Van Morrison - 1974-06-30 - Montreux, CH (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Van Morrison
Title: If You Don't Like It, Go Fuck Yourself LifeLine LL CD 9101 
Date: 1974-06-30 ( June 30, 1974 )
Venue: Congres Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland
Source: Soundboard 
Quality: Excellent
Lineage: Downloaded from private tracker, none given

Van Morrison: vocal, guitar, harmonica 
Peter Wingfield: keyboards, vocal 
Dallas Taylor: drums 
Jerome Rimson: bass

01. It's Not the Twilight Zone
02. I Like It Like That
03. Foggy Mountain Top
04. Bulbs
05. Swiss Cheese
06. Heathrow Shuffle
07. Naked in the Jungle
08. Street Choir
09. Instrumental (Harmonica Boogie)
10. Since I Fell For You

Review from Steve: 
The title has come from a line near the end of the CD. Spoken by Van Morrison in reply to someone in the audience who seems to disagree with Van taking a long time to return for an encore (about 3-4 minutes of clapping) and gets up on the stage himself - Van Morrison replies "If You Don't Like It, Go Fuck Yourself"

Van Morrison - 1992-06-28 - Pilton, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, U.K. 

'Van The Man Is Good For You', Insect Records, IST47 

Lineage
Silver > EAC (Secure) > WAV > TLH (Flac 8)

01 Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart 
02 On Hyndford Street / Baby, Please Don't Go 
03 Crawling King Snake 
04 I'm Not Feeling It Anymore 
05 Ordinary Life 
06 Why Must I Always Explain? 
07 Haunts Of Ancient Peace 
08 Northern Muse (Solid Ground) 
09 All Saints Day 
10 Cleaning Windows 
11 Be-Bop-A-Lula 
12 What I'd Say 
13 Valouse Stairway 
14 It's All Over Now Baby Blue 
15 Youth Of 1000 Summers 
16 Help Me 
17 Enlightenment 
18 See Me Through / Soldier Of Fortune 
19 It's All In The Game / Make It Real One More Time 
20 No Guru (In The Garden) 

A good solid audience recording of a good solid performance, & one for his birthday today

Van Morrison - 1991-06-27 - Berlin, DE (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Waldbuhne 

Excellent Audience Recording 

Some Slight Sound Drift in first 30secs due to Crowd movement 

SOURCE: 1st Generation Cassette (TDK SA90) > Akai GX 95MK11 > Soundforge PRO 10b > 
FLAC Level 8 Align on Sector Boundaries 

Van Morrison - vocals, guitar, alto saxophone, harmonica 
Georgie Fame - hammond organ, vocals 
Haji Ahkba - trumpet, flugelhorn 
Richie Buckley - tenor saxophone 
Howard Francis - piano 
Steve Gregory - saxophone, flute 
Ronnie Johnson - guitar 
Nicky Scott - bass 
Dave Early - drums 

01. Did Ye Get Healed 
02. See Me Through 
03. Enlightenment 
04. Youth of a 1000 Summers 
05. It's All In The Game > Make It Real One More Time 
06. Help Me 
07. Some Peace Of Mind 
08. Why Must I Always Explain 
09. Vanlose Stairway > trans euro train 
10. Cleaning Windows 
11. Sweet Thing 
12. Send In The Clowns 
13. Summertime In England 

Van Morrison - 1984-06-24 - Manchester, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Palace Theatre 

June 24th 1984 (Late Show) 

Excellent Audience Recording 

Copies of this Master have only been circulated privately on Cassette 

SOURCE: Master Cassette (GS) > TDK SA90 > Akai GX95 11 > 
Soundforge PRO 10c > FLAC Level 8 

Mastered from 1st Generation Tape and Artwork by JTT, June 2014 

Van Morrison - saxophone, harmonica, guitar and vocals 
Richie Buckley - saxophone 
Kenny Craddock - keyboards 
Jerome Rimson - bass 
Martin Drover - trumpet 
Arty McGlynn - guitar 
Doreen Chanter - backing vocals 
Terry Popple - drums 

CD1

01. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart #2 
02. Connswater 
03. Moondance 
04. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart #1 > Baby Please Don'T Go > Gloria > Here Comes The Night > Brown Eyed Girl 
05. The Way Young Lovers Do 
06. I Will Be There 
07. Jackie Wilson Said 
08. St. Dominic'S Preview 
09. It'S All In The Game 
10. Vanlose Stairway 

CD2 
01. Hard Nose The Highway 
02. Help Me 
03. Northern Muse (Solid Ground) 
04. Haunts Of Ancient Peace 
05. If You Only Knew 
06. She Gives Me Religion 
07. Summertime In England 
08. Celtic Swing 
09. Cleaning Windows 

