Van the Man as Van the Boy! Lol. Can't believe how he is here, such an intense, complex character yet so simple and lucid and aware in this interview. One of the greatest ever, truly original and unique.
Wow he was so young! Love how he speaks , his voice is so wonderful in talk and song! I've recently discovered so much of his work and listen to him every day. Uplifting and comforting. This is an awesome interview.
It's so nice to see and hear, a relaxed conversation by Van Morrison, at the beginning of his promising career. Van still shy but cheerful and happy. It is important in life to look back and recognize that he has won, that he has fulfilled a dream, despite the obstacles he had to overcome. May God bless and protect you today and forever.👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏❤
I wasn't looking but am thrilled to have found it. How old was Van there? A mere lad who had already put out enough mind-blowing albums to secure his position as a music legend. I had no idea he played so many instruments, but I could tell by his arrangements that he knew his way around a music store.
Watch Glen Hansard talking about how he met Van Morrison it’s a Brest story. Unfortunately as fame grew and he got older, Van got a lot more reserved and even a little skiddish, which is sad because you can tell that this man doesn’t wanna be famous.
It’s so easy for a Belfast born person to slip into an American accent, there are so many similarities.The same cannot be said for any of other UK accents....
Just hanging out and talking like a normal, everyday person! Unreal! One of the all time great geniuses in rock and roll. Dang! I'm gonna go listen to Astral Weeks!
etha s Me too! I love Van! He's carved out a niche for himself, obviously, and few other musicians have ever come close to conveying as much intelligence and emotion. And underlying it all, GREAT SONGS! He's just trying to make an honest living without compromising. Not easy, but he did it!
Great spot. As Van says the city is close too, if you fancy it for an evening. Love the whole Bay Area esp. up to the early 2000s before tech took over.
Im amazed at Van because one minute its seems he's speaking a Northern Irish accent then the next a reserved Brooklyn accent ,,,anyone concur or am I just speculating,,?
he is certainly faking an american accent. he has quite a thick accent in other interviews from this period. I'm in Marin County. Now I wonder where he was living.
Ben Anderson It's not faking, it's being exposed to separate cultures, intonations, and vocal inflections. It's something all humans do. You are "faking" the language you were taught in childhood, how language is expressed in whatever culture you came from. From parents to teachers to peers.
Dd Dd I think of it as faking. I spent a year in the South Pacific and faked the local accents for fun but spoke my native American accent when I got home. I know other British expats that fake an American accent (their words) to avoid having the same conversations over and over.
He is not faking it...in my opinion... I think it is an example of the so called 'mirroring effect'... Mirroring is the behaviour in which one person subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another. Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the company of close friends or family. Mirroring (psychology) - Wikipedia
+David Bahia Thank you for the link. I read it and - he was pretty influential in radio scene. I am familiar with one of the radio stations he was involved with. I was a senior in '69 and aware of 'underground radio' but unaware of its history. Tom Donahue was the granddaddy of it. Died about a year after this video. He is an interesting person.
I just got the shock of my life to see my Celtic cousin Van smoking Camel cigarettes, way back in time in Old Belfast Town I never saw Van smoking, that what happens when you go to America, you pick up bad habits, Van is in great form, Van has always been an honest man, a true troubadour of great music
@@lindawick455 Thats what happened when Van got a bit of extra spending money, he went out and bought those bad, bad, badder than bad mean cigarettes, only hard men smoked them Woodbine.
@@TerrificLittleSunday, Davide you have got to remember that smoking is reported to be bad for your health if you smoke them cigarettes for more than 50 years , loudness and violence have got a more sudden effect on people and that is no good at all, Now I am all for smoking, I am off out to the shop to buy me be a pipe and a plug of sweet tobacco and a shape penknife to cut some fresh tobacco
Those were the days. Van would play at the Marshall Tavern, Inn of the Beginning, Great American Music Hall, and the New Orleans House, all in the Bay Area and the prices were cheap...now you have to take a second mortgage out on your house to see Van...that's life.
True, I saw him at the Tower Theater. $12 or $14, something like that. Not great seats, but an amazing show + late night breakfast at a diner. All in less than $20. This was in '84, '85 or so.
rob quonset: Seen him at the Greek Theater in UC Berkeley Campus mid 1980s sometime, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were the backing Band, Mose Allison opened the Show, John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Rait joined later and I cant remember what the ticket cost but trust me it was well worth it.
I remember meeting a guy years ago in Germany and I asked where he was from in the USA and I was shocked when he told me he had never even been in the USA and that he was from Northern Ireland and he had just left there the previous Month. Most "American" accents come from the British Isles, except those that have a Swedish lilt to them around Minnesota.
Sad but true. I moved to SF Nov 1974 with a disc jockey who had been hired at KSAN. Tom's son Sean had been our roommate in San Jose where they had both worked at KOME. Tom's memorial wake was held at the Orphanage - this same club - with many musical acts performing (and weeping). I was there. What a night!
Did Van ever play the Sweetwater in Mill Valley? Must have I suppose. Anyone out there know? It was my fave small but great club - Carlos, Bonnie, Elvis C, John Lee H, JJ Cale ... i could go on.
So the album after the live album (It's Too Late to Stop Now) he refers to (coming out later that year) became or was Veeden Fleece. But the one he was working on - did that become A Period of Transition or did that album (the one he referred to) never come out?
MattMangels That's what happens when you live with someone for long who has an "American" accent and you live all over America from California to Arizona to New York. It tends to stick. I'm from Spain. Came to New York for university. Have been here now 16 years and married a girl from NYC. I lost my accent and talk like a New Yorker. I go back to Madrid and it roars out of me like it's been kidnapped.
Can see how shy he is the way he finishes what he’s saying but it doesn’t seem that way and he has to look at him to say that’s all . Straight to the point simple. Can’t go with the flow and always analysing what your saying
Great old footage/ Van hard to explain/ just listen to Veedon Fleece....... Amazing artist..... But his CD prices on Amazon are ridiculously high. Think he is buying up his own music to drive the market UpUpUp.
+conor o lochlainn Well he based himself there for over 30 years and his first wife was American so he's done well to hang onto his East Belfast twang which comes out even more when he chats with other people from the area...
+conor o lochlainn Mate thats not an American accent thats a heavy Northern Irish Accent Belfast Van Morrisons home town. The American accent born mostly from the Irish accent so it's more the other way around Americans sound a bit Irish. Lol.
I don’t get it. All I ever hear about with Van-is how prickly and unapproachable he is. But, if you only saw this interview and didn’t hear those stories ... you would never in a million years, get that vibe.
Van Morrison is a brilliant artist as long as he keeps his opinions to himself. He always sounds stupid and conceded when interviewed. Sing Van but don't talk.
