Van Morrison – Bristol, England (11/19/86)

VAN MORRISON
A Celtic Soul Production
Colston Hall
Bristol, England
November 19, 1986

Celtic Soul Productions Volume 2

Source: Audience
Lineage: Audio CDr -> EAC (secure/offset correct) -> WAV -> TLH – FLAC Level 8

CDR 1

01. Moondance (instrumental)
02. Celtic Swing
03. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
04. Vanlose Stairway
05. It’s All In The Game > Make It Real One More Time
06. Help Me
07. Tir Na Nog
08. She Gives Me Religion
09. Cleaning Windows
10. Sense of Wonder
11. And The Healing Has Begun
12. Dweller On The Threshold
Total time: (55:09)

CDR 2

01. Here Comes The Knight
02. In The Garden
03. Summertime In England
04. Full Force Gale
05. Bright Side Of The Road
06. Rave On John Donne / Rave On Part Two
07. Satisfied
08. Mona Lisa
Total time: (37:41)

Musicians:
June Boyce: backing vocals
Helen Bradley: backing vocals
Richie Buckley: saxophone
Neil Drinkwater: keyboards
Martin Drover: trumpet
Ray Jones: drums
Arty McGlynn: guitar
Jerome Rimson: bass

Notes:
In October ’99, at Swindon, Van issued his patented, disingenuous call for requests. A member of the audience piped up, to whom Van incredulously replied, “Mona Lisa??” Longtime fans could not have found this request so far off the mark. During the terrific fall ’86 tour of England, at least a handful of shows closed with this tender Nat King Cole standard. This selection is a fine representation of those wonderful autumn eves. No Guru material added a new dimension to an act that some feel, by the end of ’85, had grown somewhat stale. Highlights include “Tir Na Nog”, “Here Comes The Knight”, and the fantastic “Rave On” combo – which segues into a drawn-out, funky version of “Satisfied”. All this, and a lovely “Mona Lisa” to cap it off make Bristol ’86 a standout set.

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Van Morrison – Birmingham, England (09/25/92)

Van Morrison
25 Sep 1992
Symphony Hall
Birmingham, England

CD1
1 Ordinary Life
2 I’m Not Feeling It Anymore
3 Some Peace Of Mind
4 Why Must I Always Explain
5 See Me Through > Soldier of Fortune
6 Cleaning Windows > Be Bop A Lula
7 Vanlose Stairway > Trans-Euro Train
8 Youth Of 1000 Summers
9 So Quiet In Here > That’s Where It’s At
10 Northern Muse (Solid Ground) > No Prima Donna

CD2
1 A Town Called Paradise
2 Did Ye Get Healed
3 It’s All In The Game > Make It Real One More Time
4 Moondance
5 Enlightenment
6 In The Garden > Daring Night
[missing: Whenever God Shines His Light, cut snippet: bonus track 8]
7 Gloria (cut start)

The VM Band:
Ronnie Johnson
Nicky Scott
Teena Lyle
Jonn Savannah
Geoff Dunn
Kate St. John
Don Snow

Good audience recording, exact lineage unknown.
New transfer, mastering, editing, from first generation tape: June 2005.

Caveat: “Whenever God Shines His Light” is missing on source tape. Only a 18 sec snippet was recorded. To get a seamless show we cut this part. It’s placed at the end of disc two as a “bonus track”.
So you have three possibilities to burn the CD:
For completitst: replace the snippet between track 6 and 7. so you’ll get it like it was on the source tape, no notes missing.
For pure audio freaks: leave the snippet out in the burning process.
All others: burn it like it is 😉

Van Morrison – Maple, Canada (07/06/86)

VAN MORRISON
Kingswood Music Theatre
Maple, Ontario
Canada
July 6th 1986

Disc One
01. LARK ASCENDING > GOT TO GO BACK
02. MOONDANCE
03. TORE DOWN A LA RIMBAUD
04. VANLOSE STAIRWAY
05. DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD
06. IT’S ALL IN THE GAME > MAKE IT REAL ONE MORE TIME
07. CLEANING WINDOWS
08. BEAUTIFUL VISION
09. NORTHERN MUSE (SOLID GROUND)
10. TIR NA NOG

