Leonard Cohen Angels At My Shoulder

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BROADCAST FROM COHENS FUTURE WORLD TOUR FANTASTIC 140 GRAM DOUBLE VINYL VERSION 1000 ONLY LIMITED EDITION The majority of the music featured on this DLP was broadcast from Leonard Cohens most recent hometown, Los Angeles, at the Complex on 18th April1993 This superb concert marked the beginning of an extensive series of European, North American and Canadian concerts, dubbed The Future World Tour, which culminated on 30th July at the Royal Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia This DLP includes three additional songs broadcast towards the end of the tour on 12th July from Austin City Limits, in Austin, Texas (subsequent to 1993, Cohen would not tour again for 15 years - until he began a massive and highly acclaimed world tour in 2008) The band on the 1993 tour were Bob Metzger (guitar and steel pedal guitar), Jorge Calder??bass), Bill Ginn (keyboards), Paul Ostermayer (keyboards, saxophone), Bob Furgo (violin, keyboards), Steve Meador (drums), with backing vocalists Julie Christensen & Perla Batalla (aka my Angels) This set is weighted firmly towards more recent material with just two numbers drawn from Leonards 60s catalogue, Sisters Of Mercy (from Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967) and Bird On The Wire (Songs From A Room 1969); the 70s is represented exclusively by There Is A War (from New Skin For The Old Ceremony 1974).

1984s Various Positions is recalled by versions of Coming Back To You and Dance Me To The End Of Love Three numbers are taken from the The Future (1992), the album the tour was ostensibly promoting - Democracy, Waiting for the Miracle and the title track The remaining three songs performed live here are all drawn from The Futures predecessor, Im Your Man (1988) - the title track, the groundbreaking Then We Take Manhattan and the aching balled Aint No Cure For Love