Leonard Cohen - Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas - 31.10.1988 (1080p TS)

Remembering the late Leonard Cohen at his prime. Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

Original info file:

Lineage: PBS Webcast -> FFmpeg (capture & edit) -> .ts
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 16:9 frame/4:3 picture 2750 Kbps 29.97 fps
Audio: AAC 128 Kbps 44.1 KHz stereo

Setlist:
First We Take Manhattan
Tower of Song
Everybody Knows
Ain't No Cure for Love
The Partisan
Joan of Arc
Jazz Police
If It Be Your Will
Take This Waltz

TRT = 00:58:11

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Leonard Cohen - "Rock-Pop Special", ZDF Studios, Munich, West Germany - 31.10.1979 (ProShot DVD)

RIP Leonard. We Pay hommage with three posts today. He will be sorely missed. Thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info File:

PAL DVD5 with C&M. No artwork.

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Lineage:
3sat 1993 rebroadcast) > VHS master > SuperHG VHS copy (=1st gen) > NV-FJ612 (playback) > DMR-E55 (capture in XP mode) > Mpeg Video Wizard DVD > TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 > .dvdf

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Attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 | 9110kbps | 720 x 576 | 4:3 | 25fps | PAL
Audio: Dolby Digital AC3 | 48kHz | 224kb/s | stereo | CBR

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TT: 44:28.44

1. (3sat introduction)
2. So Long, Marianne
3. The Window
4. Famous Blue Raincoat
5. Passin' Through
6. Memories
7. The Guests
8. Suzanne// (faded out)

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The band is:

Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, blues harp

Sharon Robinson - vocals
Jennifer Warnes - vocals

Mitch Watkins - guitars
Roscoe Beck - bass
Raffi Hakopian - violin
John Bilezikjian - oud, mandolin
Paul Ostermeyer - wind
Bill Ginn - keyboards
Steve Meador - drums

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Len Talk:

***before THE WINDOW:
This is another song. It's from my new album. It's called 'The Window'. It's a kind of a prayer to, you know, bring two parts of the soul together. It's called 'The Window'.

***after THE WINDOW:
My great violinist, Raffi Hakopian from Armenia!

***before MEMORIES:
This is a song that I wrote a couple of years ago with the great genius of darkest Hollywood, Phil Spector. And it's a song based on my extremely boring and pathetic life at Westmount High School in Montreal. It's called, 'Memories'.

***after MEMORIES:
Sharon Robinson! Jennifer Warnes! Paul Ostermeyer! Bill Ginn! Raffi Hakopian! Steve Meador! Roscoe Beck! Mitch Watkins! John Bilezikjian! Let's do another song...

***before THE GUESTS:
This is a new song and I'm very surprised that this song has gained any kind of popularity, because it is a kind of a difficult song. I think most of its popularity is due to the fact that Raffi Hakopian plays on it. And John Bilezikjian. But... It's a song about how a new soul comes into the world looking for the feast, feeling completely separated from everything, feeling isolated and in exile. And how the Great Author of this dismal catastrophy, this vale of tears, pulls each of these souls into the feast and into the banquet. And no one knows where the night is going. No one knows why the wine is flowing. And, oh love, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you...

***before SUZANNE:
It's not a matter of my wanting or not wanting to play, but I think that the television programme is over and it's time for all of us to go home...
[Director cuts in:] Leonard, do us a favour - one more.
Yeah. One more? Sure! It's pleasure. We have time? Yes. Okay.

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Last rev. 15May07

Leonard Cohen - Laugardalshöll, Reykjavik, Iceland - 24.06.1988 (Flac)

HUGE Thanks to the original uploader on Dime.

SBD > Cass-M > DAT > CD-R(2?) > EAC > FLAC

Disc One:

01-Welcome Applaud
02-Dance Me to the End of Love
03-Ain't No Cure for Love
04-Who by Fire
05-Bird on the Wire
06-I'm Your Man
07-Sisters of Mercy/Heart with No Companion
08-First we take Manhattan
09-Avalanche
10-Chelsea Hotel
11-Tower of Song

Disc Two:

01-Stranger Song
02-Everybody Knows
03-Joan of Arc
04-Story of Isaac
05-Hallelujah
06-Passing Through
07-Take this Waltz
08-The Partisan
09-If it Be Your Will
10-Coming Back to You
11-Suzanne
12-So Long, Marianne

Disc Three:

01-I Can't Forget
02-A Singer Must Die
03-First We Take Manhattan (2)
04-Famous Blue Raincoat
05-I Tried to Leave
06-Wither Thou Goest
07-L.Cohen with the Icelandic press

Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Life (MKV 576p)

Very good documentary, that never got a DVD release. Takem from the recent BBC broadcast. Live tracks from carnagie Hall, NY.