Van Morrison - 2000-06-24 - Stuttgart, DE (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Killesberg

Fillers from Frühlinger See, Köln, Germany June 25th 2000

"Going To Stuttgart"
Vandaman Records
2406000 08164712 - 1/2
Made in Canada
2000

Excellent Audience Recording (Koln Tracks - Good)

SOURCE: Factory Pressed Discs > dbPower Amp Secure Ripper to FLAC Level 8 Align on Sector Boundaries

Disc One
01. Intro - Everybody Play Guitar
02. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1
03. Back On Top
04. Days Like This
05. Jackie Wilson Said
06. Brown Eyed Girl
07. Moondance
08. In The Afternoon > Don't You Get Me High > Sex Machine
09. Goin' Down Geneva > Brand New Cadillac
10. Vanlose Stairway
11. Precious Time
12. Solid Ground
13. One Irish Rover
14. Cleaning Windows
15. It's All In The Game

Disc Two
01. Help Me > Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
02. Stand By Me

Frühlinger See, Köln, Germany June 25th 2000
03. In The Afternoon > Don't You Get Me High > Sex Machine
04. Vanlose Stairway
05. Goin' Down Geneva > Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35
06. It's All In The Game > You Know What They're Writing About
07. Out Of Time
08. Pretty Thing
09. Gloria
10. Northern Music
11. Help Me > Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
12. Stand By Me

Van Morrison - 1977-06-22 - Hilversum, NL (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Van Morrison & Dr. John
The Wonderland Tapes
Vara Studios -
The VLS Dutch FM Version
(The Original Untouched)

msr(fm) > ? > flac


Van Morrison: Lead vocals, piano
Dr. John: Piano, organ, back-up vocals
Mick Ronson: Lead guitar, back-up vocals
Mo Foster: Bass
Peter van Hooke: Drums

CD 1 from FM
01. Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So (2:37)
02. Nobody's Fault But Mine (2:13)
03. Fever (3:49)
04. Foggy Mountain Top (5:03)
05. I'll Go Crazy (2:59)
06. Baby, Please Don't Go (4:19)
07. Santa Rosalia (4:11)
08. Announcer (0:39)
09. Joyous Sound (2:46)
10. You Gotta Make It Through The World (3:12)
11. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (5:17)
12. Shakin' All Over (4:10)
13. The Eternal Kansas City (4:48)
14. Announcer (0:21)
15. Cold Wind In August (5:56)
 
CD 2 video feed (mono)
01. Santa Rosalia (4:56)
02. Cold Wind In August (6:10)
03. Joyous Sound (3:01)
04. You Gotta Make It Through The World (3:19)
05. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (5:26)
06. Shakin' All Over (4:36)
07. The Eternal Kansas City (6:53)
08. Cold Wind In August (8:23)
09. Hallelujah I Just Love Her So (3:28)
10. Nobody's Fault But Mine (2:44)
11. Fever (4:15)
12. Foggy Mountain Top (5:45)
13. I'll Go Crazy (3:17)
14. Baby Please Don't Go (5:04)

Van Morrison - 1977-06-22 - Hilversum, NL (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Vara Studios

Lineage
DVB-Cable --> DVD recorder (SP mode) --> PC --> Tmpegenc dvd author; extracted mpeg2 stream --> added proper chapterpoints and simple menu.

Fileformat; DVD-5
Filesize; 1,39 GB
Duration; 45 minutes and 42 seconds

Videosource; DVB
Taper; Snakefuture
TV system; Pal
Screen format; 4:3
Frames per second; 25
Resolution; 720x576
videocodec; mpeg2
Videobitrate; 3.932 kbs
Audiocodec; Dolby AC3
Audiobitrate; 256 kbs

01. Joyous Sound
02. You Gotta Make It Through The World
03. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
04. Shakin' All Over
05. The Eternal Kansas City
06. Cold Wind In August
07. Fever
08. Foggy Mountain Top
09. I'll Go Crazy
10. Baby Please Don't Go

Van Morrison - 1987-06-21 - Pilton, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Glastonbury Festival
Shepton Mallet, Somerset

Excellent Audience Recording

This is a New Transfer and updates my 2007 Upload

SOURCE:
Master Cassette (GS) > Akai GX-95 11 (Playback) > Soundforge PRO 10c > FLAC Level 8 Align On Sector Boundaries

Mastered & Artwork by JTT (August 2012)

