Van Morrison – Llandudno, Wales (01/31/03)

Van Morrison
“Taking A Break”
North Wales Theatre
Llandudno, Wales
January 31 2003

A Swansong Production

audience > DAT > wave > cdr > eac > wave >
flac frontend (Level 8, align on sector boundaries) >
flac > torrent on http://www.dimeadozen.org

Size : 151 MB (incl. Artwork)

Excellent Sound Quality for an audience recording !!

Setlist :

Cadillac Baby (Ned Edwards) [4:02]
All Blues [3:26]
Only A Dream (Van Morrison)[3:53]
Muleskinner Blues (Van Morrison/Ned Edwards)[3:03]
Apology / Introducing Chris Barber (Matt Holland) [0:16]
Goin` Home (Chris Barber) [4:38]
Apology / Introducing Chris Farlowe (Matt Holland) [0:27]
Sometimes We Cry (Chris Farlowe) [4:26]
Apology / Show Is Cancelled (Theatre Stooge) [0:44]
Rebel Yells [0:12]

Musicians :

Van Morrison, Ned Edwards, David Hayes, Matt Holland,
Bobby Irwin, Gavin Povey, Martin Winning.

Guests :

Chris Barber, Chris Farlowe

Review (excerpts from the Wavelength Magazine)

….Ned Edwards judiciously murdered “Cadillac Baby” with aplomb, and a hesitant and ultimately shortend “All Blues” lead up to Van coming on stage. He was looking really svelte, yes that word is now appropriate, but a mite pale, as the Band launched into “Only A Dream”. He was struggling with the microphone and his vocals were muted, but nothing too amiss for a first song. Unusually Matt Holland came and stood next to Van after “Only A Dream” as Van looked clearly discomforted and edgy.

The Band went into “Muleskinner Blues” as Van clutched his back and winced. and his voice had gone. Ned Edwards vocals were much louder as Van struggled through the song, his voice a whisper, the words spoken at times. He was so distracted he didn’t introduce Chris Barber onto stage, who came on and played a stonking fiery solo, but Van was obviously in pain and went off as the song ended. Matt Holland then said that “Mr. Morrison wanted to take a second” and would we like them to play for us.

Encouraged by the positive response Chris Barber came centre stage and launched into a great version of “GoinHome”. Then Chris Farlowe was asked on stage by Matt Holland. So Chris Farlowe shuffled on, saying “Bloody Hell – hes put me in a right situation here now !”, launched into a version of “Sometimes We Cry” which the Band played as hard as they could to make up for our disappointment. Chris Farlowe said “…eat your heart out, Tom Jones” , and played around with the words. As he left the stage a besuited management type came out and explained that Van had a bad fall in the afternoon and had a broken rib. He had tried to carry on with the performance but could no longer continue. The show was canceled, as was the next night`s.
So that was it.

Quite extraordinary.

Simon Gee , Wavelength Magazin No.31, March 2004

Enjoy this short gig, a history, thanks to the taper !

Van Morrison – Cardiff, Wales (10/14/84)

Van Morrison
ST DAVID’S HALL
CARDIFF, WALES
14 OCTOBER 1984

Moondance [*, instr]
Boffyflow And Spike [*]
Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1 >
Baby Please Don’t Go >
Gloria >
Here Comes The Night >
Brown Eyed Girl
Domino
Jackie Wilson Said
I Will Be There
Saint Dominic’s Preview
It’s All In The Game >
You Know What They’re Writing About >
Make It Real One More Time
Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
Hard Nose The Highway
Help Me
Vanlose Stairway
She Gives Me Religion
Haunts Of Ancient Peace
A Sense Of Wonder
Cleaning Windows
Tore Down A La Rimbaud
What Would I Do?
Cry For Home
Summertime In England [RB]

Ancient Of Days
A New Kind Of Man

Bright Side Of The Road
Full Force Gale

Van Morrison : lead vocals, except [*], guitars, alto saxophone, harmonicas
The Van Morrison Band : Richie Buckley : saxophones, call & response vocal [RB]; Martin Drover : trumpet; Tim Hinkly : keyboards; Arty McGlynn : guitar; Terry Popple : drums; Jerome Rimson : bass

Source 1:

This is the first recording to be sent to dime from a series Iíve called The Lost Welsh Masters. Practically every Van show in and around Wales from the 80s onwards was recorded by one diligent taper. Many have never been circulated, and in the case of one show from Bristol in 1992, the date itself was unknown to us. This one from Cardiff is the complete show which has never been heard before. A bit of talking here and there but generally excellent quality for the time. At present the exact equipment used is unknown.

