CONCERT REPORTS: Ghent, Aug 12, 14, 15, 17 & 18

[bridger15]

Gwen: You rock!
All your great ideas, all your determined efforts, all your detailed planning, all your beautiful photos, all your amazing uploads.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

---Arlene

[bridger15]

Someone's report from Tumblr (the author is "a harpist, mostly classical", btw):

A classical harpist who doesn't believe in paragraphs. Oh my aching eyes

[musicmania]

Gwen: You rock!
All your great ideas, all your determined efforts, all your detailed planning, all your beautiful photos, all your amazing uploads.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

---Arlene

Aw you are very welcome xxx Finally finished my review, 2000 words. Going to beg Drop-D to publish tomorrow

[sturgess66]

From Ghent - Day 1 - 8/12 -

Uploaded by TheLinda555 - Thanks!

Heart With No Companion (partial - and there was harmonica ? )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8e2Q0n7KCI

The Gypsy's Wife (partial)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDmx45_noM

[sturgess66]

I think these videos are from Aug 14th - some good video

Uploaded by Rudy Lippens - Thanks!

Alexandra Leaving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewcOPuILV8

If It Be Your Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV_B8T4GBJY

Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VZ9IBsZ0g

First We Take Manhattan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XteyHRJV9vQ

Amen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7fpUixNU8

The Gypsy's Wife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fBOMEQVBo

I Tried to Leave You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphn9Eqth-g

[sturgess66]

Gent - Day 2 - Aug 14?

Uploaded by Nnieuws Neteland - Thanks!

I Can't Forget -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AxCZzLMTIw

*********************
August 14
Uploaded by Evert Boesten - Thanks!

Going Home - (humourous inflections / expressions by Leonard - at beginning and end - the "lazy bastard living in a suit" )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BDhOuRrq8E

[Cheshire gal]

I love the way Leonard really stresses the words 'He's a lazy bastard living in a suit'.

Thanks again for the videos.

[astranger]

Where are the videos of Banjo??

[bridger15]

My two posts about LC's voiceover recitations during "I Can't Forget".

(1) I can't forget with French À La Claire Fontaine voiceover recitation (concert 1)
http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com/2012 ... ith-i.html

(2) I can't forget with mostly English poem Dover Beach voiceover recitation (concert 2 )
http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com/2012 ... -with.html

---Arlene

[Harriet175]

My two posts about LC's voiceover recitations during "I Can't Forget".

(1) I can't forget with French À La Claire Fontaine voiceover recitation (concert 1)
http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com/2012 ... ith-i.html

(2) I can't forget with mostly English poem Dover Beach voiceover recitation (concert 2 )
http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com/2012 ... -with.html

---Arlene

Thank you for that, Arlene!
How unusual.
I remember Leonard quoting these lines from Dover Beach in the Stuttgart concert '10 just before Born in Chains,
they had been fitting so perfectly to the intense police situation happening in the city at the time.
They are timeless. Love these lines since.

Thank you all for your wonderful contributions, for sharing your experiences, reports and videos.
Lets us feel close, if we cannot be there. Very exciting!

Leonard was really enjoying 'Save the last dance' - i so much enjoyed the performance, too.

And thank you Albert for 'Light as the Breeze', can we expect more of that magic?

[dick]

Want to echo Harriet's thanks for contributions by Albert and Arlene. Others have made good posts as well. Much gratitude from the USA!

Seems our man barely avoided becoming a Ghentile.

Envy all who have been able to see this fabulous opening series.

Dick

[sturgess66]

I think these videos are from Aug 14th - some good video

Uploaded by Rudy Lippens - Thanks!

Alexandra Leaving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewcOPuILV8

If It Be Your Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV_B8T4GBJY

Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VZ9IBsZ0g

First We Take Manhattan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XteyHRJV9vQ

Amen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7fpUixNU8

The Gypsy's Wife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fBOMEQVBo

I Tried to Leave You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphn9Eqth-g

Two more very good videos from Rudy Lippens - (Ghent - Day 2 - Aug 14)

Come Healing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4hvGNet04

Who By Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFMYPOUoOVU

[sturgess66]

Ghent - Day 2 - Aug 14

Uploaded by Angievoncken1 - Thanks!

First We Take Manhattan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqhvUYb_4oc

I'm Your Man (0:57 - .."y''ayhm your man" - and Roscoe's still a-beggin' - pleeeeeeeease )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsPQe5i-Lsg

Hallelujah - ("but if I did well really, what's it to ya ? " - "I did not come here to our Lady of St. Peter to fool you" )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K97OooDpEgk

Suzanne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETExxSyQmO0

[jarkko]

Annick in Luxembourg sent us an article about the first concert in Ghent from the newspaper Luxembourger Wort on August 14th.
"L'adoration du chant mystique. Une série exceptionelle de cinq concerts en ouverture d'une tournée mondiale"
Read it at http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/lux.pdf

Thanks Annick!

[rike]

Thank you for posting this beautifully reverential article, Jarkko, and,for the thousandth time, for this site. The contributions by members from around the world, make us feel as if were at each of LCs concerts.