Neil Drinkwater - keyboards
Ritchie Buckley - saxophone
Steve Pearce - bass
Arty McGlynn - guitar
Martin Drover - trumpet
Ray Jones - drums
June Boyce - backing vocals

CD1

01 - Moondance (Instrumental)

02 - Celtic Swing (Instrumental)

03 - Northern Muse (Solid Ground)

04 - Vanlose Stairway

05 - It'S All In The Game

06 - Help Me

07 - Foreign Window

08 - Dweller On The Threshold

09 - Cleaning Windows

10 - A Sense Of Wonder

CD2

01 - And The Healing Has Begun

02 - Celtic Ray

03 - One Irish Rover

04 - In The Garden

05 - Summertime In England

06 - Full Force Gale

07 - Bright Side Of The Road

08 - Rave On John Donne >

09 - Did Ye Get Healed

Van Morrison - 1983-06-11 - Milan, IT (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

"LIVE IN MILANO 11.06.83" Milano, Italy June 11th 1983 (Vinyl Transfer, JTT)

VAN MORRISON
"LIVE IN MILANO 11.06.83"
Teatro Tenda

WIND RECORDS: VM01

MATRIX: VM01 A/B/C/D

Copies from "MY" discs have never been circulated in any form

SOURCE: 
Near Mint Vinyl Albums (Played Once) > Technics SL 1200 MK2/Ortofon PRO S > Onkyo P304
Soundforge PRO 10c > FLAC Level 8 Align on Sector Boundaries

Some Track Transitions Cleaned, NO Other Remastering

Transfer From Vinyl to Digital, JTT 2011

300dpi Artwork for Double Jewel Case is Included using Scans of Original Sleeve

Kenny Craddock - keyboards
Tom Donlinger - drums
Pee Wee Ellis - saxophones
David Hayes - bass
Mark Isham - trumpet
Arty McGlynn - guitar
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Doreen Chanter - backing vocals

CD1
Side A
01. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart #1
02. Moondance
03. Into The Mystic >
04. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart #2
05. Dweller on the Threshold
06. Vanlose Stairway
07. Bright Side of the Road
08. She Gives Me Religion

Side B
09. It's All In The Game > You Know What They're Writing About
10. Connswater
11. Celtic Swing
12. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
13. Beautiful Vision
14. Help Me
15. I've Been Working
16. Satisfied

CD2
Side C
01. Cry For Home
02. Haunts of Ancient Peace
03. Celtic Ray
04. Cleaning Windows
05. September Night
06. Summertime In England

Side D
07. Tupelo Honey
08. Gloria
09. Aryan Mist
10. Full Force Gale

Van Morrison - 2016-06-09 - Harrogate, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Recorded by IJMJ - from Row K centre next to the mixing desk.

lineage

Zoom H1 using internal mics recorded at 24 bit/48000 Hz > Wavelab 8 Le > flac at level 8 (Preset as flac hq). Converted by petomane33 to wave using Replay Converter, and Adobe Audition to boost levels, top and tail and normalise.

TLH for all other operations.

Van Morrison lead vocals, guitars, alto saxophone, harmonicas

Liam Bradley drums

Dave Keary guitar

Dana Masters lead & backing vocals

Paul Moore bass

Paul Moran keyboards, trumpet

01 - Celtic Swing

02 - Close Enough For Jazz

03 - Centerpiece

04 - Magic Time

05 - By His Grace

06 - Someone Like You

07 - Baby Please Don't Go > Don't Start Crying Now

08 - Here Comes The Night

09 - Wavelength

10 - Sometimes We Cry

11 - Wild Night

12 - Crazy Love

13 - Whenever God Shines His Light

14 - Keep It Simple

15 - Enlightenment

16 - Think Twice Before You Go

17 - Moondance

18 - Real Real Gone

19 - The Beauty Of The Days Gone By

20 - Brown Eyed Girl

21 - Did Ye Get Healed? > Yeh, Yeh [instr]

22 - Help Me

Encore

23 - Gloria

1h 39m

Van Morrison - 1975-06-08 - Santa Barbara, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

County Bowl 
Santa Barbara, CA 
June 8, 1975 
Lost California Performances 
JF Archive Series No. 8 via JEMS 

Taper: JF 

Source: unknown recorder > unknown microphone (mono) 

JEMS 2015 Transfer: JF master TDK cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth adjustment) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96) capture > iZotope RX4 > iZotope Ozone 5 > iZotope RX MBIT+ resample 16/44.1 > Peak Pro XT (edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC 

01 Alright, Okay, You Win (Count Basie/Joe Williams) 
02 One Of These Days (Mose Allison) 
03 Wild Night 
04 Brown Eyed Girl 
05 I’ve Been Working 
06 Domino 
07 Sweet Mary Blues (Leadbelly) 
08 Blue Money 
09 St Dominic’s Preview > Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed) > You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones) 
10 Moondance 
11 Gloria 

Known Faults: 
None 

JEMS is pleased to revisit the JF Archive and release another title in the Van Morrison Lost California Performances series. For further details and backstory on JF, his tapes and the extraordinary lost Van performances from 1975, please refer to the notes in Vol. 

