my first exposure to van morrison was “brown eyed girl,” but keep in mind this was many years ago. during this time before being familiar with any of his other work, i wanted to kill van morrison. here’s why and this is the only reason. i was so so so tired of being out and when this song inevitably came on being forced, and this is really petty, but being forced to witness half drunken broads, brown eyes or not, fumble through the words, doing the christian side hug and whilst spilling their precious miller lites. i had/got hangups, i know. of course my hatred for mr morrison subsided after i heard astral weeks for the first time. still i curse his name and my memories when that song comes on and their are drunkards in my general vicinity cause i know whats coming next…. here is van at the fillmore west on 4.26.1970.
1. moondance
2. glad tidings
3. crazy love
4. come running
5. the way young lovers do
6. everyone
7. brown eyed girl
8. and it stoned me
9. these dreams of you
10. caravan
11. cyprus avenue
12. into the mystic
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Great post- Van Morrison’s a real gem.
I had the exact same experience with Train in Vain…
“…If I should die in a car wreck, may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck.”
Nice one, thanks. By the way, I should thank you formally for exposing me to the Hold Steady, Glossary, and Bill Janovitz.
Thanks so much for the post!– It’s a very under-represented live Van era, and I’m thrilled to hear it– Great recording of a great little band.
I have a similar relationship to “Brown-Eyed Girl”– I used to sing it in my crappy and wonderful cover band in college. Eventually just the thought of it got me a bit pukey…
Was that a Poi Dog quote back there? A small neuron is weakly firing…
i believe that is from a poi dog song, cant remember which one though. although i should remember cause i saw them roughly 30 times over the course of 10 years when they were in chicago seemingly every other day. i didnt even really like em, but they just seemed to be everywhere particularly in the summer.
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Your a dumba$$ if you never knew about VM until drunk girls at parties slurred his words. There are so many different ways or stories to open up this great show then drunk girls drinking Miller light stories… Get a clue, talk about the music and what matters not your ignorance!
it’s you’re a dumbass, not your. fyi…
Hey Jimmy Mack… I’m with you man, who needs an honest writer being straight about his experiences with Morrison or any music he/she comes across!
Fuck that!
Even though, for any music lover, music & our life experiences are intimately tied together, one soundtracking the other for better or for worse, I prefer the author of this blog ignore all that emotional bullshit and just pretend like he was a fan all along and that this show was “key” or “important” or whatever like real musical journalist do!
Then I can pretend that it’s the same for me, that I had no memories myself of VM’s “Brown-Eyed Girl”. That the single played and worshipped by every quasi-brown-eyed girl (including an ex-girlfriend of mine) becoming “their song” that got them off the bar-stool or got them to lean forward to “Ooo… turn that up!” ever happened!
Ah… that would be sweet.
So basically this is a blog for novice music lovers who want to share life experiences? Is that what your saying Mr. Tsuru? Do your homework, learn to appreciate and study good music, then comment or blog something meaningful… Believe me, no one wants to hear about your meaningless life experiences, the subject of the blog is MUSIC!
You probably have tickets for the next Nickelback concert in your back pocket right now.
No doubt a killer show btw!
jimmy you are priceless. do you realize how many bands/artists/whatever have filled up this crazy world of ours? do you? do you know how difficult, nay impossible, it would be to be familiar with every artist that has made music during, at least, my time on this planet – 35 years. your attempt to downplay my musical knowledge is not only fucking childish but absolutely misguided. while you were appreciating and studying the works of mr morrison, and artists of the like im sure, i was appreciating and studying the works of other artists. now i could rattle off some bands, and maybe you would be familiar with some but probably not all. see where im going here jimmy? this is the way the world works. there are some things i dont know anything about, and there are some things you dont know anything about. again you pickin up what im putting down?
jimmy, go ahead and start your own site, have it last 5 years, i will come find you and ridicule you about your lack of knowledge on boom hank. im sure youve heard of em cause after all they did make some good music and you do like studying good music. its all coming together!
have a great day,
greg
THE VM show that is, not TSURU’s Nickelback festival!
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I think this may be the show Lester bangs describes in his article on Astral Weeks (http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~murray/astral.html) as “…truly one of the most perverse things I have ever seen a performer do in my life. And, of course, it’s sensational: our guts are knotted up, we’re crazed and clawing for more, but we damn well know we’ve seen and felt something.” Even though he describes that as being the Filmore East because it has the “it’s too late to stop now” and mic slam… Anybody got any opinions on this?