Van Morrison – Groningen, The Netherlands (02/08/92)

Van Morrison
Groningen, The Netherlands
Oosterpoort
February 08, 1992

Disc 1
01-Professional Jealousy
02-Here Comes The Knight
03-The Mystery
04-Some Peace Of Mind
05-Tore Down A La Rimbaud
06-Foreign Window
07-Queen Of The Slipstream
08-All Saints Day
09-Moody’s Mood For Love
10-Moondance
11-Sweet Thing
12-My Lagan Love
13-Star Of The County Down
14-Northern Muse-Solid Ground
15-Youth Of 1,000 Summers
16-So Quiet In Here-That’s Where It’s At
17-A Town Called Paradise

Disc 2
01-I’m Not feeling It Anymore
02-Why Must I Always Explain
03-Cleaning Windows-Be-Bop-A-Lula
04-See Me Through-Soldier Of Fortune
05-Sticks And Stones
06-Twistin’ The Night Away
07-Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart #2
08-In The Garden
09-I Can’t Stop Loving You
10-Enlightenment
11-Joyous Sound

Lineup
Ronnie Johnson
Teena Lyle
John Miller
Kate St John
Paul Robinson
Nicky Scott

Rating-7.5

Ratings are based on
Audience-setlist-venue-backup band-taping job and
finally Van’s mood in increasing order of importance

Audience taping

Many thanks to the taper

Completely reworked from a master generation source
Normalized-deglitched and retracked

Nice show that has never been circulated widely

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Artwork included-thanks to HB

2 thoughts on “Van Morrison – Groningen, The Netherlands (02/08/92)”

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jetphan says:
April 29, 2016 at 5:52 pm Edit

F yeah sounds great! Loving the VAN thank you
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paul says:
April 30, 2016 at 4:47 pm Edit

Can I tell but THANKS again for these treasures !

A lot of gratitude for this,
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Grant says:
April 30, 2016 at 4:48 pm Edit

Holy moly, this looks amazing… including some of my favorite Van songs that long ago left the setlist, like “Queen Of The Slipstream” and “Youth Of 1,000 Summers.” Thank you so much, Mat!
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Mat Brewster says:
April 30, 2016 at 5:11 pm Edit

You are welcome. I recently found a folder on my hard drive inside the folder I keep all the Van shows I haven’t posted. Inside was a bunch of these shows that FreeMorrison posted ages ago but that I’d never converted to MP3 and put in my own listening collection. Its been a lot of fun rediscovering them.
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DylanDave says:
May 1, 2016 at 11:47 pm Edit

Cheers Mat, got all these great Van shows the first time around. You know by now that ‘Poetic Champions’ and ‘Hymns’ are real high points for me where Van is concerned. Thanks for the memory jog anyway. Glad to see that others are still discovering these treasures

DylanDave says:
April 10, 2013 at 12:18 pm Edit

Yet to hear but got to say Mat you are really supplying the goods. After ‘Poetic Champions’, ‘Hymns to the silence’ is the next truly essential Van album IMO. For some reason these early ’92 shows don’t turn up as often as other ‘recent’ tours so great to have another one. I did collect some in low bitrates from sugamegs a while back and couldn’t understand the mixed crowd reaction on them, or the shortage of shows circulating in lossless.
Thanks again, really looking forward to giving this a spin

Grant says:
April 14, 2013 at 3:59 pm Edit

Hi Mat! I left a bunch of thoughts about Van boots – per your earlier request – but I’m not sure if you’ll see that that comment thread has been updated. So here they are as well:

—————

Awesome! Mat, your Van blog (http://morrisoncafe.blogspot.com/) is a huge and welcome resource for all of us Van-nuts out here. Thank you very much for taking the time to set it up and populate it.

Here are, belatedly, some of my thoughts regarding Van boots.

My single favorite Van boot was, for years, the famous Pacific Heights one from 1971. I love the clarity (from an FM source), and the song selection and performances are amazing. And so I have been eager to collect any other boots from 1970 or ’71, which you have been kind enough to post. That was my “center of gravity” for Van boots for a while.

Later, I discovered what became my new favorite period of Van boots – the ’78/’79 period surrounding the promotion of his “Into The Music” and “Wavelength” albums. Those two records are among his best, containing some of his most upbeat music – before, in his later years, he got more grumpy and also more repetitive song-wise (as if he were constantly trying to re-write the same song, often about leaves falling or the perils of showbiz or the days gone by.). On those two albums, and “Common One” from 1980, it was more about a jublilant celebration of self and community.

The best boots from ’78-’79, for me, are the NYC Bottom Line gig from ’78, which includes my favorite live version ever of “Caravan” – in fact that may well be my single favorite concert performance by anyone; and the ’79 Berkely broadcast. Each find Van with a great touring band, living inside all those new songs shortly after crafting them, for adoring audiences. Anything from either of those two years is gold for me.

My third favorite period of Van live boots is actually the very recent period – from 2007 or so onwards. This was when he started weeding out most of the (in my opinion) terrible 80s songs that clogged his setlists for so long, like Trans-Euro Train or Vanlose Stairway. Instead, he reached back to great closet cuts like “Fair Play,” “The Mystery” and “Haunts Of Ancient Peace.” He has also been playing lots of sax at these gigs, which is great. And he seems more relaxed in his own skin; grumpy as ever in person, I’m sure, but onstage very pleasant.