The Santa Barbara set is the last of five shows in but three days time recorded by JF. Though it seems odd now, the show took place in the afternoon. It is a relatively short set but oh so sweet, with Morrison’s vocals at the apex of an arc of passion that started at the first show of the run in Irvine two days earlier. The set list retains “Blue Money” from Riverside and restores “Sweet Mary Blues” from Irvine along with more familiar inclusions from this leg of the tour. 

Here’s what JF recalls about the Santa Barbara show, which is his favorite of the five: 

“The County Bowl back in the 1970s was not at all what it is today. Back then, you drove up a dusty driveway and parked in a bunch of dirt. You trudged up a dusty path to the bowl where, if you had lawn tickets, you got to take up position on a grassy incline in front of the stage. That’s where we had tickets on this day. I’m pretty sure my friend Steve joined Laura Greenwood and me that day, and we stretched out our blanket about 2/3 of the way back to the brick wall which separated our section from a large section with seats. We were about halfway between center stage and the right bank of speakers. It was all very casual and natural. The setting in the woods over Santa Barbara was every bit as beautiful, if less groomed, than it is now. 

I have always loved this recording. It has a slightly boomy, low-fi clarity that I find irresistible. You can almost feel the heat of the summer afternoon in the sound captured on tape. Being an outdoor venue, of course, there was none of the echo or trapped sound you got in indoor halls. Once again, Van was stretching the musical horizons of us kids.” 

The higher quality of the Riverside recordings is not only preserved in Santa Barbara but the recording sounds closer to the action while still capturing the atmosphere of the distinctive setting. Samples provided. 

Van’s band for the 1975 tour was: John Blakely on guitar; Mark T. Jordan on keyboards; David Hayes on Bass; and Tony Dey on drums. Tom Scott and the L.A. Express was the opening act on this day. 

Thanks to JF, who reached out on DIME (you could be next!) and offered us his archive, which had been sitting in boxes, 6000 miles away from where he lives today, for 20+ years. Like so many early tapers, he had great stories to tell and the memories flooded back as we sorted through tapes. We are pleased to be able to bring his work to all of you. Please let him know through your comments that you are, too. 

We also appreciate the unnamed Van collectors for helping to get JF’s masters back in his control. Lastly, special thanks mjk5510, who continues serve as JEMS’ post-production and quality-control supervisor. He is essential to our process and we couldn’t do it without him. 

Santa Barbara is the last of JF’s 1975 recordings and the final chapter in the 40th Anniversary Lost California Performances cycle. What a run it has been. But fear not, the JF Archive will continue and in 2016 we are pleased to announce we’ll be presenting nine more of JF’s Van Morrison master tapes from 1973-74. 

Van Morrison - 1975-06-07 - Riverside, CA (AUD/FLAC) Uncirculated and Undocumented Show

(Audience FLAC)

Van Morrison 
Webber Hall 
University of California, Riverside 
Riverside, CA 
June 7, 1975, 11:00 PM Show 
Lost California Performances 
JF Archive Series No. 7 via JEMS 

Taper: JF 

Source: unknown recorder > unknown microphone (mono) 

JEMS 2015 Transfer: JF master TDK cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth adjustment) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96) capture > iZotope RX4 > iZotope Ozone 5 > iZotope RX MBIT+ resample 16/44.1 > Peak Pro XT (edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC 

01 Alright, Okay, You Win (Count Basie/Joe Williams) 
02 One Of These Days (Mose Allison) 
03 Blue Money 
04 Wild Night 
05 I Have Finally Come To Realize
06 Brown Eyed Girl 
07 I’ve Been Working 
08 St Dominic’s Preview > Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed) > You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones) 
09 Gloria 

RIVERSIDE, LATE SET 
The 11 pm setlist at Webber Hall brings some welcome changes from the early set. The wonderful “St Dominic’s Preview” mixed with “Walk on the Wild Side” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” returns, and we also get the first ‘75 tour recording of “Blue Money.” Released on His Band And The Street Choir, “Blue Money,” is a relative rarity, with only 18 known performances prior to this one according to the authoritative set-list histories found at vanomatic.de. 