Disc Two
01. JACKIE WILSON SAID
02. THE MASTER’S EYES
03. SHE GIVES ME RELIGION
04. HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE
05. CRY FOR HOME
06. IN THE GARDEN
07. SUMMERTIME IN ENGLAND
08. SEND IN THE CLOWNS
09. BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD
10. FULL FORCE GALE

Lineup:
Pee Wee Ellis – saxophone
David Hayes – bass
John Platania – guitar
Bob Doll – trumpet
Jeff Labes – piano
Dahaud Shaar – drums
Susie Davis – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
Terri Adams – cello
John S Tenney – violin
Joseph R Edelberg – violin
Rebecca Sebring – viola

Excellent STEREO Audience Recording
One Of The Best 1986 Shows I’ve Heard
Thanks for the files go to ‘fankyspanky’ on a Private Tracker

Unfortunately No Lineage given

On first listen the sound and Morrison’s vocal drifted from left to right, levels varied greatly
and there were several abrupt cuts

There was Artwork but it was incorrect

Lineage For This Upload:

Downloaded FLAC Files > TLH > Soundforge Pro 10c *** > TLC > FLAC Level 8

*** Fix problems found, Vocal now central

JTT, September 2018

Van Morrison – Vancouver, Canada (07/21/86)

Van Morrison
Expo Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
July 21, 1986

Source: Unknown audience recording (source from WL & Steve Blair). Remastered by drmuzk000.

CD 1:
01. Danny Boy-Got To Go Back
02. Moondance
03. Vanlose Stairway
04. She Gives Me Religion
05. Cry For Home
06. The Street Only Knew Your Name
07. Beautiful Vision
08. It’s All In The Game
09. Lark Ascending-Haunts Of Ancient Peace

CD 2:
01. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
02. A Sense Of Wonder
03. Cleaning Windows
04. The Master’s Eyes
05. And The Healing Has Begun
06. Summertime In England
07. Full Force Gale
08. In The Garden
09. Ivory Tower
10. Bright Side Of The Road

Total time = 86:32

Comment by drmuzk000: “Expo 86 World’s Fair. Completely reworked from a master generation cassette. Normalized and deglitched and retracked. A very well taped show 4 days before his Greek Theatre show. Very similar setlist and in general, very quiet audience.”

Personnel: Van Morrison, Pee Wee Ellis, David Hayes, John Platania, Bob Doll, Jeff Labes, Dahaud Shaar, Susie Davis Carol Kenyon, Terri Adams + 3 others (string quartet)

Van Morrison – Dublin, Ireland (10/31/86)

VAN MORRISON
National Stadium
Dublin, Ireland
October 31st 1986

MOONDANCE
CELTIC SWING
NORTHERN MUSE (SOLID GROUND)
VANLOSE STAIRWAY
IT’S ALL IN THE GAME > MAKE IT REAL ONE MORE TIME
HELP ME
THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION
CLEANING WINDOWS
SATISFIED
HERE COMES THE KNIGHT
IRISH HEARTBEAT
MORE AND MORE
A SENSE OF WONDER >
AND THE HEALING HAS BEGUN >
GLORIA
IN THE GARDEN
SUMMERTIME IN ENGLAND
BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD
FULL FORCE GALE
RAVE ON JOHN DONNE

Neil Drinkwater – keyboards
Ritchie Buckley – saxophone
Jerome Rimson – bass
Arty McGlynn – guitar
Martin Drover – trumpet
Ray Jones – drums
Helen Bradley – backing vocals
June Boyce – backing vocals

Source 1:

Good Mono Audience Recording

Source: Low Generation Cassette (TDK AD90) > Yamaha KX-580 SE >
Soundforge PRO 10c > FLAC Level 8

Transfers from ‘THIS’ tape copy have never been circulated in any form

Mastered to Digital by JTT, March 2015

* Moondance Instrumental Opener by Band was not Recorded

Source 2:

Audience Recording Of Unknown Generation.With Thanks As Always To The Taper.

Tapes Infomation. Recived In Dublin In 1986 Just After Concert (I was at It) Two Maxell Ur60
Ferro cass Tapes.

