VAN MORRISON
Sacramento, CA
September 9, 1971
Please see the comments. It is very likely that this is actually a recording from Pacific High Studio I won’t swear to it but it appears the songs have been rearranged on this boot but they sound remarkably similar to the other show.
1. Dead or Alive
2. Moonshine Whiskey
3. You’re My Woman
4. These Dreams Of You
5. Domino
6. Call Me Up In Dreamland
7. Blue Money
8. Buona Sera
9. Into The Mystic
10. I’ve Been Working
11. Friday’s Child
12. Hound Dog
13. Just Like a Woman
from “Moonshine Whiskey” boot (Oil Well RSC 024)
themidnightcafe.org 
What a fucking surprise, an incredible Van’s live recording unknow to me. Give thx bros, you made my day shining
I grabbed it off of Demonoid. Really nice sounding show.
OK, this one has been vexing me… 🙂
but first, let me say THANKS because this may indeed be a new Van boot I’ve never heard of. And either way – THANK YOU, Mat!
But isn’t this the same as the oft-booted Pacific Heights show recorded 4 days earlier in San Fran? My guess is it’s that show, with the songs rearranged a bit, aired in Sacramento. I’ve been playing them side by side here and I think that’s the case.
Anybody else know??
And again, thanks so much Mat — any and all Van, esp as clear as this, is so appreciated.
I don’t know. I don’t have the other show. I looked it up on etree and the two dates have different entries, but the setlist does look remarkably the same.
I was thinking the same thing as Grant the first time I heard this one.
Comments from a deleted repost:
newelectricmuse says:
March 19, 2013 at 6:07 pm
Yes, I’d go with Grant’s theory of a recording date of 5th September and a broadcast on the 9th. The big giveaway is listening to Just Like A Woman – as we all know, Van is unlikely to use exactly the same phrasing on a song even a few nights apart, especially on one as ripe for improvisation as this one…but even the audience reactions (whoops etc) are in the same place! The longer 2CD version “Into The Mystic”, is (as you’d expect) also on this fine blog. Whatever, this show is an essential listen.
DylanDave says:
March 19, 2013 at 7:18 pm
This is definitely as stated above. I actually bought a copy of this old ‘oil well’ cd in a department store in Madrid back in the 90s. In those days the stores had as many boots as offcial releases!! From memory the stereo FM recording isn’t that great either, one channel is weak.
I’d agree that the content is essential, but this is incomplete and track order is altered.
Mat Brewster says:
March 19, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Thanks for the discussion folks.
Tony says:
March 20, 2013 at 11:11 am
While we’re on this subject…. I remember hearing once that this session included a long instrumental called (I think) Caledonian Soul Music – but it never seems to come up in the various issues of this material….
um, any knowledgeable folks out there can clear this up?
draftervoi says:
March 25, 2013 at 11:06 pm
This is definitely from Pacific High (not Heights) Studios, San Francisco, on Sept. 5, 1971. The original broadcast is introduced by Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue, a voice that I will never forget. He was broadcasting for KSAN-FM at the time, and this was a KSAN live show. It MAY have been rebroadcast in Sacramento at a later date…occasionally the “underground” FM stations swapped tapes..and there was a station in Sacramento (KZAP) that might have rebroadcast it. “Caledonia Soul Music” was not a part of the original broadcast, but is a studio outtake appended to the Pacific High show.