Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
More Annotations
![Putlocker - Watch Movies Online Free](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/69be2bf1-d325-4711-801b-e8cd5f5568a4.png)
Putlocker - Watch Movies Online Free
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![Biljardbord från Biljardexperten - Biljardexperten](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/579e1632-6f44-477a-aa28-b84448836703.png)
Biljardbord från Biljardexperten - Biljardexperten
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![PowerPivotPro - Leading Consultants on Power BI and the Microsoft Data Platform](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/18d91f90-e83d-43c4-b658-fdcc6500ada2.png)
PowerPivotPro - Leading Consultants on Power BI and the Microsoft Data Platform
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![A complete backup of rangbanarasi.com](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/b850cdf6-80c3-40d0-a97a-411d7d1ee39d.png)
A complete backup of rangbanarasi.com
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![POBREZA – MEDIO AMBIENTE – OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/9b986aa1-55de-42d3-92b8-0dda184574df.png)
POBREZA – MEDIO AMBIENTE – OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![Cucce per Cani, Collari e guinzagli, Prodotti e Accessori per Animali Ferplast](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/28246c69-eb4f-4d0d-b33b-22ff7f0b7e93.png)
Cucce per Cani, Collari e guinzagli, Prodotti e Accessori per Animali Ferplast
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![أفضل موقع للمنتجات العالمية - بست عربية](https://www.archivebay.com/archive/752b2944-5de2-4008-be25-c0b9e82c2bc6.png)
أفضل موقع للمنتجات العالمية - بست عربية
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
Favourite Annotations
![A complete backup of www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/brad-pitt-a-bien-fait-rire-les-oscars-avec-cette-blague-sur-donald-trump_fr_5e4](https://www.archivebay.com/archive2/5e7b7db3-ff89-4983-be25-028237bd0ce0.png)
A complete backup of www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/brad-pitt-a-bien-fait-rire-les-oscars-avec-cette-blague-sur-donald-trump_fr_5e4
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![A complete backup of www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200210001622-260407](https://www.archivebay.com/archive2/9e183d62-53b6-47ee-9db9-30dd2039f272.png)
A complete backup of www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200210001622-260407
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
![A complete backup of www.livehindustan.com/national/story-delhi-election-result-tight-contest-for-aap-manish-sisodia-kailash-gah](https://www.archivebay.com/archive2/04bb6136-4b57-4fe0-a375-109e9be54db7.png)
A complete backup of www.livehindustan.com/national/story-delhi-election-result-tight-contest-for-aap-manish-sisodia-kailash-gah
Are you over 18 and want to see adult content?
Text
THEM AFTER VAN
THEM was plagued by multiple lineup changes in its brief relatively brief history. One particularly volatile shakeup occurred in the middle of 1965 when THEM basically split into two bands both claiming the THEM name. One of them, the famous THEM, was headed by VAN MORRISON, with bassist ALAN HENDERSON the only other original member. The other THEM was formed by PAT MCAULEY and Them's original guitarist, BILLY HARRISON, and included drummer Skip Alan, bassist Mark Scott, and singer Nick Wymer. This led to legal action which resulted in the official THEM retained the right to the THEM name while Harrison's rival THEM were only allowed to use the name OTHER THEM in the U.K. The official THEM toured the U.S. in 1966 which led to the band's demise. In March 1967 MORRISON made a short tour of the NETHERLANDS backed by CUBY & THE BLIZZARDS and then left for NEW YORK to start his solocareer.
The rest of the "official" THEM regrouped in BELFAST, recruited Kenny McDowell (ex-MAD LADS) as lead singer and continued touring and recording steadily after relocating to the USA in early 1967. Two albums, _NOW AND THEM_ and_ TIME OUT! TIME IN FOR THEM _found the band experimenting with psychedelia. Then Jim Armstrong and Kenny McDowell returned to Belfast to perform as SK'BOO (Armstrong, McDowell and Ray Elliot reunited in Chicago in 1969 as TRUTH and recorded a number of demos and soundtrack songs later released as_ OF THEM ANDOTHER TALES_).
Henderson hired session musicians for two more records for Ray Ruff's HAPPY TIGER RECORDS, in a hard rock vein with country and folk elements; THEM (1970) featured Jerry Cole as guitarist while _THEM IN REALITY_ (1971) featured lead guitarist Jim Parker and drummer John Stark (both ex-Kitchen Cinq). Henderson also co-wrote a rock opera, _TRUTH OF TRUTHS_, produced by Ray Ruff in 1971. These efforts were met with consumer indifference and in 1972 THEM dissolved. They reunited briefly in 1979, without Morrison, recording another album, _SHUT YOUR MOUTH _and undertaking a tour of Germany using Billy Bell on guitar and Mel Austin as vocalist. Since the 1990s Eric Wrixon has been touring under the moniker of THEM THE BELFAST BLUES BAND, at one point comprising ex-Them guitarists Jim Armstrong and Billy Harrison. OTHER THEM became, unofficially, THE BELFAST GYPSIES (or Gipsies) and recorded two singles on Island Records (one released under the name FREAKS OF NATURE) and one Swedish-only album, all produced by Kim Fowley. They toured Europe billed as THEM and released a French E.P. under that name but broke up in November 1966. They featured two members who had been in THEM for differing spells in the mid-'60s: singer/organist/multi-instrumentalist JACKIE MCAULEY and his brother, drummer PAT MCAULEY (sometimes also known as John McAuley). With a style very similar to early THEM, the GYPSIES hooked up with Kim Fowley on one of his London visits in mid-'66. Fowley produced most of the material that ended up on their sole LP (preceded by a couple of unsuccessful singles), which was issued in SCANDINAVIA in August, 1967. A bit of an anachronistic throwback to the R&B/beat-boom sound of a couple years earlier, the LP is a successful approximation ofThem's sound.
