Friday, October 30, 2020

Cohen of Protection


One by one, the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
And those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
And "Welcome, welcome!" cries a voice,
"Let all my guests come in."
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
And all go stumbling through that house
in lonely secrecy
Saying "Do reveal yourself."
or "Why has thou forsaken me?"
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
All at once the torches flare
The inner door flies open
One by one they enter there
In every style of passion
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
And here they take their sweet repast
While house and grounds dissolve
And one by one the guests are cast
Beyond the garden wall
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
Those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
Those who earnestly are lost
Are lost and lost again
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now
One by one, the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The broken-hearted many
The open-hearted few
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love, I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh... I need you now

Leonard Cohen
Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10.30.1980

01 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye 
02 Who By Fire 
03 The Window   
04 Passing Through
           05 The Guests           
06 There Is a War
07 Suzanne
08 The Stranger Song
09 LC speaks
10 Chelsea Hotel #2
11 The Partisan
12 The Story of Isaac
13 The Gypsy's Wife
14 poem: The Music Crept By Us/improv: Concertgebouw
15 Diamonds In the Mine
16 Famous Blue Raincoat
17 Lover, Lover, Lover
18 LC speaks
19 Memories
20 So Long, Marianne
21 applause/LC speaks
22 One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
23 Joan of Arc
24 I Tried to Leave You
25 applause/LC speaks
26 Do I Have to Dance All Night?

Total time: 2:06:00
disc break goes after Track 13

Leonard Cohen - guitar, recorder & vocals
Roscoe Beck - bass
John Bilezikjian - oud & mandolin
Bill Ginn - keyboards & accordion
Raffi Hakopian - violin
Steve Meador - drums
Paul Ostermayer - reeds & winds
Mitch Watkins - guitar
Sharon Robinson - vocals
Jennifer Warnes - vocals

declicked master cassettes of the original VPRO-FM pre-broadcast reels
794 MB FLAC/October 2020 archive link

No one alerted me this killer show was 40 today!!! Possibly the best recorded and most essential Leonard Cohen ROIO, liberated and declicked from the original Dutch Radio reels, and now here for your Halloween weekend jams! You're welcome!! Boo!!!--J.

9.21.1934 - 11.7.2016