![]() Van Morrison - The Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA.The Indigo Girls - Love by You - Various Cover Ver.The Beatles - White Album Era Demos (1968).Paul Weller - Shine On - Various Songs (2004-2005).Van Morrison - Pacific High Studios, San Francisco.Larkin Poe - Reskinned - Alternate Version (2016).David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine - Various Songs (197.Robyn Hitchcock - Queen Elvis - Acoustic Versions.Richard & Linda Thompson - Together Again - Variou.The Talking Heads - Gangster of Love - Various Son.Paul McCartney - Goodnight Tonight - Various Songs.Kirsty MacColl - Desperate Character (1981).Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fight Fire - Variou.Kirsty MacColl - You Still Believe in Me - Various.Paul Weller - Tobacco Ash Sunday - Various Songs (.Sheryl Crow - Live Acoustic - Radio 3 FM, Hilversu.Evie Sands - The Best of Evie Sands (1965-1974).Robyn Hitchcock - Another Eye - Various Songs (1990).Kirsty MacColl - Real - Various Songs (1983-1984).Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Acoustic (1969).George Harrison - Fear of Flying - Song Edit (1980).Los Lobos - Till the Hands Fall Off the Clock - Va. ![]() The Kinks - God's Children - Various Songs (1970-1.But it's quite likely that it's going to stay in the vaults after this one brief appearance in Britain, done for legal purposes only. If and when it's ever for legal sale in the U.S, I'll take this down. This album needs to be heard by lots of people. But still, it's a miracle that at least this much of Morrison live in 1968 was recorded at all, and with such quality sound. So it's too bad we don't have the rest of the show. Unfortunately, the recording ends at the end of the last song, "Madame George," as one can hear the sound of the tape running out. Sheets" and "Brown Eyed Girl." The band consists of just Morrison on acoustic guitar plus a double bass and a flute, so the whole recording has an "Astral Weeks" vibe, even including "Brown Eyed Girl." It contains three songs that would appear on "Astral Weeks" later that year: "Beside You, "Madame George," and "Cyprus Avenue." Also, there's a version of a legendary still unreleased "Astral Weeks" outtake previously known as "Train," but which appears here under the title "Train, Train." He also does a Them song ("One Two Brown Eyes"), a song that would appear on a 1970 album ("Virgo Clowns"), and songs he released in 1967: "He Ain't Give You None," "T. ![]() If you're a fan of Morrison's music, you need to hear this! So while it is an audience recording, to my ears it sounds as good as many soundboard recordings, especially considering the concert recording standards of 1968. He used a reel-to-reel machine set up on the stage, at a small Boston club called The Catacombs in August 1968. at the time, but would become the long time lead singer of the J. It turns out that the show was recorded by none other than Peter Wolf, who was a Boston D.J. Here's another very interesting article from March 2018 on what Morrison was doing in Boston in 1968, and how this concert was recorded: ![]() This appears to have been an attempt to make the recording public but in the most low key, unnoticed method possible. Since this recording dates from 1968, the deadline would be the end of 2018. Unfortunately, they only released it on iTunes in Britain for about 24 hours, and it's already gone! This apparently was done to maintain legal rights to the recording, given that there is a European copyright law that says the rights are lost after 50 years unless the recording is made available for sale to the public somewhere in Europe, if only briefly. until now!Ī few days ago (early November 2018), Morrison's record company released the album "Live in Boston 1968" that has long been the unattainable holy grail for Morrison fans. There never have been any publicly available audio recording of his time in Boston that year. He spent most of 1968 living in Boston and developing the unique sound that would result in that album. In November 1968, Van Morrison released the album "Astral Weeks," which is so acclaimed that on an average of greatest albums of all time lists, it ranks number 15. Here's something very new, very great, and very unexpected.
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