Because of packaging the record is often filed under THEM rather than THE BELFAST GYPSIES, and because the band's history was generally ill-documented, few BRITISH INVASION groups with a cult following among collectors have had their history as garbled or misrepresented as THE BELFAST GYPSIES. In late 1965 and early 1966, both groups continued to compete for the THEM name, the dispute eventually ending up in court. In the meantime the Harrison-McAuley lineup playing as THEM underwent its own lineup shuffles, with Harrison quitting and Skip Alan leaving to join the PRETTY THINGS, briefly replaced by Viv Prince (who Alan himself, ironically, was replacing in the PRETTY THINGS). By the beginning of 1966, the personnel had settled into a quartet with Pat McAuley on drums; his brother JACKIE MCAULEY on lead vocals, organ, harmonica, and occasionally other instruments; guitarist Ken McLeod; and bassist Mark Scott (though all of the musicians played other instruments in addition to their primary ones). In March 1966, however, it was ruled that the name Them belonged to the group headed by VAN MORRISON, although the ruling only applied in the U.K.. The PAT MCAULEY band was allowed to play in the U.K. under the name the Other Them, with a much lower visibility on the British circuit than the Van Morrison-frontedThem enjoyed.
In May 1966, KIM FOWLEY met the band and took them into the studio for a few sessions; a final session was recorded without Fowley in COPENHAGEN at the end of June. Having made little headway in the U.K., they spent most of the summer and the fall of 1966 touring Scandinavia, where they were allowed to use the name THEM. Oddly, they never once played live under the name THE BELFAST GYPSIES, although this is the name that they used for their debut single on Island Records that year, _GLORIA'S DREAM/SECRET POLICE_. Although they had fair success in SCANDINAVIA, the group disbanded near the end of 1966, with only JACKIE MCAULEY going on to do much subsequent recording, both as part of the folk-rock duo Trader Horne (with ex-FAIRPORT CONVENTION singer Judy Dyble) and as a solo artist. When THE BELFAST GYPSIES LP did come out about nine months after the group disbanded, it bore the title _THEM BELFAST GYPSIES_, with the name THEM in huge lettering as part of the album's title on the sleeve. Understandably, then, many collectors have assumed that the album should be credited to THEM, rather than to THE BELFAST GYPSIES. Additionally, it's often been written that THE BELFAST GYPSIES were formed after VAN MORRISON left THEM in 1966, with one part of the remaining group (led by Alan Henderson) taking the THEM name, and the other billing themselves as THE BELFAST GYPSIES. This, too, is not the case; although Henderson did indeed continue to play and record in a different THEM lineup after MORRISON left; THE BELFAST GYPSIES had in fact formed back in 1965 (albeit not under that name), about a year before Morrison left Them. As yet another point of confusion, one posthumous BELFAST GYPSIES single was issued under a yet different name, the FREAKS OF NATURE (which the band never played as while they were together as a unit). It's a tough story to keep straight, but luckily it did result in a worthwhile album, heartily recommended toTHEM fans.
THEM'S POST-VAN MORRISON RELEASESALBUMS
_THEM BELFAST GYPSIES_ - (August 1967, Scandinavia only) Sonet; CD reissue 2003, with bonus tracks, Rev-Ola (by spin-off band, The Belfast Gypsies featuring the McAuley brothers)_
_ _NOW AND THEM_ - (January 1968), Tower; CD reissue with bonus tracks 2003, Rev-Ola _TIME OUT! TIME IN FOR THEM_ - (November 1968), Tower; CD reissue 2003 with eight bonus tracks, Rev-Ola_
_ _THEM_ - (1970), Happy Tiger; CD reissue 2008, Fallout_
_ _THEM IN REALITY_ - (1971), Happy Tiger; CD reissue 2008, Fallout_
_ _SHUT YOUR MOUTH_ - (1979), Teldec, CD reissue 2000 as ReunionConcert, Spalax
SINGLES
_SECRET POLICE/GLORIA'S DREAM_ - (June 1966, USA), Loma 2051 (as TheBelfast Gipsies)
_GLORIA'S DREAM/SECRET POLICE_ - (October 1966, UK), Island WI 3007 (as Belfast Gipsies) _PORTLAND TOWN/PEOPLE LET'S FREAK OUT_ - (October 1966, USA), Loma 2060 (as The Belfast Gipsies) _PEOPLE LET'S FREAK OUT/THE SHADOW CHASERS_ ('Secret Police') - (December 1966, UK), Island WI 3017 (Belfast Gypsies credited as Freaks of Nature, 'A' side with added studio effects) _PORTLAND TOWN/BOOM BOOM_ - (1967, Sweden only), Sonnet T 7672 (Belfast Gypsies credited as 'Them') _DIRTY OLD MAN (AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN)/SQUARE ROOM_ - (August 1967),Sully Records 1021
_WALKING IN THE QUEEN'S GARDEN /I HAPPEN TO LOVE YOU_ - (November 1967), Ruff Records 1088 _DIRTY OLD MAN (AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN)/SQUARE ROOM_ - (December 1967) Tower (newly recorded versions of both tracks) _WALKING IN THE QUEEN'S GARDEN/I HAPPEN TO LOVE YOU_ - (December 1967), Tower 384 (re-issue of Ruff Records 1088) _BUT IT'S ALRIGHT/SQUARE ROOM_ - (April 1968), Tower 407 ('B' side edited version of album track) _WALTZ OF THE FLIES/WE'VE ALL AGREED TO HELP_ - (1969), Tower 461 _CORINA/DARK ARE THE SHADOWS_ - (March 1969), Tower 493 _I AM WAITING/LONELY WEEKENDS_ - (1969), Happy Tiger 525 _MEMPHIS LADY/NOBODY CARES_ - (1970), Happy Tiger 534EPS
