I'm in an old musty smelling farmhouse out in the Ohio Countryside with Vintage Van Morrison playing loud and the windows open wide...and All Is Good In My World......Cheers Everyone
@Tom Thank you Tom I'm doing really well I was in the hospital when I was listening to this I'm 65 years old and was brought up with this music how lucky was I
The beautiful thing about Van The Man is that more often than not, the live versions of his songs almost outdo the studio versions. “And you were standing there....” Gives me chills every time.
This performance was 6 weeks before I was born. I wonder if maybe my mama heard music like this in passing as she was waiting for me and it seeped into my heart because this era still fills me with joy like no other. May be the best time for music.
You are correct my friend! This era of music can never again be matched! I am so blessed to have been born in the early 60's & to have a mother whom understood the magnitude of the time she lived & raised her children. ➕♥️🇺🇸
I was there at that concert. Loved the Fillmore . Used to go there all the time. Watching Van sing brings goosebumps. He also did The Mystic, which is my favorite song.
@@lowlypeasant It had the greatest songs overall and in quantity....but were they my favorite songs so far of his? Most were but not all. I can't argue though that it was his best album though overall.
ASTRAL WEEKS is a GREAT album!.....It personifies the word...album! Its quite likely as good as any album ever recorded. 53 years later....nothing has changed. A momentous work. Bravo Van Morrison!!!!
Van has THE SOUL ENERGY that most artists will never glimpse. I would love to know his story of spiritual enlightenment, because it was followed by the most underrated artist of all time
My dog used to have great reactions to this song. I’d play this while he was in the room he’d start howling like it was dark and a full moon. I’d turn it up louder he’d howl louder and start scratching at the door. He seemed to be enjoying it so l turned it up louder and he loved it so much that he chewed the corner of the couch to shreds and pissed on the pot plants. He died last week and l played this at his pretend funeral and l swear l could hear a dogs howl in the breeze.
Van was living in Woodstock when my bf, who knew Jack Schroer the sax player, invited the band to live with us in San Anselmo, Ca. They not only showed up but Jack and his wife, back-up singer Ellen, and the bass player John Klingberg did move in and my bf became Van's roadie. Great times, great memories. I have to say, Van was quite an interesting character.
@@annprehn Yes, Jack and John played on both Moondance and Street Choir. They connected with Van in Woodstock, but they were all in Boston together and I am unsure if Jack and John moved to Woodstock to stay connected with Van, or because Jack was from near there and they connected once they arrived. From what I have gathered, John came to Marin County (and lived with YOU!) then left the band and went back to NYC for some rehab. At some point, maybe while your bf was connected to them, Jack also played with (or knew the members of) the Madame George Band. Do you remember anything about that? They must have been living with uou when this concert was filmed, and he left very shortly afterwards.
@@annprehn No, his name came up in my research! Check out this photo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:John_Klingberg_(musician)#/media/File:MadameGeorgeBand.jpg
A tortured saint stalking the stage and screaming out his soulful lyrics about being wasted on the avenue of trees,it cuts straight through your body and connects directly to your soul.
I've seen this deep soulful man, three times, I've had and lost endless CD from my cars , robbed by enlightened women. Takes me to a blissful place everytime . Bless you all we are all buzzing the same calm spiritual frequency, bless up all you good souls out there
In a way the luckiest people in the world are those of us who where young when this music was new and its now part of our souls to take us on the journey..
This is my alltime fav Van song. Lyrics so evocative, bluesy moody. They simply transcend whatever is happening in your day, take you right out of time (hey, it’s “Astral Weeks”, right?). This Fillmore East Live version is also so special, so high energy . Van---from his own description “extremely wasted AND TRYING TO GET BACK TO YOU!!!” LOL---pulls out all the stops, turns the song inside out , making it sound at the end like rave up gospel. Ending exhortation (I won’t spoil it) makes me laugh with pure delight. A call to all to be each our own over the top original best self.
This is phenomenal!!! Unrehearsed and extremely memorizing to watch. He's doing all the stuff he began doing while he was in THEM, this time frame had to be his most energetic. So full of soul!!
I grew up listening to this album and it always reminds me of my mum who died in 2013 and has memories of summer days in the garden. I remember finding out it came out in 1965 and was surprised as the songs on it are timeless. Great music.
Was lucky enough to see him live again this August near to me here in the Uk 👏👏 his voice and his saxophonist playing is as good as ever . His attitude will never change 👏👏👏👏👏. Love him 😘🇬🇧
All I know is all I know. When Van sounds this good (which is a lot), it gets me high. Sometimes The Waterboys get me there too. Fisherman's Blues. Too many to list. Big love to The Live Adventures of The Waterboys at Glastonbury, 1986, Side 2 -- The Pan Within and all the other gorgeous songs on Side 2. Joy to my ears. I can't get enough.
