Van Morrison
1978-11-01
The Bottom Line
New York, NY
Download FLAC: Amazon Drive
Track List:
Early Show
1. Moondance
2. Wavelength
3. Into The Mystic
4. Checkin’ It Out
5. Brown Eyed Girl
6. Kingdom Hall
7. Hungry For Your Love
8. Natalia
9. Tupelo Honey
10. Wild Night
11. Caravan
Late Show
1. Moondance
2. Wavelength
3. Into The Mystic
4. Checkin’ It Out
5. Hungry For Your Love
6. Brown Eyed Girl
7. Crazy Love
8. Kingdom Hall
9. Tupelo Honey
10. Natalia
11. Help Me
12. Wild Night
13. Joyous Sound
14. Caravan
15. Cyprus Avenue
Lineup
Van Morrison – Vocals
Herbie Armstrong – Guitar
Peter Bardens – Keyboards
Mickey Feat – Bass
Bobby Tench – Guitar
Peter Van Hooke – Drums
Katie Kissoon – Backing vocals, lead vocal on “Crazy Love”
Anna Peacock – Backing vocals
I have lots of sources for this. Many of which are probably the exact same source but they have different text files or art or the FLAC files are different sizes so I’m including them all. – Mat
Source 1:
4-Eyed Freak
Excellent Sound Quality (4-Eyed Freak 2005 remaster)
Both Early and Late shows complete.
Lineage:
Early show: Broadcast > ? > CDR (vine) > EAC (secure mode, offset corrected) > Digital remastering and retracking (Soundforge) > Sector Boundary correction (SHNTools) > FLAC (FLAC Frontend level 8)
Late show: Broadcast > MASTER TAPE > SONY RCD W500C > EAC > WAV > FLAC > Nevinsrip’s torrent > WAV >Digital remastering and retracking (Soundforge) > Sector Boundary correction (SHNTools) > FLAC (FLAC Frontend level 8)
(Upgraded)
Source 2:
4-Eyed Freak Remaster
No info on this one at all. I’m guessing it is the same as source one but the files are slightly different so it gets included.
Source 3:
Nevinsrip
Late Show Only
Van Morrison, Bottom Line, November 1, 1978 FM
Info hash abb112eaa4ac0fd885b30c891db687abf8b1d310
Description Years ago, when I first joined DIME, I uploaded this and it exploded over the net and became the most downloaded show on DIME for quite some time.
This is my original recording made on my Pioneer equipment. I lived in Queens at the time and had a roof antenna on my house, so I picked up the signal at max strength. I had some trouble with the tape squeaking and ended up baking it in the oven as per instructions from some of the veterans here. That fixed it.
It’s an excellent recording and was the source for plenty of different versions that float around the net. But, this is the original. Back in the day, I used to leave in the DJ intro and Outro comments just to place the setting in historical context. I did that here, so if you wish to skip that, then just don’t burn those tracks.
This is Van the Man at the tiny Bottom Line Club in NYC. It’s a dynamite set list with a killer band. I doubt that there is a better Morrison show circulating today.
One note. This is the complete Late Show. The King Biscuit people recorded the early show and that floats around on the various trading sites.
If you could own only one Van Morrison show then this would be it.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE NEVINSRIP BASEMENT TAPES.
Source 4:
Nevinsrip Early + Late
Lineage:
Early show: Broadcast > ? > CDR (vine) > EAC (secure mode, offset corrected) > Digital remastering and retracking (Soundforge) > Sector Boundary correction (SHNTools) > FLAC (FLAC Frontend level 8)
Late show: Broadcast > MASTER TAPE > SONY RCD W500C > EAC > WAV > FLAC > Nevinsrip’s torrent > WAV >Digital remastering and retracking (Soundforge) > Sector Boundary correction (SHNTools) > FLAC (FLAC Frontend level 8)
(Upgraded)
Source 5:
Nevinsrip Basement Tapes
Late Show ONly
No source info.
Source 6:
Unknown
Early and Late Shows
No source info. Art says it is the 4-Eyed Freak Remaster, but it may be wrong.
Source 7:
JTT
FM – No other source info provided.
themidnightcafe.org 
Thanks, I have this at 192 bit so this will be an upgrade to 320. I have 4 addtional songs with the 192 bit version.
Also, The Wild Night track included Joyous Sound!
It appears there was an early show and late show of Bottom Line, 1978. This one with Peter Wolf introduction is listed as the early show. My statements in earlier post reference the late show.
Track 3 seems to be missing from download??
Thanks for the info Bruce. If you want to send those four additional tracks to me for posting that would be awesome.
Neil thanks for letting me know. It appears that I am completely missing that track. I’ll notate it above. Sorry about that.
This is one of the best Van boots!
Does anyone have “Into the Mystic” track from the early show that they can send to Mat to include? Thanks,
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Comments from a deleted repost:
Grant says:
August 4, 2018 at 6:41 am Edit
This is probably my favorite boot of all time (which is saying a lot!!!) by anyone – and the version here of Caravan might be my favorite single live performance ever.
But to possibly hear a couple of different versions of it – I am looking forward to hearing this!