Received on 2 CDRs from the taper who transcribed his complete cassettes.
To hard drive with EAC. Edited for continuous flow in Adobe Audition : edited at beginning and end. Cassette turnovers and subsequent edits audible at 42m and 1h 26m. Normalised and nothing else. Flaced with TLH to level 6.

Source 2:

Transfer: .wav file > Peak Pro 6 (pitch adjusted) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

Known Faults:
-Brown Eyed Girl: almost seamless splice
-Incomplete

It appears an audience recording of this show first appeared in 2016 as part of the “Lost Welsh Masters” series. This share is a Soundboard capture of that show unfortunately incomplete and missing the last six songs.

The raw transfer was in a bit of rough shape sounding to be from a slightly higher generation tape and on the flat side of the frequency spectrum. I’m quite pleased with the way it mastered and there is a little life in it now.

I did not add the missing tracks from the audience capture, it’s a clean cut after “What Would I Do” and has not missing portions of songs with the exception of a small, almost seamless splice during “Brown Eyed Girl”.

Thanks to my old trading partner of 30+ years MR for the files.

Samples and artwork provided.

mjk5510

Van Morrison – Cardiff, Wales (01/27/14)

Van Morrison
ST DAVIDíS HALL
CARDIFF WALES
27 JANUARY 2014

Shana Morrison Opening Set with The Van Morrison Band :

And It Stoned Me
Ten Thousand Things
A Rainy Day

Celtic Swing
Close Enough For Jazz
Rough God Goes Riding [SM]
Enlightenment
Keep It Simple
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Magic Time
Back On Top **
So Quiet In Here **
Queen Of The Slipstream
Baby Please Donít Go >
Worried Man Blues
Sometimes We Cry [SM]
Brown Eyed Girl
Whenever God Shines His Light [SM]
Moondance
Crazy Love
Days Like This
In The Garden
Help Me

Encore
Gloria

Van Morrison : lead vocals, guitars, alto saxophone, harmonicas

The Van Morrison Band : Dave Keary : guitar; Jeff Lardner : drums; Paul Moore : bass; Paul Moran : keyboards; Shana Morrison [SM] : joint lead vocals on [SM], background vocals; Bobby Ruggiero : drums, percusssion; Alistair White : trombone; Chris White : saxophone

This is the seventh recording to be sent to dime from a series Iíve called The Lost Welsh Masters. Practically every Van show in and around Wales from the 80s onwards was recorded by one diligent taper, Graf Ritmo. Many have never been circulated ñ this is one of them.

Received on 2 CDRs from Graf Ritmo who transcribed his dat.
To hard drive with EAC. Edited at beginning and end in Adobe Audition.
Normalised and nothing else. Flacced with TLH to level 6.
Interesting show with a very chatty Van introducing Back On Top and So Quiet In Here as new arrangements by Chris White, and it sounds like Days Like This is also newly minted. Excellent Rough God with Shana and Baby Please Donít Go is a stormer. As far as I am aware this show has not been circulated although Vanomatic shows a recording available. This actual recording has certainly not been circulated.

Bob Dylan – Cardiff, Wales (03/27/95)

Bob Dylan
Cardiff International Centre Arena
Cardiff, Wales
March 27, 1995

Another off master from 1995 European Tour

Taper: no info (would Mr. UnknownTaper please stand up and reveal what gear s/he used..?)

Olav remaster:
First step: Lineage pre-work: FLAC DVD-R > WAV > CoolEdit (all files checked okay: finding that all tracks were somewhat lower in the right channel as opposed to the other) > T-RackS v2.0 (fixed by reducing the right channel volume -2.3dB)

Second step: Originally, overall volume level on all tracks was too low; a much needed boost of 8.0dB was needed. Also, overall output level is boosted with 2.8dB.