Transfer Infomation PlayBack In Hitachi Trk W260E Unit Via Ear Out (stereo Fly Lead)
To Line In Audigy Soundcard As A Wav File At 44 Khz Sampling Rate.Traders Little Helper
Flac Front End compression Level 8 To Internet.

Van Morrison – Dublin, Ireland (11/01/86)

VAN MORRISON
National Stadium
Dublin, Ireland
November 1st 1986

Disc One
01. CELTIC SWING
02. NORTHERN MUSE (SOLID GROUND)
03. VANLOSE STAIRWAY
04. IT’S ALL IN THE GAME > MAKE IT REAL ONE MORE TIME
05. HELP ME
06. DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD
07. CLEANING WINDOWS
08. FOREIGN WINDOW
09. HERE COMES THE KNIGHT

Disc Two
01. IRISH HEARTBEAT
02. SENSE OF WONDER >
03. AND THE HEALING HAS BEGUN
04. IN THE GARDEN
05. SUMMERTIME IN ENGLAND
06. BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD
07. FULL FORCE GALE
08. SATISFIED
09. RAVE ON JOHN DUNNE

Good Mono Audience Recording

Source: Low Generation Cassette (TDK AD90) > Yamaha KX-580 SE >
Soundforge PRO 10c > FLAC Level 8

Transfers from ‘THIS’ tape copy have never been circulated in any form

Mastered to Digital by JTT, March 2015

* Moondance Instrumental Opener by Band was not Recorded

** Gloria is usually listed as being performed at this show, that is incorrect

Van Morrison – Las Vegas, NV (02/09/19)

Van Morrison
Coliseum
Las Vegas, NV
02/09/19

1. Hold It Right There
2. Ain’t Gonna Moan No More
3. Magic Time
4. Have I Told You Lately
5. Baby, Please Don’t Go / Don’t Start Crying Now / Got My Mojo Working / Playhouse
6. Roll With the Punches
7. That Old Black Magic
8 Days Like This
9. Cleaning Windows / Shakin’ All Over
10. Sometimes We Cry
11. Brown Eyed Girl
12. Gloria

After so much preparation it was a big letdown to have hardware failures resulting in not capturing almost half the show, but the audio we do have is all that seems to have surfaced so far from Van’s 2019 Las Vegas Residency.

I didn’t realize that the Shure Motiv app had stopped recording until the encore. The beginning of the intro to Brown Eyed Girl is missing but doesn’t kill the experience. I took a pretty light touch in Audacity, just taming a few applause rounds and fixing some random clipping.

Shure MV88 users beware – you might want to open the app every so often to make sure it’s still capturing.

Lineage:
Shure MV88 (directly behind soundboard) > iPhone 7 Plus (Shure Motiv app) 24/48 > Audacity > 16/44.1 FLAC

Van Morrison – Choppin’ Wood

Van Morrison
Choppin’ Wood
(Unreleased Album)

In 2000, Morrison released a collaboration with Linda Gail Lewis (Jerry Lee Lewis’s sister), You Win Again. Another side project, this time focusing on R&B and country-and-western standards, Lewis proved to be an excellent duet partner, and the project set the stage for Morrison’s next album, Choppin’ Wood. Clinton Heylin’s book, Can You Feel the Silence?, discusses this period in great detail, but due to legal issues surrounding the matter, not everything could be divulged. By the end of 2000, the album was essentially finished when Lewis and Morrison had a falling out.

As a result, Morrison went back and re-recorded and/or remixed most of the tracks, removing Lewis’s contributions in the process. A few songs were removed from the final running order and more new ones were added in. The result was released in 2002 as Down the Road. Arguably Morrison’s strongest release since Avalon Sunset, Heylin contends that the original version, Choppin’ Wood, would have been a true return to form. It is doubtful if that notion will ever be put to the test because the original recordings have yet to circulate, privately or publicly.– From WIkipedia

Um, you can put it to the test now:

1. Choppin’ Wood
2. Hey Mr. DJ
3. The Beauty Of The Days Gone By
4. Down The Road
5. Princess Of Darkness
6. Just Like Greta
7. For A While
8. Mama Don’t Allow
9. Meet Me In The Indian Summer
10. All Work And No Play

Van Morrison – Just a Man, Alternate Version

Van Morrison
JUST A MAN (Alternate Version)