_GLORIA'S DREAM - GLORIA'S DREAM/SECRET POLICE/ARIA OF THE FALLEN ANGELS/THE CRAZY WORLD INSIDE ME_ - (1967, France only), Disques Vogue INT18079 (THE BELFAST GYPSIES) _PORTLAND TOWN - PORTLAND TOWN/IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE/MIDNIGHT TRAIN/THE GORILLA_ - (1967, France only), Disques Vogue INT18135 (Belfast Gypsies credited as 'Them') Posted by Kazooboy at 20:04Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Billy Harrison,
Jackie McAuley
,
The Pretty Things
,
Them , Them
Belfast Gypsies
WEDNESDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2019 FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY - PART 34 SHIAO-PING - Van the Man's _ST. JAMES INFIRMARY_ to me has no hint of a "morgue" (but it may well do). The inter-play and teasing of saxophone and trumpet back and forth makes me feel that I am marching on to somewhere full of promises. GURU852 - Why doesn't VANNIE do some more modern production work. Take the songs unpack them put more of a twist on the old tunes and dress it all up in production values that are sensationally social media worthy. No one is lighting up the TWITTERVERSE with_ DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL_. He needs a rethink. A good one. One of his posse must stand up to the little general and let him have the facts. This is 2019, by the way! CLIVE - I’m old enough to remember THEM on TOP OF THE POPS! ENDARDOO - A peculiar genius is our IVAN! CHRISTOPHER SMITH - The Fairfax Festival induces an especially potent strain of homesickness. In case you don’t know, I’m referring to Fairfax California. (Not the 20 other American towns named Fairfax). This is the cool one. The Fairfax where the GRATEFUL DEAD played softball with the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, and where you bought your records from Van Morrison’s dad. Yeah, that Fairfax. LAURA ANNE AYRES - You are worth never hearing VAN MORRISON. You are worth all the money I have in my bank account to protect you. You are worth sitting at home and playing the same puzzle for the 23rd time because you scream, “Look, Momma! That’s a rectangle!” with such unbearable bliss you can barely handle it every time you put the last piece in place. You are worth it all. MARTIN BOORMAN - VAN is a rich CAT but he's got bad dentures. They look almost like real teeth and look so icky in the close up shots. Spend some of your money VAN on the old beaver teeth. LONGSHOT - Frankly I like the THEM without VAN MORRISON. So did Bill Graham who had them at the FILLMORE WEST. BOBBY GILLESPIE - Track five, _MOONLIGHT MILE_, is f###ingVAN MORRISON.
MATT WARSHAW - _DEVIL’S HAIRCUT_ by BECK who built that monster truck of a song by slicing and dicing Van Morrison’s _I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING_. Steal from the best and your job is three-quarters finished. Been saying it for years. BONO "FAKE CELEBRITY" VOX - Listening to VAN is like eating a watermelon. You get to eat, drink and wash your face all at the sametime.
HANS POSTCARD - Not only did I rank MADAME GEORGE as the best song of 1968- I rank Astral Weeks as the best album of that year and being a total BEATLE freak that means I rank it ahead of _THE WHITE ALBUM_… I can’t sum the song up better than the greatest rock critic who ever lived- Lester Bangs who wrote about MADAME GEORGE “”is the album’s whirlpool. Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I’ll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we dotoo.
MIKE SEGRETTO - VAN MORRISON and THE PRETTY THINGS were great friends and mutual admirers. MORRISON once called the Pretties “One of the greatest R&B bands of all time.” True to character, May called MORRISON “the dog’s bollocks” and said “he’s like a bloke who really knows where he is and doesn’t take any BS.” YVONNE WATTERSON - VAN MORRISON was a working man working out his songs with “the accent you heard in the streets,” helping lead the way for DAWE to emerge as a poet, with a new confidence that it was possible to be both “a Belfast guy and lyrical.” Armed thus, two ORANGEFIELD BOYS SCHOOL alumni begin their journey in a “city dominated by work, work, work.” But theirs is a creative labor, a different kind of work than expected of them in industrial BELFAST. NINANVIL - I put beautyfull, beautyfull _ASTRAL WEEKS _at the highest point because that was the first time I ever heard your music. I have several issues of that album but the one I keep closest to my heart is the one where the cover is a bit worn with the circle of the VINYL is shown at the front of it. I keep it on my shelf in my living room. I love to look at it sometimes while I sit drinking my tea and listen... Oh, it brings back such good memories. LAURA AYRES - I have sincerely admired and genuinely respected the work of VAN MORRISON since I began studying music. He’s a TROUBADOUR. He’s a poet. He’s a storyteller. He’s a singer. He’s a performer. He’s an artist. He’s a faithseeker. It’s too hard to put him in boxes. None of these do the trick. You love him.Thank GOD.