But even more exciting is the first known live version of “I Have Finally Come To Realize,” a song recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito within days or weeks of this show, but not released officially until 1998’s The Philosopher’s Stone. Van introduces it by saying he’d “like to do a recent song” and delivers a wonderful reading. There are only ten known performance of the track, all from 1998 and 2002, so JF’s recording is indeed a major find. 

Happily, the high quality of the early Riverside recording carries over to the late show which sounds every bit as good. Samples provided. 

Once again the band is: John Blakely on guitar; Mark T. Jordan on keyboards; David Hayes on Bass; and Tony Dey on drums. 

Here’s what JF recalls about the Riverside shows: 

“This was the fourth show in a mini-Van marathon – two shows the previous night in Irvine, the second of two this night in Riverside and one more on the afternoon of the following day in Santa Barbara. There were no seats here – people just gathered around the stage on the floor of the college basketball stadium and danced or just hung out and listened. I stood back by the sound booth in the center of the hall, warily eyeing Van’s sound people so they wouldn’t catch me recording and secretly wishing I could tap into their line feed from the stage.” 

Thanks to JF, who reached out on DIME (you could be next!) and offered us his archive, which had been sitting in boxes, 6000 miles away from where he lives today, for 20+ years. Like so many early tapers, he had great stories to tell and the memories flooded back as we sorted through tapes. We are pleased to be able to bring his work to all of you. Please let him know through your comments that you are, too. 

We also appreciate the unnamed Van collectors for helping to get JF’s masters back in his control. And finally, special thanks mjk5510, who continues serve as JEMS’ post-production and quality-control supervisor. He is essential to our process and we couldn’t do it without him. 

BK for JEMS

Van Morrison - 2002-06-06 - Berlin, DE (SBD/FLAC)

(soundboard FLAC)

Tempodrom

lineage:
trade cdrs > eac > flacs > upload

(bootleg CD)
Live X-Pert Productions (LXP 3056)
(First reported November 2002)

Richard Dunn,
Ned Edwards,
David Hayes,
Matt Holland,
Bobby Irwin,
Martin Winning
Guest:
Candy Dulfer

CD1
01 - inarticulate speech of the heart
02 - Whining Boy Moan (5:10)
03 - Days Like This (2:58)
04 - Did Ye Get Healed? (5:47)
05 - Naked In The Jungle (6:38)
06 - In the Midnight (5:05)
07 - Hey Mr. DJ (3:50)
08 - Indian Summer (3:50)
09 - Sometimes We Cry (5:27)
10 - walkin' my baby back home
11 - Into The Mystic (3:46)
12 - Early In The Morning (5:51)
13 - Real Real Gone (4:49)
14 - In The Afternoon / Raincheck (10:31)

CD2
01 - All Work No Play (4:49)
02 - its all in the game
03 - Brown-Eyed Girl (4:18)
04 - Gloria (4:38)

Total time: (77:13)

Notes by the uploader and trader:
This is a silver boot with full color artwork and a picture disc. Different tracks from the CD-R tree, Meet Me In The German Summer 2002. Sounds like a soundboard. info from the hayward data base, slightly edited. thanks to all the generous traders with whom i've enjoyed dealing over the years! today's postal rates are gonna curtail that avenue in the future, i'm afraid. enjoy this gem!

Van Morrison - 1989-06-04 - Hamburg, DE (FM/FLAC)

(FM broacast FLAC)

Van Morrison live in Hamburg, Germany June, 4th 1989 
FM-Broadcast from Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR2 ) 
First time remastered in 2001 new remastered in 2005. 
This new remaster based on the old remaster. I have primary enhanced the sound quality. 

01 - Yeah Yeah ( Georgie Fame ) 
02 - 02. ‚Aint It Funny ( Georgie Fame ) 
03 - Whenever God Shines His Light 
04 - Tore Down A La Rimbaud 
05 - Vanlose Stairway 
06 - It’s All In The Game 
07 - Orangefield 
08 - When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God 
09 - Help Me 
10 - Northern Muse ( Solid Ground ) 
11 - These Are The Days 
12 - Summertiome In England 
13 - I’d Love To Write Another Song 
14 - Caravan 
15 - Moondance 

Van Morrison - 1973-05-26 - Los Angeles, CA (SBD/FLAC) "It Ain’t Why, It Just Is"

 

(Soundboard FLAC)

Van Morrison

Title: It Ain’t Why, It Just Is

Big Music (BIG 047)

Date: 1973-05-26 (May 26, 1973)

