“Rocks His Gypsy Soul: Van Morrison Gets His Chance To
Wail, Volume 3”. Van Morrison.
Set-list:
Disc One: (75:18)
1.
Moondance
(4:42) - Tracks
1-12: Live at the Fillmore West, April 26, 1970
2.
Glad
Tidings (3:49)
3.
Crazy
Love (2:52)
4.
Come
Running (6:55)
5.
The
Way Young Lovers Do (3:19)
6.
Everyone
(2:55)
7.
Brown
Eyed Girl (2:10)
8.
And
It Stoned Me (4:11)
9.
These
Dreams Of You (3:44)
10.
Caravan
(6:37)
11.
Cypress
Avenue (12:16)
12.
Into
The Mystic (5:31)
13.
Stormy
Monday Blues (5:24) - Tracks
13-14: Studio demos, recorded 1964
14.
Don't
Start Crying Now (1:34)
15.
All
By Myself (3:11) -
Track 15: Them, live BBC 1965
16.
Caledonia
(2:50) - Tracks
16-17: Live with the Caledonia Soul Orchestra 1973
17.
What's
Up, Crazy Pup? (3:10)
Notes:
Complete show: Yes
Musicians:
CD quality:
Remarks:
I’m
not a Van Morrison expert, so I’ve simply copied these from The Van Morrison
website. This is what they wrote about this CD:
See the entry
for the Gets His Chance To Wail series for
information on the chronology of this multi-CD set and a review. The Fillmore
West material has also been released on the bootlegs Moonlight Serenade, the first disk of the
2-CD set Live in the USA, and Live in San Francisco 1970.
Review by
Russell Parkinson:
[The Fillmore
West] one hour show features Van and what will be the Caledonia Soul Orchestra
performing all the Moondance album except for "Brand New
Day". Also included are two songs from Astral Weeks and an obligatory "Brown
Eyed Girl". The sound is either radio broadcast or soundboard and is very
good, especially considering the recording is nearly 30 years old.
The show
kicks off with an excellent lively rendition of "Moondance".
"Glad Tidings" follows and although a quicker version than on the
album this song remains, for me anyway, filler. A lovely soulful "Crazy
Love" is next. Van sings this in his normal voice rather than falsetto. A
six minute improvised "Come Running" misses rather than hits. In the
middle of this song the band and van move off into a sixties rock organ/guitar
kind of thing with some improvised lyrics. On first listening it sounds great
bit after a while I find it disrupts a good song. Interesting but ultimately a
bit disappointing.
"The Way
Young Lovers Do" is a blast, a great lively version with excellent horns
and piano. Everyone joins Glad Tidings in the filler category. "Brown Eyed
Girl" is pretty standard. A good "And it Stoned Me" runs into an
equally good "These Dreams of You". The Last Waltz version of
"Caravan" has always been my favorite but this one comes close. A
thoroughly enjoyable version of a great song.
Van winds up
with the longest "Cypress Avenue" I've heard. Heavy on organ and
guitar you get to hear the ending twice! After the usual "its too late to
stop now!" van introduces the band and reprises the whole ending from
"and you were standing there." amazing. Van then encores with a
superb version of "Into The Mystic". Very soulful, this must be close
to being the best version of this song out there.
RATING
That organ/guitar thing sometimes dates this show but overall its a great boot.
Not quite essential, mainly due to the narrow range of material played, I would
give this a "Highly Recommended". If you are a big
"Moondance" fan then it's probably a must.