Van Morrison:
Rocks His Gypsy Soul
Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA.
April 26, 1970
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01. Moondance
02. Glad Tidings
03. Crazy Love
04. Come Running
05. The Way Young Lovers Do
06. Everyone
07. Brown Eyed Girl
08. And It Stoned Me
09. These Dreams Of You
10. Caravan
11. Cypress Avenue
12. Into The Mystic
Them
1964
Studio Demos
13. Stormy Monday Blues
14. Don?t Start Crying Now
Them
1965
Live at the BBC
15. All By Myself
Van Morrison with Caledonia Soul Orchestra
1973
Live place Unknown
16. Caledonia
17. What?s Up Crazy Pup?
Source 1:
Only includes the San Francisco show.
“Perfect Stereo Recording”
A perfect stereo soundboard recording. This is official release quality.
Van and the band are in great form,if you like VM – this is one not to miss.
Enjoy !!
Source 2:
Rock His Gysy Soul
Notes:
A perfect stereo soundboard recording. This is official release quality. Van and the band are in great form,if you like VM – this is one not to miss.
Van Morrison – 1970-04-26 – San Francisco, CA
(stereo soundboard FLAC)
Rocks His Gypsy Soul
Van Morrison Gets His Chance To Wail, Volume 3
(bootleg CD)
Gold Standard 195-VM-16-08
(Released ??; Made in Italy)
See the entry for the Gets His Chance To Wail series for information on the chronology of this multi-CD set and a review.
The Fillmore West material has also been released on the bootlegs Moonlight Serenade, the first disk of the 2-CD set Live in the USA, and Live in San Francisco 1970.
Review by Russell Parkinson:
[The Fillmore West] one hour show features Van and what will be the Caledonia Soul Orchestra performing all the Moondance album except for “Brand New Day”. Also included are two songs from Astral Weeks and an obligatory “Brown Eyed Girl”.
The sound is either radio broadcast or soundboard and is very good, especially considering the recording is nearly 30 years old.
The show kicks off with an excellent lively rendition of “Moondance”. “Glad Tidings” follows and although a quicker version than on the album this song remains, for me anyway, filler. A lovely soulful “Crazy Love” is next. Van sings this in his normal voice rather than falsetto. A six minute improvised “Come Running” misses rather than hits. In the middle of this song the band and van move off into a sixties rock organ/guitar kind of thing with some improvised lyrics. On first listening it sounds great bit after a while I find it disrupts a good song. Interesting but ultimately a bit disappointing.
“The Way Young Lovers Do” is a blast, a great lively version with excellent horns and piano. Everyone joins Glad Tidings in the filler category. “Brown Eyed Girl” is pretty standard. A good “And it Stoned Me” runs into an equally good “These Dreams of You”. The Last Waltz version of “Caravan” has always been my favorite but this one comes close. A thoroughly enjoyable version of a great song.
Van winds up with the longest “Cypress Avenue” I’ve heard. Heavy on organ and guitar you get to hear the ending twice! After the usual “its too late to stop now!” van introduces the band and reprises the whole ending from “and you were standing there.” amazing. Van then encores with a superb version of “Into The Mystic”. Very soulful, this must be close to being the best version of this song out there.
RATING
That organ/guitar thing sometimes dates this show but overall its a great boot. Not quite essential, mainly due to the narrow range of material played, I would give this a “Highly Recommended”. If you are a big “Moondance” fan then it’s probably a must.
Source 3:
Only includes the San Francisco Show.
Artwork Included-Thanks to Amdig 1
My apologies to all. When I originally reseeded this
boot I assumed that the contents of the boot previously
seeded were clean. Unfortunately I did not listen to it
before seeding it. Upon relistening I heard many problems.
They have been all cleaned up and if you are game to download
the third version of this boot I can promise you that you
will have the best boot possible of this concert.
Plus the sector boundaries will read OK this time around
I have resectored the tracks so that the track
changes are seamless. The sound has not been changed.
Enjoy
Source 4:
Only includes the San Francisco Show
Hi Van fanatics’
here is one that was recommended by helpme, to me. I have liked it very much and here it is, remastered.
Helpme made a nice artwork, for this version
Enjoy
Captain Acid March 2012
A perfect stereo soundboard recording. This is official release quality.
Van and the band are in great form,if you like VM – this is one not to miss.
Enjoy !!
Source 5:
“Moonlight Serenade” – No other source info given.
Source 6:
“Fillmore West” – No other source info given.