PETER - VAN MORRISON is no remnant, he’s been a giant star for a long time. But he’s also a working musician, a SCRAPPY one who has not bent his vision to match the future, as such. He records new stuff, he tours, he has looked like a heart attack waiting to happen for 40 years, but luckily for us he’s survived and visited us with his Celtic rhythm and bluesy jazzbo stylings regularly. I’m not going to vouch for all of it. Posted by Kazooboy at 16:19Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Funny Things People Say THURSDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2019 FANS SHOWING VAN SOME LOVE STICKY CARPET - He's got a pretty un-grumpy attitude about people making videos using their own versions of songs he's written. "Just put in an attribution, and it's OK." VAN doesn't have to do that, "synchronisation" rights are often withheld. GROWABRAIN - Last night, I was watching _THE LAST WALTZ_ and being amazed at the VAN-MAN and others - best concert film ever. TIL SMITHEREEN - VAN is great. His family is great. His music is great. His albums are classics. I remember house by his albums. In BEDFORD I played _NO GURU_. In LAKEWINDS BY THE SHORE I had an _ENLIGHTENMENT _thing going. In QUIBBLE I played _HYMNS TO THE SILENCE_ day and night. KAZTOR - It's hard to think of many other artists who had an eight album classic run like ASTRAL WEEKS, MOONDANCE, HIS BAND AND STREET CHOIR, ST DOMINIC'S PREVIEW, TUPELO HONEY, HARD NOSE THE HIGHWAY, TOO LATE TO STOP NOW (LIVE), and VEEDON FLEECE. (Yeah, I know some folk get off the bus at _HARD NOSE_...but _SNOW IN SAN ANSELMO_ is worth the fare alone). PHIL RANDOM - Fifty years into his career and the man has still to release what I'd call a BAD record. Seriously, find one of his contemporaries from 1965 that you can say the same thing about. I'm inclined to think of the grumpiness as a feature, not a bug. NEWNHAM - _ VEEDON FLEECE _is almost as good as _Astral Weeks _and they are_ _my two favourite albums of all time. Also, _IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW_ is best live album ever! SB - The period VAN was with WARNER BROS from _ASTRAL WEEKS_ to _VEEDON FLEECE _is pretty much unbeatable, certainly_ VEEDON FLEECE _itself is almost as great as Astral Weeks. Also as live albums go _IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW_ is the best thing I have ever heard, the newly released Vols 2, 3 & 4 provides the full shows of this amazinglive album.
MR. GRIEVES - _ASTRAL WEEKS_ is probably my favourite Van Morrison song in general, either that or _MADAM GEORGE_. I love everything about it. Lyrically & musically its head and shoulders above every other song on this list, as great as most of them are. M CARNEHAM - Equal with BOB DYLAN, the giant of singer-songwriters of all-time. His creative period between 1968-1974 stay in level of sacred monsters like HAMMETT, HITCHCOCK, FORD, RENOIR. Unsurpassed and classic. YOU SHOULD SEE THE OTHER GUY - I own over 12k vinyl records. Off and on, all genres, and in my opinion, _VEEDON FLEECE_ is the single greatest album anyone has ever made. It still has the ability to bring me to tears. It is a stunning, extraordinary work that has been my favourite since finding it 20+ years ago. HAP HAZARD - _VEEDON FLEECE_ is one of the only reasons I ever miss my turntable/vinyl - it just doesn't sound right else wise. Go back for it, is my advice! I love _ASTRAL WEEKS_ and _ST DOMINIC'S PREVIEW_ and I really like _MOONDANCE_ and even _THE HEALING GAME_ but there's something about _VEEDON_ that's just... from elsewhere. Like he dreamt it, or we all did. IAN PAISLEY (the DUP MP, who grew up on CYPRUS AVENUE) - I have been a huge fan of VAN since I first heard him as a teenager. I have attended every concert I have been able to get to - in the WHITLA HALL, the ULSTER HALL and the KING'S HALL, all over, in fact. He did one at a jazz club in LONDON and invited me backstage. I went to another concert in the EUROPA HOTEL - there were fewer than 200 people there - and he very kindly included my name in one of the songs. It was about people's perception of other people and whether they are grumpy or not and he sang. He's not grumpy, he's my friend. I was really chuffed about that. Posted by Kazooboy at 03:21Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Fan Comments TUESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019DON BLACK
Who is this DON BLACK that VAN MORRISON has written four songs with? Two of the collaborations have been released but two others are waiting release sometime on Van’s next 10 albums! The first collaboration with BLACK was _EVERY TIME I SEE A RIVER _which was released on the _KEEP ME SINGING _album in 2016. The second composition has just appeared on the 2019 album _THREE CHORDS AND THE TRUTH _and is called_ IF WE WAIT FOR MOUNTAINS_. DON BLACK, OBE was born DONALD BLACKSTONE on June 21, 1938 in LONDON and is now 81. He is a renowned lyricist with many songs to his credit. His works have included numerous musicals, movie themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, Quincy Jones, LULU, Henry Mancini, MICHAEL JACKSON, Michel Legrand and Marvin Hamlisch. He is probably best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for the JAMES BOND theme songs to movies like _THUNDERBALL_, _DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER_ and _THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN _that he wrote with John Barry. BLACK was born the youngest of five children of Russian Jewish immigrants, Morris and Betsy Blackstone. His father worked as a garment presser and his mother in a clothes shop and during his childhood the family lived in a council flat in TORNAY HOUSE, Shore Place, South Hackney. He began his music industry career as an office boy with a music publishing firm. He was personal manager to the singer MATT MONRO for many years and also provided songs for him. Black's first film work was the lyrics for the theme of the JAMES BOND film _THUNDERBALL_ in 1965. His association with the Bond series continued over several decades ending with _THE WORLD IS NOTENOUGH_.
The peak of Black's film work was his collaboration on the title song of 1966's _BORN FREE_, which won the OSCAR for Best Song and provided a hit for Matt Monro. Black later collaborated with Barry on _OUT OF AFRICA_ and _DANCES WITH WOLVES_. In 1967, LULU took Black’s song_ TO SIR, WITH LOVE _to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Black received his second Oscar nomination for Best Song with the title theme, written with Elmer Bernstein, of the 1969 John Wayne western, _TRUE GRIT_. That same year, he partnered with QUINCY JONES for the title song of the Michael Caine film, _THE ITALIAN JOB_. DON BLACK received a third Oscar nomination for the title song of the 1972 film_ BEN_, a US No. 1 hit for MICHAEL JACKSON, which Black wrote with WALTER SCHARF. Further Oscar nominations came for _WHEREVER LOVE TAKES ME _from 1974 film _GOLD_, and _COME TO ME_ from 1976's _THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN_. In 2007, Black was inducted into the SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME. In 2008 a tribute concert for DON BLACK was held at the London Palladium. It was called LYRICS BY DON BLACK and featured performances of Black's songs by a selection of guest artists. The evening was hosted by Michael Parkinson and included contributions from artists like GARY BARLOW, Elkie Brooks, CRAIG DAVID, Maria Friedman, Joe Longthorne, LULU, Peter Grant, Matt Rawle, Marti Webb, Jonathan Ansell and Mica Paris. In 2013 another concert was held at London's ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL to celebrate Black's work. It featured a lengthy interview with the composer by MICHAEL GRADE, interspersed by performances of his songs by artists such as Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, KATIE MELUA, andMarti Webb.
