Leonard Cohen: Vancouver 2010 (Ex- Aud) FLAC

Date: 2010-12-02 (Thursday)
Title: Everything We've Got
Venue: Rogers Arena (formerly GM Place) - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue concert seating capacity: 14000
Estimated crowd size: 9000 (upper section closed off)
Weather conditions: Indoor show - not applicable
Source: Open-Air Audience/Stealth
Lineage: Church Audio CA-11 cardioid mics > Church Audio ST-9100 v3.0 pre-amp with bass roll off turned off > Edirol R-09 (24/48)
Transfer: .WAV's > Audacity 1.2.6 (minor edits) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (normalize) > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > .WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC
Recording location: FOB - right of center - first row approx. 40 metres from stage - 1.5 metres high (on player's bench wall ledge - see photo of rig (under orange handkerchief) surrounded by security during intermission)
Sound Quality: SUP-, A+, 9.5/10 - I was originally quite disappointed that I didn't bring my omnis. During the show, I thought that the quiet well behaved crowd and the nice clean sound (which was all quite unexpected) would be best captured using my omnis. Boy was I wrong. Those cards did a fantastic job and got my first ever SUPerb rated recording. I could barely have asked for better.
Recordist: Seth Meister
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Release date: 2011-05-11

OU: I was very, very concerned about going to this show and almost didn't buy the very expensive tickets as I couldn't see how the sound quality would possibly be any good in such a large venue with this type of a musician. A friend of mine had seen Cohen in this very venue a year previous and told me that it was one of the best shows he had ever seen. I respected his opinion highly as he's an avid live music fan with a lot of experiene. Well, little did I know that Mark Vreeken (the long time soundman for the iconic Canadian band The Tragically Hip) was doing sound for this show. I thought he had retired but apparently was coaxed out of retirement by Cohen to do one more tour...and how could he resist? If I had known I wouldn't have doubted for an instance. Cohen and Vreeken make for a perfect symbiotic relationship and it all culminates in my tape for your enjoyment.
I was joined at this show, once again, by a dear friend and collaborator who withholds all her clapping, singing and talking for the sake of my recordings. She not only truly understands my crazy taper quirks but probably enjoyed & appreciated this show more than anyone there. I couldn't think of a better person to have attended with.
No compression was used in the post-processing of this recording to preserve it's dynamic range, listenability and authenticity. This recording will naturally sound much better cranked up loud with quality headphones!
Peace & enjoy, Seth

- Set One -
01 Crowd - 00:28
02 Dance Me To The End Of Love - 05:35
03 The Future - 06:48
04 There Ain't No Cure For Love - 05:31
05 Bird On The Wire - 07:06
06 Everybody Knows - 05:33
07 In My Secret Life - 05:02
08 Guitar Intro > - 05:10
09 Who By Fire - 04:57
10 The Darkness - 06:21
11 First We Take Manhattan - 06:15
12 Chelsea Hotel - 04:36
13 Waiting For The Miracle - 08:06
14 Chat - 01:43
15 Anthem (with Band Intros) - 13:22
- Set Two -
01 Crowd & Chat - 00:45
02 Tower Of Song - 05:36
03 Suzanne - 04:32
04 Avalanche - 03:50
05 A Singer Must Die - 03:37
06 Sisters Of Mercy - 05:00
07 The Gypsy's Wife - 06:29
08 The Partisan - 05:29
09 Boogie Street (1) - 06:33
10 Hallelujah - 07:28
11 I'm Your Man - 06:03
12 One Thousand Kisses Deep - 03:38
13 Take This Waltz (with Band & Crew Intros) - 07:53
14 Encore Break - 01:02
- Encore -
15 So Long Marianne - 05:02
16 If It Be Your Will - 05:11
17 Closing Time - 07:26
18 Crowd - 01:00

Band Members:
Leonard Cohen - Vocals, guitar, keyboard
Roscoe Beck - Musical Director, stand up bass, electric bass, background vocals
Neil Larsen - Keyboards, Hammond B3, accordion, brass instruments
Bob Metzger - Guitar, pedal steel guitar & vocals
Javier Mas - Bandurria, laud, archilaud and 12 string guitar
Rafael Gayol - Drums & percussion
Dino Soldo - Keyboard, saxophone, wind instruments, mouth harp & background vocals
Sharon Robinson - Lead vocals, background vocals; (1) Sharon Robinson - lead vocals
Charley & Hattie Webb - background vocals, harp (Hattie), guitar (Charley) & gymnastics

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