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Van Morrison 70!

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  • #32
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Happy birthday, Van.
    It isn't just the lyrics. Its the way he goes on and on bull****ting to the music.
    I love the end to Madame George (Astral Weeks). Any other singer would have ended the track five minutes earlier.


  • #33
    megafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭megafan


    Link to BBC recording of Van's 70th birthday gig last night on Cyprus Ave, Belfast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0681pb7


  • #34
    waraf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭waraf


    megafan wrote: »
    Link to BBC recording of Van's 70th birthday gig last night on Cyprus Ave, Belfast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0681pb7

    His BBC4 gig was bloody good too. Not feelin' it no more (at 8m24s) is a particular highlight for me

    Oops - just realised that the OP posted this link too. D'oh



  • #35
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    megafan wrote: »
    & What an Artist... & What a catalogue....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-lOyh5wBEk
    What a narky auld bollocks :eek:


  • #36
    RayCon
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    Can't stand him.


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  • #37
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    He does come across as a narky bollocks, and some of his stuff just drones awn n' awn... but it's got that something. I loathed him when younger - found him boring and dreary as fuq, but I've started to appreciate him in the last few years. Madame George is fantastic to me now - thought it was an absolute dirge when I first heard it. Into The Mystic is beautiful.
    He is deemed a soul artist, but I think he's more of a soul-folk kinda artist - along the lines of Nick Drake.

    There was one of those The Story Of Irish Rock programmes on RTE last night (originally shown on BBC Northern Ireland earlier this year). Van came across very well I thought. Some fecking great, passionate musicians have hailed from this little rock.


  • #38
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭galljga1


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I heard he was in Belfast bar one night and someone starting talking about how good he used to be at cleaning windows when he was young and he really took offence to it.

    The guy initially apologized but then turned around and told him to go home and get his window shine box.

    Wasn't pretty.

    Never bust a wise guy's balls.


  • #39
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I heard he was in Belfast bar one night and someone starting talking about how good he used to be at cleaning windows when he was young and he really took offence to it.

    The guy initially apologized but then turned around and told him to go home and get his window shine box.

    Wasn't pretty.
    Great story,sounds like a Joe Pesci character in Goodfellas.


  • #40
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Love love this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzDWIOUnM0


  • #41
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Great backcatalogue, whatever about all the stories over the years of Van being a genuinely nasty piece of work you got to respect the guy as a musician.


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  • #42
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Love love this one.

    Yeah, beautiful song. Waterboy's cover of it is a gem also.


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