Black lives in London, England. His wife of nearly 60 years, Shirley, died in March 2018. His work with VAN over the last few years has been appreciated by VAN fans. Posted by Kazooboy at 04:53Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Don Black
, Van
Songs
WEDNESDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2019VAN'S PERSONALITY
Something or someone called u/CDfm posted on the IRELAND REDDIT site a couple of years ago the ‘fact’ that “VAN MORRISON has no personality” in light of alleged grumpiness at a gig. It's amazing that VAN can inspire such negative opinion. Millions of us worldwide love him and don't expect him to pretend that he's our best friend. We admire him from a distance. Note that some of the comments below have been modified because of offensive language concerns. I don't know why people have to resort to swearing just to express an opinion. SILVER_MEDALIST - LOL. Isn't this hackneyed story trotted out after every VAN gig? He's famous for being a grumpy _OULD HOOR_. It'd be news if he was actually congenial towards the crowd. CDFM - He is happiest when performing. ANONYMOUS - Apparently there's a saying that are two types of people in this world, people who like VAN MORRISON, and people who have met VAN Morrison. (SCVF: That's not really true. He has many friends, even some dating back more than 50 years.) RIMBAUD82 - He's probably my favourite music artist of all time, he's in the top five anyway, to be honest it doesn't really bother me that he's an arsehole. SPOON FULLER - It’s well known that VAN MORRISON has had a long friendship with BOB DYLAN with each admiring the others work. In fact on the BBC’s Arena documentary about VAN, from 1991, there is rather odd footage of the two jamming together in 1989, in GREECE, on a hill above ATHENS with a view of the ACROPOLIS behind them. He also had GEORGIE FAME, who had a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, play, as a core member in his band , for around a decade. Then there was his work, both as a producer and musician, with JOHN LEE HOOKER and a duet with TOM JONES on the Jones album,_ RELOAD_. There were also collaborations with skiffle performer, LONNIE DONEGAN, singer Brian Kennedy, THE CHIEFTAINS, Shane McGowan (at the Brits Awards), Linda Gail Lewis (sister of Jerry Lee) andothers.
ANONYMOUS - I'm the same with JOHN LENNON. SNUG12 - People complained he "was only on stage for 90 minutes". You were expecting 4-5 hours maybe? CDFM - He's only 70. What else would he be doing? CDFM - I was shocked that VAN MORRISON fans didn't know he was grumpy. Was he really playing the concert to defray the costs of his estranged wife's legal fees? KARMA-TOES - "That man VAN MORRISON has no personality, no etiquette, nothing". So you know it's got soul. Turn it up! FYBL - He's a well known grumpy bollocks, I don't know what these people expected besides grumpy bollocks and savage tunes like! He's not Justin f###in Bieber! "Hi, Hello, Hi everyone, thanks, thank you, thanks for coming out to my show, you are the best crowd ever, now I'm going to piss in a bucket and throw it at you while I have your daughter blow me in my FERRARI that I'm about to crash into some poor bastards house, but it's all okay because I said hello and fed you BS about being great thus validating in your mind how you spent 80 euro a pop for tickets to my crappy show of artistic holocaust!" Also it's long been speculated that VAN THE MAN is on the AUTISM SPECTRUM and may have ASPERGER'S SYNDROME. I hope these people feel good about insulting the man for having "No personality". Scumbags. CDFM - It's no longer VAN THE MAN it's SIR IVAN , KNIGHT OFTHE REALM.
FYBL - I'd have thought the grumpy bollocks would have turned down a knighthood, unless he accepted for the chance to call the QUEEN a smelly so and so right to her face. CDFM - I thought it was you who was giving out about the ill mannered crowd not bowing to Sir Ivan. FYBL - Well I'd never condone such a thing but I was just trying to put myself in Sir Ivan's shoes. It was disturbing to say theleast.
PIKE PLACE - Van's sole purpose in life should be trying to get more people to like him! Sole purpose. DAVID G - Though I don't like VAN MORRISON as a singer or his PERSONALITY I can't fail to acknowledge his incredible song writing talent and every time someone asks where I live I do always say HYNDFORD STREET where VAN MORRISON grew up. CDFM - He even forgot where he lived recently. He probably thought he was rehearsing at home. FYBL - Jaysus reading that I can't blame him for forgetting, that estranged wife sounds like A TOTAL WAGGON! LFCMICK - This isn't really much of a surprise. VAN MORRISON is well known for being a grumpy old codger. My mother and aunt went to a concert of his back in the day and he threatened to walk off because he didn't like the level of applause he got. At this point it's a part of the VAN MORRISON experience. ANONYMOUS - At least he's not AXL ROSE. Posted by Kazooboy at 03:27Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Fan Comments,
Van's Grumpiness
THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2019 THE STILL-UNTOLD STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S ASTRAL WEEKS (1968) Here’s some of a very good article by NATALIA HOLTZMAN from the Electric Lit site. She
is basically commenting on Ryan Walsh’s book _ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968_ and what _ASTRAL WEEKS _meant to her. THE STILL-UNTOLD STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S ‘ASTRAL WEEKS’ In 1968 MORRISON fled New York for BOSTON where, according to Ryan H. Walsh’s new book, _ASTRAL WEEKS: A SECRET HISTORY OF 1968_, he “planned, shaped and rehearsed” the songs that became the record _ASTRAL WEEKS_, which is my favourite record in the entireworld.
