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The Hunt for New Music: Van Morrison performed Astral Weeks ( for the first time in concert) and other songs during a live show at The Hollywood Bowl in 20008. This clip features “Astral Weeks/I Believe I’ve Transcended”. The concert is available as a CD (highly recommended). This clip provided by vanmorrisonofficial to YouTube and is 9:41 …
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The Hunt For New Music: A terrific version of a signature Van Morrison, song: “Tupelo Honey” featuring Pee Wee Ellis, recorded live from Montreaux in 1980 The lyrics set the tone: “She’s as sweet as Tupelo Honey, an angel of the first degree….” The entire song brings you back to that honey-sweet combination of blues and jazz …
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The Hunt for New Music “Sense of Wonder” with The Jim Condie Band (1988) . Here’s the original poster’s comments on the video: Van Morrison was the surprise top-of-the-bill at the Fife Aid Festival outside St Andrews in June 1988. He didn’t want to bring his whole band so asked the negotiator, one Robbie the …
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The Hunt for New Music : “Into The Mystic”, from Moondance, Morrison’s follow up album to Astral Weeks , is a song that combines Morrison’s well documented musical relationship with transcendence and mysticism. It’s been covered by everyone from the Allman Brothers to Ben E. King. This version has Van in glasses doing a modestly acoustic version …
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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison’s Montreaux Jazz Festival appearance in 1974 is a classic. It’s Van at an early stage in his career, already with a massive catalog of great songs, playing to a sophisticated jazz audience in Montreaux at the famous jazz festival; as one writer noted about the evening, the crowded …
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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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