This song literally brings tears to my eyes. The original is amazing and this is absolutely amazing as well. Unreal how talented this man is. Hey Van the Man! (Robbie Robertson voice from the last waltz)
This is interesting because it's such a subjective thing. I remember my old man loving Van Morrison when I was young but I didn't really get it. He also liked Dylan and I didn't get that either. Now at 45 I see what he meant. Dude is truly amazing.
We all have our own tastes I guess. I didn't get Dylan really untill I was around seventeen. Then suddenly he started to blow my mind. And I robbed all my Dads old Albums !😄
The amazing thing is that none of us need choose one version over another; it need not be decided that one is superior to another; no one has anything to gain by giving one performance thumbs up and another thumbs down. The only thing here that each of us need to do is choose to listen, or not. I am grateful that I am able to listen to the songs of Van Morrison again and again, in the many ways that he has presented them over the years. He is a master of his medium and message. A visionary artist in the truest sense.
OMG! 🤣 I so get what you've just said! More than most! I'm a Northern Ireland girl! I'm 59 years old! I've seen him so many tines! Love him! True artist!
Wow...Me encanta esta canción una de mis favoritas y con el Talento de Van Morrison es super genial mi cantante favorito...Saludos cordiales desde San José,Barquisimeto-Venezuela
In all truth for many years I thought there lyrics were : " in a storm made to my soul, stormy just like jelly roll, yeah stormy... " I couldn't get past thinking it was better for the longest time.
This is my absolute favorite version of this song. I didn’t realize at first there was 2 drummers playing on this song, it was driving me crazy why I couldn’t get it to sound correct when playing along.
It’s ridiculously annoying see all these comments about van doing blow or being stoned. The guy did not do drugs. The only drug he ever did or maybe even still does do excessively is alcohol. However I think his alcoholic days are behind him. Also HE DIDNT JUST SPEED UP THE SONG. He reimagined and rearranged it. Big difference there.
Then we saw the man from across the road With the sunshine in his eyes Well he lived all alone in his own little home With a great big gallon jar There were bottles too, one for me and you And he said Hey! There you are
"And it stoned me to my soul Stoned me just like Jelly Roll And it stoned me And it stoned me to my soul Stoned me just like goin' home And it stoned me"
This guy is that line of dirt you can’t get with the dust pan, he’s genre-less. I could find a 20 year old kid right now and we’d eventually stumble on a Van Morrison song they’d like, that how good this guy is.
I heard this version first. I fell in love with David Hayes, bass guitarist. first, Van Morrison later. I even listens to David's albums. By the way, when I finally heard the first version of the song, I was disappointed
And it stoned me, all this fkn coke made me play this song faster than the studio cut but we had to get out of there to get stoned again. And did we, oh yes we did we got fkn high as shit and pitched a chikenshit super fit and then we did some lines and got cooked as fk.
Love Van the Man. I don't think there's a live performance that I've seen where he doesn't look pissed off, lol! I'd be nervous as one of his musicians, he looks like he'd bite your head off if you played a wrong note.
From what I've heard, he's never felt comfortable playing live. He almost always has his eyes shut when he's singing. I never saw Van live, but I have a buddy who did. He said Van sat at the piano, which faced parallel with the audience, and he never once looked at the audience.
@ drummerschild: Van Morrison (Vocal, Guitar) John Allair (keyboards) Pee Wee Ellis (saxophone) David Hayes (bass) Mark Isham (trumpet) Jef Labes (keyboards) John Platania (guitar) Dahuad Shaar (drums)
Is it true that he did the very 1st mic 🎤 drop singing caravan at " the band" last waltz??? I know he does it ,its pretty awesome but that's what I heard? I don't know either way?
Wow Van really picked up the tempo in this version. It's a cool different way to sing it. But speeding it up takes away from his soulful style. So personally I prefer the original.