I was in college when I started listening to _ASTRAL WEEKS_. At that time my thoughts were about as mystical and vague as Van’s seemed to be: I liked to think that the record could show me how to live, how to be in the world. I was living on the second floor of a lovely, dingy house with two other girls. We each had wide eyes and a penchant for feeling things so intensely we didn’t always know how to manage ourselves. We were raw, exposed, each of us with our own little handful of trauma. During that time we drank a lot, smoked a lot of weed, listened to a lot of music, loudly, and sang. Eventually we discovered we could climb out through the kitchen window and onto the roof that overhung the front porch. We would set up our speakers in the window and blast our music through it while we sat and talked or sang. We even danced out there. I can remember playing _SWEET THING_ out that window at top volume at 7:30 in the morning while we drank our coffee on the roof, thinking, in earnest, that we were doing the neighbourhood a service. I’d thought Ryan H. Walsh’s book, would be about the making of _ASTRAL WEEKS _but it is more about the context in which the record was made. Walsh spends an unaccountably large portion of the book describing the FORT HILL COMMUNITY, a small cult that grew up around Mel Lyman, former harmonica player for the JIM KWESKIN JUG BAND. Lyman claimed to be God (opinions on whether or how much he meant it seem to vary), ordered his followers around, and wrote charming little poems. There are also chapters about Timothy Leary, the BOSTON STRANGLER, the movie The BOSTON STRANGLER, the so-called “Bosstown sound,” and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. What does all this have to do with_ VAN MORRISON_? I suppose Walsh wants to say that while Van was in BOSTON, writing and rehearsing the songs that became Astral Weeks, so were a lot of other people, like Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary and LOU REED were all at work on their own weird projects, and whether or not any of them actually interacted with VAN that summer, in person, all these goings-on must have affected the very air of BOSTON, which VAN was inhaling, and which must have therefore affected the record, and so on, etc. It’s a tenuous line of reasoning on which to base an entire book. Walsh is preoccupied by Van’s decision not to use electric instruments on_ ASTRAL WEEKS_; he keeps coming back to it. There are a few competing explanations but the story WALSH likes best comes from JOHN SHELDON, who played guitar for VAN that summer. Sheldon insists that VAN appeared one day and announced he’d “had a dream in which there were no more electric instruments.” That was that; they all switched to acoustic. BERLINER later said, “This little guy walks in” — pudgy, pasty, ginger-headed as he was — “past everybody, disappears into the vocal booth, and almost never comes out.” He added, “Even on the playbacks, he stayed in there.” RICHARD DAVIS said, “I don’t know what he was doing in there!” He said, “He’s a strange fella!” DAVIS also said, “We were not concerned with VAN at all, he never spoke to us.” WALSH says that it’s “a point of contention” whether VAN gave the musicians lead sheets or chord charts to work from, “but DAVIS believes MORRISON just strummed the song and sang it from the booth once or twice, with the musicians improvising their parts on top ofhis composition.”
They’re magnificent together on _MADAME GEORGE_, Van’s voice and Davis’s bass twining around one another, DAVIS tapping out the spine of the song so VAN can sweep over it. Every moment of this song, Marcus writes, is another little contingency, every moment in which Davis and VAN beckon and respond to one another. VAN might have tooled around that summer with JOHN SHELDON, JOEY BEBO, and TOM KIELBANIA, but on the album, you’re hearing RICHARD DAVIS, JAY BERLINER, CONNIE KAY and Warren Smith, Jr. and, setting aside Walsh’s arguments about the influence of BOSTON on the record, they’re the ones I want to hear about. The greater disappointment of Walsh’s book is learning that VAN later disavowed _ASTRAL WEEKS_. “They ruined it,” he said. “They added the strings. I didn’t want the strings. And they sent it to me, it was all changed. That’s not _ASTRAL WEEKS_.” Once they’d recorded the tracks, MERENSTEIN brought in the arranger Larry Fallon, who added harpsichord to _CYPRUS AVENUE_, horns to _THE WAY YOUNG LOVERS DO_, — and distributed strings across the entire album. I’ve always found the strings lovely. “VAN seemed quite happy with the album at the time, he truly did,” MERENSTEIN insists now. “In fact, everyone did, at the moment it wascompleted.”
In 2008, VAN MORRISON announced his intention to perform _ASTRAL WEEKS_ live, in its entirety, at the HOLLYWOOD BOWL. The show would be recorded and the recording would be released. He brought back some of the original players, too, including RICHARD DAVIS and JAYBERLINER.
But when the musicians arrived for rehearsal, they found stacks of sheet music waiting for them, on which every note they’d played — they’d improvised — in 1968 had been notated. VAN expected them to perform the songs exactly as written. “Do you know how crazy that is?” MERENSTEIN asks Walsh. “For that kind of playing?” RICHARD DAVIS made it through two rehearsals before bowingout of the show.
There’s a part of me that sympathises with Van here: this need, not merely to replicate, but to return to such a moment, to return fully, to return to each note. Of course you can’t replicate it; of course you can’t return to it. Part of me wants to believe him when he says the strings ruined_ ASTRAL WEEKS_, but his saying it doesn’t make it so. Of course it is difficult to make art, difficult to make in the world what you have already made in your mind. Difficult to make art and difficult to rely on other people to help you make ART. It is difficult to be very young and to feel intense sadness and intense joy, often simultaneously, and to figure out a way to live in the world. I love VAN MORRISON at this moment when he is young and rude and raw, before he sinks into fame and disappointment like an insect into amber. It is so apparent it hardly needs saying. Of course it is difficult to behave well, difficult to live well; of course it is difficult to live at all. Posted by Kazooboy at 04:26Reactions:
No comments:
Email This
BlogThis!