DISC ONE
1. Into the Mystic – 9/5/71, Pacific High Studios, Sausalito, CA
2. Glad Tidings – 10/9/70, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
3. Tennessee Waltz – 8/8/71 Lion’s Share, San Anselmo, CA
4. Wild Night – 5/26/73, Troubador Club, Los Angeles, CA
5. Warm Love – 21/10/79, Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA
6. Got to Go Back – 7/25/86, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
7. The Street Only Knew Your Name – 1/26/84, Nouveau Palace de Festival, Cannes, France
8. In the Garden – 9/29/86, Carre Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
9. Dweller on the Threshold – 1/26/84, Nouveau Palace de Festival, Cannes, France
10. Cleaning Windows – 6/21/87, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, England
11. Celtic Ray – 4/4/82, Grugahalle, Essen, Germany
12. I Will Be There – 7/15/89, Imst Festival, Imst, Tirol, Austria
13. Northern Muse – 4/20/90, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA
14. Caravan – 7/11/90, Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
15. Summertime in England – 6/21/87, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, England

DISC TWO
1. In the Afternoon – 6/13/99, Roseland Ballroom, NYC
2. I’ll Go Crazy – 4/21/92, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
3. Some Peace Of Mind – 4/1/91, Vrendenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands
4. Melancholia – 12/17/95, The Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
5. Tupelo Honey > Why Must I Always Explain? – 4/28/96, Supper Club, NYC
6. See Me Through > Soldier of Fortune > Thank You – 4/14/95, The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England
7. Whenever God Shines His Light – 7/13/96, JVC Statenhal, The Hague, The Netherlands
8. Vanlose Stairway > Trans Euro Train – 10/18/96 Leverkusener Jazztage Forum, Leverkusen, Germany
9. Philosophers Stone – 11/13/03, Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany
10. Rough God Goes Riding – 12/19/98, Rockpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
11. Itís All In The Game > You Know What Theyíre Writing About > Burning Ground – 3/18/05, Apollo Theater, NYC
12. Into the Mystic – 3/19/05, The Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA

ALS, November 2005 and May 2014, Various Sources > EAC > Sound Forge 6.0 and Sound Forge 8.0 > CD Wave > FLAC

Comments: This collection is a compilation of some of my favorite Van performances. It’s 75% sbd/fm/pre-fm,
25% audience, and 100% great performances.

Van Morrison – Philadelphia, PA (07/13/86)

Van Morrison
Mann Music Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sunday – July 13th, 1986

01. Lark Ascending > Got To Go Back
02. Moondance
03. Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)
04. Saint Dominic’s Preview
05. Cleaning Windows
06. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
07. Vanlose Stairway
08. Beautiful Vision
09. Dweller On The Threshold
10. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
11. Haunts Of Ancient Peace
12. Cry For Home
13. She Gives Me Religion
14. The Master’s Eyes
15. Ivory Tower
16. It’s All In The Game > Make It Real One More Time
17. Bright Side Of The Road
18. Summertime In England
19. Full Force Gale
20. Caravan
21. A New Kind Of Man

Musicians:
Pee Wee Ellis – saxophone
David Hayes – bass
John Platania – guitar
Bob Doll – trumpet
Jef Labes – keyboards
Dahaud Shaar – drums
Susie Davis – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
John S Tenney – violin
Joseph R Edelberg – violin
Teresa Adams – cello
Rebecca Sebring – viola

Source 1:

Recorded, transferred and mastered to .wav files by D5scott
Source: 2 Beyer M160 microphones (6th row) > Sony TC-D5M – analog master cassette
Transfer: Sony TC-D5M (original record deck) > Pre Sonus Inspire GT > Sound Forge > .wav files > Trader’s Little Helper > flac files

missing:
** Full Force Gale
** Caravan
** A New Kind Of Man

R.I.P. Sandy – aka “Bigfoot”

Source 2:

a ‘teddy ballgame’ cassette master

recording info:
sennheiser 441s > sony tc-d5m
-maxell xlIIs

transfer:
cassette master > nak rx505 > edirol r09HR (@ 24bit/48kHz)

processing:
adobe audition > cdwav > r8brain (16bit/44.1kHz) > tlh flac 8

these are 16bit/44.1kHz flac files