Leonard Cohen & The Army Festival Performances, Aug 1970 Two partial recordings of festival performances from 1970 in wildly different quality. The Aix show is an audience recording which suffered from severe speed/pitch fluctuation which I have done my best to remedy somewhat -- to remedy it completely would be an impossible task. The source has ugly crossfade edits between tracks which obviously nothing could be done about. All of Lenny comments and intro's are in French. The Isle of Wight tracks are from the same pristine soundboard recording as the three officially released tracks ("Let's Sing Another Song, Boys" on SONGS OF LOVE & HATE, "Tonight Will Be Fine" on LIVE SONGS and "Suzanne" on MESSAGE TO LOVE and other various artists IoW albums). This recording is an absolute must-have. Aix-En-Provence Festival, France, 2 Aug 1970 [AUD] ---------- ---------- ---------- ====== 01. Les Propriétaires de la Révolution (speech in French) 1:35 02. Bird on the Wire 3:50 03. So Long, Marianne 2:24 04. You Know Who I Am 3:11 05. Lady Midnight 2:36 06. One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:14 07. The Stranger Song 5:19 08. For No Reason At All (Improvisation) :40 09. Joan of Arc 5:02 10. The Partisan 3:34 11. Intro :38 12. Sisters of Mercy 3:30 13. Diamonds in the Mine 4:14 liberated from the bootleg "The Golden Voice of Leonard Cohen Vol. 3" (portable reel-to-reel?) > ? > CD > WAV > FLAC > WAV (retracked, adjusted levels & pitch/speed w/ Magix ACL10) > FLAC (6) Isle of Wight Festival, East Afton Farm, Isle of Wight, England, 31 Aug 1970, 4am [SBD] ---------- ========== 01. Intro :51 02. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong 5:01 03. The Stranger Song 6:42 04. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye 4:18 05. Diamonds In The Mine (with first verse known as "They Gave Me Some Money") 5:10 reel > ? > cdr-x > NERO > WAV > dEdit (w/CEP) > shntool > FLAC (8) (w/Flac Frontend) FROM THE ORIGINAL SEEDER'S NOTES: I did my best to fix the (digi-)flaws on this recording. However, I cannot guarantee it is perfectly clean. There are still "ticks" in some spots, especially in "The Stranger Song" (from 4:14 to ~5:00). There are also a couple of slight static spots and noise from P.A but nothing too serious. If you find a complete recording from that source (in the same quality) please seed it! :o) edits w/ Cool Edit Pro 2.1a t02 -clicks removed @ 0:43.053, 0:43.908, 0:47, 0:57 (still very slight static), 4:12 t03 -clicks removed @ 0:16, 0:41, 5:04 (just before a slight static spot) t05 (now t04) -clicks removed @ 1:23, 1:58 (x2), 3:12 t06 (now t05) -clicks removed @ 0:33 (during static spot), 1:41, 2:46, 3:19, 4:27 (still can hear minor distortion peak) -blank deleted at the end of the track -fade out added at the end of the track NB: the original seeder included "Tonight Will Be Fine" as t04, but this is officially released (see note above)