Share
to Twitter
Share
to Facebook
Share
to Pinterest
Labels: Astral Weeks (1968),
Van Books
Older Posts
Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)SITES I LIKE
*
Quiet Days
*
Mystic Avenue
*
Van Morrison Database*
Van's Official WebsiteTOTAL PAGEVIEWS
0
26
1
27
2
46
3
32
4
64
5
55
6
73
7
89
8
53
9
27
10
25
11
48
12
47
13
79
14
57
15
94
16
60
17
41
18
55
19
66
20
33
21
78
22
38
23
38
24
39
25
62
26
41
27
99
28
85
29
6
448,739
BLOG ARCHIVE
* ▼ 2019 (50)
* ▼ December (4)* Them After Van
* Funny Things People Say - Part 34 * Fans Showing Van Some Love* Don Black
* ► November (5) * ► October (4)* ► September
(4)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (4)
* ► May (5)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (4)
* ► February (4) * ► January (4)* ► 2018 (50)
* ► December (3) * ► November (5) * ► October (5)* ► September
(4)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (4)
* ► May (5)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (5)
* ► February (4) * ► January (3)* ► 2017 (50)
* ► December (5) * ► November (5) * ► October (4)* ► September
(4)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (4)
* ► May (4)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (5)
* ► February (4) * ► January (3)* ► 2016 (50)
* ► December (5) * ► November (3) * ► October (5)* ► September
(6)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (5)
* ► June (3)
* ► May (4)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (4)
* ► February (3) * ► January (4)* ► 2015 (50)
* ► December (5) * ► November (4) * ► October (4)* ► September
(5)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (4)
* ► May (4)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (4)
* ► February (4) * ► January (4)* ► 2014 (50)
* ► December (5) * ► November (4) * ► October (4)* ► September
(4)
* ► August (5)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (3)
* ► May (4)
* ► April (5)
* ► March (3)
* ► February (4) * ► January (5)* ► 2013 (50)
* ► December (4) * ► November (4) * ► October (3)* ► September
(5)
* ► August (5)
* ► July (5)
* ► June (5)
* ► May (7)
* ► April (3)
* ► March (2)
* ► February (2) * ► January (5)* ► 2012 (50)
* ► December (4) * ► November (3) * ► October (4)* ► September
(2)
* ► August (6)
* ► July (1)
* ► June (5)
* ► May (6)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (5)
* ► February (5) * ► January (5)* ► 2011 (50)
* ► December (6) * ► November (6) * ► October (6)* ► September
(5)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (3)
* ► May (3)
* ► April (2)
* ► March (4)
* ► February (4) * ► January (3)* ► 2010 (50)
* ► December (3) * ► November (2) * ► October (4)* ► September
(8)
* ► August (5)
* ► July (4)
* ► June (3)
* ► May (3)
* ► April (5)
* ► March (3)
* ► February (6) * ► January (4)* ► 2009 (50)
* ► December (4) * ► November (4) * ► October (5)* ► September
(5)
* ► August (4)
* ► July (5)
* ► June (3)
* ► May (4)
* ► April (4)
* ► March (4)
* ► February (4) * ► January (4)LABELS
Acker Bilk
(1)
Album Covers
(1)
Album Ratings
(15) Album Reviews
(33) Album Sales
(3)
Alcohol Bans
(3)
Anecdotes
(13)
Astral Weeks (1968)
(25) Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2009) (4) Australian Tour (1985)(3) Autographs
(2)
Avalon Sunset (1989)(6) Awards
(2) Baby Names
(1)
Back on Top (1999)
(3) Back-up Dancers
(1) Ballerina (1968) (1) Bang Masters (1991)(1) Bang Recordings
(6) Bard of Ely
(1) Beautiful Vision (1982)(3) Belfast
(18)
Belfast Gypsies
(3) Believe It or Not(12) Bert Berns
(8)
Bill Graham
(1)
Billy Harrison
(1) Billy Two Rivers(1) Bob Dylan
(3)
Bob Seger
(1)
Bobby Bland
(3)
Bobby Irwin
(1)
Bootlegs
(16) Born To Sing: No Plan B (2012)(7) Brian Hinton
(2)
Bright Side of the Road (1979) (1) Brown Eyed Girl (1967) (9) Bruce Springsteen(1) Caravan (1970)
(1) Catacombs Tapes
(1) Celtic Heritage
(1) Celtic Soul
(4)
Censorship
(1)
Choppin' Wood (2001)(1) Christianity
(13)
Cleaning Windows (1982) (2) Comfortably Numb (2007) (1) Common One (1980)(6) Concert Reviews
(15) Concert Venues
(3) Cover Songs
(2)
Cuby and the Blizzards (1) Cyprus Avenue Concerts (1) Days Like This (1995) (4) Dead Girls of London (1979) (1) Desert Island Discs(1) Domino (1970)
(2) Don Black
(1)
Down the Road (2002)(3) Drugs
(2) Enlightenment (1990)(4) Equipment
(2) Eric
Bell
(1) Eric Clapton
(2)
Essential Van Morrison (2015)(1) Fake Stories
(3)
Fan Comments
(43) Fan Fiction
(1)
Fan Stories
(44)
Fanpop (5)