So those are my three favorite eras of “Live Van” – 1970/71, 1978/79, and the current period running from 2007 or so ’til the present.

As for Van studio boots, the Genuine Philosopher Series hits so many home runs, one wonders why the labels don’t just go ahead and release all those rare but available cuts officially. Cuts from that series like the b-side “You Got The Power” and “Caledonia” are among his best.

There aren’t many other Van studio boots that I know of; unlike Dylan, I think Van pretty much puts out most of what he records – not as much quality control, some might say!

So those are some initial thoughts. I hope they help. I tried to enter them on your Van blog, but don’t have the types of “IDs” that are requested (Google, TypePad, etc), unlike here where I can just log in comments as an anonymous user without those passwords.

Thanks for all you do, Mat!

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Mat Brewster says:

October 3, 2020 at 9:33 am

Comments from deleted reposts:

jetphan says:
April 29, 2016 at 5:52 pm Edit

F yeah sounds great! Loving the VAN thank you
paul says:
April 30, 2016 at 4:47 pm Edit

Can I tell but THANKS again for these treasures !

A lot of gratitude for this,
Grant says:
April 30, 2016 at 4:48 pm Edit

Holy moly, this looks amazing… including some of my favorite Van songs that long ago left the setlist, like “Queen Of The Slipstream” and “Youth Of 1,000 Summers.” Thank you so much, Mat!
Mat Brewster says:
April 30, 2016 at 5:11 pm Edit

You are welcome. I recently found a folder on my hard drive inside the folder I keep all the Van shows I haven’t posted. Inside was a bunch of these shows that FreeMorrison posted ages ago but that I’d never converted to MP3 and put in my own listening collection. Its been a lot of fun rediscovering them.
DylanDave says:
May 1, 2016 at 11:47 pm Edit

Cheers Mat, got all these great Van shows the first time around. You know by now that ‘Poetic Champions’ and ‘Hymns’ are real high points for me where Van is concerned. Thanks for the memory jog anyway. Glad to see that others are still discovering these treasures

Mat Brewster says:

October 3, 2020 at 9:33 am

DylanDave says:
April 10, 2013 at 12:18 pm Edit

Yet to hear but got to say Mat you are really supplying the goods. After ‘Poetic Champions’, ‘Hymns to the silence’ is the next truly essential Van album IMO. For some reason these early ’92 shows don’t turn up as often as other ‘recent’ tours so great to have another one. I did collect some in low bitrates from sugamegs a while back and couldn’t understand the mixed crowd reaction on them, or the shortage of shows circulating in lossless.
Thanks again, really looking forward to giving this a spin

Grant says:
April 14, 2013 at 3:59 pm Edit

Hi Mat! I left a bunch of thoughts about Van boots – per your earlier request – but I’m not sure if you’ll see that that comment thread has been updated. So here they are as well:

—————

Awesome! Mat, your Van blog (http://morrisoncafe.blogspot.com/) is a huge and welcome resource for all of us Van-nuts out here. Thank you very much for taking the time to set it up and populate it.

Here are, belatedly, some of my thoughts regarding Van boots.

My single favorite Van boot was, for years, the famous Pacific Heights one from 1971. I love the clarity (from an FM source), and the song selection and performances are amazing. And so I have been eager to collect any other boots from 1970 or ’71, which you have been kind enough to post. That was my “center of gravity” for Van boots for a while.

Later, I discovered what became my new favorite period of Van boots – the ’78/’79 period surrounding the promotion of his “Into The Music” and “Wavelength” albums. Those two records are among his best, containing some of his most upbeat music – before, in his later years, he got more grumpy and also more repetitive song-wise (as if he were constantly trying to re-write the same song, often about leaves falling or the perils of showbiz or the days gone by.). On those two albums, and “Common One” from 1980, it was more about a jublilant celebration of self and community.

The best boots from ’78-’79, for me, are the NYC Bottom Line gig from ’78, which includes my favorite live version ever of “Caravan” – in fact that may well be my single favorite concert performance by anyone; and the ’79 Berkely broadcast. Each find Van with a great touring band, living inside all those new songs shortly after crafting them, for adoring audiences. Anything from either of those two years is gold for me.

My third favorite period of Van live boots is actually the very recent period – from 2007 or so onwards. This was when he started weeding out most of the (in my opinion) terrible 80s songs that clogged his setlists for so long, like Trans-Euro Train or Vanlose Stairway. Instead, he reached back to great closet cuts like “Fair Play,” “The Mystery” and “Haunts Of Ancient Peace.” He has also been playing lots of sax at these gigs, which is great. And he seems more relaxed in his own skin; grumpy as ever in person, I’m sure, but onstage very pleasant.

So those are my three favorite eras of “Live Van” – 1970/71, 1978/79, and the current period running from 2007 or so ’til the present.

As for Van studio boots, the Genuine Philosopher Series hits so many home runs, one wonders why the labels don’t just go ahead and release all those rare but available cuts officially. Cuts from that series like the b-side “You Got The Power” and “Caledonia” are among his best.

There aren’t many other Van studio boots that I know of; unlike Dylan, I think Van pretty much puts out most of what he records – not as much quality control, some might say!

So those are some initial thoughts. I hope they help. I tried to enter them on your Van blog, but don’t have the types of “IDs” that are requested (Google, TypePad, etc), unlike here where I can just log in comments as an anonymous user without those passwords.

Thanks for all you do, Mat!