Van Morrison
Live at Colston Hall
Bristol, England
16 June 1982
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Into The Mystic
And The Healing Has Begun
Troubadours
It’s All In The Game
She Gives Me Religion
Vanlose Stairway
Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
Help Me
Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Dweller On The Threshold
Beautiful Vision
Celtic Ray
Cleaning Windows
Full Force Gale
Aryan Mist
Summertime In England
Scandinavia
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What a setlist!
Yes great setlist!
How’s the sound?
Not bad. Definitely an AUD. Loud crowd noise between songs but they settle down quick once he starts playing. On a few songs you can hear the crowd clapping during the song. But mostly its just the band and it sounds pretty good for the most part. I’m bad at explaining these things but it always sounds like an AUD, like it has that distant sound to it like you are standing in the next room or something.
I’d definitely rate it in the B to B+ range. With the caveat being that’s a spot check as I’ve not given the show my full attention.
Thanks Mat – I understand what you mean.
I must admit I don’t mind crowd noise at all – as long as they’re
not trying to clap along to the beat, I absolutely hate that !!
There’s a UK Dylan show from Y2000 when it seems like
every song the crowd try to get a clap-along going – maybe one
of the Dublin shows… anyway, it’s painful – although it does
make me smile to think of His Bobness snarling to himself
in fury. I seem to remember being amazed he didn’t tell them
to shut it !
There’s a great comment I remember from Christy Moore, who
seems to know how to keep a crowd with him –
He says (when the clapping begins right at the start of a
song): now there’s some songs and people clap along and
it’s lurrvely – but there’s some songs, when you clap it tends
to make SHITE of it altogether!”. That gets a laugh and shuts
’em up.
I always try to get matrix versions of Dead shows when they’re
available — it really is amazing what a different experience it
can be when you can hear all the interaction, eg the cheers
that go up when Garcia is hot and brings a smoking solo
to a close.
But enough from ‘Tangents R Us’.
🙂
Comment from a deleted repost:
Grant says:
April 12, 2017 at 5:49 am Edit
Thanks for this Van, Mat! (Rare to hear him open a show with “Into The Mystic”)