that lyric makes another appearance. The fabulous chant is also in a different place - it used to be at the end; & he added another "but darkness was the prize" at the end. I love what Leonard has been doing with this song, & I love it more each time I hear/see it performed. I look forward to seeing the rest of the videos!

lekiddupetitbreuil · Post by **lekiddupetitbreuil** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:43 pm

LC&LC wrote:the hickup of the evening, and it was not a small hickup was the attitude of the security guards. Rude and violent (pushing someone because this person is waiting to speak to Roscoe or to Rafael is simply not admissible). I have sent a letter to the COO of Bercy today. Being French, I want to apologise to all my friends who had to interact with them.

I fully agree with you about the security. Could you please send me a PM with the contact name of Bercy's COO ? I would like to also send him an email...

BUT the concert was great. Even if Bercy is not the best location, compared to Olympia for instance, Leonard's performance was just perfect. La Manic was a lovely surprise.

Goldin · Post by **Goldin** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:09 pm

holydove wrote:The fabulous chant is also in a different place - it used to be at the end

Actually, not (Boston, 16th). It precedes the last strophe (although these strophes are different).

holydove · Post by **holydove** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:27 am

Goldin wrote:Actually, not (Boston, 16th). It precedes the last strophe (although these strophes are different).

Yes, I realized after I made the post, that I might have been wrong about that. Thanks for the correction, Goldin!

sturgess66 · Post by **sturgess66** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:10 pm

Very good video!

Uploaded by Lili072012 - Thanks!

Ain't No Cure For Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHEOgR1Cs4

Suzanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHiR7CD3JHs

Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13WAEAmF-M

Everybody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nvXrXacvHU

Lover, Lover, Lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWe7c8BrgeA

sturgess66 · Post by **sturgess66** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:13 am

A 14 minute compilation video created/uploaded by Patxi Marijo -

Leonard Cohen en Paris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxbnB96NM0

Goldin · Post by **Goldin** » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:53 am

Another Patxi Marijo's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAc0vmM718 -
I'd say, a nice introduction to Paris, with brief clips from the beginning of each LC concert set.

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