Venue: Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA

Source: Soundboard 

Quality: Very Good / Excellent

Lineage: Silvers > unknown > you

Violins: Nathan Rubin, Tom Helpin

Cello: Terry Adams

Viola: Nancy Ellis

Piano: Jeff Labes

Trumpet: Bill Atwood

Saxaphone: Jack Schroer

Guitar: John Platania

Bass: David Hayes

Drums: David Shaw

01. I’ve Been Working

02. Young Lovers Do

03. Purple Heather

04. Come Running

05. Sweet Thing

06. Blue Money

07. Green

08. Wild Night

09. Caravan

10. Cypress Avenue

Bonus tracks:

(Probably from Montreux 1974)

11. It’s Not The Twilight Zone

12. Foggy Mountain Top

13. Heathrow Shuffle

14. Naked In The Jungle

Comment:

Tape in circulation is a mix of the ITLTSN acetates (taken from many shows).

Including the Famous Montreux 1974 Show.

In Truth a Real May 26th, 1973

Live At The Troubadour bootleg tape has never surfaced.

Van Morrison - 2001-05-25 - Warsaw, PL (SBD/FLAC)

 
 (Soundboard FLAC)

TITLE Poleaxed In Warsaw - Van In Warsaw Complete FM + SBD
VENUE TP Music and film festival, Sala Kongresowa
CITY Warsaw
COUNTRY Poland
DATE May 25, 2001
SOURCE TV and SBD

4-Eyed Freak Remastering

Lineage:
* d1t01, d1t02 and d2t02: SBD > ? > FLAC > WAV > Remastering and retracking > WAV > FLAC (Level 8)
* Other tracks: analog TV > WAV > FLAC (as originaly distributed)
Additionaly for d1t03, d2t01 and d2t03: > WAV > retracking (merging SBD source) > FLAC (level 8)

Van Morrison : Vocals, harp, saxophone
Richard Dunne - Hammond organ, grand piano
Ned Edwards - backing vocals, lead and acoustic guitar, harmonica, violin
Lee Goodall - backing vocals, saxophones, flute, penny whistle, rhythm guitar, percussion
Matt Holland - trumpet, flugelhorn, backing vocals
Pete Hurley - electric bass
Bobby Irwin - drums
Martin Winning - tenor saxophone, clarinet, penny whistle

CD1 (52:35)
01. Cadillac Baby (3:41)
02. Celtic Swing (4:33)
03. Days Like This (2:55)
04. All Saints Day (3:11)
05. Back On Top (4:00)
06. That's Life (4:15)
07. Cleaning Windows (4:24)
08. Tore Down A La Rimbaud (6:14)
09. Dead Or Alive (3:38)
10. Bright Side Of The Road (4:04)
11. Jackie Wilson Said (3:40)
12. It's All Over Now Baby Blue (4:19)
13. Goin' Down Geneva (2:13) >
14. Brand New Cadillac (1:22) 

CD2 (47:51)
01. One Irish Rover (4:17)
02. If you Only Knew (3:10)
03. Don't Worry About A Thing (3:05)
04. Philosophers Stone (5:23)
05. It Once Was My Life (4:30)
06. Why Must I Always Explain? (3:47)
07. Precious Time (2:59)
08. Star Of The County Down (2:38)
09. Northern Muse (Solid Ground) (7:15)
10. In The Afternoon (10:42)

Notes:
In my humble opinion, here is the last BIG Van show, his blaze of glory. Really the end of an era. Though the band later appeared to be one of the worst he played with and is responsible for this awfull 2002-2006 shipwreck, both Van and the musicians were awesome this night. The "No Prima Donna" mantra at the end of "In The Afternoon" sang with this incredible broken voice is my all-time favourite minute in all my Van's collection.

About the release:
The show was broadcasted by TVN Polland. The broadcast didn't feature the whole concert, 3 tracks were left out. But a complete soundboard recording later surfaced.

2 different captures of the broadcast were located: one coming from an analog TV, the other one from digital TV. Those captures are known to be the best sounding Van recordings ever, along with "From Dublin Up to Sandy Row".

Many versions have already been circulating. Among them, the most famous are:

- Vanlose's "Van In Warsaw", widely distributed as a tree, was unfortunately featuring the digital TV version. It was selected because it was a pure digital recording but as we know now, digital TV signal is lossy, and the FA and SA performed on this boot let no doubt: it's most probably issued from mp2 at a rather low bitrate, there is no frequency above 16kHz.