Third step and back to CoolEdit: All tracks are now split in the correct places > FLAC frontend (sector alignment) > FLACs > DIME

00. Announcement
01. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
02. SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
03. All Along The Watchtower
04. Just Like A Woman
05. Tangled Up In Blue
06. Born In Time
07. Mr. Tambourine Man
08. Boots Of Spanish Leather
09. Desolation Row
10. Dignity

11. She Belongs To Me
12. (band intro)
13. Maggie’s Farm
14. (encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. (encore)
17. It Ain’t Me, Babe
18. (encore)
19. Highway 61 Revisited

Concert # 654 of The Never-Ending Tour
Concert # 14 of the 1995 European Spring Tour
Concert # 14 in 1995

Concert # 198 with the 9th Never-Ending Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
John Jackson (guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

7ñ9, 14 acoustic with the band

Cue sheet:
CARDIFF: DOWN IN THE FLOOD ï SE—OR/LAY LADY/I WANT YOU ï WATCHTOWER ï JUST LIKE A WOMAN ï TANGLED ï BORN IN TIME/BIG GIRL/4TH ST. ï TAMBOURINE ï MASTERS/BOOTS ï MAMA/DESOLATION/TWICE ï DIGNITY ï LONG BLACK COAT/JOKERMAN/GOD ï MAGGIE’S ï ROLLING STONE ï AIN’T ME BABE

5 new songs (33%) compared to previous concert
1 new song for this tour

Stereo audience recording, 105 minutes

Van Morrison – Cardiff, Wales (11/18/12)

Van Morrison
18 November 2012
St. David’s Hall
Cardiff, Wales

Old Dutch Master Archives series # 30

Recording: SP – CMC-8 microphones + Roland Edirol R-09
Recorded by the Old Dutch Master

Lineage: Edirol > USB > harddisk.
Red Roaster + Soundforge 4.5 + Plugins using the Maximizer process.
Overall volume boost Removal some of some clapping between the songs.
Traders Little Helper Wav > flac.

Editing: Young Dutch Master ( a long time ago, can’t remember the details)
Artwork: not included
The sound is: excellent

Setlist

01. Celtic Swing
02. Only A Dream
03. A Town Called Paradise
04. These Are The Days
05. Open The Door (To Your Heart)
06. Mystic Of The East
07. I Can’t Stop Loving You
08. Got To Go Back
09. Born To Sing
10. Close Enough For Jazz
11. Enlightenment
12. Broen Eyed Girl
13. Moondance
14. Baby Please Don’t Go
15. Pegan Heart
16. In The Garden
17. Ballerina
18. Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)
19. Help Me

Old Dutch Masters Archives series:

The ODm-archives series consists of recordings the ODM made over the years.
He sadly passed awy on 17 April 2016. Many of these recordings were just waiting on a harddisk as he was depending on friends to prepare these for upload.
The man was just too busy working and visiting concerts.

Van Morrison – Hay-On-Wye, Wales (05/23/03)

Van Morrison
Carlton Marquee
Hay-On-Wye Festival, UK
23rd May 2003

Lineage: Sonics DSM-6 mics > Sony D8 DAT machine…
Tascam DA-20 Mk 2 DAT machine > HHb burnit CDr recorder…no EQ
CDr > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned

Early Show

01 – Meet Me in the Indian Summer
02 – Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing (Mose Allison cover)
03 – Early in the Mornin’ (Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five cover)
04 – Choppin’ Wood
05 – That’s Life (Marion Montgomery cover)
06 – Have I Told You Lately
07 – Days Like This
08 – Foggy Mountain Top
09 – Streets of Arklow
10 – All Work and No Play
11 – Allow Me / Mama Don’t Allow
12 – Precious Time
13 – It’s All in the Game / You Know What They’re Writing About / Rainbow ’65 / Make It Real One More Time
14 – Brown Eyed Girl
15 – Gloria

Late Show

01 – Celtic Swing
02 – Only a Dream
03 – Raincheck
04 – In the Midnight
05 – Higher Than the World
06 – Tore Down a la Rimbaud
07 – Moondance
08 – In the Afternoon
09 – Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael cover)
10 – What Would I Do Without You (Ray Charles cover)
11 – Why Must I Always Explain?
12 – Fast Train
13 – Help Me / Dimples
14 – Precious Time
15 – Brown Eyed Girl