Tracklist:

01. First We Take Manhattan    
02. Suzanne    
03. Chelsea Hotel No. 2    
04. Take This Waltz    
05. Hallelujah    
06. Who By Fire    
07. Bird On A Wire    
08. Red River Valley    
09. So Long, Marianne    
10. Famous Blue Raincoat    
11. The Partisan    
12. Joan Of Arc    
13. Ain't No Cure For Love    
14. Tower Of Song    
15. Dance Me To The End Of Love

Leonard Cohen - Paris Theatre, London, UK - xx.xx.1968 (Flac)

Excellent quality, just in case you want yto check the original version of Teachers and the music that christenes The Sisters Of Mercy ;)

Original Info File:

 (Prof. Stoned 2016)

Tracklist:

01 - You Know Who I Am
02 - Bird On The Wire
03 - The Stranger Song
04 - So Long,  Marianne
05 - Master Song
06 - There's No Reason Why You Should Remember Me
07 - Sisters Of Mercy
08 - Teachers
09 - Dress Rehearsal Rag
10 - Suzanne
11 - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
12 - Story Of Isaac
13 - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Time: 61:59

Source: Soundboard -> Pre-FM Reel-To-Reel Master -> Cassette -> ? -> Mastering 2016 > FLAC

Recorded live at The Paris Theatre, London, Spring 1968

Originally broadcast on BBC2 TV: 31 August 1968 (Tr. 01-05) & 7 September 1968 (Tr. 06-13)

[Revision 1.0 / 18-9-2016]

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Prof. sez:

A very important bootleg, IMO, that begs for an official release. Reportedly, it was sourced from a cassette copy that a fan got directly from an BBC employee after writing a letter to inquire after the status of this recording. The BBC employee also mentioned that this came from his private copy and that video sources no longer existed in the archives.

The audio recording was first heard by the public in 1993 when it came out on a pressed CD bootleg in inferior quality. Then later in the mid-2000's it started to circulate in better quality. I first heard this in 2006 when someone uploaded it on Dime's tracker. Although pretty clean, that source was marred heavily by noise reduction artefacts. For this new version, I have used another source that I found on another tracker. It had more noises and also some signs of NR, but substantially less than the 2006 Dime source. I fear this is probably as good as it's gonna get, unless someone manages to obtain a clean digital copy of the BBC cassette, which to my knowledge is not into circulation.   

Despite the obvious deterioration to the source material, the soundquality here has still turned out quite good. I have carefully restored and remastered this at my mastering studio. The original source sounded a bit dull.
By bringing up the high-end a bit, the NR problem and hiss also became more apparent, but I think I found an acceptable balance (to my taste, anyway). I also corrected the correct speed of the two original parts (one ran a bit too fast, the other a bit too slow).

To me, the historical importance outweighs the sonic flaws by far. Four songs performed here (not counting Tr. 06, which is more a joke than a song) were unreleased at the time, though already fully realized. Some of the arrangements are quite different from the studio versions and there's an extra unheard verse on Tr. 04.

Enjoy!

Leonard Cohen - Philharmonie, Köln, Germany - 10.04.1988 (Flac)

Excellent FM broadcast. Thanks to the original uploader.

Note: WDR 2 - Unterhaltung a'la carte

Source: 1.Gen/FM  T0276AU
Total playtime    76:22

Tracklist          

01.) Radioedit/Bird on the wire           
02.) Hey, that's no way to say goodbye  
03.) Who by fire               
04.) Ain't no cure for love         
05.) Dance me to the end of love    
06.) The law                  
07.) Heart with no companion      
08.) I'm your man               
09.) Coming back to you             
10.) First we take Manhattan          
11.) Avalanche - solo              
12.) Chelsea hotel #2 - solo           
13.) The stranger song - solo          
14.) Tower of song     (fade out)
15.) Radioedit