- The analog TV version was fortunately offered on EZT. The uploader (thank you!!!) who was one of the tree administrators reported: "it was really hard to hear a distinction . The other version was selected because it was a pure digital recording. The show was on tv and the chap took the digital tv signal right to his computer, so it is a DDD. This version is based on an analog signal tv signal, so its an ADD. Someone else can probably better explain this than I. That being said, although we chose to tree the other version, a few of us thought that this version had an intangible that made it worth while. Much like a cd can never capture the sound you get from an LP, there is something in this version that the other lacks, but beauty is in the ear of the beholder."
Obviously, this intangible something is mainly the fact that this ADD version is lossless.

- "First Time In Warsaw" also features the broadcasted part. I don't know which version this one was made with, i suspect it's the analog TV one because of the different tracking at the end of disc 1.

- Euro Boot's "That's Life" bootleg http://tinyurl.com/32j8mx, with its infamous bad pitch.

- The soundboard recording version is the only one featuring the complete concert. Unfortunately, like many soundboard recordings, it has a very dry and unbalanced sound quality. What's more, the sound is mono.

A stereo version of the complete concert maybe exists somewhere: according to Wavelength, Radio 3 Polland broadcasted it on June 9, 2001. Unfortunately, it never surfarced. If someone has it, by all mean contact me!

For this new set, i reworked the soundboard recording so it sounds much closer to the broadcast. I then merged the missing tracks d1t01 and d1t02 to the analog TV sourced "Days Like This" on disc 1 and d2t02 between "One Irish Rover" and "Don't Worry About A thing" on disc 2 as smoothly as possible to make seamless transitions.

Van Morrison - 2001-05-25 - Warsaw, PL (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Broadcast on Polish TV - TVN May 31,2001;
TP Music & Film Festival

SOURCE: DVD-R in Trade>TMPG DVD Author 3>Video TS
Video: MPEG-2 Video, 720x576, 25 fps, 4x3 PAL
Audio: Dolby Digital, 48000 Hz, Stereo, 256 Kb/s
Authored, Transfer to Video TS & Artwork by JTT, July 2007

Congress Hall,
May 25, 2001
PAL DVD/menu [1:28:35]

Richard Dunn keyboards
Ned Edwards guitar
Lee Goodall saxophone
Matt Holland trumpet
Pete Hurley bass
Bobby Irwin drums
Martin Winning saxophone

01. Days Like This
02. All Saints' Day
03. Back On Top
04. That's Life
05. Cleaning Windows
06. Tore Down à la Rimbaud
07. Dead or Alive
08. Bright Side of the Road
09. Jackie Wilson Said
10. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
11. Goin' Down Geneva > Brand New Cadillac
12. One Irish Rover
13. Don't Worry About A Thing
14. Philosopher's Stone
15. It Once Was My Life
16. Why Must I Always Explain
17. Precious Time
18. Star of the County Down
19. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
20. In the Afternoon

Van Morrison - 1973-05-24 - West Hollywood, CA (AUD/FLAC) Early Show

(Audience FLAC)

Van Morrison featuring the Caledonia Soul Orchestra 
The Troubadour 
West Hollywood, CA 
May 24, 1973, 8pm *Early Show 
JF Archive Series Vol. 12 via JEMS 

Taper: JF 

Source: unknown recorder > unknown microphone (mono) 

JEMS 2015 Transfer: JF master TD???K cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth adjustment) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > iZotope RX4 > iZotope Ozone 5 > iZotope RX MBIT+ resample 16/44.1 > Peak Pro XT (edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC

01 Intro 
02 Saint Dominic’s Preview 
03 These Dreams of You 
04 The Way Young Lovers Do 
05 Snow In San Anselmo 
06 Day By Day 
07 Help Me 
08 Bein’ Green 
09 Listen To The Lion 
10 Warm Love 
11 Cyprus Avenue 
12 Caravan 

JEMS is thrilled to relaunch the JF Archive series, this time presenting nine Van Morrison performances recorded in and around Southern California by JF circa 1973-74. For further details and backstory on JF, his tapes and the extraordinary lost Van performances from 1975 that started the series, please refer to the notes in Vol.

Unlike last year’s Lost California series, JF’s 1973-74 recordings have long been in circulation among collectors. However, this series marks the first-ever digitization and dissemination directly from his cassette masters. As JF himself notes below, the recordings were made with unlikely equipment but yielded surprisingly listenable results. Samples provided. 

The 5/24/73 early show, opening night of a four-day run at the Troubadour, is notable for several reasons. It was the very first concert JF ever recorded as he details in his comments. Seven songs from this recording later turned up on what is believed to be the first ever Van Morrison bootleg LP, A Spawn of the Dublin Pubs, on the legendary Trademark of Quality label. And if that wasn’t enough, JF’s girlfriend at the time shot photos, four of which are included in this torrent and used in our cover art. 