Band line-up:probably…
Van – vocals, guitar
Richard Dunn – keyboards
Ned Edwards – guitar
David Hayes – bass
Matt Holland – trumpet
Bobby Irwin – drums
Martin Winning – saxophone

Van Morrison – Newport, Wales (09/13/91)

Van Morrison
KING’S HOTEL
NEWPORT, WALES
13 SEPTEMBER 1991

So Complicated
Did Ye Get Healed?
It’s All In The Game >
Make It Real One More Time
I’m Not Feeling It Anymore
Some Peace Of Mind
Why Must I Always Explain?
Village Idiot
I Forgot That Love Existed
Allow Me > Mama Don’t Allow
Into The Mystic
Help Me
Moondance
See Me Through
Vanlose Stairway >
Railway Carriage Charms
All Saints Day
Green Mansions
Foreign Window
Whenever God Shines His Light
Enlightenment
A Town Called Paradise

Van Morrison : lead vocals, guitars, alto saxophone, harmonicas
The Van Morrison Band :
Ronnie Johnson : guitar, MD & MC; Teena Lyle : vibes, congas, recorder, percussion, vocals; John Miller : keyboards; Paul Robinson : drums; Kate St. John : alto & tenor saxophones, cor anglais, oboe, vocals; Nicky Scott : bass, vocals

This is the second recording to be sent to dime from a series Iíve called The Lost Welsh Masters. Practically every Van show in and around Wales from the 80s onwards was recorded by one diligent taper. [At present the equipment used is unknown]. Many have never been circulated, and in the case of one show from Bristol in 1992, the date itself was unknown to us.

This uncirculated one is a blast from beginning to end ñ itís only the third show this combo has played together and it shows how things are settling in for this early 90s band. Great quality all round. This show is about 2 hours worth played in 90 minutes! Band intros during Moondance. First known performances of Village Idiot and Green Mansions

Received on 2 CDRs from the taper who transcribed his complete cassettes.
To hard drive with EAC. Edited for continuous flow in Adobe Audition : edited at beginning and end. Cassette turnovers and subsequent edits audible at 39m and 1h 12m. Some tape slippage at start of Into The Mystic Normalised and nothing else. Flaced with TLH to level 6

Van Morrison – Cardiff, Wales (09/23/11)

Van Morrison
St Davids Hall
Cardiff Wales
23-09-2011

Moondance
Higher than the World
Song of Home
Fair Play/Take It Where You Find It
Real Real Gone
All in The Game/You Get Your Assignment/No Plan B/No Safety Net/This is It
Talk is Cheap
Crazy Love
Little Village
In the Garden
St James Infirmary
Brown Eyed Girl
Have I Told you Lately
Ballerina
Help Me/Wanna Rock That Boat/Too Late To Stop Now
Gloria

Van Morrison – Cardiff, Wales (06/21/09)

Van Morrison
06/21/09
Wales Millennium Centre
Cardiff, Wales, UK

Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
Moondance
Fair Play
Foreign Window
All In The Game>
You Know What They’re Writing About>
Rainbow ‘65>
Make it Real One More Time
Alan Watts Blues
The Mystery
Leaves Come Falling Down
In the Garden
Streets of Arklow
Philosophers Stone
Georgia
Healing Has Begun
So Quiet In Here
Brown Eyed Girl
Mystic Eyes/Gloria

Source 1:

Notes overlap at the end of disc and start of disc 2
enjoy Henry

Source 2:

No info provided. Folder says JTT.

Bob Dylan – Cardiff, Wales (09/23/00)

Bob Dylan
09/23/00
International Arena
Cardiff, Wales

Disc one
Intro
Hallelujah, I’m Ready To Go (acoustic)
My Back Pages (acoustic)(Larry-fiddle Bob-harp)
Desolation Row (acoustic)
Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas (acoustic)
Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic)
Searching For A Soldier’s Grave (acoustic)
Country Pie
Blind Willie McTell (Larry on bouzouki)
Tombstone Blues
Disc two
Trying To Get To Heaven
Cold Irons Bound
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
encore:
Things Have Changed
Like A Rolling Stone
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (acoustic)
Watching The River Flow
Forever Young (acoustic)
Highway 61 Revisited
Blowin’ In The Wind (acoustic)