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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music: The audio/video sync is not great in this clip which includes Moondance, Checking It Out, and Wavelength (sensational version) but the music is fabulous. The video was recorded live in 1979 in Dublin (apparently based on the videos that surfaced during research for this weekend’s Van Morrison Concert Weekend, he …
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The Hunt For New Music: One of a pair of live concerts Van performed in Ireland in 1979, this one in Bellfast, contains one of the all-time great renditions of his first really big hit, “Gloria”. Van, seen here performing with his really tight band, is in front of a very sharp crowd that …
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The Hunt for New Music: Van Morrison doing “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”, a song made famous by Rod Stewart and also used frequenctly in movie scores. This version features saxophonist Candy Dulfer and Pee Wee Ellis. Special Thanks to vossmeister who uploaded this to YouTube; the clip is 6:59 in …
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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison does very few live concerts as all true Van Morrison fans know. And that’s precisely why this Memorial Day Weekend we’re putting up a selection of live Van Morrison Performances. This one is from a live concert at the BBC. It’s long–over 50 minutes–but superb, from BBC Four in …
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Paying Attention: Thanks to BoingBoing, we can now all get a glimpse of the proposal that Walt Disney produced in advance of creating Disneyland. It takes a lot of vision to build a Magic Kingdom and it took a lot of work to produce a document that could convey the scale and ambition of Disneyland to …
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The Hunt For New Music : For years, the rarest of concerts was one in which Van Morrison performed live. Not that he was or is a poor live performer–to the contrary, like everything that Van Morrison does, he was absolutely terrific and his live albums have been cited as among the very best of any …
Paying Attention: It’s not secret that we like Apple. We have Apple phones, Apple Computers, Apple iPods, and Apple wireless systems. It makes things simpler to have it all in one domain and, yes, each operating system has it’s own benefits and, also yes, we’re conversant in all the operating systems (Windows and Chrome and Android) …
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