This live version of Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” is OK, although the foghorn needs some help. But I should have flagged this file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAnlke_xUY, the original album version. It’s the heart of Moondance, a nearly perfect album. This song seems to be about a spiritual quest and also about an act of love . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – Into the Mystic, By Randy Rendfeld
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This truly is an “awesome” version. It may have additional lyrics not heard on the album version. Or it may not. I don’t know that I’ve heard this version before, but it is pretty good: I’ve loved Van’s reading of it since Hymns to the Silence, but this is nice. Never had heard this either. I am becoming more and more a fan of Youtube. It pretty much replaces my worn . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – I Can’t Stop Loving You – Crazy Love (with Ray Charles) By Ron Swanson This eloquent trad-rocker is a gem from George Ivan “Van” Morrison’s later career. First released on the full and excellent 1991 recording, Hymns to the Silence, this many-layered tune offers numerous wise and poetic turns of phrase such as Van’s characterization of his audiences, “there were hypocrites and parasites and people that dream” and . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – Why Must I Always Explain? A lovely, minimalist version of “In the Garden” from No Guru No Method No Teacher with Van’s inimitable voice surrounded by transcendant piano, bass and acoustic guitar. This may have been a small step for Van at the time, but it comes across as a giant leap for Vankind 30 plus years later. Recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1980, here is a clip with top notch sound of Van at a late career peak– Common One had just come . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – Tupelo Honey – Live With Great Solo by Pee Wee Ellis Go here to view the vid. Thanks to Pat Thomas for the tip. There’s no need to worry about coverage or co-pays when you get your health insurance through John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison: Thanks to Pat Thomas for rediscovering this Lester Bangs quote about Van Morrison‘s legendary 1968 album, Astral Weeks. “What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and . . . → Read More: Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks Here is a previously unreleased early 70′s Van Morrison recording, never been issued, (yanked from several releases), Van says, “It’s hard to work out why you didn’t put something out at the time. Usually it felt like it didn’t fit… When I was with Warner Brothers they were very minimalist.” – Pat . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – When I Deliver, By Pat Thomas In the summer of 1983, needing a break from my high-paying, but totally dead-end job at Kodak in Rochester, I asked for a month off and got it – and I bought my 19 yr old self a plane ticket and Euro-Rail Pass and set off to Europe. I brought a Walkman and just . . . → Read More: Now I Can Die in Peace, They Have Finally Remastered Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, His Band & the Street Choir, and Moondance Albums on CD, by Pat Thomas I’ve always had to call into question not just the musical taste of someone who claims not to like Van Morrison, but their entire being. For me, it would be like saying that ‘I don’t like to breathe fresh air’ or ‘I prefer to live in a dark cold cave’ than enjoy a sunshine . . . → Read More: The Van Morrison Bible Has Been Written by Peter Mills, Read it Now, While Swinging Down at the Kingdom Hall, By Pat Thomas At Mississippi Records in Portland this past weekend, not only did I find a DJ promo copy of Veedon Fleece on vinyl for $4, but also Cahoots by the Band, which I never knew had this collab with the Belfast Cowboy. “Oh, Belfast cowboy, lay your cards on the grade Oh, Belfast cowboy, can . . . → Read More: The Band ft. Van Morrison – 4% Pantomime, By Jonathan Zwickel No artist ever did a better job of turning an innocent lip-synch into a monumental fuck-you. – Scott Schinder Right about now, I could use a “cold wind in August” – it’s fairly warm in LA. August 31 is Van the Man’s birthday, I thought I’d celebrate with Van, joined by Dr. John on keys, and Mick Ronson on guitar, (one of my favorite power trios ever) filmed on Dutch TV in ’77. . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – Cold Wind in August, By Pat Thomas Producer Ted Templeman remarked that he went through three engineers during the recording of the LP, due to Morrison’s “ability as a musician, arranger and producer”: “When he’s got something together, he wants to put it down right away with no overdubbing … I’ve had to change engineers who couldn’t keep up with him.” . . . → Read More: Van Morrison – (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball, By Pat Thomas When asked: “What is a friend?” Aristotle replied: “One soul inhabiting two bodies.” In 1989, Dylan spent some time with Van Morrison in Athens, Greece. The two were at Philopappos (The Hill Of The Muses) on June 27, performing Van’s song “Foreign Window”, “it’s a song about suffering….it’s not about any one person or . . . → Read More: Foreign Window – Van Morrison – Bob Dylan – Live at the Acropolis, By Pat Thomas Getting My First Listen To Van’s Live album from 1974. But now I see a link to Wavelength.- Live. Damn, I loved/still love that one. But hey, “We gaze out on.” – Ron Swanson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-V5SJX1h0 Tomorrow is the 35th Anniversary of The Last Waltz. According to the Wik, “The Last Waltz was a concert by the rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as the end of The Band’s illustrious touring career,and the . . . → Read More: The Band – It Makes No Difference, The Weight, Caravan – 35th Anniversary of The Last Waltz Indescribably beautiful: . |
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