Van Morrison - 1970-10-09 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

Van Morrison

1970-10-09

Fillmore West

San Francisco, CA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Intro (Gloria > Mystic Eyes)

02. Glad Tidings

03. These Dreams of You

04. And It Stoned Me

05. Crazy Love

06. I've Been Working

07. Ballerina

08. Astral Weeks

09. Moondance

10. Domino

11. Into The Mystic

12. Brown Eyed Girl 

Van Morrison - 1970-10-09 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

After recording Astral Weeks in at A&R studios in New York City in late 1968, Morrison moved to a home on a mountain top in upstate New York near Woodstock (yes - that Woodstock) to begin work on his next album. By the middle of 1969, Morrison had completed his work, but the musical arrangements for each new song were all in his head, not on paper. Nonetheless, he went back to A&R Studios in August 1969, where he developed the music almost spontaneously, recording most of the vocals live. The result was the album, Moondance, which to this day may be the most famous and lauded disc of his long illustrious career. Songs from the album such as Caravan, Into The Mystic, And It Stoned Me, and the title track, just to name a few, became staples of FM radio. Robert Christgau gave the disc a grade of A+ while Rolling Stone ranked the album at #65 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Moreover, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. This soundboard recording captures Morrison on October 9, 1970, 43 years ago today, playing at the Fillmore West about 8 months after the release of Moondance. Download this one to hear Van play his masterpiece live!

Van Morrison/ Bob Dylan Connections

• In 1998, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan toured together, much in the same way Santana and Dylan had in 1993.
• Morrison’s Best of album included a cover of Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue . 
• Morrison was a huge fan of The Band, who, of course, were Dylan’s backing group in the 1960s and 1970s. 
• Both Dylan and Morrison appeared at The Band’s Last Waltz concert on November 25, 1976 at Winterland. 
• In 1989, Dylan spent some time with Morrison in Athens, Greece. The two were filmed on June 27, performing Crazy Love, And It Stoned Me, Foreign Window, and One Irish Rover.