Several of the shows Van did in May-June of 1973 with the Caledonia Soul Orchestra were recorded and would later form the basis for the fantastic live album It’s Too Late To Stop Now. To his credit, Van changed up the set list with some frequency throughout the run, which meant many songs are not represented on the official document. In fact, no performances from this particular show are included on ITLTSN and the set features four tracks not found on the album at all: “The Way Young Lovers Do,” “Snow In San Anselmo,” “Day By Day” and “Bein’ Green.” 

In all, this a lovely performance and another one of those “you are there” recordings, despite the lo-fi gear. 

*Please note that Van Morrison reference sites, including the essential vanomatic.de, attribute this setlist to the LATE show on 5/24/73. JF is certain he recorded the EARLY show, given his age at the time, his clear memory and other details corroborated by his notes. JEMS believes this recording should set the record straight and flip the attribution of the set lists from this night’s two shows going forward. 

Here are JF’s reflections of the show: 

“This was the first concert I ever recorded. Over the next four or five years, and then again in the late 1980s when I lived in Boston, I recorded a total of around 100 shows. Most of my Van recordings were done on a large black recorder that belonged to my mother who used it in the elementary school classes she taught. It was probably 25-inches long, 15-inches wide, and a good 5-inches thick if not more. It was a hefty, front-loading machine on which you popped up a plastic cover and snapped the cassettes in place. The microphone was standard issue, nothing fancy. Fidelity wasn’t great, but it was good enough for about half of this recording to become part of the first Van Morrison boot I know of, A Spawn of the Dublin Pubs. 

For this one, my girlfriend Laura Greenwood and I sat against the back left wall by the door leading to the dressing rooms, bathrooms and stairs to the balcony seats. Those seats in the tiny club were on a raised platform to give folks in the back a good view of the stage. I sat in the far left seat, Laura to my right, where she took some fabulous photos once the concert got started. 

At one point as we waited and nursed our first drinks of the night (I was 18, Laura 19 at the time) I had the sensation of something going on immediately to my left. That is, I felt a sensation of heat and tension along the upper part of my left arm. I didn’t give it much thought, but it was undeniable. I recognized it then and haven’t forgotten it to this day. I looked to my left, and there in the dim, smoky light I saw a nondescript man in a grayish suit standing right next to me, nearly pushing up against my body as he tried to keep the doorway clear. His head came up to the top of my shoulder. I didn’t give him a second thought and went back to my conversation with Laura. 

A few moments later, the voice of Doug Weston, founder and owner of the Troubadour, came over the sound system, encouraging us to give a warm welcome to Van Morrison. A roar went up and the small,gray figure standing to my left started for the stage. It was Van.” 

Once again, our gratitude goes to JF, who reached out on DIME (you could be next!) and offered us his archive, which had been sitting in boxes, 6000 miles away from where he lives today, for 20+ years. Like so many early tapers, he had great stories to tell and the memories flooded back as we sorted through tapes. We are pleased to be able to bring his work to all of you. Please let him know through your comments that you are, too. 

We also appreciate the unnamed Van collectors who helped get JF’s masters back in his control. Lastly, special thanks to mjk5510, who continues his yeoman duty as JEMS’ post-production and quality-control supervisor. His contributions are essential in getting the music to you.

Van Morrison - 1981-05-23 - Rotterdam, NL (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

NCRV Festival 81

Rattlesnake Silver rip RS 075

Lineage:
Silver CD>EAC to WAV>TLH to FLAC level 8>You

01 Its All in the Game
02 Bright Side of the Road
03 Full Force Gale
04 Troubadour
05 Aint Nothing You Can Do
06 Satisfied
07 You Make Me Feel So Free
08 Spirit
09 Moondance
10 Summertime in England

Bonus from Cotati Cabaret California November 1981
11 Street Theory
12 Help Me
13 Mona

Van Morrison - 1981-05-23 - Rotterdam, NL (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Incomplete show, PAL dvd, with menu & chapters

Van Morrison: Lead Vocals
Mark Isham: Trumpet
Pee Wee Ellis: Sax - Backing vocals on "Summertime In England"
John Allair: Keyboards
Peter Van Hooke: Drums
David Hayes: Bass
Herbie Armstrong: Guitar
Mick Cox: Guitar

01. It's All In The Game
02. Bright Side Of The Road
03. Full Force Gail
04. Troubadours
05. Ain't Nothing You Can Do
06. You Make Me Feel So Free
07. Moondance
08. Satisfied
09. Summertime In England