Farrah Fawcett
(1) Festivals
(1)
Frank Zappa
(1)
Funny Things People Say(34) Garage Bands
(4)
Gary Mallaber
(2) George Formby
(1) Gigi Lee
(1)
Gloria (1964)
(6) Grateful Dead
(1) Greil Marcus
(3)
Hard Nose the Highway (1973)(2) Harmonicas
(1)
Haunts of Ancient Peace (1980) (1) Have I Told You Lately (1989)(4) Hawaii
(1) Hinduism
(1) His
Band and Street Choir (1970) (2) Hunter S. Thompson (1) Hymns to the Silence (1991)(4) Hyndford Street
(1) Iggy Pop
(1)
Illegal Downloads
(2) In the Days Before Rock 'n' Roll (1990) (2) Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983) (2) Into the Music Fanzine (1) Into the Mystic (1970)(2) Irish Music
(1)
Irish Politics
(1) It's Too Late To Stop Now (1974)(4) Jack Kerouac
(1)
Jackie DeShannon
(1) Jackie McAuley
(2) Jackie Wilson
(1) Jackie Wilson Said (1972)(3) Janet Planet
(1)
Johnnie Ray
(1)
Johnny Rogan
(1)
Keep It Simple (2008) (3) Keep Me Singing (2016)(4) Kevin Rowland
(1) Legacy Recordings(1) Leonard Cohen
(1) Linda Gail Lewis(4) Lit Up Inside
(3) Live Albums
(1)
Live at Austin City Limits Festival Album (3) Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast (1984) (1) Live on Air (2012)(1) Lonnie Donegan
(1) Madame George (1968)(3) Marc Bolan
(1)
Maritime Hotel
(2) Melancholia (1995)(1) Michael Buble
(1) Michelle Rocca
(2) Mick Jagger
(1)
Misheard Lyrics
(1) Money
(1) Moondance (1970) (14) Mule Skinner Blues (1997)(1) Music Charts
(3)
Musicians
(1)
Namechecks
(2)
Neil Young
(1)
Nicknames
(1) No
Guru No Method No Teacher (1986) (5) No Religion (1995) (1) Orangefield (1989)(1) Pamela Anderson
(1) Pat Corley
(8)
Patti Smith
(1)
Period of Transition (1977)(1) Peter Donegan
(1) Podcasts
(1)
Poetic Champions Compose (1987) (2) Polls and Surveys (2) Quotes About Van(2) Red Hot Pokers
(1) Reet Petite
(1)
Reissues
(1) Religion
(12)
Reminds Me of You (1999) (1) Rick Springfield (1) Ring Worm (1967)(5) Ritchie Yorke
(1) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1) Roll With the Punches (2017) (3) Rolling Stone Magazine(2) Ronnie Montrose
(2) Ryan Walsh
(2)
Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)(3) Sammy Stitt
(1)
Sampling
(1) Shana Morrison
(1) Simon Gee
(2)
Skiffle
(1) Solly Lipsitz
(2) Sometimes We Cry (1997)(1) Song Ratings
(1)
Soundtracks
(1)
Spike Milligan
(1) Spirituality
(1)
St. Patrick's Day
(1) Steve Andrews
(1) Steve Turner
(1)
Summertime in England (1980)(2) Surprise Gigs
(1) T.B. Sheets (1967) (2) That's Entrainment (2008)(1) The 1980s
(2)
The Beat Museum
(1) The Contractual Album (1967/68)(3) The Doors
(1)
The Healing Game (1997) (4) The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) (2019) (1) The Last Waltz (1978) (3) The Lion's Share(2) The Monarchs
(4)
The Philosopher's Stone (1998) (2) The Pretty Things (2) The Prophet Speaks (2018)(2) The Roxy
(1) The
Shadows of Knight
(1) The Sopranos
(1)
The Van Morrison Newsletter (3) The Word Magazine(1) Them (18)
Them Belfast Gypsies (1) Theoretical Albums(2) Thin Lizzy
(2)
Three Chords and the Truth (2019) (1) Tickets to Van Morrison (2012)(1) Tropes
(4) Tupelo Honey (1971)(3) TV Programs
(1)
Ugly Things Magazines (1) Unreleased Material(4) Van and Sports
(2) Van Art
(3) Van
Books
(8) Van Collectibles(1) Van Concerts
(25) Van Controversies(5) Van DVDs
(2) Van
Fans
(21) Van Fanzines
(4)
Van Food
(7) Van
Interviews
(8) Van Lyrics
(3)
Van Merchandise
(2) Van Morrison Database (2) Van Morrison Radio(1) Van Movies
(1)
Van Opinions
(20) Van Quotes
(8)
Van Songs
(28)
Van Songs in Movies
(3) Van Tourism
(1)
Van Tribute Bands
(4) Van Trivia
(16)
Van Websites and Blogs(30) Van's Birthday
(6) Van's Generosity (1) Van's Grumpiness(2) Van's Singing
(1) Vanatic (Book)
(2) Vanatics
(2)
Vanlose Stairway (1982)(1) Vanomatic Site
(1) Vans (Motor Vehicles) (1) Veedon Fleece (1974) (6) Versatile (2017)(4) Vince Taylor
(1)
Vinyl Van
(1)
Violet Morrison
(2) W.B.Yeats
(1) Warm
Love (1973)
(1) Wavelength (1978) (1) Wavelength Magazine(4) Web Sheriff
(2)
What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003) (2) When the Leaves Come Falling Down (1999)(1) Whisky a Go Go
(1) Willie Nelson
(1) Wolfgang's Vault (1) Wonderful Remark (1969) (1) Wool Hall Studios(1) Yahoo Answers
(1) You Win Again (2000) (1) You're Driving Me Crazy (2018)(2)
Watermark theme. Powered by Blogger .Details
Copyright © 2024 ArchiveBay.com. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | DMCA | 2021 | Feedback | Advertising | RSS 2.0