Thanks Mat!
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Mat Brewster says:
August 5, 2018 at 6:59 am Edit
Yes, its a really good one.
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Rob Streetman says:
August 6, 2018 at 3:16 am Edit
Why no into the mystic?
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Mat Brewster says:
August 6, 2018 at 4:33 am Edit
My apologies. Into the Mystic is included. I updated the source on this but did a bad job of getting all the text info input into this post correctly. I believe an earlier source was missing Into the Mystic, but it should be there in all sources now.
Mat Brewster says:
December 16, 2017 at 7:40 pm Edit
One little note. My files on this show have gotten mixed up a bit. I’m pretty sure what I’ve posted is the 4Eyed Freak remaster, but I’m not 100% sure. If someone has a copy of it already and can do a comparison to what I just posted I’d appreciate it. Or if you have better ears than mine and can examine the show I posted previously to this copy and cannot tell a difference let me know.
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HopE says:
December 17, 2017 at 2:39 am Edit
Thank you for these tapes! I can’t compare your files with others of this show. But for sure: your files sound very good!
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Grant says:
December 17, 2017 at 5:08 am Edit
Can’t wait to hear this – thank you Mat!
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zowie says:
December 17, 2017 at 7:32 pm Edit
thanks for the upgrade!
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Bruce says:
December 19, 2017 at 4:27 am Edit
Thanks Matt. This adds 2 songs to the early show (Into the Mystic & Tupelo Honey) that were missing from your previous post. Plus the 2 bonus songs (from SNL). the Late Show looks the same.
It’s great to hear Peter Wolf do the intro on the early show.
Thanks! Bruce
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Grant says:
December 19, 2017 at 7:07 am Edit
Bruce, thanks for pointing out that the two bonus tracks are from Van’s Saturday Night Live appearance!
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Bruce says:
December 19, 2017 at 8:44 pm Edit
thanks Grant. Also, the late show is at 320 bit; the previous version I had was at 192.
So, thanks for that Mat.
Bruce
newelectricmuse says:
October 2, 2016 at 7:15 pm Edit
For info I think this is the early show from that night
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newelectricmuse says:
October 2, 2016 at 7:44 pm Edit
…actually cancel that! The setlist above is from the early show but the download is for the late show:
Van Morrison
Bottom Line, New York NY
November 01, 1978, LATE SHOW
01 Moondance
02 Wavelength
03 Into The Mystic
04 Checkin’ It Out
05 Hungry For Your Love
06 Brown Eyed Girl
07 Crazy Love(KK)
08 Kingdom Hall
09 Tupelo Honey
10 Natalia
11 Help Me
12 Wild Night
13 Joyous Sound
14 Caravan
15 Cyprus Avenue
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Gerbrand says:
October 2, 2016 at 9:07 pm Edit
Correct, and the download contains artwork, different from the one displayed here, of a 2cd set containing both the early and late show.
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Mat Brewster says:
October 2, 2016 at 10:21 pm Edit
Sorry gang. Should be fixed now. I got in a hurry this morning and wasn’t paying attention. Before I post anything I always do a quick search on my blog to see if I’ve posted the same show before. This one had been posted before so I just copy and pasted from the old notes not remembering that this was a different version.
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Mark says:
October 3, 2016 at 4:15 am Edit
Thanks for all the effort that you put into this..If only there were more hours in a day..i would really feed my music addiction then.
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Mat Brewster says:
October 3, 2016 at 4:50 am Edit
I hear ya. I have way more music than I can ever listen to, but its rare a day doesn’t go by that I’m not grabbing more. Truth be told if it weren’t for this blog I’d probably be satisfied by now and just spend my days listening, but I feel this obsessive need to keep posting new stuff here so I keep downloading.
Not that I’m complaining. I love doing this. Its tons of fun bringing new music to my readers.
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DylanDave says:
October 4, 2016 at 4:20 pm Edit
Lovely stuff. Yeah the FM (WNEW) broadcast of the late show. I thought I had multiple versions of this. in fact I had only the excellent ‘hansdevente’ private master he posted on G101 a few years back. Certainly had lots of traded tape copies back in the day.
So the early show is still missing. Would be great to grab, especially if the 4 E Freak (restored and complete) version could be located. Would be nice to hear those SNL trax too.
I’ll leave that thought with you Mat. I know you would be as keen as any of us anyway if it does ever pop up anywhere.
On another, but related note. There was a FM broadcast of Van on BBC Radio 2 last thursday (29th sept). An hour I think. Keep waiting for it to appear on the boards somewhere. Couldn’t record it myself as i wasn’t around and my FM reception is bl**dy awful anyway. Gotta be worth tracking down.
Any sightings (or recordings) anybody??
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DylanDave says:
October 4, 2016 at 6:12 pm Edit
To All
EDGE has come thru for me (us) – took about an hour!
enjoy
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/van-morrison-2016-09-29-london-uk-fm-flac-291554.html
ps there’s also a dvd on the TUBE site if anyone wants the pictures
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Mat Brewster says:
October 4, 2016 at 7:06 pm Edit
Awesome. Grabbing it now.