"Cyprus Avenue" celebrated at the Fillmore East, on the Lower East Side; excuse me, The East Village. I must be somewhere in the Twilight Zone. The Fillmore East was a top R&R Club in NYC, staging the "Best of the Best", and Van Morrison was no exception. I can only thank RU-vid for presenting this Treasure Chest of Music, and Performers for those familiar with these Artists, and Clubs, and those that are too young who would love to take a peek of what the past had to offer... ~~CR~~
Been a 'Van Fan' for a long, lohg time, since the "Domino" days, and His Band and the Street Chior. Could listen to him all day and never get tired. There is no one like him, he Rocks!
Yep that's Him in all His " Mistic Revelation " ... The only other time a performance moved me like this was sitting up front at a Ray Charles Concert ... When it was over I told my Friends I didn't want to move ... But the Song And this Performance Wow this was the Moment I Fell in Love with Van ❤️... I'd be " October's Fool " for Him ... " It's too late to Stop now -
Personally, I think this is even better than the album version. Van's so fricking soulful here for a white boy from Ireland. And the band too, just amazingly soulful! My god, it's a tight performance isn't it.
Very possible,as everyone is influenced by someone else,I remember Townsend saying Daltry copied someone else,I can't remember who,although Daltry denied it.It's very possible you have something in your head and use it,even if it isn't consciously done
suffern63 At least McCartney acknowledged such copying done by other artists of the the Beatles, on the anthology disc where they were sitting around a kitchen table. Who isn't influenced by who.. or, is that, by "whom?" Nothing wrong with complimenting someone else while maintaining your originality.
1970s: the time was ready for truths. Over were the days of peace and love. Soul and heart was being served by a very small community of artists and started to take our hearts. The 70s was an awakening. As far as music was concerned, the period between 1968-1977 was the most prolific, creative and needed. We were looking for content, not loudness, personal thought, not general expression, someone who would speak to our soul, not to the public. Van was a small voice (back then)..that grew. Thanx Van
Right on CBS, but i would date the "golden decade" from 65 to 75. This performance is particularly special. Thanks to whoever is responsible for the upload.
Van made me want to write and sing like this...what a fantastic version!!! Thank you for this....Love You Van! You are THE MAN of words and voice and passion and grace...one of the GREATEST!!! "In all your mystic revelation Baby..."
this is exquisite. i was at the Van the Man and John Lee Hooker and Mose Allison show at the Beacon Theatre NYC in Nov 1989, first row, center seat, so I know how amazing it is to be this close.
Van was in his prime back during this period. Cyprus Avenue is one of my favorite Van songs along with "Into the mystic" and "The story of Them". Astral Weeks is my favorite Van Morrison album from 1968 the year I was born. He has the soul in his vocals like one of my favorite singers Otis Redding. Van's talent and music are amazing. It is sad many people in this world will only know him for "Brown eyed girl" Van has so many better songs on his albums and in his career in the music business. The best part of Van is he writes, sings, and plays several instruments.
Beg to differ,if there is one artist,and that is the term,from this time who kept soul,well it's Van.Do you think he's faking it nowadays?No way,man,well that's soul and he has it to this day in bucketfulls
suffern63 yea ur probably right, i dont watch his newer concerts. but i did however watch a documentary about him, it has bob dylan and john lee hooker in it, where he says something to the affect of he makes music for money at times
I saw Van once at my college in Conn. He played a song, walked off and never returned. I was pissed because I was such a big fan. He is an amazing artist and I still listen to his stuff a lot.
And I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm conquered in a car seat Not a thing that I can do I may go crazy Before that mansion on the hill I may go crazy Before that mansion on the hill But my heart keeps beating faster And my feet can't keep still And all the little girls rhyme something On the way back home from school And all the little girls rhyme something On the way back home from school And the leaves fall one by one by one by one Call the autumn time a fool Yeah baby my tongue gets tied Every every every time I try to speak My tongue gets tied Every time I try to speak And my inside shakes just like a leaf on a tree I think I'll go on by the river with my cherry cherry wine I believe I'll go walking by the railroad with my cherry cherry wine If I pass the rumbling station where the lonesome engine drivers pine And wait a minute, yonder comes my lady Rainbow ribbons in her hair Yonder comes my lady Rainbow ribbons in her hair Six white horses and a carriage She's returning from the fair Baby, baby, baby And if I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And if I'm caught one more time Up on Cyprus Avenue And I'm conquered in a car seat And I'm looking straight at you Way up on, way up on, way up on.... The avenue of trees Keep walking down In the wind and the rain, darling You keep walking down when the sun shone through the trees Nobody, no, no, no, nobody stops me from loving you baby So young and bold, fourteen years old Baby, baby, baby... Ooooh-ee
Don’t have word to express what this song does to me. Must have listened hundreds of times since about 1973. Astral Weeks - best album ever. Still does it to me.
